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In a visionary approach to managing dissent our own home affairs minister Peter Dutton has taken a leaf out of China’s book and called for climate change protesters to be jailed ‘until their behaviour changes’. Q Q Q Q
In the meantime The Guardian reports that ‘Australia’s central bank has delivered a clear warning that climate change is exposing financial institutions and the financial system more broadly to risks that will rise over time if action isn’t taken.’ That’s right Dutton – they say the impacts are likely to grow and ‘insurance claims for natural disasters this decade are more than twice what they were in the previous 10 years.’ Q Q Q Q
In a positive note Canberra has effectvely become the first Australian city to become 100 per cent powered by renewable energy. Q Q Q Q
Far from not remembering anything for longer than three seconds it turns out fish do feel pain just like mammals. According to a study at the University of Liverpool a painful experience for a fish can lead to hyperventilating and long term behavioural changes. Q Q Q Q
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to the streets of Brisbane. He blocked two lanes of a Brisbane road on August 6. The action resulted in six charges, two of them serious, and his family and friends are raising money to help with court costs. Head to his GoFundMe page at https://bit.ly/2VkhObn if you can contribute. Q Q Q Q
Banksy has opened his own homewares shop! Trading for two weeks, the shop–front in Croydon in the UK will not open its doors but will trade online only, selling ‘impractical and offensive’ merchandise. According to a Guardian report (https:// bit.ly/2Iowkd1) a greetings card company is contesting the trademark he holds for his art. They are attempting to take custody of it so that they can ‘sell their fake Banksy merchandise legally’.
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In his quest to save the endangered Australian quoll, one activist, dressed up as a spotted quoll, brought his ‘mobile habitat’, a gum tree branch and some fake grass,
Is this a photo of Australian PM Scomo at the UN explaining our country’s extraordinary steps to not scare the children? Or is that a bit naughty? Photo Jeff ‘A Bit Naughty’ Dawson
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