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Can't we just tax these things out of existence instead?
Aug 2022: Essential poll for #TheVoice shows #VoteYes at 65% and #VoteNo at 35%, although 65% knew little to nothing about it. What went wrong?
The biggest factor was a well-funded, long-running disinformation campaign of fear.
Albo needs to:
1. Beef up his wet-lettuce misinformation laws to include traditional media.
2. Strengthen election laws.
3. Crack down on dark money
4. Fix the ABC.
"Lane-Rose has become a prominent young climate activist, and the university student, now 19, faces a charge of conspiracy to commit an indictable offence. She's also been slapped with a violence restraining order, had her home raided and possessions seized and been banned from associating with fellow campaigners."
At 19, this climate activist is now facing serious legal consequences over a foiled protest outside the home of the boss of an energy giant in Western Australia. Here's why she still believes she's on the right side of history.
Today’s employment white paper has adopted the broadest-ever definition of what “full employment” means for Australia.
The new paper says closer to 2.8 million Australians are either underemployed or out of work – equivalent to one-fifth of the current workforce. That new estimate is much higher than the official unemployment total of 539,700. #auspol
The Carnaby’s cockatoo (Ngoolark in Noongar language) "population is estimated to have decreased by between 50% and 80% over the past 45 years and continues to decline 4% each year. The main culprit is land-clearing and deforestation, which has seen more than 90% of their main foraging, breeding and roosting habitat disappear since European settlement...The Carnaby has been here for 10 to 20 million years."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/26/they-used-to-blacken-the-sky-the-siren-song-of-the-magnificent-carnabys-cockatoo
#birds #extinction
Has logging native habitat ended?
Nah. Greater Glider habitat can be logged under VicForests’ ongoing “Forest Recovery Timber Utilisation Plan”
Survey work by VNPA citizen scientists revealed high densities of Australia’s largest gliding marsupial in scheduled logging areas in Wombat Forest.
The govt will only be serious about ending forest habitat destruction when they legislate our promised new national park
PARK WATCH Article June 2022 | As VicForests log the Wombat Forest, we release new monitoring results showing these areas are habitat to already threatened Greater Gliders, writes Executive Director […]
So many lies & outright drivel #auspol