#auspol Wow - trying to reduce annual tax payments by generating losses in an investment portfolio, and using those losses to offset tax payable sounds like a winner (NOT!). Those loss-making investments wouldn't also be owned by the managing fund by any chance? www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
World’s Biggest Hedge Fund Teaches the Wealthy How to Slash Taxes to Zero
Cliff Asness’s AQR is riding an anti-tax wave to become the world’s biggest hedge fund.
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#auspol Semantics. And what if they refuse to identify as right of centre? "The Australian Jewish Association, which identifies as a right of centre organisation, recommended there be a government review of the protective capabilities of licensed security guards." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Inquiry hears support for arming of security guards at Jewish events
A royal commission on antisemitism has pressed a risk and security consultant on his belief that the private security sector should be armed when protecting open air events.
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'...Segal also criticised SBS for using the Gaza health ministry as an official source of statistics, which she described as “grossly inflated”. Israel has accepted the ministry’s estimate that the death toll is more than 70,000 is broadly accurate...' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
ABC and SBS reject antisemitism envoy’s call for ‘oversight’ committee to vet Israel coverage
Jillian Segal tells royal commission the public broadcasters’ coverage of the Middle East lacks balance and paints Israel in a negative light
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Which Creation Story Are You Building On? Arendt, Genesis, and the Architecture of Political Thought Today I started listening to an audiobook of Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition. I was surprised to hear that in the opening chapter of her major work, she draws a pointed distinction between the…
Which Creation Story Are You Building On? Arendt, Genesis, and the Architecture of Political Thought
Today I started listening to an audiobook of Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition. I was surprised to hear that in the opening chapter of her major work, she draws a pointed distinction between the two versions of creation in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 — and uses it as a diagnostic tool for understanding political thought. This resonates directly with ideas presented in Submission 3 to the Royal Commission.
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The Community Strong Australia party’s ‘reason over rage’ sounds good to me. Can it appeal to One Nation voters too? | Zoe Daniel
Translating the authenticity of community independence into a party structure is a risk, but in the Australian spirit of having a go, I say give it a chance
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Six Submissions to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion The submission window closes today, 14 June 2026. This post introduces the six submissions made by this author to the Royal Commission, in the order they were lodged. Between March and June 2026, I made six submissions…
Six Submissions to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion
The submission window closes today, 14 June 2026. This post introduces the six submissions made by this author to the Royal Commission, in the order they were lodged. Between March and June 2026, I made six submissions to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. A fifth submission was lodged and subsequently withdrawn prior to publication after a citation verification problem was identified.
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Submission 7: Holocaust Memory Should Restrain State Power, Not Legitimise Its Expansion Submitted to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, June 2026 The Bondi attack was carried out by individuals. The Holocaust was carried out by a state. That distinction is the foundation…
Submission 7: Holocaust Memory Should Restrain State Power, Not Legitimise Its Expansion
Submitted to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, June 2026 The Bondi attack was carried out by individuals. The Holocaust was carried out by a state. That distinction is the foundation of this submission. And it is the distinction that the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion appears, in its interim report and its apparent direction, to have missed.
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The Forgotten Foundation: What Happened to the Relationship Between the State and the Individual? There was a time when every serious participant in Australian political life understood something so basic it barely needed stating. The state is more powerful than the individual. That asymmetry is…
The Forgotten Foundation: What Happened to the Relationship Between the State and the Individual?
There was a time when every serious participant in Australian political life understood something so basic it barely needed stating. The state is more powerful than the individual. That asymmetry is the primary political problem that democratic government exists to manage. It sounds obvious. It used to be. Two Traditions, One Foundation Australian politics was built on two great traditions that approached this problem from opposite directions but shared the same foundational understanding.
