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My article in @aunz.theconversation.com today on the update of #DoughnutEconomics by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and @kateraworth.bsky.social in @nature.com. It's well past time we reoriented the economy to serve people and the environment instead of profit and rent extraction. #WellbeingEconomy.

We did it. The Castlemaine Community Investment Co-operative borrowed $2m in small loans from 330 community members and bought our first building. We will permanently remove the building from the market to be managed by the community for the community #CommunityWealthBuilding www.castlemaine.coop

The moment has arrived. The Castlemaine Community Investment Co-operative is now raising capital for this exciting #CommuntyWealthBuilding project. We want to buy The Hub and make it community owned for good. Like a term deposit, we're borrowing money and repaying with interest www.castlemaine.coop

Our #CommunitWealthBuilding #cooperative in Castlemaine is building up to its first capital raise in June. We're looking to borrow money from the community to buy the iconic Hub building in town. More details at castlemaine.coop. www.linkedin.com/posts/jeanet...

A good one from Matt Golding in The Age today.

Catastrophic bleaching of #Ningaloo reef in WA with fossil fuel driven global warming record sea surface temperatures is absolutely gut wrenching - but no one should be surprised. This has been long predicted by the scientific community. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I'll be speaking on Friday on a great panel at the Community Tax Summit in Melbourne and online. You can still get tickets. The summit has a really impressive lineup of contributors - a real who's who of tax in Australia. Really looking forward to it.

“Patriotism is an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.” George Jean Nathan #AustraliaDay #InvasionDay

Great article here from the Midland Express on Mount Alexander Shire Council's work towards a #WellbeingEconomy. Thanks to Katherine Trebeck for coming to our little town of Castlemaine for this screening of Purpose. midlandexpress.com.au/latest-news/...

Let’s find a new perspective starting with poverty.

The Wellbeing Economy in Brief that Katherine Trebeck and I wrote early last year made APO's 2024 top 10 list for economics publications. Good company to be in with publications from ACOSS, the Productivity Commission, Impact Economics and Policy etc. #WellbeingEconomy apo.org.au/top-10s/econ...

Thinking of these 20 Just Stop Oil protestors spending Christmas in prison - here’s to a brighter future where profits and dividends are not considered more important than the fragility of our living planet #juststopoil

Mimbres School 2025 Courses: SPRING: Slavery and Unfreedom When is Capitalism? Philosophy: Friend or Foe? SUMMER: Domestication Syndrome Anti-Kant FALL: Political Arithmetic Prehistory of Islam Childhood Tuition $250. Registration open soon. See thread for descriptions

You actually can though, that’s the whole point.

Here is a list of (semi-)economists on BlueSky who work on climate change impacts, adapation, mitigation, strategies, policy, etc. Suggestions for relevant omissions are welcome. go.bsky.app/B8TM2GS

Here's a list of people on BlueSky contributing to the debate about economic growth vs environmental sustainability. This includes those writing specifically on growth positions, such as green growth, degrowth and agrowth. The list also covers folks promoting beyond-GDP metrics. go.bsky.app/NKz1ex3

Albanese told parliament that he want to make sure "children have a childhood and parents have peace of mind"... and so he is raising the rate of govt assistance to ensure children will not live in pover...oh wait, sorry I am being handed a note...

Looking forward to speaking with Kim Shore and Graham Boyd at this online RSA event tonight at 7pm AEDT. We'll be talking #WellbeingEconomy, regenerative economy and, presumably, ergodicity (come along to find out from Graham what that is). www.eventbrite.com.au/e/re-designi...

My book about Bergson! Reviewed! In the New York Times! What a time to be alive! My book is described as "lively and deft"! 🤓 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/b...

So, disaffection among voters with the current political & economic system is increasing votes for independents & minor parties & the major parties respond by- checks notes - changing electoral laws to make it harder for minor parites & independents to get elected www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Australien Government has made an ad about our next federal election, and it's surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol #preferentialvoting #twopartysystem #2025election www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oxQ...

