I last posted about this with everyone at Worldcon, so I'd appreciate a boost if you're willing as the world is noisy and full of horror, but the African SF Novels and Novellas Bundle - curated by Eugen Bacon, is still going strong at StoryBundle, and includes 2 of my novels!

storybundle.com/scifi

New Australia Institute research shows there’s little evidence of a productivity crisis.

“Australia’s so-called ‘productivity crisis’ is massively exaggerated. Low productivity is not to blame for the problems facing households today, like low wage growth.”

@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol

The main beneficiaries of a tax cut would be the big and often foreign-owned miners, which already take significant advantage of Australian resources, giving little in return.

Australia’s own history shows reductions in company tax rates, but no real increase in investment as a share of GDP.

Need proof Big Gas is ripping Australians off?

Inpex exported ~$54 billion in gas from the NT

Inpex also HASN'T PAID A CENT in
❌Royalties
❌Petroleum Resource Rent Tax
❌Company Tax

🎙️ @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

Australia is one of the lowest-taxing countries in the developed world. Australia raises very little tax revenue compared to similar countries. #qanda

australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...

By cutting fossil fuel subsidies, ending the gas industry’s free ride, reforming negative gearing and closing tax loopholes for superannuation and luxury utes, Treasury would raise between $12 billion and $63 billion.

Read: 5 ideas for a better tax system:

"The grid was under pressure because of coal, not because of renewables."
"Failure of unreliable coal highlights the pressing need for reliable, clean & cheap renewable power."

Important piece from Matt Kean, Chair of the Climate Change Authority. 👏

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.

Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”