There’s much to admire about Mamdani but let’s be real - the NYC budget (USD$124.7b) is bigger than the NSW budget (AUD$133.0b). The city has $$$ to throw at relatively small projects like fixing potholes & 5 grocery store pilots (USD$70m excluding waived rent & taxes) as it’s chicken feed #auspol

There’s much to admire about Mamdani but let’s be real - the NYC budget (USD$124.7b) is bigger than the NSW budget (AUD$133.0b). The city has $$$ to throw at relatively small projects like fixing potholes & 5 grocery store pilots (USD$70m excluding waived rent & taxes) as it’s chicken feed #auspol

What Mamdani is actually doing in NYC with his five pilot city-run grocery stores

Osmond Chiu (赵明佑)@redrabbleroz.bsky.social · 4d ago

It also won’t be completely run by the public sector, it will in fact be contracted out to private operators

You wouldn’t know it from #auspol social media posts but we already have a version of “Mamdani-style” public grocery stores in Australia. It’s a Fed Govt owned entity called Outback Stores & there’s also a Low-Cost Essential Subsidy Scheme for 100 remote stores. Arguably a pretty similar model

You wouldn’t know it from #auspol social media posts but we already have a version of “Mamdani-style” public grocery stores in Australia. It’s a Fed Govt owned entity called Outback Stores & there’s also a Low-Cost Essential Subsidy Scheme for 100 remote stores. Arguably a pretty similar model

At some point we need to conclude that the waste, fraud and poor / bad outcomes for people is a feature, not a bug of voucher-based delivery of social services. It flows directly from the mode of economic organisation of the programs in their current forms. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

They built a business empire that cashes in on veterans. It's made millions

The companies in the VBA network have made millions turning veterans into valuable sales leads on an industrial scale.

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Privatisation, you say? Can’t be that. The market never fails.

Governments in rich nations tend to spend more on health. Do we really want them to spend less?

Are Australians really overtaxed? It depends what you think government should do

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Kogan CEO in June: Ruslan Kogan says changes to Capital Gains Tax will attract migrants motivated by “sick NDIS scams” and the welfare system." Today ATO Tax data for Kogan Pty Ltd: Income: $642.3m Taxable income: $0 Tax paid $0

Australia's rising interest rates are not just down to government spending

ANALYSIS: Borrowers again 'hit over the head' to bring inflation down

Why is Australia stuck in an inflation problem that has sent interest rates to 15-year highs?

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A tighter fiscal policy can be about tax as much as spending.

Western progressives can tell you about primaries for obscure municipal elections in the US but not massive social movements that democratically topple governments in the Asia-Pacific

Our everyday language and habits and ideas of what's normal incorporate all kinds of political ideas that reinforce the existing structures of domination. That's what ideology is. An important part of the work of politically-engaged intellectuals is to help us become conscious of this.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Me on 'The unmaking of the Australian party system': my inaugural lecture as Donald Horne Professor for the Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas at the University of Canberra: inside.org.au/the-unmaking...

The unmaking of the Australian party system • Frank Bongiorno

How should we deal with a fragmented political landscape? First we need to understand how we got here

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When did book week dress-ups & parades become a thing at childcare centres & primary schools l? I have absolutely no memory of it so must’ve been in the last 20 years

While the % of ACT Public Service staff from a culturally and linguistically diverse background (CALD) has increased since 2012, the CALD pay gap with the average ACTPS worker has more than doubled. For every other diversity group, the gap has shrunk www.canberratimes.com.au/story/933305... #actpol

Alarm sounded over growing pay gap for diverse staff in ACT public service

ACT public service needs targets to fix the gap, CPSU says.

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Fantales

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Name a candy you miss from your childhood.

The insourcing trend continues across Australia www.themandarin.com.au/318603-nsw-i... #nswpol

NSW insources all government land, property, infrastructure valuations

New 'renationalising' regime breaks cover, with key agency Value NSW to build lasting capacity and leadership pool amid major talent crisis.

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The insourcing trend continues across Australia www.themandarin.com.au/318603-nsw-i... #nswpol

NSW insources all government land, property, infrastructure valuations

New 'renationalising' regime breaks cover, with key agency Value NSW to build lasting capacity and leadership pool amid major talent crisis.

themandarin.com.au

ACT public service needs targets to fix the gap, CPSU says. https://bit.ly/3U4OzMg

Alarm sounded over growing pay gap for diverse staff in ACT public service

ACT public service needs targets to fix the gap, CPSU says.

canberratimes.com.au

While the % of ACT Public Service staff from a culturally and linguistically diverse background (CALD) has increased since 2012, the CALD pay gap with the average ACTPS worker has more than doubled. For every other diversity group, the gap has shrunk www.canberratimes.com.au/story/933305... #actpol

Alarm sounded over growing pay gap for diverse staff in ACT public service

ACT public service needs targets to fix the gap, CPSU says.

canberratimes.com.au

Doing much better pronunciation than most #auspol MPs who try to say things in Mandarin on social media

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2mo ago

演出现场见! on.nyc.gov/broadway

A summary of what I understand and do not understand about the way democracy works: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7269378

"Although Labor’s commitment to healthcare and education is undeniable, the public services can’t be repaired while propping up private systems honed in the Howard era," writes Alison Pennington. trib.al/dQFI4Fe

The Saturday Paper

The Saturday Paper is a quality weekly newspaper, dedicated to narrative long-form journalism.

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Mate you guys can't even defend Chinese Australians from racism from your own #auspol mob www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...

BIG NEWS! The CPSU's Melissa Donnelly has been appointed as Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, when Sally McManus finishes at the end of this month. We wish Melissa every success in her new role and thank her for her enormous contribution to the CPSU and our members.

Mate you guys can't even defend Chinese Australians from racism from your own #auspol mob www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...

Melissa Donnelly announced as new ACTU secretary

'Generational change': Melissa Donnelly named as new ACTU boss

The 44-year-old inherits the trade union movement while it is enjoying a golden era of political influence, but also faces a long-term decline in membership and a fight for the rights of workers in the AI boom. 

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