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Michelle Milthorpe Independent Candidate for Farrer | Passionate about equity for regional Australians | Here to listen, learn and lead | Farrer is worth fighting for

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Australia's best athletes meet its top climate scientists at
at the SURF N TURF THE GAME SHOW — hosted by me 🎤 +
Tom Carroll, Sam Fricker, Tarni Evans, Cyrus Monk, Pat Cummins & more.
The future of sport is worth fighting for. 🏄🏈🌏
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This article feels pretty close to a type of truth-telling about how fire management in south-eastern Australia has been discussed and debated the last few years. For fire scientists and ecologists alike, there is much to pause, digest and reflect on here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Public ed is good for social cohesion. Public funding for religious private schools divides us.
It's extremely depressing how our system & pol leaders encourage a belief that sending your kids to private, esp "Christian" schools gives them a better future. We need pride & investment in public ed

‘Massive underfunding’ blamed as students enrolled in Australian public schools falls to new low As thousands more students head to private schools, advocates hope new government funding deals might draw families back to public sector * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast In Sharryn Brownlee’s experience, it’s when their kids reach the final years of primary school that a lot of parents start to ask one another the same question. “Where are you going to send your kids to high school? Public or private?” she said. Continue reading...

‘Massive underfunding’ blamed as students enrolled in Australian public schools falls to new low

Pauline Hanson charged taxpayers almost $9,000 for private plane to event honouring Gina Rinehart donation Details of flight come as One Nation leader faces scrutiny over her use of taxpayer-funded entitlements

noice

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This country can afford anything it wants. Single payer healthcare. Affordable housing. Modern transit systems. High speed rail. Everything is a choice.

Inquiry into racism, hate and violence directed at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people The Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs adopted an inquiry into racism, hate and violence directed at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People on 4 March 2026...

Submissions are open for the federal Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs' inquiry into racism, hate, and violence directed at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Mob, I know you've got something to say.

Mates, spread the word.

USA: "Best I can do is 84 month car loans."

Transport is the fastest-growing climate problem — and new national climate plans still fall dangerously short. SLOCAT & @giztransport.bsky.social just published our full analysis of transport in the new NDCs.

Current ambition? On track for 2.3–2.5°C. Not 1.5°C. 🧵

Fever dream: Australia swelters through one of the hottest summers on record, with little relief at night Data shows that some locations stayed well above 30C through the night during a heatwave in late January * Want to get more charts in your inbox every fortnight? Sign up for The Crunch here Australia’s summer was one of the hottest since measurements began, with more than 60 weather stations recording their highest ever daily maximum temperatures during a heatwave in January. But it wasn’t just the days that were sweltering – Australia experienced the fifth-warmest summertime night temperatures on record. Continue reading...

Fever dream: Australia swelters through one of the hottest summers on record, with little relief at night

Mark Zuckerberg presenting his Pervert Glasses for perverts

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

🚨Since the war with Iran started, the Israeli government has closed Gaza’s crossings. These crossings are the main routes for humanitarian aid to enter and the only way critically ill Palestinians can leave Gaza for treatment. Gaza doesn’t have enough food. Don’t stop talking about Gaza.

This is worth mentioning to your friends who traded their ChatGPT for Claude subscriptions - Claude helped kill all of those little girls at school in Iran. Anthropic isn’t ethical AI.

Data centre power emissions double over five years Ryan Cropp Ryan CroppEnergy and climate reporter Mar 3, 2026 – 7.32pm Save Share Gift this article Some of Australia’s biggest data centre operators have more than doubled their reported carbon emissions over the past five years, as the exponential growth of the sector leads to a major rise in demand on the power grid and puts pressure on the government’s climate agenda. Top data centre operators Amazon, AirTrunk and CDC all declared annual scope two emissions increases of more than 20 per cent in 2024-25 and more than 100 per cent since 2020-21, according to new figures published by the Clean Energy Regulator.

AirTrunk founder Robin Khuda told The Australian Financial Review Business Summit on Tuesday that the government’s AI plan was “pretty good”, but it needed to think more holistically about how the nation would build the infrastructure required to power it. Reported electricity emissions by data centre operator (tonnes CO2e) AmazonNextDCAirTrunkEquinixCDC FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24 FY25 200K 250K 300K 350K 400K 450K 500K 550K Source: Clean Energy Regulator The technology industry has argued that the energy demands of data centres will support the rollout of renewable power because they will sign the long-term power purchase agreements needed to make projects financially viable.

The emissions of Australia's top data centre operators have doubled over the past few years. You can see why Amazon Australia fought so hard to try and keep these numbers hidden.......

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Criminal they then went and did this:
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Well, and @chaser.com.au

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Because, as all economists will tell you, people buy more of something when its price goes up.

The Kyle and Jackie O experiment failed The network's mammoth deal banked on the fact that people in Melbourne would take to the hosts just as Sydneysiders did.

At least Dan Ziffer gets it.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Each year, over $6 TRILLION flows to food, road, and fossil fuel industries whose products are associated with more than 5.5 MILLION preventable deaths...

How does industry manage to stay unregulated AND on top of the list for government handouts?

Read the full article: tinyurl.com/ypzn8f84

This is a good piece, with fantastic visuals. I’d just add that filling the sky with satellites for internet is harming our view of the cosmos too.

Hit radio show taken off air as Jackie O quits over Sandilands tirade In an ASX announcement, ARN Media saysHenderson "has given notice she cannot continue to work with Mr Sandilands".

Proof that ABC is Sydney-centric if they're calling that a "hit" radio show.

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First week in the BBC graphics department and already thriving

These authors reviewed 73 previous studies examining car touchscreens.

Conclusion: They're awful

"Touchscreens tended to have negative effects on driving performance, visual attention, and secondary task performance compared with voice control and physical controls."

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Amazing: “You’re knocking them out of the sky with ordnance that’s way more expensive not just than the Shahed, but sometimes it’s more expensive than the thing that the Shahed is actually hitting."
The target the Shahed is hitting is cheaper than the Patriot missile used to take it down.

Another reason to get off of fossil fuels and get behind public transit, cycling, walkable communities and more.

Microplastics and nanoplastics in urban air originate mainly from tire abrasion, research reveals Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from Germa...

“Microplastics and nanoplastics in urban air originate mainly from tire abrasion, research reveals.” #UrbanTruth
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Bus - bus lane, no parking fees, no paying for petrol
Car - congestion charge, parking fees, car maintenance, MOT, fuel or charging, no priority bus lane...
or you could go by
Bike - bike lane (sometimes), free exercise, no charges, minimal upkeep costs, clear your head on the commute

Adding Up What Urban Highways Really Cost A new report maps the economic toll that downtown freeways exact on 142 US cities — and tallies up what that land could be worth if it was developed for other uses.

Another link to the Bloomberg Story on the Atlas of Inner City Highway Impacts: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

27 Million Fewer Car Trips: Life After a Year of Congestion Pricing How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.

A reminder that one year in, congestion pricing has clearly been a successful policy: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...