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Alice Springs
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The PHI rebate is the worst health policy decision in my lifetime. At least beginning to reduce it for people over 65 is a step towards intergenerational equity and the beginning of winding back our two tiered health system. Once again the Greens are on the wrong side of equity
The Senate has rejected the government's controversial budget measure to cut the private health insurance rebate for people 65 and older. @michellegrattan @UniCanberra theconversation.com/senate-t…
abc.net.au/news/2026-10-05/l… The NT should just copy the Queensland legislation now rather than taking far too long to develop and then pass its own legislation. We do not need to reinvent the wheel.
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In a new systematic review of all the GLP-1 family drugs in late stage clinical development vs obesity, retatrutide blows them away for efficacy @AnnalsofIM
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I've just signed to hold the media to account. Will you join me? act.getup.org.au/s/bjhGUi56
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Look at this graph.
The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.
This is why we must build back union power.
They have been a dynamic duo and have both strengthened the union movement and advocated for a fairer more just Australia. They have been able to put sone restraint on the unfettered accumulation of capital into the pockets of the super rich Thankyou abc.net.au/news/2026-07-27/a…
The name of a Ghana soccer midfielder is all over the media after he was refused entry into Canada because he is facing multiple rape charges. Normally there are immediate consequences to being on multiple rape charges unless you are a senior, white male doctor in Alice Springs.
Come live and work in Central Australia where the air is clean, the skies are blue all the time and the country is mentally uplifting it is so beautiful We need you. abc.net.au/news/2026-05-12/a…
This is such great news for social justice in Australia. Housing is for living in and should not be one of the most attractive ways to make a profit. This delivers something significant for all Australians currently locked out of the housing market. abc.net.au/news/2026-05-05/l…
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Alcohol use disorder accounts for 5% of deaths worldwide annually, and there is an urgent need for new treatments.
A new study found that GLP-1 reduces heavy drinking days in treatment seeking people with alcohol use disorder and obesity: spkl.io/6012AfU04
ALT Figure showing effects of once-weekly semaglutide compared with placebo on\nreduction in heavy drinking days and total alcohol consumption. Changes from baseline (week 0) to follow-up (week 26) are shown for mean percent heavy drinking days in the last 30 days (A), and mean alcohol (g) consumed during the past 30 days (B), in participants randomly assigned to semaglutide 2\u00B74 mg (n=54) or placebo (n=54). Participant level changes by treatment group are in appendix 1 (p 15). SEM=standard error of the mean. Copyright: 2026 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. CC BY 4.0.
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Health alarm about efforts to water down alcohol regulation in Northern Territory croakey.org/health-alarm-abo…
Socialising the delivery of essential services while leave the market, competition and profit as the basis for commodity production is not communism but the cornerstone of future participatory, social democracies. EC is not the place for private profit abc.net.au/news/2026-04-13/a…
Genuine wealth taxes on the top 1% are needed globally theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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"A much stronger cancer-preventive potential of obesity prevention and control than previously established"
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… @JAMAOnc
The failure to introduce significant wealth taxes on the super rich is a choice government make and this would help to bring down inflation as well as fund the services and programs that help to build the human capacity to increase productivity abc.net.au/news/2026-02-03/c…
In search of the elusive Bancor as promoted by John Maynard Keynes at Bretton Woods. Some ideas stand the test of time. Without a new way of regulating the global economy the extreme levels of inequality create multiple crises abc.net.au/news/2026-01-26/t…
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📢 No to genocide. No to war. No to ICE. Trillions of dollars poured into occupying communities from DC to Palestine, Chicago to Venezuela while people suffer, starving, unable to make rent or get medical treatment.
U.S. militarism is out of control and we are paying the price while corporations and authoritarians profit. But we can get organized to make sure we leave no one behind. #NoIceNoWar #FoodNotBombs #InvestInLife
Via @rising_majority
This is a terrible decision but it is only to be expected when the Australian Prime Minister did not publicly refute the allegations from Netanyahu that the Bondi massacre was caused by the Australian government’s recognition of the state of Palestine. theguardian.com/australia-ne…
