Absolutely terrifying time to be the parent of young children. Can’t get them vaxxed, told not to get tested unless we pay, and also told to go about our business as though everyone who gets this will be fine.
@SquigglyRick Ha, this was my same journey from boxed fish to a literal degree in food. And also becoming mates with rich kids who knew what capers were.
Not for nothing but when I told my tradie partner how the unions failed to respond to the destruction of local news in Australia, bizarrely the same union that reps the arts, he couldn’t believe me.
Arts decimated. But old mate construction workers kicking up a stink because they don’t have a place to eat their saussie roll and Big M at smoko? Sounds about right.
It’s always interesting to find out where and why there’s an expectation in public policy that the health of businesses outweighs the health of the public who buy from those businesses.
The CSIRO should not be advocating for plant-based foods over genuine meat products in Australia.
Expect the CSIRO to provide balanced support for Australian industries.
My letter to the CSIRO:
Dirty secret behind world’s fashion addiction: many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in landfill, creating an environmental catastrophe on the other side of the world. #Recycling#auspol https://t.co/fHWBdFFIol
Anyone who simultaneously argues against meaningful action on climate change, and claims to love their children has some industrial level cognitive dissonance going on.
Climate protest outside Parliament House following IPCC report. Protesters have glued their hands to the floor, one set fire to an empty pram. @9NewsAUS
The federal govt sent more than 11,000 people Centrelink debt letters worth a total of $32m claiming they were overpaid due to jobkeeper, while resisting calls to claw back money from businesses who got the wage subsidy & made a profit, via @lukehgomes
https://t.co/4UCnwCGRta
Global warming will get progressively worse and cannot be stopped over the next 30 years, a major new UN report has concluded, because the world's nations delayed so long in curbing emissions. A hotter future is now essentially locked in.
https://t.co/tMnu8VJMpo
An essay on the long, strange history of the C-section for the NYTM. Also scars, Macduff (obv), and punishing scripts of maternity. https://t.co/weqk99eYvl
The Acting PM is asked about the G7 agreement to end new government support for coal power by 2021. @M_McCormackMP: "It pays for a lot of barista machines that produces the coffee that inner-city types sit around and drink and talk about the death of coal." @SBSNews#auspol
I didn't know this week could get any more distressing, but here goes. Aboriginal man Sony Ray Austin's spinal cord was severed in prison resulting in quadriplegia. He was denied medical care & left motionless for 7 hrs & 46 mins before being hospitalized
https://t.co/tJqZycrlqU