💧Carmel O'Loughlin Chris Wallace Why, why, why are govts so focused on new builds for social housing? Never renos? Empty houses all over the city...

Good decision. Minister captured by industry

Living in the square mile of Adelaide I see so many empty buildings and so many people sleeping rough. There were answers during Covid, there must be answers now - maybe we can learn?

Utterly thrilled to announce this bold new anthology featuring Meanjin Quarterly essays of transformative impact—

I feel ecological grief, for sure. I also feel grief for the death of public health, which once protected so many people from preventable disease and early death
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Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds

World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target
- by Damien Carrington
#climatechange
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A saddened world. But our Red Flame Tree won't give up. Each year we wait & hope: will she bloom again?
Autumn 2024 ... and she has!🙏
Aflame right now, waving sweet hope.
But, life is short. Her leaves will drop & she'll stand naked in a few days. The circle of life. And loss.

Hard to understand why Anthony Albanese doesn't act on this. Relatively low cost compared to nursing homes very cost effective

Chris Wallace Sydney one of the deadest uninhabited cities in the world desperately needs this + ridding city streets of empty shopfront glass and more restaurants and cafes and small bars as people move in

Problem gambling is a known factor in family and domestic violence.

The government can act on this by banning gambling ads.

Now.

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Large-scale yarn bomb at Helsinki Cathedral steps in Finland, 2011. Crocheted squares created 3,800 blankets which were later donated to charity #WomensArt

You can’t be committed to keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees and support the expansion of new gas production.

This plan is cooked, literally and figuratively.
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The Australian Government needs to open new gas basins because it can't possibly leave Japanese and Korean gas companies 'high and dry'.
But it is completely comfortable with Pacific Island communities drowning under rising sea levels. afr.com/politics/feder…
#auspol #climate

Oh ok - Labor will still get us to netzero - with accounting tricks.

Got it 🤦‍♀️😱😡 #auspol

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Chris Wallace Canberra has its very own hotelmottainai.com.au a local social enterprise 👍

“You can have the smartest economist or bioethicist, or technocrats in the room, but if they don’t understand the different lived experiences of people, they will get the decision wrong.”

Our very own Nicole Curato talks to The Mandarin.

themandarin.com.au/241587-more-de…

Important advice for anyone trying to avoid infection. Clean air is important, but not enough, esp if you are in close proximity /conversational distance from others.👇

The Albanese government will today release a plan to ramp up gas extraction and use beyond 2050, in defiance of global calls to phase out fossil fuels. satpa.pe/TBDsgzS