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Joined July 2009
“The OECD Survey on Drivers of Trust in Public Institutions 2026 results show the highest-ever levels of trust in Australian public institutions.” Every Australian and every public servant can be proud of these results. This is the result of ongoing work to deliver real change for the Australian people by reducing wait times for government services and increase capability and integrity across the public service. region.com.au/aussie-trust-i…
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Germany and France are out of Palantir and now Spain. It's time for Australia to start looking towards sovereign control of critical systems and reducing our reliance on US billionaire owned and controlled tech.
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Michael Tull retweeted
Europe’s largest companies are seeing record profits but low investment. What do they do with the profits instead? Distribute them to shareholders, borrow to fund more payouts, and hoard earnings to maintain buffers for future distributions. New policy brief, co-authored with @SamuelFleischm2, @AnnaHopeEmerson, and @LaraMerling, where we look at the social costs of misdirected capital and what to do about it. Link in replies.
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In 1998, when Hanson was launching her concentrated campaign of racism, four ex-prime ministers - Whitlam, Fraser, Hawke and Keating - issued an open letter to the nation. They weren’t being dramatic. They were warning us. #auspol
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Michael Tull retweeted
Tax fraud by business is worse than NDIS fraud. Yet cuts to NDIS, kid gloves for business. Important piece over on The Point, key charts below thepoint.com.au/opinions/260…
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Michael Tull retweeted
David Pocock pauses, overcome with emotion, while detailing UN’s horrific findings against Israel “IDF has now killed 20,000 Palestinian children” “…deliberately shot at children’s limbs…as a twisted game of target practice”😔 Barbaric & sickening. This is our ally?
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Developers and their Senator, Andrew Bragg, shamelessly stretching imaginary numbers to paint SMSF property loans as the bedrock of the housing industry. All the credibility of, well, the developer lobby & no concern for dud SMSF off-the-plan buys afr.com/property/residential…
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Bragg seems to be complaining people can’t live in their investment property…senator if you’re living in it it’s not an investment property hey. And the smsf single purpose rules are 30yrs old, and it was Howard govt who strengthened them in 1999.
Why is Labor banning new homes? 🤪
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Break them up…the Big4 have proven they cannot be trusted…we need drastic action asap.
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Michael Tull retweeted
Andy Burnham has called for an end to '40 years of neoliberalism'. He is right to name the problem. But the harder task is what comes next: resetting the relationship between the state and business, so that business is held to its role in producing value, not extracting it. Spoke to @BBCNewsnight about the future of the UK economy and my new book, The Common Good Economy ➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=VLSTUSBQ…
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The use of labour hire to undermine enterprise bargaining and screw people on job security was a disgrace…big business deliberately harming their workforce. It’s alarming that Hanson either doesn’t understand the rort or does understand it and supports it…
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These are the two people running a Pauline Hanson support group on Facebook. It has over 100,000 followers. Pushing rage bait posts about our govt. And how wonderful Pauline is. All from Indonesia. These need to be shut down as it is foreign interference in our political system.
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Colour me shocked - who would have thunk it? Some of the largest One Nation supporter groups on Facebook appear to be run from overseas by foreign digital creators who monetise content Not one journo at the press club bothered to ask about this issue theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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Michael Tull retweeted
Fascinating story from Ariel Bogle and Nick Evershed published over the weekend - "Some of the largest One Nation supporter groups on Facebook appear to be run from overseas by foreign digital creators who monetise content" theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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Reminder: given how we measure productivity, things that are great for society eg More nurses per patient, or more aged care staff, are technically bad for productivity. So when someone says we need more productivity it might just mean a bunch of anti-social cuts …
Here’s the thing: Australia’s productivity growth has been just 0.3% for a decade. That’s not a “vibes” problem — it’s policy. Planning choke points + red tape = fewer homes, higher rents, slower wage growth. Fix supply. Cut barriers. Or stagnate.
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Yesterday I raised concerns about accounts that were prolific on Facebook pushing misinformation, disinformation and AI showing Pauline Hanson in a positive light and Labor and Albanese negatively. The accounts are foreign and produce memes, AI and propaganda that pushes emotive content that aims for the most engagement it can get. The account below professes to be a One Nation Party account that says it is authorised by P.Hanson. It says it is based in Brisbane QLD and that it is NOT impersonating. The account was created in April 2026 and is based in Africa. It uses posts like the one below with an apparent “Dame Pauline Hanson AO” 🙄 and demands that Hanson be appointed as PM. Then it asks you if you agree or disagree with this hypothesis. This is not only ragebaiting, it is clickbaiting. From what I have seen, many people who are engaging with this post are giving very clear indications as to why Hanson should NOT be PM. While it’s entertaining it is giving the account exactly what it wants. It’s pushing anger and engagement - while the algorithms do the rest. Don’t engage. Block it. Block these clickbait accounts. They thrive on engagement and push Hanson’s notoriety. While it can’t be proven that Hanson is personally involved in the creation of these toxic meme factories - it is highly likely that One Nation and their vested interests are very involved. .. and what elitist doesn’t like them a bit of cheap overseas labour to do their dirty work for them?
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Pauline .v. Facts… facts are currently leading by a large margin…
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson made a series of false and misleading claims during an appearance at the National Press club, including that younger people are the "largest capital gains cohort".
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Michael Tull retweeted
imo should be strict ABC rules about adopting parties' labels for policies, no matter how catchy. No serious news person would've inhaled & used Abbott's "great big new tax on everything!" (Rudd's CPRS), but short & snappy "widows tax", "retiree tax", "death tax" do make the cut.
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Maybe that's because educating children isn't a lowest cost race to the bottom.
Jeff Bezos says “if we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, your packages would take six weeks to arrive” in response to NYC’s high school spending
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Michael Tull retweeted
“In fact, there is not a single key technology behind the iPhone that has not been State-funded.” -Mariana Mazzucato
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