David R. Gallagher

Cricket as an enterprise is an incestuous beast. Look at the former players moving seamlessly between coaching, commentary and everything in-between. If those guys get sacked from their current roles, they just go into commentary, and wait again for coaching? It’s a circular system.

“There's not many management groups that deliver something so poor in an Ashes series and get the chance to carry on.” ~ Michael Vaughan on BBC podcast

Caveat emptor, but probably too late now

@RedbackJim Jamie Siddons (Victoria)

Former South Australian wicket keeper and Coach Darren Berry………

And the hit job by the media on the RBA Governor for buying an investment property at Yamba is another example of their hypocrisy

@KeenyDhk @MikeCarlton01 You have to be in Government first to prove this. But I can’t see the policies as going to work as yet.

After 30 years can anyone tell me of a One Nation policy initiative, one member's bill, that has improved the lives of Australians and advanced the national interest?

@MikeCarlton01 And Stan Zemanek circa 2007. 👏🏼

Trump is shit. Dogshit.

@DanielCherny Cricket Australia seeking to keep them valuable for IPL?

Australia could be forced to rotate its ageing pacemen next summer with a cramped international calendar ensuring four home Tests against New Zealand are squeezed into a month. codesports.com.au/cricket/cricke…

@goodfoodgal Human emotions don’t lie. Politicians lie.

This sums up the state of Australia - in one photo.

This is what business looks like without antitrust laws, or any other competition regulator around the World

@MikeCarlton01 How could anyone with even half a brain vote for the Liberal Party, anywhere in the country? And where’s their report investigating the 2024 federal election loss? They could probably create a second version now and put an updated title being the SA Election.

There’ll be bullshit written by the truckload about the One Nation “surge” in SA. But it’s only split the right wing vote. It’ll get knuckledraggers like Bernardi into the occasional upper house seat, but that’s about it. The effect is to cement Labor in government.

Breaking: Pauline getting ahead of the SA state election results and re-naming the party ‘Pauline’s First Nation Party’. Three flags remain.

Definitely not a Boutras Boutras-Ghali or a ‘Gareth Gareth Evans’ - but someone much faster than the United Nations and with so much more raw and unique talent. You are so inspiring #GoutGout. Chase your dreams. Make sure the right management people are around you, serving your long term interests.

Gout Gout was at Ipswich Grammar School to play soccer. He had never trained as a sprinter. He was twelve years old, wearing sand shoes, and somebody told him to line up for a race at the school carnival. The kid next to him was wearing spikes. He had won nationals. Gout left him in the dust. His classmate Tyson Walker was in the race too. "Everyone there stopped and watched," Walker recalled. "We had GPS athletics the next week and he broke every record and just didn't stop. He's just kept going faster." A coach named Di Sheppard saw him run that day. She told him he could be an Olympic medalist. He later said it was the first time anyone had ever told him anything like that. He was twelve. He joined her squad and started training twice a week. Here is where the story gets strange. At 14 he ran 10.57 in the 100m, the fastest ever by an Australian under 16. At 15 he broke the national U18 200m record. At 16 he clocked 10.04 in a heat, then 10.17 legal in the final, then woke up the next morning and ran 20.04 in the 200m, breaking Peter Norman's Australian record from the 1968 Olympics. That record had stood for 56 years. Usain Bolt saw the footage, posted a photo, and wrote "He looks like young me." The Bolt comparison is worth sitting with. Bolt didn't race 100 meters professionally until he was 21. His first professional 100m was 10.03. Gout Gout ran 10.00 flat at 18. And his coach still only puts him in the gym two days a week. She's managing the fact that his body is still growing. The power phase of his development hasn't started. He is running these times on stride length and raw top-end speed alone. His parents are Dinka, from South Sudan. They fled to Egypt, then to Australia, two years before he was born. Third of seven children. The family name was misspelled during transliteration from Arabic. It was supposed to be Guot. His father has been trying to change it back because "gout" is a disease name. The kid kept running. Brisbane 2032. Home Olympics. He'll be 24, the same age Bolt was when he set the 100m world record in Berlin. Adidas already signed him through that year. The fastest man in Australian history started in sand shoes at a school carnival. Nobody told him to stop.

@MikeCarlton01 Any Collins class submarines involved?

One of the world’s great sights: entering Sydney Harbour, from the bridge of the destroyer HMAS Brisbane.

Given the Bradley Murdoch case, Humanity can never successfully negotiate with pure evil. What a dreadful human being that guy was. Even Judas, betraying Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, had some regrets at the very end, although not optimal in his case either as he committed suicide with the spoils of his heinous act.

From the Herald Sun on Thursday. Rupert really should write a memoir so we don’t get another headline like this down the track.

The amount of plagiarism of other people’s ideas on this platform truly is like the Wild West days.

Good insights as always. Does anyone measure economist accuracy regarding ex-ante monetary policy settings from the surveys done? There’s quite a history of data. You’d have to be in the top decile of accurate forecasters. Something to ask @grok here? @Grok, use the survey of Australian economist data regarding ex-ante forecasts of inflation expectations, interest rates, and GDP growth over the past 10 years from public sources to show the best (most accurate) and worst (least accurate) for each key economic indicator for Australia.

We are already starting to see retailers across a range of segments talk of price hikes in the days ahead. Food is immediately exposed to transportation costs. The March monthly CPI could be pretty big and the June Quarter CPI will be big. Markets around the world are interpreting this as an inflationary shock. Markets in Australia are starting to eye off a 5% cash rate over the year ahead. Six months ago the average economist in Australia thought the cash rate was going to 3%. That’s a big reality check for debt holders. If this continues expect the yield curve to flatten as the prospects of a major economic downturn materialise. Asset markets holding up remarkably well so far.

There's a curve in finance that most investors get wrong. It's called the efficient frontier. Markowitz defined it in 1952. Most investors still don't understand what it means in practice. Here's what they get wrong:

Well done to the Victorian RSL for pivoting its investment strategy away from pokies venues. More please: heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/…

@newmrpford ARN Media signed a 10-year contract with those terms, 18 months ago? Look at the market cap of ARN today. ARN must be seeking a revaluation of terms of the contract via the courts?

I know everybody isn’t transfixed by the K & J story but honestly if you need to keep messaging me saying ‘nobody cares’ & ‘ you realise there is war on?’ etc etc you’re not only tiresome but you’re wrong. In 2026 there is no guesswork involved in what people want to read/hear about (or don’t). We literally can see it. If you don’t want to read or hear about it then that’s totally OK. However a lot of people do as it’s a saga with many dimensions. I give people why they want. When people get bored with it I’ll stop reporting it. Pretty simple equation.

@BenPhillips_ANU It’s more academic than four options here, where is number 5 choice?

To improve inter generational equity which tax is best to raise (to offset personal income tax)