Paul Austin
@PaulNAustin
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Media professional. Politics, economics, sport, culture, society, the lot. [email protected]
Melbourne, Australia
Joined November 2012
“Less about saving lives, more about serving cocktails” How $14m of public money to convert an ageing bayside pool to a heated indoor learn-to-swim centre is being misused to build a glitzy private social club on Williamstown’s heritage beach https://t.co/z7qvgTPfcT
#springst
theage.com.au
Over seven years, the lifesaving club has gone through three rounds of redevelopment plans, and the neighbourhood is once again divided over the $14.5 million project.
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Here’s some good news: Play your cards right, and your household energy bills could halve by 2050 New @GrattanInst report by Alison Reeve and @tony_r_wood https://t.co/wA36KTWd4x
#auspol #ClimateEmergency #NetZero #coal #renewables
grattan.edu.au
Australian household energy bills are set to halve by 2050, leaving ‘policy room’ for the federal government to cut emissions in the electricity sector without hurting households.
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Australia’s workforce challenge Thoughtful new @GrattanInst series on building our workforce of the future #auspol #ausecon #jobs #migration #AI
grattan.edu.au
Grattan Institute’s six-part series on building our workforce of the future.
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3 more reasons to object to the proposed over-development of Williamstown’s historic life-saving club: 1. Taxpayers’ money being used for private facilities 2. The ‘Members Only’ fence 3. A footprint that extends well beyond the current fence line https://t.co/3ykkP1r0Q1
thewestsider.com.au
Jason Bryce asks community to become engaged in the discussions over the new plans for the Williamstown lifesaving club.
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Sydney remains ground zero for Australia’s housing crisis. Our housing policy expert @BrendanCoates gives the NSW government credit for acting to get more housing built – and identifies what should happen now. #auspol #nswpol
https://t.co/gurowE4Peu
grattan.edu.au
The NSW government deserves credit for taking steps to get more housing built. Here’s what it should do next.
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There is something very special about the noise crowds make after goals, particularly in finals, even more so in grand finals. The AFL has lost touch with what is important in the game.
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Gradually , then suddenly. @JacquelineMaley charts America’s descent into authoritarianism. #Trump #freedom #democracy
https://t.co/kB56Ae0sNj
theage.com.au
Like the famous Ernest Hemingway quote, the demise of American democracy has happened gradually and now, all at once.
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Comedy, power, and democracy. Steve Vizard rises to the occasion. #JimmyKimmel #Trump
afr.com
Comedy is not a sideshow. It is part of the main act. When comedy vanishes, rulers mistake themselves for the nation.
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‘This week has been a watershed on Australia’s hard road to net zero. The main game now is implementation, as the spectre of climate change awaits’ The verdict, by @GrattanInst energy policy guru @tony_r_wood #auspol #targets
afr.com
This week has been a watershed on Australia’s hard road to net zero. The main game now is implementation, as the spectre of climate change awaits.
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The Albanese government has finally set a 2035 climate course – and it’s a mission Australia must accept. By @tony_r_wood of @GrattanInst in @ConversationEDU #auspol #NetZero #emissions #targets https://t.co/UfcSKIH5jB
theconversation.com
The target seeks to balance positive action with pragmatism. Achieving it will requires a major policy step-up.
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‘The similarly ageless Patrick Dangerfield leaves divots, bruises, and trauma. Scott Pendlebury doesn’t leave a trace. He hovers above the game, popping in where he sees fit.’ @JonathanHorn23 on #Pendles
#AFL #Collingwood #GoPies
theguardian.com
The Magpies’ core group of self-driven, physically and mentally resilient senior players eat up the hard work to maintain high performance
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Grattan talks to Grattan. @michellegrattan, doyen of the parliamentary press gallery, talks to @tony_r_wood, energy and climate change policy guru at the @GrattanInst, about net zero, 2035, 2050, and all that. #auspol #climate #targets https://t.co/byUcKNgoyW
theconversation.com
The energy expert says Australia’s only on track to cut its emissions by around 50% by 2035 – ‘so we’re going to have to step up the pace’ in the next decade.
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The Australia Clinate Service has done the hard work to give us a picture of a future world of unchecked climate change. Many Australians have already seen this happening in real time. The rest of us now must act -
acs.gov.au
Learn about Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment.
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‘Getting shit done.’ Joel Deane on Dan Andrews. Typically insightful. #auspol #springst https://t.co/B90wZXJ0Z4
crikey.com.au
Much of the praise and criticism of Dan Andrews — who, like Kennett, incited adoration and hatred — is one-eyed, if not cross-eyed. Andrews was neither dictator nor saviour.
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The business case for corporate tax reform needs to be rather more sophisticated than just ‘cut our taxes’. @GrattanInst CEO Aruna Sathanapally writes for the @FinancialReview
#auspol #ausecon #GST
https://t.co/Hr6jIaSICh
afr.com
If business wants change, it needs to do more than just call for “lower taxes”. It needs a clear model, a credible way to fund it, and a persuasive case.
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‘The Suns simply refused to go down in the west’ 👏
‘The Freo fans want more from Dudley. And Dudley gives them more!’ Very good, Hamish McLachlan @7AFL
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‘The Freo fans want more from Dudley. And Dudley gives them more!’ Very good, Hamish McLachlan @7AFL
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‘Of course it struggled to be viable – it’s a literary magazine.’ Ben Walter on the death of #Meanjin
#auspol #MUP #culture
theguardian.com
MUP says it is ‘no longer viable’ to make the literary magazine – but almost none of them are financially viable. That’s not their purpose or value
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