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Teal Independents: birth and spread of the movement
ABC Australian Story’s account of Cathy McGowan’s remarkable rise in the Liberal’s safe rural seat of Indi and several of the current teal independents applying her model https://youtu.be/TIxf8Sr6x8I Australian Story, 16/05/2022 in ABC News in Depth Independent candidates’ secret weapon to win election seats When Cathy McGowan won the seat of Indi in 2013, she…
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Elect climate savvy teals to force climate action
A “teal” infested minority government may be our best path towards ensuring effective action to manage the climate crisis before it is too late to stop warming by Kate Crowley, 16/05/2022 in The Conversation No, Mr Morrison. Minority government need not create ‘chaos’ – it might finally drag Australia to a responsible climate policy: Labor might…
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Hung Parliament: chaos vs independent thinking
Politicians threatened by community-based independents warn of CHAOS, but these thinking independents have ideals rather than ideologies. Depending on how people vote, we may be headed towards a major revolution in the structure and functioning of our form of Parliamentary government. Under 9+ years of LNP COALition government, major policies have been heavily influenced by…
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Kooyong: Testing importance of climate action to voters
Another affluent Liberal heartland seat will test the importance of climate action and ethics to conservative, thinking voters Among a field of 11 candidates running in Kooyong, including the ‘born to rule’ incumbent Liberal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg who would be next PM after Scott Morrison, it seems likely that no one candidate will have a…
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Towards a future of mass deaths from heat waves
Months long NB4 heat waves on the Indian subcontinent are likely to cause mass deaths as the world continues to warm. Australia may follow. by Jeff Masters, 05/05/2022 in Eye on the Storm – Yale Climate Connections India and Pakistan’s brutal heat wave poised to resurge: 2022 will likely be one of the coolest years…
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Foretaste of what Australia may see next summer?
Is this the beginning of the kind of multi-year drought that caused the US ‘dust bowl’, famine and social disruption in the 1930s? by Maggie Astor, 0v/05/2022 in New York Times Smoke and Sandstorm, Seen From Space: A time-lapse image of smoke from wildfires in New Mexico and dust from a storm in Colorado illustrates…
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