Research from The Australia Institute shows that, after inflation, specialist fees have grown by a whopping 78% since 2010.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/40rxWu0
Research from The Australia Institute shows that, after inflation, specialist fees have grown by a whopping 78% since 2010.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/40rxWu0
OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
a chart showing Australia's cars shifting towards uts adnd subs
Another v v good piece of analysis from @onlyfacts.io here - showing how the shift to uts and SUVs in Australia is a major component of rising transport emissions
Remarkable how unassailable this deadly trend is, in Aus
onlyfacts.io/newsletters/...
New article by our PhD student investigating if Sr, Nd and Pb isotopes can be used to trace the provenance of ochres... Hint they can! ⚒️🧪🌏 doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
06.02.2026 00:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Winter sport needs snow-not fossil fuels
Eni, one of the world’s biggest oil and gas corporations, is using the Winter Olympics to greenwash its fossil-fuelled destruction
If you agree that polluters shouldn’t get a podium at the Games, share the video
(Proudly human-made. No AI)
#WinterOlympics
Exclusive | The Albanese government is handing access to Australians’ biometric data and ID documents to US agencies like ICE, and not telling anyone. @keanebernard.bsky.social reports.
03.02.2026 01:45 — 👍 153 🔁 130 💬 31 📌 60
Politics is about choices.
This government is choosing to spend more on tax breaks for landlords than on social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined.
While you're getting smashed by unlimited rent increases and massive mortgage repayments.
Politicians (Pelosi just did it) and institutions routinely misquote MLK on health.
"Health" became "health care" (shrinking a systemic indictment to a service delivery complaint)
"Inhuman" became "inhumane" (a very different word)
"Because it often results in physical death" just disappeared.
Here’s @jsresearchpro.bsky.social reporting on ridiculous new ARC grant time-scales (e.g. 16 months for DPs).
The ARC “did not respond to questions about the reasons for the length of the delays or on how the changes will affect researchers’ planning”.
I reckon they haven’t thought that far ahead.
Labor is passing laws that are more extreme than what Trump has attempted, on immigration and speech, largely at the behest of the media. But if Trump tried to do it, the same outlets would say they were bad, fascistic overreach. Insanely dumb country.
20.01.2026 03:02 — 👍 89 🔁 36 💬 1 📌 1$600,000. A. Day. What the fuck.
19.01.2026 04:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This paper is part of a huge surge forward in scientific understanding of disease. We have gone from not knowing EBV causes MS to unlocking **how** EBV causes MS, *like that*. 1/2
15.01.2026 05:57 — 👍 49 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 0If you were part of the Robodebt class action settlement, you may be eligible for compensation. Registration for compensation ends in early March 2026. Make sure you’re registered. Contact Gordon Legal if you haven’t received a information document package from Services Australia
12.01.2026 08:27 — 👍 205 🔁 148 💬 3 📌 2
Grass roots.
My @smh cartoon.
When you shop at Coles, you’re funding fascism.
Good to know. Even better to avoid.
If you're scared this tragedy will by weaponised by those pushing hatred, division & control, same. It's a pattern that can change nations. We've already seen Netanyahu claim the Muslim who charged the shooters was Jewish. Empathy, patience and truth. Everything else is unhelpful
15.12.2025 00:01 — 👍 413 🔁 113 💬 21 📌 4
In case you have never seen this.
13.12.2025 22:38 — 👍 3180 🔁 1269 💬 68 📌 74
“This is complete overkill by Victoria police to designate such a large area for six months... What it means is that a police officer or protective services officer can stop and search anyone, no questions asked, at any time in the CBD and its surrounds.”
25.11.2025 07:55 — 👍 38 🔁 15 💬 5 📌 0Just outrageous!
19.11.2025 00:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
4BC is out here with the hard-hitting investigations!
500 Australians are apparently at the UN climate summit in Brazil, and that's costing taxpayers $2 billion!
So for some quick maths that's $4 million per person for a two week trip to Brazil.
Unbelievable stuff! 😛
so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
30.10.2025 22:25 — 👍 1946 🔁 699 💬 52 📌 125The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
29.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 1095 🔁 367 💬 38 📌 37
Monster: Ed Gein, a thread
Ed Gein was schizophrenic and had mummy issues, he was extremely unwell but he was NOT trans by any acceptable definition of the word and would not have been considered trans by any medical professional. He was not a trans woman he was trying to be/become his mother. 1/
A picture of a sun over a horizon, dimmed into orange by smog.
Lots of talk about solar geoengineering (SRM) in climate circles over the past few days.
As you try to decide what you think about it, please keep two things in mind:
1) Once it begins it would need to be maintained without a break for thousands of years, effectively forever, until…
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Text of Aust/US critical mineral deal.
www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...
No 3 looks like an attack on requisite permits (probably environment)...the old red/green tape reduction trick.
It may have escaped your attention, but the Belgian energy system has quietly passed an important test. During the weekend of 4-5 October 2025, our consumption was almost entirely covered by renewable energy. And yet the system ticked like a Swiss watch. /
06.10.2025 22:01 — 👍 258 🔁 83 💬 8 📌 7
The Government justified a clamp down on freedom of information requests by claiming an increase in malicious and automated FOI attempts. Only problem is, there's no evidence of such a thing.
Our research showed that the number of FOI requests has not increased, but processing time has. 🔗⤵️ #auspol
Victoria's big batteries have broken a record, charging up with enough electricity to power over 2 million homes, after soaking up half of the state's rooftop solar capacity reneweconomy.com.au/victoria-bec...
30.09.2025 06:42 — 👍 84 🔁 32 💬 1 📌 4Women and children were seen screaming and rushing for shelter after an Israeli attack landed close to an Al Jazeera crew as they interviewed a displaced Palestinian mother in the al-Shati refugee camp near Gaza City.
27.09.2025 10:53 — 👍 567 🔁 383 💬 22 📌 40
