Greg Jericho
@grogsgamut.bsky.social
Chief Economist at @australiainstitute.org.au
Columnist on economics and politics for Guardian Australia.
Dollars & Sense podcast https://australiainstitute.org.au/news/category/podcasts/dollars-sense/
Columnist on economics and politics for Guardian Australia.
Dollars & Sense podcast https://australiainstitute.org.au/news/category/podcasts/dollars-sense/
Pinned
Inflation beats employment by the length of the straight (sigh)
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The latest Dollars & Sense pod is up - talking RBA and illegal cigs
thepoint.com.au/podcasts/251...
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If Chris Minns stubbed his toe, he'd say the answer is more police powers.
Cops aren't the solution to racism, they're the problem.
It's already a crime to incite hatred based on race, but the cops didn't care - in fact they approved the Form 1 for the rally!
Cops aren't the solution to racism, they're the problem.
It's already a crime to incite hatred based on race, but the cops didn't care - in fact they approved the Form 1 for the rally!
November 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
If Chris Minns stubbed his toe, he'd say the answer is more police powers.
Cops aren't the solution to racism, they're the problem.
It's already a crime to incite hatred based on race, but the cops didn't care - in fact they approved the Form 1 for the rally!
Cops aren't the solution to racism, they're the problem.
It's already a crime to incite hatred based on race, but the cops didn't care - in fact they approved the Form 1 for the rally!
FWIW, the best tech people I know are ones who genuinely are interested in the humanities and also grasp that there are those who know more than they do (this also applies to people in general).
My theory is that tech bros hate humanities because they've all tried once to impress a girl studding English Lit by talking about a book and they were all laughed at for their complete misreading of the text.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
FWIW, the best tech people I know are ones who genuinely are interested in the humanities and also grasp that there are those who know more than they do (this also applies to people in general).
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My expansion to your theory is that in art, you and I can have perfectly valid, yet differing interpretations, of the text.
There isn’t one definitive “correct” answer they can find to unlock their understanding. And that infuriates them.
There isn’t one definitive “correct” answer they can find to unlock their understanding. And that infuriates them.
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
My expansion to your theory is that in art, you and I can have perfectly valid, yet differing interpretations, of the text.
There isn’t one definitive “correct” answer they can find to unlock their understanding. And that infuriates them.
There isn’t one definitive “correct” answer they can find to unlock their understanding. And that infuriates them.
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The biggest threats to our democracy come from the right.
And yet human rights, pro Palestine, and climate activists get greater restrictions and punitive actions than alt right fascists.
The biggest threats to our democracy come from the right.
And yet human rights, pro Palestine, and climate activists get greater restrictions and punitive actions than alt right fascists.
Female NSW MPs Allegra Spender and Kellie Sloane report death and rape threats after condemning neo-Nazi rally in Sydney
Allegra Spender and Kellie Sloane report threats to police, as premier says government is investigating whether ban on Nazi symbols should be expanded
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The biggest threats to our democracy come from the right.
And yet human rights, pro Palestine, and climate activists get greater restrictions and punitive actions than alt right fascists.
The biggest threats to our democracy come from the right.
And yet human rights, pro Palestine, and climate activists get greater restrictions and punitive actions than alt right fascists.
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Elon Musk after the Joyce Carol Oates tweets:
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Elon Musk after the Joyce Carol Oates tweets:
The replies to this are handy for finding bigots to preemptively block.
IOC edges closer to ban on transgender women in female Olympic events
IOC edges closer to ban on transgender women in female Olympic events
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Sources expect ban within next six to 12 months
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IOC president wants to protect the female category
The International Olympic Committee is edging closer towards implementing a ban on transgender women competing in the female category in time for the Los Angeles Olympics.
Multiple sources expect such a ban to come into effect over the next six to 12 months with the new IOC president, Kirsty Coventry, making clear she wants to drive through her campaign pledge to protect the female category. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The replies to this are handy for finding bigots to preemptively block.
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TIRED: Getting Chotinered
WIRED: Getting Oated
WIRED: Getting Oated
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
TIRED: Getting Chotinered
WIRED: Getting Oated
WIRED: Getting Oated
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Australia’s democracy has changed radically since 1975.
So many more women in parliament, but less o in the Colaition
So many more minor party and independent MPs
And each MP now has so many more constituents…
Great article/graphs from @browne90.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
So many more women in parliament, but less o in the Colaition
So many more minor party and independent MPs
And each MP now has so many more constituents…
Great article/graphs from @browne90.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
How Australian democracy has changed since 1975, in six charts
50 years on from the Dismissal, how has Australian democracy changed? Here are six ways that Australian politics looks very different to when Gough Whitlam was PM in November 1975.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Australia’s democracy has changed radically since 1975.
So many more women in parliament, but less o in the Colaition
So many more minor party and independent MPs
And each MP now has so many more constituents…
Great article/graphs from @browne90.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
So many more women in parliament, but less o in the Colaition
So many more minor party and independent MPs
And each MP now has so many more constituents…
Great article/graphs from @browne90.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Oh no!!!
Trump on Newsom: "He did something even worse than that. He's now taking a big section of Palisades or some area and he's gonna build low income income where they used to have luxury housing."
