If you are writing for The Age and write up a guy who went Brisbane - UQ - KPMG - Productivity Commission - Senate staff - Senate as some sort of existential struggler in life that's earthy because he once saw a cow just give up. Walk into the sea.
Nuances of language do matter. They influence how people think over time, often subconsciously. Objectivity is hard, but professional editors can do better than this.
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Hearings 62. Private hearings were held pursuant to section 62 of the NACC Act extending over 35 sitting days between 5 August and 3 October 2025. During those private hearings, each of the 6 referred persons and a further 33 witnesses were called to give evidence. See Witnesses. 63. The Deputy Commissioner considered the use of public hearings and applied the statutory test established under the NACC Act. The statutory threshold for public hearings in this investigation was not met. For more
NACC decided it wasn't in the public interest to make its corruption hearings with Morrison, Campbell, Mussolino etc public
I would conservatively estimate that 90% of Australians would disagree
What a fucking crock.
Two mid-level officials found to be corrupt by the NACC, but the big guns get off scot-free forever.
Post by Ken Yang: Chart shows corporate profits rising since 1980 while labor compensation share declines.
The only real answer is UBI as a dividend to citizens as shareholders
In the vast 725 book series called "Things Australia should have done but didn't", not having a critical minerals supply to accommodate global shocks - especially in an era of climate change and what will be increased disruption - looks stupid, and whilst we're starting now, it's still half arsed.
as it has been for 40 or more years, it is time to institute universal basic income
it provably improves GDP, productivity, national health, the economy, and unemployment
there is no sensible reason to not
what if the troops WANT to die in pointless wars to give their pedophile billionaire boss a semi-boner that lasts 90 seconds? Has anyone thought about that?
Stunning how much money America has to wage war and give to Israel but never enough for healthcare, education and infrastructure 🤷♂️
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
Albanese supports the Israeli-US illegal attacks on Iran. Wong says it's up to Israel & the US to decide if the attacks were legal.
So our AUS Govt no longer supports national sovereignty, human rights, international law or the int'l rules-based system?! Israel and the USA can do whatever?! #auspol
We can’t maintain any illusions of “social cohesion” without a fairer society.
That includes long overdue equitable taxation & housing.
As for schools, Howard instituted policies & funding so favourable to private schools. Despite Gonski, successive Labor Govts have done zip to redress this
Trump multiple times just today has said the country is at war. War can only be declared by Congress, and Iran posed no imminent threat. What Trump is doing there is a textbook illegal war and impeachable offense — if we still had a Congress.
“Providing the homeless with a place to live may seem like a high taxpayer cost. But the alternative, it turns out, is more costly, research shows. Subsidized accommodation could actually be a bargain for the public, in purely economic terms.”
Housing the unhoused saves money. Via @fastcompany.com
Difficult to tell from acting ABC Israel Correspondent Bridget Rollason's report today, but Israel and the US attacked Iran, not the other way around.
Hey @albomp.bsky.social you proud to be attached to the hip to this shit heel?
I have never been to Iran, served in the military, or worked in foreign relations, but I have played—and beaten—nearly every Prince of Persia video game. Here are my thoughts on Trump's demand for unconditional surrender... (1/32)
Penny Wong says the reason the war on Iran is worth supporting is it will
“keep Australians safe”
Supporting an illegal war for regime change with no evidence of a threat will not keep us safe. It will create a new wave of terrorist groups & who hate us like after Iraq. #auspol
It’s worrying that 160+ little girls were massacred by the US and America had just shrugged. But then I guess they don’t give a fuck about school shootings and paedophiles so I shouldn’t be too surprised 🤷♂️
Please don't make me tap the sign
Wilson has forged an extremely successful career whilst not being asked to provide even a basic level of competence in any of the roles he has secured.
A hero of our age.
Should I use my super to buy a $100k car….
Hats off to the expert satirist - who will one day be revealed to have been behind this column all along…
Rules-based order! But not when we don't like someone, we are the good guys though, apparently.
The question that very easily blows up all this double-talk is: “Would it be an act of war if another country did this to us?” Because OF COURSE it would.
Graph showing the index of profits and wages since 2001 (2001 = 100). Profits are at 492, wages at 335
With profits in December having a jump and wages not, this is what the latest graph of wages and profits since 2001 looks like
Sanctions @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social ?
Also the sheer hypocrisy of this guy running a (bogus) argument about not making people counteract their lifestyles when he was previously best known to us for trying to stop gay people getting married.
Deepest sympathies SA, it's going to be a very painful eight years of this rubbish for you.
All drivers should be made to ride a motorbike for a year before they're allowed to get behind the wheel
What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion
