The Weekly Pint

But who polices the police?

Some of you might remember the reports that ACT police where being naughty with their use of telecommunications powers a meager 3,365 times. Well the Commonwealth Ombudsman has our back making eight recommendations to assist the AFP in addressing these issues

In this 2 minute read the fossil fuel sector will be subsidised about $40,000

According to the Australia Institute fossil fuel subsidies cost Australians $10.3 billion in the 2020–21 financial year. Which equates to $19,686 every minute. For comparison Jeff Bezos makes $152,207 (US) a minute and I make…….less

Australia’s science needs international collaboration and it needs to do it right

A recent report from Paul Harris at the ANU has outlined the need for some re-thinking of the nation’s science policy. According to him both our chief Scientist and Chief Defence Science need to take a good look at the national science system.

Back in red

In the lead up to the Federal Budget, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has given a speech indicating a changing attitude towards a budget surplus. This budget will be focused on driving down unemployment and not an austerity budget. You can almost feel the warm glow coming from the ghost of Menzies

How has Labour (not Labor) changed in Australia

The Treasury have released a working paper on the changing nature of Labour in Australia over the last 40 odd years. In good news participation of women in the workforce has increased, in bad news work is shifting from Full-time to Part-time. We are also seeing an increase in the number of people working past 65.

The sediment

From this week we will be bringing you a bit of sediment as all good craft beers do. This is a headline that we look at and think well that doesn’t sound right and fix it.

This weeks sediment “Tudge ‘concerned’ about colonisation emphasis in proposed curriculum changes” or as we think it should read “Tudge ‘concerned’ about accuracy emphasis in proposed curriculum changes”