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drrimmer, 1 day ago to climate

The world’s big banks have handed nearly $7 trillion in funding to the fossil fuel industry since the Paris agreement on carbon emissions, according to research. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/banks-financing-fossil-fuel-industry-trillions-since-paris-climate-agreement/?utm_source=press.coop #climate #finance

drrimmer, 2 days ago to auslaw

Former military lawyer David McBride sentenced to more than five years in jail for sharing classified information with journalists https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-14/military-whistleblower-david-mcbride-sentenced-classified-info/103843314 via @ABCaustralia #auslaw #auspol #journalism #whistleblowing #confidentiality #classifiedinformation

drrimmer, 3 days ago to ip

I am pleased to share my Submission on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill 2023-24 (UK) - which has now been published by the Public Bill Committee in the House of Commons in the United Kingdom Parliament https://works.bepress.com/matthew_rimmer/435/ The Smokefree Generation policy provides a public health blueprint for other nations around the world to follow and emulate. #UKpol #healthlaw #IP #trade #behaviouraleconomics #trade #investment #humanrights #smoking #vaping #ecigarettes

drrimmer, 3 days ago to Futurology

Some say it’s ‘genetic discrimination’, but insurance companies are fighting for access to these test results https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/12/life-insurance-industry-customers-genetic-tests-ban

‘I’m being discriminated against purely based on the genes I was born with’, says a Queensland man who couldn’t update his life insurance policy

#biotech #genetics #insurance #ethics #humanrights #Gattaca #auslaw #auspol

drrimmer, 8 days ago to nationalparks

High Court rules director of national parks criminally liable for alleged sacred site violation at Kakadu's Gunlom Falls https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-08/nt-gunlom-falls-kakadu-high-court-decision-on-appeal/103818866 via @ABCaustralia #Kakadu #nationalparks #IndigenousIP #auslaw #auspol #HCA

drrimmer, 14 days ago to climate

Big oil privately acknowledged efforts to downplay climate crisis, joint committee investigation finds https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/30/big-oil-climate-crisis-us-senate-report
Internal documents revealed by committee show companies lobbied against climate laws they publicly claimed to support. #uslaw #uspol #climate

drrimmer, 17 days ago to auspol

Climate litigation - Legal fight to save their island homes from the rising sea https://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/legal-fight-to-save-their-island-homes-from-the-rising-sea-20240423-p5flvx.html #auspol #auslaw #climate #justice #IndigenousIP #myislandhome

drrimmer, 18 days ago to auslaw

Gun reform advocate Walter Mikac celebrates 'bittersweet' win on 28th anniversary of family's death at Port Arthur https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-27/gun-reform-advocate-welcomes-firearm-register-funding/103776378 #auslaw #auspol #guncontrol #health #safety

drrimmer, 19 days ago to auslaw

One of Australia’s largest superannuation funds, UniSuper, stands accused of “greenwashing” some of its investment products by mislabelling them “sustainable”. https://www.edo.org.au/2024/04/22/unisuper-faces-fresh-allegations-of-greenwashing/

UniSuper member Dr Christopher Standen has, through the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO), lodged a complaint with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

Two of the funds that UniSuper markets as “sustainable” have significant investments in the Transurban Group, one of the world’s largest toll road operators.

“Transurban Group’s business model relies on increasing road traffic, which increases climate and other pollution,” Dr Standen said.

#auslaw #auspol #greenwashing #superannuation #ASIC

drrimmer, 20 days ago to auslaw

Sydney man wrongly named as Bondi Junction stabbings murderer settles defamation claim with Seven https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/apr/26/seven-network-settles-with-sydney-student-it-wrongly-identified-as-bondi-junction-murderer
Seven withdraws false allegation against Benjamin Cohen and ‘apologises for the harm you and your family have suffered’. #defamation #auslaw #auspol

drrimmer, 20 days ago to auslaw

Hundreds of the Pacific's ancestral remains are kept in Australian institutions. Many have no plans to return them https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-26/ancestral-remains-repatriation-pacific-museums-universities/103743936

Dr Vunidilo has called for the Australian government to help return Pacific remains with "the same energy" it gives to repatriating Aboriginal ancestral remains back to country from overseas.

"Our neighbouring countries of Australia and New Zealand can learn from European countries too, like Germany and France as they are opening up their vaults to return ancestral remains to where they truly belong," she said.

