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"Over the following days, that welcome was accompanied by warnings that were difficult to hear. And surely more difficult to keep delivering" writes Noah Schultz-Byard, Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Australia Institute.
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/VgT4onCL “We’re unashamedly here to make some serious noise that ANZ’s Board cannot ignore, and we will continue to take action until they rule out funding the pipeline,” said Rising Tide spokesperson and Brisbane resident Donna Smit.
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/zaFFtTGZ "A less conciliatory approach to negotiations may be uncomfortable, but historically it has not stopped collaboration" writes @browne90.bsky.social
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/BYozFd1l Australia’s welding industry has accused the Reserve Bank of making it harder for manufacturers to lift productivity, arguing higher interest rates are strangling investment in the technology and training needed to improve it.
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/yfIXcaA6 "None of it is an argument. It’s a signal. It tells Australians that money for climate action, and especially the Pacific, is money taken from them. That’s a dog whistle, and it’s cheap" writes @louisemorris.bsky.social
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/7D8uxvWu The annual Stanley Awards, Australia’s premier awards for cartoonists, has announced its long list for best climate cartoon honours.
Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/new/261009-kudelka-… "Things are not normal! But you knew that already. This week, Trump thinks it’s fine if Iran “takes out” San Diego or Los Angeles. And despite his historic unpopularity, he’s “doing great”. And on we go" writes @emmashortis.bsky.social
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/jDI4QtZ4 The successful motion makes Port Phillip 14th in a growing number of councils backing the Communities for Climate Compensation campaign, building on earlier wins including City of Sydney, Darebin, and Bass Coast councils.
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/ZFIppx5v "In this first post in a series on the approval decision, I focus on the 98% of those emissions that will be produced when the exported coal is burned overseas" writes Dr Fergus Green.
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/ifoev3Si "The global race that AI developers are in is to secure as much of what humanity has already created as possible, and then churn it through their models" writes @anatolitis.bsky.social
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/RMeGKaqq "At a high-level pre-COP31 side event in Nadi, Navigating the Pacific Energy Transition, ministers discussed their intention to develop a regional roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels" writes @louisemorris.bsky.social
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/ivdd6AYi "Less considered is that, just because it falls in the middle of two policies that doesn’t make it good policy. Or indeed, that it solves any issue. Or that the policies it falls between are good policies" writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/FDR2kds5 “Today the High Court has said what we have always known: we cannot dig up coal, ship it overseas, watch it drive climate change, and then pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us” said Wendy Wales, president of DAMS HEG.
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/xRzlFm6A Climate Minister Maina Vakafua Talia said COP31 'cannot be another talk shop or a debate over agendas'.
The discussions in Tuvalu and Fiji 'must deliver strategic action'.
Read the full piece by @louisemorris.bsky.social on The Point: sbrew.link/kc72jqmS A federal Nationals MP from Queensland has expressed concern about changes to state mining and environment laws proposed by the state Liberal National Party Government.
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/UdvbbJ7f "It is hard to imagine a clearer illustration of the gap between the climate leadership Australia claims and the fossil fuel future it continues to enable" writes Noah Schultz-Byard.
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/FzZU3bja "At the pre-COP31 summit in Nadi, Fiji, Pacific advocates have told the world what a credible climate outcome looks like. Australia is currently part of the problem and needs to be part of the answer" writes @louisemorris.bsky.social
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/FEuwgEzP "Blaming the media is worse than shouting at clouds – at least the clouds aren’t full of people who like tax cuts and seem to hate most of what the Greens stand for" writes @richarddenniss.bsky.social
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/NpsJ9Rcr " I have always concluded my statements with: “Save Tuvalu to save the World” against climate change. This is not a self-serving proposition. We may be the first to suffer, but if we go, you go – everyone faces serious consequences"
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/V6oWAaAF "But the more staid and plodding carriages – those with warnings outside the political cycle, with a focus on the bigger picture, they tend to get left to circle the track ignored" writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/UvEMQKc3 "The NSW Government has just approved production from a huge new coal project out to 2045. So much for Australia’s transition away from fossil fuels" writes @rodcampbell.bsky.social
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/87jN7J4b "Sure, we have enduring economic, political, social and strategic interests with America"
"But are these interests tantamount to values?"
