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· Sep 3

The way the legacy media repackages extreme male privilege as "cancellation" is one of the great transubstantiation tricks of the 21st century. Modern-day alchemists.

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Was this aspect of employment outcomes discussed at the successful summit? 🧵

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Asher Wolf

@Asher_Wolf

· Sep 3

"Using Australian panel data, we find evidence suggesting that the unemployed subjected to MOs sustain their job search intensity, yet take longer to become re-employed and spend less time in employment compared to otherwise identical unemployed searching without MOs"

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Sep 3

The way the legacy media repackages extreme male privilege as "cancellation" is one of the great transubstantiation tricks of the 21st century. Modern-day alchemists.

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Chalmers rules out revisiting mining tax

Sep 2

Now if only we could get the kiddies in the forklifts, all our problems would be solved.

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Elizabeth

@biffynznewbie

· Sep 2

I love the fact that an 85 year old pensioner can now go out & earn more to help him live above the poverty line. Well done, @AlboMP and all the ‘experts’ at the Summit.

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When you see what has been achieved overseas with mining taxes - spoiler: it involves huge amounts of tax revenue - it makes Australia's unwillingness to do the same an absolute failure of public policy #auspol

afr.com

The Treasurer says he does not want to reassess the idea after Ross Garnaut proposed it at the Jobs and Skills Summit.

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Not enough of them?

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Sky News Australia

@SkyNewsAust

· Aug 31

Peter Dutton has hit out at the Albanese Government over the number of union officials it has invited to attend this week's Jobs and Skills Summit. skynews.com.au/australia-news

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'Nature credits' could make Australia the 'Green Wall Street' for the world: Plibersek

Sep 2

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously: a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed, but semantically nonsensical." Actually, I think he was onto something.

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This plan for the financialisation of, um, nature, and dreams of a being a "Green Wall Street" pretty much settles any arguments about Labor's neoliberal credentials, doesn't it? abc.net.au/news/2022-09-0 via

@ABCaustralia

abc.net.au

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek tells a G20 meeting that Australia hopes to create its own "Green Wall Street", where businesses from around the world can come to invest in environmental action....

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They didn't "snub" Frydenberg. Frydenberg snubbed them. So they *voted* for Ryan. Stop presuming a vote for a "major" is the norm and for anyone else is an aberration, a "snub". The frame is misleading.

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9News Melbourne

@9NewsMelb

· Sep 1

The Teal election wave is building, with an independent candidate running in Hawthorn - an area which snubbed Josh Frydenberg in May. But the campaign isn't bankrolled by Monique Ryan's backers. @msanto92 #9News

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Launching a biodiversity credit scheme based on our broken & ineffective carbon credit scheme (that has *increased* emissions) & having it run by the same people who oversee the carbon credit scheme - while both are under review- is so incredibly reckless.

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Australia Institute

@TheAusInstitute

· Aug 26

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: So-Called Biodiversity Certificates Scheme Another False Solution to Tackling Environmental Crisis Attributable to @pollyjhemming, senior researcher in @TheAusInstitute climate & energy program. #auspol

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Not only can we be the "Saudi Arabia of renewables", and the "Green Wall Street", we can also be the "Dickensian London of the jobs market". "Please sir, can I have a job?"

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Crikey

@crikey_news

· Sep 1

What's the Australian Retail Association's solution to the more than 40,000 job vacancies it can't fill? Better working conditions? Higher pay? Nope and nope. Child labour is the answer, they reckon – and they aren't the only ones to suggest it ... crikey.com.au/2022/09/01/ara

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A couple of Cnuts holding back the green-and-teal tide

Aug 31

Voters are happier than ever to see an empowered crossbench, and they don’t see that as instability; they see it as deliberative democracy. Dan & Dom bipartisanship isn't enough: people want a bigger table at which more voices can be seated and heard.

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Dan and Dom

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Albanese claimed $17k to stay in his own flat

Aug 31

Who knew fighting Tories came with such perks? "Labor leader Anthony Albanese claimed over $17k to stay in his own Canberra apartment." news.com.au/finance/work/l via

@newscomauHQ

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Labor leader Anthony Albanese claimed $17,169 in travel allowance from taxpayers to stay at his mortgage-free Canberra apartment for 59 nights during Sydney’s marathon lockdown while staging “gueri...

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Journalists need to do some actual research. Wesfarmers benefited from agreements that paid 50%+ of employees below award (and should have failed BOOT). This is all on the public record and part of a major Fair Work case in 2016

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EBA system is broken, says Wesfarmers

Wesfarmers, one of the largest employers in the country, wants the job summit to come up with simple fixes to the “broken” enterprise bargaining system.

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Mice and pigeons can be trained to do many simple tasks. Given our dire labour shortages, I hope they will be represented at the Jobs Summit.

