It is encouraging that the Albanese government has opened a conversation over how we fund the ballooning care costs and support for vulnerable citizens.   It is concerning that the initiative is via a discussion paper and, no doubt, a plan to control the discussion and guide it to an outcome that fits the Labor agenda.   It’s time that all politicians realised they do not have sufficient trust to force their biased agendas upon the public after a sham consultation lacking detail, facts and analysis.   It is time that Citizens' Juries were used to resolve such complex and important matters!

A team of engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have identified that "literally any kind of material can harvest electricity from air, as long as it has holes smaller than 100 nanometers (nm), or less than a thousandth of the width of a human hair.” https://www.umass.edu/news/article/engineers-umass-amherst-harvest-abundant-clean-energy-thin-air-247

Kihara is an artist of Japanese and Sāmoan descent who is recognised for her interdisciplinary work – often using photography