@mumbletwits This is about how the left gains social license and votes, and so if we are saying that Covid had an electoral impact that was pro-right (you mentioned Covid in your reply) then I would say that the order of obligations is a rational lens with which to explain that.

@mumbletwits Can we view any of those things outside the paradigm of hierarchy of obligations? COVID and post pandemic electoral effects are the key example I was thinking of supporting the statement.

Living standards will not recover to pre-pandemic levels until 2030 despite record federal and state government spending, according to analysis by Deloitte Access Economics, further complicating Anthony Albanese’s bid for re-election.

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@sami_isaac_ Respectfully, Susan is responsible for a $30 billion dollar annual budget and the biggest health system in Australia. Her salary is not in my view relevant and I’m glad DGs get paid what they do.

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@TcameronTodd What if the supply constraint is driven by an exodus into a lucrative and unconstrained private market? That sounds like a problem that needs a broader solution than an immediate salary uplift.

@TcameronTodd Public rem packages should be dictated by the private market? Thats not a sustainable policy. Public docs value their public positions and their is an opportunity-cost for that

@AlexDeMarco88 Nah, I reckon it’s a bluff, public docs like their public appointments. Anyway, why can’t we diagnose and treat neurodiversity in primary care? That would sort the market distortion out.

@crazy_duckling I think this might be Ryan Park and Susan Pearce doing just that!

@alastaircarlyle Yup, but we can’t have an arms race of award conditions. At the end of the day if you like working in the biggest and most functional jurisdiction then that’s the opportunity cost. Otherwise we’d all be in Perth, they’ve got a great award!

@crazy_duckling I agree. Public clinicians value their public appointments. It's the ace up the Health Depts sleeve.

“Perhaps then, the objection is as much to a style as anything else. An objection that embodies a fairly basic principle of political advocacy: that if you have no time for people, they will eventually have no time for you.” Waleed Aly on woke politics

Anyone know where this is going to be and how many hectares in the Great Dividing Range need to be cleared? I can only find a ratio of 200 hectares to one turbine which sounds a lot (QLD conservation council) Can a helpful person put a figure on the number of turbines this represents, where the farms are located and the amount of land that needs clearing for it?

RT @QuixoticQuant: New paper out yesterday from Paul Simshauser and Joel Gilmore. Serious study. It represents (another) death-knell fo…

RT @Reuters: France remembered the victims of the deadly assault on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo 10 years on. The incident marked the s…

Can't a redistributive system work with a higher GST? There's always an approach to offset tax burden on low income earners whatever the tax mix. I would suggest the "consumption tax is regressive and I'm never going to consider increasing it" is a far more simplistic perspective (and accounts for the inertia in our tax reform)

In my view taxation on income should be progressive. Taxation on consumption should be the same regardless of income. And we need to increase the proportion of our tax mix that is from consumption. We can still redistribute an increased GST to those who need it most

@skkoopman It's very possible to redistribute the proceeds of a higher consumption tax to lower income earners, whilst reducing income tax and decreasing the tax burden on an ever dwindling base. It's not even a philosophical argument anymore. We need to do it.