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"Gas companies play the government both coming and going." #Auspol #MYEFO #PRRT #ThePoint
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
My post on the MYEFO, the failure of the PRRT and the cost of the superannuation backdown #ThePoint
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MYEFO reveals continued failure of petroleum resource rent tax, gas giants still big winners
The release of the mid-year fiscal and economic outlook (MYEFO) has revealed the cost of the changes to the superannuation tax concessions made by the government and the continued failure of the Petro...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:40 AM
hdthefog.bsky.social
That he was murdered was not up for debate or relevant to thepoint that was being made. I did not say ANYTHING disparaging, derrogatory or disrespectful. I simply defended my choice of words as not being relevant to the point.

She blocked me. That entitlement to be the ONE that's right
December 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
Been rather dispiriting how much ink has been spilled by the gallery on MP expenses, while the report into mutual obligations has been pretty much ignored. @amyremeikis.bsky.social is on it #ThePoint (what is The Point? It’s not news, but it SHOULD be)

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The welfare system isn’t just on fire, it’s burning out of control
The problem with having pattern recognition is that you can always see the fires before they start. Governments are a bit like that, too.  It’s not that they don’t see the fire before the smoke, it’s...
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December 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
The AFR run a 2 year campaign to get the ALP to weaken the changes to super tax concessions to make it easier to avoid paying the tax.

The ALP does it.

The AFR criticises the ALP for weakening the policy because people can avoid paying the tax.

My column #ThePoint

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The rich get tax advice; the poor get lectures: super tax saga lays bare a skewed system
A new report on the amount of revenue expected to be raised by the changes to superannuation tax on balances over $3m highlights yet again how the tax system is weighted in favour of the rich and that...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
Here’s a fun little tax policy brought in by Treasurer Scott Morrison - sell your home to “downsize” and you can put $300k into your super.

The catch? You don’t actually need to downsize and it doesn’t even need to be your home. So yeah, it’s a rort

My column #ThePoint

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ATO website Downsizer super contributions Check if and how you can contribute money from the sale of your home into your super fund via a downsizing contribution. Last updated 26 March 2024
December 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
My weekend column for #ThePoint.

The rich gets advice on how to rort the system, the poor get told to suck it the f*ck up.

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The rich get tax advice; the poor get lectures: super tax saga lays bare a skewed system
A new report on the amount of revenue expected to be raised by the changes to superannuation tax on balances over $3m highlights yet again how the tax system is weighted in favour of the rich and that...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
"Australia and New Zealand 'offloading' care crisis to Pacific neighbours: report" #ThePoint

