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I'd love to see Tasmania in the AFL. But there's a lot of footy people blithely dismissing the considerable objections to the insistence on a new stadium as part of the deal without bothering to understand them. They should definitely read this piece.
Tasmania in crisis over billion-dollar AFL stadium
The Tasmanian Liberal government is in crisis and a snap election likely to be called as the premier clings to plans for a stadium that will bankrupt the state.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
June 7, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I'd love to see Tasmania in the AFL. But there's a lot of footy people blithely dismissing the considerable objections to the insistence on a new stadium as part of the deal without bothering to understand them. They should definitely read this piece.
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Almost every energy claim made by Dutton isn’t just wrong – it’s precisely opposite to the reality revealed by simple fact-checking
Dutton’s weird energy claims in leaders debate show he’s living in opposite-world
Almost every energy claim made by Dutton isn’t just wrong – it’s precisely opposite to the reality revealed by simple fact-checking
reneweconomy.com.au
April 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Almost every energy claim made by Dutton isn’t just wrong – it’s precisely opposite to the reality revealed by simple fact-checking
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Every week, a new hidden cost of Dutton’s plan emerges.
February 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every week, a new hidden cost of Dutton’s plan emerges.
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Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
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We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
February 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
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There’s a reason why experts have found that Dutton’s nuclear scheme will push up household power bills by up to $1200
It’s because - as the CSIRO has found - nuclear takes too long to build, costs too much and pushes up bills
It’s because - as the CSIRO has found - nuclear takes too long to build, costs too much and pushes up bills
January 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
There’s a reason why experts have found that Dutton’s nuclear scheme will push up household power bills by up to $1200
It’s because - as the CSIRO has found - nuclear takes too long to build, costs too much and pushes up bills
It’s because - as the CSIRO has found - nuclear takes too long to build, costs too much and pushes up bills
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This puts it well & it’s a point I keep making about why using AI to write is so flattening. Writing is the process of working out & refining what you think. If I write an article, I’m not just generating 1000 plausible words. I’m trying to articulate ideas with precision, & challenging myself.
AI is for people who don't want to or can't think. Period.
I write to figure out what I think and how to think about it better.
I write to figure out what I think and how to think about it better.
Today I opened up Word and now on every freaking line there is an icon for Microsoft's Copilot AI tool, always asking me to use it to write. WTF. After googling, it appears IMPOSSIBLE to remove. I cannot use Word with an AI tool. I'm a professional fucking writer. I don't want it inserting shit.
January 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This puts it well & it’s a point I keep making about why using AI to write is so flattening. Writing is the process of working out & refining what you think. If I write an article, I’m not just generating 1000 plausible words. I’m trying to articulate ideas with precision, & challenging myself.
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Apparently, Lib MP Joe McCracken’s confession on some obscure libertarian podcast about the Vic Liberals' plan for sweeping cuts hasn’t gone down well internally in the party.
That was meant to be a secret.
I guess Kennett didn't campaign on closing down 350 schools, yet....
That was meant to be a secret.
I guess Kennett didn't campaign on closing down 350 schools, yet....
January 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Apparently, Lib MP Joe McCracken’s confession on some obscure libertarian podcast about the Vic Liberals' plan for sweeping cuts hasn’t gone down well internally in the party.
That was meant to be a secret.
I guess Kennett didn't campaign on closing down 350 schools, yet....
That was meant to be a secret.
I guess Kennett didn't campaign on closing down 350 schools, yet....
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Everyone should watch this video!
Great reporting by @emilypont.bsky.social on the "zero zone" -- and the accompanying demo video by CAL FIRE is something to watch 👀
heatmap.news/climate/los-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYvw...
heatmap.news/climate/los-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYvw...
CAL FIRE / IBHS Demonstration Burn Timelapse
YouTube video by CAL FIRE TV
www.youtube.com
January 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Everyone should watch this video!
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I wanna hear the Johnny Cash version
January 12, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I wanna hear the Johnny Cash version
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The hard truth about the consequences of the #ClimateCrisis — wildfires, floods, storms, droughts, heat waves and more — won’t come from climate activists who are too easily ignored or even vilified. It will come from central banks. And insurance companies. And every rational evidence-based sector.
January 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The hard truth about the consequences of the #ClimateCrisis — wildfires, floods, storms, droughts, heat waves and more — won’t come from climate activists who are too easily ignored or even vilified. It will come from central banks. And insurance companies. And every rational evidence-based sector.
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Much, much more coal is burned under the LNP plan than the ALP plan. The LNP plan also burns much, much more coal than the least ambitious AEMO scenario (which it is notionally based on).
December 17, 2024 at 3:15 AM
Much, much more coal is burned under the LNP plan than the ALP plan. The LNP plan also burns much, much more coal than the least ambitious AEMO scenario (which it is notionally based on).
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Everything about getting older is great except for the breakdown of the vessel that contains you (or, arguably, the breakdown of the vessel that is you).
December 16, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Everything about getting older is great except for the breakdown of the vessel that contains you (or, arguably, the breakdown of the vessel that is you).