It is useful to understand when you are dealing with a person who can be persuaded and when you are dealing with a state machine which has formal transitions for some things you could say and literally no emotional response per policy.
I am confident that the lesson the Australian Labour Party will learn from the events in the United States is to do exactly the same things the Democrats did and lose to Peter Dutton next year
Reminder that no gas export project has ever paid petroleum resource rent tax, including Japan's massive INPEX project in Darwin.
Will Minister King be bringing this up?! 2/3
my cofounder presented a study that showed teenagers learn better if they can sleep in a little more, and the school came back with “well we can’t adjust it now, we have a contract with the bus drivers”
oh, so the school is for the benefit of the bus drivers??
much like the port is for the benefit of the longshoremen, and the polity is for the benefit of the politicians, eh?
@maladyvessel @Loster All about aligning economic incentives... for many years search was at the centre because that's what Google did. And then Ads takes over because that's how Google makes money. No profit in meeting a customer's search need by sending them elsewhere.
@SwiftOnSecurity Australia is the great experiment here, manufacturing almost entirely hollowed out because domestic market too small for scale, export markets too far and cost of land & labour too high to compete. Has extremes of resource and service economy, it skews so much.
The framing of a proposed climate trigger in the media is shocking. Every major scientific body says no new coal or gas, bc the climate is already breaking down (floods, record temps, fires etc), yet the Australian media continues to act as if the whole issue is abt the Greens.