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Rod Campbell @rodcampbell.bsky.social · 5h

My new report is out - Adani sold coal at mates rates to India, avoiding $400m in royalty payments to Queensland

...and Qld's LNP gov doesn't seem to care.

Thread below on how they did it.

Write up in @australia.theguardian.com
@australiainstitute.org.au
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Adani denies claims it sold ‘below-market coal’ leading to Queensland missing out on hundreds of millions in royalties

Adani has strongly rejected the Australia Institute’s findings, including that customers paid an average of $102 a tonne in 2022-23

www.theguardian.com

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 3d

Why is the gas industry notorious for paying so little tax, despite making billions in revenue?

Santos has made it 10 years in a row paying no tax!

@grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social
#auspol

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16d

Five pretty vital questions

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Five unanswered questions about Trump’s Gaza plan

Details and timelines remain vague in the 20-point plan, unveiled in the White House on Monday.

www.aljazeera.com

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 21d

The secret is doing it in the app on your phone. Way easier

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 22d

I’ve seen the line that AI will lead to a UBI more than once so taking the time to call bullshit.

Are overseas megacorps going to fund it through higher local taxes? Utterly implausible. Will government fund it? With whose money?

AI is not the answer to inequality: I expect it’ll make things worse

Money for everyone an option as AI opens the door for basic income

COVID showed just how "fragile" our economic security is. As artificial intelligence potentially takes jobs from humans, a universal basic income might be a solution.

www.abc.net.au

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 22d

Gee, I wonder why a record number of people are leaving New Zealand

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 23d

Five publishing outfits and four of them have women founders. Thanks to @womensagenda.bsky.social for republishing my piece in the Conversation

Australia's newest publishers are dominated by women. And they're making defiant, weird, grass-roots books

Five new Australian publishers are bringing bold, grassroots books to life despite challenges in funding and distribution.

womensagenda.com.au

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 23d

Sheridan interviews Jordan Peterson for the book as part of the section on contemporary Christians even though, as the reviewer notes, Peterson doesn't identify as a Christian. It's a book that seems to fail on its own terms, as the reviewer notes

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23d

If you are in Canberra, get along to this. Have seen some of the clips and it is amazing/shattering

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 23d

Canberra! Join us on Wednesday for a special edition of Politics in the Pub with Gitty Yee, Tuvalu resident and climate campaigner, joined by @ebonybennett.bsky.social and @stephenlongaus.bsky.social. #auspol

Free, RSVP now:
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/save_tuvalu_...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25d

EVIDENCE-BASED GOOD NEWS FOR YA

A new report shows that a bunch of renewable energy companies have massively improved their human rights record. This is good! And important!

@reneweconomy.com.au @business-humanrights.org

reneweconomy.com.au/renewable-co...

It is something that must be addressed for the energy transition to be sustained at a high pace over the coming decades.

The 2025 edition, released on Wednesday, shows that “the renewables sector is making significant progress on embedding human rights into its operations, despite the challenging environment created by adverse government policies (notably in the USA), high interest and inflation costs”.

The reports authors put this down to two factors. First, a recognition among the companies that rampant human rights abuses in the renewable sector will only slow down the transition and weaken their businesses. And pre-emptive company policy change in advance of new European Union regulations.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 26d

Australian artists helped the nation survive the COVID pandemic, but our governments have left them in the lurch.

“If people can’t earn a living while making their art, newsflash, there’s not going to be a lot of art.”

- Skye Predavec, Anne Kantor Fellow

@skyelark.bsky.social #auspol

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 27d

Yes, separate from existing funding. The current funding is on a small scale that helps at most a handful of publishers in a year. What they have in Canada is much broader and more comprehensive system

Canada Book Fund - Canada.ca

Apply to this funding program which is designed to support the ongoing production and promotion of Canadian-authored books and strengthen the infrastructure and capacity of the industry.

www.canada.ca

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 27d

Worth linking to Eli McLean's Overland essay on Meanjin's closure and the state of publishing if you haven't yet

“No Guernicas, no sacred places”: On the closure of Meanjin - Overland literary journal

Australia’s literary culture depends for its life on its journals. Literary journals are not just clearing houses for pithy snatches of commentary and readable middlebrow fiction — they’re incubators ...

overland.org.au

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 27d

It felt like Australian publishing was shrinking with mergers and the shock closure of Meanjin - waiting to see the full story behind that!

