Sam McLean

@SebastianTarek @dieworkwear He does not have a stylist. And if he did they would tell him not to wear double windsor knots the size of a fist all the time

@dieworkwear not disagreeing with you at all, but given he has a stylist, i can only assume this is a conscious decision. most likely related to how he wants to portray himself as a “man of the people”.

A simple cummerbund would have improved this outfit, as it would have prevented the shirt from peeking through below the coat's buttoning point. Compare Albanese to Stephen Smith, who served as a member of Australia's Parliament.

@matt_barrie Eraring coal plant is what usually cuts out, it had 6000 hours of outages last year across 4 units. Without renewables and batteries the NSW grid would be far more expensive and less reliable.

Wake up or there will be no industry left. Tomago exec told me the aluminum smelter uses 956MW continuously which is 12% of NSW's entire grid. You need to keep the metal molten 24/7. Idle for a few minutes and the pots cool. Fantasy to power with wind & solar that cut out.

@rohanspatel This is so needed

This company will be a success for two reasons: 1. It is absolutely necessary for our electricity system 2. Drew is one of the most effective and hard working people I’ve ever met. He will find a way.

@phlogga Fairly standard approach and has been done many times before. MRP means they use demographic similarities between seats to more accurately forecast each seat. Eg 50-65 middle income atheist men in different seats think somewhat alike. Beware shooting the messenger

40689? That would have to be the biggest poll in history outside an election or a referendum. I don't believe it. I don't know anyone who's been polled. What's this MRP, multi level regression with poststratification modelling mumbo jumbo? Is it AI?

@devalara44 @KosSamaras That effect usually worth 3 points not 18

@KosSamaras Tim Pallas retiring lost some Labor margin as well. A new candidate is always going to find it tougher.

Not a red wall anymore. More like a red barb wire fence. Labor has just recorded its lowest primary vote in a seat they have held at any by-election in Victoria’s *history. If I were a Labor MP sitting in what was once a safe seat, I’d be doing one of two things: planning my retirement or treating my electorate as a critical marginal. The only silver lining for Labor? Many voters in Melbourne’s growth corridors still dislike the Liberal Party even more. But for the Liberals, the challenge is now undeniable, they are hitting a demographic wall that must be overcome, and fast. Winning 17 seats without breaking through in these parts of Melbourne will be very very difficult. Of course, the Liberals’ task may end up being much easier if some in Labor continue burying their heads in the sand over their deepening disconnect with their base. A special shoutout to those who dismissed the warnings over the years, you now share responsibility for the mess that comes with losing a once-loyal political voter base. Federal implications? - see above. *Records are hard to access prior to the 1980s but I am mildly confident it holds at least since WW2.

@simonsarris How much of this is because of maternity leave etc

Recall one of the most insane graphs ever: After a decade men paid off ~30% of their loans and women paid off ~3% Men pay down student debt and women don't. They have different expectations around college's use and different sensitivity to cost-benefit.

@PaulFletcherMP Why is she wearing teal 😂

With Liberal candidate for Bradfield Gisele Kapterian in the Theatre at the Willoughby Civic Centre in Chatswood where the Australia Day celebrations & citizenship ceremony will get underway shortly. Happy Australia Day!

@PaulFletcherMP Either one would have voted exactly as Dutton told them to, as did you Paul

With Gisele Kapterian, newly preselected Liberal candidate for Bradfield, speaking to media, after the preselection panel of several hundred, the majority Bradfield locals, met today & made its decision. I’ll be backing Gisele as she campaigns to be elected as Bradfield’s next MP

@Matt_Camenzuli Woe is me. What will we do without these social media influencers?!

Lloyd and Mandy have left Australia, they live in Thailand now. Because thr living conditions are better. Meanwhile, the government is increasing immigration, to boost numbers. This is a stupid game.

@AusCommenter @devalara44 Wow. Make pokie addicts walk an extra 10 steps to withdraw their family savings. That'll do it!

@JonDeeOz So cool

I’m at the BYD Shark launch in Broken Hill. They’ve sold 1,000 of them in 3 hours 👇

@DarMurp This was really interesting thanks

For the Japanese election, a 🧵 on the Narrow Loss Ratio, a unique (and i think strange and silly) method in which the candidates elected off the candidate list in the Proportional Representation Blocks are determined for the HoR in Japan.

@wheelreinvent Well, good luck cobber

@samuelmclean Irrelevant. More votes should mean more seats

So the Greens get 10% of the vote but zero seats, and ON gets 8% and zero seats. But Katter gets 2.4% and 3 seats??? Joke system. You know who I blame mostly for this mess? @AntonyGreenElec . Has the biggest microphone for speaking against this but chooses not to.

@wheelreinvent I understand the system perfectly well, as does KAP who target their campaigns at a small number of winnable seats.

@samuelmclean No the system is the problem as it mathematically favours geographically concentrated parties jacobin.com/2024/10/austra…

@wheelreinvent The fact that KAP runs more strategic campaigns than QLD greens is probably something to complain to QLD greens about, primarily

@wheelreinvent He presumably understands that the probability of a referendum to change Australia's constitution to MMP is zero

@Batman2242 They arrived here 60,000 years ago and there's no archaeological evidence of humans here before that so no mate

Explain to me this. Weren't Aboriginals colonisers when they arrived here ?

@EvanDownUnder That was done in 1998 by Howard.

@samuelmclean Didn't they also exempt many Ute's and 4wds as light commercial? (even though most are used for school drop off)

2 huge moves this week by Australia with global impact on climate and EVs. 🦘🧵 1st, Australia responded to the IRA big time. 🇦🇺 supplies 1/2 the worlds lithium + most other battery minerals. Much more will now be refined onshore. That means CO2👇10x + supply chain stability 👆

@Deetray minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/king….

@samuelmclean Where can I read about the lithium refining?