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@senatorpennyqld "More G Wagons for organised crime bosses!"

Labor's NDIS cuts will kill. If the government is so desperate to find savings in the budget they could slash AUKUS or tax billionaires instead of risking the lives of disabled people. The Greens will fight these cuts tooth and nail.

@Dan_Jeffries1 But on what basis should we believe that humans will be better placed than AI to solve the new problems that arise?

If you start from the premise that work is finite, that there's a fixed amount of stuff to be done and machines are eating through it, then every conclusion you draw from that premise will be wrong. You'll predict mass unemployment. You'll demand UBI as the only possible response. You'll want to ban or throttle AI development. You'll see a zero-sum world where every machine gain is a human loss. You'll build policy around scarcity when the reality is abundance. And you'll be wrong about all of it. Not because you're stupid, many of the smartest people in the world make this mistake, but because the premise is wrong. The error compounds and radiates outward, corrupting every inference, every prediction, every policy recommendation. It's like building a skyscraper on a foundation that's three degrees off true. At the ground floor, you can barely tell. By the fiftieth floor, the building is leaning so far it's about to collapse. That's what happens when you get the foundation wrong on this question. The lump of labor fallacy is the economic version of this error. But the abstraction stack goes deeper, it's about the nature of problem-solving itself, the structure of progress, the reason technology creates more work rather than less. It's the metaphysical argument for why the doomers are wrong. Understand this and you understand the future. Understand that technology is abstraction stacking, that each layer creates more complexity than it resolves, that problems are the raw material of work, and that the raw material is infinitem understand that and the panic about AI evaporates. Not because there's nothing to worry about. There's plenty to worry about: the transition, the distribution, the surveillance, the weapons. But the "AI will take all the jobs" fear? That's not just wrong. It's the opposite of how progress works. The jobs are endless because the problems are endless. And the problems are endless because every solution is a platform for a hundred new problems. That's not a theory. That's the history of civilization. And AI doesn't break the pattern. It extends it.

An absolute distraction whilst you are flooding the country with demand that far outstrips our ability to build. Australia's population has swelled by 3.7M ppl in the past 10yrs, at that rate, housing completions are irrelevant. Australia's birth rate is around 1.6, all of our demand side pressures on housing are a choice, and one that currently does not consider the impact on housing affordability.

BREAKING: The Albanese Labor Government is investing another $2 billion in infrastructure to help unlock up to 65,000 homes across Australia.

@JonesHowDareYou Imagine protesting to ensure that some organised crime boss can keep rorting G Wagons while the rest of the country has wages retracing to 2015 levels and service inflation goes to the moon. Only in "Naarm" 🤣

Just saw this on insta. Police brutality in Naarm yesterday at a peaceful 'No cuts to NDIS' rally. "Vulnerable people with disability, young people and the elderly were pushed to the ground, shoved, punched and injured. Police pushed people in front of a moving tram." #springst

They will continue to accelerate their own irrelevance

@MFWitches Sure is a real head scratcher

How the fuck do we live in a country where Pauline Hanson has successfully convinced people to hate immigrants, feminism and climate action instead of fascism, media magnates and billionaires? #NewsCorpse

@KatyKray73 Jo'burg

The Emerson is now using shipping containers to protect the venue from firebombings. Gotham City—AKA Melbourne is living up to its name.

@PeterCronau Or that the problems that give rise to "far right" are happening consistently in several counties at the same time.

The fact that such similar far rightwing parties are rising around the Western world at precisely the same time, suggests a level of coordination by foreign hands. abc.net.au/news/2026-05-1…

An absolute distraction whilst you are flooding the country with demand that far outstrips our ability to build. Australia's population has swelled by 3.7M ppl in the past 10yrs, at that rate, housing completions are irrelevant. Australia's birth rate is around 1.6, all of our demand side pressures on housing are a choice, and one that currently does not consider the impact on housing affordability.

BREAKING: We’re investing in infrastructure to build up to 65k more homes. In this Budget, we’re funding an extra $2B to build more homes for Australians. This will deliver the infrastructure like roads, water and power needed to get housing projects over the line. Building more homes and helping more Australians get into the housing market is a big focus of the Budget that we’ll hand down on Tuesday. @australian

@deniseshrivell Greens got barely a quarter of the gains of Reform. How can you spin this as a success for Greens?

I feel like I’m going mad. A complete mismatch between the actual results I’m seeing in the UK local elections and the reporting by our ABC. Reform did well - but so did the Greens! And to only mention Reform?? I’m going mad!!! #auspol

It’s 2026—we know Marx is wrong:

@JonnyCapitalist @TheKouk Argentina paints a different picture. Market jobs grow when the government gets out of the way and lets it.

@itwittles @TheKouk The few competitive industries we have like mining don’t really generate enough employment since it’s mostly capital intensive in remote regions, so inevitably more jobs will need to be created in personal services&care,which won’t happen without government subsidising everything

A good article from Chris, although I am not sure the numbers are completely accurate. That aside for the moment, Chris inadvertently shows exactly why the likely capital gains tax change is such a winner for Australia. "Fix the budget" is the cry from Chris & others off his ilk but hit everyone but me in doing so.

@sspencer_63 It's a legitimate finger painting masterpiece.

An absolutely stunning painting. Easily one of the best to win the Archibald in many years. But then I'm not a right wing grifter on a permanent Hunt for clicks.

@JonnyCapitalist @TheKouk the biggest source of service inflation is the ndis.

@itwittles @TheKouk If there was good market growth engines, government wouldn’t have to step in to stimulate employment..the problem isn’t G-Wagon for NDIS thrift, those got spent on local market economy anyway,problem is private business isn’t competitive in Australia coz labour&rent cost too high

@JacintaAllanMP Do you have a plan to cut $40bn from our outrageous debt that we could compare this to?

My thoughts on Jess Wilson and her Liberal plan to cut $40 billion from the state budget.

@AvidCommentator Trump Overton window 101 tactics.

My theory is Labor have leaked the worst case scenario to the press regarding their tax changes in the budget, then when its more mild it will seem more palatable Otherwise they are making some very obvious and stupid mistakes that will cost the country and the budget long term

@DavidShoebridge What an odd read of the data. The Green's picked up a tiny fraction of the votes that shifted from Labour and Conservatives overwhelmingly to Reform, which are at the polar opposites of Green's, who are peddling more of the same.

While UK Labor collapses the UK Greens are fighting back and winning. Decency, a belief that people want to be part of a good society that fairly shares the wealth, is how you fight the hard-right anti-immigration politics that threatens Australia too

@JonnyCapitalist @TheKouk Non-market expansion crowds out market growth, and fraud is fraud. We need less G-Wagon's for NDIS grift, and to start encouraging more private business investment and risk.

@itwittles @TheKouk “Fraud, waste and exorbitant cost of government” are also jobs for peasants and profits/capital gains for wealthy asset owners..jobs gone, more people back on welfare, government outlays increase yet again..only net surplus is cutting defence spending which mostly goes overseas..

Government needs to deeply understand the implications of the Laffer curve. There is only so far you can push on increasing taxes before you need to face in to dealing with the exorbitant cost of government in Australia.

The "it's a supply problem" argument is a farce.