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Adelaide based engineer - economist. My wife and a home full of cats keep me happy in a dystopian world. Pro-Ukraine.
A useful analysis of ADF spending trends by Bernard Keane at Crikey. AUKUS aside, Australia has been shifting to more locally based Defence production. USA is still the biggest beneficiary. #Auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/06/d...
The US is the biggest beneficiary from $140bn in Australian Defence contracts
Crikey analysis shows that America has collected one in every three dollars spent by Defence on large contracts between 2022 and 2026. But this trend is starting to change.
crikey.com.au
1/2 Our climate really has changed, but we are too stubborn to admit it. #Auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Year by year, Sydney's winter wonderland is becoming just a memory
New South Wales is in the middle of its 30th consecutive warmer than average winter — and a past staple of the season is rapidly vanishing.
abc.net.au
🇷🇺 Quite an admission from Russian military analyst Maxim Klimov: “The money is running out. The colossal investment in our submarine fleet is a complete hoax. Our nuclear submarines are not combat-capable.”
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
I picked up almost as much from the library as I did from school—real history, not that polished nonsense we were fed!
For those interested in a conversation about Australian security by two articulate thinkers on the topic, Sam Roggaveen and Hugh White in the latest episode of their series: “Choosing America: Do values matter in a contest of interests” #Auspol #AUKUS www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmeQ...
‘Why would China even bother to attack if you don’t taunt her’: Answering your comments
YouTube video by The Saturday Paper
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In Australia today less than 10% of high school students complete advanced mathematics. This is limiting our ability to train new engineers and scientists. The pool of school leavers with the correct skill base is too small. #Auspol www.leadstory.com/v/record-low...
Record low maths participation sparks engineering workforce warning
Engineers Australia is urging more high school students, particularly girls, to continue studying advanced maths, warning record-low participation is narrowing the pipeline into engineering. The peak ...
leadstory.com
AUKUS is a costly political stunt. The time when we can switch to a less risky alternative is running out. #auspol #politics thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Why the AUKUS submarines will never arrive
When Prime Minister Scott Morrison decided to replace the French Barracuda Attack-class program with nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs), he directed his quest to Australia’s two senior Five Eyes...
thepoint.com.au
Another informed critic of AUKUS speaking at the public inquiry: Andrew Gaczol, former Principal Research Officer and former Intelligence Analyst, Department of Defence, addressed the AUKUS Public Inquiry’s Adelaide hearing, opposing AUKUS Pillar 1 #Auspol www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbOz...
Andrew Gaczol: "AUKUS Pillar One is a delusion"
YouTube video by Public Inquiry into AUKUS
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Time for Australia to dump some of the many things in the AUSFTA that benefit the US, like the extension of copyright from 50yrs to 70yrs.
Doug Cameron@dncameron.bsky.social · 2w agoThe US trashes the so called “free trade” agreement with Australia. Increases tariffs on our goods based on lies, threatens our jobs and US sycophant in chief Marles supports subsidising US shipbuilding jobs🤬 So much for the “rules based order” that Marles uses to justify AUKUS
Its hard to think of a country that needs new energy sources less than Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest energy exporter. This can only be about Saudi Arabia getting nuclear weapons. #Auspol #Politics www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US signs landmark nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia that could pave the way for domestic nuclear enrichment
Trump administration hails agreement, which comes as the US fights a war with Iran in part to prevent Tehran enriching uranium domestically
theguardian.com
Thanks to the rapidly developing major El Niño event, global surface air and sea surface temperatures are approaching new record values. Typically it is the year following the event that yields new global temperature record, but it's possible we could see this year.
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 2w agoLatest "plume" of El Niño forecasts, via @climate.columbia.edu. Consensus dynamical forecast is now an HISTORICALLY STRONG max Nino3.4 ~3.0C (statistical forecasts are pointing toward still very strong ~2.5C). There is still a wide range of estimates, with some models reaching astonishing ~4.7C.
A 3-year-old girl watched ICE murder her father yesterday. We all watched Sebastian Guerrero’s final moments through our phones. We can scroll away — but Sebastian’s 3-year-old daughter cannot.
Satellite imagery shows russia has stripped the air defenses protecting its primary nuclear submarine shipyards in Severodvinsk. Over 24 S-300/S-400 launchers have vanished. The strategic significance of this shift is massive🧵 1/3
The Barents Observer@thebarentsobserver.com · 4w agoRussia has quietly stripped much of the long-range air defence protecting its most important nuclear submarine shipyards, according to satellite imagery analysed by the Barents Observer.
Vale Sam Neill. A wonderful actor, and like-able person 🙁 www.stuff.co.nz/culture/3610...
Actor Sam Neill has died
Sam Neill has died in hospital, his family said in a statement on Monday.
stuff.co.nz
Trump ally Lindsay Graham dead at 71. I’m not a good enough actor to be able to pretend to be sad. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Lindsey Graham, key ally of Donald Trump, has died after sudden illness, his office says
Republican senator had served in the Senate since 2003 and was a sharp critic of Trump before becoming one of his most loyal backers
theguardian.com
US Army Major warns Netanyahu fabricated claim Iran was plotting to kill Trump to serve own interests. My new article on the history of fabricated intellligence by Netanyahu that corporate media refuses to cover! deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/us-army-ma...
US Army Major warns Netanyahu fabricated claim Iran was plotting to kill Trump to serve own interests
Netanyahu-like Trump--should be in prison
deanobeidallah.substack.com
SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply.
Cartoonists Are The Only Real Journalists Left In The USA.
