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A striking chart.
China consumes more coal than the rest of the world combined.
Chart: Our World In Data
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Ah, yes, I remember when Police Minister, Lisa Neville, promised the Queenscliff police station wouldn't close then, weeks later, closed it.
An eyewitness to the robbery of the supermarket heard one say: "We've got 20 minutes until the cops come!" after the alarm was triggered.
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If Australia is shedding jobs, why is the government still importing 1000 foreign nationals per day with work rights? sbs.com.au/news/article/aust…
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Food delivery riders say they do not feel safe in Melbourne’s CBD, urging the state government to take “real action” to protect them after a father was stabbed to death while picking up an order. > bit.ly/4emSEmh
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When governments recklessly overload critical public infrastructure, it is the most vulnerable who suffer the most. abc.net.au/news/2026-11-09/r…
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has not even attempted to deny inappropriately using parliamentary staffing powers amid explosive allegations he has weaponised taxpayer-funded resources against political opponents.
news24.com.au/politics/austr…
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Im utterly convinced that our politicians eg Albanese, Bowen etc are flitting about looking for a UN gig when they get the boot in 18 months.
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Labor's decade of decline created a housing crisis and their CFMEU tax (BPIC) made things worse.
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You can’t make this shit up.
You can’t.
We are run by imbeciles.
So Anika Wells handed over $40.5m to Australia Post in the May budget for electric vehicles, just months after the postal giant botched the acquisition of 500 Taiwanese electric trikes at a cost of $18.2m.
In February, the entire fleet was withdrawn from service and warehoused when it was discovered they were not safe enough for posties to ride.
What a waste of millions of dollars.
While its planned upto 150 will be put back on the road, this debacle shows a failure of due diligence by Anika Wells and the Albanese government, as well as Australia Post.
Yet, in #SenateEstimates, outgoing postal boss, Paul Graham, was still trying to argue the e-trikes were fit for purpose.🤦🏻♀️
If Vic was run by organised crime what would you expect? You'd expect some people would be above the law with cops and watchdogs neutered. You would expect the public purse to be ransacked probably under a pretense of some grand project /1
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Premier Carroll confirms Victorian taxpayers are covering the bill for lawyers representing former Premiers Andrews and Allan at the big Build RC.
All the RBA's fault apparently
The next 5 days:
NAB business survey; will business conditions keep falling off a cliff?
Consumer sentiment – is it still deeply pessimistic?
Plus the fall in housing finance especially investor loans.
By Friday we’ll have more facts on the economic malaise the RBA is hell bent on achieving.
Speaking of which, there are a few RBA Board member speeches this week.
youtube.com/watch?v=CCksCMeS…
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AUSTRALIA DOESN’T NEED SUBSIDISED EXPENSIVE ELECTRICITY. IT NEEDS AFFORDABLE ELECTRICITY.
The Australian governments spent approximately $5.5 billion subsidising our household electricity bills in 2024–25. Meanwhile, federal gross debt is forecast to exceed $1.1 trillion in 2026–27. We’re increasingly relying on taxpayer-funded rebates to make electricity bills manageable, rather than solving the underlying problem of delivering affordable, reliable power.
And what happens when the rebates disappear? Households lose that assistance, while the underlying costs remain. The consequences go well beyond household budgets. Expensive electricity raises the cost of manufacturing, processing food, running businesses and producing practically everything Australians consume. That undermines productivity, competitiveness and our standard of living. The real measure of successful energy policy isn’t how much money governments hand back to households. It’s whether they can deliver affordable, reliable electricity without needing billions in taxpayer assistance.
Australians deserve a permanent solution, not another temporary rebate.
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Pressure is building across nearly every part of Victoria’s health system, with longer ambulance and emergency departments waits and serious delays for surgery and specialist treatment. Here’s how this group of experts thinks we can fix the struggling system. > bit.ly/4zz6SZI
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I grew up reading Enid Blyton, the Hardy Boys, Robert Heinlein's kids books, Terrence Dicks Doctor Who books, then Wilbur Smith, Frank Herbert, more Robert Heinlein, DC comics, 2000AD, Battle Action, Eagles, heaps of science fiction and somehow became a responsible adult.
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The arrogance of Daniel Andrews is breathtaking.
6 days after Daniel Andrews resigned, Jacinta Allan signed off on the ex-premier's instructions that his $135,000 statue must stand over 2 metres tall, dwarfing the statues of all other long-serving premiers.
#springst
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“We are able to deliver these projects because of our strong financial management” 🤣🤣🤣
Only @VictorianLabor could bury the state up to its eyeballs in debt and still have the audacity to boast about its brilliant budget management. The gaslighting is elite.
#auspol #springst