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Editorial: AUKUS is a once-in-a-century folly. It’s a defence policy written by a tourism executive. At great expense, it makes the country less safe. It is to Labor’s immense shame that it lacks the courage or insight to walk away from it. satpa.pe/E9Wg0I8
Pete Hegseth and the AUKUS folly
The man who sets Australia’s defence policy is an alcoholic former Fox News commentator who is known for his gross financial mismanagement and on at least one occasion paid a settlement to a woman he was accused of raping.
satpa.pe
December 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Editorial: AUKUS is a once-in-a-century folly. It’s a defence policy written by a tourism executive. At great expense, it makes the country less safe. It is to Labor’s immense shame that it lacks the courage or insight to walk away from it. satpa.pe/E9Wg0I8
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Budgets are about priorities. The idea is to tax things you want less of & subsidise things you want more of
In Australia we spend $14 billion per year on fossil fuel subsidies & we are cutting science jobs at CSIRO…
As i said, budgets are about priorities #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/251127-...
In Australia we spend $14 billion per year on fossil fuel subsidies & we are cutting science jobs at CSIRO…
As i said, budgets are about priorities #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/251127-...
If the Government's top priority is productivity, slashing the CSIRO budget does not make sense
Research and development is one of the major drivers of productivity and the CSIRO has a long track record of making productivity enhancing breakthroughs.
thepoint.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Budgets are about priorities. The idea is to tax things you want less of & subsidise things you want more of
In Australia we spend $14 billion per year on fossil fuel subsidies & we are cutting science jobs at CSIRO…
As i said, budgets are about priorities #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/251127-...
In Australia we spend $14 billion per year on fossil fuel subsidies & we are cutting science jobs at CSIRO…
As i said, budgets are about priorities #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/251127-...
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Australia talks a big game on innovation – but keeps cutting the institutions that make it possible. Why we need to reverse course, fast. 🧪📉 #SciencePolicy #CSIRO #HigherEd #PublicSchools #AustralianPolitics #STEM #Innovation #EducationFunding #Auspol
Innovation talk, austerity walk: Australia’s failing science policy
Despite constant rhetoric about innovation, Australia is steadily dismantling its scientific capacity. Public schools, universities and the CSIRO are all under pressure – the result of decades of market-driven policy-making that prioritises short-term cost-cutting over long-term national capability.
johnmenadue.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Australia talks a big game on innovation – but keeps cutting the institutions that make it possible. Why we need to reverse course, fast. 🧪📉 #SciencePolicy #CSIRO #HigherEd #PublicSchools #AustralianPolitics #STEM #Innovation #EducationFunding #Auspol
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An anti-renewables group made submissions naming non-existent government authorities and a nonexistent windfarm, and citing scientific articles that the supposed publisher says don’t exist, a Guardian Australia investigation has found.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Queensland anti-renewables group cited nonexistent papers in inquiry submissions using AI, publisher says
Exclusive: Rainforest Reserves Australia has published submissions naming nonexistent government authorities and a nonexistent windfarm
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
An anti-renewables group made submissions naming non-existent government authorities and a nonexistent windfarm, and citing scientific articles that the supposed publisher says don’t exist, a Guardian Australia investigation has found.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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New Australia Institute analysis reveals there is no financial crisis at the Australian National University.
Audited accounts show the ANU made a $90 million surplus in 2024 and increased the value of its net assets.
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
Audited accounts show the ANU made a $90 million surplus in 2024 and increased the value of its net assets.
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
New Australia Institute analysis reveals there is no financial crisis at the Australian National University.
Audited accounts show the ANU made a $90 million surplus in 2024 and increased the value of its net assets.
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
Audited accounts show the ANU made a $90 million surplus in 2024 and increased the value of its net assets.
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
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A damning Senate report reveals the growing power, privilege and lack of accountability infecting Australia’s university system.
Degrees of failure: Senate exposes university governance crisis
~ Dr Kim Sawyer
Degrees of failure: Senate exposes university governance crisis
~ Dr Kim Sawyer
Degrees of failure: Senate exposes university governance crisis
A damning Senate report reveals the growing power, privilege and lack of accountability infecting Australia’s university system.
buff.ly
September 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A damning Senate report reveals the growing power, privilege and lack of accountability infecting Australia’s university system.
