The truth of the aspirations and actions of a government are not found in its vision statement, but in its budget

I wonder how this will be reflected in budgets from Australian Governments in the next two weeks?

Cars a huge waste of space

2002 advert for Saturn cars didn't intend to illustrate sterilised land under roads

Nor to highlight efficiency of public transport

Urban geography: ~25% urban area buried by roads + parking
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🎵🎶The wheels on the bus go round and round🎶🎵

Is Perth getting electric buses yet?
Or just more BAU diesel buses?

Oh look.
Four electric buses in 2023 - on trial
And 93 diesel buses, BAU
climateaction.wa.gov.au/initiatives/el…
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#ClimateCrisis

Greedflation
Imagine instead of increasing interest rates, RBA worked with ACCC to directly penalise inflationary prices arising where companies caused inflation by price gouging and raising company profits on the back of any conflict or crisis

What dumb decision maker in @ABCAustralia caused cancellation of ABC's range of program-based social media accounts, greatly reducing effective reach of ABC's great programs?
And reduced a listener's choice to follow things they're interested in?
I want #MyABC back
Michelle Rowland

The scheme is not working to increase transparency or prevent foreign interference.

As Shireen Morris + Sarah Sorial (@Macquarie_Uni) write, the registration site attracts little traffic, and most Australians probably don’t know the scheme exists. theconversation.com/abject-failure…

The environmental crisis caused by #salmonfarming in Macquarie Harbour demonstrates the urgent need for the Anthony Albanese government to significantly strengthen Australia's nature laws. Extinction is a choice. #auspol #politas
Essay by Richard Flanagan The Monthly

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New Australia Institute billboard in central Perth explaining to Western Australians how badly they are being swindled by the foreign owned gas companies who:
🔥Export 90% of WAs gas
🔥Price gouge Western Australians.
🔥Get most of the gas for free

australiainstitute.org.au/post/western-a…

In simpler times, ten years ago, when tweets were shorter, electric buses were already a thing thanks to BYD
Ten years on, and ten years wasted, perhaps Perth might now be ready to have electric buses?

If you're in Australia, and you'd like to get an EV, but haven't yet found the right price point, rumour has it you should get down to your electric car dealer today and ask for their best deal
Prices are down, and might just get you into an electric ride before COB tomorrow

Hey tax law peeps
Why is stamp duty on GST inclusive?
Double dipping?

'Duty determined by applying the relevant rate to the dutiable value of the transaction. If GST payable on a transaction, the dutiable value will include the amount of GST'
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Pls repost😬

Remarkable footage of resilient building shaking from earthquake in Japan's #BoninIslands
building wobbles, concrete pad lifts and moves without breaking
USGS reports magnitude 6.5 earthquake

Wind farm handbook to help developers avoid brolgas, bats and other project-sinking biodiversity risks
reneweconomy.com.au/wind-farm-hand… Renew Economy
It's important to plan and to make evidence-based decisions using facts and science
Sustainable energy must be sustainable
And it can be

There are currently at least 7 EVs randomly driving across the Nullarbor, 3 heading east, 4 heading west. Well done The NRMA, build it and they will come….

Prof Ray Wills ~ China is benefitting from the application of the law of supply to the demand required as the detrimental effects of fossil fuels are felt globally new technology invariably replaces old technology.

Voter support for Labor dives amid cost-of-living crisis: buff.ly/4d0U4k9 #auspol #australiapm

Mining waste
By which I mean recovering materials from waste
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Not waste in mining

Circular economy: doing more with less

Amount of materials for cleantech future orders of magnitude less than all fossil fuels burnt annually for emissions intensive energy

While old automakers resist like Kodak,
Chinese electric vehicles taking over the world
aje.io/o7bp6y
Since 2017, big declines in ICE vehicle sales replaced by surging EVs adoption aided by tech advances, reg changes, + global events reshaping manufacturing and sales
🧵

Turns out, if you give control of your entire gas resource to a handful of foreign owned gas corporations, let them export unlimited amounts of your gas, and gouge Australian customers...manufacturing companies will go bust!

Who'd have thought? #auspol
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