Shared values…

Bloomberg: "It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space. That ocean journey runs about $80 million compared with $74 million for a standard commercial launch. The eye-watering prices are the result of a global tanker shortage that's getting worse"

You think Grayndler won't go to preferences in 2028? You know the electorate well?

The US - a warning for us

Absolutely the case - and neither Labor, Liberal or One Hanson want to know about it

... returning to the discount warehouse, indignant about the shoddy goods they bought. Why won’t anyone tell me like it is? Because if they did, you wouldn’t vote for them."

...disinformation campaign ramps up. In Australia think of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, carbon pricing, resource rent taxation and various minor tax integrity measures Bill Shorten lost the 2019 election on. The dramaturgy of modern electoral democracy is the voter as angry consumer...

Nicholas Gruen: "I think of our system of electoral democracy as a system of competitive disinformation. Each major party spins against its opponents lest their opponents spin more successfully against them. Witness innumerable deflations of left-sympathetic public opinion once the competitive...

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Same in Australia. Chinese or Russian foreign interference is seen as a national security threat, and ASIO takes action against it. But Israeli foreign interference is "lobbying". The PM gives the chief lobbyist a job and staff, and the ASIO boss invites the Israeli president to a private briefing.