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Craig Davis 🇦🇺 retweeted
Exceptional take on the self destruction Australia is inflicting on itself. What a mess.
And this paragraph here…. 🔥
Commentary | Albanese, Chalmers and Bowen: Economic vandals who mistake damage for transformation, administrative expansion for national progress and announcing a target for the ability to achieve it. Read Robert Guy's full comment: bit.ly/4t2Xiw1
Craig Davis 🇦🇺 retweeted
Doesn’t exactly scream “AI DATA CENTRE”, does it? Beautiful South Australian countryside. Flowing creeks, established native trees, rocky landscapes and productive farmland. Before anyone starts pouring concrete, surely it’s reasonable to ask whether this is the right location for a major AI data centre.
Where’s the balance between technological development, protecting our natural environment and respecting rural communities?
Craig Davis 🇦🇺 retweeted
Australia Sells Last ANZAC Frigate Building Shipyard to Chinese Company
Why
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Craig Davis 🇦🇺 retweeted
AN EXTRA $170bn? WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN TOLD ABOUT THAT
There's a new budget story out ...
In brief, it notes the recent improvement in the forecast budget bottom line was way smaller than expected given the large savings recently made by the government.
The gap between those two things is very large, weighing in at around $170bn in the first half of the coming decade.
By way of yardstick, that's roughly the equivalent of adding an extra Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to the costs taxpayers need to finance every year.
So, umm, yes. That's a lot.
Two things stand out - that
(1) existing policies keep costing more than budgeted, and that
(2) Australians aren't being appropriately informed about that.
Both of those things worry me.
At a lazy extra $170 billion, the dollars are massive. To the government's absolute credit, its decisions on NDIS and CGT saved a lot of money. And they're losing political skin because of those decisions.
But those huge savings only led to a modest improvement in the budget bottom line.
The savings were mostly eaten up. But we don't know what ate them - frustratingly, it was a mystery money monster.
My best guess is that existing policies simply ended up costing more than previously forecast (with hospital costs potentially a part of that).
I've been writing about Canberra's growing challenges with cost forecasting for a while, and this says that problem keeps getting more expensive.
But the mystery is why this had to be such a mystery in the first place. The federal budget is our national social compact, and there could be few things more vital to inform Australians about than a massive extra increase in coming costs.
So why wasn't the public informed? Why did this have to be revealed in a newspaper story rather than in a discussion in the budget papers?
I don't get it.
If the future is more expensive than we thought it was going to be, then we need a national conversation on how to pay for that.
Hiding from that conversation doesn't help anyone.
The cover up usually creates way more problems than it is worth ...
Craig Davis 🇦🇺 retweeted
Tourism Australia should use this video to promote tourism in Australia
Doesn’t get more Australian than this 🇦🇺
Craig Davis 🇦🇺 retweeted
The point of no return by Richard von Mises is worth reading:
"A state becomes almost unreformable when the majority of the population is financially or structurally dependent on the state (state employees, civil servants, recipients of subsidies, grants, or transfer payments, etc.). As soon as those who net benefit from or are supported by the state outnumber those who do not, the system blocks reforms, since the majority votes out of self-interest for the preservation or expansion of state services."
Does this sound familiar? Some European countries, France, Belgium, Finland are already way beyond that point, closely followed by Germany, Spain, Austria and Italy. It works for a while, as long as markets buy more sovereign debt at reasonable interest rates. The party ends when they stop though. For France, they stopped this month, Belgium will be next.
The longer the socialist illusion persists, the more painful the inevitable cuts and adjustments will be. It’s pure arithmetic. Good luck Europe, good luck Euro. Buckle up, it won’t be pretty.
Craig Davis 🇦🇺 retweeted
If the alleged attacker was Rightwing that's ALL you'd be hearing from the media & activist class. But he's a Leftist greenie so it's ok to look at other theories for the attack.
The consensus is most of the AFL players are junkies with tattoos that are getting paid to play up.
Can’t wait to see the actual result in the new year.
#AFL #AFLFantasy #AFLJunkies
What percentage of AFL players will get a crew cut over the Christmas break?
Every AFL player to be drug tested in January!
adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl…
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55%>75%
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Craig Davis 🇦🇺 retweeted
Not a silly idea
BREAKING: President Trump reveals his new anti-fraud program set up to reward people who expose fraud with a 1% commission on the money uncovered.
"If you turn somebody in and you, let's say report and you find $1 billion, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
DOJ's published guidance caps individual whistleblower rewards at up to $30,000 per tip, not an uncapped 1% of fraud uncovered, with a total program fund of $25 million. A $1 billion fraud tip would not yield a $10 million payout under the official program rules. newsweek.com/trump-vance-of… foxnews.com/politics/trump…
Craig Davis 🇦🇺 retweeted
If you've ever been curious how Mahindra tractors are made this is a rare intimate moment almost never photographed. 🫢🫢🙄 But seriously ALWAYS make sure it's out of gear before you jump a starter! Not mine happened west of town. And before somebody says it.
Yes you can't park there! 😬😬😬
Craig Davis 🇦🇺 retweeted
BOMs Scientific Scandal: the Raw Data is Not Raw joannenova.com.au/2026/10/bo…
Craig Davis 🇦🇺 retweeted
Have I not been banging on about this for years! Maybe they should have listened to the farmers telling the @BOM_au that the weather forcaating is worse now than 10, 15, 20 years ago. We farm based on conditions and the BOM forcasts are as predictable as flipping a coin!
1. 2013 the model changed to dynamic, statistically similar to PV in genomics which will remove outliers if your not careful. The ourliers are what we want to know, not a homogenised average.
2. Weather stations have been removed, so prediction on where they used to be. We do that in MET analysis too but are very careful.
3. Urban sprawl and removal of transpiring trees actually changes the microclimate of the weather stations. Bitumen is hotter than concrete which is hotter than soil which is hotter than grass which is hotter than trees.
Where is the accountability? We are using modelling from overseas companies who forcast better than our own taxpayer funded weather app.
Add into that the fact the raw data has poor QA/QC actually affects all the other climate companies ability to forecast.
It's almost as if its done intentionally to fit the climate change narrative. But surely not, surely?
A forensic audit has uncovered false readings and widespread errors in the Bureau of Meteorology’s raw climate data, including blocks of temperature readings copied and pasted across different years and seasons, raising questions about the integrity of records used for climate analysis. Read the full article here: bit.ly/4yPqjNx
What percentage of AFL players will get a crew cut over the Christmas break?
Every AFL player to be drug tested in January!
adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl…
5%0-25%
40%25-75%
55%>75%
20 votes • Final results