It’s relevant in so far as what it says about the extreme carbon intensity of the NT’s economic activity and the current plans to increase that dependence even further.
Per capita is not necessarily relevant from an environmental standpoint directly but it means quite a lot when it comes to gathering the political will to end these emissions and our uncounted carbon exports.
I’m in Victoria and there’s a fairly sizeable First Nations led “progressive No” case that’s been made here. Much of it quite well founded and rational, often with direct experiences of the promise of land rights and its eventual dilution into Howard’s idea of native title or the ongoing issues with representation in Victorian First Nations politics (something which now interestingly has been given specific voice in Gary Murray’s election to the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria).
This from Krakouer seems to track with a lot of what I’ve been hearing here as well. That this is far from ideal but that it’s a necessary stepping stone, either on its own merits or just by virtue of what the vote is going to mean beyond the Voice itself.
All that said, there’s going to be some people rightly furious if this is put up to a vote and fails given how pissweak the formal Yes campaign has been so far. A popular endorsement of the status quo will see decades of work on Treaty pushed back a generation or more, and I expect will either drastically curtail or end any serious relinquishment of assumed power and supremacy of the Crown in the state treaty processes.
Putting aside the harms a reversion will likely permit over coming years as the Juukan Gorge fiasco is repeated elsewhere, this in the midst of the Garma festival and with Labor trying to get its referendum over the line looks absolutely absurd.
I believe this should be out from behind Crikey's usual paywall. Shout if it isn't please.
We have decades upon decades upon decades of bipartisan inaction on public housing to blame for this and currently no government has a serious policy in place to address that.
“Social and affordable” isn’t the same as public and the abject failure of the model is exemplified by Victoria’s homelessness numbers. We can not afford to repeat it nationally.
So a proper incorporation of advanced driver training into the licensing scheme, right?
Those wishing to obtain a U class licence will be required to complete an online training course.
Oh.
The Education Department announced last week that it would cut 325 full-time equivalent jobs. It said no school jobs would be affected, but staff employed by the visiting teacher service were classed as departmental employees. The proposal will reduce the number of visiting teacher jobs from 117 to 32.
This is beyond disgusting. There wasn’t close to enough support available as it was. To cut staffing by nearly 75% is indefensible.
The heart of the problem…
Rail Futures Institute president John Hearsch said that without new tracks, Metro and V/Line services would still be restricted to 18 trains an hour at Sunshine, limiting Melton and Wyndham Vale trains to their current frequency of every 20 minutes during the morning peak.
To see a Labor leader channelling Thatcher of all people when discussing this country's addiction to carbon exports is worryingly unsurprising.
The KeepCup Helix Thermals, the steel ones with the twist on lid, have an anti spill platform underneath the drinking hole and seem pretty good unless you truly upend the cup. Downside is they’re a bit more fiddly to clean, the drinking hole cover is significantly stiffer, and I’m told by the frothy coffee people at work that they’re a lid off job for a cappuccino not to end up all wrong texture wise when drinking it.
The problem with higher density is that our structures governing such properties are awful. Body corporates and stratas are enormous risks for those on the margins because of their potential to become debt traps. Particularly if only a minority of owners are residents rather than investors.
Higher density needs to be looked at certainly, but realistically it also needs to be structured and built very differently with an active exclusion of investor needs. And that also means housing where even the residents don't expect to accumulate a capital gain on.
While not yet in line with the party's national platform or its recent conferences in so far as the demand for recognition of Palestine, this is at least a step in the correct direction from a federal parliamentary party still well to the right of its own rank and file membership