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martinelms.bsky.social
"How long is it going to take the Albanese Government to do something about this?" Until Deloitte start hiring Labor Party staffers for executive and boardroom positions. Until the debt is incurred by the ALP. Look at Tim Smith's history, State Liberal, Vic.
martinelms.bsky.social
Dear Rupert, Andrew here, SAS superman, awesome Liberal Party leader In Waiting.

Go away Hastie you have nothing to offer. We're now at unless you're wearing a swastika, speak of inalienable corporate primacy, that public spending is Marxism gone Communistic (error intended) you're yesterday's man
martinelms.bsky.social
Anecdotal comment. My wife had a job vacancy for her department. Normally, maybe a dozen at max would apply - 120 applications and cutoff early. Quite a few from older women who were in more senior roles. It's tough out there.
martinelms.bsky.social
A simple cost-benefit table of rejoining the EU surely would work.

For every Reform advertisement you could show X billion saved and it's for you by rejoining Europe.

"It's not about bananas, that's misdirection by the RW - it's giving the British people back $20 billion a year and free travel"
martinelms.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Just so you know - Adani has a private holding company where there is a $2 royalty paid to the company for every tonne. So Qld misses out on Royalties but these dubious bastards make sure they don't. Crisafulli works for who?
martinelms.bsky.social
More importantly, by beating Australia, the USMNT will be in a far better position for the world cup in the second pot.
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heimbergecon.bsky.social
Interesting paper on Germany's growth model based on a national income and financial accounting decomposition approach: "we find an extreme export-led mercantilist (ELM) regime during 1999-2009, a moderated ELM regime during 2010-2020, and a weakly export-led regime during 2021-2024."
martinelms.bsky.social
ABC 27 July Australian Bureau of Statistics and Overseas Arrivals and Departures data set.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
martinelms.bsky.social
The US encouraged Argentina's beef export industry to supply US troops and US domestic population in WW2 then screwed Argentina over, post war. For that nation to struggle economically with the attendant social problems of poverty. US supported/trained RW Junta killed/disappeared over 50,000 people.
martinelms.bsky.social
Why Starmer's Govt have not passed truth in media laws is a lacuna only clown shoes, phone hacking, and a RW elite MSM can fill. Accountability and penalty are required after 60 years of deceit, manipulation that has resulted in national decline. As the Leveson failure attests.
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sjwrenlewis.bsky.social
ew post: Populism and Economic Prosperity
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/popu...
We would expect populist governments to damage the economy, and the evidence suggests that they do so in a big way. But we know from Brexit that the media typically nullifies the impact of this evidence on voters.
Populism and Economic Prosperity
Mainstream political parties normally claim that populist parties, if they ever got to power, would damage the economy. We have clear evid...
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undercoverhist.bsky.social
What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward?

A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy

beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...
martinelms.bsky.social
Labor needs more apparatchiks - good on you. What next, a theses on my door why Labor is very distinguishable from the LNP. Also state, in exasperated voice, the NACC is a perfectly functioning organisation, Albanese is the Father of FOI integrity, that Dutch disease is not a bilateral issue.
martinelms.bsky.social
Only need to see how the GOP acts. It lies, it destroys industries in opposition to its largest donors, it denigrates your rights via threat, intimidation and illegal arrest. Nor is the GOP investing in American research - to the contrary the GOP destroys research universities. GOP = loss & decline
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acemaxx.bsky.social
#RareEarths
#China was responsible for almost 70% of global output in 2024, chart @economics
martinelms.bsky.social
Unless there is a cohesive, unbreakable unity of an Occidental coalition - naivety at best, a pipe dream otherwise - irrespective of the necessity for it, we are, frankly my dear, cooked.

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martinelms.bsky.social
If there was one singular fact China will become not one but two orders of magnitude larger than the US economy, where China already leads in 37 of 44 critical technologies, that is it. Lee Kuan Yew foreshadowed this back in 1994 at the Aust: Press Club - he was scoffed at.

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martinelms.bsky.social
Worth reading the transcript Justice Lee's decision Lehrman Higgins case, 2024. Reynold's actions in the case feigning ignorance of law, appalling. Rationale for having the office cleaned not really challenged bc case was Lehrman v Reynolds. Press/AFP got wrong Reynolds personally cleaned office.
martinelms.bsky.social
Linda Reynolds has a good name to defend! Did she clean up herself what she possibly thought were semen stains? No. Why did she order her office cleaned when she had not seen it? Remove evidence? The cleaner said to their boss the place is clean. Was boss under Reynold's instructions to clean? Yes.
martinelms.bsky.social
If Linda Reynolds had worked for Australia's interest as much as she has engaged in vitriol against a rape victim who was under her responsibility - Australia would be a fucking Utopia.

#auspol
martinelms.bsky.social
Rob Grey's Elegy. Love a little bit of emotion in one's instrumental music. Only 36 years old. If you want to know why sandpaper is the material for a record sleeve, ask.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oaB...
The Durutti Column - Rob Grey's Elegy
YouTube video by London Records
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martinelms.bsky.social
Nothing more American than your protestations are completely ignored by elites. Who obtain greater wealth and power appropriated from the American people, to then blame you for your demise, at their hands. That is America. A pseudo-Democracy.
martinelms.bsky.social
Bc of what Yaxley-Lennon/Robinson has been convicted of, racial offences, and if he has been sponsored by Musk - that should be sufficient for Musk to be denied entry to Australia.

Could we push that line to the Australian government

Musk is a sponsor of racism and hate crimes

#auspol #Australia