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David Peetz

@davidpeetz.bsky.social

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Researcher, FASSA. Employment relations; labour markets; economics; pol science; gender; climate & finance; science; birdies. Carmichael Fellow at Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute, but views mine. Meanjin (Brisbane) & Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland). .. more

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 2h

Correct.

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 2h

Attention current and potential PhD students in industrial relations and WHS.

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 1d

Hurry! Applications close this weekend.

teacho.com.au/2025/09/29/a...

Dr Daryll Hull Memorial Fellowship In Industrial Relations 2026-2027 | Teacho

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 1d

Hurry! Applications close this weekend.

teacho.com.au/2025/09/29/a...

Dr Daryll Hull Memorial Fellowship In Industrial Relations 2026-2027 | Teacho

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 5d

Excellent news for Uni of Canberra. I hope they can deliver in properly supporting this great initiative.

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frankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social · 5d

Delighted that the University of Canberra has announced my appointment as Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, and Director of UC's new Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas. Looking forward to developing this exciting initiative from early 2026. www.canberra.edu.au/about-uc/med...

UC launches newly established Vice-Chancellor’s Centre of Public Ideas and appointment of inaugural director

UC to establish the Vice-Chancellor’s Centre of Public Ideas, and Prof Frank Bongiorno AM to take up Donald Horne Professorship as Centre director.

www.canberra.edu.au

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 14d

As our dependence on digital technology increases, so does our vulnerability (in the deadliest meaning of the term) to a Carrington event.

theconversation.com/solar-storms...

Solar storms have influenced our history – an environmental historian explains how they could also threaten our future

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped human history.

theconversation.com

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 14d

A better start to a journal book review? Fight me.

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 15d

Chances are a fair bit of the training is on “how not to…"

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 15d

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 16d

The old site will only be available for a few weeks/days, I presume.

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 16d

AFAIK it’s only on the legacy site, to which there are no obvious links, and which will presumably be decommissioned in the fullness of time.

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 16d

Exxon Sues California, saying that requirements that companies calculate new details about greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks violate Exxon’s free speech rights!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/c...

Exxon Sues California Over New Climate Disclosure Laws

www.nytimes.com

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 16d

@barbarapocock.bsky.social Is this consultants (Deloitte I presume) getting BOM to charge for previously free weather services?

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 16d

It’s not a cock-up. It’s a deliberate strategy to get you to pay (something between $174 and $4037 pa, plus a $1699 start-up charge) for things that they used to provide to everybody regardless of capacity to pay.

Hence "Subscribe to become a registered user of our real-time data products".

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 17d

The BOM have destroyed their website - no current observations by weather station available anymore for example. Royal Commission now. I want people sacked.

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 16d

The old site will only be available for a few weeks/days, I presume.

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 16d

But whatever you do, don’t call them BOM!

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 16d

It’s not a cock-up. It’s a deliberate strategy to get you to pay (something between $174 and $4037 pa, plus a $1699 start-up charge) for things that they used to provide to everybody regardless of capacity to pay.

Hence "Subscribe to become a registered user of our real-time data products".

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 17d

The BOM have destroyed their website - no current observations by weather station available anymore for example. Royal Commission now. I want people sacked.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 17d

The BOM have destroyed their website - no current observations by weather station available anymore for example. Royal Commission now. I want people sacked.

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 18d

The dishonesty around the use of Robodebt in prosecuting the government’s Freedom of Information secrecy drive is galling in the extreme. I set out some facts that deflate the specious claims being used as cover. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

‘Absurdist leaps of logic’: Robodebt misused in FOI reforms

I am furious. Angry, certainly, about the federal government’s proposed freedom of information laws, which mock the very idea of transparency, but seething especially about the justification for them,...

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 18d

“I don’t like you either, and I never will. In fact, I’ll tell your organisation about you, and they’ll be very sorry and you’ll be very sorry and it will be a sorry day for everyone except me. Next."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18d

the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18d

Look. It would be great if there was one simple trick for winning elections. But 'just be more moderate' isn't it.

In fact, you can use the NYT's exact method to 'prove' a 'Progressive Advantage' of +1.4 pts.

This piece shows what's really going on: funded candidates do better than unfunded ones.

The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion

After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.

open.substack.com

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 19d

The nations generally considered to be the ‘liberal market economies’ — the most neoliberal-inspired — are the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and NZ, all anglophone.

Seems it’s not an advantage to speak fluently the language of the centre of global capitalism.

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 19d

The nations generally considered to be the ‘liberal market economies’ — the most neoliberal-inspired — are the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and NZ, all anglophone.

Seems it’s not an advantage to speak fluently the language of the centre of global capitalism.

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 19d

This shows how an elementary blunder — in a spreadsheet by some RBA official, I presume — led to the RBA totally misinterpreting the job growth numbers.

The consequence is interest rates higher than they would have been for Australian borrowers.

thepoint.com.au/news/251024-...

RBA makes a major mistake on the job numbers

When the Reserve Bank decided not to cut interest rates at the end of September, numerous reasons were given, but one stands out because it appears to be completely wrong.

thepoint.com.au

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 19d

All the quotes are things Reagan said in that address. No fakery. They’ve been rearranged, only some bits used, so others edited out. But NONE of the editing misrepresents Reagan’s intent or message. It was a very pro-free trade address.

The Reagan Foundation has prioritised Trump over Reagan.

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 19d

The full text of Reagan's address is here. The idea that the Reagan foundation has the right to control quotation of political speeches is another bizarre turn in this, as is their willingness to trash Reagan's legacy on Trump's orders

www.reaganlibrary.go...
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Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade | Ronald Reagan

www.reaganlibrary.gov

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 19d

The full text of Reagan's address is here. The idea that the Reagan foundation has the right to control quotation of political speeches is another bizarre turn in this, as is their willingness to trash Reagan's legacy on Trump's orders

www.reaganlibrary.go...
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Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade | Ronald Reagan

www.reaganlibrary.gov

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 19d

“Even 'whole-of-government' was too small of a description for what we’re seeing. This is really a 'whole-of-society' strategy that includes deliberate efforts to bend every institution of American life to serve one man’s grievances."

www.treason.io/p/news-white...

NEWS: White House secretly assembles revenge cell for Trump w/ spy agencies & cops

Trump's team has pulled together the CIA, FBI, DHS, and other agencies as part of a "weaponization" working group.

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 19d

"The PhD paradox: Why Australia produces scholars it won’t employ"

www.eurekastreet.com.au/the-phd-para...

www.eurekastreet.com.au

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 20d

The new word for “organisation that gives bribes” is “donor”.

www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-...

New renderings show more details of White House ballroom under construction

The Trump administration announced in July that a 90,000-square-foot ballroom with a seated capacity for 650 people will be constructed in the White House's East Wing.

www.cbsnews.com

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 20d

Yes.

David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 20d

Hence a “climate trigger” is much more useful than, and different to, a “no new fossil fuels” slogan.