I largely agree with you, but Max disparaging our preferential voting system - which is one of the best parts of our democracy - rather than accepting the defeat with humility, was pretty disappointing.
Jane 'Meat Cleaver' Hume can't wait to gut the chicken..
Despite the new DOGE rhetoric from the LNP, the political centre of gravity is shifting to reallocating the limited output of a stagnant system to favoured constituencies, rather than any plan for greater productivity or competitiveness.
True of the so-called centre-right, and the so-called left.
Even worse, it's becoming difficult to imagine liberal democratic political systems, implementing the changes required to get things going again.
We need a chainsaw-level deregulation of land-use planning & occupational licencing, but the political appetite is only there for piecemeal reforms.
Australia's per capita economic stagnation isn't an outlier. Stagnation is the new normal, ex-US.
Wild. I've never noticed backlash here, parents still have to sign a form approving the vaccines, antivax parents can just decline to sign it. Recently there's also been provision for free catch-up immunisations (HPV, etc) for young adults who missed them in school for one reason or another.
Woah, the US doesn't have school-based vaccination programs? We do in Australia and I guess I assumed that would be the case in all first-world countries..
John-Paul Langbroek won't guarantee improvement Despite the Premier nominating NAPLAN as a top priority for education, his minister is not willing to make any guarantees.
In Monday's interview he was evasive when asked how rates of bullying would be tracked to coincide with his core portfolio value to "reduce the administrative burden being placed on teachers to allow them more time to focus on classroom teaching." "I'm not even quite sure what it is," he said. "I don't think we normally have a stat that says these are the amount of bullying incidents in schools. "We don't want anyone to be suffering from it." But a Queensland Audit Office report published in December found there were 76,400 reported incidents of bullying in 2023 alone, with children affected from as young as prep. There were also 7275 cyber-bullying incidents in 2023 - a staggering 41.4 per cent increase compared to a decade ago.
“I think the way that that would come through once we’ve progressed our bullying plan will be the sense that I’m receiving fewer complaints about it,” he said. “It (bullying) is an issue with such variance that it’s hard to measure numerically. “It’s not a case of we mark that down as a bullying incident, because in bullying, they’re all different ways that it can happen sometimes, and that’s part of the problem.”
Asked on Monday in a sit-down interview with The Courier-Mail if he would guarantee the state’s NAPLAN results would be better by the next state election in 2028, Mr Langbroek said: “I don’t make any guarantees. “What my job is as minister, is to work with my department, to say, from a policy perspective, if we can work on the things that we believe, (with) the department … because they’re the experts. “I’m not a teacher.”
Every Queensland teacher and parent should read this interview from Premier Crisafulli’s new Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek 😳
Not across his brief and low expectations after four months in the job 🙄
It’s almost like he said ‘I don’t hold a pencil mate’…
I suppose the counter argument is that: if take-home pay had been higher, consumption spending would have been higher, which would have been inflationary in an economy where demand already exceeded supply capacity, and the RBA would have raised rates more to offset that..?
A whistleblower has exposed LNP Premier David Crisafulli cutting Nurse Led Clinics such as Gladstone designed to take pressure off Hospital Emergency Departments.
Gladstone hours will be cut by more than 40%, one day closed after @qldlabor.bsky.social announced 7 days & 8am-10pm for four clinics.
Record season for #renewables extends from spring into summer, with numerous output records tumbling on Monday across Australia's grid
If Crisafulli makes the policy changes suggested, there's a good chance the forecasts will no longer show us on track, and hopefully there'll be many articles criticising his government to that effect..
Any exercise in forecasting is conditional on certain assumptions - assuming currently legislated policies continue as intended seems about as defensible as any.
From the DCCEEW report. Underlying emissions are declining but the amount of carbon absorbed by land use is also declining from seasonal highs. The headline numbers don't paint the full picture.
Zinger
mom can u pick me up i’m locked in a competition over scarce resources
Yeah it's the ALP who just passed two bills providing $16b more funding for state schools, 15% payrise for early educators & paid prac for teachers, nurses, midwives & social workers who are vindictive cowards. True lions sit behind animal avatars, moaning & whinging from the sidelines on X/BlueSky
Ask not what the economy can do to stimulate you - ask what you can do to stimulate the economy.
I guess nobody cared but it's still kind of weird that half of Trump's coalition thinks they're doing Peronism and the other half thinks they're doing shock therapy.
New Health Minister @TimNichollsMP is preparing to make his first cuts ✂️✂️
The free flu jab is on the chopping block as he has refused to confirm free access to it for Queenslanders for winter 2025 💉 💉 💉
He cut big time when he was Newman’s Treasurer and here he goes again 🙄
Greens party finally to vote for Labor's Help to Buy bill, ending long housing stalemate.
It’s about time after they’ve held up housing for more than a year in the senate 😔
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
The website vs app split for Bluesky vs Threads captures the difference in user base and usage patterns beautifully.
Bluesky = knowledge sector workers who have it open all day in a tab next to their emails. “Wait what was I doing again?”
Threads = normies watching recipe videos on the commute.
Scott Turner, Trump's pick for HUD Secretary, is a man of incredibly infectious optimism, faith and love for people. Genuine love for helping others.
AND a guy with a background in multifamily housing development!
Plus champion of Opportunity Zones.
(And a former NFL player.)
Home run.
This week’s column on weird politics of wage compression - Britain’s big squeeze: middle-class and minimum-wage
www.economist.com/britain/2024...
It didnt take the Crisafulli LNP Government long to be more interested in cover-ups than health care… 23 days 👀
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things are about to get really dumb, huh
What a joke!