vimtrop's profile picture. fascination with pointless pursuits and the ordeal of misinformation, othetwise a reasonable happy chappy.

Peter Vimtrop

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fascination with pointless pursuits and the ordeal of misinformation, othetwise a reasonable happy chappy.

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@abc730Australians own our natural gas, not the gas companies,and if international prices have been pushed up by war, some of the super profits should be returned to Australian consumers who own the resource #auspol


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The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, built with a 78% tax on oil and gas export profits, is worth $1.4 million (AUD) per family of four in Norway. For over 30 years Australian governments have denied the Australian public their rightful share of sale of our natural resources.

Total oil and gas sector revenue (blue) vs total government revenue from oil and gas (orange). Comparing Australia 🇦🇺 and Norway 🇳🇴 from the late 1980s. Read more @TheAusInstitute's "Off the Charts" 👇 australiainstitute.org.au/post/norway-sh…

DanielBleakley's tweet image. Total oil and gas sector revenue (blue) vs total government revenue from oil and gas (orange).

Comparing Australia 🇦🇺 and Norway 🇳🇴 from the late 1980s.

Read more @TheAusInstitute's "Off the Charts" 👇
australiainstitute.org.au/post/norway-sh…


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This week I will travel to Brunei Darussalam and Thailand to further deepen our engagement with Southeast Asia. Brunei, Thailand and Australia have a shared commitment to ASEAN centrality and will work together to ensure a stable, resilient and prosperous region.


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How China came to dominate the solar panel industry based on pioneering work by Prof Martin Green research 18 Sept 2021 — "Zhengrong kickstarted it all," says Martin Green, a UNSW professor who is a legend in the world of solar cell research. abc.net.au/news/science/2…

abc.net.au

Australia's solar bust: How it all went so horribly wrong

Twenty years ago, Australia appeared set to be a global player in the solar panel manufacturing industry. Today, with panels in high demand, we hardly make any of them. Here's how we lost our head...


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In just one sentence explain this? 🤔😳 #auspol

lesstenny's tweet image. In just one sentence explain this? 🤔😳       #auspol

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Cassius Turvey a 15 yr old boy in his school uniform was lynched in the street by a bunch of white men yelling racial slurs A child was murdered by white supremacists in broad daylight in a public place This didnt happen in America or South Africa it happened in 2022 in Australia


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And what on earth does that have to do with Bruce L?


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Voting Labour will solve none of our socio economic-issues: both main parties are set on continuing the legalised private extraction of UK Rent (of land and other natural resources). There is an opening for a party to embrace Rent as state revenue as did George and Churchill.

agr_slrg's tweet image. Voting Labour will solve none of our socio economic-issues: both main parties are set on continuing the legalised private extraction of UK Rent (of land and other natural resources).
There is an opening for a party to embrace Rent as state revenue as did George and Churchill.

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Quite telling that the average Australian pays a much higher percentage of tax . These big resource companies not only rape our resources but also rape our tax system.


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Gough knew... And @AlboMP you need to know!

sydols's tweet image. Gough knew...
And @AlboMP you need to know!

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smh.com.au/politics/feder… Adele Ferguson writes about the appearance of the AMA president on 7:30 where he said the claimed $8b Medicare leakage had been debunked but couldn’t say by whom!


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I don't particularly like Thorpe or her divisive style of doing things. Doesn't mean she's unfit for Parliament. That's a term I reserve for those who are truly bad actors, not just those divisive and controversial in their advocacy.


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Question for Australia.⁉️ If Julian Assange is in Prison for exposing Information on Hillary Clinton / Putin. Why aren't Alexander Downer and John Howard in Prison for Bugging Timor Leste.?


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Stern Review on Economics of Climate Change in 2006 made it clear that cost of not acting on climate would be far higher than taking strong early action. @Barnaby_Joyce was in the Senate when @Greens raised all of Stern’s conclusions. LNP knew then. Rural Aust sold out. #auspol


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Barnaby Joyce racked up $675K in expenses in 3 weeks as drought envoy. He says he sent texts to PM Scott Morrison who blocks FOI requests & refuses to release phone records. Retweet if you want a forensic audit & a police investigation with all documents made public. #auspol ICAC


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Ohh. There's no money in making peace that's clear.


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