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@NicNegrepontis I think it's missing a spot for Lachie Henderson

ONLY FIVE PER CENT

Correcting “has” to “have” while writing an uncapitalised run-on sentence with shocking grammar and punctuation is ironic. No capital to begin your sentences is something you learn in reception.

@SwampedAussie @AdamRicho1981 @JASeagal Knobhead. If you’re judging people’s intelligence based on how they write on X, that’s pretty stupid. I went to a Catholic school, and there’s probably a higher chance I’m more intelligent than you. Anyway, you still couldn’t answer the question.

@ALando04 @AdamRicho1981 @JASeagal *have this is why we need catholic schools the public system is making our voters retarded!!!! thank you for your attention to this matter - SA

We all know there are going to be unintended consequences to this, right? Right?

@SwampedAussie @AdamRicho1981 @JASeagal Has rich Australians got richer or poorer?

@AdamRicho1981 @JASeagal has Australia gotten more or less affordable for the average worker after all of those “payrises” Einstein?

@NicNegrepontis Why would you put it in tassie?

Gather Round should stay in SA indefinitely. Exception being I would put it in Tassie every few years once the new stadium is ready. Wouldn’t work anywhere else.

@andybuds23 Its hard to criticise Harry considering the depolorable system he plays in.... Bloke is a confidence player and Voss system has destroyed it

Both of them are nowhere near good enough.

@eaglesbirdies @JakeBenoiton He is right. It's not a fitness issue, because there's 0 chance that an AFL team would be this far below in terms of fitness (like at max you'd expect 10% difference from fittest to not) So its either the game play is too hard on the players or its coaching issue or mental

@JakeBenoiton Of course fitness and running is part of it. The culture of the club is not up to scratch and neither are the standards

Round 2 last year. It’s not a fitness issue, it can’t be at this point. Unbelievable Carlton are in Groundhog Day.

@The_PrenderCast Hypocrisy is ridiculous. Maybe he should call out that his brother was in charge of this rabble for 5 years.

Is it just me or does Matthew have more to say about Carlton this year than he has in previous years? I’m sure there’s an explanation for why that might be the case, but I can’t quite figure out what it might be…

@soute55567 @SteveWoosnam @DrewPavlou Its definitely economic. You just don't understand it

@SteveWoosnam @DrewPavlou So the problem is government. Not economic or engineering, government! We don’t hate them enough.

Australia spent approximately $680 billion on social security and welfare over the past five years. I propose that we instead spend $600 billion to build 30 publicly owned nuclear reactors - capital costs should be fully socialised by the government in the manner of Gaullist France’s nuclear program. This way you would cut the wholesale energy retail price by 60-70%, completely revitalising the manufacturing sector. Right now manufacturing is at a record low share of our GDP (5% - 130 billion). Partial re-industrialisation back toward 10–12% of GDP from 5% would add $130–180 billion in annual economic output. Manufacturing has one of the highest economic multipliers of any sector, typically 1.5–2x, because factories buy inputs, employ workers who spend locally, and create supply chains. A reasonable multiplier puts the total economic impact closer to $270–360 billion in annual GDP uplift. This creates an additional 100 billion in tax revenue each year. So it would pay for itself in under 10 years. To do this you need to create a sovereign nuclear authority with its own balance sheet, borrowing capacity, and statutory insulation from political interference. France did this with their EDF, making it structurally independent from annual budget cycles. It actually works

@MarkoMatvikov Inflation control with what mechanisms? Rate rises unfairly target those who are already doing it tough while benefiting the older generation with wealth.... there is less proportion of the pop with mortgages while they carry the burden of a much higher amount of debt...

@MarkoMatvikov Yeah but when one far outweighs the other it does. Like it genuinely doesn't take a genius to understand Australia is becoming progressively more unequal and our poorest are becoming poorer. That's a structural thing we should be worrying about fixing.

Let me explain why this can actually hurt workers: 5% less inflation is better than a 5% pay rise - because you don’t pay extra tax on less inflation, but you do pay extra tax on more income. This is also better for business because their costs are stable and customers have more to spend. When business is thriving, it can afford to invest in people and technology, which boosts productivity. Government can also boost productivity with regulation, taxation, immigration and education reform. When there’s productivity growth, business can afford to pay people more because they’re producing more. This is also good for government as it collects more tax revenue from increased output. And with good governments, greater tax revenue can deliver on better services and infrastructure. This is how you get a healthy economy that benefits everybody - and it starts with low inflation.

@MarkoMatvikov To a gig economy and insecure employment in particular for low income workers also contributes to the above. Realistically raising the minimum wage isn't going to change much nor affect a supply driven inflation. Also lower income workers more likely to stimulate spending etc..

@MarkoMatvikov But that's just feels, and not reflective of what the data says (as company profits grew) while Mathias Corman said it was a deliberate design of the economy. Productivity is funny because no one mentions the human capital part of mfp... You can argue the structural shift..

@MurphysLawFPL @Don_Erebus @Socceroos Lol a popa team ain't conceding 13 in 3 games

@Don_Erebus @Socceroos End up with 0 goals and 13 against

We’ll face the winner of Kosovo or Turkiye in our opening #FIFAWorldCup Group D match in Vancouver on June 14 AEST. The Path C Final of the European playoffs will take place at 5:45am AEDT on Wednesday, 1 April.

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Dot points constitute policy now. I've seen it all

@yorgonson @TMFScottP Whats this got to do with renewables? If only Australia had an abundance of cheap natural gas?

@TMFScottP You gotta start blowing smoke about how good renewables are though and might help if you were to show that you can make poor choices with consistency first. Then shoe in!

If you'll excuse me, I'm off make my fortune. Today, I'm going to buy a failing, capital-intensive manufacturing business in a regional area, employing a few hundred people. Tomorrow, I have a meeting with the State and Federal ministers for a billion dollar handout. Straya!

Your fridge runs 24 hours a day. Solar panels only work while the sun’s out. That mismatch is the entire reason this plant exists, and the fix is just hot salt. The Dunhuang plant in China’s Gobi Desert uses 12,000 mirrors aimed at a single tower about as tall as an 80-story building. All that focused sunlight heats a mix of salts (the same stuff in fertilizer) to 565°C, hot enough to glow red. That liquid salt gets pumped into giant insulated tanks. The tanks are so well insulated they only lose about 1°C per day. When the city needs electricity at 2am, the hot salt boils water into steam, the steam spins a turbine, and you get power. Same basic process as a coal plant. Just no coal. Here’s what makes this different from regular solar: the storage lasts 11 hours. Sun goes down, plant keeps running all night. The big batteries that cities plug into their power grids right now? Those typically hold about 4 hours of electricity. Building batteries that last 11 hours is possible, but the cost balloons fast. A German energy storage study found that storing energy in hot salt costs roughly 33x less than storing it in the lithium-ion batteries we use today. China has built 27 of these plants so far, enough to power roughly a million homes. They doubled that number in 2025 alone. Another 3,000 megawatts (enough for about 2 million more homes) are under construction right now, with 4,000 more in the planning stage. Beijing wants 15,000 megawatts by 2030. The US tried this same technology once. Ivanpah, out in the Mojave Desert. Cost $2.2 billion. But they skipped the storage part entirely, so it could only make power while the sun was shining. It needed natural gas every morning just to start up. It’s now slated to shut down in 2026, thirteen years early, because regular solar panels got so cheap they made the whole project obsolete. China took the same idea, added the one part America left out, and is now building dozens of them. One more thing worth knowing. The salt is made from basic industrial chemicals. No lithium mining. No cobalt. No rare earth metals. And it lasts 30 years of daily use before the tanks need work.