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Shaun Carter
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Architect, Urban Designer, Built Environment, Public Domain & Design Excellence advocate.

Principal of Carterwilliamson Architects.
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Arts degrees to cost $50,000 until at least 2027 despite Albanese reform promises
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
"Govt mustn’t lose sight of need for critical thinkers who develop ‘philosophy about the world’ by studying the arts"

Another tax on young people!
#auspol @jasonclaremp.bsky.social
Arts degrees to cost $50,000 until at least 2027 despite Albanese reform promises, vice-chancellor says
Government mustn’t lose sight of need for critical thinkers who develop ‘philosophy about the world’ by studying the arts
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
shauncartercw.bsky.social
Vivian’s new Sydney apartment caps rent at 30% of her income. Is this the way to tackle Australia’s housing crisis?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The short answer is YES. This is the way to tackle the housing crisis.
#nswpol #auspol #housing #cities #keyworkerhousing
Vivian’s new Sydney apartment caps rent at 30% of her income. Is this the way to tackle Australia’s housing crisis?
Boronia Apartments have been purpose-built for people in need of discounted rent including low-income workers in care professions
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
shauncartercw.bsky.social
Dutton has led one of the worst election campaigns in living memory smh.com.au/politics/fed...
"As the prime minister asked, what would be the quid pro quo for a group which opposes voting and abortion, condemns homosexuality and demeans women?" #NikiSavva

#auspol #nswpol #vicpol
Dutton has led one of the worst election campaigns in living memory
Peter Dutton must have believed he could skate to victory. How else to explain his abject failure to prepare credible policies.
www.smh.com.au
April 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
shauncartercw.bsky.social
Coalition refuses to commit to remain in Paris Agreement www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Any doubts @PeterDutton_MP & @tedobrienmp are the #Trump Candidates.....I offer you Exhibit 200

Withdrawing from #Paris is a classic Trump move.
#TemuTrump #auspol
Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: ASX lifts 5.9 per cent after Trump pauses most tariffs, but escalates trade war with China; Dutton ignores question on embattled candidate
Keep up to date on the 2025 federal election campaign with our rolling live blog coverage.
www.smh.com.au
April 10, 2025 at 4:41 AM
shauncartercw.bsky.social
Coalition proposal to limit the rollout of renewable energy could stop at least $58bn of private investment in new developments
theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Nice Peter Dutton - this is how you take Australia backward; Trump-style.
#auspol @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social #temutrump
Coalition nuclear plan will plough $58bn wrecking ball through renewable energy projects, analysis warns
Going nuclear will cost ‘real dollars for farmers, real dollars for country towns and real blue-collar jobs’, Clean Energy Council says
theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
shauncartercw.bsky.social
"Regulatory complexity remains a wicked problem. Once govt has its own skin in the game, it may prompt a review of the plethora of siloed and conflicting regulatory constraints that burden mid-rise housing" @lhsyd.bsky.social @hillthalisaup.bsky.social
architectureau.com/articles/Lau...
#nswpol
Laura Harding on how to realise the potential of pattern books today
ArchitectureAu Asks the Sydney practitioner, “Pattern books have a long history in architecture – but what's it going to take to realise their potential today?”
architectureau.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
shauncartercw.bsky.social
John Lautner’s Sheats-Goldstein Residence youtu.be/uiaI1AhYpec?...
A home that has captured the imagination of architects and fans of architecture. I haven't been here, but it's on the list. Have you been - what did you think?

