"We're having the wrong conversation about unemployment" by Anglicare's Kasy Chambers #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Australian politicians might want to look at banning algorithms that set rents and price fix. A practice America has now banned due to its anti-competitive and predatory approach to tenants incomes as theirs to gouge. Housing is a vital need, but not the only expense in people’s lives. #housing

50 years since the Dismissal. My @smh @theage cartoon.

another utter failure of private delivery of public services “It’s hard to think of another government-funded industry allowed to operate in this way … to continue soaking up so much public money and to spit out so few results.” @jeremypoxon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

police do not need more ways to create poverty. That power tool kit is full. www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Barnaby Joyce's interview on 730 was such a disaster that it made train wrecks look organised by comparison. Was he sober? #auspol

Great run-down of the mutual obligations system — both it's current unlawful administration, and it's rotten ideological underpinnings that destroys lives — by @amyremeikis.bsky.social here: www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

I am trying to change to a new job service provider and the process is very difficult. Calls to the transfer line have wait times of several hours. 1/x

Negative gearing on short-stay rentals costs Australia up to $556m a year, report estimates

Businesses looking to hire talented individuals should stop rejecting autistic applicants. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Limiting negative gearing (NG) to one property will NOT be effective. A property owner with multiple properties would designate one expensive property as their NG tax shelter and inflate the NG liabilities on that property as much as they can. 1/2 bsky.app/profile/abcn...

Too easy! My @smh @theage cartoon.

Our problem is not a shortage of housing. Our problem is a surplus of landlords.

Replit deleted a production database. Other "mistakes" like this can happen. This is why a lot of AI should be considered as a global beta test, and not to be used on any live system without plenty of safeguards. Virtual machines and backups exist. Use them!

Age discrimination against older workers is a serious problem in Australia. A new survey shows that 24% of employers consider people aged 51 or older as "old". This number is the number of employers who admitted to this. The true number is much higher. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

The gas price sets the electricity price. Our only hope for much lower costs is a RETROSPECTIVE gas reservation policy but @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social has already ruled it out due to ‘sovereign risk’. But that’s a gas lobby Furphy, unchallenged 👇 until now👇. #auspol

One Nation has gained senators in NSW and WA. I speculated on this during the election campaign based on published opinion polling. This possibility should have been expected due to the size of ON's polling in these states. bsky.app/profile/mach...

Not indexing $3 million super balance threshold at which a higher tax rate on earnings kicks in: wailing, gnashing of teeth, a thousand column inches. Not indexing $150 per fortnight JobSeeker income test free area: crickets

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI | MIT Technology Review

Another reason why a Royal Commission into unemployment is needed: AI systems are being used to deny employment to unemployed workers and other disadvantaged groups. The extent of this dubious and possibly illegal recruitment activity is currently unknown. www.sbs.com.au/news/video/d...

These non-compete clauses need to go… I’m glad Albo has put it on the agenda for low to medium earners but really it should be illegal for everyone but C-Suite plus maybe handful of execs.. Eg those in critical roles involving IP or senior sales roles…

My thought processes are like following giant rabbit warrens. Started out getting indignant at complaints about the lack of indexation for the lowered superannuation concession at the $3million threshold, ended up finding an inconsequential error in some legislation. Now I'm writing a letter.

An X USER, to Grok: “Why are you launching into conversations about white genocide, unprompted?” 🤡

A lot of artificial intelligence tools perform well, but ‘predictive AI’ (the use of statistical analysis & machine learning to forecast future events or behaviours) does NOT work for humans and should be outlawed for use in recruitment. #SnakeOil #auspol

Hi folks. We're calling for the abolition of mutual obligations in Australia's welfare system, especially as currently implemented by DEWR's targeted compliance framework. Check out the article here: auwusecretary.substack.com/p/abolish-mu...

The Division of Isaacs (Vic, held by Mark Dreyfus, ALP) could get an unusually high number of donkey votes at this election. Five candidates, ballot paper order is ALP, Greens, Family First, Liberal, One Nation.

