Passionate about #change #PhD & want the world to be a better place @TechfugeesAust1 TedX https://xitter.cf/t.co/Q8xZ3zJtQi PhD candidate #RetirementSecurity
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🧵Growing up Wog in Australia
My mum migrated to Australia in 1972, I was 7 years old when we landed here from Egypt. At school I was called wog and made to feel like I didn’t belong, like I was stupid because I couldn’t speak English. It didn’t matter I spoke French, Italian, – at Sydney, New South Wales
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The Govt enters into $100B worth of contracts each year, all with confidentiality terms that prevent citizens from knowing if the contractor is performing well. If I win in the Full Federal Court next week, that’ll all change. #transparency #Snowy #auspol michaelwest.com.au/snowy-blo…
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This 👇 Bureaucrats don’t want to be held accountable in/from Estimates. Behind closed doors is their preference & precisely how Robodebt ended up with a RC showing how bureaucrats cover up. And Katy & Gordon deciding a new APS Value of ‘stewardship’ would fix the rot! #auspol
Genius
Why aren’t ordinary Australians getting to question senators?
#auspol #estimates
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The ATO has been doing this for years and destroying taxpayers including by fabricating evidence to raise debts that are irrecoverable at law. But they wont go after certain groups because several senior assistant, deputy and Commissioner of Taxation are former KPMG looking after many of this select groups
The ATO has stopped acting like a tax office and started acting like a debt-collection cartel. Raids, data-matching dragnets, forced monthly BAS, all aimed at small businesses already fighting to survive. Meanwhile the multinationals settle quietly. Who is this system actually protecting? #auspol
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$25B direct cost. $6B share purchase cost. $6B transmission line cost. A $37B total for a project sold to the public at $2B . It’s a huge economic debacle delivered by LNP/ALP dunces and fat cat bureaucrats. And no one is held to account. #fail #auspol
Lipstick on a pig
@ABCmediawatch nails it on the super fund tick of approval
#auspol
abc.net.au/mediawatch/episod…
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All of us are so very, very sad. My piece for @shot_au
The violence we still refuse to name.
theshot.net.au/news/opinion-…
Doesn’t make sense does it
#auspol
NAB made almost $7 billion in profit last year and still wants to axe 2,500 jobs.
To use buzzwords like ‘future fit’ to justify cutting 2,500 people is deeply disappointing and raises serious questions about whether its vision for the future is one powered by Australians or by AI and an offshore workforce.
Banks need to give their staff a genuine voice in this technological transformation instead of subjecting them to an AI dictatorship.
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Banks slashing jobs to be future fit due to crashing house prices and admit 2026 was peak Australia.
Retirement Security This week #IBR conferences tackles post retirement with a stellar cast of speakers and panelists diving into the questions that matter - is our system working, what is enough and can we improve retirement outcomes for Australians? Chaired by #StephenHuppert
it’s encouraging to see so many decision makers across sectors in the room. Today Dr Abby Bloom and I present on predicting risk in retirement & the choices retirees will have to make. I will present early findings from my PhD on how we can predict risk much earlier
UTS Business School and Abby will present on the cost of not caring PrimeLifePartners #mycaringlife these are important conversations to improve retirement security #retirement #phd
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"Sydney Water - data centres to consume 25% of Sydney’s drinking water by 2035." Toxic water comes out the other end.
Missing - obligations on disclosure and toxic waste
Claudia Weisenberger
#auspol
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15% GST extended to all food items is a ridiculous idea proposed by @GrattanInst with no consideration of the regressive nature of the tax affecting the most vulnerable
#auspol
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The politicians pay themselves so much that they lose touch with the reality of what living costs the average Australian.
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If you are a rusted on Pauline Hanson supporter you may just find this rather hard to watch this clip.. Sorry about that 😞. #auspol – at Brisbane, Queensland
Must read on the shitshow behind the tax changes #auspol
afr.com/policy/tax-and-super…
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THE PRIME MINISTER'S "NUMBERS WORTH REMEMBERING". HERE ARE THE ONES HE LEFT OUT.
Anthony Albanese posted a list of numbers this week. Some are real. The $25 cap on PBS medicines is a good thing, and so is six months of paid parental leave.
But if we're remembering numbers, let's remember all of them.
The 5% deposit scheme wasn't Labor's. The Morrison government started it in January 2020. Labor expanded it last October. Treasury's own documents expected first-year demand to run more than 30% above normal. Since then rates have gone up four times and home values have fallen six months in a row. Families who bought with 5% down are the most exposed.
850,000 Free TAFE "enrolments". Enrolling isn't finishing. By March 2026, 258,000 had completed a course out of 814,000 enrolments. That's fewer than one in three.
The 15% pay rise for childcare workers is real, and taxpayers are paying for it. The extension alone costs $3.6 billion. Childcare prices before subsidies still rose 9% in the year to April, more than double inflation.
137 Urgent Care Clinics. The government's own evaluation found "no clear evidence" that emergency department waiting times have improved.
And the numbers that didn't make his list:
$275 off your power bill, promised by 2025. Electricity rose 22.4% in the year to June.
Four rate rises this year. About $470 a month more on the average new mortgage.
1.2 million homes promised. 124,000 behind after two years.
241,000 people moved off the NDIS, most of them children.
"We'll keep delivering for every Australian." Australians can count.
Cold Hard Facts. Corrected when wrong. No misinformation.
What's your thoughts…?
Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺
Sources: Anthony Albanese, Facebook, Oct 2026; Morrison Government, First Home Loan Deposit Scheme media release, 26 Nov 2019; MacroBusiness, reporting Treasury documents via The Australian, 26 Jan 2026; Cotality Home Value Index, Sep 2026; DEWR Fee-Free TAFE snapshot, Q1 2026; Department of Education, Worker retention payment; ABS CPI, April 2026, via The Sector; Medicare Urgent Care Clinics, interim evaluation report 2, Feb 2026, via ABC; ABS CPI June 2026; ABS Building Activity June 2026; Department of Health FOI brief, via The Guardian, Jul 2026.
