Backlash Just a friendly reminder about the ongoing biodiversity apocalypse. The arsonists responsible are not a handful of random kids. It’s the state and federal Liberal-National governments. Over the many years they have been in power, they have diminished emergency budgets needed to protect citizens, and the natural environment upon which we all depend. Compromised by fossil fuel industry donations, they continue to fail to adequately prepare for mitigation and ignore the warnings from experts. What fun times! Q Q Q Q
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Those wanting to inoculate themselves against climate denialist zombies can use this handy ABC guide: www. ab.co/360NYMT. It’s time to stop propping up atmosphere destroying corporations. Q Q Q Q
California will phase out private prisons by 2028, according to a Reuters report. ‘Supporters of the bill have argued that private prisons are driven to maximise shareholder profits, lack proper oversight or incentives to rehabilitate inmates and have contributed to a culture of mass incarceration by making it cheaper to lock up people’. SBS reported in 2018 that over 18 per cent of inmates are held in privatelyrun facilities in Australia: ‘The percentage of Australia’s prison population held in privately-run facilities is more than twice that of the US.’ Q Q Q Q
While the egregious Nationals MP Bridget McKenzie cops flak over cherry picking sports grants to pork barrel swing electorates for the May 2019 election, it’s worth remembering that in the
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Welcome rains rehydrated much of the region last week, with hopes of more to come. Pictured is Bethany Ferguson, who enjoyed a wet walk to her lifesaving patrol posting last Saturday. Photo Jeff ‘Stormy Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday etc’ Dawson March 2019 NSW election run up, Nationals MLC Ben Franklin (not the US polymath) rode into the region on top of a towering load of pork with hopes of being elected. While he failed in that bid, the electorate is yet to see the largesse of his government’s alleged generosity.
central banks, have warned climate change events could force central banks to intervene and ‘buy a large set of carbon-intensive assets.’
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Independent online publisher Crikey notes new Oxfam research has found that the richest 250,000 Australians have more than double the wealth of the bottom 12.5 million combined. ‘Oxfam attributes the wealth gap to “greater financial return placed on money and assets (capital) than on work”, as well as corporate tax avoidance, tax breaks for asset owners, stagnant wages, insufficient public spending and a winding back of Australia’s progressive taxation system’.
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