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Ben Davison

@bendavison.bsky.social

The guy from The Week on Wednesday podcast who works with unions, boards and other folk to try and make the world a better place.

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Australia is the 4th most liked country on Earth

Might be time for all the whining Pourline grifters to โ€œlove it or leaveโ€

1. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada - 74% positive global view
2. ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan - 72%
3. ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany - 70%
4. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia - 69%
5. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland - 68%
6. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ New Zealand - 67%

22.02.2026 12:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

BOOYEAH, my kids are smashing it, check out the latest review:

21.02.2026 11:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The reality of the Coalition is that theyโ€™d rather destroy 200,000 Australian jobs than scrap tax loopholes on unproductive capital

During a decade in office the Coaition left hundreds of thousands of people unemployed then Robodebted them into misery

Wilson has form & heโ€™s now closer to power

19.02.2026 10:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why are some in the media calling Tim Wilson โ€œa moderate?โ€ Policy advisor at IPA, against Kyoto, against carbon tax, defender Margaret Court, supporter of cigarette companies! Moderate my arse. #auspol

19.02.2026 05:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 107    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Do you know how Herbert Hoover made the Great Depression worse?

Because he didnโ€™t understand, most didnโ€™t, that taking government money out of the economy & increasing taxes was disinflationary, which on top of the market melt down, meant no money being spent

So if we increase taxes we canโ€ฆ?

19.02.2026 04:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Every 0.5% increase in unemployment is AT LEAST 80,000 people who have their jobs destroyed

Estimated cost difference between CPI at 3.4% (current) & 2.5% (target) is $857 a year/house

RBA wants $9.3B taken out of the economy

Reducing CGT discount to 25% raises $6.5b & 10% gas export levy $4-$6B

19.02.2026 04:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Coalition voted against tax cuts for workers

Their leader promised to repeal tax cuts for workers

Their shadow treasurer has done everything he can to protect โ€˜advisorsโ€™, capital hoarders & unearned tax loopholes

Their social policy is 40yrs out of date & soโ€™s their tax policy

19.02.2026 03:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Real measures that show Australia is doing well
-Unemployment 4.1%
-Non-performing mortgages 1.04%
-Inflation 3.4%
-Wage growth 3.4%
-Avg super balance growth 9.3%
-Homelessness down from 117.4 per 10,000 to 106.3 per 10,000
-Household savings 6.4% vs 3.5% in 2018

Donโ€™t let the grifters depress you

19.02.2026 03:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This Liberal Party happy snap is giving real vibes of:

โ€œWeโ€™ve decided to all be a happy family, itโ€™s just that your dad here is going to live in the city apartment while we live in the house with all of our things.โ€

Worst. Leadership. โ€œTeamโ€. Ever.

13.02.2026 03:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We are living in the age of the pedopetrotechbroligarch

07.02.2026 05:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 612    ๐Ÿ” 172    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
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Remember when the United States flooded war materials into the UK & Soviet Union to fight fascism?

And remember when the fascists decided to team up against the USA so this guy was sent to end them?

Thatโ€™s the USA the world respected.

06.02.2026 08:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œWeโ€™re drowning in these unskilled peopleโ€ says unqualified high school dropout who uses the inherited wealth of a uni dropout to maintain her own seat in the senate.

Hanson makes a point, just not the one she thinks sheโ€™s makingโ€ฆ

06.02.2026 08:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Let's get this straight.

Adani donates $600k the Qld LNP before election.

After the election, Qld LNP ends legal action over $400 MILLION in unpaid royalties.

Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy. Thread.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

05.02.2026 23:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 338    ๐Ÿ” 188    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

And here is me writing about Clive Palmerโ€™s data-harvesting โ€œgameโ€ back in 2019, after the โ€œdeath taxโ€ hoax and do you know who else pioneered backdoor data harvesting as an electoral tactic? Why, Steve Bannon! What an AMAZING coincidence, #auspol!

www.facebook.com/share/188VR3...

