If the media covered climate change the way it covers Trump, and Trump the way it covers climate change, we'd have neither.

Shocked, shocked by 🇪🇺 study that privatisation bad for your health (sarcasm font). Political Determinants of Health: Healthcare Privatization and Population Health in Europe read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/…

Do you think the principal role of the economics profession is to mask power dynamics? Not that many economists would realise this of course and are certainly not doing it intentionally- it’s just baked into the theory.

#BREAKING

United States vetoes Security Council resolution recommending observer State of Palestine be granted full United Nations membership

Result of the vote:
IN FAVOR: 12
AGAINST: 1
ABSTAIN: 2

Hey Cameron Murray, WTF? You created a new speculative asset. I hope you've got a few suitcases full of these and are making a fortune. I recommended to somebody that they read it and they showed me this.
#GameOfMates

Dutton on French 'bollard man' being offered a permanent visa: 'I support the PM's generous offer... he embodies the Anzac spirit.'

Dutton on the injured Pakistani security guard being offered the same: 'That's obviously an issue for the PM...'

Can't make this shit up 🙃

There are no 'laws of economics'. The economy is a social construct that we can choose to reconstruct. The current 'laws of economics', left intact long enough, will slowly reduce home ownership rates until 1% of people own all of the houses. Is that what we want? #housingforall

Perfect illustration of the Anthony Albanese govt's climate & environment priorities Chris Bowen Tanya Plibersek

(as the #GreatBarrierReef experiences the worst mass bleaching on record. & on a day where we had a full day of Senate hearings on Australia's extinction crisis)

Gunditjmara Elder Aunty Sandra Onus explains how she took on Alcoa with Aunty Christina Frankland to prevent damaging cultural sites located on the proposed site of a smelter in Portland.

Watch here: youtu.be/fNa1c1hdS_8

#selfdetermination #FirstPeople #IndigenousAustralia

Housing is one reason not all countries feel the same pinch of higher interest rates, in part because monetary policy has more impact on economies with a low share of fixed-rate mortgages. imf.org/en/Blogs/Artic…

Come and work with me at the ANU (and collaborating with Ben Phillips and Bruce Bradbury) on 'Inequality, Prosperity and the Australian Welfare State' jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/research-…

Wondering what a #WellbeingEconomy is? In The Wellbeing Economy in Brief series, Katherine Trebeck (a less than infrequent X user) and Warwick Smith outline the core elements of a wellbeing economy and how we can work towards one.

📖Read more ➡️ cpd.org.au/work/wellbeing…

CPD Wellbeing Economy Alliance - WEAll

Biodiversity loss and climate change are not information deficit problems, and will not be solved by ever more precise data about where and how fast they are happening

'We need rules and policies that prevent the distress in the first place, all of which takes economists into uncomfortable territory: promoting unions, placed-based policies, immigration control, job preservation, industrial policy...' Angus Deaton
abc.net.au/news/2024-03-1…

Been hugely fun working with Warwick Smith on a little series of explainers about the what, why, and a wee bit of how of the #wellbeingeconomy agenda.

V excited to see it see the light of day!!
cpd.org.au/work/wellbeing…

Wellbeing Economy Alliance - WEAll WEAllScotland Wellbeing Economy Alliance - Aotearoa New Zealand CPD

Our real estate #cooperative must be legit now - we have t-shirts. Castlemaine.coop

Lmao I hope more Australians wake up to this reality and we start going “hang on a minute…”

This is one of the best graphs from CBA's investor presentation. Australia's biggest home lender reveals who's buying property, and which income group is really getting the biggest benefit from negative gearing tax breaks. abc.net.au/news/2024-02-1… #ausecon #ausbiz #auspol

And for those keeping track, global sea surface temperatures hit a new all-time modern record high yesterday, at 21.15°C.

Yep. It's all going swimmingly, as they say.

Our local community investment #cooperative is now a legal entity and taking memberships. We're also having a proper launch on March 6 in the Castlemaine Town Hall. Locals can join now at castlemaine.coop/join
Below article from the CastlemaineMail