This is insanity

Because voters want alternatives, not a constant, all powerful govt of the centre. Macron’s project to entrench the Centre propelled voters further to the Left and Right.

Good grief

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." cbsnews.com/chicago/news/p…

The latest report from the ACOSS/UNSW Poverty and Inequality Partnership shows that 3.7m people are experiencing poverty. That number represents 1 in 7 people. Read the report at bit.ly/povertyovervie…

#NewPost In the field of development economics, few debates are as fundamental as how we define and measure poverty. Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H Son propose a new framework. austaxpolicy.com/rethinking-mul…

Cracking piece from Ian Verrender on the scumbags at Santos abc.net.au/news/2025-10-1…

Every day we stray further from god or something idk

"...JobSeeker payment is $205 per week below the income poverty line. A sole parent with two children who is on a family payment is $163 below the poverty line. And a young person on Youth Allowance is $279 under the poverty line." sbs.com.au/news/article/j…

This week during #AntiPovertyWeek we are reflecting on the fact that poverty exists in Australia that is poverty by design, notably through working-age social security payments that sit well below the poverty line.

‘make no mistake, our superannuation system is the best tax haven going for the wealthy, better than anything on offer in the Caribbean’

Nearly all the staff in the Office of Special Education have been fired as part of Trump’s sweeping layoffs. These are the people responsible for protecting the civil rights of students with disabilities and ensuring they receive an equal education. More needless cruelty on

Interesting analysis from Jeffrey Wilson on the reliance of employment growth on government-aligned sectors by state. In 2023-24 Victoria sourced the vast majority of its jobs from these sectors but still had an unemployment rate above the ex-Victoria average. Fiscal conservatism

Sunlight’s the best disinfectant - and we’re opening the blinds.🌞 Labor is moving ahead with a public register of who really owns Australian companies. Transparency keeps markets honest and economies strong. ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/andr… #auspol

Note that over the quarter there were 40,524 dwelling completions, it was the lowest quarterly completions since the March 2014 quarter. A terrible outcome.

In 2024, a senate committee urged government to act to reduce child poverty, but progress is held back by the absence of an agreed definition and a way to measure child poverty that reflects children’s real lives. By Sharon Bessell and Cadhla O’Sullivan. austaxpolicy.com/defining-and-m…

Govt Also working on beneficial ownership register of trusts. Good

Aussie dwelling completions appear to be stalling out after a frankly pathetic uptick. I would have included the Albanese government's 240k homes per year target on the graph, but its so comically far away, it would have messed with the scale of the graph.

Path Dependence: ‘if poor policy been in place for a long time, then those who would lose out from a shift to better policies feel more injured by any change’ Another example: our categorical income support system with lower payments for those deemed less deserving.

The never ending pursuit - now a bankruptcy filing - of a woman who survived r*pe is shameful and appalling.