Professor of International Law, University of Sydney Law School.
Councillor, Inner West Council, Sydney, 2021-2024.
www.sydney.edu.au/law/about/our-people/academic-staff/tim-stephens.html
orcid.org/0000-0001-9678-2227
Born at 331 ppm CO2
Tim Stephens
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New study finds increased wildfire smoke has erased 4 years of progress in controlling surface ozone pollution. "Premature deaths from fire-sourced ozone have increased by 318 deaths per year since 2013, with post-2013 mortality 46% higher than pre-2013 mortality." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
“Australia’s leading constitutional expert says One Nation senator Tyron Whitten could be in breach of section 44 over a family company which has contracts to help build Snowy Hydro.”
#auspol
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“It’s a sad observation of human behaviour that people or organisations with something to gain or lose – money, power, status, influence – will, with few exceptions, resist anything that threatens those interests, regardless of the reform’s broader merits.”
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“Green energy is shielding Australia from a global power price shock″ (8/6) should be compulsory reading for all Australians, but particularly Joyce, Hanson, Abbott, Taylor, Canavan and Rinehart.
Tim Douglas, Blairgowrie
@theageaustralia.bsky.social letters
It's odious for a billionaire to appropriate the left's language (Whitlam's 'men and women of Australia', and FDR's 'New Deal').
Clive Palmer thinks Australians are stupid, and consistently loses elections, despite having limitless funding.
Hopefully he'll split the cooker vote in 2028.
#auspol
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists:
X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
"Scientists studying Teshekpuk Lake on Alaska’s North Slope found that warming winters and changing snowfall patterns are reducing ice thickness below the levels traditionally required to support heavy military aircraft."
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“The average NSW resident is already $20,000 a year worse off because of historical climate change, and economic modelling suggests future global warming will further squeeze household budgets through a double whammy of lost wages and higher grocery bills.”
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The speed-running to "how many cabinet spots could we get from Poorline" / "can I be Speaker" etc continues. I thought it would be at least another month until Lib / Nat leaders started openly talking about *governing* with PHON. They will be having a joint party conference in October at this rate.
Take this to the 2028 election Pauline! And as the Coalition will preference One Nation and may enter into a coalition govt with them they should be asked every day whether they support this.
#auspol
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Leading constitutional lawyer says WA senator could be disqualified over Snowy Hydro contracts, but Pauline Hanson says there is no question over his eligibility
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As sure as night follows day, within a few months the predictions of doomsday currently dominating sections of our media will have proved to be illusory.
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
Arctic ice runways are becoming too thin for military aircraft, raising new questions over polar logistics and aviation access.
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As well as the cost of extreme weather and natural disasters, longer-term climatic changes are also a drag on economic productivity, the NSW Net Zero Commission says.
One Nation’s polling surge, which has pushed it above Labor and the Coalition, has focused attention on the right-wing populist party’s policy platform.
