We built modern society on a single, unspoken commandment: Thou shalt grow the GDP forever. We optimized everything for this number. But we forgot one critical detail. The denominator is fixed. 🧵👇
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Sean's less evil twin. Not in mint condition but can be used in emergencies. Sympathetic to all living in the Court of the Orange King, unless, of course, you voted for him. Second wokest white male baby boomer south of Fitzroy...
Delivery drivers to be paid minimum $31.30 an hour across Australia in ‘world-leading’ decision
Delivery drivers to be paid minimum $31.30 an hour across Australia in ‘world-leading’ decision
Fair Work Commission issues a new minimum standards order for gig workers to come into effect 17 August Delivery drivers in Australia will be paid a minimum rate of $31.30 an hour and insured for injuries on the job under a landmark agreement approved by the industrial umpire. The Fair Work Commission (FWC) on Tuesday issued a new minimum standards order for gig workers who perform on-demand delivery of food, drinks, or groceries, and the operators of the digital platforms who engage their services. Continue reading...
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Taiwan slams China over planned drill with Indonesia east of Taiwan 11:41 Taiwan's top agency on China has "strongly condemned" Beijing's plan to hold a naval exercise with Indonesia in waters east of Taiwan, calling it a "military provocation" that infringes on Taiwan's sovereignty and […]
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Spot on...
Pup Fiction@pupfiction.bsky.social · 2d agoFunny how when government's want to change a tax policy the media rhetoric is all about whether they have a mandate or not, but when it comes to things like AUKUS, approving data centres all over the place, and more laws intruding on our civil liberties, mandates are never mentioned #auspol
Replacing scrutiny with screw you is not the genius move Ms Hanson thinks it is…
The Cathy Wilcox@cathywilcox.bsky.social · 2d agoNo access. My @smh cartoon.
Thank goodness for some rare good sense...
Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestine🍉🍉@joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 5d ago"A NSW Supreme Court judge has rejected a bid to place a young Sydney man under a terrorism supervision order, finding prosecutors wrongly conflated hostility towards Israel with hatred of Jewish people in assessing whether he posed a future terrorism risk." www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-suprem...
Marri Ngarr artist Dr Ryan Presley has just been announced as the 2026 winner of the $100,000 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art Award. #culture #art #design
A painting in which a man sleeps while the world burns has won a $100,000 art prize
Marri Ngarr artist Dr Ryan Presley has just been announced as the 2026 winner of the $100,000 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art Award. #culture #art #design
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Noting quietly that the US increasingly resembles a stuporpower …
And rather fairly, I thought, reading the quotes...
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · last wk.Royal commissioner denies pro-Palestinian groups tried to 'hijack' antisemitism inquiry
A perfectly well reasoned argument from Bell, here, which drew the predictable squawking from that galah, James Paterson...
go follow @news.abc.net.au@abc-news.bsky.social · last wk.Commissioner rebukes claim pro-Palestinian groups tried to 'hijack' hearing: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-05/bondi-antisemitism-royal-commission-virginia-bell-hijack-claim/106997564
I just signed a petition: Australia's biggest ocean protection opportunity in 10 years.. (f you agree, please sign here: www.saveourmarinelife.org.au/actions/prot...
Australia's biggest ocean protection opportunity in 10 years - Save Our Marine Life
The Australian Government has listened to island communities, and just announced plans to massively expand marine sanctuary protection around the stunning Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. But before it becomes a reality, the government wants to hear from YOU on the proposed expansions, AND on what other improvements are needed across Australia’s offshore marine parks. […]
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Next two years are going to be the worst yet for climate — and we’ll still have News Corp saying it’s not real. People will believe them. And will blame migrants for burning down their houses. And will refuse to accept that 250 years of industrial fossil fuel combustion has lead to where we are.
Environmentalist and author Tim Flannery exposed how carbon offsets are being used to excuse fossil fuel expansion in Australia's Biggest Book Club! Watch the full video here! ⤵️ youtu.be/BCVAWn5ZGMw
Another one for the too bloody young file; Glenn was a living national treasure and will be sorely missed by music lovers everywhere … www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Australian rock music journalist Glenn A Baker dies
Baker has been remembered by his family as "somebody who absolutely grabbed life" and found "joy" in music after an unsettled childhood.
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The cure is simple, do what Finland does. But the denialists are in charge so it will not happen, and so it goes...
Pearls and Irritations@johnmenadue.com · 2w agoNAPLAN can show where problems may exist, but it cannot explain why a student is struggling or prescribe what they need next. Australia has spent nearly two decades treating a thermometer as a diagnosis, John Frew writes. #auspol #Education #NAPLAN
Real wages have fallen, productivity is weak and businesses have little incentive to change while profits hold up. Rather than waiting for productivity to lift wages, maybe higher wages should force productivity gains, Ross Gittins writes. #auspol #Economy #Wages
Want to lift productivity? Force businesses to give workers a big pay rise
Weak growth, falling real wages and poor productivity are linked, and one way to force business to invest and improve efficiency may be to lift wages across the economy.
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It seems Provac Australia wants us all to notice this video and to share it more. Taking legal action against an individual who is calling out racism is one of the dumbest corporate decisions I’ve seen. We are more powerful than corporate lawyers. #AusPol
Woman faces legal action over video of driver in racist road rage incident
A woman who filmed a Provac Australia driver making an apparent racist gesture to her rideshare driver faces legal action from a company directed by a former One Nation candidate.
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Australia cannot wait like a sitting duck for the next Black Summer. We are among the world’s most fire-prone nations, and climate disasters already cost us $40 billion each year. We must cut emissions by accelerating renewables, storage and electrification, and ending reliance on coal, oil and gas.
