Francis Markham

Gunman at large after 21-year-old found dead in Melbourne's north Police are investigating a suspected targeted shooting after the discovery of a 21-year-old's body in Wollert. Separately, detectives have charged five men with murder over a fatal shooting almost two...

We've now reached the "broad daylight Gangland shootings" phase of the tobacco excise increases, according to Alan Kohler at least.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Fully Sicktoria

DSS haven't published any income management data since its March edition - meant to be updated 3rd Thursday of each month data.gov.au/data/dataset...

Vale Mr Coe.

Embracing family tradition today (waking up the kids with the sound of aeroplanes by blasting Pink Floyd the Wall at max volume)

they report cost of goods sold in australia at 70% of revenue, while for their global results its 20-30%

Best thing Starmer could do is turn the Lords into a popularly elected, proportionally representative house which can and has a mandate to review and veto legislation.

I also turned up this note, not sure if their 2025 promise holds...

sites.stat.columbia.edu/gelman/armm/

Yeah, very old now. I thought there was meant to be a second edition but I haven't seen it

It's not what you're looking for, but I've got a soft spot for the Gelman and Hill book

Pinheiro and Bates 'Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-Plus', Springer, 2000. Yellow cover.

Ok so this Pinheiro and Bates book - physical copy on my shelf having survived multiple international moves and downsizings - has been my bible on mixed effects models. But it's 25 years old, is there a modern (#rstats) equivalent i should upgrade to?

The first album I ever bought

He's got a wholesome profile on here though, so who's to say?

So the ending of same-day enrolment in NZ is justified to speed up the declaration of the results. But this wouldn’t be necessary if NZ just copied something we do in Australia.

The program logic for the newly redesigned employment services in remote Australia has been released.

It makes for interesting reading.

Do I know anyone in Australia doing microRNA work?

What is the NT Government to do when a coroner tells them that the police are institutionally racist?

Implement the inquiry's recommendations?

No, better to find a way to make sure no coroner has the latitude to make such findings ever again.

[SNIFF]

And what is worse, it is not merely a call—it is the call of the Other! The Big Other demands a response. To pick up is to recognize yourself as a subject within the Symbolic Order. Better to let it go to voicemail and maintain the illusion of freedom.

Not good

Congratulations to the TOs for winning this long battle for recognition of their rights.

Another landmark native title case that few would have foreseen the outcome of three decades ago.

Successive waves of eligibility tightening, particularly under Gillard iirc. Also indexation was frozen for many years which reduced the rate substantially.

I hope so too.

I'm going to be relying on Hilda for a while I think.

Any further info on what went wrong? It's very bad.

A chart showing that we are the seventh-lowest taxer of personal income in the OECD, and the 11th lowest when you include corporate income:

If you ever hear someone say we are too reliant on income tax, or we need to cut income tax, or we have high income taxes.

Just let them know that we are the seventh-lowest taxer of personal income in the OECD - lower than every nation in the G7
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

This is one of the least appreciated shifts in Australian welfare policy over the last two decades.

A remarkable change in how we provide support for the cost of raising kids — and almost no one knows about it.

Sorry to hear mate

Heads up. I’m working with members who are pushing a 4 day week work trial with no loss of pay in bargaining with a major corporation. If this develops, it could be quite a moment.

From a supporter email Climate 200 sent today - a good example of how the organisation exhibits 'party-like' behaviour, as @phoebehayman.bsky.social, @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social and I wrote about @ausjpolsci.bsky.social in 2024: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Whatever you think of him, you've got to admire how relentless he was