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Democracy. Accountability. Integrity. Be Heard. Authorised by D Burrage, 83/30 Denison Street, Bondi Junction NSW 2022 
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Breaking: Senator Lidia Thorpe has quit the Fed Greens after failing to find common ground with her party on a #VoiceToParliament
She will now sit in the Senate as an independent. Her Senate term expired 30 June 2028.
#auspol #TheVoice #LidiaThorpe
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Shortcuts to the guides for NSW seats that cross over with #Wentworth:
🔵 Vaucluse: tallyroom.com.au/nsw2023/vauclu
🔴 Coogee: tallyroom.com.au/nsw2023/coogee
🟣 Sydney: tallyroom.com.au/nsw2023/sydney
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For each electorate, you can find:
🙋♀️a list of candidates
📊results of the last election in map and table form
🧭an assessment of the race, the history of the seat and a description of the geography of the seat
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NSW State Election:
Tally Room has taken down the paywall on their election guide:
tallyroom.com.au/nsw2023
#auspol #nswpol #Wentworth #NSWelection
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Parliament is sitting this week so we’ll find out whether the Lib/Nat coalition will back the legislation they initiated & whether the Greens will take a tough ‘not enough’ line or let it thru.
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#Podcast of the day is:
on the Fed govt’s ‘safeguard mechanism’ legislation which hopes to force Australia’s main greenhouse gas emitters to reduce their emissions via a cap and trade program.
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#auspol #climate #emissions
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1/ Slashing the $8 billion a year in fuel tax credits for businesses could reduce the structural budget deficit by $4 billion a year.
A thread on why the federal government should reform fuel tax. 🧵 #auspol
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Good to see real action on this from NSW but it is time for Federal leadership across gambling reform. Fed Labor has let us down in the past on this - this is the year to make real change.
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#PoliticalDonations:
“We have donations laws you could drive a truck through”
Political donation reform is urgently needed, eg:
- caps
- real time disclosure
- lower disclosure limits
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In a world increasingly buried in plastic, very little of it is actually recycled.
On the first episode of Getting Warmer, Kal Penn explores how we might turn the plastic tide
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ACOSS wrote repeatedly to the Minister's office and met with him but "our calls to stop the programme were ignored. Our direct approach to then PM Turnbull calling on him to shut the program down because of the harm it was causing was rejected"
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They're climate-conscious, they're women and they're all vying for seats on the Northern Beaches, the North Shore and Sydney's East.
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This week's column: The Robodebt Royal Commission is hearing damning evidence of public sector dysfunction. Now it must probe the question of culture abc.net.au/news/2023-02-0 via
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Here’s a list of the reasons why PEP11 (a licence to explore for oil & gas by drilling the ocean floor or seismic blasting from Manly to Newcastle) must be extinguished for good…
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. has published an open letter to NSW Premier in Sydney’s major newspapers, warning that a proposed new payroll tax interpretation could end #BulkBilling and see up to 20% of the state’s general practices close.
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To be clear, the community of Mackellar & the Northern Beaches will NEVER accept drilling for oil & gas off our beaches. Nor do we accept it anywhere in Australian waters. Our focus should be on the future and investment in renewables
#auspol #renewables
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Tudge won’t like this being retweeted. Definitely not at the moment.
Just saying.
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Just to counter some of the woefully one-sided reporting on Australia's gas situation...
The gas cartel is making squillions exporting it & then cynically spreading fear about 'shortages' to force through fracking projects.
It's time to make their product redundant & electrify!
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NSW independents seek to kill controversial Pep-11 gas permit
“Manly candidate Joeline Hackman, Vaucluse candidate Karen Freyer, North Shore candidate Helen Conway and Land Cove candidate Victoria Davidson will also support the bill”
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"We've seen numerous political scandals, the corrosive impact of big money on our democracy, and people who then blow the whistle treated badly when they should be protected," CEO on why Australia dropped 10 points since 2012 on TI global #corruption index #CPI2022
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An excellent review of the acceleration of the energy transition towards decarbonisation. It is always darkest before dawn. The global hyperinflation of fossil fuels + war-profiteering of & has galvanised change.
scmp.com/comment/opinio
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Given it's emerged John Barilaro kept bushfire funds from victims in ALP seats & has sought CEO job at gambling lobbyists ClubsNSW, it's worth remembering he created the "fund" Dominic Perrottet used to make the illegal $5.5m grant at heart of ICAC probe
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The IMF has backed calls for Australia to provide more generous support for those seeking work. They've highlighted the inadequacy of Jobseeker, esp. in times of crisis. Good to see them also urging govt. to reconsider Stage 3 tax cuts.
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Deeply concerning news. must urgently rule out new gas exploration at #PEP11. I will fight to make sure Sydney’s coastline is protected.
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Remember too - the only reason Perrottet is doing this is because of the ‘teals’. It’s all politics - not community need or community interest. It’s the #IndependentsEffect 🙌🙌
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Our community was promised that PEP-11 was dead in the water… it’s now alive and kicking. The Albanese Government now has a chance to do the right thing and cancel this licence for good
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In the course of the last 2wks of my little local life in LC I ended up with no less than 4 taxpayer funded Anthony Roberts promotions. I think that’s more in last 2wks than last 4yrs.
The only thing worse than junk mail is paying for your MP to send it
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NSW Labor leader Chris Minns says he will give John Barilaro 24 hours to stump up and answer questions about why his office intervened in a $100 million bushfire recovery program, or he will refer the matter to the corruption watchdog.
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The ACT government has formally switched on its first big battery. The capital territory already gets the equivalent of 100% of its electricity needs from wind and solar and is now heading to full electrification
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A decision on the project will now rest with a joint authority made up of both the Commonwealth and NSW govts.
Voters in #Wentworth are strongly opposed to PEP11.
We have campaigned against PEP11 for years & now it looks like we’ll be forced to campaign again.
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Our response to #climate change provides perhaps the greatest opportunity for investment, economic, export and employment growth Australia has ever seen. Can we harness it?
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Researchers from the University of Adelaide say they have successfully split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen
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Robodebt RoCo Hearing Block 3, Day 7
We are kicking off with former Human Services Minister Alan Edward Tudge
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