**Why Australia lags behind the rest of the world in taxing oil and energy giants.**

".. don't forget the cost of the stage 3 tax cuts locked in by the Albanese government, which threaten to strip $243 billion in revenue from the coffers over the next decade"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-25/australia-prrt-oil-giants-chalmers-federal-budget/102262102

My eldest has been cast in The Trials and it’s been making me think a lot about culpability for climate change.

I strongly believe that it’s a structural issue and the focus on individual responsibility has historically been used by fossil fuel companies to distract from their role in perpetuating it for profit.

But… we are also all responsible and have run out of excuses not to take meaningful action.

https://canberratheatrecentre.com.au/show/the-trials/

Why restoring long-distance passenger rail makes sense in New Zealand -- for people and the climate via @ConversationEDU

https://theconversation.com/why-restoring-long-distance-passenger-rail-makes-sense-in-new-zealand-for-people-and-the-climate-199381?utm_medium=amptwitter&utm_source=twitter&s=09

For posterity - this amazing creator is not on the fediverse (as far as I know) but I wish he was.

"I build little people out of acorns and sticks, then photograph them in the wild with real animals.
Join me as I share my process of building and photographing.
Learn more and buy prints at https://www.davidmbird.com/ ."

https://youtube.com/channel/UC6q7I1DD2Jv5Ur9UEIavIrA/

#birds #wildlife #critters

We need ethical sports sponsorship when it comes to the #ClimateCrisis , and the professional cycling Pro tour especially so.

Extinction Rebellion’s #TourDownUnder protests should be a wake-up call for cycling. Tennis Australia🎾 and the Science Schools📚 Project have both dropped #Santos as a sponsor, so why hasn't the Tour Down Under?

https://www.bikeradar.com/features/opinion/extinction-rebellion-tour-down-under/
#ExtinctionRebellion #SportsSponsorship #FossilFuels #CouchPeloton

Reminder that nonviolence is not the same thing as just not being violent. It is an active form of resistance, intervention, and capacity-building. 🖤✊

“If peace means a willingness to be exploited economically, dominated politically, humiliated and segregated, I don’t want peace. If peace means being complacently adjusted to a deadening status quo, I don’t want peace. …. Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

This is insane. We've barely even begun to see how much long covid there is.
We're just going to gaslight a whole population about their health problems?
I mean we've done it to minority groups forever so I guess so, huh.

RT @[email protected]

@[email protected] @[email protected] #LongCovid clinics across Australia will be closing down this year. This is so wrong.
#LeftBehindByLabor

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-23/concerns-over-future-of-some-long-covid-clinics/101801218

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/iggy_8888/status/1611622841405018113