DDB Winter

The UK has a lot to learn from speedy Singapore Rather than emulate the city state wholesale, policymakers should select from its tool kit

funny how the lesson we can learn is always 'low regulation' and never 80% of residents live in subsidized public housing

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Support Workers at Padre Roastery In mid-2024, workers at Padre Coffee's Brunswick East roastery made the decision to unionise. This was not a step taken lightly – but it was a necessary one. Since the business was bought out by corpo...

In Brunswick a small coffee roastery is going up against Seven Miles. Please give their demands a read and consider signing their support petition: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/su... #unions #australia

Big battery splurge sets cracking pace for 2025, as wind and solar investment has best year since 2018 New quarterly data details a flying start to what promises to be a big year for big battery investment, and the investment in wind and solar is also rebounding.

New quarterly data details a flying start to what promises to be a big year for big battery investment, and the investment in wind and solar is also rebounding

Governments urged to prioritise high-level action on the social determinants of health equity

Governments urged to prioritise high-level action on the social determinants of health equity www.croakey.org/governments-... #publichealth

Laura Tingle exits press gallery after 40 years with parting shot on News Corp’s election ‘irrelevance’ The political editor for 7.30 signs off saying ‘there’s no correlation between what News Corp says and what voters do’. Plus: much ado for the Mail

“There’s just no correlation between what News Corp says and what voters do”

Laura Tingle's observation is not so much "a parting shot", as a statement of fact.

The tragedy is that so many of her colleagues still suck up to #MurdochGutterMedia. #auspol
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Come on man.
Any country that sanctioned Israel would immediately get attacked by the US economically.
The unions are all funding aid programs and encouraging boycotts while the government maintains just enough relationship to not have the US take notice and squash our economy.

One of the best outcomes of #ausvotes:
the political influence of #MurdochGutterMedia is fast fading towards irrelevance.

Except for the fact the Liberal party looks likely to continue getting its policy direction from Sky After Dark. #auspol

Senator Price blames Labor and the media for “slinging mud”.

Just like her hero Trump, she can’t take any responsibility. #BinNight #ausvotes

I think a lot of Liberals will be working from home

I’m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. 🪶

Surely the only way you have to solve the monetisation problem is to have it run by an international NFP similar to a Wikimedia situation.

Agreed. It would be nice to see multiple unionist parties in Australia one day but right now, we only have one and it's delivered us some of the best reforms for working people over the past century.

So Dutton's latest policy is to make long boozy business lunches tax deductible. I wonder if he'll have anything to offer working people to make their lives easier. He is so pathetic. #auspol

Don't they know that nuclear - no, seriously 😵‍💫 - is much cheaper?
#Auspol

Images of Dutch bike infrastructure

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social

The United States and Australia’s AUKUS Delusion The deal exacerbates the threat to Australia without committing the United States to containing China.

The tripartite AUKUS agreement exacerbates the threat to Australia without committing the United States to containing China, writes Sam Roggeveen in this week’s Foreign Policy Essay.

That was a very enlightening read, thank you!
I hear a lot of grumbling about us having bad traffic globally and I wonder what alternate reality I must be living in.
Also refreshing to hear TMR talking about public transport as the solution to congestion, not road widening!

Currently reading the Echidna Strategy by Sam Roggeveen and he says the same. I don't agree with everything but it's a solid book.
Australia's biggest defence is our distance. Nothing we have would be easier for a foreign power to get from us by force than by trade. No invasion is coming

I get what you're saying here but I don't like the implication that the Labor party is somehow pro-corporation, the same party that's just put through massive multinational tax avoidance laws and has tripled the funding of the ATO and cracked down on high income tax avoidance.

Another idiot Qld LNP member trying to score political points off the Bruce Hwy. How many times do I have to say this? The program began in 2013 when you were in government.

We're exhausted over this. We don't care which party. We just want to see the budget line items. #qldpol

After a solid half hour of research I finally decided on LibraryThing as my not-Goodreads going forward.

Boody annoying to trawl through reviews & feature lists but I guess this is the world we're in now.
No single over-arching app or service for things.

Still can't decide if that's good or bad.

Can't see Joyce quote in it, but this is a fabulous read on the explosion of solar energy. #auspol

“At current rates, solar is on track to provide 12 per cent of global electricity in three years, 24 per cent in six years, and 48 per cent in less than a decade."

Tell me again, why nuclear good?

The Opposition STILL thinks #childcare is basically child-minding for rich folks. Birmingham has no understanding of the importance of childcare to working families or any appreciation of the social and #education benefits for children! #Childcare is about #EarlyChildhoodLearning. #auspol

I love all these ideas and would love to play the festival rejigged with all these changes!
I really hope the lotro team takes notice!

David Crisafulli blames Labor for abortion being raised during the election but it was his own MPs that first spoke openly about their views. Now no one is allowed to debate the Termination of Pregnancy Act in parliament either to amend or repeal it. #qldpol x.com/7NewsBrisban...

Greyhound racing to be banned in New Zealand The decision has been made to protect the welfare of the racing dogs, New Zealand's Racing Minister Winston Peters has announced.

The decision has been made to protect the welfare of the racing dogs, New Zealand's Racing Minister Winston Peters has announced.

Year another excellent piece by John Hewson in @satpaper.bsky.social, this time on the best future for the Aust Future Fund.
Ethical investments (ie no more tobacco/oil/arms $) instead align with national interest & fund key public projects.
So obvious- why didn’t Costello do that??