Declan Stimson

Landon Donovan hairline is the real comeback story of the World Cup 😂

AUSTRALIA!!!

@BeltwayAussie Maybe the list manager knew along we had a future father son in the making.

I just can’t comprehend the irony if he turns out to be a star for the crows….

Facts… NINE fucking ONE

Bloody hell Gabriel mate

.@Arsenal

“And there I was, sitting in the 13th row, when Gabriel’s PK hit me right in the throat”

This Chelsea fan flew from Kenya to Hungary just to watch Arsenal fail Successful hate watch

Funny to think the undermanned Crows were one stupid ROB mistake away from beating Freo earlier this year… Hmm

@footyindustryAU It’s the occasion. If this game was on a Sunday 410pm where 17th v 18th should be playing, would be 50k max

Its not bad given where these teams are ranked atm. Which begs the question, is it simply the occasion? and if it is, could any two teams play the dreamtime event? [see also ANZAC Day, Thursday opener, Queens Birthday, Easter Monday etc]

Hinge has been the biggest miss this season by far. The one half we have him, we score 12 goals in a half.

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New episode! Learned a lot chatting with Martin Parkinson about the economics of migration policy. The issue that most people haven't properly understood: Australia has built an economy that requires roughly 2 million more workers than our population of citizens and permanent residents can supply. We've drifted into a guest-worker system that no government ever proposed. Is it possible to have an ethical temporary program for unskilled workers where there is no path to permanency? And what does that look like? We also discuss: - International student fees now fund close to 50% of the cost of all university research in Australia, which means a cap on student numbers trades off with research, R&D, and ultimately productivity. (Australian R&D spending already sits at 1.7% of GDP versus an OECD average of 2.7%.) - Australia has 250,000 skilled migrants -- including 50,000 engineers, 20,000 teachers, 16,000 nurses, and 1,300 electricians -- who were admitted because their qualifications were assessed as commensurate with Australian standards, but who cannot work in their fields because of state-government and professional-body licensing barriers. - The Australian skilled-occupation list is based on a 2001 taxonomy, which is why employers trying to bring in a global procurement manager were forced to map the role to "supermarket manager." - The Australian points test is "dumb": being 40 years and 1 month old gets you dramatically fewer points than being 39 years and 11 months -- Canada's system steps down gradually, ours falls off a cliff. - Indonesia's diaspora in Australia is 90,000 people -- the same size as Fiji's, and roughly 0.03% of Indonesia's population -- despite Indonesia being projected to become the world's fourth-largest economy by 2045. - And much more. Watch below - or on YouTube, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Timestamps: (0:00:00) – Introduction. (0:02:37) – What surprised Parkinson about Australia's immigration system? (0:10:20) – How does migration affect Australians' living standards? (0:16:56) – The political equilibrium (0:19:23) – What are the objectives of the migration program? (0:24:01) – The drift into a guest-worker system (0:41:40) – How leveraged are universities to international students? (0:47:56) – Should we have an official low-skilled migration program? (0:51:32) – Using migration to slow population ageing (0:58:42) – What "skills shortage" actually means (1:08:17) – Problems with the points test (1:14:52) – Our Soviet-style occupation list (1:24:45) – We need to better utilise our skilled migrants (1:34:39) – What is the biggest problem with Australia's migration system? (1:42:01) – How can we attract true global talent? (1:45:58) – Is the migration system robust to AI disruption? (1:53:38) – What should the upper/lower bound for net migration be? (1:56:43) – The Indonesian question (2:06:53) – How much more strategic weight would a bigger population buy us?

To be fair, if you’d told me the last time Arsenal won the league that by the time they win another one Chelsea will have won 5 leagues, 5 Fa Cups, 2 club world cups and 6 European trophies 2 of which were Champions Leagues, I would’ve probably taken it.

Having to sell home games in another state for financial reasons, just proves that Hawthorn will never be considered as apart of the Big 5 Victorian clubs.

It is no exaggeration to say this is probably the best decision made by Clearlake in four years at Chelsea.