Not Good Enough

62 — Combustable assets

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The Yallourn power station is breaking down and everyone won't shut up about NFTs, so we chat talk about mining for coal and mining for cryptocurrencies.

 

Labor landslide
  • Mark McGowan has led Western Australia’s Labor party to a landslide victory.
  • Liberal party leader Zak Kirkup used to have a business card calling himself “Future Prime Minister”.
  • Labor are talking about keeping WA’s border restrictions going indefinitely.
    • Gas rorts
    • The Federal government has spent millions of dollars in consulting fees to work out how to give millions of dollars to the gas industry.
  • The AEMO already does this!
    • Stop Yallourn, I can hear you already
    • The Victorian Yallourn coal power station is scheduled to close in 2028, 4 years earlier than previously planned.
  • Angus Taylor is big mad.
  • The Hazelwood power plant closed with six months notice, and a murky fund to support workers.
    • NTFs? Not Fuckin Talking-about-them
    • Bitcoin is bad, but Ketan Joshi’s article is good.
  • NFTs are bad too. How bad? Really bad.
  • I dunno about this very expensive art either.
  • The real world art market sucks too.
    • Shoutouts
    • Follow @RAFFWU on Twitter for updates on Readings worker’s EBA.
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