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Anne Maxwell

@annemaxwell.bsky.social
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co-host RadioMMT, www.3cr.org.au/radiommt, grey skies are lovely too #learnMMT

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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
doable and sensible @davidshoebridge.bsky.social check out our episode on why this is so needed www.3cr.org.au/radiommt/epi... btw - "competition" wont save us!
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#083 Katy Swain: Stop Falling For the "Competition" Myth
When supermarket giants control the food supply chain, shopping around won't save you. This episode, we go beyond standard supermarket bashing to look at the real culprit: a government that refuses to...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"The Prime Minister then spent the afternoon at a series of bilateral meetings, in which he expressed deep concern about the Pacific’s future and a firm commitment to being photographed looking concerned about the Pacific’s future."
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The latest corporate tax data just dropped. And congrats to Santos Ltd - 11yrs in a row of no company tax.
Table of Santos ltd company tax 2014-15 to 2024-25

Year	Total income	Company Tax
2014-15	$3,389,399,798	$0
2015-16	$3,476,002,729	$0
2016-17	$3,715,263,715	$0
2017-18	$3,498,043,596	$0
2018-19	$4,360,612,850	$0
2019-20	$5,013,931,702	$0
2020-21	$4,070,327,153	$0
2021-22	$4,746,037,784	$0
2022-23	$6,257,384,778	$0
2023-24	$8,210,276,022	$0
2024-25	$5,117,008,013	$0
Total	$51,854,288,140	$0
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A reminder that this year the unemployment rate has gone up 0.56%pts - roughly an extra 87,000 unemployed. So in 15 min when the RBA raises rates again just remember 35-44yos on Jobseeker are almost 10 times more likely to die than those not on welfare: www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Chart showing deaths per 100,000 by age
22-34yo: 17.1 no welfare; 137.0 on Jobseeker
35-44yo: 30 no welfare; 288.1 on Jobseeker
45-55yo: 83.4 no welfare; 427.0 on Jobseeker
55-64yo: 201.6 no welfare; 615.6 on Jobseeker
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Unbelievable this exists in a modern "democracy" - worth signing if you are in Melbourne: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/on... @getup.org.au
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One Vote Should Mean One Vote
Melbourne is Victoria’s capital city. Its council elections should be fair, transparent and democratic. But right now, City of Melbourne elections are run under special rules that give some interest...
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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 21/09/2026
Labor backbenchers have been out in force the past few days spruiking "increases" in Centrelink payments. To be very, very clear: this is absolute bullshit. This is an automatic CPI adjustment, not an increase. Labor is still keeping people on income support in poverty.
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-... The author of this independent investigation, AJ Kotra, said, "This was 50% of the way to a full AI takeover."
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The Most Hopeful (And Concerning) Moment Yet in AI
We're a nonprofit exposing the negative effects of persuasive technology and social media and empowering people to take action. Discover The Social Dilemma, our podcast, course, and more.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Scientists warned for years: if we clear 20-25% of the Amazon, we cross the point of no return. We've already cleared 17%. We are right on the edge.
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Two things could protect participants. 1. A cooling-off period for NDIA executives moving into the market would stop insider knowledge being used commercially. 2. A plan management tender designed to preserve smaller operators would keep the people currently catching fraud in the scheme.”
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
*sigh* “A suite of potential rules would have set design standards for packaging, for example by prohibiting use of certain chemicals, restricting unnecessary or excessive layers of packaging, or limiting the amount of empty space permitted within packaging” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Labor ditches new packaging laws to cut plastic waste, sparking unprecedented ‘scale and breadth of outrage’
Federal environment department tells industry representatives the government does not want to ‘exacerbate cost of living pressures’
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“The evidence is irrefutable: this is the spiralling price of humanity’s fossil fuel addiction, and the global #ClimateCrisis it is fuelling.” So the Australian govt is leading the charge against global heating with, um... dodgy carbon offsets and approving new fossil fuel projects. 🙄🤪😬 #auspol
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Not really “wildfires” eh? “Indonesian officials said the fires were deliberately caused, either by individuals or corporations. A Kompas newspaper report found that wildfires are detected on the same sites year after year, with 50% occurring in oil palm concessions.”