Wonderful that James Goldstein will bequeath the home to @lacma.org
Inside John Lautner’s Sheats-Goldstein Residence: A Modernist Icon in Los Angeles | House Tour
YouTube video by OPEN SPACE
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March 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
shauncartercw.bsky.social
Wong’s extraordinary Dutton rebuke after he calls Albanese ‘limp-wristed’ www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Well said @senatorwong.bsky.social

Australia doesnt want that divisiveness & mean-spirited view of the world in our society

Australia & Australians deserve better than #TemuTrump
#auspol
Dutton says he shouldn’t have called Albanese ‘limp-wristed’
After criticism from Penny Wong, a Dutton spokesperson said: “It was a phrase that shouldn’t have been used, and no offence was intended from Mr Dutton.”
www.smh.com.au
March 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
shauncartercw.bsky.social
School swimming carnivals are dying. It’s putting a generation at risk www.smh.com.au/national/sch...
Odd, at a time of obesity & phone addiction schools would be moving away from physical activity & real participation

@jasonclaremp.bsky.social @pruecar.bsky.social your thoughts?
#nswpol #auspol
School swimming carnivals are dying. It’s putting a generation at risk
One in four schools around Australia have abandoned the annual swimming carnival, research shows, as Royal Life Saving Australia sounds the alarm over safety.
www.smh.com.au
March 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
shauncartercw.bsky.social
"It is possible Australian voters want the major parties to be different. But it is possible, too, that the major parties can’t do much. That voters simply want the system to be different, and recognise the major parties as established aspects of that system"
smh.com.au/politics/fed...
#auspol
Trump and the teals have a lot in common
Donald Trump wants to destroy the system. In some fashion, so do the teals.
smh.com.au
March 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social
Why isn’t this being picked up MSM? #MediaWatch

‘Australian #nuclear reactors could become a target of war if the federal coalition was to go ahead with plans to build them, a group of former defence leaders warn.’ ‼️

#auspol #AusVotes25 #DontRiskDutton
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/890450...
Experts fear nuclear plants would become war targets
If Australia builds nuclear capabilities, the reactors could be vulnerable to missile strikes and sabotage in the event...
www.canberratimes.com.au
March 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
shauncartercw.bsky.social
This could be one of Sydney's most extraordinary buildings.

A soft sinuous line, a cavernous entry, gentle flowing level changes, and a roof terrace Sydney's climate will love.

Make it public, make it for everyone, and be bold.
#nswpol #cities #publicsydney www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Every attempt to fix Sydney’s ugliest building has failed. Might this plan just work?
The City of Sydney is considering it. The owner is happy. What is stopping the Goulburn Street car park from being turned into housing?
www.smh.com.au
March 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Reposted by Shaun Carter
sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social
‘If there's little or no swing towards the Liberals in seats like these, the party will be nervous about itsfederal prospects’

#auspol #AusVotes25 #DontRiskDutton
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Dutton and Albanese can learn three lessons from WA's election results — ABC News
Famously parochial, West Australians have always hated the fact that they’re something of a political afterthought on federal election night; the race done and dusted by the time Perth’s polling booth...
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March 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
shauncartercw.bsky.social
Dutton left Queensland to attend fundraiser at Justin Hemmes’ Sydney mansion smh.com.au/national/aus...
I'll paraphrase: "Let them eat cake".

or, in an Australian context:

"I don't hold a sandbag, mate"

#auspol #nswpol #TemuTrump #MorrisonsLeftovers #Duttonomics🤪
Australia news LIVE: Trump can claim credit for Europe stepping up on Ukraine, Dutton says; Worsening extreme weather fuelling insurance crisis
Read the national news blog for rolling coverage on today’s top stories.
smh.com.au
March 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
shauncartercw.bsky.social
www.smh.com.au/business/the...
"if we want a lower-cost, faster-finishing building industry, we need to... rationalising our regulation of the industry, while insisting the bureaucrats get approvals processed without unnecessary delay" @rossgittins.bsky.social

#nswpol #auspol
Our housing industry’s going nowhere fast. It’s not just red tape
Our home building industry is clapped out, nobbled by poor planning, a lack of innovation and overzealous regulation. But the biggest problem is productivity.
www.smh.com.au
March 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Coalition rules out income tax cuts as Dutton scrambles to find savings www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
I think Abbott put it best - and we know what happened.