03.02.2026 01:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 52    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bill Shorten questions โ€˜forces at playโ€™ after Steve Bannonโ€™s claim he helped Clive Palmer, damaging Laborโ€™s 2019 election chances Former opposition leader says Bannonโ€™s purported claim, which Palmer has denied, would be a โ€˜badge of honourโ€™ for him

The United States far right interfered in the 2019 election

Just as @vanbadham.bsky.social & I suggested during our podcasts

There were ads about โ€œdeath taxesโ€ taken from Bannon run Florida campaigns that only had the party or candidate names changed

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

03.02.2026 00:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 49    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Can we please not unleash a deadly ancient plague by digging up Millenia old mass graves?

31.01.2026 11:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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David Pope in Canberra Times

23.01.2026 04:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 343    ๐Ÿ” 164    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
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Elon Muskโ€™s Grok made the world less safe โ€“ his humiliating backdown gives me hopium | Van Badham The AI chatbotโ€™s torrent of nonconsensual deepfakes isnโ€™t its first scandal and wonโ€™t be its last. Responsible governments should simply ban it

โ€œMuskโ€™s chatbot appeared this week to make the world less safe, less fair & perhaps even as unpleasant as a fascist-styled, ketamine-addled rich-kid dipshit in cheese hat dancing while the world burns, if one could imagine such an awful thingโ€ @vanbadham.bsky.social

15.01.2026 05:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Seeing โ€œthe leftโ€ snatch defeat from the jaws of victory was something Iโ€™d really hoped I wouldnโ€™t have to watch anymore but I guess none of us are without naivetyโ€ฆ

11.01.2026 07:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is what happens in a police state.

08.01.2026 01:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Whoโ€™s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter A look inside Elon Muskโ€™s big tent

This is a genuine @financialtimes.com article.

Itโ€™d be great to see the Bosses Pamphlet in Australia have this level of journalistic integrity

www.ft.com/content/ad94... Whoโ€™s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter

06.01.2026 20:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Exxon & Chevron must be so relieved to not have to worry about all the trouble and expense that the East India Company used to have maintaining their own military.

Having taxpayer funded โ€œPresidentsโ€ take care of it all for them, even doing the PR bit, makes their margins so much better.

03.01.2026 22:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

People whoโ€™ve opposed every Labor policy since they were old enough to talk donโ€™t get to tell Labor governments how to govern.

I shouldnโ€™t really need to say that but apparently the bosses pamphlet needed it said.

02.01.2026 07:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Australiaโ€™s gun laws are why there werenโ€™t hundreds of victims at the Bondi shooting

Australiaโ€™s gun laws are why this horror is so rare here

Australiaโ€™s gun laws are why our public schools donโ€™t know what an โ€œactive shooter drillโ€ is let alone how to do one

Itโ€™s the only good thing Howard did

15.12.2025 02:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1316    ๐Ÿ” 214    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Genuinely have zero chill for Bibi and Baby JD weighing into what Australia should or shouldnโ€™t do to keep our people safe

Those two have a daily blood bath between school shootings, terror attacks, base attacks, settler โ€œskirmishesโ€ & violence against their own citizens

Keep your hate out of Oz

15.12.2025 02:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Instead of responding only with thoughts and prayers, Australia will respond with laws and regulations. Because, unlike the United States, it values the lives of its citizens over any sick adulation of firearms.

The 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to immediate, sweeping, bipartisan gun law reforms.

14.12.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6327    ๐Ÿ” 1707    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 188    ๐Ÿ“Œ 44

The Bondi shooting is horrendous.

This anti-Semitic attack is unacceptable.

All Australians, of any faith, of any background, should be able to enjoy a public park without fear.

We must reject the disgusting attempts, both from here & overseas, to divide Australians.

14.12.2025 11:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 63    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

If I were a person not from Australia, I would also refrain from giving opinions based on potential disinformation on tragic events happening in Australia.

If you need to say something, you could express sympathy and sadness. Your political take is not helpful.

14.12.2025 09:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 55    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At this stage no one has actually shown that Anika Wells has done anything wrong but the savagery of the media pile on is enough for some loons to justify horrendous, and potentially dangerous, attacks on one of our democratically elected representatives.

Totally disgraceful.

12.12.2025 09:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Trump has learnt that he has the power of an Imperial Presidency

He uses it to remake Rush Hour films, build a ballroom & to squeeze a few hundred million into his family trust (which given his age he wonโ€™t ever use)

Meanwhile others use him to oppress women, migrants, workers & kids

What a deal

08.12.2025 03:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0