#Repatriation #Pacific #IndigenousIP #auslaw #auspol #GLAM #education

drrimmer, 21 days ago to random

McKinsey reportedly under US criminal investigation over opioid industry work

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/24/mckinsey-criminal-investigation-opioids-crisis

Federal prosecutors looking at relationship with Purdue Pharma and other drug manufacturers, and its role in US opioid crisis. #healthlaw

drrimmer, 22 days ago to random

Baltimore bridge collapse: city says ship was ‘unseaworthy’ before leaving port https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/23/baltimore-bridge-collapse-ship-lawsuit
Baltimore has sued operator and owner of the Dali container ship, saying it had ‘an incompetent crew’ and ignored warnings

drrimmer, 23 days ago to food

Queensland parliamentary probe into supermarket pricing begins in Bundaberg https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2024-04-22/queensland-inquiry-into-supermarket-prices-begins/103746398 #food #agriculture #competition #qldpol #qldlaw

drrimmer, 24 days ago to auspol

‘Overwhelming’ need for royal commission into Covid pandemic response in Australia, Senate committee finds https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/22/overwhelming-need-for-royal-commission-into-covid-pandemic-response-in-australia-senate-committee-finds #auspol #COVID19 #access2meds #health #auslaw “When an extraordinary event of the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic occurs it would be foolish not to reflect on how society responded to it, to learn valuable lessons that can be applied in the future,” Senator David Shoebridge says in additional remarks in the report.

drrimmer, 26 days ago to music

Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance finds half of Australian musicians earned less than $6,000 last financial year https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-02/meaa-survey-finds-musicians-earning-less-post-pandemic/103659484 via @ABCaustralia #music #creativeindustries #employment #musicbiz #auspol

drrimmer, 26 days ago to Smoking

UK Health Secretary Victoria Atkins on the Tobacco and Vaping Bill - 'There is no liberty in addiction. Nicotine robs people of their freedom to choose. The vast majority of smokers start when they are young, and three-quarters say that if they could turn back the clock they would not have started. That is why, through this Bill, we are creating a smoke-free generation that will guarantee that no-one who is turning 15 or younger this year will ever be legally sold tobacco, saving them from the misery of repeated attempts to give up, making our economy more productive and building an NHS that delivers faster, simpler and fairer care. I would argue it is our responsibility, indeed our duty, to protect the next generation and this is what this Bill will do.' https://au.news.yahoo.com/no-liberty-addiction-health-secretary-135902928.html #Ukpol #UKpol #smoking #health

drrimmer, 27 days ago to climate

Queensland's greenhouse emission 2050 net zero target to be enshrined in law https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-18/emissions-target-enshrine-in-law/103741584 #qldpol #climate #cleantech

drrimmer, 28 days ago to auspol

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has suggested the government is looking to reduce the rate of student debt indexation in response to debts growing by more than 4% this year...

The Universities Accord final report, made public earlier this year, recommended the commonwealth ensure loans didn’t outpace wage growth by setting the indexation rate to whatever was lower out of consumer price index and the wage price index. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/18/labor-hecs-fee-help-debt-indexation

Monique Ryan, an independent MP has collected more than 260,000 signatures on a petition calling for that reform, citing instances of students whose loans are growing faster than they are making repayments.

She’s among a coalition of crossbenchers, including independents Zoe Daniel, David Pocock, Allegra Spender and Kylea Tink, that have backed reforms. On Thursday, Pocock posted to X that the accord “couldn’t be clearer”, adding the burden of student indexation needed to be fixed before 1 June. #auspol #education

drrimmer, 29 days ago to Smoking

MPs vote for smoking ban despite Tories’ division over policy https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/16/house-of-commons-votes-in-favour-of-smoking-ban-despite-opposition-from-dozens-of-tories #smoking #health #uklaw #ukpol #tobacco #endgame

drrimmer, 1 month ago to humanrights

South Africans take on big pharma for access to ‘miracle’ cystic fibrosis drug https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/18/cystic-fibrosis-patient-south-africa-cheri-nel-lawsuit-big-pharma-generic-drugs-trikafta-access-vertex
Cheri Nel cannot afford Vertex’s Trikafta medicine, so she is suing to end ‘patent abuse’ and allow a generic version #patent #access2meds #SDGs #humanrights

drrimmer, 1 month ago to auslaw

Whistleblowing on supermarket monopolies https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/15/without-competition-coles-and-woolworths-misuse-their-market-power-and-the-australian-public-gets-screwed #auslaw #auspol #competition #whistleblowing