"no cuts to education,
no cuts to health,
no change to pensions,
no cuts to the ABC or SBS"

#auspol
Coalition rules out income tax cuts as Dutton scrambles to find savings
The opposition razor gang of Dutton and his senior MPs is still working out how to slash 36,000 public servants hired by Labor, as it prepares for Anthony Albanese to call the election.
www.smh.com.au
February 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
shauncartercw.bsky.social
“I’m not going to be bullied or silenced for standing up for the science and the evidence by Ted O’Brien or anyone. Nor will the reality of climate change be bullied or silenced by political pressure,” #mattkean
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Keep up the frank and fearless advice Matt.
#auspol
Matt Kean says suggestion Coalition could sack him if they win election is ‘concerning threat’
Climate Change Authority chair says his job is to provide ‘frank and fearless advice’ after he criticised opposition’s nuclear energy proposal
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
shauncartercw.bsky.social
"my analysis of 2022 election data shows that, compared with the 2019 election, fewer people considered the Coalition the best manager of the economy among those who considered it the most important election issue."
@crikey.com.au
crikey.com.au/2025/02/21/3...

#auspol
@thekouk.bsky.social
I looked at 35 years of data to see how Australians vote. Here’s what it tells us about the next election
An slight leftward shift is happening in Australia, but that won't be enough on its own to sway voters when it comes to the major election issues.
crikey.com.au
February 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Reposted by Shaun Carter
voicesofwentworth.bsky.social
Professor Anne Twomey on the deal done between the major parties to keep out minor parties and independents…and how it is open to constitutional challenge
youtu.be/0kfFtLfcMxo
#auspol
Challenging the Campaign Finance Deal
YouTube video by Constitutional Clarion
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February 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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"The plunder of natural capital, including non-renewable resources, and environmental degradation, underinvestment in infrastructure & “public debt accumulated to finance current spending” were the key drivers of intergenerational theft" #KenHenry
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
#auspol #nswpol
‘Wilful acts of bastardry’: former Treasury secretary says young Australian workers ‘robbed’ by tax system
Ken Henry made comments at a tax summit in Melbourne, arguing fiscal drag is seeing taxes go up while real incomes fall
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Reposted by Shaun Carter
chrisbowenmp.bsky.social
Water is our most precious resource.

But Peter Dutton wants to spend $600 billion in taxpayer money on one of the most water intensive energies, nuclear.

Under Peter Dutton’s proposed nuclear model he will ultimately need three times more water than coal to keep the lights on.
February 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Reposted by Shaun Carter
nytimes.com
Breaking News: Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for "more truth" and said President Trump was "in a disinformation space" after he suggested Ukraine started the war.
Zelensky Urges ‘More Truth’ After Trump Suggests Ukraine Started the War
The remarks by President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine were some of his most pointed yet about President Trump’s views on the war.
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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This Sydney public square has been promised for 30 years. The council wants to get a move on smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Meaningful, new, public space. Our civic heart.

And the sooner we start, the sooner we will all be able to enjoy it.
#publicsydney #nswpol @philipthalis.bsky.social
This Sydney public square has been promised for 30 years. The council wants to get a move on
Why pay to maintain buildings you’re going to demolish anyway? Clover Moore says the council should start work on a long-mooted civic square in Sydney’s CBD.
smh.com.au
February 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Reposted by Shaun Carter
sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social
🥔 “He’s a thug.” - Fmr PM Malcolm Turnbull #auspol #AusVotes25 #DontRiskDutton
February 17, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Guardian poll: Labor’s policies appear unknown to voters as major parties neck and neck
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Given how much air-time the media gives to Dutton's divisive, racist and plainly bizzare nuclear thought bubbles are you surprised @joshbutler.bsky.social ?
#nswpol #auspol
Guardian Essential poll: Labor’s policies appear unknown to voters as major parties neck and neck
Albanese’s approval ratings have dived by five points, but Dutton’s score has also dipped by three points since January
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM