The human impacts of Australia’s housing market. Nurses needing to deliver Uber Eats to supplement their incomes because their rents in Sydney and Melbourne are too high. Duel income parents having to rely on a local Food Bank once a week because their combined incomes do not

Want to discover what communities and countries are doing to redesign the economic system to serve people and the planet? 🌱🌏 At the #EconomyforPublicGood 28 Nov, Dr Katherine Trebeck (a less than infrequent X user) will be sharing these practical and inspiring stories. RSVP here - weall.org.nz/economyforpubl…

The best journalist in America is a 56 year old construction worker from New Jersey.

.Oxfam International "strongly condemns" killing of water engineers in Israeli Gaza strike. The 4 men were killed on their way to conduct repairs to water infrastructure. Despite prior coordination with Israeli authorities their clearly-marked vehicle was bombed. trtworld.com/middle-east/ox…

We are LIVE for today’s webinar w/ Sandrine Dixson to discuss planetary boundaries, living well on a fragile planet and ‘Earth for All’, a survival guide for humanity, with Ebony Bennett #auspol There’s still time to join us – register here: australiainstitute.org.au/event/from-lim…

"This is not just about energy transformation. If our economy is geared toward productivity only…then immorality will continue to encroach, including on the actions of politicians." - Sandrine Dixson #auspol #climate

"We often hear from Aust’s gas export industry, "we have a shortfall, prices going up, not enough supply", it's ridiculous." - Ebony Bennett "There are so many false narratives that are being thrown at us." - Sandrine Dixson #auspol #climate

"The way in which the oil and gas sector have been able to continue to extract and privatise it and keep it in their own hands, is really quite ethically immoral." - Sandrine Dixson #auspol #climate

And that's a WRAP! Thanks for joining us, fantastic to have Sandrine Dixson on our webinar to talk #climate & a changing world with Ebony Bennett. 'Earth for all' website: earth4all.life You will be able to access a recording here in coming days: australiainstitute.org.au/event/from-lim…

If you missed our event with Sandrine Dixson last night, you have one more Australian opportunity on Monday night. In person in Melbourne or live streamed, hosted by CPD

Pretty disappointing that such widespread calls for reform are being dismissed, especially when some sensible tweaks to CGT & negative gearing could be used to incentivise new housing supply. Govt should release this Treasury modelling for scrutiny. afr.com/politics/feder…

A small group of people running a handful of global coal, and oil and gas corporates are causing this, and making $trillions. While rest of us pay the costs. amp.theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Such a pleasure to join the wonderful Tulitha King, Mark Spain & crew at the Aussie premier of Martin Oetting | @[email protected]'s #PurposeFilm in Canberra. Full house, great chat & hospitality from Gang Gang cafe. More info & an open invite to host a screening: purpose.film/how-to-watch/ #WellbeingEconomy

Castlemaine will be hosting a screening of the film Purpose on Friday December 6. There will also be a Q&A with Katherine Trebeck (a less than infrequent X user) (one of the film's key protagonists), Merryn Tinkler from the Council and me, talking #WellbeingEconomy and all things wholesome events.humanitix.com/purpose-film-s…

The 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 governments support the ‘Wellbeing Economy’- which assesses the economy using social and environmental outcomes, not just GDP growth WEAll organised a screening of the film ‘Purpose’ on this issue, and I took part in discussion with Gareth Hughes and Katherine Trebeck (a less than infrequent X user)

There is now clear evidence that a number of crucial system-level tipping points have been reached, in some cases decades to centuries earlier than had been projected. Seven of nine sustainable planetary boundaries have already been exceeded.

Contrary to global policymakers’ stated collective intent, petrostates — including Australia, Canada Norway, UK & USA — and big oil have signalled their intention to abandon mitigation commitments and continue to expand production in the coming decades.

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

This is an excerpt from Katherine Trebeck (a less than infrequent X user)'s keynote at our Economy for Public Good Conference. In her speech, Dr Trebeck asks questions like what is the purpose of our economy? Is it a goal in its self? Or is it a means to get to our ultimate goals? Full speech: vimeo