Degrees of failure: Senate exposes university governance crisis
~ Dr Kim Sawyer
Degrees of failure: Senate exposes university governance crisis
~ Dr Kim Sawyer
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The federal government spent more than $60m on private law firms to fight national disability insurance scheme participants appealing decisions about their packages last financial year, a 60% increase from the year before, Guardian Australia can reveal.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘They’ve engaged a barrister!’ Parents of high-needs children say Labor is waging lawfare over disability support
Exclusive: The federal government paid big law firms more than $60m in 2024-25 to fight NDIS participants appealing decisions about their care packages. Most families represent themselves
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The federal government spent more than $60m on private law firms to fight national disability insurance scheme participants appealing decisions about their packages last financial year, a 60% increase from the year before, Guardian Australia can reveal.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Young Australians are bearing more and more economic burden because of our failure to index tax brackets. As Ken Henry has put it, this is an act of intergenerational bastardry. We need to index tax brackets, lessen the load on wage earners, and stop giving subsidies to fossil fuel industries.
Young working Australians facing a decade of tax pain
The federal budget bottom line is improving, but it will be younger people doing the heavy lifting for the next 10 years.
www.theage.com.au
September 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Young Australians are bearing more and more economic burden because of our failure to index tax brackets. As Ken Henry has put it, this is an act of intergenerational bastardry. We need to index tax brackets, lessen the load on wage earners, and stop giving subsidies to fossil fuel industries.
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"We're telling 20 year olds to worry about superannuation they won't get until 2065.
"This report is saying there are catastrophic risks coming right now, way before you need your super."
🔊 Executive Director Richard Denniss at the Senate Environment Committee
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
"This report is saying there are catastrophic risks coming right now, way before you need your super."
🔊 Executive Director Richard Denniss at the Senate Environment Committee
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
September 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
"We're telling 20 year olds to worry about superannuation they won't get until 2065.
"This report is saying there are catastrophic risks coming right now, way before you need your super."
🔊 Executive Director Richard Denniss at the Senate Environment Committee
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
"This report is saying there are catastrophic risks coming right now, way before you need your super."
🔊 Executive Director Richard Denniss at the Senate Environment Committee
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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Just three days after approving an extension of one of the largest fossil fuel export projects in the world, the North West Shelf, the National Climate Risk Assessment reveals the devastating consequences facing Australia. #auspol
Media release:
Media release:
Devastating climate risk assessment shows fossil fuel exports must end
Just three days after approving an extension of one of the largest fossil fuel export projects in the world, the North West Shelf, the National Climate Risk Assessment reveals the devastating conseque...
australiainstitute.org.au
September 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Just three days after approving an extension of one of the largest fossil fuel export projects in the world, the North West Shelf, the National Climate Risk Assessment reveals the devastating consequences facing Australia. #auspol
Media release:
Media release:
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Standing up for science and facts - @michaelmann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
Standing up for science and facts - @michaelmann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation | Michael Mann and Peter Hotez
From Covid misinformation to climate denialism, understanding the divergent paths of Australia and the US can help us fight the powerful forces that threaten our world
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Standing up for science and facts - @michaelmann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
Standing up for science and facts - @michaelmann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
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The level of lead in the blood of almost half (49%) of children under five and more than three-quarters of Indigenous children (76%) in the town remained elevated. Mining operations were the “leading source” of environmental exposure in the western NSW town
Environment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show
Environment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show
Documents tabled in parliament show NSW agency took four years to publish report and told miners it would be put online ‘quietly’ but EPA says it was released to community earlier
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The NSW environment watchdog sat on a report for four years linking elevated levels of lead in children’s blood to current mining, and promised mining companies they would not do any “finger-pointing”, new documents tabled in state parliament show.
The documents include internal emails released under freedom of information laws that show the scientist who produced the report into lead exposure in Broken Hill was at one point texting the Environment Protection Authority every two days asking when it would be published. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The level of lead in the blood of almost half (49%) of children under five and more than three-quarters of Indigenous children (76%) in the town remained elevated. Mining operations were the “leading source” of environmental exposure in the western NSW town
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Non-for-profit ‘Australian universities [have] slipped through the regulatory cracks, somehow managing to avoid the scrutiny the corporate sector gets from the ACCC, [shareholders] and the oversight [of] the public sector…’ www.canberratimes.com.au/story/905472...
