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The Hawke Afficionado 🐁

@MrHawkeFan

Mugged by reality, refused to press charges. Still enthusiastic about John Curtin. Still want to reform the NDIS. Technocratic populist. Neoliberal socialist.

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The Hawke Afficionado 🐁
The Hawke Afficionado 🐁@MrHawkeFan·
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.
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stranger@strangerous10·
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
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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.
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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.
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Keatingite 🇬🇧🌹@Keatingite·
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.
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skyler@Dontskylertalk·
someone talk to me im bored
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@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.
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@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.
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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.
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@monashposting
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very hard to not just feel disillusioned and apathetic towards mainstream australian politics at the moment
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1. Red. 2. Yellow. 3. My thoughts are beyond your comprehension. 4. Orange. 5. Orange. 6. Red. 7. Red. 8. Yellow (tech has its utility and its negatives - but ultimately we need to accept it exists). 9. Red. 10. Yellow. (More pro-life than the general population, anti-partial birth abortion and third trimester abortion). 11. Blue. 12. Green. 13. Blue.
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WokeZoomer🇺🇸🚩@Pigeonsguy·
How Pigeonsguy are you? 🟦🟩🟨🟧🟥 ⬜️American ⬜️Cultural Nationalist ⬜️Socialist ⬜️Space Colonization ⬜️Anti-Intervention ⬜️Catholic (trying his best) ⬜️Engineer ⬜️"Tech bad, but inescapable." ⬜️Anti-finance ⬜️Pro life ⬜️Environmentalist ⬜️Pro-state ⬜️Reindustrialization
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How Darth Aurelian are you? 🟦🟩🟨🟧🟥 ⬜️ Australian ⬜️ Malay-Javanese ⬜️ Democratic Socialist ⬜️ Social Democrat ⬜️ Progressive ⬜️ Religiously Eclectic ⬜️ Nationalist/Australia First ⬜️ Environmentalist ⬜️ Into Worldbuilding ⬜️ Into History ⬜️ Weeb ⬜️ Avid Gamer ⬜️ Lewd

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@eegleweege don’t get me wrong tax cuts are good but they aren’t good enough
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