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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 29/11/2024

“Profit gouging, supply shortages, climate change, all these things [are driving inflation],” he says. “Putting up interest rates won’t deal with that, but it’ll make life worse.” said Bernie Fraser, former governor of the RBA. Read Stephen Long's piece in the Saturday Paper today.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The soil carbon market is going to collapse - and that's a good thing. One of the issues I explore in this week's column, about the dreamworld of climate fakery our legislators have created. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Trump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion | George Monbiot

The ‘progress’ made at Cop29 has been on carbon markets: a world of magical thinking, over-claiming and distorted truth, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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sam-60.bsky.social @sam-60.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

White privilege is invisible to most white Australians - why do you think this is the case?

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

We need a government that will consider legislation appropriately, with consideration of due process, in a way which is evidence-based and reasonable. What we are seeing right now is not that.

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

More than 20,000 Australians have called on the Albanese government to abolish these harmful SPA permits. To date, the government has not listened. It’s time for them to do so now. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

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Teal and Liberal MP unite against seismic testing permits that could threaten little penguin colonies

More than 21,000 people have signed a petition to abolish the permits, and now two MPs from different parts of the political spectrum are trying to get them banned too.

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This Parliament has not passed bills addressing the homelessness and rental crises, and other cost of living issues. But the major parties colluded this week on legislation increasing their own public funding, and making it harder for independents to be elected. Priorities.

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