As far as I'm concerned

I feel like I would be the perfect morning person except I’m always seven hours early…

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:40:48 +1000

I feel like I would be the perfect morning person except I’m always seven hours early…

havingheavyboots: Nude by Radiohead… covered by Wesley...

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:47:32 +1000

havingheavyboots:

Nude by Radiohead…

covered by Wesley Blaylock

japanlove: Design of the PS4 revealed

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:43:37 +1000

japanlove:

Design of the PS4 revealed

Update of my happiness jar. Look at all of those notes of...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:31:37 +1000

Update of my happiness jar. Look at all of those notes of happiness!

tucchazindagi: Why not, West End?

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:23:17 +1000

tucchazindagi:

Why not, West End?

nostalgic-intentions: Update on my jar of happiness #2013...

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:18:58 +1000

nostalgic-intentions:

Update on my jar of happiness #2013 #jarofhappiness #goodthings #notabadhaulsofar

Nice jar of happiness you’ve got there!

What on earth is Abbott thinking?

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:23:29 +1000

gillardlabor2013:

“I’ll say it again: in the wake of the news this week that since the carbon tax was introduced last year, ”electricity generated by highly polluting coal-fired power plants had fallen 14 per cent … while renewable power had soared”, why on earth would the Coalition dismantle it to replace it with a proposal that gives ”financial incentives to companies that cut carbon emissions … [to] cost $3.2 billion over four years”? Under the current carbon tax system, the heaviest users of electricity pay the most heavily for it; under the Coalition’s system, all taxpayers contribute to bribing the polluters to no longer pollute.

Honestly, does that make sense?”

source

For everyone thinking somehow they will be better off without The Carbon Tax there is also the question of what the Coalition’s policies are in relation to lowering carbon emissions. The above represents essentially what they plan to do. The payments for people for the increase in electricity prices will still remain, but without the money from the Carbon Tax they will need to find it elsewhere. Superannuation maybe?

From the Liberal website:

“As soon as the Carbon Tax is repealed, the Environment Minister will introduce legislation to enact the Coalition’s Direct Action Plan on climate change and carbon emissions.”

The Energy Supply Association of Australia has itself warned the Coalition about the falling demand of power and that they should review their policy. Multinational energy companies, while reluctant to take sides, mostly side with the idea of an emission trading scheme such as Europe’s, which we will be linked to come 2015. That’s if Abbott doesn’t scrap it before then.

machistado: jhameia: bitchouttahell: cleophatrajones: yannick...

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:05:48 +1000

machistado:

jhameia:

bitchouttahell:

cleophatrajones:

yannickbrouwer:

This little company from Kenya makes toys from slippers that wash up on the beach. Pictures by Ben Curtis

How glorious is this?! Upcycling at its finest…

I have a couple bracelets made from the same stuff! yay

The company’s name is Ocean Sole: http://www.ocean-sole.com/

Oh my god, can they teach me?! I’m going to explode.

"If the worker consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist."

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:42:41 +1000

“If the worker consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.”

- Karl Marx, Capital vol 1, The Working Day (via anarcheluxemburg)

sprinkledwords: Christine Milne: I speak today for...

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:07:35 +1000

sprinkledwords:

Christine Milne: I speak today for children.

Two minutes into this video and I feel half like crying, half like screaming YES.

Christine lays down some deeply uncomfortable truths. Every Coalition and Labor person present or watching should be squirming in their seats.

rosetheunicorn: Internet embargo till the Eurovision Final airs...

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:00:42 +1000

rosetheunicorn:

Internet embargo till the Eurovision Final airs in Australia :D

Go Greece!

thedorseyshawexperience: The Cola Road (2013)

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:53:12 +1000

thedorseyshawexperience:

The Cola Road (2013)

"Tony Abbott’s proposed fiscal approach, outlined in his budget reply on Thursday, is based on some..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:38:13 +1000

“

Tony Abbott’s proposed fiscal approach, outlined in his budget reply on Thursday, is based on some disconcerting gaps in logic. Mr Abbott says that if the Coalition were to be elected on September 14, it would aim to ”take the budget pressure off Australian households, and … strengthen our economy so that, over time, there’s more to go round for everyone”. But his initiatives suggest the Coalition would be a government for business, not the people.

Mr Abbott may offer platitudes suggesting the Coalition cares for the broad swath of middle Australia and their ambitions, but its focus will be profit above people; those on low incomes and the disadvantaged will be left behind.

Take, for example, Mr Abbott’s plan to scrap the twice-a-year payments to people on low incomes and government benefits. Here we find his first contradiction. This is not a payment to dole bludgers, as some conservatives like to deem anyone who receives government payments. The supplementary allowance, introduced by the Gillard government in the 2012 budget, totals just $210 a year and is payable to those on Newstart, the youth allowance, parenting payments, Austudy, sickness allowances, the exceptional circumstances payment, transitional farm family payment or special benefit. One million people are eligible for it, but, if Mr Abbott has his way, they can forget even such modest assistance.

”

- Abbott focuses on profit, not people - The Age (via imnotcaradelevingne)

tucchazindagi: Rally for Marriage Equality Brisbane - 18/05/13

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:34:30 +1000

tucchazindagi:

Rally for Marriage Equality Brisbane - 18/05/13

Photo

Sat, 18 May 2013 03:12:26 +1000

verisimilitude

Sat, 18 May 2013 03:03:53 +1000

verisimilitude

basedsushigoat: lmao economic equality doesn’t imply cultural homogeneity

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:33:28 +1000

basedsushigoat:

lmao economic equality doesn’t imply cultural homogeneity

god I’m so pretentious…I just want to feel normal without having to ‘act’...

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:21:50 +1000

god I’m so pretentious…I just want to feel normal without having to ‘act’ it.

do you ever read up on events in history and wish it will end in a way you know it won’t...

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:05:17 +1000

do you ever read up on events in history and wish it will end in a way you know it won’t because you already know the ending is?

I love you Wesley.

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:37:20 +1000

I love you Wesley.