Wonderful celebration marking the outstanding career of at this week, with tributes from the Chancellor David Gonski AC, , , Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins, , and , chaired by .
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"Some of the largest, richest, most powerful tech companies in the world are turning a blind eye to crime scenes happening on their platforms, being hosted on their cloud-based services, being propagated through their messaging services & they're not doing enough,"
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Indeed it was - our high vaccination rate owes a lot to the calm, clear and wise expertise of whose courage and advocacy brings to mind these words of another brilliant and brave woman
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Replying to @McintoshDane1 @MarylouiseMcla1 and 3 others
Such an honour to be there to celebrate @MarylouiseMcla1 incredible contribution, inspiring and mentoring so many professionally and guiding our communities through covid. 
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Our collective mental wealth does depend on our willingness, and capacity, to act in our common interests; at the national, organizational and community levels - will we return to pre-pandemic levels of stay disconnected?
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Volunteers are a cornerstone of Australia's crisis resilience and contribute to our nation’s prosperity. See new report that estimates an almost $12B loss to Australia’s Mental Wealth associated with the pandemic-related contraction in volunteering:
sydney.edu.au/content/dam/co
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“The angertainment media can monetise narrow audiences with divisive hate filled bile — but it is too narrow for electoral success.”
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So critical to have the development of collective ‘mental wealth’ on the international economic and health agenda
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A pleasure to host Dr Harris Eyre (Head of Brain Capital Alliance & Co-Lead of the OECD Neuroscience-Inspired Policy Initiative) @BrainMind_Usyd @Sydney_Uni today to discuss strategic alliance of Australia's Mental Wealth Initiative with US & European brain capital initiatives.
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Another very insightful contribution on clean energy economics from ANU’s Andrew Blakers: Solar, wind and clean hydrogen: Asia’s energy transition without the hype | Heinrich Böll Stiftung Hong Kong | Asia Global Dialogue
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Delighted to see the passage of the 'Respect@Work' Bill - a major achievement in preventing sexual harassment in Australian workplaces!
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Those figures are from Tony Nutt’s official review of the 2018 defeat.
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I gather Michael Kroger (who has presided over the self destruction of the Victorian Division) is claiming Danslide #1 in 2018 was my doing. In fact it was in large part caused by Victorian resentment against the right wing coup that ended my time as PM
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And, as the regular Liberal voters shrink in numbers, the need to reach beyond the "base" (however defined) to the centre is greater than ever. The angertainment media can monetise narrow audiences with divisive hate filled bile - but it is too narrow for electoral success
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This is, in large part, dictated by the right wing angertainment complex, mostly Murdoch, which claims to speak for "the base" overlooking the fact that the "base" of any political party are those that habitually vote for it (dramatically ignored in the last federal election)..
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At the heart of the Liberal Party's defeat in the Victorian election on Saturday is the paradox that in this, the most small "l" liberal state in Australia, the Liberal Party has been taken over by the hard right and is therefore at odds with the electorate whose support it seeks
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Sarah Palin's recent loss in Alaska could serve as exhibit A in the case that and I make in The for ranked choice as a possible path forward to fixing America's broken electoral system:
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Great to see the boss, , introducing former PM for this year’s Annual Lecture
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As #submarines and #AUKUS and are back in our news - reposting my recent short essay on australian foreign policy which addresses these issues.
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My response to Hugh White’s recent essay on China and Australia - in the latest issue of @quarterly_essay quarterlyessay.com.au/correspondence
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#GreenHydrogen has been a bright spot at #COP27. In our Weekly Wrap, take a look at an overview of what happened from policies announced, deals struck, and engaging sessions all aimed at scaling up the green hydrogen economy mailchi.mp/d4112f77667f/g
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Renowned US private equity fund KKR has made its first growth technology investment in Australia, backing Advanced Navigation after an introduction from :
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After 6 long years, Australia has re-engaged in its first formal leaders meeting with China.
says it's a "good restart", and we should be looking forward to a more normal relationship with China resuming.
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. co-chairs , & urge #G20 participants "to improve support for a vital contributor to societal #resilience and economic growth: #mentalhealth and #wellbeing." Read our full statement.
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Bruh Ayele Terfie, General Manger - Africa at says next: "If you want to use wind and solar to produce hydrogen you need this baseload type of profile", "and that is why pumped storage is so critical for us." #COP27 #PumpedStorage
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Julia Souder, Executive Director of says: "There's a lot of challenges and getting everyone to say that long duration energy storage is a key component to decarbonisation is just the start", "we've got to act." #COP27
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Atle Harby continues: while batteries can step in to provide short term flexibility, on longer term timescales "we need something else, and that's where hydropower and #PumpedHydro can play an enormous role" #COP27
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Atle Harby, Senior Research Scientist at says that right now "we're using thermal units and fossil fuel to provide flexibility that most countries need."
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"Pumped hydro is very doable, we understand how to do it, it doesn't require a lot of real estate, it doesn't have a major consequential environmental impact and it's something that can be done wherever you have water and elevation" continues . #COP27
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ANU estimates "in most markets a fully renewable grid will need about 50GW of storage per 1 million people in an affluent country" says . #COP27
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Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull addresses the event virtually: "Our energy market operator estimates we'll need 46GW in capacity terms … of new long duration storage to support an electricity grid totally powered by renewables" #COP27
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IHA CEO begins the event by posing the question: "With huge amounts of wind coming onto the grid, huge amounts of solar, what are we going to do to back it up? Where are we going to find the storage to back it up?" #COP27
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At #COP27 today IHA co-hosted an event with on 'How Australia is tackling the crisis within the crisis: pumped storage lessons for the rest of the world' #PumpedStorage
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We're co-hosting with a #COP27 side event to discuss how Australia has accelerated the development of long-duration energy storage. We'll hear from , Queensland Hydro's Chris Evans, , , & Atle Harby
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What your son’s reader reveals about his future mental health by
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After more than 18 months, the AFP has declared it won't do anything about the widespread illegal circulation by Coalition staff of 's memoir.
The former PM tells he believes this sets a dangerous precedent [FREE TO READ]
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William Dalrymple and Anita Anand’s “Empire” podcast is literally the best history podcast I have ever heard. It is, like the authors, as erudite & insightful as it is wickedly witty. A perfect pairing.
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We’re proud to be a founding member of the , who are developing a globally accepted definition for #GreenHydrogen, which will let us certify #GreenHydrogen projects as truly green. #COP27 #TogetherForImplementation
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It's Finance Day at #COP27! First up at 10:00 EET this morning we have a session on catalysing finance for #greenhydrogen in developing and emerging economies:
➡️DFI actions are urgent
➡️Showcasing DFI ambition
➡️Launch of a new report on priority DFI actions
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