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The AFR with the list of 50 richest CEOs in Australia. Weirdly they are counting unrealised share holdings to determine how rich they are. But the AFR has been telling us that you can't count such things when trying to tax super balances above $3m. Guess these people aren't really rich at all....
The government doesnโt allocate a specific percentage of GDP to health or education. Why should defence be any different? On this Dollars & Sense, @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social & @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social discuss 'magic' defence dollars & the PM's China trip. #auspol ๐ง theaus.in/3TMzpb6
Devo to hear Steve Colbert & the Late Show folding. Attended a live taping last October in NYC. Just as fun as you'd think it would be. Got to invite him to come to OZ in his Q&A before the show.Told him he could stay at our place, said "he'd think about it"๐คฃ Bucket list achievement right there!
"Like an old street directory, the left/right/centre map of Australian politics is dated, disorienting and dangerously incomplete." "We need a new map." Dead Centre, the Vantage Point essay is available to pre-order now โคต๏ธ @richarddenniss.bsky.social australiainstitute.org.au/store/dead-c...
Giving billions in tax cuts to big business would strip $57 billion out of the budget, meaning less to spend on things like hospitals and schools. Our research details 10 reasons why Australia does not need company tax cuts. @jack-thrower.bsky.social #auspol
Richard Denniss is going on tour for his new book, Dead Centre: How political pragmatism is killing us. He'll discuss the breadth of the choices the Australian government has, and the bravery they need to address Australiaโs biggest challenges. Details below! @richarddenniss.bsky.social
Santos has committed three decadesโ worth of damage to the environment, but itโs one of only two big gas companies located in Australia. With foreign investors wanting to buy Santos, what does this mean for Australiaโs future? @markogge.bsky.social #auspol
Watching Armageddon because why not, everything's on fire, and in this flag-waving tale of an anti-environmentalist oil rig worker who saves the world on a space shuttle called Liberty, you can see how we all become unthinking pawns for an evil empire, even Aerosmith.
I canโt believe people keep associating Trump with Epstein just because they were close friends when 43-year-old Trump was dating a teen. Surely, a man who peeps on beauty pageant contestants, sexualises his own daughter and has been adjudicated as a rapist in a court of law is above suspicion?
Oh man, this is a story. Monique Viele was a 14-year-old girl whose โmanagementโ as a tennis player Trump MYSTERIOUSLY took over and whose career never progressed beyond her early promise. She disappeared and he never managed a tennis player again. www.thetimes.com/sport/tennis...
Good morning from Seven Hills, NSW, Australia, where at 8 am, on Friday, July 18, it is a sunny ยฐ7C. Breakfast over, beds made dishes done, now to make a big pot of Vegetable Soup, I also have some left-over BBQ Chicken which I will turn into a curry for tea. Have a great day, catch up later. ๐
Outsourcing is becoming more common, as the unemployment rate jumps to 4.3%. "Those skills people have in Australia are now going to be developed somewhere else, potentially where there's lower labour costs, less safe work practices." - Dr Lisa Heap, Senior Researcher #auspol
The Reserve Bank have chosen to keep interest rates on hold even as more people are losing their jobs. โItโs a strong indicator of not a strong economy and one that could have certainly done with some interest rate cuts.โ - Greg Jericho, Chief Economist, @grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
My curried (left-overs) Chicken tastes great . . . should have taken photo before I attacked it, wife also likes it. Watching Open Golf Rnd 2, live from Northern Ireland, where there are 5 players tied for 1st at -4. Have a good night, or whatever it is wherever you are; you are all in my thoughts.
Shops closing because of online & peoples hanits changing after covid is pretty common throughout Australia. In my little country town most shops have close now apart from the pub ,supermarket, baker & butcher www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
I'll watch @6newsau.bsky.social coverage of the Tasmanian state election result on Saturday night. Sadly, ABC News' political coverage is now so blatantly pro-Liberal, it's excruciatingly unwatchable (and not just David Speers). #auspol #taspol #TasVotes #6NewsAU