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CW: #AusPol
Last night I read the Saturday Paper story about Prof. Bell, Julie Bishop and the ANU.
What a complete mess. I am sad to see this institution so badly served (not only by Bell, but by *all* the governing structures - and by many of their members).
It is time for the Government to step in and directly manage, the place, with a view to handing it back to self-governance in five years or so.
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That #jimchalmers didn’t start this round table by defining what productivity is is obvious. Privatisation with throwing money with no oversight is probably the biggest problem but that was probably never mentioned.
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Economic round table recycles broken ideas
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Saw the below from The Saturday Paper.
And wondered if Abbott was aiming to get Dutton into the PM position when #MalcolmTurnbull was rolled - which would have had Mr Sneaky outsmart Abbott.
Or were Abbott and Mr Sneaky in cahoots, using Dutton as the assassin, always intending to dupe him?
#AusPol #TonyAbbott #Machiavellian #ScottMorrison #TheSaturdayPaper
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A reminder why you shouldn’t vote for either major party. They have been shafting us for years at the behest of foreign influencers and large orgs and we have been letting them. My biggest fear is they are still reading the #murdoch bible to make decisions in relation to Trump #labor #lnp.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/2025/03/22/whats-stake-this-election
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This comment is from #BarryJones and it is absolutely correct! ✅
“Albanese appears to be strikingly lacking in ambition. I am convinced that making some bold decisions, and explaining them, would strengthen his prime ministership significantly. He could begin by bringing Tanya Plibersek in from the cold, experimenting with democracy inside the ALP, tackling the corrosive causes of Australia’s gambling obsession, and addressing our grossly unequal education system.” #TheSaturdayPaper
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CW: Auspol: NSW Lib Matt Kean says supporting nuclear is an attempt to delay and defer responsible and decisive action on climate change.
“Why is support for nuclear power noisiest just as its failures become most clear?”
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“But what the critics say is Australia has no civilian nuclear power industry, we're starting from scratch. And as yet, the commercial viability of these small reactors has not been proven. There is not yet one commercially operating in the world. “
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“Hi everyone, about a minute on bad news in the US nuclear power sector. Yesterday, new scale power and the Utah Association of Municipal Power Systems announced they were cancelling plans to build a new scale reactor or set of reactors at a site in Idaho.”
“And the reason it was kaput was that, It was considered not commercially viable. I was reading an account from Bloomberg, and the response of the former head of that project was, this is a dead horse and we've got to get off it. But now, this did not deter the advocates.
“The charity C4C had paid for all these key Coalition people to go to the big UN climate summit last November in Dubai. According to Ted O'Brien, he was there because he'd had an invitation from the World Nuclear Association to speak at the conference and C4C was the host of the meeting where he spoke there. So that coming together of this, what had been a sort of rather obscure environmental charity in Australia with the Coalition nuclear policy, I think it said a lot. And it said to me the Coalition knows they need advocates out there pushing the nuclear policy, because at the moment in Australia there is no real social licence for it.”
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“Matt Kean says supporting nuclear is an attempt to delay and defer responsible and decisive action on climate change. It's an attack on his federal counterparts, who've made nuclear power a key part of their energy plan.”
#auspol #NuclearLobby #Renewables #TheSaturdayPaper #7amPodcast #LNPFail #SMR #Nuclear
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/podcast/the-lobbyists-behind-peter-duttons-nuclear-promise
From: @ki_sekiya
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Excellent piece by Kurt Johnson for #TheSaturdayPaper, quoting #ElectronicFrontiersAustralia's John Pane on the rise of #BossWare - workplace #surveillance technologies
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Spent the last few hours curating a list of following. Fingers crossed many of those I follow on Twitter migrate too like #MichaelWestMedia #RonniSalt #TheSaturdayPaper #RexPatrick #crikey #prguy #independentaustralia #SimonHolmesaCourt #lauratingle #squizz #gregjericho #solomonk #rexchapman
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Spent the last few hours curating a list of following. Fingers crossed many of those I follow on Twitter migrate too like #MichaelWestMedia #RonniSalt #TheSaturdayPaper #RexPatrick #crikey #prguy #independentaustralia #SimonHolmesaCourt #lauratingle #squizz #gregjericho #solomonk #rexchapman
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Spent the last few hours curating a list of following. Fingers crossed many of those I follow on Twitter migrate too like #MichaelWestMedia #RonniSalt #TheSaturdayPaper #RexPatrick #crikey #prguy #independentaustralia #SimonHolmesaCourt #lauratingle #squizz #gregjericho #solomonk #rexchapman
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Spent the last few hours curating a list of following. Fingers crossed many of those I follow on Twitter migrate too like #MichaelWestMedia #RonniSalt #TheSaturdayPaper #RexPatrick #crikey #prguy #independentaustralia #SimonHolmesaCourt #lauratingle #squizz #gregjericho #solomonk #rexchapman