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I'm gonna do what's called a pro public servant move.
Joined September 2015
No means testing? Where is the outsourcing to a ngo to deliver it? Can we squeeze in a concessional loan here somehow?.
Gov announced it will waive 1.2 million small, accidental social security debts valued <$250. A new income apportionment resolution scheme will be established providing resolution payments up to $600 to those affected from 2003-2020 (will need to apply)
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"draw a straight line" remains the undefeated modelling approach over the medium term.
Worth remembering that population today is almost exactly (slightly lower) than where we expected it to be pre-covid. Also, dwelling growth > population growth last 10 years.
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Despite this, nevertheless, DEWR still got what it paid for - a report that concludes that this is no big deal and we can all stop paying attention to it now.
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not going to go through this whole document, but even if it wasn't produced by AI it is still of low quality. for example, it cites a Finance document about the three lines of defence for risk management. and completely butchers it (and also cites two documents in one source)
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We all love our dedicated IT systems ('IT system's)
#BREAKING 🚨 'A major report for government by Deloitte is littered with citation errors prompting concern it may have been generated by artificial intelligence'. ✍️ @Paul_Karp in the @FinancialReview on the $440,000 Targeted Compliance Framework report:.
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🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says he “deeply regrets” warning that Britain risks becoming an island of strangers. [@TomBaldwin66].
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Normally it takes a few years before washed up USian talking heads do a tour of Australia for some easy money.
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they sacked the Pez so hard they changed the determination establishing his employment conditions to ensure he didn't get paid out 12 months of salary.
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you shoulda seen the tears in the wallet inspector's eyes.
The faces following the press conference today. Call me cynical perhaps but they’re faces of people who have just done something and said something they didn’t want to do or say.
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RT @alistairkitchen: Thanks, all. You can now read my full account at The New Yorker.
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As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
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We can narrow down the moment the 1989-90 Budget went woke to somewhere between 24 April 2024 and 1 October 2024
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If I was an Accountable Authority and someone pitched to me in 2025 that we should do a podcast, I could instantly make a small but important productivity saving by firing the person doing the pitching.
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The PC is such a bastion of productivity they're jumping on the agency podcast trend a decade after everyone else.
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MMTers would be a lot more credible if they didn't present random slides from 15 years ago deliberately removed from their context and claim they represent the hidden unofficial truth of the world.
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Today, the AOFM says it does use bonds to meet Budget funding needs, as per their latest annual report
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I can't find the exact presentation, but here is a 2008 report that explains the issue in detail.
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Pity Steven doesn't disclose that this slide comes from a ~2007 AOFM presentation about how they don't need to issue Bonds for budget funding purposes in 2007 because of the government's cash surplus, but nonetheless decided to so as to keep the market for Treasuries alive.
I know this slide I used in a talk in 2014 is a bit out of context, but it is so rare to see the truth represented on a semi-official document that I like to share it again every now and then. It is the fourth point which is the relevant one.
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This may be the longest Albo has ever spoken without mentioning he was raised in public housing.
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