Chris P

Kiwi in Aus long-term, observing life with curiosity. Views most definitely my own.

[Chris P @cpkiwi]

@BarackObama Shattered…. from genocide. You missed that bit.

[Chris P @cpkiwi]

@JoshButler Dropping the F-bomb…. Not sure about this as a new strategy.

[Chris P @cpkiwi]

@Peter_Fitz Research via ACF I think

[Chris P @cpkiwi]

@RonniSalt @inxanadudid @mjrowland68 @PeterDutton_MP @SenatorWong @bridgeyb People are now talking about ‘where’ nuclear reactors will go… it’s madness indeed. Why are people buying into a discussion about how something might be done, when the starting idea is so preposterous? Just what Dutton wants isn’t it.

[Batshit Australia @batshit_auspol]

For international followers wanting to know who this Barnaby Joyce fellow is that everyone has been clowning on in the last few days: a thread 🧵

[Chris P @cpkiwi]

@purplepingers @consumervic I do like the minor effort to hold some of it in place with duct tape…. Appalling.

[Chris P @cpkiwi]

@jeremyrockliff What’s ‘sustainable’? How about choosing a location for this project that doesn’t destroy hectares of RAMSAR wetlands as a start.

[Chris P @cpkiwi]

@mlbkiwi So weird. As is the sideways jaw movement and overall body language. Not sure he believes a word of his own bullshit.

[Chris P @cpkiwi]

@janine_hendry Look for another role straight away. As tough as it is, if she lets this go, the owner will continue to do it. In interim, she can affirm that she’d advised her unavailability ahead of time, and isn’t able to assist with rostering management to cover it. Polite, firm. Boundaries.

[Chris P @cpkiwi]

Dutton's “suggestion that things might be fixed by an audit of funding a system that his government designed and watched over for a decade and … the Productivity Commission … found had failed to meet even its own goals.” https://t.co/9KVAe1xXco

[Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social @markgkenny]

Inclined to vote No? Read this. I dare you…

[Chris P @cpkiwi]

@AdamHolmes010 If it had been included in the cost estimate, why would they need to rely on the contingency?

[Chris P @cpkiwi]

@jeremyrockliff There is at least one current affordable housing development being blocked by one of your own departments Jeremy. How about you take the politics out of state departments pushing their own siloed agendas to the detriment of local community and much needed commercial investment?

[Guardian Australia @GuardianAus]

Are New Zealand’s marine heatwaves a warning to the world? https://t.co/J8JLDkZEkQ

[Chris P @cpkiwi]

@PRGuy17 @jsluiter19 Yep. Spend $600m first, then $300m loss. The business case is dire, the assumptions are here.

[Rob Oakeshott @RobOakeshott1]

Thank you New England Times!
This is journalism, where they;
1. clarify the manipulation of photos by politicians (town hall was only 1/5th full)
2. clarify many baseless claims made
3. give those most impacted a chance to respond
https://t.co/CvzqOI9FFy

[Chris P @cpkiwi]

@simonahac @keithwolahan My feed suggests otherwise :)

[Chris P @cpkiwi]

@bri_lee_writer @mmccwill @patrickquip @THEMONTHLY Excellent article, terrible impact on the loyal suppliers.

[Chris P @cpkiwi]

@BrentHodgson Such great insights. Thank you

[Chris P @cpkiwi]

“No doubt the (safeguard) mechanism represents a significant advance on the climate policy of the previous Coalition government, but it would cut Australia’s total emissions by only about 215 million tonnes, or 8 per cent, by 2030, at best.”

[The Saturday Paper @SatPaper]

Australia is already the world’s biggest exporter of liquified natural gas and the second-largest coal exporter.

The bipartisan position is that we should mine more. Can the IPCC report, a “how-to guide to defuse the climate time bomb”, change this?

https://t.co/zV7DzyH26c