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Meat-loving Australia has no appetite for vegetarian diet to help planet, study finds (www.abc.net.au)
A study shows Australians would rather take other actions to help the environment than give up meat....
Andrew Forrest calls for fossil fuel bosses' 'heads on spikes' in extraordinary outburst (www.abc.net.au)
Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest is attending the COP28 climate conference in the United Arab Emirates....
Police arrest 72 climate protesters in heart of Melbourne for failing to obey traffic direction (www.abc.net.au)
In short: Police have arrested and fined 72 climate activists [$385 each] for staging a protest in the middle of a Melbourne CBD intersection....
Thousands of people pass through this station each day, but experts say it has some of the worst air in Melbourne (www.abc.net.au)
In short: Data detailing the air quality at Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station has been released for the first time....
McDonald's loses out in legal beef with Hungry Jack's (www.abc.net.au)
A court has ruled a Hungry Jack’s burger did not infringe on McDonald’s trademark....
Consumers tapping the spot power market are cleaning up, covering 'a month's bill' in a night (www.abc.net.au)
Mr Purcell admits he initially bought his battery as a form of insurance against the volatility inherent in the spot market....
With COVID surging, should I wear a mask? (theconversation.com)
A multi-layered strategy of vaccines, masks, safe indoor air, testing and treatment will help us navigate this COVID wave....
Labor is taking a six-to-one gamble that money in the pocket is more important than a broken promise (www.abc.net.au)
ANU economist Ben Phillips ran the government’s proposed stage 3 tweaks through his PolicyMod simulator to weigh up the winners and losers....
Albanese and Labor slump to worst position in Newspoll since 2022 election (theconversation.com)
A national Newspoll, conducted October 30 to November 3 from a sample of 1,220 people, gave Labor a 52–48% lead over the Coalition, a two-point gain for the Coalition since the final Newspoll before the October 14 Voice referendum. This is Labor’s narrowest lead in Newspoll since the 2022 federal election....
'Unacceptable': Experts say Optus coverage outage could happen again (www.abc.net.au)
Optus is investigating the cause of Wednesday’s nationwide outage....
We're in a new COVID wave. What can we expect this time? (theconversation.com)
Australia is now into its next COVID wave. We’ve seen hints of this for a while. Case numbers and indicators of severe disease began rising in Victoria in August. But it has taken several months for a consistent pattern to emerge across Australia....
'It's basically dead': AI reveals the legacy of decades of logging (www.abc.net.au)
We could make most Australians richer and still save billions – it’s not too late to fix the Stage 3 tax cuts (theconversation.com)
The Albanese government is about to have to make a really important decision....
Think potholes on our roads are getting worse? You're right – and here's why (theconversation.com)
[Roads] are getting worse because we’re not spending enough to maintain them....
New migration strategy aims to reduce Australian arrivals to 'sustainable level' (www.abc.net.au)
Temporary migration has jumped sharply over the past year — largely driven by foreign students — leading to a record intake. This was previously described as a post-COVID 19 influx of returning foreign students, but the ABC understands the government believes this is more than a one-off surge....
Chips now come in flavours like cheeseburger. How do food chemists get the taste right? (www.abc.net.au)
Hamish Thompson [runs] the Museum of Crisps, a website that’s so far logged just shy of 1,400 different bonafide flavours of chip....
Stage 3 tax cuts calculator: See how the changes will affect you (www.abc.net.au)
What are the new stage 3 tax cut brackets?...
UN official says 'amnesia and myopia' present in international response to war (www.abc.net.au)
[UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories] Francesca Albanese has taken aim at the global response to the Israel-Gaza war....
[Satire] Australia Day to be moved to Scott Morrison’s resignation day (chaser.com.au)
In calendar news, Australia Day is officially changing date after this year and will no longer be celebrated on January 26th. With a new date of January 20th chosen instead in order to celebrate the day that Scott Morrison announced his departure from politics....
Autumn, when the leaves fell (by 江夜kiri) (aussie.zone)
Poorly done title reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok...
Gregory Andrews used to be a senior Liberal advisor. Now he's 14 days into a climate action hunger strike (www.abc.net.au)
“What I’m asking for are five things that … are all possible with the technology we have,” he told ABC Radio Canberra....
Backseating so hard that it becomes frontseating (by oridays) (aussie.zone)
Pixiv source (has same res, but less compressed image)
Frank and far-reaching: Senate report recommends shake-up of the way freedom of information is handled (theconversation.com)
(The article isn’t that long, but its content is hard to summarize without significant information loss.)
Most taxpayers to get $804, but high-end tax cut halved as government rewrites stage 3 (www.abc.net.au)
The government will halve the stage 3 tax cuts for the highest earners and use the money to deliver an $804 tax cut across the board....
A few months ago BlackRock launched low-cost ETFs for global infrastructure and property (www.investordaily.com.au)
I haven’t seen much discussion about this, but noticed them when perusing some PDS’s. The headliner is that they both have fees of 0.15%, lower than everyone else’s equivalent offerings in the Australian market:...