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If you haven't seen Michael West's Scam of the Week , have a look. Michael summarises major Australian political events and gives a serve where it's deserved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUaL1J8ynYI

Australia is apparently about 25% dependent.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-countries-most-dependent-china-imports/

Australians get few benefits from fossil fuel exports.

• High levels of foreign ownership mean most of the profits from fossil fuel exports from Australia go to foreign owners of global energy giants exporting Australia’s resources.
• Big Gas gets more than half the gas they export from Australia for free.
• Australian Treasury revealed that as of 2023, no gas export project had ever paid petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT), the main tax on the oil and gas industry, which has been in place for nearly40 years.
• Gas export companies often pay little if any company tax. For instance,
• Santos have Santos Limited has racked up a 10th straight year of zero corporate tax payments from a total of nearly $47 billion in sales.
• Inpex operated Ichthys LNG Pty Ltd pays no royalties, effectively getting the gas it exports for free, has never paid PRRT, and paid zero corporate tax for the 6th year running, from a total of $43 billion in sales.

https://thepoint.com.au/explainers/260314-make-polluters-pay-why-australia-needs-a-climate-disaster-levy

Must be those poor, poor fossil fuel corporations, that's why govt subsidies are never enough 🤑

https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260311-if-unemployment-is-the-cure-for-inflation-who-pays-the-price

If you have a garden you can support our frog species by building some frog habitat, whether a frog hotel, a bog or a pond. Or, ALL of the above as this segment from GA shows. There's plenty of info and videos online and it's a great fun project. You can also suggest it to your local school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2RN7gmW3NQ

Australia has more than 240 different frog species, many of which are not found anywhere else on Earth. Close to 20% of Australian frogs (and in the world) are threatened; in the last 25 years, 6 have already been listed as extinct.

This article is a few years old but explains well what is happening and what can be done at an institutional level plus it has some great pics and video of our threatened frogs.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is investigating price gouging concerns as fuel prices jump...Fuel prices are more than $2.50 a litre in some places, with price increases daily.

Australia’s native wildlife is in crisis. Add your name to call for a nationally coordinated and sustainably funded system for wildlife rescue, treatment and rehabilitation.

In 2024–25 alone, leading wildlife organisations responded to 320,968 calls for help, undertook 129,280 rescues, and admitted more than 51,000 animals to wildlife hospitals. The average cost of treating just one animal is $550 — largely borne by donations and philanthropy.

The above figures are the tip of the iceberg. I know quite a few wildlife rescuers and carers not attached to any organisation but doing what they do because they CARE about our unique and beautiful native animals, They are overwhelmingly self-funded and their work can be as grief-making as it is personally rewarding. There is little to no support for them. Please sign this petition. https://www.isupportwildlife.com/

Fatemeh, join your local soccer club, or touch footy. Sports often rate more than human rights in Oz. This saddens me.

Some of you may want to spread these around. I don't know if this sort of post is allowed. Moderators do what you think is appropriate.

In some ways, de-extinction risks becoming a comforting fantasy. It lets us imagine that technology might save us from having to do the harder, less glamorous work of protection, restoration and care. Because biodiversity collapse won't be solved in a lab. It will be solved, if at all, by rapidly reducing carbon emissions, protecting habitat, listening to First Nations knowledge, reducing invasive species, funding ranger programs, and taking conservation seriously while species are still alive.

The Thylacine should not just be a symbol of loss. It should be a warning. And perhaps also a lesson. The people who knew this animal on Country understood something important straight away. Rather than indulging in techno-fantasies about resurrecting the dead, we should be protecting what remains. That is the real test of whether we have learned anything at all.

Varoufakis argues global elites are following a “blueprint for the revival of fascism”, one he imagines dictators Mussolini, Hitler and Franco might have written “had [they] gotten together in 1945”.

He told the audience the modern “manual” starts by attacking crony capitalism, big business and financial elite — views traditionally associated with the political left – before turning against democratic institutions such as public broadcasters and universities.

https://thepoint.com.au/news/260312-varoufakis-fascism-is-darkening-our-doorsteps