Barnaby Joyce has long been a blight on Australia. He’s an unscrupulous prevaricator and an acolyte of poor little rich Gina Rinehart. With her holdings of vast uranium reserves, she sends the willing Beetrooter out to do her bidding. What’s wrong with the electors of New England that they vote him in?
From: Maelor Himbury <M.Himbury@acfonline.org.au>
Date: 16 September 2024 at 8:52:34 AM GMT+10
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Subject: Daily Links Sep 16
Date: 16 September 2024 at 8:52:34 AM GMT+10
To: Undisclosed recipients:;
Subject: Daily Links Sep 16
Post of the Day
Rex Patrick
It’s sickening to think Australian governments would put the gas cartel and foreign citizens ahead of lower electricity for Australians. But as Rex Patrick reveals from the latest FOI documents, that’s what they have done.
On This Day
Mawlid (Birth of the Prophet) – Islam
Ecological Observance
Climate Change
Andrew Bolt
China must be laughing at the free world for letting imps like Greta Thunberg persuade us to de-industrialise to “save” the planet, when we should be frantic to save ourselves.
National
In announcing the strategy, climate minister Chris Bowen also took a swipe at the ‘climate inactivism’ of critics of the nascent industry
From donning ‘pie-proof’ bike helmets to conversing with the songbirds, the key to avoiding avian conflict might be learning to speak their language, experts say
Nationals delegates are pushing the rural party to debate halving the fuel excise, supporting government ownership of REX Airlines and exempting foreign backpackers from superannuation.
Gas-fired power generation would end in five years under a push by the Greens, undermining Labor’s plan to accelerate the rollout of renewables without blackouts.
Emails show that the Bureau of Meteorology directed staff to refer questions from journalists about floods, fires, climate change and the reef to senior management.
What is deforestation? That’s the question Australia’s cattle industry has sought to answer as it fights against an incoming European Union regulation.
Shadow finance minister Jane Hume said the proposal would give miners tax breaks for work they were already doing. Credit: Nic Ellis/The West Australian
The Coalition has decried a planned production tax credit to get the nascent critical minerals processing sector off the ground as an example of the Government’s “undisciplined and unnecessary spending” that it would dump.
Noel Turnbull
Guess what? Science demonstrates Abbott got it totally wrong on carbon tax
Hundreds of pages of previously confidential material reveal the regulator responsible for managing billions of dollars in taxpayer funds, as well as millions of carbon offsets, has serious governance issues.
Daryl Guppy
The participation of four Israeli arms companies in the Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition in Melbourne is a clear instance of the Australian Government aiding and abetting the commission of an ongoing war crime in Gaza.
Saturday Paper editorial
On the playground, it is the final and most pathetic offer. It is the bargain of the uninvited schoolboy, the boy who gets carsick and smells of mandarin skins, made when there is nothing really to give: I’ll be your best friend.
Belinda Jones
Barnaby Joyce jumps on the nuclear energy bandwagon but gets his facts wrong.
Ebony Bennett
The mining industry is now surely the biggest whinger in the Australian economy.
Michael Edesess
Recently, three articles have appeared in P&I about nuclear energy, one by Richard Broinowski on 29 August, one by Jim Coombs on 2 September, and a third by Joseph G. Davis on 3 September. All of them are negative about nuclear energy. The negativity in each case is driven by a fundamentally mistaken but widespread
Peter FitzSimons
The federal minister for energy and climate change explains why the government’s on track to deliver cleaner energy for Australia – and why the opposition’s plans are a recipe for disaster.
Vikki Campion
It’s a great Australian tradition to call people out when they’re talking BS but the government’s new laws won’t allow us to call them out on their claims about wind power.
Philip Laird
Australia has debated and studied high-speed rail for four decades. The High Speed Rail Authority has begun work on a project that could finally deliver some high-speed rail in the 2030s.
Victoria
The local council and gas giant BOC are accused of failing to take action the on stockpiling of gas cylinders at a factory that burned for nearly two weeks in 2018.
Commercial logging in native forests is the industry that refuses to end, with foresters extending into private land logging and selling firewood from national parks.
New South Wales
A tiny sandy bar sitting in the creek that flows between Tempe and Wolli Creek has occupied a unique place in the region’s cultural and environmental history. But Fatima Island’s days are numbered.
From Port Stephens to Illawarra, council candidates are running against renewable schemes because of ‘lack of consultation’
Queensland
Queenslanders will enjoy 50-cent fares for at least four years with both major parties committing to keep the scheme.
Rainfall helped reduce the impact of Queensland’s worst sewage spill, a local government says.
Queensland’s 50¢ fares have sparked a surge in public transport use, and while even more commuters might be inclined to get on board, finding a car park near a station can be tricky.
Billions of dollars in gas royalties for Queensland would dry up in a decade under a Greens and Teal proposal, new modelling reveals.
Diesel generators will be hauled in to help deliver a near $1bn project to service Queensland’s growing renewable energy industry after managers forgot to organise mains power.
South Australia
A Riverland farming family is seeking millions in compensation from the state government, because they say its saltwater disposal scheme is turning their paddocks into black slimy sludge.
Tasmania
There are new measures being taken to protect the critically endangered swift parrot in southern Tasmania. Here’s the new strategy to save them.
Northern Territory
The Greens and crossbenchers are urging Plibersek to use the expanded ‘water trigger’ powers but she has vowed to listen to ‘independent scientists’
The Darwin Airport has banned Australia Institute advertisements which point out gas companies Santos and Inpex get Australia’s gas for free, which the institute has claimed was done in part because those companies advertise with the airport.
Western Australia
The government is now facing an existential threat in the state that gave it victory at the last election.
A proposal for mandatory high-visibility clothing for cyclists and scooter riders is being put forward ahead of the Western Australian state election
Daisy Dumas
The newspaper owned by billionaire Kerry Stokes has not been shy about attacking environmental reforms – but are readers getting the full picture?
Paul Kelly
The government is now facing an existential threat in the state that gave it victory at the last election.
Australian editorial
Far more than the profitability of mining and energy companies is at stake from bad policies that adversely affect their operations and the viability of investments in new projects.
Sustainability
Court rules against West Cumbria Mining’s fossil fuel development in Whitehaven
Priscila Besen et al
New Zealand’s current electricity supply crisis requires immediate solutions.
Peter Allitt
As Andrew Taylor and Supriya Mathew point out in a recent article in P&I, the current indications regarding population growth are that it will shortly begin to decline in the majority of countries during this century and has already done so in the wealthier (first world) countries.
Peter Sainsbury
Renewable energy and its applications are pushing fossil fuels out of business – but will it be fast enough? Climate scientists are encouraged to be more vocal to stave off a ghastly future.
Nature Conservation
Activities such as mining, dredging and bottom trawling in most MPAs mean conservation targets will be missed, say researchers
Damian Carrington
The image of huge, glorious landscapes, where wildlife runs free under the protection of the state, is far from reality
Vacy Vlazna
The nature of human cruelty is vastly complex, so I am focusing on some valued insights that have enlightened my activism. For years, like others, I was utterly baffled by the question: how do the perpetrators sleep at night?
Maelor Himbury | Library Volunteer
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