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We need to be aware of the malign influence our own billionaires have overseas.

Murdoch family falls under this idea as well, and I'm sure plenty more. Even Macquarie bank needs a kicking for how they've treated british water.

We need to begin holding our own accountable, economically or criminally, especially when their actions undermine the democratic will of our closest allies. What weakens our allies weakens us. These people are messing with Australia's National Security and our ability to rely on stable and unified partners.

I'd expect the security services to at minimum have a strong, quiet word with Ms Rinehart about her conduct here.

Soft coral grippers, with a side order of AI.

Healthy coastal ecosystems like mangroves, seagrasses, and saltmarshes can provide an incredible array of services to both people and nature. They provide nursery habitat for fish and crabs, feeding areas for shorebirds, help improve water quality and protect communities and homes from storm surge events and flooding. They can also absorb and store carbon at concentrations up to four times higher than terrestrial forests and retain the carbon in sediment for millennia.

Nature Tourism is it a good thing to engage in? Or no longer appropriate?

Grazier using wild donkeys to regenerate land in legal battle.

From the article,

The four steps recommended are:

1. Legislate for ‘absolute net gain’: Australian law must ensure that any biodiversity loss from development is fully compensated and that conservation efforts result in an absolute net gain in biodiversity, not just improvements relative to ‘business as usual’. Currently, the Australian definition of nature positive deviates from the internationally accepted definition, which would allow biodiversity to continue to decline.

2. Limit and compensate for biodiversity loss: The study warned against allowing developers to compensate for environmental damage through payments that may not directly benefit the impacted ecosystems, which risks replacing more threatened and harder to replace habitats with ecosystems that are less threatened and/or easier to replace. Further, some biodiversity is irreplaceable, and so it is important to limit, and if possible, avoid negative impacts to irreplaceable biodiversity in the first place.

3. Secure net gains beyond development impacts: Australian law must address and reverse biodiversity decline beyond simply compensating for the loss of nature from development impacts. This will require a significant boost to conservation funding and resourcing.

4. Enforce transparent monitoring: Effective and transparent implementation of biodiversity policies is crucial. Dr Ward highlighted that many threatened species in Australia lacked proper monitoring, making enforcement of biodiversity protection laws difficult.

Short run down of some potential renewables opportunities the Future Made in Australia legislation could support.