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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

As a former smoker, I do understand the increased health issues.
Insurers have, for many years, charged significantly higher premiums for smokers, and indeed heavy drinkers.
These elective vices constitute an unnecessary impost on our health system, and should be reflected under Medicare co-payment

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

Smokers incur significant healthcare costs due to smoking-related diseases. These costs are estimated at $2.6 billion annually for treating 25 smoking-related conditions.
Smoking costs the economy close to $137 billion, which includes both tangible costs (like healthcare and lost productivity)

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

This is the sort of research a well-funded & reinvigorated #CSIRO could have undertaken…amongst many.
Instead in @albomp.bsky.social we have a mediocre, penny- pinching neoliberal PM whose only ambition is to keep his own seat warm, and his beloved @australianlabor.bsky.social in office.
#auspol

Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers present inverter-based dust monitoring method for rooftop solar – pv magazine Australia www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/10/14/r...

Researchers present inverter-based dust monitoring method for rooftop solar

Researchers in China have developed a dust monitoring technique that relies solely on the existing hardware resources of inverters, without requiring extra sensors or meteorological data. Tests on exi...

www.pv-magazine-australia.com

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TheFinnigans @finnigans.bsky.social · 1d

This is so embarrassing for President Prabowo of Indonesia too. He left many urgent domestic issues behind to attend Gaza Peace Summit

youtu.be/YW4lBBr2UOc?...

Trump's Hot Mic Shocker: Caught Pushing Family Business With Indonesian President | India Today

YouTube video by India Today

youtu.be

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

And probably still does

Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

To counter elicit tobacco trade @albomp.bsky.social
@tonyburkemp.bsky.social
@markbutlermp.bsky.social
reduce tax on cigarettes BUT significantly increase Medicare levy on smokers.
Will eliminate elicit trade, deter smokers & subsidise treatment of their increased health risks
#abc730 #auspol

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

The #CSIRO budget for R&D projects should be increased considerably.
Apart from the break throughs it can achieve, it provides a great career path for talented graduates

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

Donations

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

Australia’s gas cartel
…seemingly above the law and immune from taxation
#auspol

David @daverino.bsky.social · 1d

“The NT Department of Lands, Planning & Environment alleges Beetaloo Basin..breached environmental laws in 2022. Beetaloo & the mining & energy minister have denied any wrongdoing..A..lawyer says the DLPE's decision not to prosecute..weakens environmental protections”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

If this mining company broke the law, why isn't it being prosecuted?

A gas company operating in the Northern Territory has been accused of breaching environmental laws by an NT government department, which decided against prosecution in favour of a formal letter encour...

www.abc.net.au

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

As @albomp.bsky.social
@jimchalmers.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social Govt rabbits on about wanting to lift productivity, Blind Freddie knows that innovation drives productivity.
Yet the incumbent neoliberals are more interested in austerity than adequately funding our august CSIRO
#auspol

David @daverino.bsky.social · 1d

“CSIRO will embark on further cost-cutting to research units to repair a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall, as Aust’s national science & research agency reckons with an ongoing decline in funding..funding as a percentage of GDP..is now at its lowest since 1978”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Albanese urged to ‘secure the future of science’ as CSIRO reckons with ongoing decline in funding

CEO Doug Hilton says the agency’s budget allocation ‘has not kept up with the cost of doing science’

www.theguardian.com

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

Private sector takes the shortest path to the largest profit, and knocks down and pushes aside anything that gets in its way (like regulations).
Government initiatives can be managed more efficiently and cost effectively.
Just takes recruitment of capable senior management with commercial expertise

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 1d

“Last 40 yrs adopted neoliberal economic ideology that focused on assumed advantages of private sector and alleged inability of public sector to match its entrepreneurial and efficiency advantages. That ideology deliberately ignored the role of the public sector.”

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

The West’s crucial strategic failures

The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that once believed they were eternal. Camille Paglia.

johnmenadue.com

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

A new study published in Nature Climate Action finds Woodside’s Scarborough gas project could cause 100s of heat-related deaths & exposed 500k people to unprecedented heat.

Govt can’t claim climate leadership while approving projects like this.
www.afr.com//policy/ener...

Forrest-backed study links Woodside mega-project to hundreds of deaths

The research, conducted by academics at ANU, suggests the massive offshore gas project off the coast of Western Australia will cause warming of 0.00039 degrees.

www.afr.com

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps it would directly impact too many politicians

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

If this government is too gutless for some very mild reforms to super for the uber wealthy,
there’s no vested interest they won’t cave in to. #auspol
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/14/j...

Jim Chalmers' super tax compromise proves Labor is a party that's in office, but not in power

Labor has finally capped superannuation tax concessions, but still given in to a scare campaign waged by vested interests. It's the sign of a timid government worried about a giant industry.

www.crikey.com.au

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

Far from the traits we value in a ‘leader’

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

His paternalist approach to leadership is sickening.
Been a partisan political apparatchik all his adult life, and believes his own BS.
Loathes being challenged or held to account

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Rosemary Vass @coonavass.bsky.social · 1d

Ain’t that the truth!! #democracy not #theocracy #Auspol

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

#NACC …The political laundromat designed and constructed to clean political baggage
#auspol

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

Spent several hours over 2 weeks trying to resolve billing issue with web hosting coy listed on ASX & with Aust. HQ.
Directed to overseas call centre each time & given royal run around - and no resolution.
This is widespread!
@albomp.bsky.social legislate Aust. call centres for ASX companies
#auspol

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

Fact.
We are languishing under a govt led by a visionless, risk-averse, deeply institutionalised career party apparatchik who is incapable of delivering big, bold, transformational policy - which the people of Australia crave.
Voters should not reward mediocrity and inertia

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

For his own financial benefit

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

Ironic Nats are silent on endemic land clearing by farmers & graziers & ignore burgeoning gas fracking sector in SW QLD which is more environmentally destructive than renewables infrastructure - for which landowners are handsomely rewarded and which supplements their income from farming activities

Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 1d

The march of renewables is irreversible.
Many in Central QLD are addicted to the fossil fuel sector (coal) because it’s traditionally paid well & contributed to communities.
Opposition to renewables based on land clearing for infrastructure is hypocritical given land never recovers from coal mining

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 2d

Courtesy a gas reservation scheme

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