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Coorey still promoting the bullshit that libs are better economy managers . Just FO please! #insiders #auspol a waste of a seat and good oxygen on the panel today

@jaquix173 It's a basic error for anyone thinking about social policy issues. It's why I like Alan, he's thoughtful and well informed, and he doesn't need to shout. And always worth listening to.

Newspoll tonight. A lot of noise. For what? Vote intentions have hardly moved. But look at where the movement is. Over the last 6 months, all on the Right and it’s profound. The budget hysteria tells you everything about who the commentariat is actually talking to. Shares. Investment portfolios. Family trusts. Negative gearing portfolios and super balances into the million. Most Australians don’t have any of that. They have a mortgage they’re barely servicing. Power bills, food shopping that costs more than it did last month. Rent that’s eating half their pay. A car they need for work and can’t afford to fuel. Aspiration for these people is a word that has a lot of relevance, aspiration to break even at the end of the month. That’s the financial life of the country. Not the one being screamed by a bunch of folk who frankly have no idea about the beating heart of this country. Hence, the people screaming about the budget aren’t the people the budget was written for. And Labor’s vote didn’t move. It held. Meanwhile, the realignment on the Right holds firm. One Nation heading towards a future parliament where they are the opposition - mainly at the complete destruction of the Coalition. *I would expect RedBridge Accent to report similar numbers shortly.

Alan Kohler today exposed how #Insiders has been passing off political media hacks as authorities on economic issues. His authoritative yet plain speaking contribution was a refreshing change to the uneducated politically biased babble of the panel and host. #Auspol

So let’s get this straight. Australian citizens are apparently the only people who deserve support. Everyone else? According to Angus Taylor and Pauline Hanson, they’re just a burden. But here’s the reality. To become an Australian citizen, you must first be a permanent resident for years. For many migrants, becoming Australian also means giving up the citizenship of the country they were born in. Plenty choose not to do that because they want to keep their heritage and family ties. That is their right. Then you have people on skilled working visas and permanent residents raising families here. Their kids go to school with Australian kids. They work here. They pay taxes here. They contribute to the community every single day. Yet apparently Taylor thinks they should receive no assistance at all. Now let’s look at the numbers. Taylor claims non-citizens cost Australia $15 billion a year. What he doesn’t tell you is they contribute around $40 billion a year in taxes alone. That’s a net contribution of roughly $25 billion annually before you even count the businesses they build, the jobs they fill, the skills shortages they solve, and the communities they help support. So what exactly is the logic here? Punish one of the most economically valuable groups in the country to distract from decades of policy failures on housing, wages and infrastructure? This is what scapegoating looks like. Blame migrants. Blame permanent residents. Blame foreigners. Anything except the governments and policies that actually created the problems. And once again, they stand in front of Australians assuming nobody will check the facts.

AI hasn’t improved content. It’s created inauthentic slop. It’s destroyed originality and it will destroy millions of jobs. And then there’s the massive amounts of energy and water required to power the AI data centres…

We’re obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we rarely question why some wealthy people are never satisfied with what they already have.

Hundreds of thousands of Australians use discretionary trusts “to reduce tax” - says the @financialreview - unwittingly doing the govt’s job of selling a key element of the budget.

It’s painfully obvious to all watching that Angus Taylor has no specific answers to key questions. Can’t answer basic costings even.

“Gas that is exported from this country should be paid for by the gas companies that export it. "And a 25% gas export tax is the way to go. "Australians deserve a fair return." – Senator David Pocock ✍️ Sign to support a 25% gas export tax ➡️ theaus.in/3RpwbfA

After 3 years, Labor decided to release their response to the Murphy Review into gambling harm - which unanimously called for a complete ban of gambling ads - on the one day of the year when most journalists in Parliament House are in budget lock up. Labor have dismissed almost all the recommendations and put vested interests ahead of Australians. As one Labor insider told @crikey_news, “That the life’s work of someone who was so loved and respected by everyone who knew her could get pissed up against the wall like that is devastating.” I chatted to @7ampodcast about gambling reform and the Albanese Government putting gambling companies and vested interests ahead of the Australian people. open.spotify.com/episode/2wMm3Q…

