www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07... Here's why it was easier to buy a house with 17% interest rates than it is now. The super rich have the $$$ Govts need to worry that there will soon be very few paying taxes at all. Legal tax evasion is costing us all. Some of it is buried in investment properties.

We are thrilled to be a partner on this major new doctoral research initiative led by the University of Aberdeen. www.abdn.ac.uk/news/25879/

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...? Uni of W is teaches, researches & serves its regional community. Staff MUST be properly paid for those functions first. Governance need not be Syd Uni price. People doing admin need fair pay in line w those who what the Uni does, not corporate dream money.

Dbytes #726 (7 July 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. Planning treats habitat loss as the cost of progress 2. Unbearable Anthropocentrism at Our World in Data 3. Local perceptions shape grassland restoration 4. What World Looks Like at 3C of Warming And more bit.ly/4aGotVm

thefifthestate.com.au/columns/spin... Designing for Country. Something else again. @sighmonger.bsky.social

@australiainstitute.org.au research reveals that Australians have already lost $104bn on gambling this year. If we still had the old $1 note, we could lay dollar bills end to end all around the equator & still have some left to measure the distance from Mel to Cairns. Wilkie's advice is excellent. 🌏

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07... Water is personal? Not just for profit.

Lots of links to news of interest to Nannas. knittingnannas.org/2026/07/07/n...

Call for action on justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. knittingnannas.org/2026/07/06/a...

www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2... Not good news. Just ask the neighbours of Cadia on the Belubula River in NSW. Do we ever "learn" from environmental and cultural mistakes? Not with rising Gold prices...alas.

UOW Chancellor Michael Still resigns as the state's corruption watchdog continues to investigate allegations of improper governance, recruitment decisions and consultancy engagements.

www.afr.com/policy/energ... @grattaninstitute.bsky.social on #Energy - note the important difference between "east coast" and "national" gas markets. #ACOLA @humanitiesau.bsky.social

Heat domes now, fires to follow. For historical background to Europe's fire scene, Undying Fire is published! 40% the length of Vestal Fire; half of it abridged and updated from VF, and half new and reconceptualized. Univ. of Washington Press even offers a 40% discount (code WAUT).

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07... KPMG can make auditing functional or expect to lose all future auditing tasks. Getting the umpires to work as goal kickers is corruption. If KPMG doesn't get that they can't play in the team.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07... No need for KPMG. Basic arithmetic. mortgage over 10X salary much harder to pay off than 5X. In 1980s mortgages were split - 17% on c 40% of mortgage c 13% on the rest. W/ paid overtime you cd pay off 17% quickly. *House prices* & bank deals are problem not % rate.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... Just as new #Antarctica exhibition opens at National Museum of Australia, a new (very old) dinosaur story... from Antarctica pops up @nationalmuseumaus.bsky.social

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... This is not just about veges & lockdown loneliness - it's about remaking urban nature. Developers have failed in local liaison. @abcnewsbot.bsky.social needs to fill in. I am glad the protestor is safe. She should cover the cost of her rescue not go to jail.

It's the last day of the financial year. I have had 50+ requests for donations, several from organisations I have JUST donated to. Can someone get the robots off the formulaic EOFY requests? They are insulting. Making it clear a donor makes no difference is a sure way to stop them donating again.

She will be missed.

No choice about cookies with ANU website. And no one to tell on bluesky.

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has been knocked back in a bid to gain access to raw documentary footage which featured Brittany Higgins.

On ANU website is accesible w/o marketing cookies. Turn them off and everything just stops -- irrespective of the policy memo (several pages long) which suggests a choice. Is this legal? @nteu335.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social @ouranu.bsky.social Glitch has been there for a month now.

Best summary of the roller coaster finance and business world of the last three decades I have read anywhere... Thank you @alankohler.bsky.social

insidestory.org.au/the-man-who-... "Yesterday's news" is important for understanding why ebola is emerging again... and many other serious problems too. Gordon Peake's review is excellent. @insidestory.bsky.social

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/poli... Time to call out media-led poll narratives. Well done @thesaturdaypaper.com.au G*na can buy media, but not #democracy Rubbish questions elicit rubbish answers.

A fearless, independent ABC that is free for all Australians is worth fighting for. Sign the petition to reject calls to defund the ABC force it onto a subscription model that would price out the Australians who need it most. abcfriends.au/actions/keep...

