Independent senator David Pocock says it is ‘disgraceful’ there isn’t ‘a single rental’ in Australia that people on Youth Allowance can afford, saying the country needs to do better.

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Last week Tanya Plibersek referred to an internal audit of environmental offset compliance when announcing the establishment of a national EPA minister.dcceew.gov.au/plibersek/tran…
The audit apparently found that 1 in 7 developments could be in breach of their #offset conditions 🧵

In many workplaces we do regular conflict of interest training, and it's taken very seriously.

If we tried this sort of 💩 on we'd lose our jobs very quickly.

Another day in the oligarchy.
This country is so cooked, figuratively and literally. 👇

Professor Euan Ritchie 🌏 🌳 🐾 🔥 🎶 The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand Almost 10 times the size of the Black Summer fires a vanishingly small amount of coverage. The outback does not exist, it's simply a term that reinforces a deep cultural ignorance of the geography of where we live. The health and future of this nation requires Australia to turn..

Speak of the Devil! 😈

The Thorny Devil (Moloch horridus) may have an aggressive name, but they're harmless ant-eaters 🐜 that live in the desert. 🏜️

🦎 They have an unusual gait, walking with an erect tail in a bobbing motion.

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Vic Gov is developing their first long-term cat management strategy. The draft is open for consultation until 26 April. The draft downplays the impact feral cats have on the environment. Can you please ask Victorian Government to take stronger action on feral cats?

To make it easy, we've

More attention on the plight of 14 Aussie fish that are teetering on the edge of extinction in The Guardian .

Biodiversity Council James Trezise said the plight of these fish highlights the failure of national environment laws to stop major threats to critically endangered species. “We

John Oliver on Gaza protests: “Protest is meant to be disruptive…34,000 people have been killed, most of them women & children…the US continues to supply Israel funding & arms for all of this, even as Gaza sinks into famine. If that’s not worth protesting, I’m not sure what is”

Israel has dropped almost 75,000 bombs and shells on Gaza in 200 days, twenty times more than the US aimed at Iraq in six years of war.

It’s not war. It’s genocide.

Women, children, the elderly…naked, hands tied…

Probably not Hamas soldiers, then. news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

Make. Education. FREE.

We don't need AUKUS. We don't need > $360 billion (minimum) for submarines.

We don't need tax and housing concessions for the rich

This is what happens when labor and the greens actually work together.

Australia - we have an epidemic.

A woman yet to be formally identified has been found dead in her home in rural Vic.

She is the 30th woman killed so far this year. This is terrorism against women.

Where's our national summit? Where are our new laws?

Anthony Albanese Mark Dreyfus

Australia spends 0.11% of its annual budget on basic research (ARC). The USA spends 0.15% on the equivalent NSF.

Meaning both countries could multiply it by 10 and barely notice a difference in expenditure, but have potentially an order of magnitude increase in output.

Just a reminder - if you graduated 20 years ago, your HECS debt is much less than for someone who graduated last year (and MUCH less than it will be for someone who graduates next year)

For decades our governments have given Israel absolute impunity - this is the result:

“Among the deceased were allegedly older people, women and wounded, while others were found tied with their hands tied and stripped of their clothes” - UN rights office news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

My study from last year showed how a prescribed burn conducted exactly to prescription killed 77% of a critically endangered species in the block. #AustralEcology tell me it's a #TopCitedArticle ; we need change now.

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It’s the breezy way they announce this obviously unworkable scam that makes you grind your teeth.

Professor Euan Ritchie 🌏 🌳 🐾 🔥 🎶 David Pocock Jim Chalmers MP Imagine what we could do with the $348 billion committed to AUKUS - maybe deliver on Labor’s promise of ‘no one left behind’ which has become a joke with 3.3 million Australians living below the poverty line.