Dr Peter Davidson
@pagdavidson.bsky.social
Works at ACOSS to analyse & hopefully change public policies in Australia for the common good. Views my own.
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The OECD report demonstrates that Australia’s safeguard mechanism remains one of the least effective programs for reducing emissions, and relies the most on carbon credits.
thepoint.com.au/news/2150
thepoint.com.au/news/2150
OECD report shows LNP climate irrelevance, while Safeguard Mechanism among least effective emissions reduction schemes in world
The report demonstrates that Australia’s safeguard mechanism remains one of the least effective programs for reducing emissions, and relies the most on carbon credits.
thepoint.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The OECD report demonstrates that Australia’s safeguard mechanism remains one of the least effective programs for reducing emissions, and relies the most on carbon credits.
thepoint.com.au/news/2150
thepoint.com.au/news/2150
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JobSeeker Payment and Youth Allowance (Other) recipients as at October 2025: 991,540 (up from 988,745 in September).
Average duration on JobSeeker is about 173 weeks.
JobSeeker recipients' average duration on any payment is 255 weeks (Sept '25 data)
data.gov.au/data/dataset...
Average duration on JobSeeker is about 173 weeks.
JobSeeker recipients' average duration on any payment is 255 weeks (Sept '25 data)
data.gov.au/data/dataset...
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 AM
JobSeeker Payment and Youth Allowance (Other) recipients as at October 2025: 991,540 (up from 988,745 in September).
Average duration on JobSeeker is about 173 weeks.
JobSeeker recipients' average duration on any payment is 255 weeks (Sept '25 data)
data.gov.au/data/dataset...
Average duration on JobSeeker is about 173 weeks.
JobSeeker recipients' average duration on any payment is 255 weeks (Sept '25 data)
data.gov.au/data/dataset...
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Investors are overwhelming first home buyers and pushing up house prices. Time for the Treasurer to open the prudential toolbox. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
‘Put the brakes on’: Record $40b investor blitz has banking regulator on high alert
The value of mortgages taken out by property investors has soared more than a third in just six months. It could force new rules to curb their enthusiasm.
www.theage.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Investors are overwhelming first home buyers and pushing up house prices. Time for the Treasurer to open the prudential toolbox. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
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"Something is deeply wrong with this system, when people who are wealthy are getting far wealthier...and people who don't have a lot are falling further and further behind."
- Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025
#auspol
- Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025
#auspol
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
"Something is deeply wrong with this system, when people who are wealthy are getting far wealthier...and people who don't have a lot are falling further and further behind."
- Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025
#auspol
- Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025
#auspol
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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
October 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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
Time to turn the tables on the modern day money-changers in the gambling industry.
Which is why we're going to use police powers to stop a person’s welfare payment before any court process. Just like Jesus would have wanted.
At the Christian prayer breakfast this week, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said that the “principles and values that Jesus lived by underpin the role of Australia’s first law officer” and claimed that “our values and faith” guide lawmakers. Read more: rationalist.com.au/australias-a...
#auspol
#auspol
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Time to turn the tables on the modern day money-changers in the gambling industry.
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I can’t envisage a child poverty strategy which garners any credibility without fully scrapping the two-child limit.
Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social
largerfamilies.study/publications...
Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social
largerfamilies.study/publications...
November 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I can’t envisage a child poverty strategy which garners any credibility without fully scrapping the two-child limit.
Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social
largerfamilies.study/publications...
Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social
largerfamilies.study/publications...
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🚀Our new #UNTaxConvention page is live!
The biggest shakeup to global tax rules in history is happening next week at the UN.
It affects all of us.
We’ve launched a new one-stop hub to follow the it: taxjustice.net/topics/un-ta...
The biggest shakeup to global tax rules in history is happening next week at the UN.
It affects all of us.
We’ve launched a new one-stop hub to follow the it: taxjustice.net/topics/un-ta...
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🚀Our new #UNTaxConvention page is live!
The biggest shakeup to global tax rules in history is happening next week at the UN.
It affects all of us.
We’ve launched a new one-stop hub to follow the it: taxjustice.net/topics/un-ta...
The biggest shakeup to global tax rules in history is happening next week at the UN.
It affects all of us.
We’ve launched a new one-stop hub to follow the it: taxjustice.net/topics/un-ta...
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How MAGA trumped neoliberalism
unherd.com/2025/11/how-...
(an excerpt from Chapter 4 of my forthcoming "The Great Global Transformation")
unherd.com/2025/11/how-...
(an excerpt from Chapter 4 of my forthcoming "The Great Global Transformation")
How MAGA trumped neoliberalism
unherd.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
How MAGA trumped neoliberalism
unherd.com/2025/11/how-...
(an excerpt from Chapter 4 of my forthcoming "The Great Global Transformation")
unherd.com/2025/11/how-...
(an excerpt from Chapter 4 of my forthcoming "The Great Global Transformation")
‘E61 Institute CEO Brennan said the RBA had limited control over productivity growth, and therefore accepts the speed limit it is given.’
But what if low productivity is partly due to low growth?
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
But what if low productivity is partly due to low growth?
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
Australia’s low economic growth speed limit may already be broken
Economists pushed back on RBA governor Michele Bullock’s claim that inflation was driven by ‘temporary’ factors, saying there was more to it than that.
www.afr.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
‘E61 Institute CEO Brennan said the RBA had limited control over productivity growth, and therefore accepts the speed limit it is given.’
But what if low productivity is partly due to low growth?
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
But what if low productivity is partly due to low growth?
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
are we back to the days when police hovered around the entrance of centreline offices to scare people away?
