The latest construction of language around financial ‘responsibility’ - ‘making room’ for ‘investments’. Also framing as ‘we’ve found another’. Political success hinges on winning this battleground and perceptions of economic competence through ‘responsibility’.

“As a jewish person I don't feel safe now... It's not because Israel is unsafe because its Jewish, Jews are unsafe because of Israel...”

"In fact, there is not a single key technology behind the iPhone that has not been State-funded." -Mariana Mazzucato

Howard Reassures Australians That No Matter How Divided We Feel in This Moment, He Can Always Divide Us More theshovel.com.au/2025/12/19/how…

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This is great but tbh they should widen the base more than the level. There are tonnes of things not covered by subsidies that should be. E.g. we have to pay $200 a month for daily at home blood test strips.

Get ready for the most exhausting game of the year: The 2026 Culture War Bingo

David Ricardo showed in 1817 that if each country produces according to its comparative advantage, global output is maximized. Many analysts argue today that China's trade surplus reflects its comparative advantage in producing everything, and so its trade surplus is good for

Really funny that it is mainly the RWNJs markets people railing hard against the move to a tiny budget deficit, which was largely the result of income tax cuts, who them complain about income taxes being too high. Blissfully, they expose their pig ignorance having never been near

Paradigm change. How it started.

For the folks who have a problem with the RBA raising rates, feel free to press the government to use its tools to better contain inflation in a much more targeted way. There are all sorts of things they could do to help bring down inflation starting tomorrow.

Let's have a look at some facts in the private vs public demand contributions to GDP & the rather lame discussion about the significance of govt demand in the inflation uptick in the second half of 2025. In the latest data, the year to the Sep qtr 2025, GDP growth was 2.1%. The

The idea that “44% of the cost of new home construction is taxes” is just made up monash.vic.gov.au/files/assets/p…

What people who keep quoting this graph don’t realise is that the times when the graph is at its lowest points - 1980 and 1990 - were the last times Australia had a proper recession.

It all started in the 90s with Howard. That’s when shit in Australia just went fucking downhill overnight.

Alan Kohler talking about the urgent need to tackle inequality. The major parties talk about it a lot but don't seem to want to do what it'll take: 💸 changes to CGT discount on investment properties 💸 start taxing wealth more than work 💸 get a fair return for our natural

This 1986 SMH article on the housing crisis could have been written today. Housing cycles are a persistent feature of the market. By the 1990s, the housing crisis was not rising prices but falling prices - the media was all about the housing "slump" back then.

Remember the Coalition’s dud “super for housing” policy?  I thought they’d left it where it belonged - dead and buried in the 2025 election defeat.  Turns out, I was wrong.

Gotta love how people say the free market economy is the best economic model, then complain about its outcomes

Some facts to blow the minds of anti-immigration people: 1. It is conservative think tanks that have historically lobbied for more immigration 2. Howard and Morrison governments are the main times when the rules have been changed to increase immigration