The Hawke Afficionado 🐁

He was a brilliant man, and a better statesman. That his premiership overrides in significance a multi-decade long career in the public eye to such an extent that the latter has become so criminally oft-underdiscussed even by his admirers is testament to the volume of accomplishment in his term of office. The scale of his achievements is most apparent when you look back to Australia in the 1970s. Successive governments had relegated what could have been among the great powers in south pacific to little more than the "poor white trash of Asia", to quote Lee Kuan Yew. The fact that any politician could not only remedy such circumstances, but irreversibly redefine the economic landscape of his country for the better while facing off a hesitant public service, lulling a potentially adversarial industrial base and remaining popular with the electorate should strengthen all of your convictions that sharp, charismatic, ambitious technocrats can succeed in democratic environments. So few people love Bob Hawke more than I do. Rest in peace.

"Frontrunner".

I cannot understand the appeal of the Karl Stefanovic show for the life of me.

@BasedIllinoisan Who is she?

I doubt she wins her primary

Prominent economist Saul Eslake demolishes LNP’s ‘aspiration’ myth saying their 1999 CGT discount failed to build a nation of entrepreneurs & shareholders, in fact, those rates only fell since 1999, while “disproportionately favouring richer & older Australians”💥 #auspol

In the span of three weeks, completely revamp the state pension, announce a 30 billion pound upgrade to various infrastructure programs, cut taxes, make a large transition towards property or land value taxation (nationalise council rates - ?), massively deregulate planning, liberalise a bunch of regulations, etc etc. Make the extent of the reforms too astronomically huge to ever think of reversing.

If it were up to me, I'd abolish the state pension entirely but slow down the means test on pension credit so that you don't increase poverty among seniors. The savings would be about 80 billion. And then spend ALL 80 billion on tax cuts and/or infrastructure improvements, so that its essentially impossible to reverse.

The triple lock is one of those things you’re going to have to deal with without telling the electorate explicitly. And where you’re going to have to accept a massive political hit.

@Dontskylertalk 👋

someone talk to me im bored

@queemslander I mean it's perfectly reasonable to let someone defend their own record - not that I think his record is particularly defendable on this matter.

@DougJonesMafia Brother you're literally just going off of vibes. Buttigieg is absolutely fine, ran to Biden's economic left in 2020 and inordinately preferable to any republican.

If Buttigieg is the nominee I’m voting 3rd party

How "The Hawke Aficionado" are you - 🟩 /🟨/🟥 ⬜️- "Run fast and smash things" > "Cautious, incremental reform". ⬜️- Universal Childcare. ⬜️- Free Trade. ⬜️- Most regulatory states are oversized. ⬜️- YIMBY. ⬜️- Re-industrialise the west. ⬜️- Pro-digitisation but with transition plans for workers. ⬜️- Progressive, efficient and non-distortionary taxation. ⬜️- Privatise pension systems. ⬜️- Daniel Patrick Moynihan enjoyer. ⬜️- Bob Hawke admirer.

@Iainite_Iain The irony is that other countries they have in turquoise have similar restrictions.

Holy overreaction

@nikicaga @LinkofSunshine There should be a dedicated gay-leaning bisexual community tbh.

@monashposting @johntravolta128 @eegleweege Imma criticise Labor for not doing enough on housing til the cows come home, but to see you post THIS awful article simply puts a tear to my eye.

@johntravolta128 @eegleweege look bro like lets just be for real

very hard to not just feel disillusioned and apathetic towards mainstream australian politics at the moment

@PunishedRWR Tbh I hate the idea of it being tied to pensions but raising personal allowance has a litany of benefits.

He's proposing the same "triple lock plus" boomer slop the Tories proposed at the last election

@PunishedRWR Yeah but never guessed they’d go THIS low.

@MrHawkeFan The British Greens are lunatics

Those 4 young people participated in an attack on a female police officer which gave her substantial injuries The British Green Party condones violence

@JamesEisen1891 >Obsessing over tweets he sent in February. This is actually fucking pathetic lmao.

@samuelmxc It’s SOCCER dawg.

Guys Australia is not fantastic at football but we aren’t THAT bad