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TheCrankInstitute
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Pictures, politics, piffle. Freelance illustrator living in sunny Melbourne, Australia. OzPol & other bad jokes: https://t.co/bjMM2oNNqP
Mar 14, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Feb: "Peter Dutton personally slashed millions in grant funding from organisations that were strongly recommended by his department to improve community safety, & used the funds to support his own handpicked list that did not follow his department's recommendations."-> "Mr Dutton also used the funds to support grants for two councils — in the lead up to a by-election in a highly marginal seat — that his department recommended should not be funded at all."->
Mar 14, 2022 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
SBS reports Epidemiologist Prof Adrian Esterman from Uni SA saying BA.2 now makes up about a quarter of Aust Covid19 cases: "In Denmark, almost 100% of all cases are now BA.2. In Aust, it's about 25%. But 2 weeks ago, it was 10%. In 2 weeks' time, it will probably be 100%." -> "We're seeing very similar rates of hospitalisation & ICU admissions for both BA.1 and BA.2. ...For all intents & purposes, you can think of it as identical to BA.1 - but much more transmissible." ->
Jan 30, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Scott Morrison, Sat Jan 29 (while clasping an unlucky koala in front of media): "We love to throw our arms around koalas, & they love to throw their bear arms around us when we get to have a cuddle. What this is about is continuing to throw our arms around our koala population". Continuing? In the last 20 years, Koala numbers have halved in QLD & dropped 60% in NSW. Land-clearing, drought, & fire mean koalas are currently on track for extinction by 2050.
Jan 28, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1100 aged care homes are now locked down, with outbreaks affecting over 7000 residents & staff. Between January 7 & 14, the number of homes with Covid more than doubled. Jan 14 was the first day Richard went to the cricket.
The PM has expressed full confidence in the minister. Image In Morrison's response to the damning Aged Care Royal Commission report last year, only a fraction of the recommended funding-increase was promised (most is yet to be allocated), offending providers were kept on, & no moves were made to improve the pay & conditions for staff.
Nov 10, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
In Estimates a fortnight ago, Treasury confirmed its "minimal" role in figuring the gov's 2050 Net Zero plan. Modelling instead came from private US consultancy McKinsey & Co. That's the same company Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor was a partner at in the early 2000s. Angus' brother Charlie was, until recently, a senior partner with McKinsey. Now brother Charlie is the Liberal Party's federal treasurer. An old student rowing-buddy of Angus', Christopher Gradel, ended up at McKinsey too...