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Perth - Geneva - Madison - Reading - Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia Katılım Eylül 2012
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Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK
@thomasforth How'd it look with radius 1 mile or 2km? Not discounting your points about urban public transport (& don't forget cycling infrastructure). But in my experience Dutch cities have far less separation between residential & commercial, with more residential in city centres.
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Tom Forth
Tom Forth@thomasforth·
600k people live within 5 miles of Leeds City Centre. 600k people live within 5 miles of Rotterdam City Centre. Exactly the same density. Rotterdam's GDP/capita is 50% (fifty percent) higher. What's the difference? It's not really density is it.
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Tom Forth@thomasforth·
I think this is now wrong. North English Cities are now just as dense as their European equivalents like Amsterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen, etc... with extremely strong economies. There are some different patterns within that density I admit, but I don't think it matters much.
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Interested Outsider@b_leeder·
@itjohnstone @DavidPocock Governments get 30-50% of the profits as it is, windfalls flow through (you wouldn't think it if AI prop is all you read though). PRRT will actually work as intended over the next 2-3 years if prices remain elevated too. Pocock, Monique & the Teals don't want their fans to know
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David Pocock@DavidPocock·
Looks like the government might finally be caving to the pressure myself, others on the crossbench & especially Australians in communities across the country have been putting on them to tax gas companies making wartime profits. Australians are already paying more on petrol & we shouldn’t be paying more on beer excise than the government gets for Petroleum Resources Rent Tax (PRRT). It’s encouraging to see Treasury modelling changes to the way gas is taxed. We should have a flat 25% tax on all gas exports & enough gas exports diverted into an east coast gas reservation & we need both now. abc.net.au/news/2026-03-2…
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Interested Outsider@b_leeder·
@itjohnstone @DavidPocock No. Equity stakes bought 40-50 years ago would look pretty nice now, but we are still a country that encourages private investment ... that is at risk once you start introducing retrospective windfalls profits taxes (as we've seen recently in the UK & Queensland)
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Interested Outsider@b_leeder·
@itjohnstone @DavidPocock We do not have capital at risk in the way the countries you mentioned do. It’s the difference the amateur institute deliberately leaves out.
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Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK
@b_leeder @DavidPocock We are owners of our natural resources. We give them away more or less for free. Charging for them makes sense ethically & economically. It's what other major nations do. Yes - they have state owned corps, but also major investment from private ones like Shell.
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@DavidPocock Framing can make a big difference when trying to gain public & political support. The word "tax" is a bit toxic in this regard. The framing should be payment for access/purchase of Australian raw materials. Or a royalty on their use.
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Interested Outsider@b_leeder·
@DavidPocock This would likely be disastrous for the future & investment, but I think that is the Amateur Institute's aim.
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@TMFScottP Q is whether the operators have repaired/replaced, as opposed to whether it would be sensible to do so. Short-termism in leadership is pretty rife. As for regulations, I agree. But there is often a lot of wastage or bureaucracy tied to them. In all walks of life in Australia.
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Scott Phillips
Scott Phillips@TMFScottP·
Bloody hell... here we go again. More corporate welfare on the taxpayers' dime. Fuel will cost more, as a result. No, not at the pump, but the pump price *plus* the portion of your taxes that prop these places up.
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Dr Monique Ryan MP
Dr Monique Ryan MP@Mon4Kooyong·
We can’t call ourselves a “clever country” if we refuse to properly fund science. Many Australian researchers spend more than 30% of their working year writing grant applications with a less than 10% chance of success. That's a major drag on a sector which the government says is key to productivity gains. theage.com.au/national/austr…
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@Mon4Kooyong It's worse than stats suggest. Because draft grant proposals go through institutional review before NHMRC submission. Many get cut at that stage. True success rate is probably closer to 5%. And then there are many researchers who've made the (rational) decision to stop trying.
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Dr Monique Ryan MP
Dr Monique Ryan MP@Mon4Kooyong·
Australia’s research and development system is in dire straits. Minister Ayres should urgently implement the recommendations of the SERD review, which received an overwhelming number of submissions calling for reform, not ask for more public commentary. The experts have spoken. The time to act is now.
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@TMFScottP The 4 things that are commonly mentioned are: scale, labour costs, regulatory burden, and ageing infrastructure/tech. I wouldn't be surprised if all 4 play a role. A government taking an equity stake could try to improve some of those. Gift them money & nothing changes.
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Scott Phillips@TMFScottP·
@itjohnstone I don't know mate - it's a good question. I *suspect* it's scale and labour costs, but I'm not sure.
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21group@21percentgroup·
Who broke Nottingham University, Vol 3? Vice Chancellor Shearer West presided over property expansion & vanity projects that have caused near-bankruptcy And the landing spot? Vice Chancellorship of Leeds Uni It's important to know when to skip out nottinghampost.com/news/nottingha…
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Scott Phillips@TMFScottP·
@itjohnstone @rex_milne Owned? Probably not. But if I get more value from it than it costs me, I'm ahead. If we all do, it's a big benefit.
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Scott Phillips@TMFScottP·
Block... WiseTech... now Atlassian. AI is going to be more disruptive than most people realise...
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Michael Merrifield@AstroMikeMerri·
But the idea that people worked less hard in the past is one of those nasty myths used to take away their autonomy in the first place. In reality, when academics were primarily answerable to their immediate colleagues, they generally worked a lot harder. 3/3
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David Pocock
David Pocock@DavidPocock·
CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government. We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists. smh.com.au/environment/cl…
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Albanese’s, Wong’s and Marles’s legacy will be them rushing to be the first in the world to support the USA and Israel starting a war with Iran. How’s that looking so far?
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@TMFScottP @AlboMP Just heard a ludicrous comment from an MP saying that a large reserve is not viable because refined oil products “go off” so long term storage leads to waste. As if it’s not possible to have a constantly tapped & replenished long term storage. You know, like we have with water.
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