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Just shockingly ignorant and destructive.
Collapsed in acrimony aka successfully negotiated by the Environment Minister with the Greens and cross-bench but then spiked by the PM? That kind of collapse in acrimony?
When the Robodebt Royal Commission recommends strengthening FOI laws to prevent abuse of Cabinet confidentiality provisions, what is a government to do?
Sure do! But the NSW govt is already altering planning legislation to restrict environmental assessments and community consultation: www.edo.org.au/wp-content/u...
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Still approving catastrophic carbon bombs. Still not taking the most important steps for housing such as closing down negative gearing and CGT. Still overseeing more robotax and robodent. Still implementing Job Ready Graduates.…
The scale of this is absolutely shocking, what an appalling non-response from minister and department.
Any carbon accounting approach that includes emissions (potentially) avoided by exported lithium should also include the scope 3 emissions from exported coal and gas.
Did I read that correctly??
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Social Security Bill to retrospectively validate income apportionment, provide for the assurance scheme, and make changes to debt waiver provisions introduced - parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sea...
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An extraordinary situation has arisen in NSW, and inland rivers and internationally significant wetlands will miss out on vital watering this season.

Essentially the rivers are being persecuted as if they are stealing their own water.
#waterislife
#biodiversity

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In an unprecedented crisis for the mighty inland rivers of NSW, the state and federal government are stopping water from naturally flowing down stream to wetlands and waterways that rely on it.  The...
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Has there been much public reporting on that?
If senior management and VCs think policy is confused, why don’t they mount a coordinated campaign to push back rather than hacking and slashing at the heart of the university?
Don’t forget NSW government’s plan to ban electric bikes from trains!
Absolutely horrifying. Scale of response is still inadequate.
The mainstream media framing is completely in tune with this approach. It’s both depressing and alarming.
If the ALP is serious about doing only what they have been given a ‘mandate’ to do by the electorate, then implementing the recommendations of the EPBC Act review to better protect the environment while giving faster decisions (not ‘approvals’) to developers would be top of the list.