Aged care provider since 2003. Follower of equities, global macro, FX, global affairs. Free to choose. Squash diehard. Father of daughters.
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"Social cohesion" exists naturally in societies which are homogenous - with shared values reinforced through generations of family, community and institutional education. When government seeks to mandate social cohesion - by eliminating free speech - it simply results in suppresion of society's dissatisfaction with the policies which have destroyed our natural social cohesion; policies the political class are responsible for.
Here comes the UK-style Thought Police... The solution will be worse than the problem. Labor and Liberal are hand in glove.
About damn time.
anthropic is about to watermark the text claude writes for you, worldwide, starting tuesday. the detector goes to regulators, journalists and big enterprises. everyone except the person who paid for the text.
so your cold email, your linkedin post, the resume you rewrote three times can get flagged as claude by some hr tool or editor, and you can't even run the check yourself to see what they'll see.
openai only does this in the eu. anthropic rolled it out everywhere.
you pay them monthly and they build a snitch layer on top of your work.
It's like 07 all over again. Have your cash ready for bargains.
Down Under, Going Under: Australian Housing Implodes As RBA Hikes Into The Slump zerohedge.com/markets/down-uโฆ
Homebirthing makes no sense. We would have lost our first daughter in a home birth. So many complications can arise way beyond a midwife's skillset.
#BBAU is the only TV show that can get me to watch FTA
Who is publishing this pathetic introspective garbage?
afr.com//work-and-careers/caโฆ
Clueless Labor raising the cost to do business. Their only supporters are Unions Australia.
theaustralian.com.au/nation/โฆ
Screens in classrooms is counter-productive, toxic. Students should be focused on listening, thinking and handwriting.
Ministers to debate crackdown on classroom screen time afr.com/politics/federal/minโฆ
Is it worse to be despised or unknown?
theaustralian.com.au/nation/โฆ
Exactly.
@grok , if you don't apply any critical thinking in your answers, you should state you are just going by government/bureacrat press releases.
Russell Egan ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ retweeted
I was severely overweight at the start of 2025. Almost pushing 400 pounds. I limited myself to 500 calories a day, took the correct vitamins and my body ate the fat to survive lol. Hereโs a chart of all of my weigh-ins for 2 years.
Happens to thousands of aborted babies every day in Queensland.
She died alone in a bin, and the rest of us just moved on
couriermail.com.au/news/opinโฆ
LINOs need to get out. No FTA is worth selling out to the EU climate scam.
At least one Liberal to cross floor on Europe trade deal theaustralian.com.au/nation/โฆ
Russell Egan ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ retweeted
PANTS ON FIRE?
โWeโve found a further $63.8 billion in savings and reprioritisations, taking the total since coming to government to almost $180 billionโ
So said the government in the last budget
That claim โ that the government has saved $180 bn since first elected in 2022 โ isnโt what the official figures say:
ยท Those numbers (contained in the budget papers in what I call the Table of Truth) actually say the cumulative cost to the budget of government decisions since first elected has been $103bn โ as seen in the chart here
ยท Thatโs the net of decisions to increase spending (at $142bn) and decisions to increase taxes (at $39bn)
ยท Or, to put that gently, the official figures say the exact opposite of what the government claims โ its decisions have made the budget worse, not better
Of course all politicians put the best possible spin on their actions. But this particular one gets way too much airplay
Notably, the official estimate of a net $103bn worsening in the budget due to policy decisions is about the most flattering possible way to measure what has actually occurred
For example, it excludes the costs shifted off-budget
And it excludes the cost of decisions that are government policy, but werenโt decided on by Cabinet. That means the (much needed) lift in wages for child and aged care workers isnโt counted as a cost attributable to the government, but rather to the Fair Work Commission
To be clear, all politicians kick dust into the air like this
But we need to judge them on their actual track record, not on what they say that track record is โฆ
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Milton Friedman explains why price controls donโt solve inflation, using a simple analogy involving a boiling kettle.
Freezing prices and wages while continuing expansionary economic policies is like putting a brick on a boiling kettle while turning up the heat underneath it.
You can suppress the pressure temporarily, but you havenโt addressed the underlying problem.
Russell Egan ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ retweeted
"More than 100,000 people came on student visas, but they weren't really coming to study, they were coming to work."
- Albanese government source
And this is what they are willing to publicly admit to.
The rental crisis could have ended years ago if they acted on this farce.
The Australian Government public service is a joke and takes itself seriously at the same time.
youtu.be/nE8DK6NjQC8?si=Joquโฆ
Disgusting
18 year old Africans beat a vulnerable WHITE 14 year old girl with autism at Altona pier in Melbourne.
White kids are regularly being targeted, abused & harmed in Melbourne now.
At the local schools near me, the White kids are bullied & are called โWhite Trashโ by 3rd world migrant kids.
This used to be a 95% White Aussie country town.
New Modern Australia โ ๏ธ๐ฆ๐บ
All of the fake students need to go home
'Labor warns against 'overcorrection' on student visas as universities face $2b revenue hit'
This is all such a farce.
They know the system is broken, rorted and hopelessly compromised, yet here we are it largely continues.
abc.net.au/news/2026-10-30/lโฆ
