Will these rorts never end? How much longer are we going to transfer wealth to the #ExtractiveIndustries in their efforts to dig up Australia and line the pockets of Corporates and the #MiningMagnates ?

“The ruling opened the door for other local governments to scrutinise miscellaneous license holders, a move which the mining sector said could cost it $55 million a year.”

The WA govt is yet again caving in to #MiningSector demands. There’s no end to the #Grifting here. No end to the #ProfitScrounging.

#StateCapture #AusPol #WAPol

Read more:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/wa-government-exempt-miners-paying-rates-supreme-court-decision/105605200

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/27/the-attack-on-australias-net-zero-target-is-reckless-and-gutless-voters-expect-more-than-intergenerational-bastardry

...even here in Goldstein, where the demographic is older than the national average, polling still consistently showed climate in the top three concerns of constituents.

Look no further than ‘partial’ #privatisation and #corporatisation of public assets for this bloody mess. The sort of mess #StateCapture has historically left us all with. Everybody pays more for failing servives. Yes, there’s no hint of ‘enlightenment’ from out foolish polies entranced by the Janus-faced #neoliberal pundits. It’s a well worn path to inequitable wealth redistribution to the top.

<Quoting from Wikepedia> In 2008, the State Government passed the Water and Sewerage Corporations Act 2008 [4] as a result of a report from the taskforce. The Act transferred council-owned water and sewage assets to three new entities: Southern Water, Ben Lomond Water and Cradle Mountain Water. A fourth entity, Onstream, provided shared services to the corporations, including payroll, billing and procurement. The state's government and the 29 Local Government councils of Tasmania became joint owners of the corporations, with Onstream being jointly owned by the three corporations. These changes took place in July 2009. <end quote>

https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/114905481339309521

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-21/act-former-anu-chancellor-criticises-proposed-university-cuts/105555786

It’s nothing short of criminal to have upended the traditional governing models of Universities in a quest to subsume every enterprise to the buffoonery of corporatism and debunked neoliberal economic fantasy.

Tertiary sector bean counters ought to have remained adjunct to academic leadership as facilitators of educational excellence.

Household budget imperatives have no place in the education system nor in govt charged with nurturing all of their charges. Anything deviating from this responsibility is a failure of their ‘duty of care’.

He seemed to go all loopy & horrible during his NAB tenure, but before & subsequent, i reckon this is A Good Bloke.

https://insidestory.org.au/lets-just-get-this-done-shall-we/

#KenHenry #AusPol #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

#AusPol #COP31 #ClimateCrisis #StateCapture

https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/ban_fossil_fuel_lobbyists_from_cop31

This is an excellent, concise analysis of the different ways the state is being captured by private, vested interests. By #AustraliaRemade (@_MillieRooney).

"The state is constantly changing and being changed. The way the state works, who is given and who takes power, is constantly shifting and always contested. Deciding to consciously affect this flux is not radical. It is simply paying attention to the way things are evolving and then stepping into the fray as an intentional force.

We can either sit passively and watch this happen or we can remember that the forces controlling the state are only powerful so long as citizens comply with ideas, practices and actions that legitimise their exercise of power.

To do this, we need to understand not only what the state is, but how it is currently being changed and repurposed by those who seek to gather money and power at the expense of the citizenry."

#AusPol #Governance #StateCapture

https://www.australiaremade.org/remake-the-state

Neoliberal hijacking of government endangers people and environment. How can we save ourselves?
https://www.australiaremade.org/remake-the-state

#AusPol
#StateCapture

citynews.com.au/2025/no-easy-a…

AFAICT this is a very real looming problem, yet our cretinous AusPol lack-of-leadership bullshit shemozzle is either exacerbating this, or at the very least, not helping. Eg... each time i begin again to ponder if i could possibly overcome my personal demons to fully electrify my home [ie, endure all the intensive peopling needed] when our gas prices rise [ie, increasing the economic desire to convert], what happens? Yep, our fucken electricity prices rise as well, thus reducing or eliminating the economic incentive.

Ofc all the climate, & moral, reasons remain to more than justify converting, but so far, w/o also the strong economic reasons, my demons keep winning the day. For normal, non-me, peeps, sans my demons, the confused economic signals alone prolly entirely prevent them converting.

Fuckheads, our govt.

Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News

Old king coal is spluttering as power plants age out of usefulness

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/old-king-coal-is-spluttering-as-power-plants-age-out-of-usefulness-20250611-p5m6hs.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

Spectacular bit of Elbow gaslighting!

"The environment minister had to deal with the North West Shelf project under the existing EPBC Act, that we did try to change in the last election," he said.

What
A
Dickwad

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-10/labor-laxale-climate-epbc-environment-laws/105394378

There's nothing new per se here, but it's nonetheless a saddening read, gaaaaah.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-08/fossil-fuels-warming-planet-democracy-in-retreat-does-labor-care/105378134

I can just picture, if Jim Hacker had proposed this, Sir Humphrey responding with "that's a very courageous decision, Minister"

https://reneweconomy.com.au/death-spiral-of-gas-networks-is-the-500lb-gorilla-standing-in-way-of-energy-transition-heres-a-solution/