Australia's elites do not want lower home prices. Any politician in a major party who promises policies to make housing more affordable is lying. Prices have dropped only 10% in Syd and 7% in Melb, yet this is now a political emergency. Why? (1/n)

I wish the umpires would offer autographs to their fans at the cricket. I’d love to get Marais Erasmus’ scribble. #ICC #AUSvSRI #Cricket #gabba #AUSvSL #7Cricket #Erasmus #snicko

Capitalism: good news! with technology we can produce more with half the work. Workers: cool! so we only have to work half the hours? Capital: … Workers: we get paid double? Capital: … Workers: we retire sooner? Capital: … Workers: … Capital: btw, we rolled back your pensions

The nice thing about being middle class or rich is that you can fuck up or get unlucky and it won’t necessarily be a big setback. But if you’re poor, one missed piece of paperwork can be catastrophic. We should make more space for poor people to fuck up occasionally

watch this this is why baseball can never get close to cricket

"Speers spent 10 mins trying to get the Treasurer to admit 1+1=2, instead we've got number salad & everything except clarity," "When we remove LMITO & replace it w Stage 3 tax cuts everyone up to $90000/year is going to be worse off." Full #SpinBin here! youtu.be/Dalz9aKQRlg

The Liberals are warning social security recipients that they'll have to return any overpayments. But wait: what would the ad campaign look like if they took the same approach with big companies that got millions in JobKeeper despite rising profits? #BillionaireKeeper #auspol

If the Morrison Govt hadn’t spent so much of JobKeeper 1.0 on firms that didn’t need it, there'd be plenty left to support Sydney workers. The $26.9m that Best & Less profited from JobKeeper in 2020 could pay the full salary of all its employees in NSW for over a year. #auspol

Morrison’s gave $13 billion of your money to firms with rising revenue. It’s the biggest government waste in Australian history afr.com/policy/economy… #auspol

It says something about the Morrison Government that it can't even match the ethical standards of Gerry Harvey andrewleigh.com/even_gerry_har… #auspol

Still the best interpretation I’ve read of the mechanism by which the Great Recession led to populism, by Anne Case and Angus Deaton: