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Essentially ALL TB programs funded by the U.S. Government were officially terminated last night. Horrifyingly, that includes the Global Drug Facility that coordinates the vast majority of TB treatment and tests purchased globally. Shuttering the GDF will stop TB treatment for the entire planet....

submitted 3 hours ago • 308 comments

"It’s like a fractal of nonsense"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

An interview with @stephaniekelton.bsky.social about DOGE, Trump, crypto, tariffs, inflation, the collapse of the rule of law, and more. "We don't have two years" to wait for Democrats to rally, she says. "You won't be able to pick up the pieces." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/stephanie-...

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Crisis of barren landscape across our sprawling cities - badly cooking in summer. High time that the tree lovers & planters outnumbered the tree haters. Planning must prioritise landscape over dumb development - those targets need to be in the major codes. From SMH

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

The impact of the shutdown of USAID cannot be overstated. This will impact everyone. The rest of the world needs to step in to fill this massive funding gap until sanity prevails. The programs are so critical to the present and future safety of all of us. #USAID #tuberculosis #famine #slavery

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Which Sydney do you live in? Struck by this story and the ways we need to make our cities more equitable - particularly in the face of extreme climate www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The Bureau of Meteorology confirms Australia recorded its hottest spring and second-hottest winter on record in 2024 -- Australia's second-hottest year on record. What it does not say is that as we continue to burn more fossil fuel, it will get hotter every year of our lives.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

www.msac.gov.au/applications... The Aus gvt “is currently considering an application to include all gender affirming surgeries on Medicare with public funding - public consultation on the application is currently open, please consider responding" aus.social/@jemma/11392...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

David Pope in Canberra Times

submitted 31 days ago • 15 comments

Everyone asks me about my plans for having children. A nest of noisy miner birds has taught me how to respond | Joseph Earp

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

demsas was always ideologically thus, she just wrote primarily about a topic (housing) that has a tendency to be routinely depoliticized as long as you throw the same few liberal signifiers in there

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

I still hate it

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

RIP David Lynch. You inspired so many of us. ❤️

submitted 42 days ago • 165 comments

RIP

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Binge is likely to disappear, now Stan being merged into Nine broadcasting. Australian streamers disappearing while the fed gov fails to legislate quotas for Netflix etc. Australian TV is terminal. www.smh.com.au/business/com...

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

After 18 months of operation and a cost of $140 million to Australians, the staggeringly incompetent NACC has concluded its top 3 major corruption investigations, and guess what? It has found no corruption. The #NACC is a failure and a national embarrassment. 👇🏽 theklaxon.com.au/nacc-finds-n...

submitted 44 days ago • 115 comments

“Unconditional Discharge” is the perfect name for him

submitted 48 days ago • 45 comments