Dr Alexandra Marley

Yeah me too! Can you share some examples?

Mega landlords 'can't lose' as revenue collapse brings negative gearing boon Despite a surge in interest rates and a jump in loss-making rentals, few landlords are selling up. Experts say it's because negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount protect their investment...

FINE AND NORMAL

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

In a sick world, centrism makes monsters of us  - The Shot Existential problems do not simply go away because incrementalist, captured governments commit to ignoring them.

Here's me. 'In a sick world, centrism makes monsters of us'

Australian Life photography competition 2025 finalists – in pictures Droving through the outback, glimpses of grief, taking a warm summer plunge. Finalists of the Australian Life photography competition focus on the nuances of life across the country.

some fine photos for Friday night (including this one from Carly Earl

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Robodebt RC reforms needed ‘pronto’ Robodebt saw over 400,000 Australian citizens targeted and relentlessly pursued – mafia style – over largely fictitious debts, courtesy of their own democratically elected Coalition Government....

Given no one has been held accountable in the 2 yrs since Robodebt RC the sobering takeaway is:
If you're a member of the elite & you screw over innocent people there'll be no consequences for you.
Robodebt RC reforms ‘pronto’
independentaustralia.net/life/life-di... @michellepini.bsky.social

Just realised that from today (July 2) it’s now closer to the year 2050 then it is to 2000.

Harvey Norman repays $6 million in JobKeeper profits following months of pressure The money paid back represents less than a third of the estimated $22 million in JobKeeper wage subsidies the retail group received.

Probably a good time to remember that Harvey Norman only paid back $6 million of the $22 million it took in Covid JobKeeper subsidies.

#MasterChefAU

www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

“I was punished for my political opinion” - broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf after winning her unfair dismissal case against the ABC. The judge found the public broadcaster bowed to “an orchestrated campaign by pro-Israel lobbyists.”

“How dare you justify a genocide on the Palestinians?”

This is the moment Belgian politician and member of the Flemish Parliament, Jos D'Haese, slammed Israel’s ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, Idit Rosenzweig-Abu, over the war on Gaza.

a graphic featuring asort of zombie long armed creature, with an ant's head, and the words 'intaturalist zombie ant' on a plaster in front of a cricuit board thing

"The announcement was 782 words, followed by a nervous clarification of 731 words. The page featured 48,320 words of comments in just 24 hours"

Here's a new one for @crikey.com.au trying to figure out why the presence of backlash to "AI" is so weirdly uneven ->

www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/23/i...

These things happen all the time to people struggling – nobody cares | First Dog on the Moon Albo has had plenty of time to do something about it by now …

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Your best bet is to see what surveys the ABS has done. Aside from the census, they have run a number of different surveys that may capture this.

I'm not sure whether any demographic has had their land ownership broken down (e.g. migrants, men/women) but if anyone's done it, it'll be the ABS.

Well, all of it really. But I assume you mean owned by individuals with deeds and titles?

That is something that might be captured by the ABS in census. However, you might be interested in examining native title and Indigenous estates: www.nntt.gov.au/assistance/G...

Hi everyone

I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests

I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

How did I not know about this

Scott Morrison is getting Australia's highest honour despite a laundry list of scandals and embarrassments Media have been circulated a list of every Australian set to get a King’s Birthday honour. Scott Morrison — whose legacy includes robodebt, multiple ministries and habitual lying — is the latest politician to be given the award.

Scott Morrison — whose legacy includes robodebt, multiple ministries and habitual lying — is to receive Australia's highest honour.

Oh shoot! I have copy sitting right next to me... 😓

I hosted my first kids' party this weekend.

Holy shit.

I somehow invited 16 2-year-olds.

It was °~*CHAOS*~°

The women's weekly koala cake was good though.

New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable A recent study published in the journal PNAS is overturning traditional wisdom regarding the origins and inevitability of wealth inequality

the history we’ve been told was a lie

“In some cases, human communities developed systems that curbed the concentration of wealth, using governance and cooperative institutions as ‘leveling mechanisms’…But high degrees of inequality are not inevitable in large societies.”

Hope everyone had a nice Easter break. Mine involved the group chat blowing up when one person outed themselves as a libertarian.

Insults flew. Side chats popped up like mushrooms. Me and 2 other vocal critics were dubbed the "bullshit triumvirate".

My eggs remain uneaten, such is the drama!

Partner just referred to a friend's near constant stream of insta posts and memes into our group chat as "digital diarrhoea"

😂

Shout out to "Antony Green playing with his little Parliament dollhouse" though 😂

"...everything that came before this has led us here by virtue of its inadequacy. A fascist like Trump is not an aberration, he is an inevitability of the neoliberal rot we knowingly walked into because it made a few of us rich enough to buy a portfolio of houses..."

Excellent drag king name

Holy dooly! I had completely forgotten about these... I think I was a Woorail?

Now trying to suppress the flashbacks of getting told off for not having polished shoes or knowing the Guide prayer... You know, useful things.

France Introduces ‘SUV Tax’ To Curb Sales Of Heavier Cars French legislators are technically targeting all cars over a certain weight, but in the age of the SUV boom there are no prizes for guessing which body type is really under fire

What can be done about car bloat? Look to France and Norway, which tax new vehicles by weight.

At the local level, the District of Columbia ties registration fees to vehicle weight, and cities like Paris and Montreal require SUV and pickup owners to pay more to park.

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