Michael Pascoe: Dutton is a populist politician who just isn’t popular | The New Daily https://t.co/IBIeGL10uK “didn’t come from a place of hatred”. No, it came from a place of politics – the well-trodden path of the politics of fear"
Surge in deadly strep A infection prompts vaccine calls | The New Daily https://t.co/l8Gn6CuifH"....children experienced symptoms including toxic shock syndrome and aggressive skin infections."
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"..changes to stop the Australian Research Council being used as “a political plaything”, after it was hit by vetoes of grants by three of the last four Coalition education ministers" (AFR)
"The most recent controversy over [NHMRC] grant vetoes was in 2021 when Stuart Robert, who had been acting in the role for just 10 days, rejected seven grants, including two related to climate" (The Saturday Paper)
Anti-Voice campaigner condemned for telling Indigenous Australians to ‘learn English’ | The New Daily https://t.co/YY5QOBoBnI “There can be no fence sitters in this vote. Either you think this nasty rubbish is OK or you don’t,”
SAHMRI breakthrough could spell the end of the ‘poo test’ for bowel cancer https://t.co/pdWbMaHdJ7 via @indaily “In the future we will detect many diseases, including bowel cancer, with cells, not drugs, hopefully we’ll replace the ‘poo test’ with a simpler blood test.”
There was only one time Scott Morrison told the truth, writes a Crikey reader in today's Your Say, and that's when he said: "In Australia, we look after our mates". Only thing is, he forgot to mention the mates in question were Santos, BHP and Woodside.
https://t.co/oI27T6kSjq
OPINION | The Albanese government says supreme pragmatism is the only way to protect its legacy — even if it comes at the cost of erasing the Labor party's own rich history.
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@crikey_news "The Business Council of Australia wants an Australia in which big business pays even less tax, you pay more tax, workers have lower wages and worse conditions, and corporations act with impunity... Bernard Keane calls out the business lobby's ongoing deception"
The Business Council, Australia's most rapacious lobby group, says we need to do two things to repair the economy: lower company taxes and lower wages. But there's a third solution, writes @BernardKeane, and that's to break up @BCAcomau.
https://t.co/WCfxnrsEk2
“It was always wrong to have Defence in control of its own regulator for the AUKUS nuclear submarines, and now we can see how they have hand-picked a pro-nuclear consultant [EY] to design the whole thing,”..Post 21 Aug
"revelations that consultants Ernst & Young will receive almost $8.5m to help design a new federal agency to monitor safety issues associated with nuclear-powered submarines acquired under the AUKUS pact "(The Age)
AUKUS tensions surface at Labor national conference https://t.co/ws6Pq3LlFX the Hawke government seemed to survive the big brawls of the 80s on issues like uranium mining and foreign banks, in an era before aerial spraying of delegates with Mogadon became the order of the day.
Yoga and asthma: Will the downward dog ease your wheeze? | The New Daily https://t.co/bcxW3I2hzq "There’s plenty of good evidence ... that practicing yoga lowers stress hormones and increases feel-good chemicals in the brain."
There are strong fears that Sydney’s koalas are on the road to extinction. There’s been a devastating rise in koala vehicle strikes.
I’m worried the Minns NSW Govt will let @Lendlease build 4,700 new homes at Mt Gilead - so many koalas live in this area.
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Australia cannot take seriously a Govt that dusts off failed 1992 Forest policy and says it will review it for adoption. The climate/biodiversity crises have accelerated since 1982. Ending logging is best policy right now. Not offsets, not trade offs, END. @BobBrownFndn#auspol
Killer fact: they commuted Chelsea Manning. Blinken’s offhand dismissal of our concerns amounts to treating us with deep contempt, a client not an ally. Dopes, who will pay untold billions into their shipyards but can’t get a single citizen who exposed war crimes released.