Simon Cox

Australians see our political system as less corrupt than the US.

But for anyone feeling complacent, I offer you:
- environment 'protection' reforms
- fossil fuel expansion
- failure to ban gambling ads
- the protection rackets for dodgy providers in #childcare, #agedcare, employment services...

How Centrelink illegally cancelled jobseeker payments – podcast Inequality reporter Cait Kelly speaks to Nour Haydar about how an automated system illegally cancelled thousands of Centrelink payments, and the human toll of a broken system

Unemployment is a feature of our economic system. It’s designed in.

A pool of unemployed people keeps wages low and ensures there’s always labour available during peak times.

That our government craps on those who are already missing out on many benefits of our society is bizarre and sick.
#AusPol

I had to turn it off. Very disappointed. I had thought that Marr was generally one of the good guys.

Has Labor really sold its soul for a few meager campaign contributions from developers, miners and the fossil fuel industry?
Or should it actually listen to what most of these people who voted for it are asking for?

Does Labor want a new environmental protection Act?
Or does it want to kill the Greens?

Labor tried to gang up with the coalition against the Greens, on an issue which is the absolute core of the Greens pitch. The coalition's rejection clarifies the situation.

National, not Queensland. Awful.

Perhaps my favourite parrot

The segregation crisis in schools funding In the Albanese government’s first term, Education Minister Jason Clare observed that Australia has one of the most segregated education systems in the OECD. What is deeply shocking – though not surpr...

Australia has used the money of all taxpayers to further advantage some of their children, and further disadvantage others

…this country has used that money to create the very thing public education was originally designed to break down: a class system

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21678/...

Australian public education really under threat from these distortions. I'm happy to pay my taxes, but furious to see it creamed off to embed privilege and division

Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale...

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner!

“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

That's a very long stripey tail

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Brian Krassenstein

“This is America.
This is sick.
This is not what I voted for.”

A fake ikea ad for a lamp that looks like melania in her big dumb hat

Betteridge's law of headlines* strikes again.

* Any headline framed as a question can very confidently be answered with the word "No".

What Mark Dreyfus' Parliamentary Address Reveals About Tim Wilson's Campaign Conduct How to Lobby for Change: Engaging Parliamentary Committees to Reform Our Democracy By Sue Barrett When a seasoned politician like Mark Dreyfus, Australia’s former Attorney-General and a parliamentaria...

Those who voted for Tim Wilson should hang their heads in shame.
theaimn.net/what-mark-dr...

Why are lawmakers allowed to control investments at all?

Upon taking their seat, all their assets should be placed in a true, externally-managed blind-trust, so that they are ignorant of its composition and thus their decisions in the legislature are insulated from their private interests.

Islamophobia special envoy Aftab Malik gets emotional as he speaks about some recent Islamophobic incidents in Australia
“A man told a Muslim couple that he would love to kill their 3 children”

Where has media been on this? Silence. #Abc

Chocolate chip cookie

Tim Wilson has a long-held bet against Australia’s sharemarket – it has now lost him ‘quite a bit’ of money The Liberal MP bought the product, which profits when the ASX 200 falls, in early 2020, his register of interests shows, but an analysis and experts say it has been a poor investment

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

True colours.

Bets against his own country.

#auspol

Someday we’re going to invent batteries that can store energy and it’s going to be awesome. 🤡

Terrific return on investment.

Corruption is cheap in Australia

If Albanese’s lost his bottle, he should retire Under the leadership of Anthony Albanese, Labor has lost its reforming zeal. It knows we have plenty of problems, and would like to do something about them, but not yet.

Hard to argue with Ross Gittins. If Albanese plans to just sit on his huge majority without doing anything useful to address climate change, generational inequity, housing, tax rorts and plenty else, he should quit and bequeath the job to someone with the bottle. www.smh.com.au/business/the...

My Jewish spouse is furious about this (as well as a few other things)

The antisemitism envoy saying nothing about the Nazi march, meanwhile her husband donates 50k to the people promoting the Nazi march 🧐

Oh yeah, this, so much this. FMD politics in this country is (to be perfectly blunt) absolutely rooted.

Neil the Seal waiting for his fish and chips (hold the chips) from the Seven Mile Beach Servo/Takeaway/General Store/Post Office, only minutes from the Hobart airport.

Malcolm Roberts