I’m no statistician but 6/7 seems good. #Ashes

The cheer squad of ‘experts’ who have fought against every covid precaution from borders to masks to child vax are in for the ride now. The time to stop their disease-promoting partisan ‘health advice’ is long gone & their legacy is sadly now being written in human suffering.

Victoria has secured 34 million rapid tests and will distribute them to Victorians for free throughout January.

Denmark is a few weeks ahead of Oz in the omicron outbreak. Deaths are on the rise; equivalent to ~100/day in Australia. Their vaccination rates are better than Oz’s; 3rd dose is 42% vs 8%. Creating the impression that it is ok for omicron to spread is a public health threat.

When the AMA is not getting sensible answers from government in private it asks them again, in public. This development means we should be very concerned about where the political leadership - federal & NSW in particular - are taking us all right now.

If 20 people a day in NSW drown, does that mean that we have to “learn to live with drownings”?

There's no question - none at all - that we have to focus on and respond to the emergencies in front of us. Fires, floods, and now Japanese Encephalitis have all challenged us in recent years. But we MUST address an underlying driver here - climate change - and act urgently. 1/2

The Australasian Society for Physical Activity (ASPA) has recently unveiled a new campaign, The Three Transport Priorities, to make transport in general safer and active transport more viable around Australia. bicyclensw.org.au/aspas-three-tr… Asia-Pacific Society for Physical Activity We Ride Australia

Long overdue to lower the voting age to 16. It’s young lives we’re destroying with criminal climate change policy. Give them a say in their own future.

A review from Prof Emily Banks and her team, of the global data behind vaping provides key evidence into vaping risks and harm. We need targeted legislation restricting access and removes all forms of vaping from public sale. nceph.anu.edu.au/research/proje…

Richmond FC 🐯 Yeah hooray for this, & I’m no Prohibitionist, but when the league’s primary portal promotes the odds more than the lineups, & at games & on coverage it’s insidious, it kinda feels like base-covering. 🤷‍♂️ And pls exit pokies, like yesterday. Wahayy overdue. Cool thx go tigs

Calling all bike riders (past, current and future). Time to show we are not a ‘clear minority’. It’s a bike lane emergency and you’re needed at Melbourne Town Hall Tuesday at 5.30pm. Register now melbourne.vic.gov.au/about-council/…

‘If not you, who? If not now, when?’ Bike lane emergency. You’re needed at Town Hall 5.30pm Tuesday. Please register now to speak about agenda item 6.9. Also retweet and tell everyone you know. Thanks so much and see you there.

Professor Emily Banks AM has been honoured by the Australian Medical Association for her research on the dangers posed by e-cigarettes. The AMA Media Gold Medal is the highest honour bestowed by the medical body. Congratulations Professor Banks! 👏 📖 anu.edu.au/news/all-news/…

$15 to help people get hooked on vaping. Just unbelievable and irresponsible. It’s clear why big tobacco is doing this - they are preying on a new generation because their old customers are dying. Vaping is not a smoking cessation tool - it’s a gateway to tobacco addiction.

When our politicians no longer have the courage to lead its up to us the people. I can tell you now we won’t be having staff with #COVID coming to work ever at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre to risk their lives & that of vulnerable refugees nor would they ever. And 😷 remain.

Seems an odd way to make an argument your stadium should be allowed to hold grand finals.

Loving that the English are bewildered by a keeper who knows what he’s doing. #Ashes