Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy told parliament: “Hanwha Defence Australia has contracted to Elbit to build the turrets of those vehicles in Australia without the Commonwealth being a party to that contract.”

Isn’t lying to parliament grounds for being removed from your role at a minimum?

Loved revelation space, but yeah long read.

Arthur C Clarke and Asimov both wrote loads of good novel length SciFi so I’d start there if you haven’t gotten into them.

If you’re into sci-fi, how much have you gone through the classics? Most are novel length so don’t require a huge commitment (I too struggle with long books).

I’m not convinced that increasing dingo numbers wouldn’t at least help control the population. Basically all predator-prey systems go though cycles afaik (we teach this model to first year maths students). Obviously I’d have to read more to form a stronger opinion though.

In fact, for those of us who eat meat, we should avoid beef, lamb, and pork. Kangaroo is FAR more sustainable from an environmental perspective…
… even if Skippy is on our National Coat of Arms.

This I agree with, I live overseas now and I miss a good roo-steak.

Governments have backed controls and culls of the kangaroo’s natural predator – the dingo

“The natural alternatives are being killed by a dingo or dying by starvation,” he says.

Farmers livestock might be at risk but can we not reintroduce more dingos to manage the population?

Why aren’t you just sending people a doi or a hyperlink if they want a paper? And if they have asked for a specific paper surely they can do the renaming?

Wow what a shock. Guess running a uni like a for profit business works like shit. Maybe the real problem not cited in this article is that the upper management are all worthless.

I think the perception that the greens are arrogant is mostly a media thing to be honest, and I’m not sure how much they can do to fight that. Imo there is a general perception of any activist or left wing group that they’re all arrogant/holier than thou types.

They ended up backing Labor’s housing policies despite the analysis from think tanks like the Australia Institute saying they would do nothing. This all seems like a double standard anyway to me, did Labor change any policy on housing? It took months to extract some direct cash on top of the HAFF then they refused to negotiate, the greens at least tried to, yet the greens are arrogant.

I think this was the original proposal in 2007 when Rudd was pm. We’ve been flip flopping on subs for almost 20 years

the only public self-reflection they’ve done regarding the last term is that “Labor ran an effective campaign on us blocking the HAAF for a year” IIRC.

Basically no political party is going to have an open public discussion on this. There’s clearly two “factions” of the Greens, one more pragmatic and the other more ‘activist’. I think the observation that Labor ran an effective smear campaign on their own unwillingness to negotiate is pretty obvious (not to say that there isn’t also some need for a discussion about how much blocking is the right amount). But everyone seems to think the Greens are “this must be perfect” type people despite the fact that they showed in the last term they were willing to reduce demands or vote for things they didn’t like so I guess it isn’t.

…Max Chandler-Mather’s comments about other politicians being mean

Other MPs complained about how he was treated so… (See here).

As a previous Greens’ member (I live overseas now) I can say that my experience is that Greens’ members are generally pretty sensitive to causing offence and are more than willing to apologise if they are told they’re causing it, at least by other members. This is of course anecdotal though.

Also maybe changing your vote because you thought an individual action by someone was stupid is a childish way of thinking about politics?

Because his contexless stats is just 13/50 for indigenous Australians. I know it’s popular with American conservatives to say that black people deserve it, but we can do better.

I’ve seen a lot of analysis and discussion for a very small percentage change in a single election.

Well you can’t exclude the fact that it’s fun to shit on the left wing party.

I think the idea is that it stops rich AF people using their super to store wealth by sitting on assets and instead forces them to use super to invest, which can actually help the economy.

This is the analysis of a partisan hack, last year the electorate boundaries were redrawn and Antony Green was already saying it would be harder for Bandt

Antony Greens blog

In the north loses Clifton Hill to Cooper and Brunswick East, Carlton North and Fitzroy North to Wills. Crosses the Yarra to take in South Yarra and Prahran from Macnamara and Higgins.

The Green margin declines versus Labor because strong Green voting areas in the north of the old Melbourne have been replaced by parts of Higgins where the Liberal vote was higher in 2022. On primary votes the Green vote slips from 49.6% to 44.7%, the Labor vote rises from 25.0% to 25.7%, and the Liberal vote rises from 15.2% to 19.6%. It is possible that with Adam Bandt as the candidate, and a less intense local campiagn by Labor in areas previously in Higgins, could help restore Bandt’s margin.

This corrosive billionaire puts a lot of money into Australian politics, I think it’s important to know what you’re enemy is thinking.

It’s blown up since the voice, if you watch clips from CPAC Australia you can watch every extremely funny conservative dickhead make the same joke about it for the last 2 years or so.

I’m pretty sure the national library collects all this stuff if you’re willing to send it.

https://www.library.gov.au/news-media/records-democracy-federal-election-campaign-material