Family to spend $4.75 petrol excise windfall on buying half a broccoli
Oh dear celebrating too soon, there goes that broccoli and more!!
Despite the federal budget’s focus on cost of living measures, the typical working Australian will still be $50 a week worse off. This is before a hidden tax increase that will leave low and middle-income earners, who are facing a tidal wave of extra costs, $30 worse off in the next financial year. Callum Foote reports.
There’s an election to win and seats to shore up, or even take. The Guardian
reports that the Morrison government is pouring a disproportionate
amount of money into projects in the Coalition’s must-win seats. But, it
adds, only a third of expenditure, and 15% of the projects, targeting
marginal seats has been endorsed by the independent agency
Infrastructure Australia. The Guardian analysed 144 projects worth $16 billion and found that only 21, worth $5.7bn, had been endorsed by the government agency. ( Michael West Media}
Source: Home – Michael West Media
It’s time the workers united again to claim their share of the profits their labour produces. Companies should fulfil their part of the social contract by paying fair wages and taxation. With 12% of Australians living in poverty, it’s time we had a government that puts the welfare of its people first. It’s time.
Source: Why isn’t our “strong economy” benefitting workers? – » The Australian Independent Media Network
My thought for the day We exercise our involvement in our
democracy every three years by voting. After that the vast majority
takes very little interest. Why is it so? ( John Lord )
Source: They simply have a plan to keep wages low. They always have. – » The Australian Independent Media Ne
Lismore and Byron unprepared to be flooded again. Morrison proves he's a world laggard on renewables and a liar when it comes emission target ambitions.
Reduction in spending across clean energy agencies represents a 35% annual cut over four years
Lismore and Byron unprepared to be flooded again. Morrison proves he's a world laggard on renewables and a liar when it comes emission target ambitions.
Reduction in spending across clean energy agencies represents a 35% annual cut over four years
Lismore would like to know why Morrison was so behind at a time of the Nation's need not once but on serial occasions over his term in office as they are about to face another flood and still waiting for their promised $800 from the first disaster. Meanwhile Cuba puts Morrison to shame.
The book Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba: Adaptation and Management
It traced the highly successful source of the island nation’s efforts to the way it put human welfare above property. This collection of 14 essays by Emily J. Kirk, Isabel Story, and Anna Clayfield is an extraordinary assemblage of articles, each addressing specific issues.
In the video Cuba’s Life Task, Orlando Rey also observes that “There must be a change in the way of life, in our aspirations. This is a part of Che Guevara’s ideas on the ‘new man.’ Without forming that new human, it is very difficult to confront the climate issue.” Integration of poor countries into the global market has meant that areas which were once able to feed themselves are are now unable to do so. Neo-liberalism forces them to use energy sources that are life-preservers in the short run but are death machines for their descendants. The world must remember that Che’s “new man” will not clamor for frivolous luxuries while others starve. For humanity to survive, a global epiphany rejecting consumer capitalism must become a material force in energy production. Was Che only dreaming? If so, then keep that dream alive!
