New data: in the last financial year, fossil fuel companies donated ~$2 million to the major political parties - money clearly aimed at sweetening deals to expand coal, oil, and gas production. Find out more in our new analysis:
Via #MarketForces #Auspol
https://www.marketforces.org.au/politicaldonations2023/

Local turf dispute here, earlier.

So, on the weekend, my aunty died. She was 91 and living (not happily) in a nursing home. This in itself is not remarkable. She was the elder sister to my dad (d2010) and mother to my one and only cousin. Also not remarkable. But to tell the tale of a woman who grew up in Adelaide in the 1940s and 50s to become the fly in the ointment to multiple Prime Ministers and friend to Noam Chomsky, George Monbiot, Philip Adams and especially Jose Ramos Horta and Xanana Gusmão tells you why she was an extraordinary person. She was #ShirleyShackleton /2

My partner just accidentally said Bunnings-Kruger instead of Dunning-Kruger effect, and, TBH, I think it’s the perfect descriptor for anyone overestimating their ability to do home repairs or build things.