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Eye-watering levels of flushing money down the drain. What is Australia getting for our money? Certainly not nuclear submarines. Certainly not a dependable friend in the US.

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nationalsecurityjournal.org

From a US defence expert: the AUKUS Submarine Deal is Dead "The US can’t provide the submarines; the UK can't make up for the shortfall...and Canberra must now face the unpleasant truth that the promises made in 2021 were more fantasy pledges than realistic commitments."

The AUKUS Submarine Deal is Dead

The promise to give Australia nuclear submarines is collapsing. A severe industrial crisis in both the U.S. and UK means the AUKUS security deal's central pillar is no longer viable.

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There are simple changes we can make to our cities that will have vast and ongoing positive effects on the lives of community members. Community leaders with vision are pulling up concrete and replacing it with plant life.

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The United States is actively enabling Israel to commit genocide. When Prime Minister Albanese sees Trump next week, he has the opportunity to stand up for Australian interests, ditch AUKUS, and end this pathetic era of being America's lackey.

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Our politicians should be led by the community evidence, not misguided ideology.

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Parents of teen who died at music festival plead with Queensland government not to ban pill testing

The Queensland LNP Government has banned pill testing. An insane, senseless move. Pill testing saves lives. There is free pill testing in the ACT - and 10% of people discarded the drugs after testing. 32% said they wouldn't use it after finding it wasn't what they expected. #auspol

theguardian.com

Josh Tam’s parents have asked LNP to ‘step aside and allow the experts to lead the way in keeping our loved ones safe’

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Most other developed countries do not count land use emissions in their official reporting. Australia successfully lobbied to change the rules when negotiating the Kyoto Protocol to include land use (LULUCF) emissions because they knew how much it would clean our numbers. Cooked books indeed!

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Nearly all of Australia's 'on paper' emissions reductions come from land use. This is largely because Aus chose 2005 as the baseline year from when 'reduction' starts. In 2005 there was very high land clearing which soon stopped. This is counted as a huge reduction, while polluters keep polluting.

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This pathetically unambitious 62% target is worse than it sounds because of how Australia uses dodgy "land use" emissions accounting. Really good explainer on LULUCF and land use emissions here: australiainstitute.org.au/post/lulucf-...

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Albanese's 2035 target is 62-70%. 62% is piss-poor. Not enough to prevent devastating impacts. Not enough to convince our Pacific neighbours that we care about their future.

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This is a very good piece from Allan Behm that cuts to the heart of Australia's foreign policy failures. "Australia needs to understand that the Pacific nations might not want to be Australia’s partners of choice in the battle of the giants. They want wellbeing and happiness."

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Reminder: The AUKUS deal was supposedly cooked up in the brain of Boris Johnson who wanted to piss off Macron, and so convinced Scott Morrison to drop the French subs deal. $368 billion Australian taxpayer dollars to help the US make submarines that we'll never receive. Turnbull explains why ⤵️

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I mean, it's terrible. Not a good thing that is happening. We really should tax the ultra wealthy and stop giving huge tax concessions to property investors. But the video from Gary is brilliant.

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Thank you to these brave and compassionate people. @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social have been doing incredible work to stop the genocide for the last two years. Sanction Israel now.

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