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I post frequently about the destruction of biodiversity, the threat to our native flora and fauna, and what I see as the duplicity of governments in supporting the massive environmental footprint required for wind farms, solar projects and the transmission lines needed to deliver renewable energy. Those posts are often met with the same questions: 𝓦𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓖𝓻𝓮𝓮𝓷𝓼? 𝓦𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓿𝓲𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼? 𝓦𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓡𝓢𝓟𝓒𝓐? So this information might be useful Forget about asking where the Greens are. The Greens of today are not the conservationists or environmentalists they once claimed to be. They have become advocates for renewable energy first and foremost. As for environmentalists, many are quietly battling the renewable energy invasion. I will continue to highlight their work as these stories emerge, as I did just a couple of days ago. The RSPCA does have some involvement. Its national policy on wild animals states that any organisation undertaking land development or infrastructure projects has both a legal and moral obligation to assess welfare risks and minimise harm to local wildlife before work begins. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞. Under Australian state laws, if a developer has a valid permit to clear land, the accidental death or displacement of wildlife during that clearing is generally not considered a prosecutable offence under animal cruelty legislation. Many approvals also permit what are deemed “acceptable” levels of wildlife mortality, which I find abhorrent. As a result, RSPCA inspectors can generally intervene only where there is evidence of deliberate cruelty or a specific breach of animal welfare legislation. That makes it extremely difficult to prosecute developers carrying out authorised land clearing with heavy machinery, even when significant wildlife deaths occur.

@Bradstr01 That does not surprise me and from personal experience it’s also a significant disrupter for those who are in the office. I got rid of it in the last company I worked for.

@Kate3015 I’ve know people that have working from home arrangements with one of the banks. They spend half the day doing anything but work. Nails, hair, cleaning the house

Senate figures reveal nearly half of Services Australia staff work from home This probably goes someway to explaining the plummeting productivity in the public sector. Almost 50% of the 33,500 staff in the agency have an approved working from home arrangement, according to astonishing new figures. As the agency responsible for Centrelink, Medicare, Child Support and myGov, Services Australia is the public face of the government all Aussie citizens and residents will engage with at some point on their journey from the cradle to the grave.

@ThomasRosslyn Thank you Rozzie

@Kate3015 Done. I am furious about the degradation of our landscape for climate change.

If you can help it would be fantastic. I don’t believe we should be the generation that stood idle whilst our precious wildlife is being driven to extinction.

@SteveKinQLD We need the right infrastructure at a cost that we can afford and one that provides a return on investment.

@Kate3015 Australia needs some serious infrastructure policy and funding...Dolbo is more concerned about ensuring he has the muslim vote

Hanson’s bid to reroute rivers and build rail and dams costs $125b. Allan Dale, a professor of Tropical Regional Development at James Cook University, said the lack of a strong industry policy framework for northern Australia meant there was a tendency for what he called “national policy by shiny thing” and One Nation’s infrastructure agenda included proposals with serious foundational problems. One Nation’s treasury spokesman, Barnaby Joyce, declined to answer questions about the cost of the party’s infrastructure projects, how they would be funded, or whether they were official party policy. afr.com/politics/feder…

@wpbencic I haven’t overlooked anything and it’s not my job to provide the funding model for One Nation. When they provide that themselves we can then judge on merit.

@Kate3015 You seem to overlook other massive cost savings that will fund these projects,dropping all climate change departments,out of UN and net zero nonsense audit all funds being currently allocated both locally and abroad along with many other Albanese implemented money wasters.

@GailClifford7 Wow, I didn’t see that last night but having just watched that clip I’m not surprised by any of it. Michele is still all over the place. She wants to move from where she is to another location because she now hates where she is. It’s hard work.

@Kate3015 Did you happen to see this last night Kate? I meant to ask too, how is your neighbour in the nursing home? youtu.be/uz6p9fXMpvs?si…

The tender contract confirms the money has been put aside for this COP31 meeting which WE will pay for. And yet Pat Conroy dismissed it as a beat-up suggesting the costs of the rooms will be paid by each country’s delegates and unused reservations will be cancelled. Then why have a tender contract? BUT then claims it’s all because to quote .. “Other countries like China are trying to become good friends with the Pacific,” Conroy said. “If we’re not seen to be taking strong action on climate change, we cede ground to those other countries.” And finally Conroy said the final cost to Australia will depend on how many foreign leaders attend the conference in October. Read that as the tender is right, we’re footing the bill.

@22thinkinggirl They have no shame.

Victorian Labor and their Union partners in crime and corruption running scared, handing out this crap at Melbourne train stations. A campaign of lies and scare tactics because they cannot run on Labor’s achievements. #BootOutLabor #LaborLiars #FreshStartVictoria

@catswoodlife I suspect it might be the opposite that many do sneak out do the shopping, have a coffee etc rather than actually working.

@Kate3015 And you know what gets up my nose? These lazy cows still can’t do their own supermarket shopping…their lives are so freakin’ busy they’ve got to get someone else to shop for them…productivity? They can’t even spell it 🤦🏼‍♀️

@Nev92612361 I think that is a real risk

@Kate3015 I wonder if a whole generation of working from home people, not being exposed to inter workplace human contact etc, will be socially inept and transfer that to their children. Humans are basically herd animals. The lone wolves are outcasts.

