John Quiggin

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Economist & blogger @ http://johnquiggin.com, http://crookedtimber.org. http://johnquiggin.substack.com/?utm http://mstdn.social/@johnquiggin
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John Quiggin is an Australian economist, a professor at the University of Queensland. He was formerly an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Federation Fellow and a member of the board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government. .. more

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 12h

Police screwed up (to put it charitably) by allowing this criminal display of racism to go ahead. But why aren't they arresting and prosecuting those involved. And why isn't Minns demanding it? #nswpol #nazis

What we just witnessed was state-sanctioned Nazism

What on earth did the NSW Police think a rally organised by the National Socialist Network would be about?

www.smh.com.au

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 16h

#Albo’s homage: abandonment of the #Republic, and of anything that might remotely resemble Whitlam's radicalism. All that's left is #Labor tribalism.
#auspol

Albo’s homage to Labor legend

The only prime minister to be dismissed by the Crown’s representative in Australia will be immortalised with a statue outside Old Parliament House, Anthony Albanese has announced.

www.news.com.au

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 20h

Sadly true. 1991 wasn't the end as we hoped at the time

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 21h

14 years ago, the guns fell silent on the Western Front, marking a temporary and partial end to the Great War which began in 1914 and has continued, in one form or another, ever since. I once hoped that I would live to see a peaceful world, but that hope has faded away. substack.com/@jquigg...?

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114 years ago, the guns fell silent on the Western Front, marking a temporary and partial end to the Great War which began in 1914 and has continued, in one form or another, ever since. I once hoped that I would live to see a peaceful world, but that hope has faded away.

substack.com

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 22h

AFAICT I assume they contacted her, and asked for a comment.

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 1d

Update: Revised version of Oz article on neo-Nazi protest includes a comment from Jillian Segal. So, she is not totally inactive.

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 1d

The most useful « AI » is just Google as it should have been by 2010. Natural language questions and answers with citations and links. Google summaries nowhere near this. Enshittification is incurable

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 1d

Oops! I'll leave it there.

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 1d

The fact is that the #Albanese government has maintained, in nearly all respects, the fiscal and macroeconomic policy framework inherited from the LNP. The outcomes, mediocre but not disastorus (an apt desciption of all recent austrian govnerments) reflect that. But, at least we aren't New Zealand.

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 1d

Selected examples of good wage outcomes are reported but that fact that real wages have barly recovered to pre-pandemic levels is not. And celbration of coal exports is particularly unappealing.

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 1d

As usual from this author, lots of cherrypicking here. Most obviously, Australia's performance on inflation is very similar to that of other developed contries. Employment growth is featured prominently but the fact that unemployment has risen steadily sinc3 2022 is ignored.

Australia’s economy shines in a world of deepening gloom

The numbers confirm Australia’s economy is responding to global conditions better than most.

independentaustralia.net

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 2d

She had a public appearance in Melbourne shortly after her appointment and attended a "mayor's conference" organised by a rightwing US group. Apart from that, I can't find any evidence of the kind of activity you might expect from an "envoy" Envoy to whom?

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 3d

As I mentioned Freeman can't actually collect his disability pension without giving away his location.

Asking again, why stop social security pensions, while letting wealthy alleged murderers collect superannuation pensions, not to mention interest, rent, dividends?

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 3d

The point being made by the critics is that, on past experience, it won't be confined to those cases, or carefully worded. For making that point, Plibersek called the critics accomplices of murderers.

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 3d

The outrage isn't about the policy (though it's a bad one). It's that Plibersek accused anyone who questioned it of being a supporter of the likes of Freeman.

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 3d

And then make payments with the same phone?

If you think this is a good idea, why stop at social security? Why not freeze bank accounts for anyone "on the run" (which I assume means, with an outstanding warrant)?

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 3d

How is this supposed to work? It's straightforward enough to ship 1000 cars to SF and Austin, but where are the passengers (and, for that matter, safety drivers) supposed to come from? There's no evidence that Tesla is facing excess demand an present.

Tesla to add more than 1,000 cars to its Robotaxi fleet

Tesla to massively expand its Robotaxi fleet to more than 1,500 operating cars across two states, much faster than many expected.

thedriven.io

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 3d

My submission to the NSW Unis inquiry is here

www.parliament.nsw.g...

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 3d

I gave evidence before a NSW Parliamentary inquiry arguing that state governments should handlegal responsibility for #universities to the feds. I didn' think I made much of an impression, but it was reported very accurate in the Times Higher Education Supplement.

State governments ‘should leave universities alone’

Federal government must ‘take proper responsibility’ for a university sector ‘which in practice it controls’, MPs told

www.timeshighereducation.com

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 4d

Americans getting shorter, as well as dying younger. Grim

The decline in the physical stature of the U.S. population parallels the diminution in the rate of increase in life expectancy

The U.S. healthcare and food-provisioning systems have failed to create an environment in which the human biological organism can flourish. Consequent…

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 4d

Ending principle of "innocent until proven guilty", but only for welfare recipients (MPs accused of crime keep drawing their salary).

Practical question: how are alleged murderers on the run supposed to get access to their benefits? Turn up at a bank? Withdraw from an ATM? Ask a friend to collect?

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 4d

Tanya #Plibersek trashing what little was left of her reputation after her disastrous stint as Environment Minister. I doubt she imagined this future when she joing the #Labor party #auspol

Minister Plibersek must apologise for Sky News comments about advocacy groups

Yesterday the social services minister took to Sky News to make abhorrent remarks about civil society organisations representing single mothers, First Nations legal advocates and peak legal and social services bodies.

apcentre.substack.com

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 4d

First Nations access to prepaid power, an important issue of which I was unaware #auspol researchers-admin.we...

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 4d

Checked back and it was nine months ago, when Russian forces were 7km from Pokrovsk. And the fall of the city had been repeatedly described as imminent for months before that.

Shorter version: Russia still advancing, at great costs, and literally slower than snail's pace. But Putin keeps pushing.

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 4d

As in this case, RTO mandates are often a backdoor way of cutting jobs. But the workers you lose are often the ones you need most.

Amazon’s Return To Office Mandates Backfire

The exodus of senior talent from AWS might be why it took forever to figure out why they broke the internet

ehandbook.com

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Pandymonium @pandymonium.bsky.social · 4d

Corrupt gambling regulator caught taking bribes says he'll stop taking bribes while the guidelines for taking bribes is being drafted #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Gambling regulator stops accepting gifts from betting companies, for now

The announcement comes six months after the ABC first reported the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission chair had accepted corporate hospitality from bookmakers.

www.abc.net.au

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 4d

Literature summaries

John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 5d

A massive policy failure and another environmental disaster. To save #Labor rusted-ons the trouble, repeat after me "the other lot are even worse" #auspol

Australia’s electric vehicle revolution stalls as sales plummet

Peak petrol car sales appears to have arrived, but the slow rate of change to EVs is putting the nation’s climate targets at risk.

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