@amymullins.bsky.social
Radio Presenter, Uncommon Sense on 3RRRFM Melbourne • long-form interviews on history, art, politics, science + nature • Art History 🎓 at Unimelb • Versailles ⚜️, rocaille, 🇫🇷 XVIIe & XVIIIe siécles, decorative arts, architectural & garden history
🔍 Did you know that we have a searchable dataset that draws on records of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage in our parish registers from 1561-1840?
The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners!
#SwitchingTheLens
🔥 Espagne : les incendies génèrent des émissions de CO2 jamais vues
La combustion des forêts ces deux dernières semaines a libéré dans l’atmosphère des quantités record de gaz à effet de serre et les fumées ont dégradé la qualité de l’air
In #Rationale magazine, Ross Channing Reed writes that important insights from Greek philosopher Aristotle can help us navigate some of the pitfalls of leisure in our modern ‘achievement’ society.
rationalemagazine.com/index.php/20...
Greece wildfire contained but strong winds prompt evacuations reut.rs/40W2k0l
09.08.2025 06:10 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0A new blog post from our Community Researcher, Amanda, on living with rare disease:
"Having your disease announced as a question, or as a joke, as you lie in a hospital bed, unable to move, is upsetting. It is a trigger to the times you struggled to be believed."
sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...
If you‘re looking for show-related updates, interviews, and 🎶 playlists head over to my new Uncommon Sense Bluesky account 👇 @uncommonsenseradio.bsky.social
#Melbourne
Selling a house in Australia is expensive. The ACCC is investigating one reason why
29.05.2025 02:16 — 👍 33 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 3
In light of the terrible decision by the govt to approve the NWS extension, watch this doco on Murujuga Rock Art by @stephenlongaus.bsky.social and @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=Bj9V...
A CDC report found that among pregnant U.S. women with COVID-19, 1 in 80 deliveries resulted in stillbirth, compared to 1 in 155 for uninfected women--- but under new leadership, the CDC isn't telling you that.
apnews.com/article/cor...
Would love to see how this would be written up as an impact case study...
Historians dispute Bayeux tapestry penis tally after lengthy debate www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
French President Macron hopes for defence, energy and tech deals as he starts Asia trip reut.rs/3Slhw2w
25.05.2025 16:40 — 👍 78 🔁 12 💬 5 📌 0
Australian orchid wins Gold 🏆at Chelsea flower show www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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The SMH calling bullshit on the fears that changes to super will destroy the startup sector are a joke
Just FIVE PERCENT of start-up seed funding came from self-managed super funds.
And clearly leass than that would have come from funds with more than $3m
Assuming it is $3.1 million, with the $80,000 pension payment it becomes $3.18 million. If your balance on June 30, 2026, is greater than $3 million (say $3.1 million) then Division 296 tax will count a balance of $3.18 million in its calculations even if your balance at the start of the year was less than $3 million (in your case $2 million) One aspect of Division 296 tax where you have a greater than $3 million balance at the end of the year but a balance of less than $3 million at the start is that it will be calculated as if your year started with a $3 million balance. When determining your super earnings for Division 296 tax purposes you add together your year-end balance with pension payments and then deduct your balance at the start of the year from this. That’s $3.1 million plus $80,000 less $3 million. This will give you total super earnings for Division 296 purposes of $180,000. Despite the large increase in your fund from $2 million to $3.1 million, your Division 296 liability will be significantly less given it won’t include the increase in your total super below the $3 million threshold. The 15 per cent tax will only apply to the percentage that $180,000 represents of $3.18 million or 5.66 per cent. While 15 per cent of $180,000 is $27,000, 5.66 per cent of this results in a Division 296 tax liability of $1528. This assumes there is no change in the proposed tax when – and if – it finally becomes law.
Hilariously, the AFR is showing just how absurd is the scare campaign against the super tax changes.
They give an eg where someone's super goes from $2m to $3.18m in a year!
Yep a $1.18m increase.
How much extra tax?
$1,528!
OMG!! THAT'S OUTRAG... err... oh actually that's bugger all
Anna Karina 🫶💧🎞️
22.05.2025 07:31 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looks like Labor is about to approve the North West shelf gas expansion, which among bad news for the planet and WA energy costs is terrible for the nearby Murujuga rock art - which is so old, it has one of the first known depictions of the human face
australiainstitute.org.au/post/woodsid...
Elena Luksch-Makowsky stands in profile in a loose dress that suggests her pregnancy. She stares at the viewer (or at her reflection in a mirror?) with a defiant look, her sketchbook in her hand, but she turns her back to a large canvas that sticks out of the frame.
This is one of the first known self-portraits during pregnancy in Western art. Elena Luksch-Makowsky’s self-portrait shows her pregnant with her first child.
❤️ Happy Mother's Day weekend to all the carers out there.
Chart showing that Australia is a low-taxing nation and raises around $138bn less tax than the average of the OPEC
Business groups are calling for the government to overhaul the tax system. Excellent!
As @grogsgamut.bsky.social writes, we have some ideas...
australiainstitute.org.au/post/busines...
Tune in from 9am on @3rrrfm.bsky.social to hear from two of my favourite people on the planet; Prof @cordeliafine.bsky.social & Gregory Day.
Cordelia will talk about her new book, Patriarchy Inc., and Gregory Day will delve into his new collection of poems written across 20 years, Southsightedness.
The Society of Architectural Historians of GB is searching for its next Chair. This is a great opportunity for an experienced architectural historian. The new Chair can help shape the Society and influence the field.
Further information, below:
www.sahgb.org.uk/jobs
Listening to this excellent @3rrrfm.bsky.social interview with @euanritchie.bsky.social @yungenchee.bsky.social and @amymullins.bsky.social
Did you know 96% of #Australians want better #protection of our #environment and it is the 5th most important #election issue.
@euanritchie.bsky.social & I joined @amymullins.bsky.social on @3rrrfm.bsky.social for a how-did-we-get-here chat about the environment, environment law reforms (lack thereof), environment law sabotage (abandonment of EPA, EPBC Reconsiderations Bill), & political party "offerings" for #AusVotes25
15.04.2025 21:55 — 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1Big thanks to @3rrrfm.bsky.social, @amymullins.bsky.social & @trashcangoblin.bsky.social 🙌
Unsurprisingly, Uncommon Sense listeners are savvy!👇
Thank you, @amymullins.bsky.social & @euanritchie.bsky.social for a terrific conversation about the environment, environment law reforms (lack thereof), environment law sabotage (👀 at you👉 EPBC Reconsiderations Bill), & political party "offerings" for #AusVotes25
15.04.2025 06:58 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Make yourself a cuppa & grab snacks, @yungenchee.bsky.social & I spoke with @amymullins.bsky.social for over an hour today about the environment, conservation, environmental law reform & the upcoming election, on @3rrrfm.bsky.social's Uncommon Sense.
Starts 29:55 www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...
"The RBA should have postponed the last meeting until after Donald Trump had his meeting. They should have cut rates the next day."
"Inflation is already in the target range & there is no good reason that we've kept rates so high for so long."
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #qanda
Charts showing that Jobseeker is no 38% below the poverty line, but when Morrison doubled it during COVID it was above the poverty line
You know what helps get people out of poverty? Give people in poverty more money. We did it once. Not sure why everyone in govt has forgotten #qanda
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