It’s not what they say, it’s what they don’t say that really matters. Spooner is right..

@chdyctt I can understand that. It must be sole destroying for people like him.

@Kate3015 I spoke w a recently retired police officer who has been a labor voter all his life. The BS about ISIS members being given special treatment, judges allowing violent crooks back on the street & politicians ignoring blatant large scale corruption have changed his vote

Our law enforcement officers must pull their hair out over decisions like this. Rayann El Houli accused of travelling to Islamic State-controlled Syria and being a member of the terror group has been granted bail. Melbourne magistrate Brett Sonnet accepted a combination of factors including the historical nature of her alleged offending and her role as primary caregiver. He also took into account her compromised health including post-traumatic stress disorder and potential multiple sclerosis, a lack of prior offending and stable support in the community.

You stated it is shameful that they can’t find the courage to campaign against net zero despite Angus Taylor being extremely specific about scrapping it. Plus repeating that numerous times. You know the position he is taking but you are still complaining about it. Seriously? And BTW we aren’t in an election cycle.

@Kate3015 I have listened to the above, I just haven't heard Taylor et al campaigning the bejesus out of like they should be.

There is a very good column in the Australian today by Nick Cater. This is a key point and one I’ve been making for months. “Taylor must also overcome the uniparty narrative that One Nation employs to great effect. When the political and philosophical divide between the Coalition and Labor is at its widest point for at least half a century, Liberal and National supporters feel an understandable sense of indignation at this slur, which was imported from the US. Yet the uniparty slander remains powerful as an encapsulation of the new political divide between the governing establishment and those who feel their values are not respected by the graduate elite.” Uniparty is a political construct, a slogan, used to great effect as a political weapon to paint Labor and the Coalition as the same. They are not, and never have been. Yet it persuades a great many people because it simplifies a complex political landscape into a single, emotionally satisfying narrative. Rather than engaging with the real policy differences, it becomes a convenient way to dismiss them.

Good morning lovelies .. Good advice? I think so 😊😊

You clearly haven’t listen to what Taylor has repeatedly stated. Taylor has formally abandoned the Liberal Party's commitment to the 2050 net-zero emissions target. He is championing a "dig, drill, and pay down the debt" strategy, he plans to abolish the Net Zero Authority, axe climate-related subsidies, lift the ban on nuclear energy, and support continued reliance on coal and gas.

@Kate3015 The fact is that both the ALP and the Coalition did embrace net zero related policy ideas. It's shameful now, that the Coalition can't find the courage to campaign against this same dreadful ideology.

Another evening of coal and gas doing the heavy lifting. Even the renewables state of Australia SA has fired up the gas.

I don’t agree with your first point. There were differences in each of those areas, even if they weren’t as large as many Coalition supporters wanted. As for the eSafety Commissioner, it was established to address a narrowly defined area focused primarily on protecting children online. Most reasonable people supported that objective at the time. The remainder of your post consists largely of assertions and opinions that I don’t share. Most importantly, I’m not interested in spending endless time relitigating the past. My focus is on what the Coalition is saying and doing now, and what it presents to Australians before the 2028 election. Parties either learn from electoral defeats or they don’t. I believe the Coalition is changing direction, and that’s what I’ll judge it on. You can choose to support that direction or not. I choose to assess it on where it’s heading, not where it was.

Let's list some issues: 1) Until Angus' budget reply, they were indistinguishable on net zero, Paris, nuclear, and the destructive effects they are having on energy security and our mining, transport and primary industries. 2) They established the eKaren's office on the back of squibbing s18c reform under Brandis, and ABC reform under repeated Communications Ministers, and have been indistinguishable from the government on the social media limitations and attempts to fine US corporations. 3) Until Angus' budget reply speech, they refused to acknowledge the issues with excessive immigration and failure to assimilate, they continued to promote the narrative of far right and gun owners being more dangerous than islamic extremism. They still have to get these shifts past the wet policy wonks that shafted Abbott and Dutton, and slow walked election spending. This has been decades in the making, and one speech and one party president is not the end of the shifts that need to occur to lay aside the disconnect with the former base.

This is from the wonderful Aussie Ark. This is the endangered Littlejohn's Tree Frog. This native amphibian has been decimated by disease and habitat destruction. In the wild, it is now only found in three small areas. One of those areas is the Watagans of NSW; a critically important breeding site. EnergyCo NSW wants to build a substation in the Watagans. If the substation goes ahead, this native amphibian faces almost certain extinction. The decision lies with NSW Minister for Planning & Public Spaces Paul Scully. Once the decision is announced it's final and irreversible. Please add your voice to Aussie Ark's fight to stop this development and save the Littlejohn's Tree Frog by quickly and easily sending a message to MP Scully via this public action page: bit.ly/SaveLittlejohn… Aussie Ark with project partner the University of Newcastle has the world's first breeding and re-wilding program for this species at our Conservation Ark facility. We've just celebrated over 700 eggs laid and now dozens of precious tadpoles. But we're now in the heartbreaking position of having this incredible conservation success but potentially no wild home for us to return the frogs to. The frog needs the Watagans. Please help the frog, before it's too late. bit.ly/SaveLittlejohn…