But there's a few new players bring fresh energy and new books in recent months.

With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for excellent editing.

5 new Australian publishers are making defiant, weird, grass-roots books

The launch of 5 new Australian book publishers is good news, for once. Meet Perentie Press, Pink Shorts Press, Evercreech Editions, Aniko Press and Bakers Lane Books.

theconversation.com

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 27d

It's a subsidy to help book publishing. The original book bounty was just to support printing, but our submission calls for support similar to the system operating in Canada which helps all parts of the publishing process.

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 29d

Had my worst asthma attack in over a decade today. Any other Canberrans have the same experience? Wondered if it was the combination of pollen and the incoming storm

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · Sep 16

This is no time to open up crown land for hunting or allow silencers.

But that's what the NSW Government is considering legislation this week with legislation that risks winding back some of the critical laws that have drastically reduced firearm violence in Australia since Port Arthur.

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · Sep 16

We've signed onto this open letter coordinated by the Gun Safety Alliance.

The NSW Conservation Hunting Bill threatens public safety, risks poor animal welfare outcomes, undermines conservation efforts & erodes Australia’s globally respected firearm laws.

australiainstitute.org.au/report/submi...

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · Sep 15

Lots of calls for moderation and avoiding “extremism” right now. But sometimes extremes are evidence based: take radical action on climate action.

If you haven’t read Dead Centre by Richard Denniss yet, time’s a wastin!

Dead Centre: How political pragmatism is killing us (Vantage Point Issue 2) - Store - The Australia Institute

In this essay, economist and Executive Director of The Australia Institute Richard Denniss, explores the contradiction between centrism and evidence that sits at the heart of democratic debate in Aust...

australiainstitute.org.au

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · Sep 15

There's plenty of money in a rich country like Australian to pay for the things we want, it's all a question of choice.

Come along the Australia Institute's Revenue Summit in October to hear some of the big thinking we need right now including from Senator David Pocock and Kate Chaney MP

Revenue Summit 2025

Revenue Summit 2025. 9:00am 29 October 2025, Parliament House. Tickets strictly limited, book now!

events.humanitix.com

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · Sep 11

For a project I am working on - how do you think John Howard fundamentally changed Australia - what did he do that we are still feeling the effects of? (Housing, immigration debates, loss of workers rights, black arm band of history, jingoism etc)

Really interested in your takes.

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · Sep 10

The current government is "tying us to a dying empire led by a panicked tyrant"

@amyremeikis.bsky.social with some excellent assonance, and piercing political commentary

World as we knew it is gone – and we must shift with it

There's an emerging new world order – China, Russia, Indonesia, India and Brazil – and Australia is not even part of the conversation.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · Sep 9

Always like to see an accessible archive, but maintaining it isn't free. How long until a "purely financial decision" to shutter the digital archive too?

Meanjin archive to be ‘made available for free’ | Books+Publishing

Purchase a subscription to view job ads and other premium content on Books+Publishing.

www.booksandpublishing.com.au

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Rod Campbell @rodcampbell.bsky.social · Sep 8

Prime Minister gets doggy toy from INPEX.

INPEX gets Australian gas for free, sold for $50 billion.

Cool and normal.

@australiainstitute.org.au @markogge.bsky.social @punterspolitics.bsky.social

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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yes, there are books and poetry collections that emerge from lit journals and other pieces that date terribly, but they form a foundational part of our literary project

Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · Sep 8

She also notes, young editors "gain editorial and administrative experience that they can take to other organisations. Meanwhile, writers get paid for their work ... decent rates at established journals like Meanjin."

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