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"The average mortgage pays $200,000 in profit over its life to the banks," says Richard Denniss, co-CEO at The Australia Institute. You can read more on good ideas for economic reform here: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/251113-genuine-economic-reform-is-long-overdue

I bought a six-pack of donuts when a guy next to me said, "You shouldn't eat donuts." I replied, "My grandparents parents lived to be 100." He asked, "Did they eat donuts?" I shot back, "No, they minded their own fkn business."

Just sayin

There’s a stingy small business owner lying in the heart of many Australians who think important work and infrastructure can be done on the cheap and without much effort. It’s something we need to move past as a country.

“In 2022, the Albanese government ordered the Office of National Intelligence to urgently assess the national security implications of climate change.The report has never seen the light of day.”

Pearls and Irritations@johnmenadue.com · 6d ago

Governments’ own security assessments warn of conflict, migration, food shortages and economic instability as climate and ecosystems break down. So why is so much of the evidence still being withheld from the public? Julian Cribb writes. #ClimateCrisis #auspol

Morning email scan mood.

Whilst small businesses are getting angry about having their backs to the wall because of high costs - They aren't getting pissed enough off at the big corporations not paying any tax at all whilst they pay their share. #auspol

@nordacious.bsky.social

“We’re not here to push Labor to be a little better. We are here to replace them.”

For 9 years this cat has attempted to get me to feed him at 4 am every day and for 9 years he has not succeeded one time and his only takeaway has been well it's certainly not happening if I don't try again, and I'm starting to find him quite inspirational

Morning. ☕️

Friendly reminder: your cat has never looked at you and thought you should be prettier, thinner, richer, more successful, or more productive. they just love you exactly as you are.

Britain doesn't change. I'm rereading Holmes. It's 1887 and the Daily Telegraph speculates that a murder must have been perpetrated by refugees or socialists, and advocates a closer watch over foreigners, while the Standard blames such outrages on a liberal government. A Study in Red, White & Blue?

F*CK OFF Gina Rinehart!!!!!

John Holmes@jhaue.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Exclusive Brethren was highly active at remote, NT Indigenous polling booths at the last federal election, an inquiry has heard. Inquiry told Gina Rinehart's private jet ferried Brethren members. theklaxon.com.au/exclusive-br...

Employers underpay their workers by an estimated $50 billion every year through various forms of wage theft. That's more than every type of property crime COMBINED. DoorDash alone paid a $131.5 million settlement in New York City for underpaying their delivery drivers.

“This suggests households are scrambling to find more income to help cover their rising day-to-day expenses and future increases in mortgage payments.” Earlier this month, ABS figures showed the number of Australians working more than one job had passed 1 million for the first time.

Australians ‘scrambling’ for second jobs to deal with rising mortgage repayments and cost of living

Latest data also shows unemployment at highest level since the pandemic, which analysts doubt will stop RBA hiking interest rates

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Evening giggles 🤣🤔

When someone earns around a million bucks a year and they want to pursue a policy that will force more people onto unemployment benefits they’ll most often call that policy “taking the heat out of the jobs market”. Bastards. #AusPol

Perfect

TRANSLATION: The Reserve Bank is going to deliberately cause over 100,000 Australians to lose their jobs. This will please their corporate masters, who want the unemployment rate to rise above 4.5% in order to keep worker's wages low. #auspol

Do people not know how to cook umber?

This is a great insight from a young woman in Canberra on housing and time and multiculturalism www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...