What an innovative, creative part of the solution

'Because inflation has risen faster than wages over the past two years many people on lower-incomes with HECS/HELP debt have larger debts now than they did in 2022.'

The indexation of HECS/HELP has been so great that many will find they have more debt than they did 2 years ago, even after their repayments. Time to make HECS/HELP loans truly interest-free. #OffTheCharts Greg Jericho
australiainstitute.org.au/post/hecs-help…

If Western Australia was a country, it would be the third largest liquefied Natural gas (LNG) exporter in the world.

Yet there's once again talk of WA facing 'gas shortages'. We put this full-page ad in the papers to show what's really going on. #wapol #auspol

Puts 'wages breakout' banner away for another week...

New research from Dr Alexia Adhikari Alexia & Dr Morgan Harrington Morgan Harrington: private schools will get more than half the federal $29B school spend this year - even those with Olympic-sized indoor swimming pools. #auspol #nswpol 💧Michael West

michaelwest.com.au/private-school…

Less welcome than ants at a picnic? That's only the beginning of what fire ants are poised to do to Australia.

Eradicating fire ants should be priority of state & fed gov

Great piece on Australia Institute analysis of econ impacts - $2.5b/year - & how consultant economists bungled the job.

Senate report out tomorrow, too Senator Matt Canavan Peter Whish-Wilson Invasive Species Council

theguardian.com/australia-news…

You can't ban bad ideas...but Australia's nuclear power ban prevents some bad ideas sucking up community time and public money.

That's why it should stay.

My piece in Renew Economy Australia Institute
reneweconomy.com.au/nuclear-power-…

Feeling the pinch? Greg Jericho explains why.

Inflation hurts. But the ABS's official 🇦🇺CPI doesn't include higher interest on mortgages. If you do, the *true* cost of living is much higher--especially for workers. And the RBA is actually making that worse. Jim Stanford explains in The New Daily: thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2024/0…

The real reason why the NSW Govt hasn’t fulfilled its promise to protect the koala habitat on the mid-north coast: they are waiting until they can exploit the forest for carbon credits, allowing it to be logged in the meantime.
A thread 🧵 (1/7) #auspol

End native forest logging now.

Not good enough. How is the public supposed to trust the CSIRO?

Corruption of the CSIRO by foreign owned gas corporates must stop

The gas industry controlled GISERA “alliance” now includes US fracking giants Imperial and Tamboran planning climate destroying fracking projects in NT

Blatant conflict of interest undermining CSIRO’s integrity

Real-time disclosure now!

Should Tanya Plibersek approve Gina Rinehart's new coal seam gas pipeline?

Send your views to…Gina.

Not a joke. “Commenting is managed by the proponent at this stage of assessment”.
epbcpublicportal.awe.gov.au/all-notices/pr…

“These ticket clippers with their bulging pockets will be long gone when the farmers who sold their carbon credits are still left with their legal obligations” Farmer Mark Wootton in The Weekly Times on the risks of offsets to the ag sector. #climate #auspol Mark Wootton

'Surrender to the car lobby'

Me on @ABCnews about the Gov's policy cave in on Big Dumb Utes. (after all the limp 'good first step' nonsense)
Australia Institute Angus Randall

abc.net.au/listen/program…

Roderick Campbell ABC News Australia Institute Angus Randall The climate Armageddon highway is paved with “good first steps”.