The indomitable Miriam Margolyes OBE has a message in support of the Jewish Council! She calls for all of us Jews to “shout, beg, scream for a ceasefire”

The government say they 'strongly support' aged care wage increases. The Fair Work Commission decision to award increases was not a surprise. So why is the government arguing aged care workers should wait almost 2 years, until January 2026, to receive the full pay increase?

'You cannot pretend that this is genuine.'

Stephen Long says the NSW govt is dragging its feet over its koala national park promise while it waits for a questionable carbon credit scheme.

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A lot of debt and a lot of variable rate mortgages = Australians feeling the impact of rate rises more than elsewhere
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Our full-page open letter in the SMH today, signed by over 100 leaders and experts, calling for an end to all logging in public native forests and koala habitat in NSW.

Please share and add your name > theaus.in/protectforests…

Read the full text of the letter below. #auspol

The real reason why the NSW Govt hasn’t fulfilled its promise to protect the koala habitat on the mid-north coast: they are waiting until they can exploit the forest for carbon credits, allowing it to be logged in the meantime.
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Goyder, Chair of Woodside Energy, our biggest LNG emitter, faces AGM rebellion as his gas expansion plan with ‘aspiration’ to net 0 by 2050 not good enough. Investors want a new director with energy transition skills. Show him the door, please. Today’s SMH:

Any carbon credits from the Great Koala National Park would be a sham. The NSW Gov wants to make money for merely enacting a long term policy. This offers no genuine additional emissions reduction-but the credits would be sold to business as a license for climate pollution.

Thinks it time to stop killing Koalas in native forests? More than 100 experts have signed a public letter calling on the NSW Govt to end logging of koala habitat…sign on to the petition if you agree & check out the terrible/amazing video by Stephen Long #auspol #climate

I’m excited about this. Watch our film about how the NSW Government is delaying a national park and maintaining logging in koala habitat so it can make money from carbon credits

Please add your name to the open letter and share it with your network to help preserve these precious ecosystems:
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Our new video report uncovers the convoluted scheme to generate carbon credits in native forests in NSW, while logging them in the meantime.

Watch the full video report here from Stephen Long: australiainstitute.org.au/post/video-rep…
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The NSW Labor Govt's promise to create a vast koala sanctuary on the mid-north coast is yet to be fulfilled.

There's a startling reason why the native forest continues to be logged, revealed in our new video report feat Stephen Long.

Watch:
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Probably should suspend any funding to Israel until the full investigation has been conducted ... you know, given the precedent for doing do has been set.

The Australian carbon offset scam - experts make a strong case the scheme should be referred to the National Anti-Corruption Commission.

This unpacks some of the serious issues with Australia’s official offsetting scheme.

It’s a carbon Ponzi scheme.
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Justices Alito and Thomas Actually Brought Up a Dormant Abortion Ban During Supreme Court Hearing
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