The utter sham of offsets, yet again...
“Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Really weird Robin Archer’s excellent book on this question does not even get a mention in this @jacobinmag.bsky.social interview when most of the points come straight from it. Also the divergence with Canada in the 1930s after the CCF forms doesn’t get a mention jacobin.com/2026/02/labo...
I’ve written an essay about Labor’s 2025 #ausvotes landslide for the upcoming issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social to give a global social democratic audience a better sense of what happened #auspol
“Nearly four out of five of Australia’s critical mineral projects sit on Indigenous lands”.
For @copower.bsky.social, Noa Wynn examines the Yindjibarndi claim for damages to land and how green colonialism is repeating old injustices.
Screenshot of charges table requiring a payment of $1,508.80 for access to documents from a South Australian government agency.
Last Friday I appeared before a Senate committee to talk about the Commonwealth's proposed changes to FOI laws @withmeaa.bsky.social, in my capacity as a working freelance journalist. The changes copy FOI regimes at the state level -- two hours later, one of those states hit me with a charge:
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This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate.
Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not.
From: www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...
“.. Never before has so much money been spent so rapidly on a technology that, for all its potential, remains largely unproven ..”
@bloomberg.com $NVDA
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I've been looking for more reporting on this. NVIDIA has an increasing number of deals where it is paying companies to buy its chips. sounds very bubbly.
In 2024, Meta, Amazon, Netflix, Disney, and Google collectively generated over A$15 billion in revenue from Aus. However, by shifting billions offshore and intercompany advertising arrangements, they significantly reduced their taxable income.
It's time big business paid its fair share of tax.
unhinged monetary policy philosophy. honouring rba’s commitment to full employment requires them to create more unemployment
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
photo of paulina borsook
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization.
This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Nothing says “let’s make a meaningful effort to end this conflict” like assassinating the negotiators
Wednesday night. With an armed cooker on the run …
Giants of the Middle East resorting to Google to work out how to characterise the Australian PM is a real vibe.
New: Industry minister Tim Ayres says the government is “going to take our time to work through” questions on AI regulation “over the coming months”, pledging “an Australian approach”.
The Greens' @davidshoebridge.bsky.social labelled the alleged move away from an AI Act as "incredibly dangerous" 👇
She’s worked for a union and she’s a committed feminist. Her parents are owner/operators but seem to be from working class backgrounds. She should be in the ALP. I guess it raises questions about why Labor is not an attractive option for her because it ought to be.
In Tally Room podcast here @cmonnox.bsky.social talked about the ACT system and how different it is because the Chief Minister is elected by the parliament from scratch at the start of every term. www.tallyroom.com.au/60946
Such a fundamental piece of policy, why wouldn’t we keep the design and architecture in the public sector? We should have the capability. This contract is worth at least $7.5m - if Labor wants to reduce reliance on consultants, this isn't how you do it.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
JOURNALIST: Good morning. Just a question on AI. Will your Government ensure that AI giants don’t mine copyright of the content without having to compensate artists and creators? PRIME MINISTER: I have seen some of the comments that are there. My Government's a government that supports the arts. I think across the board, AI is obviously a complex issue, it's something that is an emerging technology, something that will change the way that we live and work, and engage with each other. AI has the potential for massive productivity benefits. I saw - I'm not sure what outlet you're from - but I saw a report just last night about healthcare and AI that showed a doctor talking about how positive it has been for him, on 7.30 last night on the ABC. We need to engage in discourse about how we make sure that we maximise the benefits but minimise any of the other factors that need to be considered. We as a society will work that through. It's good there's debate about it, but copyright and intellectual property is important. JOURNALIST: Just another question on AI if that's OK? PRIME MINISTER: Sure. JOURNALIST: Jim Chalmers said Labor had no plans to water down copyright laws. The Government has said before it had no plans to do something and then has done it. Are you able to guarantee the creatives of Australia that you won't water down copyright laws? PRIME MINISTER: Jim Chalmers answered the question.
PM was asked about the AI copyright thing today.
Algorithm and blues- my #AI #Auspol cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
PRESS RELEASE: Productivity Commission’s shortsighted recommendations are a blueprint for theft of nation’s creative and cultural assets
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#StopAITheft
Idk why the productivity commission believes productivity can be derived by giving away other people's labour for free to companies with way too much money. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Protesters in Tel Aviv took to the streets carrying flour bags and pictures of malnourished children from Gaza, calling for the end of the war on Gaza and the hunger.
#protest #TelAviv #Gaza #hunger #IsraelGazawar #Israel
Thanks for having me on @benraue.com. I'm quite ok with extra Hare-Clark elections, even if Tasmanians aren't.
The WA Government has let foreign oil company Chevron turn Western Australia's second largest Island, formerly a pristine Class A nature reserve into a "contamination site."
Here is what it looks like now.
State capture and regulatory failure.
www.boilingcold.com.au/governments-...
Robert Manne in @insidestory.bsky.social on the Segel report into antisemitism insidestory.org.au/the-wrong-wa...
Amazon doesn’t make its power use public, but it’s “on pace to command the highest electricity demand” of all of the companies that Business Insider examined recently. One of those is Google, which admits that its power use has DOUBLED in the last 4 years.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-runs-dirt...