An excellent and vital report by Fiona Macdonald
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Australia and New Zealand 'offloading' care crisis to Pacific neighbours: report
New research from the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work has revealed that Australia’s poaching of skilled health workers from Pacific Island nations is leaving their health systems on the b...
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December 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
"Australia passes a shameful milestone: over one million children now living in poverty" #ThePoint
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Australia passes a shameful milestone: over one million children now living in poverty
For all the focus on inflation, interest rates and cost-of-living pressures this year, the nation quietly passed a shameful milestone in 2025, ensuring a bleak Christmas for more Australian families t...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
"Shorter America This Week: American National Security = White Supremacy, Trump’s Pennsylvania “pivot”, Venezuela" @emmashortis.bsky.social #ThePoint
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Shorter America This Week: American National Security = White Supremacy, Trump’s Pennsylvania “pivot”, Venezuela
It isn’t always easy to keep up with what’s happening in the US. 'Shorter America' is Dr Emma Shortis' weekly column looping you in on what’s going on in America with news and analysis that you can tr...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
A lift up the hood and have a quick look at what is going on with the labour force figures #ThePoint
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Unemployment holds at 4.3%, but weak labour market tells a different story
Unemployment in November remained steady at 4.3% according to the latest figures out today from the Bureau of Statistics.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
"ACCC: private health insurers’ $4.8 billion covid windfall returned" #ThePoint Tegan George
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ACCC: private health insurers’ $4.8 billion covid windfall returned
Private health insurers have returned almost $4.8 billion to Australian customers after pledging not to profit from reduced access to health services during the pandemic.
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December 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
simonrosenberg.bsky.social
"Our public institutions must be independent. Our children’s education must be honest. And our democracy depends on people having access to information that is not filtered through the interests of industries whose profits rely on delaying #ClimateAction." #ThePoint
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Why fossil fuel influence in children's education is a democratic problem, not just a climate problem
Australia’s children deserve the truth about climate change. They deserve to learn science that is free from corporate spin, especially when it comes to industries driving the crisis that will shape t...
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December 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
LIsa Wills: "Why fossil fuel influence in children's education is a democratic problem, not just a climate problem" #ThePoint
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Why fossil fuel influence in children's education is a democratic problem, not just a climate problem
Australia’s children deserve the truth about climate change. They deserve to learn science that is free from corporate spin, especially when it comes to industries driving the crisis that will shape t...
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December 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
The Libs tried all they could to suggest the RBA Governor agreed with them on public spending. Alas I watched her Senate committee appearance, not just read Ted O'Brien's media release #ThePoint
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Liberals twist RBA remarks to sell a false narrative on public spending
This week the Liberal Party shamefully misquoted the head of the Reserve Bank in a weak attempt to justify their criticism of government spending.
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December 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
"Queensland Museum urged to axe Shell deal after study finds distorted climate education for students" by Tegan George #ThePoint
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Queensland Museum urged to axe Shell deal after study finds distorted climate education for students
The Queensland Museum is being urged to terminate its partnership with Shell’s QCG gas business following claims its branded teaching materials are misleading students on climate change.
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December 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
nek.blue-ocean.social
In a plutocracy like the currently-occupying US administration, Democracy is always the first casualty: Its dismantlement - whether through #Zoneflooding or any other form of misdirection & disruption -- to ensure the plunder at the EXPENSE of #natsec #globalsec #humansec -- is #thePoint . [1/2]
December 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
The Libs are so desperate to say public spending is bad they pretty shitily twisted Michele Bullock’s words.

My column #ThePoint

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Liberals twist RBA remarks to sell a false narrative on public spending
This week the Liberal Party shamefully misquoted the head of the Reserve Bank in a weak attempt to justify their criticism of government spending.
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December 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
"We built an illness system, not a health system. And we’re paying for it" by Luke Slawomirski #ThePoint

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We built an illness system, not a health system. And we’re paying for it
Australia’s health system is beginning to resemble the US. We must change course
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December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
"Gas industry spin is failing: Australians want export limits, not new gasfields " by Harriet Kater #ThePoint

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Gas industry spin is failing: Australians want export limits, not new gasfields
For ten years gas exporters have been telling anyone who will listen that the fix for the east coast gas market they broke is the one that serves their own interest - opening new gas fields.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
Excellent article on Oz Music and the algorithm by @mhharrington.bsky.social #ThePoint

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Why your Spotify Wrapped probably doesn’t have any new Australian music on it
If you don't have Australian artists on your Spotify Wrapped, you're not alone - it's the result of a structural, not individual, problem.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
"Humans are bad at valuing the things we are not good at. We bundle our strengths together and call them intelligence, then say that intelligence is the best thing to have"
Jane Rawson #ThePoint
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The value humans place in intellect at the expense of other forms of intelligence
Humans are bad at valuing the things we are not good at. We bundle our strengths together and call them intelligence, then say that intelligence is the best thing to have. And we valorise sight above ...
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December 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
It's kind of amazing just how more affordable Melbourne now is, and also how expensive is Adelaide
#ThePoint
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Median house prices: Sydney: $1,464,000 Canberra: $1,020,000 Brisbane: $1,010,000 Adelaide: $886,000 Perth: $870,000 Melbourne: $828,000 Hobart: $703,200 Darwin: $670,000
December 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
""Terrible, irresponsible pronouncement”: alarm over Trump’s push to resume nuclear testing" #ThePoint
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"Terrible, irresponsible pronouncement”: alarm over Trump’s push to resume nuclear testing
As Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, concerns are mounting over a new nuclear arms race with the US and Russia seemingly putting testing back on the table.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
grogsgamut.bsky.social
"House prices rise but Melbourne shows a way to improve affordability" My column for #ThePoint
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House prices rise but Melbourne shows a way to improve affordability
The latest housing figures revel that the in the September quarter the median price for a house in Brisbane surpassed $1million for the first time.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM