The War Parties: Labor, One Nation and the Liberals just voted together to pass a Bill that will slam the door on Iranians fleeing a war they have cheered on.
The Albanese Government has still said nothing. Thousands of Lebanese-Australians, not a peep from their government. Seems Labor cannot see the victims when they are killed by Israeli and US bombs.
Tens of thousands of Australians are in Lebanon right now, sheltering from Israeli attacks, and the Albanese Government has not said a peep.
As the Albanese Government commits us to an illegal US forever war, they are ignoring the victims of the horror they support.
“A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century. We’re in the 21st.”— Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo.
No matter what happens in the Paris election in 4 days, the world’s cities owe @annehidalgo.bsky.social a huge debt of gratitude.
The boldest, most inspiring mayor I’ve seen.
I’d say, come for the skateboarding, stay for the bikes!
It's true, Australia has always been hot. But digging into temperature data shows the summers we experience today are vastly different from those of our grandparents.
Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Electric trucks are finally ready for prime time. Could high oil prices speed up the shift?
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Which climate policies actually make a difference? Our new analysis has the answer
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Robodebt showed us what happens when the government breaks its own laws without consequence.
It’s clear that Labor and its Department have not learned their lesson.
Meanwhile, Labor have also still failed to implement key recommendations of the Royal Commission, including reinstating the 6-year debt recovery limit, limiting automated decision-making, and better protections for people experiencing hardship from compliance notices.
Nothing changes because there are no consequences!
That’s why we still have a welfare compliance system that the government can’t even say is operating legally, and it's why we still have dodgy payment suspensions and a dubious debt-recovery program chasing decades-old debts.
No government minister has been held accountable, which means no government has been held accountable.
If the political class knows they can get away with something as appalling and illegal as Robodebt, they will keep trying it on.
The architects of Robodebt are still sitting pretty.
The NACC has made two findings of corruption, but those who should shoulder the blame for one of the biggest scandals in Australian history remain unscathed.
Cold comfort to the thousands of people whose lives were destroyed.
The passages clearing Morrison of fault are extraordinary
NACC says Morrison is technically "responsible" as cabinet Minister, but not "personally at fault"
If responsibility exists without consequence...then what does "ministerial accountability" even mean anymore?
But all it would’ve cost them was a tiny chink in their ideological war on the poor to create guardrails to protect people from future harms from automated decision. They won’t commit to that either
The NACC held *35 days* of private hearings in its investigation into Robodebt corruption, but decided that these hearings didn't need to be public.
I, for one, would have liked to have watched the corruption hearing of Scott Morrison
The NACC continues to be a joke
What the NACC has essentially done, after years “investigating”, is restate two findings made against lower level robodebt execs, and *toss out* the much more serious allegations against the likes of Katherine Campbell and Scott Morrison etc.
That’s it for the NACC. This will be the final straw.
"Leading vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris says there's not enough awareness of the impact of COVID-19 on overall health."
"What many people don't realise is that getting COVID repeatedly is not like building immunity, it's more like accumulating damage," she says.
Source: archive.md/Qsv13
1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography
David Shoebridge fires up saying Australians are horrified at Labor dragging us into an illegal war on Iran which “started with the US killing of schoolgirls.”
Says sending in Aus troops is “not about safety” but to ‘free up US assets’ so they can “kill ppl in Iran”💥 #auspol
The announcement today from the Albanese Labor Government to send an E-7A Wedgetail aircraft to the Gulf and provide medium-range air-to-air missiles to the UAE shows Australia has been fully dragged into another US forever war.
My new opinion piece on the recently reported attacks on desalination plants in the Middle East.
#water
#desalination
#iranwar
thebulletin.org/2026/03/desa...
They are really hitting water infrastructure
What a coincidence that it was the Palestinian artist who wasn't granted a visa in time...
Chris Minns’ own security expert warned that tougher police powers after Bondi could ‘increase radicalisation’
While Katherine remains under an emergency flood warning, water levels are now receding and food supply lines are opening up.
Safe Work Australia has published a Code of Conduct which mentions a duty to ensure safe indoor air: www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/doc/model-co...
I have posted my summary of the many weaknesses and a tiny glimmer of hope here: petervogel.legal/rubyprincess...
Wastewater levels for Ontario, released today, March 6th, 2026…otherwise known as “during COVID”
wwater.ca/Ontario
