Donna Weeks

Speaking on an Australia Institute webinar, Nobel Prize-winning economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz has urged the Australian Government to “follow the money” and start imposing a “a very, very high tax rate” on the country’s natural resources.

Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qEs0bO

Albanese dismisses Aukus concerns as submarine shipyard cost revealed to be $30bn Prime minister commits $3.9bn as ‘down payment’ for Adelaide facility to eventually build nuclear-powered vessels

The AUKUS agreement has now been in place for 4 years. During that time both the US & UK have undertaken reviews of its progress. With the Albanese govt now admitting its South Australian submarine base will cost at least $30bn, it's well past time Australia undertook its own AUKUS review.

Politicians who would rather spout hate and division are not worthy of the vocation.

Yes, makes me appreciate the digitisation of resources.

I once did that, looking through about 35 years of Nikkei Shimbun for references to Australia…all on microfilm, the gold star of research technology at the time.

The peer review system is breaking down. Here’s how we can fix it Peer review is so integral to the scholarly system that research would grind to a halt without it.

The whole publish or perish approach has not served us well.

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‘A lingering in stillness’: philosopher Byung-Chul Han on the radical power of gardening Is gardening a form of resistance in a world demanding endless efficiency and self-optimisation?

Thoughtful read.
Reading Han in conjunction with Arendt readings lately has opened up some new possibilities in approaches to our various crises.

theconversation.com/a-lingering-...

Probably tracks back through parliamentary friendship leagues, bilateral visits, often early in their careers… network opportunities.

A rather blunt conclusion👇 to this 👉 article. #AUKUS #auspol www.eurasiareview.com/13022026-bli...

My friend Jon has died | First Dog on the Moon Jon Kudelka loved his beautiful family and was fiercely intolerant of greed and hypocrisy * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

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Interesting. Japan’s Nikkei is running a story in the change in leadership for the Liberal Party.
Today, the contrived coalition of Chudo, the Centrist Reform Alliance which contested last Sunday’s election, will hold a leadership ballot.
Parliamentary politics is a bit of a mess at the moment.

Thousands of people come out again and again to show they’re on the right side of history.

Had reason to go to the local shopping centre today to run various errands, and the cheeriness and helpfulness factor of 4 out of 5 staff was 100+%. How lovely. Well done.

Jim Chalmers offers some thoughts on Angus Taylor.

(quoted by Michelle Grattan in the Conversation)

As beautiful as they were powerful: Jon Kudelka’s political cartoons were made with true conviction The award-winning cartoonist Jon Kudelka died in Hobart on Sunday, aged 53. Over 30 years, his work resisted the polarisation of the contemporary Australian media.

This is lovely
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How Kant can make sense of misinformation - LSE Impact How Kantian notions of appearances can inform misinformation interventions that address the root causes of why people believe fake news.

💥New | How Kant can make sense of misinformation

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#Misinformation #Expertise #Kant

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There’s some cosmic bingo tea towel out there that has a square for ‘too young, too funny, too decent’.

A Kudelka cartoon, ‘Socratic Tea Ceremony’, a dialogue.

Lots of Jon Kudelka’s cartoons made it to the fridge door, but this one took pride of place on my office doors, many and various, as I made my way as a budding political philosopher. Vale.

The world is so much poorer for not having Jon Kudelka in it

Very sad to share the news of this legend of Australian political cartooning, and art. Dear Jon Kudelka has died, and we will be the poorer and more dull for his passing.
Sending love and condolences to his family.
What a legacy of scorching wit and joyful capturing of life he leaves.

The 1947 Constitution has not been amended, yet. No referendum has been held, yet.

Article 96 of the Japanese constitution refers to amendments to the constitution. A referendum, put to the voters, is required to make amendments. The two-thirds majority in the parliament gives the LDP the chance to propose amendments to Art 9, to put to the voters.

Ishin remains very Osaka-centred (as expected), it will cling on to try and remain relevant in govt but the coalition agreement the leaders drew up while thinking they had a modicum of influence will mean little.

One of the members of the former Rikken Dems, who didn’t join the Centrists but hastily formed his own party, kept his seat.

I wonder how long Takaichi will keep her Ishin coalition partner in the tent, once the extent of the majority is confirmed.

Takaichi being very low key in her interview with journalists. (Not a victory speech.)

It is isn’t it. Hard to know how to counter that.

A number of previously disendorsed LDP candidates have been returned, having received renewed endorsement this time around (including ‘my’ electorate). I guess voters aren’t that concerned about corruption or accept it as a normalised part of politics. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Uh-oh, just heard a reference to ‘Takaichi Children’, a throwback to other successful LDP results when the media liked to attribute the candidates’ election to the charisma of the leader. Some have never shaken that label.