A fearless, independent ABC that is free for all Australians is worth fighting for. Sign the petition to reject calls to defund the ABC force it onto a subscription model that would price out the Australians who need it most. abcfriends.au/actions/keep...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... Sorry. Pocock is right usually. Why would this be different? Perhaps he called out the "consideration" so yet another deal is now shut down. More governance, less deal-making would please all but a few billionaires.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... It's start. But it's not the number of Exec Class positions, but the fact that some are grossly over-paid that is the problem. Corporate greed must not be normalised while tax-payers struggle to buy food & basics.

Porous Worlds: Histories, Environments, and Material Relations at the Surface-Subsurface Interface October 28-29, 2026 University of Bergen, Norway Submission deadline: 1 September, 2026 Explores the interface between surface and subsurface worlds. Dig in... Contact: Sarah Hamilton, U Bergen

"public interest" in the interests of for-profit consultancies/ outsourcing is NOT in the interest of the taxpayer. Isn't the taxpayer "the public" any more? Only the shareholders and the Executive Class that gets promoted for sleight-of-hand manoeuvres, it seems.🤔

insidestory.org.au/crackdown/ A long thoughtful view of how schools can fail kids. Start with the top and you are falling all the way... the kids are crushed. Add: confusing NSW with "national". Disaster. We need a PM from beyond Sydney now. Too many Sydneys in a row. Sydney is not 🇦🇺

Say it with me: 👏PLATYPUSES. 👏ARE. 👏NOT. 👏"PRIMITIVE"👏 All living species are equally "evolved". If you think a #platypus is "primitive" for laying eggs as its a trait they retained from mammals' reptile-like ancestors, then humans are also primitive for retaining legs from their amphibian ancestors

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... Sydney's weather isn't indicative for most of Australia. This bias in weather mapping is widespread as the Sydney-bias has grown. Poor kid!

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... Lovely story @abcnewsbot.bsky.social *** Please correct <specie's> to <species'> (AI can't do apostrophes). I want ABC to model good spelling for my grandkids.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... Some good news here. The fact is a "detailed" bill is not much help to the customer. Just offers a wealth of tricks for the big corp. Next: we don't want "deals" at all. Just a fair price, not a "new plan" each year. Some of us have better things to do.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/degrow... A feisty commentary. ADD ALSO: cost *front* end of Great New Schemes dreamed up in distant boardrooms. Social cost is $0 to Board Room Team. So charge $$$ for waste "disposal" a real cost for all. Tips the balance in favour of restore/renovate/repurpose over raze.

Dbytes #723 (17 June 2026) News in environmental decision making 1. No to bringing back native forest logging 2. Bottom-Tow Fisheries Sustainability 3. Credentials Don’t Convince 4. Diverse discourses in landscape restoration And more bit.ly/4uIfXwd

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... Here's a happy bird story from #Lorne, Victoria! Well done Men's Shed and many volunteers as well as a smart Council. We all need Bin Buddies too. They help with marauding humans as well. Cute birds survive humans again.

There is nothing to beat a wry dictionary for light reading. You may have to look under "science" to find it in your friendly Indie bookshop, but it's full of humanity. Bernadette Hince is brilliant.

Waste managers laying waste... this is a story all over many different Countries... consultants lack transparency & ride roughshod over local interests with "solutions" that create more work (for them. It's a business model)

whitehorsepress.blog/2026/06/12/i... A lovely riverine response by @harrycroft.bsky.social taking Aust Env Hist to Germany. Don't miss it! @iceho.bsky.social

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... If it's private they can walk away. So they need to pay enough tax while in business to fund new cooktops and friers when they leave - or they lose their bond. Renters have to pay one - why not billionaires?

Australia Institute research shows a 25% tax on gas exports could raise $17 billion every year. Funds from a gas export tax could create new infrastructure, fund new services and offer support for people experiencing homelessness. ✍ Sign the petition: https://theaus.in/4fBEG1s

A new essay in our series "Building Environmental History Around the World" is out! Margaret Cook here responds to Libby Robin's recent essay in Global Environment. All posts can be read here: www.iceho.org/notes-from-t... @libbydeq.bsky.social #envhist #envhum

www.iceho.org/an-environme... @mcookhistory.bsky.social has a great new post here @aehhub.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social

Don't miss this one if you are in Toronto! #Anthropocene @nichecanada.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social www.rom.on.ca/whats-on/exh...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... Perhaps the stadium is the problem not the solution? There will always be work in Aged Care Facilities - first to build them, then to care for ppl (AI can't do that). Why not target *real* problems & local ppl???