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quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · 7h
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?
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quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · 1d
When the Robodebt Royal Commission recommends strengthening FOI laws to prevent abuse of Cabinet confidentiality provisions, what is a government to do?
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quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · 3d
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...
www.edo.org.au
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quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · 4d
Apparently an unspeakable truth now
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quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · 9d
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.…
quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · 16d
Yet Guardian Oz headlines with ‘Labor very focused on making sure voters keep faith in system, says Albanese’: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Progressive governments must keep faith with voters to combat far right, Albanese and Starmer warn
After meeting Keir Starmer in London, Australian PM says governments must seek solutions, ‘not seek to divide people’
www.theguardian.com
quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · 17d
The scale of this is absolutely shocking, what an appalling non-response from minister and department.
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quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · 22d
Any carbon accounting approach that includes emissions (potentially) avoided by exported lithium should also include the scope 3 emissions from exported coal and gas.
quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · Sep 11
Shameful.
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quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · Sep 5
eff off
quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · Sep 4
Did I read that correctly??
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Michael Klapdor @mklapdor.bsky.social · Sep 4
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...
parlinfo.aph.gov.au
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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · Sep 3
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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Join me in supporting the Let the water flow Campaign
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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quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · Sep 1
No way thanks.
quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · Aug 31
Such an utter failure by regulators.
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quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · Aug 26
Whoops
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quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · Aug 24
Has there been much public reporting on that?
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quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · Aug 24
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?
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quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · Aug 22
Don’t forget NSW government’s plan to ban electric bikes from trains!
quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · Aug 20
So not OK. Beautifully put Kaz!!!
quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · Aug 20
Absolutely horrifying. Scale of response is still inadequate.
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quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · Aug 19
Tell us again why housing is so unaffordable?
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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · Aug 19
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Exclusive
More than two-thirds of NSW public land suitable for housing sold to private developers
Exclusive: Despite Labor policy to prioritise government land for public housing, Homes NSW has bought just three of 55 sites and expressed interest in further seven
www.theguardian.com
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quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · Aug 19
The mainstream media framing is completely in tune with this approach. It’s both depressing and alarming.
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quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · Aug 16
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.
quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · Aug 15
Quoted in this article: womensagenda.com.au/life/books/a...
Authors boycott Bendigo Writers Festival over code of conduct silencing criticism of Israel
A number of authors have withdrawn from the Bendigo Writers Festival over concerns about free speech relating to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social @quendaquendaquenda.bsky.social · Aug 15
In this case the festival organisers and ‘presenting partner’ La Trobe Uni: “The Festival and Presenting Partner, La Trobe University, felt it was necessary to emphasise the importance of safety and wellbeing for all participants by introducing a Code of Conduct.”