Michael Tull

Reminder: given how we measure productivity, things that are great for society eg More nurses per patient, or more aged care staff, are technically bad for productivity. So when someone says we need more productivity it might just mean a bunch of anti-social cuts …

Yesterday I raised concerns about accounts that were prolific on Facebook pushing misinformation, disinformation and AI showing Pauline Hanson in a positive light and Labor and Albanese negatively. The accounts are foreign and produce memes, AI and propaganda that pushes emotive content that aims for the most engagement it can get. The account below professes to be a One Nation Party account that says it is authorised by P.Hanson. It says it is based in Brisbane QLD and that it is NOT impersonating. The account was created in April 2026 and is based in Africa. It uses posts like the one below with an apparent “Dame Pauline Hanson AO” 🙄 and demands that Hanson be appointed as PM. Then it asks you if you agree or disagree with this hypothesis. This is not only ragebaiting, it is clickbaiting. From what I have seen, many people who are engaging with this post are giving very clear indications as to why Hanson should NOT be PM. While it’s entertaining it is giving the account exactly what it wants. It’s pushing anger and engagement - while the algorithms do the rest. Don’t engage. Block it. Block these clickbait accounts. They thrive on engagement and push Hanson’s notoriety. While it can’t be proven that Hanson is personally involved in the creation of these toxic meme factories - it is highly likely that One Nation and their vested interests are very involved. .. and what elitist doesn’t like them a bit of cheap overseas labour to do their dirty work for them?

Pauline .v. Facts… facts are currently leading by a large margin…

imo should be strict ABC rules about adopting parties' labels for policies, no matter how catchy. No serious news person would've inhaled & used Abbott's "great big new tax on everything!" (Rudd's CPRS), but short & snappy "widows tax", "retiree tax", "death tax" do make the cut.

Maybe that's because educating children isn't a lowest cost race to the bottom.

“In fact, there is not a single key technology behind the iPhone that has not been State-funded.” -Mariana Mazzucato

Keir Starmer is the sixth British prime minister to resign without finishing his term. Six. And everyone keeps treating each one as a separate accident. It is not an accident. It is a pattern, and I can date it to 1975. That is when we swapped full employment for neoliberalism. The pitch: deregulate, shrink the state, and growth will be so strong you will not need public services. We have had 50 years to test it. Per capita growth fell from about 4% a year to under 2%. Hold the old course and Britain would be 1.35 times richer today. What grew instead was private debt. Politicians watch the government's books. The danger was building in everyone else's. In Britain it trebled to 180% of GDP. That money did not build anything. It pumped up housing and a stock market now more overvalued than before the 1929 crash. Starmer was not uniquely bad. He was just applying textbook economics he probably learned at 18 and never questioned. That is why I do not expect this to stop at six. For a more comprehensive understanding, please refer to the full video presentation provided in the comments. #SteveKeen #Economics #Neoliberalism #UKPolitics youtube.com/watch?v=TzvAtO…

Every party has a tax plan. Luxon says taxing wealth is a wrecking ball. The Greens say theirs is "fully funded". Both are wrong about the same thing. A government that issues its own currency does not tax in order to spend. It spends first, then taxes to delete money back out. Tax funds nothing. So "it won't raise enough" and "the rich will flee" both miss the point. A tax on wealth is not there to fill a vault. It is there to rebalance an economy that rewards owning over working, and to cool a property casino that has locked a generation out of a home. New Zealand has no capital gains tax, no wealth tax, no inheritance tax and no land tax. Among rich countries that is close to a category of one. We tax the nurse hard and wave the landlord through. Fix that and yes, the wealthy might leave. To where? Australia, the UK and the US all tax wealth more than we do. If someone's loyalty to this country is priced at $9 in the hundred while a nurse pays $22, they were never a citizen. They were a customer enjoying a discount.

Lowy Institute Poll: 70% of Australians say the United Nations remains important to Australia’s national interests. 👉poll.lowyinstitute.org

Will Pauline Hanson go to France to tell the families of the thousands killed by record smashing heatwaves that it’s all a ‘hoax’ ? abc.net.au/news/2026-06-2…

Propert investors “we deserve tax discounts cause we are bold entrepreneurs who take risks” Govt “ here’s a bunch of discounts to build new houses” PI’s “nah we just want to go to auctions and buy up other peoples houses…it’s heaps less risk and hassle for us “

Would be very interesting to know how the offshore bot farms contract came about? Did Pauline leave Mar-a-Lago with a bunch of business cards???

Someone with a shitload of cash is trying to rig our elections. Or as TheGuardian reports: ProOne Nation Facebook groups appear to be run by foreign ‘meme factories that monetise content..what experts call “engagement farms” “TruthLies&Media”is live! Promo Match Frame Editing

To those bagging the idea of spr funds getting into build to rent….I’ve never seen a spr fund buy a house, refuse to maintain it, let it turn into a mould factory, jack up rent & then threaten the tenants if they ask for repairs…but I’ve seen a heap of small investors do it.

@punchbuggyred Build to rent is a good idea. Other nations do it at scale & well….australian institutions investors are doing it overseas…we need to see it here too.

@Michtull Except you removed a bunch of capital growth. So we are all going to wait until rents go berserk as there minimal building. Unless the plan really was build to rent. Young people wont own homes international fund managers will though. They just traded landlords

This is false…there is a cgt discount & neg gearing for new builds …you can invest in as many as you want ….it’s an incentive to build more homes. (I can’t rely to this bloke cause he blocked me for pointing out his previous inaccuracies)

@taipan168 The Airwallex relocation is about building their global business…we know this because they said so. It has nothing to do with the tax changes. Canva is still here…atlassian too. There are issues for start ups which is why govt is consulting them.

Airwallex, which was once based in Melbourne but is now in Singapore, has a value of about A$16bn. If just one Airwallex equivalent moves offshore as a result of the ALP's CGT, the loss to the Australian taxpayer could be as much as $4bn. Fantastic. Great move. Well done Jim.

@PCL1703 @ElaineM11584892 I was surprised to learn she has excellent comic timing

@ElaineM11584892 Never thought I'd agree with Amanda Vanstone

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"If you substituted “Jew” for “Muslim” in any of Robinson’s rhetoric, Stefanovic would not be able to claim he was simply standing up for freedom of speech by interviewing this person. He would rightly be called out for abetting the endangerment of Jewish people."

really worth a read….