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The Point Live: Coalition continues to tank as parliament enters its final week The Coalition is now at 42 to Labor's 58 in the Newspoll two-party preferred measure after dumping net zero and naming immigration as its next target. Meanwhile Labor pushes to pass it's mining frien...

Seems we are at breaking point for the #housing crisis in cities if job seekers can’t live in cities who will dontge work? Lift the rate!

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Great piece, Grog.

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Apparently social and public housing is helping stabilise rents. What a shock!! Me on #PointLive
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Everyone should know this
Especially politicians
#auspol

Oh good, because I rang people in those groups last week and none of them had!

Massive win by grass-roots climate groups last week...and no one noticed!

My guest post on @amyremeikis.bsky.social's blog
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"Australia’s big climate win – stopping Korean coal mines" by @rodcampbell.bsky.social #PointLive
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I can't tell if you read the post or not!

Dang, that's good.

Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone In the final days of October, the Federal Government quietly inserted a last-minute amendment into an unrelated bill. It has been trying to rush through a change that would allow police and the Home A...

"the Gov is trying to give itself the power to cut that income off before a person has been found guilty.

It is punishment without conviction. It has no place in a fair society."

Great piece by @maiyazize.bsky.social & @antipovertycent.bsky.social Kristin O'Connell
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"Large parts of Northern Australia are now firmly on a path to being uninhabitable for people before the end of this century"

Read that again!...and then read the whole cracking piece by @euanritchie.bsky.social on @thepointau.bsky.social.
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The moral vacuity of signing up to "a “just, orderly and equitable” transition away from fossil fuels" because fossil fuel GHG emissions are incompatible with the 1.5°C goal, then immediately reaffirming that Australia will "continue to develop new fossil fuel projects"

JFC

Thanks Andrew. Recommended Pig City to Bris muso friend the other day and thought of you.

Who needs world-changing, life-saving science when you've got rugby league What does it say about us when we let CSIRO whither on the vine?

Australia is one of the richest countries on Earth, if we can afford $600m for a PNG footy team, we can certainly afford to properly fund our premier scientific agency

My column on the CSIRO job cuts >
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Thanks!

Thanks Eb, I invite everyone to ctl+f it for themselves.

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It's the perfect time for the government to defy the mining lobbies Long-gone are the days when the mining industry could claim to have the power to topple prime ministers and governments.

At a gas industry tax conference, the government’s representative did not use the words “gas” or “tax” in his 2500 word speech, writes @rodcampbell.bsky.social www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

The same public servants who created the rules for the ‘market’ for aged care, child care, disability care and water in the Murray River are now pretending they will do a good job of making a ‘market’ for biodiversity…what could go wrong

C’mon @albomp.bsky.social we have the only sustainable (65000 years) continuous culture on the planet in which people learn wisdom from the past, are responsible to care for land and sea, and plan 7 generations ahead. Surely this is a national asset for #sustainable action not to be trashed. #auspol

This conference was such a fizzer that the CEO of the Minerals Council didn't even turn up, sending her deputy instead.

The reason for this is probably that iron ore companies that do pay tax are shitty that the tax-shy coal and gas miners are making them look bad.

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If you don't believe me, here is the only-known publicity of the Federal Gov's keynote speech at the joint MCA-APPEA conference:

It's the perfect time for the government to defy the mining lobbies Long-gone are the days when the mining industry could claim to have the power to topple prime ministers and governments.

The mining lobby is weak right now.

Perfect time for strong env laws, @albomp.bsky.social

Last week the Minerals Council and gas lobby literally threw a party and no one (important) turned up.

My piece on it for @thenewdaily.bsky.social
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When politicians talk about unemployment as a single number, they erase this reality. The barriers facing older people, the single parents juggling caring responsibilities, people with disabilities still battling discrimination, & people who don’t have qual, & money for transport.
#Auspol #Jobseeker

South Korea has announced it's phasing out coal-fired electricity! Great!

What does this mean for Aus coal exports?

Looks like the phase out is already well under way.
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We're having the wrong conversation about unemployment The point.com.au

Important piece on how Aus gets it wrong on jobs.

"for every entry-level job advertised in Australia, there are 39 people on JobSeeker competing for it. Last year it was 33. The year before that, 26."

Anglicare boss Kasy Chambers on @thepointau.bsky.social

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PM @albomp.bsky.social says "his government was a “friend of science”"

@australiainstitute.org.au graph says NO

(Australia's pitiful R&D spend includes tax breaks to private companies; h/t @rodcampbell.bsky.social, @tomswann.bsky.social)

#WithFriendsLikeTheseWhoNeedsEnemies

If the Opposition is not the alternative government, what is the point of it? With Victoria on its third Oppostion Leader in a year, and speculation about pressure on the Federal and NSW Liberals, we're left wondering: what makes an Opposition Government?

Good explainer on what is "The Opposition" and is it still a useful concept in #Auspol @browne90.bsky.social @thepointau.bsky.social

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Not Adani Deal: Queensland Government subsidies to Adani The Queensland Labor Government has offered Adani a “beneficial” royalty deal that would loan hundreds of millions, on subsidised terms it is keeping

Here was our 2018 estimate of up to $385m
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