Michael Simpson

Return to office order wouldn't disadvantage women, Dutton says Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says women looking for flexible work can find job-sharing arrangements, defending a Coalition promise to order public servants to return to the office five days a week.

This isn't about productivity as evidence shows WFH has increased productivity. This is about spreading a lie that staff don't work at home.

A Dutton/Musk Govt will force all staff into the office full time.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03... via @ABCaustralia #auspol #abc730

04.03.2025 02:48 — 👍 18    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 1

#carculture #publictransport #cities

22.02.2025 06:56 — 👍 663    🔁 152    💬 23    📌 7

Thread by @SteB777 on Thread Reader App @SteB777: In a just world, billionaires wouldn't exist. There should be an escalating tax system, which makes it impossible for an individual to accumulate a billion or more. No one can accumulate tha...

My latest thread from the other place, unrolled on Threadreader app, about why in a just world, billionaire's shouldn't exist, and should be taxed out of existence.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18762...

07.01.2025 12:28 — 👍 46    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 3

2/ Figures like Elon Musk & Gina Rinehart represent a broader systemic problem: the erosion of democratic accountability in favour of individual greed and control. They’ve exploited public systems to build private empires. Here’s how we can resist. ⬇️

21.12.2024 23:25 — 👍 30    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

1/ 🧵 A Global Tipping Point: Reclaiming Democracy from Oligarchs
We’re at a critical juncture—not just on climate change, but societal transformation. The choices we make today will define whether we live in an inclusive, sustainable world or under unchecked oligarchic control.

21.12.2024 23:25 — 👍 54    🔁 23    💬 4    📌 2

Started reading "Barak vs the Black Hats of Melbourne" by Mick Woiwood. Really sorry to the next group that books me for a Healesville Sanctuary tour, because instead of koala facts, those tourists are gonna hear a lot about the injustice of that place from me.

22.12.2024 05:47 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Train In Vain An attempt to write a piece for the Melbourne broadsheet The Age gets the expected result

Melbourne's broadsheet The Age is relentlessly hostile to a new major infrastructure project – the Suburban Rail Loop. I attempted to have the paper publish an opinion piece challenging their editorial line. But more than this, it was a challenge to their approach to opinion writing.

16.12.2024 11:20 — 👍 36    🔁 11    💬 5    📌 0

The new X’Trapolis 2.0 train, freshly delivered to Newport this morning. Will be doing test runs very soon.

08.12.2024 03:39 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

23.11.2024 01:28 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

This deserves to be shared widely.
It breaks it down clearly and chronologically.
So enlightening and repulsive at the same time.
youtu.be/iX3vMJOADlE?...

15.11.2024 04:33 — 👍 4    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Most know what a #train control diagram (or graph) is, but did you know it was invented in the mid 1840’s by a little known #French #railway engineer, Charles Ibry.

It was shown to the Minister of Public Works in 1847 and within a decade was used worldwide.

Today its still used after 177 years.

16.11.2024 22:16 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Great! The world needs to send Musk a message
If you have a Tesla , Sell it.
If you're thinking of buying a Tesla , Don't.
If you're on X leave, or have dual accounts close the one on X.
If you have Starlink account, Cancel it & migrate to another service provider.

13.11.2024 19:49 — 👍 27    🔁 9    💬 5    📌 1

Short consist. Pretty much all the weekend Ballarats are scheduled as 6 cars.

17.11.2024 02:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

How I would love to see it duplicated again! It’s all those heritage-listed stone over-bridges in the way. There’s not enough space for double-track running at 160km/h through them. I wonder if double-track with 80km/h would be allowed, though that would add at least 10 minutes to the journey.

17.11.2024 02:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0