Dr James Kite
@jdkite.bsky.social
Academic with Prevention Research Collaboration at Uni of Sydney. Cyclist. Swans fan.
It has been a difficult week. The whole episode makes me embarrassed to be a Swans fan but I also really feel for the W side. They deserve our full support, even if, like me, you’ll find it difficult to support the M
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 5d agoSydney Swans fans grapple with scandal ahead of double header
The AFR view: Women 👏 should 👏 not 👏 have 👏 opinions 👏
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 6d agoWhat. The. Utter. Fuck.
Good piece illustrating the absurd position we put people in larger bodies in. They can’t win, no matter what they do or how hard they work to meet the thin ideal
Bec Shaw@brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 7d agoMy column this week is about how fat people can’t win and I’m fucking sick of it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Wages are not growing out of control and the labour market is not ‘tight’" writes Australia Institute Chief Economist Greg Jericho in The Guardian.
Australia’s drop in real wages is a disaster. But the profits of major corporations are doing just fine | Grogonomics
Wages are not growing out of control and the labour market is not ‘tight’
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My kids school has circulated a petition asking govt to widen a busy rd and remove a bus lane to ‘increase capacity’ for cars, apparently because that will make it safer for kids to get to school 🙃
‘Savings’ is a misnomer here. The costs will simply move from one part of the system to another
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · last wk.Anyway, a reminder. Fuel Tax Credits over the next 4 years will cost the Govt $47bn. The savings from the cuts to the NDIS is $38bn. Gillard in 2010: "Budgets are about choices, and you show what you value through the choices you make" Indeed.
I’d say the problem is more that cycling infrastructure is designed with cars in mind - “how do we minimize disruption to car traffic?”
Fietser@americanfietser.bsky.social · 2w agoThe visual definition of a "cyclist" completely changes the second you stop designing infrastructure exclusively for middle-aged men riding for sport.
Quality consultation right there. Genuine co-design
CAMERON WILSON@cameronwilson.bsky.social · 2w agoCrazy part of this story: WA Police say they consulted with Aboriginal Legal Service. ABS says this comprised an email, sent two days before the trial's launch, asking for a 20 minute meeting that never happened
“I don’t have many maxims in life, but one of them is that the moment you privatise a public service is also the day you should set the date for the Royal Commission into the failures and abuses of the system.”
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3w agoMy @deepcutnews.bsky.social column - in the late 1970s neoliberal con artists unleashed their cancer in to society. Fuck them and the horse they rode on. www.deepcutnews.com/p/neoliberal...
Heavier, taller vehicles give the illusion of safety to the driver/passenger but for everyone else they are deadly, especially in lower speed areas like school zones and residential streets
Melissa Sweet@melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 3w agoI can’t believe they found someone to argue FOR jetstar on this. It’s clearly a cash grab - just another in a long line of fees to maximize profits, safe in the knowledge that passengers have no real power to push back against this
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 3w agoKeep calm and carry on: two travellers weigh in on Jetstar’s new overhead locker baggage fees
Firefighters may sound appealing but it’s taxpayers who will take the hit, paying for a service they may never even use
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3w agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
How privatised companies got so rich - we paid.
Always remember how Macquarie built its millionaires on outrageous tolls and charges | John Quiggin
As Shemara Wikramanayake retires with shares worth hundreds of millions, the public is left counting the cost of high prices for utilities, roads and airports
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Why should we be giving favorable tax treatment for crypto? It doesn’t do anything that we as a society need or want
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · last mo.If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. The Australian on its front page has found a true victim of the govt's CGT changes
“Saved the tough decisions for later” perfectly sums up Albo’s prime ministership
CAMERON WILSON@cameronwilson.bsky.social · last mo.Anthony Albanese used his first major speech on AI to call it an urgent challenge and opportunity for Australia. The speech — announcing a new Office of AI and data centre standards — signaled that Australia is taking AI seriously but saved the tough decisions for later.
**Share widely** More than 40 civil society groups are calling on Australian universities to protect the right to peaceful protest, freedom of expression and academic freedom on campus… Read more: nteu.info/civilsociety
Thank goodness FIFA was smart enough to have compulsory ad breaks, eh, I mean *hydration* breaks
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Dangerously hot temperatures are blanketing the central and eastern United States as the soccer tournament enters its knockout rounds, putting tens of millions of people at risk. Roughly 1/4th of all matches since the start of the games are expected to be played in hazardous heat…” #ClimateCrisis
More than Hanson misrepresenting the data, there is the issue of whether it should matter if someone living in Australia speaks English well or not. I would argue that it shouldn’t
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2mo agoAbsolutely superb work by @skyelark.bsky.social: Hanson's massive non-English speaking figure includes 100,000 babies. Yes, really. thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...
I’ve been struggling with the orthodox response to securing assessments - usually a return to exams and oral assessments. Most of my students study around shift work, rosters, and caring responsibilities as well as time zones. I’ve tried to map the alternate approaches that might work:
What does it actually mean to secure an assessment?
ExamCreator: Erik Cabezas Year: 2013 Format: Digital still photo Rights: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Source: Flickr This post is probably more niche and falls into the category of “thinking out loud” than usua…
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“Given the RBA’s proclivity for always seeing too much economic activity wherever they look, this may change again, but for now at least the bank looks to have stopped trying to slow an already slowing economy.” – Chief Economist Greg Jericho Read the full article ➡️ https://theaus.in/4oxhbc2
Highest gambling losses per capita of any country in the world–
The Australia Institute@australiainstitute.org.au · 3mo ago“Australia Institute research shows the $32 billion Australian households lost to gambling is more than Aussies spend on their electricity and gas bills ($29.5 billion) or alcohol ($26.8 billion),” writes Ebony Bennett. Read the full article ➡️ https://theaus.in/4xdQcpW
Looking forward to the Netflix doco “Cockroach King” during the next lockdown
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 3mo ago100,000 exotic cockroaches seized from alleged Bathurst breeder
House prices are falling in Australia. That’s a good thing – if you believe housing is a basic human need | Saul Eslake
House prices are falling in Australia. That’s a good thing – if you believe housing is a basic human need | Saul Eslake
Labor’s budget changes are not to blame for the recent dip in property prices. But the changes will help move housing away from investors – and that should be celebrated House prices in Sydney and Melbourne are down by 3.1% and 3.5% respectively, from their most recent peaks, according to the latest data from Cotality. Across Australia as a whole, house prices didn’t rise last month, the first time that has happened since January 2023. And the annual rate of house price inflation dropped to 9.5% from a most recent peak of 10.9% over the year to February. If these reports were about any of the other 86 classes of goods and services into which Australia’s consumer price index is divided, they would be greeted with universal approbation, and the government would be claiming credit for “easing cost-of-living pressures”. Continue reading...
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Some scary stuff proposed in the US. Fundamentally anti-science
Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 3mo ago🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n