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01/05/2022

Fair dinkum, this pork-barrelling doesn't pass the pub test! Great ABC News article about some popular campaign words and their origins. (TIL "candidate" shares a word root with "candida" - white and glistening like a toga worn by candidates in ancient Greece, or like a parasitic fungus I guess 🤢) http://bit.ly/3FbCLMM

If you're one of those people who likes following election campaigns, there are certain words and phrases you'd be fairly familiar with by now. Campaigns tend to have themes — this year…

01/05/2022

Hooray! After 3 years and countless hours of work, wecan.buzz is finally out of beta and launched. I've indexed and cross-referenced over 10,000 news articles and 800 topics related to Australian politics and over 1,400 MPs, Senators and Candidates.
🔹 If you are interested in issues like integrity, climate, media and democracy, please take a look.
🔹 If you're not - take a look anyway, especially if you're voting in the election in 3 weeks and are unsure what the politicians in your electorate stand for!
🔹 If you're super interested, I could use some help adding even more info about candidates 😊
👉 Please help me get the word out and share widely. Thank you! - from Alex Murray
https://wecan.buzz

WECAN indexes news and information about Australian politicians and political issues related to integrity, climate, media and democracy

02/07/2021

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07/03/2020

Is there something you'd like to tell the Australian government about including greenhouse gases produced as a consequence of all our industrial activites, like, say, exporting coal?
Andrew Wilkie MP - Independent Member for Clark has introduced a private members bill to amend the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 that would do this. It is currently being considered by the Standing Committee on the Environment and Energy, chaired by Ted O'Brien MP - Federal Member for Fairfax, which is accepting public submissions until *** 20 MARCH ***.

Get your submission in!

National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Amendment (Transparency in Carbon Emissions Accounting) Bill 2020

13/11/2019

Exclusive: email from government directs attendees at conference on climate adaptation to stay quiet on bushfire-climate link

10/11/2019

"In a paper titled ‘Future cities: global warming and the risks to health’, HSBC Global Research predicts climate change will contribute to a five-fold increase in the cost of public health, as higher temperatures drive increases in the risk of heatstroke, dehydration and respiratory problems, as well as turbo-charging the growth of some diseases and illness."

http://bit.ly/2K852Iy

HSBC issues shocking assessment of a world impacted by climate change, predicting the health costs of the world’s fastest-growing economies could reach almost A$15 trillion a year by 2050.

10/11/2019

From Firefighting Australia: "🇦🇺🚒 Political Leaders not linking climate change to bushfires is Australia’s equivalence to Americans not talking about gun control after another massacre."

22/10/2019

Zali Steggall's statement to the House of Representatives as she presents a petition calling for a Climate Emergency Declaration.

22/10/2019

Clive Palmer's Waratah Coal quietly placed a classified in CQNews giving public notice of a mining lease application in the Galilee Basin, 4 times the size of Adani's
Article: http://bit.ly/31ADfqn
Link to ad: http://bit.ly/2MUEhrC

Exclusive: public notice on proposal was placed in classifieds of paper in Queensland town of Emerald