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/X0hxHwih "A landmark Senate Inquiry into Youth Justice and Incarceration has just handed down its latest report into Australia’s youth prisons."
"However, we must listen to the words of the children who survive behind its pages."
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/CXju2bz6 IBAC had long pushed for the powers, arguing it could rarely investigate suspected corruption involving subcontractors without a direct link to the actions of a public officer or body.
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/2V09taAM The Blue Mountains joins twelve other councils that have passed similar motions, arguing coal, oil and gas producers should be held partly responsible for extreme weather events.
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/4kMcywI8 "The former Fox News host Pete Hegseth is at it again, giving an upside-down world version of a Ted Talk on the “State of the Force”. And the state of everything is…grim" writes @emmashortis.bsky.social
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/qZQsEGSO For Australians dealing with a cost-of-living crisis due to soaring oil prices that have led to huge profits for gas companies, the figures are a slap in the face.
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/jiwpRnTN Senator Lidia Thorpe explicitly named detention centres as “sites of systemic child abuse, operating in direct violation of this country’s domestic and international human rights obligations and all morality."
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/THUZhU4A "Australian households do not set petrol prices. Not buying fuel is not an option, and the increase in petrol prices was the most recent driver of headline inflation" writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/MWOeCP5I "The cash rate cannot reopen a shipping lane, lower the global oil price, manufacture diesel, rebuild after a climate disaster or reverse an insurer’s withdrawal" writes Professor Ray Wills and Professor Peter Newman AO.
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/pE9mwxB0 Woodside’s proposed Browse project could expose almost one million more people to unprecedented heat and kill an additional 29 million coral colonies on the Great Barrier Reef every time it bleaches.
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/QeokZYwt "JobSeeker now sits at just 41% of the minimum wage, and Youth Allowance is even worse at 34%" writes Charmaine Crowe, Program Director for Social Service at the ACOSS.
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/h5nIyjVF "Corporate Canada couldn’t be happier. They have a trusted investment banker in charge of the country, implementing core demands they advanced long before Trump was elected" writes @jimbostanford.bsky.social
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/TPGSnOvn "Our new open-source climate tool – the Carbon Impacts Tracer – will help make fossil fuel companies and governments approving projects accountable for the damage they will do."
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/tjNM6MOu “The RBA argues this is about inflation, but that has absolutely nothing to do with Australians earning too much, spending too much or an overheating economy,” said @grogsgamut.bsky.social
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/ADbShnLo “These closures don’t just cut jobs; they strip regional communities of secure employment and the public services that help keep them represented and engaged in the democratic process,” said Rebecca Fawcett, CPSU National Secretary.
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/rDRd6rmP "Ending the Great Supply Shemozzle is a necessary first step in getting to a true diagnosis of why housing is so unaffordable, and from there to finding lasting solutions" writes Matt Lloyd-Cape, housing policy specialist.
Read the full extract on The Point: sbrew.link/7qkmUVNt "But the media release accompanying the Budget Office analysis falls into a familiar trap. It argues that people dropping or downgrading their insurance will increase pressure on public hospitals" writes @lukeslawomirski.bsky.social
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/SF4OgJCd "The transformative opportunities for “middle power” economies may lie in the application of AI to physical products and systems as a basis for new forms of competitive high value manufacturing" writes Roy Green and John H Howard.
Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/zBKBYSdL "If you are wondering why it is almost certain that the RBA will raise rates today, a large reason is that everyone thinks it is almost certain" writes Greg Jericho (@grogsgamut.bsky.social), Chief Economist at the Australia Institute.
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