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Writer, historian of ideas, Environment in museums What Birdo is That? A Field Guide to Bird People 🦅 No longer available at MUP. Look for it at your fave Indie bookshop. New book coming soon on Conservation and Care.
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... Still too much. But Alan Joyce alone skewed earlier years. Outrageous.

grattan.edu.au/news/the-wor... Too often caring jobs 'are dismissed by commentators as “low productivity”, [when they are] labour-intensive' and 'poorly measured by ...statistics', and 'they enable in other sectors of the economy'.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... #NoMoreDams

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... This is a "productivity" issue - so implement the Commission's report. In Full. It is also a *justice* issue so beware for-profit service providers & their lobbyists.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... Not good news for the fire season.

A Yoorrook Justice Commissioner is set to reach Victorian parliament after walking 500 kilometres to mark the closure of Australia’s first formal Aboriginal truth-telling inquiry.

Australia's ability to conduct strategic, in-depth, and long-term research in Antarctica is being compromised by "terminating" funding models for key programs, scientists warn.

A Sea Butterfly for BlueSkyfrom Antarctic waters - we may never know much more about it as the research funding is disappearing @rachelankeny.bsky.social @wildpasts.bsky.social @hritvo.bsky.social #OrganismsAndUs

theconversation.com/half-the-rem... Protected areas are not enough.

Here's a reason to work from home and not confer with colleagues.

Australia has an opportunity to get out of AUKUS. We should take it. We ask the Albanese Government to prioritise Australia's interests and security, and to join the UK and the US Governments in undertaking an independent parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS. ✍️ Add your name: theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry

lessons of #robodebt www.themandarin.com.au/293884-study... Good to see @crikey.com.au running this again today This is exactly what @ouranu.bsky.social is up against with a secret "restructure" planned for next Monday that no one has seen. "Consultation" has been ghosted.

The Victorian Government has failed to deliver key promises under the 2010 Melbourne Strategic Assessment, including establishing vital conservation reserves to offset grassland habitat destruction. Experts call on the Australian Government to audit compliance and hold Vic Gov accountable.

Brilliant. One more suggestion: Make referrals for MRI etc Medicare covered for GPs or NOT Medicare covered for specialists. They refer more than they need - "it won't cost you a cent", one told me!

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati... Do unis have the #Nous to dump consultancies & their crazy algorithms? Dump Nous and overpaid senior execs - problem solved! @ouranu.bsky.social

www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11... Journalists in 2020 said all the same things, but the inquiry took 5 years. Is the ADF too used to "secrecy"? If you are training in Australia you report risks to local authorities. Same as anywhere else. It is not a military exercise, it is a *training* exercise!

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... This conclusion was obvious in 2020. Why has the inquiry taken soooo long?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... Perhaps perceptions skewed by betting? In fact kicking should be more accurate now as most grounds protect long kicks from the vagaries of the *wind* Remember the advantage of wind behind you in the last quarter?

www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/13/r... It's not about houses, stupid. It's about community. KPMG will never understand this. #Greens are listening to locals. #ALP isn't. Bill Shorten knew that food for flats' community during Covid lockdown was urgent, & went in himself. Allen must *wait for inquiry*.

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India is building out cheap solar power so quickly it's possibly going to lead to a fall in India's coal consumption this year

Vote for the Arts! Tasmania has always been the state for creatives, but if the Big Stadium team wins, creative accounting will be the only "art" left ... and it isn't Tasmanian

www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/12/a... "endless busywork" #OutsourcingCorruption

Convincing @australianlabor.bsky.social to tackle #ClimateChange means☝️social license for radical policy reform. How about a public health campaign on impact of #ClimateChange and climate disaster resilience? Worked for HIV and COVID. Your thoughts? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great analysis from Ian McShane @insidestory.bsky.social The Apple Isle needs footy (at York Park) and a new hospital in Hobart - both can be achieved for fewer $$$ than a crazy stadium to appease corporate interests, not Tasmanians. insidestory.org.au/contested-po...

www.abc.net.au/news/science... The Mulligans Flat development in the ACT is a good model for bio sensitive development offering natural amenities. A large park near the growing western suburbs would be an asset to urban planning too. How about a collaborative public/private arrangement?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... Governance isn't about deals. It is about what serves the public interest best. In the case of international defence arrangements, diplomacy before $$$

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... An Indie #NoStadium ticket would upset both ALP & Libs. #AFL needs to hear the majority of Tasmanians, who want the Spirit working & their Devils in #Launceston (w a small, inexpensive upgrade). No.More.Debt. Tas is in need of alternative politics, not KPMG.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... Not on TV any more. I don't stream. So back to #ABC radio. And some more sleep. Big corporates are the last nail in the coffin for international sport. Sports reports next morning are much more efficient for viewers anyway.

www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/11/a...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... No #ABC - this isn't a "renewables" problem. It's a *gouging* problem. Coal lobby gave you this & you drank the Kool Aid. Please check facts.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... Let's not use big trucks on roads designed for cars. Stop the damage before it starts. Why should the public use trains when the trucking companies don't?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06... "Clever" accountants at it again, impoverishing ordinary people & getting away with it. The insurance CEOs of 2011 just sailed away on luxury yachts.

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johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06... Telling it like it is. #Robodebt

www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/10/t... If Elon Musk is the answer, it's the wrong question.