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Submission 6: How Australia’s Antisemitism Plan Compares to the World Posted to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, June 2026 Australia's Special Envoy's Plan to Combat Antisemitism has 49 key actions across 13 focus areas. That is not unusual by international standards.…
Submission 6: How Australia’s Antisemitism Plan Compares to the World
Posted to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, June 2026 Australia's Special Envoy's Plan to Combat Antisemitism has 49 key actions across 13 focus areas. That is not unusual by international standards. The European Union, the United States, Austria, Germany, and a dozen other countries have produced antisemitism action plans of comparable or greater volume. What is unusual is not how many recommendations Australia made.
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#auspol South Korea is building a capacity, industry & workforce at an optimal cost. Australia is sleepwalking into becoming a burial ground for high-level nuclear waste: being forced to pay exorbitant costs for clapped out subs, and with nothing else to show for it www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
The US ally getting nuclear-powered submarines with no AUKUS deal
South Korea is taking a different path to Australia in building nuclear-powered submarines, but its plan still hinges on the United States.
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#auspol The USA has institutionalised slavery through its prisons. It is a nation that glorifies a punative legal and prison system - to exploit slavery. Companies like IBM and Victoria's Secret systematically use slave labour in the USA to reduce costs. theconversation.com/australia-is...
Australia is facing a new 12.5% US tariff over anti-slavery claims. Are they actually right?
Using tariffs to make nations act on forced labour is questionable. Yet there is substance behind the US allegations – including that Australia hasn’t done enough.
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#auspol Political parties have become like monolithic companies run by CEOs who no longer care about their customers. The model MP is a Yes-man. The old school parties from 1891 and 1944 are dinosaurs. Imagine a political party that tries to talk to people. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The ‘teal party’ was once used to undermine independent MPs. So why would they try to make it a reality?
Changes to political funding and the need for crossbenchers to remain relevant are driving discussions but some independents are opposed
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#auspol What rules would work for a party of independents? 1. Support for supply & confidence 2. Open debate on topics to arrive at optimal outcomes 3. Respect for security & intelligence 4. Open nomination process at seat level for party support based on merit theconversation.com/view-from-th...
View from The Hill: would a ‘party of independents’ be a contradiction in terms?
The flirtation by some “teals” with the idea of forming a new party is part of the major shakeup underway in our political system.
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#auspol This would be very interesting The main question is how you would enable robust debate, allow members in an independent party to still pursue their own agendas for their communities, and still function as a political party in parliament with a block of votes www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
Pocock open to party of independents as One Nation support climbs
The independent senator says Australians are frustrated with a political system that "does not work for them".
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Useless dud for AU During the cold war, nuclear submarines with nuclear weapons were a key aspect of the MAD doctrine. Even if a superpower could consider an effective first strike, nuclear subs would be able to surface at unknown locations and guarantee MAD. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
As Aukus spending and delays blow out, will Australia’s nuclear submarines ever materialise?
The deal will cost Australia $368bn but the strongest signal yet has come that the US is not building enough subs for itself, let alone for Australia
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Want to know why most people aren’t winners out of this budget? Because Labor is spending billions on bad things. Things like a bloated $500+ million Australian Submarine Agency with zero submarines, and hundreds of staff trying to create a nuclear waste dump.
Aussie Crown Can you see yourself as the King or Queen of Australia? Or your kids, a mate from school, someone you work with? We already have an Australian Crown — we just still have a British monarch wearing it. All it takes is replacing the monarch with an elected Australian, keeping everything…
Aussie Crown
Can you see yourself as the King or Queen of Australia? Or your kids, a mate from school, someone you work with? We already have an Australian Crown — we just still have a British monarch wearing it. All it takes is replacing the monarch with an elected Australian, keeping everything else as it is. The question is whether we believe we're good enough — or whether we let the royals and politicians take this from us as well, or try to talk us out of it. It's already our Crown. It's time to own it.
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#auspol The Royal Commission into antisemitism should be covering these fees. Zionist groups are well funded, and if a credible alternative group cannot afford representation - Zionist views will dominate through the public hearings. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/urgent-royal...
Urgent Royal Commission legal fees | Jewish Council of Australia
The Jewish Council has been granted leave to appear in the first block of the Royal Commission hearings starting next […]
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