“There are a lot of unfair tax concessions and subsidies worthy of being abolished or curtailed, many of which are driving inequality and the climate crisis,” writes Clare Ozich, campaign manager at Justice Connect.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4rnaNE2
As Dietitians Australia celebrates 50 years, we honour those who came before. 📖 Australia's Pioneer Dietitians: The First Decades by Beverley Wood traces 1929–1950 and the foundations of our profession.
‘Food is a science as well as an art’ – Ruth Gordan, 1937.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4rfoSDK
WTF is he thinking????!!!!!!!!
Health leaders urge de-escalation of conflict in Middle East, condemn attacks on healthcare and children www.croakey.org/health-leade...
‘I think the counter to Trump always has been and always will be civil society. A lot of the left wants social change to look like the French Revolution or Che Guevara. Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war.’
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
Image of teenage hands holding using a mobile phone in the dark. Text: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
New age-verification requirements for online pornography come into effect today in Australia.
One of our most-read ANZJPH articles published in 2024 found the average age of first porn exposure was 13.2 for boys & 14.1 for girls.
🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1326020024000104
Oslo Davis cartoon, February 28, 2026 www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/cart... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Oslo Davis cartoon, February 28, 2026 www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/cart... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
"The Government can dance around it all they like, but this raises huge questions for Australia," writes @emmashortis.bsky.social, Director of The Australia Institute’s International & Security Affairs Program.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/3N7opp1
Inquiry into racism, hate and violence toward First Nations people comes late, lacks power – and must deliver www.croakey.org/inquiry-into... #publichealth
Health leaders urge de-escalation of conflict in Middle East, condemn attacks on healthcare and children www.croakey.org/health-leade...
Only a few days to go till Community Assembly
Most agreed Proposal:
- Tax the fossil fuel industry
Most disagreed Proposal:
- AUKUS is a good investment of our money
Register and come to decide what we want our MPs to do for us this year
Full Poll report and registration link here: bit.ly/3XZgr32
Allan Behm takes a blowtorch to govt BS
"For a country that is constantly trumpeting the essentiality of the international rules-based order in preserving global peace and stability, Australia is shameless in its ability to slide into the American slipstream."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If Australia champions a rules-based order, it cannot selectively abandon it. By backing US strikes on Iran, Canberra risks trading moral authority for reflex alignment, Allan Behm writes.
#auspol #InternationalLaw #Iran #RulesBasedOrder #ForeignPolicy
Extraordinary from the Liberal Party's 2025 election review: not all shadow ministers are "equipped" to develop policy.
Their main job is to "cultivate relationships" with interest groups, who are "keen to assist in policy development".
Private donors are keen to assist too.
Small win for good government.
#TheZap: latest health and aged care news, plus important consultations now open – @croakeynews.bsky.social
www.croakey.org/the-zap-late...
#SDOH
An independent or green MP should just read this in Parliament and then ask Albanese, Wong or Marles why Australia has not declared that it will not support this war initiated by the US and Israel in any form
On the 'hard skill' of winning freedom thru collaboration.
"The only true freedom is in collaborative action, where we voluntarily participate, seeking our path through and with the group."
Thrival is a community not individualist effort.
#democracy #goodgovernance #birthingthenew
The What Canberrans said they want MP action on in 2026
Poll Report now available on our Activities Page.
Please:
-> Have a read (summary and long versions)
-> Register for the Community Assembly on March 8th (link also on Activity Page)
-> Share this widely
canberra-alliance.org.au/activity/
Arendt 1, Leeser 0.
I've supervised group student assignments. Meeting 1 always included the 'how will we work together fairly' conversation.
Maybe universities should be teaching this!
Collaboration across all aspects.
Housing stress, inequality, insecure work and budget strain didn’t appear by accident. They were built into Australia by deliberate policy choices during the Howard years, Crispin Hull writes.
#auspol #HowardLegacy #inequality #housing #tax
Here are some wandering wonderings on the echoing implications of our relationship with death
There’s a trigger warning on this one
in-between-days.ghost.io/on-mushrooms...
“The rise of One Nation may excite the right, but it has also turned left-wing voters into kingmakers,” writes Bill Browne, Director of The Australia Institute’s Democracy & Accountability Program.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4rGnQl2
Vanuatu’s Climate Minister, Ralph Regenvanu, is urging countries (looking at you, Australia) to resist US pressure and stand with Vanuatu for climate justice. Vanuatu wants the UN to back the ICJ’s finding that countries are legally responsible for climate damage. Australia — whose side are you on?
Image of a walkable, local coffee shop in a walkable neighbourhood, with the caption “Walkable Neighbourhoods aren’t scary, they’re convenient.” With the logo Urban Truth Collective” at the bottom. @urbantruth.bsky.social
Walkable neighbourhoods aren’t scary, they’re convenient.
#UrbanTruth
URGENT
Only ONE WEEK remains for people to vote on the proposals in CAPaD’s community Poll before we analyse the results.
To vote in the poll and register for the Community Assembly (Woden Valley Uniting church) on March 8th visit our website at canberra-alliance.org.au/activity/.
Hurry last week.
Sounds like a marketing promotion?
Well it is.
We need to wind this up end Feb so we can analyse the results to get the indigo out to people.
Single frame. Morning tv show set with male and female hosts on curved couch facing PM Albanese. Albanese says: “My mother would have said, ‘if you make your bed, you lie in it…’” Female host says: “What if the bed involves leaving kids in camps overseas to be stigmatised, traumatised and radicalised instead of repatriating and rehabilitating them?”
Make your bed.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