The CES used to have massive job boards. Pick a job, get interviewed, start work. It was such a simple process. Now, the CES has been fragmented into dozens of JSP pieces that don't have finding jobs for workers as their function, and the job boards are nowhere to be seen. Bring back the CES.

You could eliminate involuntary unemployment with the stroke of a pen: simply enact a federal job guarantee. Nationalise the bullshit "job network" offices, and when people turn up give them a job instead of a resume writing course. #LearnMMT

We're always told we 'can't afford' to lift JobSeeker or the pension. It's nonsense. "We're so rich we can drop a lazy $360 billion on nuclear subs we didn't know we needed. But when it comes to helping unemployed people, 'Oh, money doesn't grow on trees.'" @richarddenniss.bsky.social on #QandA.

I’m mad at greed justifications for the wealthy who argue no government interference - or laws that restrict their capital gains. They don’t want rent caps but happily accept a full 50% tax free when they sell properties whose value rises as rents rise. What an absolute crock! #auspol #caprents

Something as simple as a new activity test for negative gearing tax breaks would do more to increase supply than demand-side policy offerings. Examples of NG activity tests: * New builds (not existing homes) * Long term leases (not Airbnbs nor vacant dwellings)

He thinks deporting innocent people he doesn’t like is funny. Could be anyone.

About 30% of the workforce is aged 50 or older. Any employer that doesn't have 30% of its staff aged over 50 is engaging in prima facie age discrimination.

Jeez. A clip has emerged of Donald Trump in the Oval Office discussing how people made money in the recent market fluctuations as a result of his tariffs. "He made two-and-a-half billion today, and he made nine hundred million, that's not bad!"

Dutton is openly calling for mandatory jail terms for climate protesters to protect his mates and cronies in the moribund fossil fuel industry. Australia must not choose this path of creating political prisoners. Put the Coalition parties last. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Trump's tactics to manipulate global stock markets and thereby enrich himself and his billionaire mates should be obvious to everyone by now. That is corruption.

All Medicare item numbers should be increased by a one-off 50%.

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

On this day in 1957, the BBC reported from the border of Italy and Switzerland, where a bumper crop of spaghetti was harvested. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8scp...

I just keep thinking of the heartlessness of going to an election promising to sack 41,000 people just because they’ve chosen public service. The LNP talks of small business owners going out of business as a tragedy. How is sending thousands of people into unemployment not?

The Coalition really hate giving tax cuts to low income earners. 2013-14: * Tax-free threshold: $18200 * First tax bracket: 19% $18201 to $37000 2022-23: * Tax-free threshold: $18200 * First tax bracket: 19% $18201 to $45000 (Medicare levy not included.) Income tax cut $18200 to $37000: NIL.

They could have raised the tax-free threshold and people further up would have gotten cuts that way and low paid workers often on welfare also would have also benefitted

"This is an irresponsible budget that once again has betrayed millions of welfare recipients and left us in deep poverty." – @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

The Coalition won't support the income tax cuts for low income earners. This is not a surprise. Income taxes for low income earners always increase during the term of Coalition governments. 1/2

Whether it’s taking on the gas cartel with a gas reservation scheme & proper royalties, or multinationals with fair tax policies, or climate change, or Trump 2.0, or … the ALP/LNP just don’t have the courage. Jacqui Lambie has found the problem … and the solution. #auspol

Trump & Bondi now straight-up defying the court, even telling the judge to cancel his hearing about deportations without due process. Constitutional crisis is not hyperbole. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Peter is barely scraping by on jobseeker. Experts think this is going to be an election issue Being poor in this country is getting harder, 62-year-old South Australian says, as two major reports call for the jobseeker rate to be lifted www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Fair bit of swearing round the office when I shared this graph yesterday www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Almost two years after the final report of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme was released, the federal government has done no substantial work on a key recommendation to reinstate a six-year limit on welfare debt recovery, writes Rick Morton www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/03...