Parl Library has updated the Digest for the Social Security Technical Changes No. 2 Bill to include analysis of the new measure allowing Home Affairs Minister to stop payments to persons subject to an outstanding warrant for a serious violent or sexual offence: parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/dow...
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 AM
are we back to the days when police hovered around the entrance of centreline offices to scare people away?
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Australia’s housing policy can be better — because it has been better
October 28, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Australia’s housing policy can be better — because it has been better
Reposted by Dr Peter Davidson
Relatively hawkish comments by RBA Gov Bullock leave much riding on Sep qtr trimmed mean infl:
+0.6%q would be in line w RBA forecasts & imply a cut
+0.7% would be close enough to allow a cut
+0.8% would leave it a v close call
+0.9% would be a “material miss” & likely see a hold
+0.6%q would be in line w RBA forecasts & imply a cut
+0.7% would be close enough to allow a cut
+0.8% would leave it a v close call
+0.9% would be a “material miss” & likely see a hold
October 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Relatively hawkish comments by RBA Gov Bullock leave much riding on Sep qtr trimmed mean infl:
+0.6%q would be in line w RBA forecasts & imply a cut
+0.7% would be close enough to allow a cut
+0.8% would leave it a v close call
+0.9% would be a “material miss” & likely see a hold
+0.6%q would be in line w RBA forecasts & imply a cut
+0.7% would be close enough to allow a cut
+0.8% would leave it a v close call
+0.9% would be a “material miss” & likely see a hold
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London, Nov 6
📝 "No one describes better and quantifies with such precision the global transformations now underway than Branko Milanovic"
Join us for the first launch event of the highly acclaimed new book by @brankomilan.bsky.social on 6 November.
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Join us for the first launch event of the highly acclaimed new book by @brankomilan.bsky.social on 6 November.
Register now ⬇️
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October 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
London, Nov 6
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Now even The Australian is rinsing the government for keeping payment suspensions turned on in their unlawful Mutual Obligations system
archive.is/2025.10.24-2...
archive.is/2025.10.24-2...
October 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Now even The Australian is rinsing the government for keeping payment suspensions turned on in their unlawful Mutual Obligations system
archive.is/2025.10.24-2...
archive.is/2025.10.24-2...
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Gee, I can’t imagine why…
October 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Gee, I can’t imagine why…
?
The Newman government was also a big fan of this kind of stuff over a decade ago. There are no new ideas
Australian Labor, your number one party for not having public environment.
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
October 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Rent doesn’t differ if you're 19 or 21. So why should your wage?
Same work, same rent, same bills — same pay.
Same work, same rent, same bills — same pay.
October 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Rent doesn’t differ if you're 19 or 21. So why should your wage?
Same work, same rent, same bills — same pay.
Same work, same rent, same bills — same pay.
‘price rises had been particularly strong in the services sector, including health, education and insurance businesses’
Nothing new: Services inflation has been higher than goods inflation for years.
These prices are all influenced by govt: gap fees in health, taxes on insurance.
Govts should act.
Nothing new: Services inflation has been higher than goods inflation for years.
These prices are all influenced by govt: gap fees in health, taxes on insurance.
Govts should act.
Michael West Media - investigative journalists - always indepen…
@michaelwest.com.au.web.brid.gy
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Unbridled inflation an each-way bet on Cup Day rate cut
Melbourne Cup day may not prove a winner for borrowers if inflation remains sticky in data released the week before, splitting predictions on interest rates.
michaelwest.com.au
October 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
‘price rises had been particularly strong in the services sector, including health, education and insurance businesses’
Nothing new: Services inflation has been higher than goods inflation for years.
These prices are all influenced by govt: gap fees in health, taxes on insurance.
Govts should act.
Nothing new: Services inflation has been higher than goods inflation for years.
These prices are all influenced by govt: gap fees in health, taxes on insurance.
Govts should act.
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Done! Well done 🎉🎉🎉
Timor-Leste officially admitted to Asean, becoming its 11th member
www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...
Timor-Leste officially admitted to Asean, becoming its 11th member
www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...
Timor Leste becomes Asean's 11th member
Timor-Leste is the first country to join the grouping since Cambodia’s admission in 1999. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
www.straitstimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Done! Well done 🎉🎉🎉
Timor-Leste officially admitted to Asean, becoming its 11th member
www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...
Timor-Leste officially admitted to Asean, becoming its 11th member
www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...
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Donald Trump granted clemency to crypto’s richest man in what is yet another instance of the president reshaping the function of the pardon, Will Gottsegen argues in The Atlantic Daily:
Trump Grants Clemency to One of the World’s Richest Men
The recent pardon is an overture to an industry that has made the president millions.
bit.ly
October 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Donald Trump granted clemency to crypto’s richest man in what is yet another instance of the president reshaping the function of the pardon, Will Gottsegen argues in The Atlantic Daily:
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This is a dry-run for the mid-terms.
Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...
www.justice.gov
October 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is a dry-run for the mid-terms.
Yes.
October 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Yes.
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In our interview, @garethgore.bsky.social tells me how these changes would impact Opus Dei, explains the org‘s influence in US politics, its recruitment and coercive practices. We also delve into Opus Dei’s conflicts with the Vatican and ongoing abuse allegations. @straightwhitejc.bsky.social
Special Episode: Is Pope Leo Really Dissolving Opus Dei?
Podcast-Folge · Straight White American Jesus · 23.10.2025 · 41 Min.
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October 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
In our interview, @garethgore.bsky.social tells me how these changes would impact Opus Dei, explains the org‘s influence in US politics, its recruitment and coercive practices. We also delve into Opus Dei’s conflicts with the Vatican and ongoing abuse allegations. @straightwhitejc.bsky.social