Time for the cassowaryocracy theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Stop the world - I want to get off

French senator perfectly describes the Trump situation.

The Liberal Party is poised to elect its first federal parliamentary leader from a regional seat since Malcolm Fraser. More than 80% of its seats are now based outside the major capital cities. In effect, both the Liberal and National parties have become parties of regional

The recount in the electoral division of Bradfield (NSW) has been finalised today. The final margin is 26 votes in favour of the Independent candidate.

Wow!

“The damages from climate change will be far, far greater than economists have told policymakers, & their remedies are not relatively simple economic policies like the New Deal, but engineering feats that humanity has never managed in the past…” open.substack.com/pub/profstevek…

@Ashling21588151 Blackberries cover 75 times more rural land than solar and wind projects ever will.👇🏽 lyrebirddreaming.com/post/what-s-re…

The once beautiful Leards State Forest in Northern NSW… now Whitehaven’s coal mine

The more than 1000 job losses at CSIRO reflect a long pattern of underfunding by govt, who have treated science as optional. We need research to build resilience and future industries. Reversing the slide in national research investment has to start now. theguardian.com/australia-news…

China 🇨🇳 has taken over the car making market over just the last 5 years

.. #extremegraphs

"The $360 billion cost of the AUKUS submarines . . . that decision was made by the Morrison Government without a brief from Treasury.” – Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO, The Australia Institute ✍️ Sign our petition urging a parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/aukus_parliame…

Here's a very handy clickable list of publishers & commentators in Aust's independent news media sector. Please support & share these news media publishers - & of course sign up to TrueNorth! #auspol > docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Interested to see how this graph looks at the end of the month ... are we at a turning point with gas/batteries in Australia? source: openelectricity.org.au