Imagine if a business or federal department acted like this. Here's why unis get away it
It's the customers, ahem, students, who are getting dudded.
www.canberratimes.com.au
September 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Non-for-profit ‘Australian universities [have] slipped through the regulatory cracks, somehow managing to avoid the scrutiny the corporate sector gets from the ACCC, [shareholders] and the oversight [of] the public sector…’ www.canberratimes.com.au/story/905472...
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It's within the rules, but that should change - politicians receiving travel allowance to stay in homes they or their spouses own in Canberra is a very, very broken system
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian politicians reveal their housing portfolios, with some owning as many as six homes
Dozens of politicians are landlords, having also declared rental income from their investment properties
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It's within the rules, but that should change - politicians receiving travel allowance to stay in homes they or their spouses own in Canberra is a very, very broken system
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Reining in the consultant culture in Australia’s public universities johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
Reining in the consultant culture in Australia’s public universities
The quiet rise of private consultancy in Australia’s public universities has now reached a point where it is reshaping the sector’s priorities, governance, and capacity to act in the public interest.
johnmenadue.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Reining in the consultant culture in Australia’s public universities johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
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It’s quite astonishing how many of our institutions have failed to clear the “genocide is wrong” hurdle.
Govt, media, education, culture..
Probably others as well.
Govt, media, education, culture..
Probably others as well.
August 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It’s quite astonishing how many of our institutions have failed to clear the “genocide is wrong” hurdle.
Govt, media, education, culture..
Probably others as well.
Govt, media, education, culture..
Probably others as well.
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RACING TO COST VICTORIA $451.6m 💸
"A policy costing by the Parliamentary Budget Office... estimates the government would save $451.6m between 2025-26 and 2035-36 if it stopped subsidising greyhound racing and closed the industry."
#AusPol #Greyhounds #TaxMoney
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/au...
"A policy costing by the Parliamentary Budget Office... estimates the government would save $451.6m between 2025-26 and 2035-36 if it stopped subsidising greyhound racing and closed the industry."
#AusPol #Greyhounds #TaxMoney
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/au...
Victoria could save nearly $500m over 10 years by scrapping greyhound racing, estimates show
Exclusive: Parliamentary Budget Office analysis shows any loss of revenue from betting would be offset by lower government spending
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
RACING TO COST VICTORIA $451.6m 💸
"A policy costing by the Parliamentary Budget Office... estimates the government would save $451.6m between 2025-26 and 2035-36 if it stopped subsidising greyhound racing and closed the industry."
#AusPol #Greyhounds #TaxMoney
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/au...
"A policy costing by the Parliamentary Budget Office... estimates the government would save $451.6m between 2025-26 and 2035-36 if it stopped subsidising greyhound racing and closed the industry."
#AusPol #Greyhounds #TaxMoney
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/au...
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‘in too many cases police responses to family violence are harming them, replicating the power and control dynamics that underpin abuse and increasing risk, trauma and feelings of powerlessness.’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Police too often increase family violence risk and harm, new research finds
Police responses to family violence are too often harming not helping victims, replicating the power and control dynamics that underpin abuse and increasing risk, trauma and feelings of powerlessness,...
www.abc.net.au
August 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
‘in too many cases police responses to family violence are harming them, replicating the power and control dynamics that underpin abuse and increasing risk, trauma and feelings of powerlessness.’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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If you're interested, you can watch many thousands and thousands of fellow Australians right now marching across the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge for peace in Palestine
It's bucketing down rain, and still they keep coming, and still they keep marching
#MarchForHumanity #FreeGaza
webcamsydney.com
It's bucketing down rain, and still they keep coming, and still they keep marching
#MarchForHumanity #FreeGaza
webcamsydney.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
If you're interested, you can watch many thousands and thousands of fellow Australians right now marching across the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge for peace in Palestine
It's bucketing down rain, and still they keep coming, and still they keep marching
#MarchForHumanity #FreeGaza
webcamsydney.com
It's bucketing down rain, and still they keep coming, and still they keep marching
#MarchForHumanity #FreeGaza
webcamsydney.com
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NACC architect Helen Haines calls for robodebt investigation update, saying corruption watchdog has been ‘too secretive’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Nacc architect calls for robodebt investigation update, saying corruption watchdog has been ‘too secretive’
Independent MP who helped establish commission says lack of transparency over Centrelink robodebt probe risks hurting public confidence
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:14 AM
NACC architect Helen Haines calls for robodebt investigation update, saying corruption watchdog has been ‘too secretive’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...