Google is making $62 billion a quarter destroying the websites it NEEDS to survive. This is literally a death spiral that ends with Google killing itself. Let me explain what's going on... Google added AI summaries to the top of every search result in 2024. When you Google something now, the answer sits right there on Google's page. You never have to click anywhere. Google took the information from someone else's website, summarized it, and kept you inside Google's ecosystem. The result: 60% of all Google searches now end without a single click to any website. Small publishers lost 60% of their traffic in one year. Medium publishers lost 47%. Even the biggest names in media, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Business Insider, all saw traffic fall between 22% and 55%. The Axios CEO called it "a referral extinction event for the ad-supported web." Google's response to all of this was to tell publishers they can "opt out" of having their content summarized. But opting out also REMOVES your description from normal search results. So the choice Google gives you is let us steal your content for free, or become invisible on the internet. That's extortion. The Washington Post laid off another round of journalists this year because of it. Stereogum, one of the most respected music publications on the internet, had to BEG readers for donations. Business Insider cut 21% of its staff. Dozens of smaller publishers have shut down entirely. The people who actually CREATE the information Google summarizes are going bankrupt while Google posts record revenue. But here's where this gets interesting and where everyone stops thinking: Google's AI summaries are only as good as the content they summarize. If the publishers who write the original articles, run the original investigations, and create the original data go out of business, there is nothing left for Google to summarize. The AI starts recycling old information, the answers get stale, the quality drops, and users start noticing that Google's summaries are increasingly wrong, outdated, or useless. Google is essentially strip-mining the internet for short-term revenue. They are extracting all the value from content creators without paying for it, driving those creators out of business, and then wondering why the quality of their own product is declining. This is exactly what Napster did to the music industry in the early 2000s: Made content free, creators went broke, and quality collapsed. It took a decade to rebuild. Google is doing the same thing to the entire internet at 100x the scale. Rolling Stone, Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, and Billboard are now suing Google for antitrust violations. Chegg, the education platform, lost 49% of its traffic and is suing too. The UK's competition authority just ordered Google to let publishers opt out without being punished. The DOJ already ruled Google is an illegal monopoly. And Google's defense in court is genuinely unbelievable. They argue that publishers CHOOSE to let Google index their content and can leave anytime they want. That's like saying you choose to pay protection money to the mob because technically you could close your business and move to another city. Google controls 90% of search. Leaving Google means leaving the internet. Meanwhile Google is investing billions in custom AI chips to make these summaries cheaper at scale. Every quarter the problem gets worse. The internet as we've known it for 25 years ran on a simple deal: Publishers make content. Google sends traffic. Advertisers pay for the traffic. Everyone wins. But Google just BROKE that deal and kept all the money.

What Zohran Mamdani is doing is NOT EVEN SOCIALISM. You know what he's doing? He's showing what can be accomplished when the WEALTHY PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE OF TAXES.

Good grief what on earth have we done to this world

@strangerous10 I’ve never listened to a worse speech. This dickhead spent the entire time trying to re-write history. He seems to have amnesia after nearly ten years in government not fixing any of these issues, and in most cases making them much worse. A complete dud, yet another lib dud.

One of the reasons that both Neoliberals and fascists hate people like Mamdani is because he proves they are all liars who have effectively sold out their constituents to billionaire interests. All of the pain we have been told to endure has been a choice to sate the wealthy

Can't stop thinking about Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive worth $828 billion, spending $290 million to elect Trump, becoming $563 billion richer since Trump was elected and ending humanitarian aid that will lead to the deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest kids on the planet.

If you have never understood the 80 million dollar water issue hanging over Angus Taylor (like the Sword of Damocles) while aided and abetted by Barnaby Joyce, read this article by Kerry Brewster writing in @MichaelWestBiz Here is a small taste.

Mamdani taxed the rich and it literally fixed everything. Which is why the rich are so scared of him

Mamdani taxed the rich and suddenly libraries work, potholes get fixed, childcare exists, and workers get paid more. That's why billionaires are losing it and want him gone!!!