And the share of Republicans who say the economy is getting worse is down 30-points since election. today.yougov.com/topics/econo...

The share of Republicans who say that they’re worse off financially than they were a year ago is already down 15-points since the election.

Castlemaine will be hosting a screening of the film Purpose on Friday December 6. There will also be a Q&A with Katherine Trebeck (one of the film's key protagonists), Merryn Tinkler from the Council and me, talking #WellbeingEconomy and all things wholesome. events.humanitix.com/purpose-film...

I've been added to a few starter packs, which means I'm getting a lot of new followers at the moment - too many to easily keep up with. Hello to all of those who I know from Xitter and, to those who are new to me, looking forward to getting to know you through interactions here.

As promised (threatened?), I made a starter pack of heterodox and political economists! You'll see a range of pluralist theories here, as well as some heterodox-friendly economists that may be more mainstream. go.bsky.app/J86RtKh

POV: the ENTIRE senate crossbench voting for parliamentary scrutiny of 400 pages of electoral reform that doesn't commence until 2028 Major parties teaming up to oppose & hide from scrutiny their desperate attempt to maintain the duopoly.

This is just too much. Cops arrested Noonga children at a program designed to keep kids out of jail. They turned up ,5 carloads of them, armed and aggressive, and terrified children, running names and handcuffed ,arrested 3 kids. This comes after a recent death in custody of a child.

This cartoon by David Horsey haunts me when thinking/reading about #COP29.

Part 2 of Nina Lakhani and Hilary Beaumont's investigation into how the fossil fuel industry helped pass anti-protest laws, create harsher penalties for civil disobedience & deploy resource-sapping strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Just a reminder, If you criticise a politician for changing their mind, by negatively calling it a backflip, you lose the right to lobby for change. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08...

I was on @RNDrive this afternoon talking about the federal government's wellbeing framework, Measuring What Matters and why it's still important, despite the fact that we won't be hearing much about it in #budget2024 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Ok @adammorton.bsky.social says it even more plainly! "Australia’s forest regeneration method is the world’s fifth biggest nature-based offsets program" And it doesn't work Carbon offset schemes are effectively crediting "abatement that is non-existent, non-additional and potentially impermanent”

Pistachio harvest is good this year. Long term scorecard Gardeners: 1 Cockatoos: 8

Our real estate #cooperative in #Castlemaine must be the real deal now - it has t-shirts. castlemaine.coop

In January: Unemployment rate 4.1% (up from 3.9%) Underemployment rate 6.6% (up from 6.5%) Underutilisation rate 10.7% (up from 10.4%) The labour market is still very tight but a disappoint set of figures

Our local community investment #cooperative is now a legal entity and taking memberships. We're also having a proper launch on March 6 in the Castlemaine Town Hall. Locals can join now at castlemaine.coop/join Below article from the Castlemaine Mail.

US: There's just no way to avoid defensive voting. AUSTRALIA: Actually, with compulsory preferential voting there's no need at all to- UK: I know, right? Just have to hold your nose and vote strategically. There's no other way! AUSTRALIA: Well, no, see if you just- US AND UK: No way to avoid it.

From @kudelka.bsky.social in Saturday Paper

Great turnout for Free Palestine 🇵🇸 rally in Castlemaine.

Special edition of the Cambridge Journal of Economics celebrating the 120th anniversary of Joan Robinson - her lessons for today academic.oup.com/cje/issue/47/5

Always a good day when new Joan Robinson books arrive in the post.

BREAKING NEWS!! @EDOLawyers client and Traditional Custodian Raelene Cooper has won her case against Woodside with the Federal Court ordering an injunction against Woodside on its Scarborough offshore oil and gas project. 💚💚💚 www.edo.org.au/2023/09/28/w...

We’re forming a cooperative here in Castlemaine to buy real estate and manage it for the benefit of the community. Systemic solutions may be a long way off so we’re taking matters into our own hands locally. midlandexpress.com.au/community/20...