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Oh no!!!
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going offline having saturated myself in Australian political history after what happened 50 years ago today which was incredibly important, catastrophic etc, with this, my favourite politician after Gough, of course Bob was there - they were of a time of Titans..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GHU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GHU...
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating on the dismissal
YouTube video by Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House
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November 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
going offline having saturated myself in Australian political history after what happened 50 years ago today which was incredibly important, catastrophic etc, with this, my favourite politician after Gough, of course Bob was there - they were of a time of Titans..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GHU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GHU...
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In case it's not obvious, none of this is true. He's either innumerate, or lying.
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
In case it's not obvious, none of this is true. He's either innumerate, or lying.
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Like ‘housing affordability’ ‘net zero’ has become one of those meaningless political sayings
Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies
My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies
My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Net Zero hides a truth the mining giants understand perfectly: nothing has to change
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November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Like ‘housing affordability’ ‘net zero’ has become one of those meaningless political sayings
Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies
My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Labors support for net zero hasn’t stopped them supporting new coal or gas or from spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies
My latest column on @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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This is probably the only story you will read about Gough’s left nut today…beautiful piece by Mike Bowers
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11th November 1975, a pivotal moment for Australian politics and me
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November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is probably the only story you will read about Gough’s left nut today…beautiful piece by Mike Bowers
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
My theory is that tech bros hate humanities because they've all tried once to impress a girl studding English Lit by talking about a book and they were all laughed at for their complete misreading of the text.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
My theory is that tech bros hate humanities because they've all tried once to impress a girl studding English Lit by talking about a book and they were all laughed at for their complete misreading of the text.
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Love something as much as US Senators love protecting the filibuster. Everything else, who cares. Must protect their excuse for inaction.
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Love something as much as US Senators love protecting the filibuster. Everything else, who cares. Must protect their excuse for inaction.
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It wasnt our enviro laws that were too weak to protect the Skate or stop the North West Shelf, it was our Ministers.
Thats why Labor is trying to get the Coalition to help them water them down…to save Enviro Ministers the embarrassment of always saying yes #climate
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Thats why Labor is trying to get the Coalition to help them water them down…to save Enviro Ministers the embarrassment of always saying yes #climate
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It wasn’t the laws that were too weak to stop those projects, it was the ministers
The Prime Minister is betting that by 2028 people will forget the North West Shelf and EPBC backflips, but it would be a brave backbencher willing to make that same bet.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
It wasnt our enviro laws that were too weak to protect the Skate or stop the North West Shelf, it was our Ministers.
Thats why Labor is trying to get the Coalition to help them water them down…to save Enviro Ministers the embarrassment of always saying yes #climate
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Thats why Labor is trying to get the Coalition to help them water them down…to save Enviro Ministers the embarrassment of always saying yes #climate
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν for finance bros
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν for finance bros
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Unique sight - a governor-general in the House of Representatives, from which they’re usually excluded.
G-G Sam Mostyn at the opening session of the 50th anniversary of The Dismissal, Old Parliament House. #auspol
G-G Sam Mostyn at the opening session of the 50th anniversary of The Dismissal, Old Parliament House. #auspol
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Unique sight - a governor-general in the House of Representatives, from which they’re usually excluded.
G-G Sam Mostyn at the opening session of the 50th anniversary of The Dismissal, Old Parliament House. #auspol
G-G Sam Mostyn at the opening session of the 50th anniversary of The Dismissal, Old Parliament House. #auspol
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Nazis reckon NSW is best chance to run successful electoral campaign for Senate.
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Nazis who rallied at parliament want to enter politics. They think NSW is their best shot
Neo-Nazis are on a recruitment drive in a bid to register as a mainstream political party, and they believe a NSW upper house position could be their best bet.
www.smh.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Nazis reckon NSW is best chance to run successful electoral campaign for Senate.
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
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Good collection of Dismissal-related stories.
open.substack.com/pub/truenort...
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Wed 11 Nov 2025 - 50 Year Anniversary of the Whitlam Dismissal
SPECIAL TRUENORTH DEEPDIVE ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WHITLAM DISMISSAL
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Good collection of Dismissal-related stories.
open.substack.com/pub/truenort...
open.substack.com/pub/truenort...
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Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
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Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
The GOP labelled it Obamacare to attack it, but Trump cannot cope with someone else having a name on a thing.
Trump: I want the money to go into an account for people where the people buy their own insurance. They will feel like entrepreneurs. Call it Trumpcare… anything but Obamacare. Obamacare is a disaster just like he was.
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The GOP labelled it Obamacare to attack it, but Trump cannot cope with someone else having a name on a thing.
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Trump on Air Traffic Controllers: The one’s that stayed, I'm sending them a $10,000 bonus.
Ingraham: Where is that money coming from?
Trump: I don't know.
Ingraham: Where is that money coming from?
Trump: I don't know.
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Trump on Air Traffic Controllers: The one’s that stayed, I'm sending them a $10,000 bonus.
Ingraham: Where is that money coming from?
Trump: I don't know.
Ingraham: Where is that money coming from?
Trump: I don't know.
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“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”