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Australia’s peak body for novated leasing said the Coalition’s call to scrap the Electric Car Discount during a fuel crisis makes no sense.The Coalition wants to end the EV discount, which is helping Australians avoid petrol and its price shocks for good, in order to fund a short three-month halving ofthe fuel excise.“Any proposal to cut or reduce the EV Discount during the middle of a fuel crisis is irrational,” National Automotive Leasing and Salary Packaging Association (NALSPA) CEO Rohan Martin said.“It makes no sense to cut a policy that is helping Australians avoid petrol forever purely to fund a…
The Net Zero Economy Authority’s decision to apply for enforceable, co-ordinated transition support for workers affected by the closure of Eraring Power Station is an important milestone for coal power workers and communities, the Mining and Energy Union said today. NZEA CEO David Shankey announced today he has applied to the Fair Work Commission for a ‘Community of Interest’ determination, the first step towards an Energy Industry Jobs Plan which ensures affected workers receive training and redeployment support. The application covers direct and contractor employees at the power station and captured coal mine Myuna, covering 1,300 workers. MEU General President…
Gardening videos attract millions of views on YouTube each year, but an innovative research project has showed how this content could be critical in protecting Australia’s biosecurity. The project by Charles Darwin University (CDU), supported through the Northern Australia Biosecurity Strategy, combined YouTube gardening content and OpenAI to map urban green spaces and detect previously unregistered community gardens across northern Australia. Researchers fed a dataset of YouTube content into detailed large language model (LLM) prompts. The prompts classified whether a video related to community gardens and extracted the name of the garden, its address and a summary of the clip.…
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