Tragic for those in AC, but prob. the best indicator of what's going on in the community. Even in AC testing rates will have declined. Shows large amount of infection in Oz without interruption for 5 months; millions of cases. Increasing now. Mike Honey

Personal stress, financial stress, alcohol use and violence against women bocsar.nsw.gov.au/Pages/bocsar_p…

I see an op ed piece in the SMH arguing that alcohol abuse is part of the problem. Times have changed. Twenty years ago when I made the same point in a meeting to help design the Women’s Safety Survey, I was accused of making excuses for violent men.

In light of recent TOD SEPP adoption; a friendly reminder to the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure from one of its own planning documents (the ADG) for what FSR should correspond with 6 storeys. Here with commentary by Russell Olsson from the recent ‘Scale’ publication by the #UDA .

Excellent and incisive article 🙏⁦Alan Kohler⁩ 😢. Devastating global heating is a serious risk with a decade, say many IPCC experts. Etc. Alan Kohler: Future Gas Strategy will demolish climate change plan thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2024/0…

Lucy Turnbull AO alcohol and methamphetamine and equally horrible drugs.

MORE RECORD HEAT IN MEXICO
47.0C Ixcateoplan de Tlapa it ties the HIGHEST RELIABLE TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN GUERRERO STATE
Hundreds of records are falling allover Mexico every day and it will get worse
A dozen States with more than 46C: absolutely unprecedented
Map from SMN

There are approx 170 kids in WA prisons on any night. If they geomapped data they’d find this 170 are the same kids in 80-90% of cases. So proactive, targeted interventions via mobilised resource allocation into generationally high risk families should be a literal no brainer.

Up to 40% of us as clinicians will experience the suicide death of a client in our clinical lifetime. It is complex, it is scary and very few of us understand what it is like as a clinician to feel as though you are holding someone’s life in your hands. I can tell you that…

There are 8.99 *million* vacant homes in Japan.

That’s almost 14% of ALL homes in the country

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Absolutely true.. alcohol is one of the triggers for #FDV . smh.com.au/national/too-o…

As you watch the Aurora this evening, it’s worth reflecting that you’re getting a rare direct glimpse of the power of Nature. Those charged particles causing the atmosphere to glow came from a sunspot complex 17 times the diameter of Earth and traveled across 90 million miles at…

This looks smart! 👌👌Not only for people fleeing #FDV , but also for more social housing. PLUS linking overseas student nos to the supply of more student housing is 👍—Labor pours $1bn into domestic violence crisis housing and doubles homelessness funding theguardian.com/australia-news…

ABSOLUTE MADNESS MEXICO NEVER SAW ANYTHING LIKE THIS
ALL TIME HIGHS today
47.4 Ciudad Victoria
45.2 Rio Verde
44.2 Progreso
39.3 Guanajuato 2000m !
38.6 Aguascalientes
38.2 Queretaro
35.5 Tulancingo
33.6 Toluca 2700m !

# AllEyesonRafah 😭😭😭😭.

Free the hostages. Now! Stop the killing of children and civilians.

Poland has its first high level defector: One of the dubious judges, appointed by the former far-right Minister of Justice has appeared in Belarus and started giving interviews on Russian TV

I think a better way to frame that is to highlight research by Anne Summers, which showed 60% of single mothers are survivors of DV. That means their kids have been subjected to coercive control. The problem is not the absence of fathers, but the impact of their control/violence

A homeless teenager has avoided any penalty for stealing a bottle of water in Western Australia's far north, with the girl's lawyer slamming child protection authorities for failing to provide her with meaningful support. abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

Climate experts were increasingly saying that keeping heating below 1.5C is near impossible, yet it remains the global goal. So I asked hundreds of top IPCC scientists what they thought. What they said shocked even me…
🧵 1/n #ClimateCrisis

This is HUGE news! In a first-ever human clinical trial of four adult patients, an mRNA cancer vaccine developed at the University of Florida quickly reprogrammed the immune system to attack glioblastoma, the most aggressive and lethal brain tumor.

Let’s talk about that! 🧵⬇️