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Farmers across the United States say they could face financial ruin – unless there is a huge taxpayer-funded bail out to compensate for losses generated by Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts and chaotic tariffs.

Need that sweet, sweet socalism. Last time Trump chipped in some few billion tax dollars to help out the "welfare queen" farmers, I assume they think he will again as they go cap in hand amd tug thier forelock to m'lord ?

Lead author Professor Peng Bi said the impact of climate change on mental health was “only going to get worse” without action.

“From mild distress to serious conditions like schizophrenia, rising temperatures are making things harder for millions,” he said.

High temperatures, according to the report, contributed to an annual loss of 8,459 disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) between 2003 and 2018.

A new study led by a team at the University of Adelaide’s School of Public Health has found the burden of mental and behavioural disorders could increase by almost 50 per cent by 2050.

A reminder to myself as yet anothwr reason why I moved to Northern Tassie from FNQ (via Northern NSW)

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/20839222

One of Australia’s largest conservation organisations has awarded the federal Coalition just one out of 100 for its environment and climate change policies – the lowest score it has given the Liberal and National parties in more than 20 years of compiling pre-election scorecards.

Labor scraped through with a pass – on 54% – while the Greens achieved 98%, according to the scorecard, which ranked the major parties and key independents on their policies for protecting nature, championing renewable energy, and rejecting nuclear and fossil fuels.

As a Greens voter, I am bemused they scored that high, must be a low bar, which is scary considering how low the two main parties ranked.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/20836481

Mallon warns some Australian neighbourhoods could become what he calls “climate ghettos”.

“There are certain areas where you will start to see a negative spiral,” he says.

One of the major obstacles preventing reform is that no-one is willing to admit there’s a problem, according to Mallon.

Shocked, I'm, shocked... Well, not that shocked.

He says because banks and insurance companies have exposure in these sub-prime climate markets, it’s not in their interests to raise the alarm.

Vote for the same people, get the same outcomes ?

We're on the eve of destruction....

The rightwing advocacy group Advance has acknowledged it is paying for election materials attacking the Greens to be used by third-party groups during the election campaign.

The Advance spokesperson said: “Our campaign against the Greens won’t defeat teals because it was never meant to. We have been crystal clear for the past 18 months that our focus is on the Greens this election.”

Advance has also focused on the anti-renewables movement, appearing at “energy forums” across the country and events held by groups set up to oppose the rollout of offshore wind and solar energy.

What a bunch of truly shitty people :(

I find this remarkable (and wonderfully recreshing) , in Australia we seemingly want to buy expensive housing to get on the grift.

As John Howard said, he was never approached by anyone about making housing more affordable, as well as Plibersek as Housing Minister in the Rudd government,.wbere before that election saying first home owners gramts where a bad idea as all they did was raise house prices, gets elected to government and increases the first home owners grant as her first task.

Didn't work out as she'd hoped I guess ?

The trial heard the "statement of notice" the woman handed to the care worker asserted she was "a living being sovereign to this land" who "hereby renounce and reject my former engagement with the courts… and their kronies (sic)… and disregard all orders as null and void".

Throughout the trial the woman regularly interrupted the proceedings, resulting in Judge Haesler finding her in contempt of court.

"[She] repeatedly interjected, directed personal insults to me and others, harassed witnesses (including her own [children]), refused my directions and orders and talked over me excessively," Judge Haesler wrote in a scathing judgement.

Over the decades, more than 200 bird species have been recorded at the EBO, which is wedged between Western Australia's remote south coast and arid Nullarbor Plain.

Originally a station on the Trans-Australian Telegraph Line, the remote property is now a known ornithological hotspot.

But for Ms Sobey, who has previously run as a Greens candidate for the federal seat of Farrer, the bush is the perfect escape from the "disappointment" of humanity.

I can emparhise with that feeling completely.

This kind of tugs both ways at me, the extra work just to buy a house, the waste and rubbish from festivals and events.

Respect and happy for the guy as an individual, reinforces my dillusion at society generally i guess?

But over the course of seven years, he managed to collect about $46,000 worth.

His can and bottle money was enough for the 36-year-old to put down a deposit on a two-bedroom home on the NSW Central Coast last year.

While he holds down a permanent job during the week, Mr Gordon also volunteers at events like music festivals, where he collects thousands of cans and bottles at a time.

Some of these events like weddings and music festivals, they produce so much waste."

Bethany, a mother of two from Bogalusa, is one of them: her third baby is due on April 4, and Medicaid will cover the whole cost of delivery. Cutting the programme would be a “huge step back for all of us”, she says. “Times are hard — we can’t afford it ourselves right now.”

Bethany, who declined to give her surname because she does not want to publicise her political views, voted for Trump in November. But she says she is surprised at all the talk about curtailing a programme that has become indispensable to her and her family.

EJ Kuiper, chief executive of Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System (FMOLHS), which runs the Bogalusa hospital, says more than 40 hospitals in Louisiana are at risk of closing if Medicaid funding is reduced.

Get your kit off Melbournians and join in for the 20th anniversary this weekend.

Paywalled, archive link below

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“You simply can’t achieve something like that by accident. Reckless indifference, perhaps. Wilful acts of bastardry, more likely. Accident, no,” he said.

Henry, who called for personal income tax rates to move with inflation, said not only were young people being hurt by increasingly high average tax rates, other policy areas were stacked against them.

“Young workers are also being denied a reasonable prospect of homeownership,” he said.

“They are burdened by the punishing costs of securing a tertiary education.

“And it is they who will have to bear the multiple burdens of catastrophic environmental destruction.”

As an older Gen X, I agree.

In my defence, I voted Independent for the first 20 years and have only Voted Green for the last 20 and I have never voted for any politicians who has ever won either at a local, state, or federal election.

That said, look what happened when Shorten tried some reform polices at the election before last, Australin's voted en masse for fcuking Morrison! So... what do voters ?