@Cooperannuation

Interested in good public policy, sustainability and decarbonisation. Born 316 ppm CO2. Views are my views. No Kings.

 Sydney
Joined February 2012
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BREAKING: Neil Young has just sued Trump for playing "Rockin' in the Free World" at his rally in Ohio. The lawsuit states: “In short, the Song is the opposite of everything that Donald J. Trump stands for.” Thank you Mr. Young!
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Renew Economy@renew_economyOct 19
South Korea unveils a $A1.1 trillion energy transition strategy, aimed at expanding renewables and transforming the country’s heavy industry, and the opportunities for Australia are huge ow.ly/N6Bi50ZYNI6

South Korea unveils trillion-dollar green energy transition plan, and the opportunities are huge...

South Korea unveils a $A1.1 trillion energy transition strategy, aimed at expanding renewables and transforming the country’s heavy industry, and the opportunities for Australia are huge.

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Don’t rush it though. Stamp duty was introduced in 1694 (not a typo) as a ‘temporary tax on parchments’. No rush.
Allegra Spender@spenderallegraOct 12
The sharp drop in stamp duty shows the folly of relying on a highly cyclical tax to pay for state-delivered essential services. States should now set out a transition to a more stable, less distortive land tax and the feds should back them.
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Blame vague climate laws for High Court rewriting them afr.com/policy/energy-and-cl… - we all live on the same planet and so exported scope 3 emissions might as well be emitted here in Australia. Global warming doesn't respect borders or human constructs like the Paris Agreement.

Blame vague climate laws for High Court rewriting them

The more governments rely on open-ended concepts while leaving contentious questions unresolved, the more political disputes will migrate into the courts.

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David Pocock
@DavidPocockOct 7
The High Court has recognised what the physics makes clear: you can’t export coal & pretend the climate damage disappears. Whether fossil fuels are burnt in Australia or overseas, the consequences reach the Great Barrier Reef & communities around 🇦🇺. Yet the Albanese govt continues to approve new coal & gas projects. We should stop expanding fossil fuels, use what we have for the transition & make sure Australians get a fair return from existing projects. theguardian.com/environment/…

Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case over Mount Pleasant...

Ruling on Mount Pleasant coalmine shows ‘we cannot continue to dig up coal … and pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us’, group says

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Renew Economy@renew_economySep 30
I spent all my working life in coal mines before retiring in 2020. Since then I have become a passionate advocate for establishing renewable industries in areas where coal mines will close reneweconomy.com.au/we-must-…

We must plan for coal mine closures, not approve them because we lack a plan 

I spent all my working life in coal mines before retiring in 2020. Since then I have become a passionate advocate for establishing renewable industries in areas where coal mines will close.

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Bernard Keane@BernardKeaneOct 1
Congratulations News Corp -- ten great years of appearing in the ATO's company tax data without paying a cent in tax on tens of billions of revenue! But keep on lecturing us about how the country should be run! crikey.com.au/2026/10/01/new…

News Corp celebrates more than a decade of paying zero tax in Australia

News Corp continues to make serious money in Australia while paying no tax. But even the Murdoch monolith isn't the nation's worst tax dodger.

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Renew Economy@renew_economySep 24
The most important imperative for Australia is to get rid of diesel. It is a no brainer for the economy, for national security and the environment. But there is no policy reneweconomy.com.au/australi…

Australia can gain more from eliminating diesel than enabling AI

The most important imperative for Australia is to get rid of diesel. It is a no brainer for the economy, for national security and the environment. But there is no policy.

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Send him home.
Mike Carlton
@MikeCarlton01Sep 23
The US Embassy in Canberra delivers Australia an arrogant lecture on free speech… at the same time as the Psychopath-in-Chief is throwing journalists out of the White House. The hypocrisy is next level. If this is how the new ambassador plans to start his gig, things will not go well….
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Con@con1094Sep 23
I wouldn't be seen dead with this prick, @AlboMP
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That’s the whole point of private credit. Crap deals that the banks won’t lend to. Aka shadow banking.
Paul Barry
@TheRealPBarrySep 22
Great story, but why does no one discover this until it’s too late? A massive developer that the banks won’t lend to. Surely worth a warning?
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Not correct. Super tax breaks are ‘notional’ tax expenditures - like the fact that the family home is exempt from CGT. Tax that could be imposed, but isn’t for policy reasons. The Age Pension is an annual cash cost. Not the same thing at all. Super doesn’t ‘cost’ anything.
Cameron Murray
@DrCameronMurraySep 23
Superannuation saves a tiny amount of age pension costs. Tax breaks for super far outweigh any budget savings from lower pensions. If you argue we need super to help the budget to afford pensions then you are wrong. You should support scrapping super if that is your reasoning
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A federal coalition govt would “take a chainsaw to Labor’s ideologically driven, energy restrictive approach to energy,” says Dan Tehan. Irony is that regional Australia will benefit most from decarbonisation. Skills, money, jobs, revitalisation - gold rush/wool boom combined.
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Yes, but why is that exactly?
John Cleese
@JohnCleeseSep 21
He trusts dictators more than he trusts the leaders of democratic nations How is this possible ?
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I also ‘believe’ in gravity. This is not the right question.
World of Statistics
@stats_feedSep 20
Do you believe in climate change?
63%Yes
37%No
13,474 votes • Final results
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We can breathe easy. Global AI experts @DonaldTrump and @JDVance are on the case. Phew! I was starting to get a bit worried there for a while.
The Washington Times
@WashTimesSep 14
Vice President J.D. Vance on Monday raised pointed suspicions about the motives behind Big Tech's growing calls for federal regulation of artificial intelligence. trib.al/wNVOqVk
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Morgan J. Freeman
@mjfreeSep 10
🤖 Made with AI
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Either way, a bad policy. One of the many causes of the housing problem is over-lending by banks. Everyone standing around at an auction has $1m in their back pocket that they’ll spend the next 30-40 years paying off. We don’t need to add super to that bonfire.
Simon Banks@SimonBanksHBSep 7
"A proposal by One Nation to let workers access 3 percentage points of their superannuation contributions is a copy of a policy the Coalition had planned to announce under former leader Sussan Ley..." afr.com/politics/federal/gaz…

Gazumped again? Hanson announces previous Coalition super policy

One Nation’s plan to let workers access 3 percentage points of their super is the same policy the Coalition planned to announce under Sussan Ley.

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What a complete jerk this guy is. So out of his depth it is embarrassing.
Kate from Kharkiv
@BohuslavskaKateSep 5
Witkoff: "President Putin, thank you so much for having us. We were sitting outside just now, me, Jared, Kirill, Yuri, and we were talking about, when we retire, we'll have all these incredible stories and memories, and yours will be right at the top of it all." Just sickening! So much butt-licking toward a literal war criminal. Your stories will be of trying to force the victim of horrible aggression to surrender while cozying up to the biggest monster of our time.
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Gandalv
@Microinteracti1Aug 30
🇺🇸 The United States wrote the most sophisticated constitution the world had seen, splitting power between the executive, the legislature and the judiciary so that no single man could ever run the place like a private estate. Then it added a free press, fifty stubborn states, independent agencies, a career civil service and elections every two years, just to be safe. Two and a half centuries later the executive branch spends its Sunday posting AI-generated geese in blond wigs.
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