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@TheAusInstitute It doesn't follow that just because mining taxes did not cover medicare funding over the last decade that the taxes the mining industry paid are sub-optimal. Anyway, doesn't the Aust Institute want to close down Australian fossil fuel mining? Won't that mean less tax revenue?

A recent ad from the Minerals Council of Australia wants you to believe the mining industry pays enough tax to fund Medicare. Which is NOT TRUE for 8 out of the last 10 years! #auspol

@TanksAaron @FootnotesGuy Do you think the Future Fund is lying when it says "The Future Fund is Australia's sovereign wealth fund"? futurefund.gov.au

@FootnotesGuy We should have had a sovereign wealth fund. Every thing else is noise.

Wow… so taxes on mining actually do earn enough to cover most of Medicare. More in some years! Definitely a valuable sector.

@IonaItalia Reminds me of a friend who supported Cardinal Pell's conviction by saying "I don't care whether he's guilty or not, somebody has to pay for all the Church's child abuse"!

@ClownWorld ‘Young woman” or “girl”, but not “young girl”.

@FootnotesGuy Wow. Every Australian should watch that video. What a tour de force!

The cost explosion around Snowy 2.0 is in the news, with calls for a Royal Commission. Please take 22 mins to re-watch this video. It's probably my proudest work on energy. Perhaps its time has come. The misbehaviour here needs to be called out. youtu.be/T5j6FVAumlE?si…

@TheAusInstitute Everything you idiots eat, wear, ride on, live in or work with is made with fossil fuels. So let us know when all of you have stopped using anything made with fossil fuels and then we'll think about signing your idiotic petition.

Australia Institute research shows fossil fuels are the biggest source of carbon emissions in Australia – yet the government continues to let them off the hook. ✍️ Sign the petition to phase out fossil fuels: theaus.in/4cVjS1L

@aakashgupta Wow, I wonder if this is why I enjoy Beethoven's 6th symphony (known as the Pastoral Symphony) so much. Much of it consists of woodwind or brass which sounds like birdsong.

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on. The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software. The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check. Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance. Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls. Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else. A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.

@DrewPavlou The banner says "Descendant of Chinese Veterans WWII". The Kuomintang fought the Japanese during WWII. So did the Communists to some extent.

Australia allowed Chinese People's Liberation Army veterans to participate in ANZAC Day ceremonies on April 25 - some of these PLA veterans would have undoubtedly participated in the massacre at Tiananmen We are a cucked nation

@Dani_Blek @DrewPavlou Turks have been coming to Australia for many decades. There are 3rd and 4th generation Turks in Australia. They have integrated very well and not been associated with terror. I suspect many of them are pretty unhappy with the subsequent waves of Islamic immigration.

@DrewPavlou Turks will deflect responsibility for the atrocities they committed for centuries and still commit today, until their last breath. The question should be, why are there Turks in Australia to begin with?

Why was there a ''Turkish veterans'' contingent at ANZAC Day in Melbourne? They literally killed Australian soldiers while carrying out massive genocides against Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, Christians

@4mambo Yes, millions of Australians have already died from climate change. Surely we would all die if the average temperature went up to what it already is in Brisbane.

It would make more sense to abolish the Defence Department. The greatest threat to Australia’s long term prosperity and security is climate change. To not acknowledge this is unpatriotic and a betrayal of future generations. Joyce is a massive fool.

@EnergyWrapAU Discus?

National champion 🤘 Proud dad 😎

@pete_stubbs1 @clairlemon Nope. Something having water on it is what makes it wet! 😁

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@Anton___Illich @FootnotesGuy The depth of knowledge a person has on any subject is inversely proportional to the number of posts it takes before they become condescending and abusive.

@FootnotesGuy Some investors and small players may go broke...this is par for the course with construction projects these days mate. Not every investor is on the brink...as usual your RWNJ henny penny anti Reneables stance is a shit take.

Wow... Imagine sabotaging the potential for Australia to have cheap gas because it might "divert investment from renewables". This is ideology over economics. Big time.

@paws101 @FootnotesGuy

@FootnotesGuy For someone so concerned about the rising costs of energy & cost of living. Any comments about this disastrous damage this Trump / MAGA Regime that your employer CIS (Partner/Member of Atlas Network) is doing to cost of living? desmog.com/2023/10/10/a-s… desmog.com/maurice-newman/

This is big. Pretty sure the majority of the oil that has made it out of the gulf in the last months has been Iranian. Looks like that will stop now.

@Lisa9Sophia @AlanKohler @abcnews @onenation I agree. And there should be generous subsidies to mothers paid only out of present or future income tax paid by her or the father. No subsidies to institutions or people who never pay income tax.

@AlanKohler @abcnews Have you seen how many creeps work in childcare? @OneNation have a better policy, income splitting It’s about time families were offered the choice to raise their own children

My video piece for tonight's @abcnews in which I suggest that childcare and kinder be nationalised, and made free. That is, free education should be extended to kids under 5. youtube.com/watch?v=harEUD…

@AlanKohler @abcnews You should familiarise yourself with the work of @EricaKomisarCSW before advocating such dreadful ideas.

@FootnotesGuy Plus, even the PHEV's don't abate CO2 emissions: theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/why-p…

Oh look. A plateau.

@IonaItalia You're a very interesting person but not everything in one's day is worth posting.

@gerardgholland Bravo! And it's not just about domestic supply, it's also about becoming a reliable alternative supplier to our allies and trading partners like Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and New Zealand who would welcome a diversification from Middle Eastern oil.

As war continues to rage in the Middle-East and Europe, geopolitical events are accelerating. So too does the likelihood of conflict in our own region. We do not have time to delay. You can read our latest report on Australia' fuel security here; page.org.au/2026/03/all-at…

As bad as things are getting right now (and are going to get in the weeks to come), Australia’s current fuel crisis should not be mistaken for the worst-case scenario. This war is on the other side of the world. The ships are still getting in to Australia. It would be very different if this war was in our own backyard. 🧵

@DrewPavlou @OliDugmore @Alonso_GD More fundamentally, it’s a procession, not a sit-in. Everyone has the right to use the roads to transit through them, for whatever purposes. But blocking them is domination because it is preventing everyone else from using them.

@OliDugmore @Alonso_GD Britain is a Christian country, so it’s normal and right for Christian prayers to take place in public.

Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. Perform these rituals in churches if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.