Tasmania in crisis over billion-dollar AFL stadium The Tasmanian Liberal government is in crisis and a snap election likely to be called as the premier clings to plans for a stadium that will bankrupt the state.

I'd love to see Tasmania in the AFL. But there's a lot of footy people blithely dismissing the considerable objections to the insistence on a new stadium as part of the deal without bothering to understand them. They should definitely read this piece.

Lol

Dutton’s weird energy claims in leaders debate show he’s living in opposite-world Almost every energy claim made by Dutton isn’t just wrong – it’s precisely opposite to the reality revealed by simple fact-checking

Almost every energy claim made by Dutton isn’t just wrong – it’s precisely opposite to the reality revealed by simple fact-checking

Great that you're enjoying Melbourne! Off topic for the post but what are your highlights so far?

Every week, a new hidden cost of Dutton’s plan emerges.

Photograph of a warehouse in Kinshasa where unboxed tuberculosis medications are going undistributed due to the stop work order by the Trump Administration.

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.

The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.

It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

There’s a reason why experts have found that Dutton’s nuclear scheme will push up household power bills by up to $1200

It’s because - as the CSIRO has found - nuclear takes too long to build, costs too much and pushes up bills

This puts it well & it’s a point I keep making about why using AI to write is so flattening. Writing is the process of working out & refining what you think. If I write an article, I’m not just generating 1000 plausible words. I’m trying to articulate ideas with precision, & challenging myself.

Apparently, Lib MP Joe McCracken’s confession on some obscure libertarian podcast about the Vic Liberals' plan for sweeping cuts hasn’t gone down well internally in the party.

That was meant to be a secret.

I guess Kennett didn't campaign on closing down 350 schools, yet....

Everyone should watch this video!

White text on a dark gray background reads: Ryan Atotharimaten O'Doud If you invert the lyrics to Rick Astley you get Nine Inch Nails I will give you up/ I will let you down/ I will run around and hurt you/ I will tell you lies/ I will say good bye/ I will run around and desert you

I wanna hear the Johnny Cash version

California wildfire image

The hard truth about the consequences of the #ClimateCrisis — wildfires, floods, storms, droughts, heat waves and more — won’t come from climate activists who are too easily ignored or even vilified. It will come from central banks. And insurance companies. And every rational evidence-based sector.

Images showing coastal erosion over 4 years at Montrose, Scotland.

(Best image from the story. This has been a multi decade issue.)

The Scottish golf courses disappearing into the sea Some of Scotland’s oldest golf courses are losing seven metres a year to coastal erosion.

I hope the right people are learning from lessons learned elsewhere such as this historic golf course.

[main thrust of my original point is proven incorrect]
You: "regardless..."

Softball to get things going: 7 x 13

Line chart showing cumulative coal generation between 2025 and 2051 under different scenarios for the NEM. AEMO's step change scenario, which roughly accords with the ALP's current policies, stops burning coal in 2037, at which time 573 TWh of coal fired electricity has been produced. AEMO's least-ambitious scenario - progressive change - has almost but not quite stopped burning coal in 2050. At this time 868 TWh has been burned. Frontier Economics' effort to model the LNP policies stops burning coal in 2048, by which time 1,594 TWh of coal fired electricity has been produced. This is almost three times as much as would be burned under the ALP's policies.

Much, much more coal is burned under the LNP plan than the ALP plan. The LNP plan also burns much, much more coal than the least ambitious AEMO scenario (which it is notionally based on).

Everything about getting older is great except for the breakdown of the vessel that contains you (or, arguably, the breakdown of the vessel that is you).