Alison Jones

Council announces crackdown on short-stay accommodation Hundreds of properties in low and low-to-medium residential-zoned areas of Brisbane will have to seek development approval or be banned from acting as short-stay accommodation.

Does taxing short-stay accommodation properties return them to the rental market? Since 2022, LNP Brisbane council has tried raising rates on them by 50% then to 65%. In June 2024 they announced a permit system. Now it's a crackdown reannouncement. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Absolute 🐂💩 from AGL, effectively lowering the charge per KWH but charging double for every KWH after 379 KWHs used
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Just thieving rouges!
@albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social

The incredible Pete Milne investigates & reports on Alcoa's staggeringly egregious bullshit in their quest to strip mine bauxite in West Australia's unique jarrah forests (I'm paraphrasing but Alcoa's operations, impacts & offset/restoration plans exhibit utter contempt for the jarrah ecosystem)

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

He is just revolting and Jackie O is an enabler

A Call for the Universal Use of Respirators in Healthcare - Add Your Name In an effort to advance global public health through turbulent times, a group of experts from around the globe in medicine, public health, law, industrial hygiene, and other disciplines, met at the Un...

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I think most Australians want to step away from AUKUS and particularly a fascist US Administration.

It wasn’t a matter of “will kids get complications”. It was a matter of what complications, how many and for how long…

and it looks like we actually infected them all to get the answer!!! 😡

A lab researcher in a white coat and blue gloves is pipetting a sample in a laboratory, with glass beakers and chemical containers blurred in the background. A microscope is positioned on the right side of the image. A link preview caption reads: “Yale study places long COVID among an extensive history of post-acute infection syndromes.” The link source is labmate-online.com.

Scientists at Yale say long COVID is part of a “long-established family of post-acute infection syndromes.” The biggest challenge is understanding its “underlying pathobiology.” They were “surprised” how often children are affected, noting kids are also vulnerable to “long-term effects.”

Sign the Petition Keep VicHealth Independent and Strong for a Healthier Future #SaveVicHealth

- Guarantee long‑term, stable investment in prevention and health promotion to reduce preventable illness and ease pressure on our health system.

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Sign the Petition Keep VicHealth Independent and Strong for a Healthier Future #SaveVicHealth

Please sign the petition calling on the Premier to:

- Abandon plans to absorb VicHealth into the Department of Health.
- Keep VicHealth as a stand‑alone, independent, fully funded health promotion agency to provide advice, support community-based work, and lead policy development and research.

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this is 💔...

One quick note, the antihistamine protocol will not help most people with anything other than the COVID vaccine. For shingles, the preventative is to be INCREDIBLY super hydrated! Like, "peeing waterfalls" levels of hydrated.

Albo posting about ban on Nazi platform X

Albo spruiking his social media ban on instagram

Albo on TikTok

Albo taking to social media to promote his social media ban

Some scientists say that a mere cough or sneeze can produce airborne viral particles. Dr. Annalee Yassi, one of the country’s foremost occupational medical experts, said researchers now know that there is always an airborne component of a cough or a sneeze. A cough or a sneeze never produces just large droplets. She told the Commission: There is unquestionably some airborne spread even if it’s only when people are coughing or sneezing, never mind nebulized and ventilated

Hey everyone, it's time to play "guess the year we knew COVID was airborne"!

(answer in link: wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...)

Might have to go see this one

It’s two years since we were told ‘the age of fossil fuels will end’. When will Australia get prepared for what’s coming? | Clear Air The decline of the coal export industry could come even faster than expected, and we need to do more to manage the economic risks

“Australia led the world expanding its oil and gas industries between 2015-2024” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The 2026 draft ISP from AEMO has been released. Here's the overview of the lowest cost path: www.aemo.com.au/-/media/file...

Last coal generation retired in 2049; 2/3 gone by 2035. Gas generation to increase 25% by 2050; Wind & Solar up 500%. No nuclear.

"[State governments] are promoting the idea that burning huge quantities of plastic, clothing, and food waste is somehow the answer to the climate crisis. Yeah, right."

Read the full piece: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/251209-waste-incinerators-the-latest-bin-fire-in-australian-climate-policy

Odds of this recovery to baseline actually occurring under real world conditions?

Do I need to spell out what is realistically going to happen to people that fit this category?

Nationalists play to the crowd in Japan–China relations A warning from Japan’s prime minister about Taiwan has triggered a sharp exchange with Beijing, revealing how nationalism is reshaping diplomacy.

Warnings over Taiwan have reignited diplomatic tensions between Japan and China, with nationalism on both sides shaping rhetoric more than strategy, writes Zhenlin Cui. #Japan #China #Taiwan #Geopolitics #auspol

Our poet laureate

The results are in. Sample size is double digits. About half the banned teen group were assessed as over sixteen. 🤣

Inaugural Carney Public Lecture Emeritus Professor Terry Carney delivers "Australian Social Services Scandals: Towards dystopia? Or equity and justice for the vulnerable?"

Emeritus Prof Terry Carney delivers "Australian Social Services Scandals: Towards dystopia? Or equity and justice for the vulnerable?" Inaugural Carney Public Lecture at USyd on Thurs 6pm. Few tix to this free event left. I'm responding via Zoom after www.eventbrite.com.au/e/inaugural-...

Well, this is not comforting...

Donald Trump, Jr.’s net worth has increased six-fold since his father was reelected.

Eric Trump has gotten ten times richer over the same time period.

Funny how that works, huh?

"Recyclable" Doesn't Mean "Recycled" The comforting story we tell ourselves - and the landfill reality How often do you hear “but it’s recyclable”?. I hear it in supermarkets, road-side service centres and worksites. Someone holds up a p...

But it’s recyclable.” I hear it everywhere.

But “recyclable” is a label - not an outcome.👇🏽

www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/recycla...

‘Kicking and screaming’: UTS admits to secret spreadsheet Calls grow for the resignation of  UTS vice-chancellor Andrew Parfitt, who knew of the KPMG-produced list targeting ‘underperforming’ staff even as his office denied it existed.

Consulting firm KPMG produced a secret list of “underperforming” researchers as part of a $100m cost-cutting drive at the University of Technology Sydney – which vice-chancellor Andrew Parfitt has told a federal inquiry he knew about. satpa.pe/qhXjcIG

The "Cardiovascular Patients" cohort are also improving by around 3% per year. However as they finished the study ~70% down on the baseline, it will likely take decades for them to fully recover.
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A recent scientific paper explored the impact of mass SARS-CoV-2 infections on Lymphocytes (crucial to the body’s immune system).

I noticed the authors had shared the data behind their charts in the Appendix Supplementary materials, so I built a quick dataviz project to explore.
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