Brian Loffler

@BrianLoffler
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Enviro Planner @urbanecologyaus - #CarbonNeutralADL Ambassadors | #ClimateAction & #ClimateJustice advocate | 1920s jazz & 60s folk bassist | Grateful 4 family
You might enjoy the podcast put together by Essential’s Peter Lewis and Damian Damjanovski (was Senior Adviser) to Morrison). 
Good thing is they don’t stick to Labor & Liberal talking points, so it’s actually informative discussion.
https://pca.st/episode/6b4a3e49-2639-4808-a581-620c7a824d9c
#auspol
Episode 6 - Budget and Budget in Reply

Guests: Fiona Scott, and Fiona Scott.Budget Week in Canberra, the impact of the budget on Labor and the Coalition, and the issue of trust in politics and broken promises. Housing affordability and…

Pocket Casts
“The global housing crisis will not be solved by building more units alone. It will be solved by making more informed decisions about where, how and for whom we build.”
Useful examples here:
https://www.wri.org/insights/solving-worlds-housing-crisis-requires-more-new-construction
#housing
Solving World's Housing Crisis Requires More than New Construction

Four choices will define whether cities’ housing policies offer solutions or exacerbate problems.

World Resources Institute
If you weren’t convinced that -ve gearing, CGT & trusts needed fixing, this graph says it all.
The already-excessively-rich top 1% received the lion’s share of tax-payer largesse.
The wealth gap is no good for anyone, rich or poor. It’s what leads to the breakdown of society.
Apple updates to do: Recent devices now need to be on v26.5 of MacOS, iOS, iPadOS, visionOS, tvOS, watchOS, and HomePod. There are also updates for older devices such as iOS and iPad OS 18, 15.8.8, 16.7.16, and 17.7.11 as well as MacOS as old as 14.8.7
https://support.apple.com/en-us/100100
Apple security releases - Apple Support

This document lists security updates for Apple software.

Apple Support
Let’s be clear: One Nation didn’t win Farrer; the Libs donated it to them when they deposed Sussan Ley in favour of unelectable Angus Taylor and then preferenced One Nation.
Labor established the independent Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee (EIAC). The April 24 EIAC report calls for lifting the unliveable Jobseeker allowance from 70% of the pension to 90%. If Labor fails to act on this in the Budget, what has happened to moral political courage?
My fave #Attenborough quote: “We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return.”
It’s our life-support systems that are at risk, peeps.
Inside the new Tesla Semi factory. Worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGDvZJXgOlw
Robots Everywhere: The First Look At Tesla's Giant Semi Factory

YouTube
If you only listen to one podcast this week (this year…) make it this one. Two gutsy women - each dealing with their own issues, from bipolar to insomnia, anxiety & depression - discuss Antoinette Lattouf’s new book “Women Who Win”.
To show up is to win.
Thank you Amanda Tattersall for your Change Makers podcast; always creating fresh narratives that inspire.
https://changemakerspodcast.org/antoinette-lattouf-changemaker-chat-women-who-win/
Antoinette Lattouf - ChangeMaker Chat - Women Who Win - Changemakers

We unpack Antoinette's new book about what women have to teach us about what it takes and what it means to win.

Changemakers
Great news that @Judo_Bank has become a member of the excellent @SmartEnergyCncl
A great bank doing the right thing by the future of our climate and life-support systems; love it. 🙌
bit.ly/4uJWmNh