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My speech from Wednesday night
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Claire Lehmann
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Claire Lehmann
@clairlemon
Founder, editor @quillette, contributing writer @australian, @thedispatch 📧 subscribe: https://t.co/04OP3stmMN
Sydney, Australia Katılım Mayıs 2013
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@Sarah_Haar_ If you tax people less, they get to keep more of their own wages.
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Why does Dave Hughes of all people suddenly think he’s an authority on economics & taxation?
He seems to think small businesses paying fair wages is a burden. He doesn’t want Australia’s lowest paid workers to get a pay rise.
Business viability can’t depend on poverty pay 🤡
Dave Hughes@DHughesy
Gov’t didn’t pay extra as their workers above min already. 30% of rise went to Govt in tax. Burden on small businesses, they folded at record rate. Better idea, first 52k(new min) is tax free. Immediate 20% rise in real income and private sector can bring productivity back.
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Three times, Israel has launched a carefully planned war to remake the Middle East: Suez 1956, Lebanon 1982, Iran 2026. But none of them resulted in regime change.
@ShMMor in @Quillette on what happens when grand strategy collides with reality.
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Claire Lehmann retweetledi
Excellent contemporary #Auspol discussion & data analysis between @clairlemon & @parnellpalme of @CISOZ - this sort of both cerebral and spirited discussion is what the ABC exists for but does not provide so good to see @Quillette filling a gaping void
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Claire Lehmann retweetledi
Delaying motherhood into late 30s for career reasons is extremely counterproductive because career progression and intellectual performance peak around 40.
This then reinforces the narrative that “women can’t combine career and children” further delaying motherhood for many women.
Having children before 30 is the best thing you can do for your career.
Livia Clauss@LiviaClauss
Eine Frau in Führungsposition mit zwei Kleinkindern braucht zu Hause entweder den Hausmann oder eine Kinderfrau. Wären die Kinder schon 15-16 Jahre alt, sähe die Situation auch anders aus. Die späte Mutterschaft, wenn der Karrieresprung ansteht, ist auch nicht optimal.
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@generic_void @Grimezsz Interesting. And yes there's wide variation driven by genetics, for sure.
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Yeah I believe that’s true on average. I think my family’s genetics are an exception. My grandfather was born when his mom was in her 50s. Also started menstruating rather late. I think a lot of the reason these things are happening earlier and earlier these days is due to people drinking milk from cows that are given hormones to produces more milk, causing girls to start menstruating earlier. At least that’s one of the outliers I noticed between myself and the girls I knew who started when they were in the 5th grade rather than high school.
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@generic_void @Grimezsz Perimenopause starts a decade before menopause. If you go through menopause at 45, you can be in peri at 35.
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@Grimezsz @DanielleFong You can't get HRT? I am on it. Not uncommon for women in late 30s to get it if they are symptomatic. (Can't go to a random doc though - one needs to find a specialist.)
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@DanielleFong I'm quite hoping HRT just covers it. I want to start now preventatively but can't get a doctor to agree to it...
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Just reread the Odyssey and even though it is 2,700 years old, it's still very much a modern story. A guy goes on a work trip and it takes literal necromancy in the actual underworld before he'll admit he's lost, gets waylaid by hot immortal women, blames the ocean, comes home and murders everyone who hit on his wife. Men have not changed. Bless them.
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Especially if you have a ticket for opening weekend in IMAX 70MM at AMC Lincoln Square - boycott it ASAP and return your ticket and be sure to send me a screen shot with your seat and showtime.
Josh Ferme@JoshFerme
The Odyssey releases on the 17th of July, and I do not want a single one of you watching it. Christopher Nolan has desecrated one of Europe’s foundational myths. This film deserves to fail. Do not give it your money!
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@HowardFMaclean Yes there should have been more outrage when the original stage 3 tax cuts were scrapped by the current government.
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@clairlemon Which kind of raises the obvious question - which one is more important, reducing effective tax rates on labour income or restoring capital gains tax to the previous regime?
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This interview helped crystallise something that's been bugging me about post-budget discourse, which is that it's reframed the main tax issue for young people from the extremely high effective-marginal income tax rates to capital gains. The former is a much bigger issue!
Gray Connolly@GrayConnolly
This with @clairlemon and @parnellpalme should be excellent youtu.be/ZLVHR4y8Fts?si…
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@HowardFMaclean Parnell and I both agree that income taxes need to be reduced.
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Very few young Australians own capital (outside our home if applicable), and so changes to capital gain taxes impact our own finances only extremely slightly. The main tax game for people under the age of 35 is labour income tax on PAYG, and I wish we talked about that more.
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@DrewPavlou He's just saying to appeal to voters who don't know anything about economics
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Watch or read my interview w @parnellpalme. We discuss:
- Why One Nation seems to be attracting female voters
- The 6 tribes of young people in Australia
- Why psychological traits (not material wealth) predict how positive people are about their future
quillette.com/2026/07/11/gen…
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