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Independent Senator David Pocock has added his voice to calls for a 25% tax on gas exports.

@markogge.bsky.social explains why Australia taxes beer more effectively than its gas exports.

Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4sf8hAN

It needs to be dropped completely. I heard some suggesting the discount drop from 50% to 40%. That is no more than a light drizzle in the middle of a drought

This referral is overdue. But will the Epworth and the tight cabal of private specialists get away with suppressing consumer and health professional’s complaints????

A neat summary of the impact humans have had on life on this planet

Nuclear was being madly pushed (by the nuclear and fossil fuel lobbies) as a solution for our climate emergency.

Just never know when it will be finished, or how much it will end up costing, or what to do with the waste.

We’re all entitled to our own opinions. We’re not entitled to our own facts. Popcorn lung is an invention

Victorian government is refusing to undertake an independent enquiry into Epworth private hospital.

The cover up continues as experts in the field have been muzzled.

There is something about Queensland

It’s smokescreen so that the guilty can claim it’s all fake news

Today is a lovely day in Melbourne after the rain has made the plants happy after a dry January when it looked like a drought was starting

Tomorrow it will flood. 🙀

Revenge of the nerds

Reminds me of wake in fright

This is even more admirable given they would not be tolerated in Gaza

When you learn the language you learn the culture. Migrants bring such a rich tapestry of cultural capital to our country

Blaming immigrants for high house prices? Look at the other ‘I’ word There’s one group buying double the number of homes as first home buyers are – and it’s not migrants.

www.theage.com.au/business/the...

Its Taxation, not immigration, that is at the core of the housing crisis

Also, why are other hospitals muzzling their doctors? If a doctor is giving an assessment on medical mismanagement, surely it is in the public interest to report.

This smacks of a coverup

‘I’m grieving my old body’: How a young woman lost her ovary to a surgeon now under investigation The federal health minister has requested scrutiny of clinical governance at the Epworth hospital after allegations that one of its surgeons performed unnecessary surgeries to treat endometriosis.

www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

The question has to be asked:

Why is it inappropriate, according to the Director of Clinical Governance at the Epworth Private hospital, to comment on an individual doctor who has damaged a patient when the patient has self identified?

Wye river in Australia had catastrophic, ever seen floods a short time after massive bushfires in the same area

Perth Australia?

There are racists in Israel. Not all Israelis are racists.

Yes. We have an independent. While expensive, they don’t cheat. And you get served by people rather than the gauntlet of machines.

I worry that the combination of robotisation and AI will mean the only jobs in the future will be security

Jacob Redman (@everythingbriefing) On the eve of the 1960 presidential election, Senator John F. Kennedy said, “I want the United States to have the best educated citizens in the world. That's the way we maintain democracy; that's the ...

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So you will drive past Coles to the next supermarket that has cheated.

Are any free of cheating. I think Aldi. But I am not sure.

Not surprised. Ashamed that the his is our government

Has the Segal woman called out Pauline Hansons hate speech?

Social cohesion is the modern term for assimilation

Seems to me that the RBA is out of touch with reality

So do people still buy salmon?

Have you seen the Roy Morgan poll on Victorian voting intentions? One Nation is outpolling Labor

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