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Imagine your house under water. This VR film takes us inside the flood

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/imagine-your-house-under-water-this-vr-film-takes-us-inside-the-flood-20250808-p5mlg0.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

Fuckheads do fuckheady shit.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02505-x

Outrage over Trump team’s climate report spurs researchers to fight back
Report authors welcome ‘serious’ scientific rebuttals to report that some say misrepresents decades of climate science.

https://social.chinwag.org/@guardian_bot/114982453459154084

What should you do now?

Simples... abandon ALL discretionary flying, at least until widespread carbonless commercial aeroplanes operate.

Why is your personal pleasure more important than Gaia?

Will these rorts never end? How much longer are we going to transfer wealth to the #ExtractiveIndustries in their efforts to dig up Australia and line the pockets of Corporates and the #MiningMagnates ?

“The ruling opened the door for other local governments to scrutinise miscellaneous license holders, a move which the mining sector said could cost it $55 million a year.”

The WA govt is yet again caving in to #MiningSector demands. There’s no end to the #Grifting here. No end to the #ProfitScrounging.

#StateCapture #AusPol #WAPol

Read more:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/wa-government-exempt-miners-paying-rates-supreme-court-decision/105605200

https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/114943879358202398 Sorry not sorry, but no, this is bullshit. ULE wood heater claims are akin to the bullshit fossilfool lies of "clean coal", "CC&S", & "natural gas being a clean replacement for coal". Arguing about shades of grey is disingenuous, when the black & white clear answer is that we MUST STOP putting more carbon into Gaia's lungs. She's already mighty pissed-off at us!

https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/114941126730246543 Good! Much more of this pls!!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/27/the-attack-on-australias-net-zero-target-is-reckless-and-gutless-voters-expect-more-than-intergenerational-bastardry

...even here in Goldstein, where the demographic is older than the national average, polling still consistently showed climate in the top three concerns of constituents.

Look no further than ‘partial’ #privatisation and #corporatisation of public assets for this bloody mess. The sort of mess #StateCapture has historically left us all with. Everybody pays more for failing servives. Yes, there’s no hint of ‘enlightenment’ from out foolish polies entranced by the Janus-faced #neoliberal pundits. It’s a well worn path to inequitable wealth redistribution to the top.

<Quoting from Wikepedia> In 2008, the State Government passed the Water and Sewerage Corporations Act 2008 [4] as a result of a report from the taskforce. The Act transferred council-owned water and sewage assets to three new entities: Southern Water, Ben Lomond Water and Cradle Mountain Water. A fourth entity, Onstream, provided shared services to the corporations, including payroll, billing and procurement. The state's government and the 29 Local Government councils of Tasmania became joint owners of the corporations, with Onstream being jointly owned by the three corporations. These changes took place in July 2009. <end quote>

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-21/act-former-anu-chancellor-criticises-proposed-university-cuts/105555786

It’s nothing short of criminal to have upended the traditional governing models of Universities in a quest to subsume every enterprise to the buffoonery of corporatism and debunked neoliberal economic fantasy.

Tertiary sector bean counters ought to have remained adjunct to academic leadership as facilitators of educational excellence.

Household budget imperatives have no place in the education system nor in govt charged with nurturing all of their charges. Anything deviating from this responsibility is a failure of their ‘duty of care’.