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Home advantage: federal politicians’ hefty property portfolios revealed in register of interests

Aug 30

In fairness, it is difficult to raise the rate of unemployment benefits when politicians have to pay themselves $299 a night to stay in houses they own. (Trillion-dollar debt, don't you know.)

theguardian.com

In addition to residences and investments, dozens of MPs own homes in Canberra for which they can claim a $299 a night travel allowance

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'What are some of the concrete steps we can take to undo the damage wrought by governments in the thrall of the neoliberal lie that the wealth would eventually trickle down?' asks John Falzon. #JobsSummit #Labor #Wages

eurekastreet.com.au

Laying the foundations for an economy that works for people: the Jobs Summit challenge

While the Jobs Summit does not signal the end of neoliberalism, it does signal a political willingness by the Albanese government to begin an inclusive, deliberative process for healing some of the...

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Democracies are fragile. Australians must act urgently to safeguard ours

Aug 30

I can't tell you how wrong I think the thrust/conclusion of this article is. Actually, I can tell you, and just wrote a book about it. Our democracy is doing much better than this piece suggests. (Book available Dec 1) theconversation.com/democracies-ar via

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theconversation.com

Australia has a great story to tell about its democracy – recent events have shown the importance of understanding and celebrating that.

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Scott Morrison, what the bloody hell are you doing?

Aug 30

Peak prefect.

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Senator James McGrath

@SenatorMcGrath

· Aug 29

It has emerged that the Greens MP for Ryan has neglected to fly the National Flag in her new office. To assist her in correcting this gross oversight, one has been dropped off to her office today. I join with the majority of Australians in supporting our national symbols. #auspol

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⁩ SBS chief political reporter acknowledges the media’s failure to explain the serious implications of Scott Morrison’s gross breach of the conventions of ministerial discretion/responsibility. Virginia Bell investigation is justified.

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People did know, of course, and there was almost enough on the public record, but not enough for the MSM. I wrote this about the tourism sacking for an independent outlet in September 2021. Would have been helpful if Fran Bailey had spoken up then.

independentaustralia.net

Time and time again, Scott Morrison has demonstrated that he is ill-equipped to serve in a position of power, writes Paul Begley.

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Aug 27

This is an excellent point⬇️ Morrison was a symptom of a broader malaise, as much as a problem in his own right.

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Laurie Ferguson

@LDTFerguson

· Aug 27

First you are condemned to the incoherent hysteria of Michaela Cash and then you get a worthwhile contribution from Jennifer Westacott and Sally McManus. Cash proves that it took more than Morrison to create such a stagnant LNP

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Aug 27

"We kept secret that Morrison was an unfit person to run anything, let alone a country, and now we are gobsmacked people didn't know he was unfit." That thing when the establishment glimpses it's an establishment and not a meritocracy. (Is there a German word for schadenfreude?)

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Is it possible that writing articles about how an inquiry into Scott Morrison trashing our democracy might take attention off more important matters might take attention off more important matters?

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Geez,

, even "I'm-slashing-your-staff-allocation" Albanese gave the crossbench extra questions in Question Time. You really need to fix this.

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Zali Steggall MP

@zalisteggall

· Aug 25

Replying to @L_DeWeaver @zdaniel and 5 others

Afternoon briefing on @ABC has a regular segment each day with govt & opposition MPs discussing issues. They have declined to include independents in the segment to better reflect election & new diversity, unable to get past the two party system.

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Answering Waleed Aly's concerns about an inquiry into Scott Morrison

Waleed Aly argues he doesn’t see the point of further investigation into Scott Morrison's abuse of office, but says he is open to being convinced that an inquiry might be necessary. Challenge accepted.

tdunlop.substack.com

Waleed Aly has a piece in Nine Entertainment outlets this week in which he wonders aloud what the point is of an inquiry into Scott Morrison having himself secretly sworn into five other ministries...

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It’s paywalled, which raises a number of issues

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Anthony Albanese

@AlboMP

· Aug 26

Read the full op ed here: dailytelegraph.com.au/bush-summit/bu

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Glibertarians, a case study

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Insiders ABC

@InsidersABC

· Aug 25

#Insiders host @David_Speers speaks to #AfternoonBriefing host Greg Jennett about the Government’s announcement of a Royal Commission into the unlawful debt recovery scheme known as “Robodebt” #auspol

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Dystopia for Realists | Lizzie O’Shea

So you're a quiet authoritarian with no appreciation of industrial history and the way in which power works?

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“The price of both success and failure in various automation experiments is paid by the poor and marginalized, upon whom these systems are tested and refined, while simultaneously denying them the resources and capacity to challenge them.”

thebaffler.com

Automated decision-making systems already influence millions of people’s lives every day—often in insidious ways and without accountability.

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Aug 25

Been reading the terms of reference for the Royal Commission: Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good. O well done! I commend your pains; And every one shall share i' the gains;

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Aug 25

Maybe this speech will give someone at the ABC the courage to take a similarly brave stand. theguardian.com/media/2022/aug

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