Josh Hallwright, PhD

#auspol

Good news: 35 countries have decreased their fossil CO2 emissions significantly (p<0.05) while growing their economies in the decade 2015-20244, twice as many as during the previous decade (2005-2014; 18 countries.

These 35 countries account for 27% of global fossil CO2 emissions.

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Free Public Transport and Social Justice in Australia Free public transport in Australia supports social justice, equality, and climate goals while improving access to jobs and housing.

“Public transport fares eat into low incomes. Free public transport could ease the burden that rising fares place on low incomes.”

socialjusticeaustralia.com.au/free-public-...

Not. Even. A. Parody.

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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My analysis of his year's Economics Nobel is out in EPW! What's wrong with the Economics Nobel this time around? I've written a little commentary arguing that the Prize rewards Eurocentric foundations for (innovation-driven) growth and supports a technology fetish. PDF: ingridhk.com/wp-content/u...

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

I was thinking about how Musk getting paid $1tn over a decade feels incomprehensible, so I did some maths.

They’ve decided that Elon Musk is worth paying ~USD$11.4 million PER HOUR for the next TEN years.

This is excellent. And heartwarming rather than handwringing.

Would love to see a lot more of this re communities banding together to get better outcomes for themselves incl via their governance structures.

#energysky #auspol

BREAKING: The Albanese Labor Government just joined with the Coalition to vote against an inquiry into AUKUS proposed by the Greens.

Trump called Mamdani a 'communist' but NYC sent the president a message After using a Trump-style tactic in his campaign, Zohran Mamdani probably now has the US president's begrudging respect — as well as his attention.

Imagine what could happen if Labor's testicles dropped #auspol
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Yes please.

The possibility from Mamdani, and at this point this is maybe reading in too much into it, but a progressive figure has found a way to reach the disenfranchised and disengaged…a thing that of late has been the party trick of the populist right. Be something, stand for something, offer hope.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Another historic achievement in transparency by the Albanese govt: cratering the FOI system.
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

I love this kind of comparative spending - does wonders for the understanding of expenditure and priorities.

The Federal Government spends more on shredders than FOI training The Federal Government has spent $2.3 million on shredders over the last five years, almost double the $1.3 million spent on freedom of information training over the same period.

Missed this form earlier this week. By @skyelark.bsky.social "The Federal Government spends more on shredders than FOI training"
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Here's an idea!

Australians can broaden their understanding of the world and viewpoints

Access live broadcasts from major news sources including Aljazeera, the BBC, France 24 etc that also have other informative investigations and documentaries

Escape the bubble mainstream media here traps us in

As Australians we are meant to feel an affinity with the US and UK. To be honest I feel much closer to NZ and Canada than anywhere else.

I mean I love lots of countries and cultures but those two feel very similar to what I would prefer Australia be like.

There’s a lot of dodgy stuff going on across Australia with vested interests buying their way in political influence.

The lobbies for fossil fuels, mining, gambling, guns, weapons, zionists, media, private education… automobiles are among the biggest that have captured our governments.

#auspol

Rick Morton, scoop machine.

“The reason that we are where we are is that we just didn’t care enough,” Raymond said. “The survival of these people, their lives, matter less than our economic and security relationships with the UAE, and that’s why these people are dying.”

This is entirely un democratic - all 81 (the 21 are extra gross)

Incredible

Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis

The story of the climate crisis told in two numbers: $2.5 billion a day in direct subsidies to fossil fuels companies. 1440 deaths per day from extreme heat.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

October 29, 1984 - Lord Ashby speaks out - All Our Yesterdays Forty one years ago, on this day, October 29th, 1984, the House of Lords got schooled. Lord Ashby – There are the dangers of the long-term effects of gases causing a change in the cloak of ozone in th...

41 yrs ago (Oct 29, 1984) in the House of Lords.

Lord Ashby:
"the most ominous teaser in the pack, which is the possible effects on climate of something we know for certain is going on, and that is the accumulation of CO2 from the burning of coal and oil."

allouryesterdays.info/2025/10/28/o...

‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Today's quick update [Oct 28]:

- RSF attack reported on Jabal Alhashaba, southwest of ElObeid in North Kordofan (red).

- Joint Forces: over 2,000 civilians killed by RSF in Elfashir (blue) over a 48 hour period.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Reached the PBS threshold for meds . Free meds for us both until end of year.
Thanks Labor

I always say there are two types of people in the world, and that's how I lost my job at the blood bank.