Nationals leader David Littleproud must now decide if Senator Matt Canavan speaks for his party when he criticises the US justice system and openly supports a convicted felon.
The chart in this article illustrates the "bang for buck" for electricity generation options. Unsurprisingly, renewables come out ahead, fossil fuels come in the middle, and nuclear is the worst. Don't take my word for it; this comes from scientists who've been working on it for decades at the CSIRO. Another takeaway: don't take Peter Dutton's word for it, either.
"... the Jewish Council of Australia calls on the Government to immediately cut all military ties and place sanctions on Israel.
The Albanese Government must also place travel bans on extremist settlers and those suspected of war crimes. These actions would be in line with Australia’s obligations as a signatory to the Genocide Convention."
"Dr Max Kaiser, Executive Officer, Jewish Council of Australia
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) is getting shut-down. Over the years, it had been systemically ruined by a series of RWNJ governments. Its independence was destroyed by nepotistic appointments by friends and former colleagues of RWNJ politicians. The scale of the corruption was absolutely staggering.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the AAT had been politicised beyond the point it could be rescued.
"The AAT’s public standing was irreversibly damaged as a result of the former government’s appointment of as many as 85 former Liberal MPs, failed Liberal candidates, former Liberal staffers and other close Liberal associates without any merit-based selection process,” he said.
The AAT is being replaced from scratch by the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART). It will be given extra funding to boost its power for regional, rural and remote communities, user experience, accessibility, and First Nations.
REDcycle was never about recycling.
The "return-to-store" soft plastics program was never about recycling.
Those thick, soft plastic bags were never about "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle".
Calling plastic bags "multi-use" was a lie intended to transfer the responsibility of dealing with plastic to customers.
It was about telling customers they could continue using plastic bags. Supermarkets didn't want to change how they do things, and they didn't want to deal with the marginally increased cost of using paper bags. That's it.
The government should be suing supermarkets into the dirt for their years of fraud, malpractice, and environmental vandalism.
In the meantime, the fix is far more straightforward than the naysayers claim:
Do not let retailers "self-regulate" use of plastics.
Is it just me, or has the #ABC thrown Laura Tingle right under a bus in the guise of editorial standards? Am I off base for thinking her Dutton comments were totally on point?
For years, Michael West has been one of Australia's most insightful and far-sighted investigative journalists.
In this 14 minute piece of geopolitical commentary, he again confirms why independent investigative media is so crucial in age where corporate media continues to serve a dying genocidal order.
The #ABC's Justin Stevens:
"Laura Tingle's remarks... lacked the context, BALANCE and supporting information of her work for the ABC and would not have met the ABC's editorial standards"
I've got 100s of examples of ABC right-wing bias that go unpunished.
Our supermarkets have been caught price gouging again. It's impossible to export top-grade locally-produced food all the way to Japan and for it to end-up far cheaper. The government needs to step-in to stop this price gouging.
The government also needs to give back power to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. After years of undermining and by the successive RWNJ governments and nepotistic placements of their own pro-big-business colleagues high-up in the ACCC, the ACCC has been rendered toothless. We need the ACCC to be an independent umpire again.