Sandra N

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Was a teacher, a public servant, a business owner living on Ngarigo land in southeast NSW. Alternate now between doom scrolling and attacking the garden with sharp implements. #auspol #ClimateAction #USPolitics

'We have listened'

Extract from a SHH news article which says: The Coalition claimed it would reduce the wholesale gas price from $14 to $10 or lower per gigajoule, but the most recent figures from the Australian Energy Regulator show that average prices have been below $14 in recent months.
The regulator said the average price was $12.17 in Victoria in the financial year to date, compared to $13.12 in Sydney, $13.67 in Brisbane and $13.16 in Adelaide.

Headline in the Atlantic: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

To the untrained eye, Donald Trump’s tariff policy over the past two months has looked like an incoherent, inconsistent, self-destructive mess. But have you considered the possibility that it is, in fact, the first step of a carefully orchestrated master plan to revive American manufacturing, reduce the national debt, reconfigure the international-alliance system, and deliver the greatest geopolitical deal of the century?

That is the thrust of a new theory that has been gaining currency in Washington, on Wall Street, and in the financial press. The grand bargain that Trump is supposedly planning to strike has even been given a name: the Mar-a-Lago Accord.

On a day where we have a $16.5bn national education announcement I am asked about someone’s husband removing a Liberal Party sign on a road somewhere!

Can I ask is there any connection whatsoever with anyone in the Labor Party with this alleged event of which I did not know? No.

David Littleproud was asked on Sky News earlier why women still aren’t returning to the party:

I don’t think we can run away from it. I think we lost a lot of female voters at the last election. They weren’t happy with how Scott Morrison handled it … I mean, I don’t think that there was a great love of Scott Morrison, particularly the way he handled some of the incidents that happened here in Parliament House … So Peter is wearing that legacy.

You’ll see as we get close to the election, is greater policies around women. And Peter [Dutton] has a very, very strong record in his support of women in this country.

For this election, Pocock told The Australian Financial Review he had sufficiently consolidated himself as a senator and will no longer receive money from Climate 200.

“Momentum for more genuine representation is growing and there is a new wave of community-backed independents who have a real shot at winning a seat at the next election,” Pocock said in a statement.

“After the major parties’ stitch-up deal on electoral reform earlier this year, this will be the last election where new independent candidates can compete before the system is skewed even further to the advantage of major parties.”