Bought a book. It was awful. Didn't want it on my shelves, but couldn't throw it away, so it sat on a table near the door. Rushing to an appointment this morning, grabbed it to read. Then went to breakfast and had nothing else. So I spent the morning reading the worst book I own.

It's kind of mind blowing when you think of how James Dyson's company is 100% privately owned by him. A company making over $8 billion in revenue.

Most of what The Australia Institute calls a subsidy is the fuel rebate ($8.9bn in FY24), which predominantly goes to mining, agriculture & transport. Not the oil'n gas industry. If the fuel tax rebate is considered a fossil fuel subsidy, by the same rational the government collected $11.1bn in tax from the fossil fuel industry in 2024. This is on top of $21.5 billion in royalites and corporate taxes in the same year. industryqld.com.au/oil-and-g… HECS is a loan, not a tax. When the government collects this, it's just getting it's money back with inflation added on top.

Richard Dennis lies. The fossil fuel industry is not subsidised in Australia. Interestingly it is in Norway, his ideal country for oil and gas exploration. He must know this. The National Press Club should be ashamed for lowering their standards to host a deep Green propagandist as a speaker.

W/ Sydney Water under Aus Square inspecting Tank Stream, water source for Gadigal, & European Aus’s first regular drinking supply & later waste water tunnel - right into harbour! First site of battles b/w consumers & industry for water shares. Candidate for nat. heritage listing?

Dear Publishers - We are getting increasingly frustrated. We often spend years on a single(!) study. It includes a lot of planning, expensive experiments, discussions, complex data analysis and writing the final masterpiece. Our students spend their most precious time on it. Our postdocs work to the limit because they know the cost of tenure-track positions. When we finalize the study, we write a thorough story and submit it. And we often celebrate because it’s done. We celebrate all the work we put into the study. But only to find out later that our manuscript is left sitting on someone’s desk for years. __ We don’t blame the editors, many of whom work tirelessly for very little compensation to assess submitted papers, find reviewers and make difficult decisions. Editors are often the same faculty & scientists as we are. We blame the system that favors business over science. The system in which we are expected to use our precious funding just to have that PDF uploaded online. Those $10,000 fees come from taxpayers’ money. Our students could attend 3 conferences instead. We could buy chemicals, instruments, computers... In other words, we could spend it on science and education. But instead we give $10,000 to a journal so that our PDF gets ‘approved’ and comes online, generating up to 40% profit margins for the publisher. __

A war has erupted in the medical community, on social media and in health policy over cholesterol-lowering statins, a drug taken by 2.2 million Australians. Now an eminent cardiologist explains why he thinks the anti-statin argument is nonsense.

Behind the scenes footage from Sam Kerr’s wedding to Kristie Mewis has been posted online with fans losing their minds.

Buffet has commissioned no plays, no poems, no symphonies, no operas, no ballets; funded no paintings or sculptures that will outlive him; endowed no theatres, choirs, or orchestras; built no monuments, great homes, museums, churches, monasteries, chantries, baptistries, almshouses, or civic buildings that future generations will marvel at and enjoy.* He has added less to the common stock of civilisation than any man as wealthy before him. He's right that greatness does not come about through accumulating great amounts of money, which is what he is known for, but beyond that it's fortune cookie-level advice. It's not wrong, but that's about it. * His partner, Charlie Munger's contribution to architecture was to fund factory-like college dorms in which a majority of the apartments don't have windows.

You’d need 3 of these to replace a single nuclear reactor:

Ignoring capital costs is fraud. If you pay $20,000 extra for an EV and $10,000 extra a home battery - you can’t ignore these costs and pretend you are saving money. If a business did this in a prospectus, the directors would be in jail. But this is just par for the course for Net Zero grifters & spivs - they lie about everything.