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“newspaper Haaretz published a report detailing a conversation between Mr Netanyahu and United Arab Emirates President Mohamed bin Zayed 10 days before October 7, in which the sheikh warned him that Hamas was planning an imminent attack”
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Your treasury cannot run out of dollars to pay a decent retirement to everyone. The issue is always the resources, which includes a habitable planet…. #learnmmt
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/09/2026
"Oh, you're criticising data centres? But you USED A DATA CENTRE to publish your post??? Hypocritical much????" Time to put this fossil fuel PR inspired talking point to bed forever. Why the 'Mr Gotcha' gambit is wrong in two very important ways:
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Yep… a kind of ignorance that seems to come with the anti-democratic territory
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“they want to "exit" (i.e. abandon) democracy, with its laws and regulations and fiat currencies, and create new forms of government and new jurisdictions… that use digital currencies” Until we have CBDC’s (central bank digital currency) the use of cash is a small rejection of privatised money…
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The degrowth alternative could start with a pay rise for workers in the form of a 4-day work week without loss of pay.
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“It remained frustratingly unclear whether the university protests involved antisemitism”
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
www.youtube.com/shorts/fwuh_... Great summary of the viper's nest... Open AI > Adam Triggs > Andrew Charlton / Andrew Leigh Tom McMahon > Andrew Leigh / Kate Pounder > Andrew Charlton > Andrew Leigh > Open AI #datacentres
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we are f*cked
YouTube video by Punter's Politics
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The US fed govt cannot run out of dollars. This “debt” is a misuse of accounting terminology. It’s $40 trillion spent into the economy. The question is not “the size of the debt” but like the man said - what was it spent on? #learnmmt
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Jane Doe @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Australian government has funded millions to one of the world's largest fossil fuelled fertiliser projects with Perdaman Urea. fyi @drilledmedia.bsky.social @grilledmedia.bsky.social Dr. Mariangela Hungria may be alive, but deceive, delay, deny re: her fertiliser alternative will be in full force.
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Perdaman Urea & Supporting Infrastructure | NAIF
Fertiliser manufacturing and enabling infrastructure in WA’s Pilbara advanced with NAIF finance.
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
What it looks like when the psychopaths are in charge podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/g...
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The most important political scandal you haven't heard of
Podcast Episode · Geopolitical Economy Report · 28 August · 48min
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If we have to change laws (eg copyright) to get them here, then our laws are not lagging behind and we do have the legal power to stop them.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
www.commondreams.org/news/data-ce...
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'Have Your Friend Elon Build One at Mar-a-Lago,' Says Sanders After Trump Comments on Data Centers | Common Dreams
"Trump thinks that every community in America should welcome a data center." If so, said Sanders, "Lead by example."
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Another thing you can do with the currency capacity of the federal government….
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Given a country cannot run out of its own currency... here's one way to use the power of the public purse... "Japan and Korea poured A$31.2bn of their public money into Australian gas projects between 2008 and 2024" www.jubileeaustralia.org/news/latest-...
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“the major supermarkets had a history of “using technology to fix problems which creates more problems”
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“Patriot Palmer”….And this is what buys politicians…?! “ISDS rules enable foreign (but not local) investors to bypass national courts and claim billions in lost future profits from national governments if they can…”
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Political Gadgets @politicalgadgets.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Australia Institute's research went viral: 69% of post-COVID inflation above RBA target came from excess corporate profits, not wages. Yet monetary policy ignores this, sparking fury over regulatory capture. 🧵2/3
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Yes we have the money to do the second one, but not the political will.
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cowboyeconomist.bsky.social @cowboyeconomist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The latest Cowboy Economist on how poorly the Federal Reserve addresses inflation. At best, they have no impact; at worst, they rub salt in our wounds. youtu.be/U7LSyr-gHuk?...
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#32: "Fed" Up With Inflation!
YouTube video by Cowboy Economist (Cowboy Economist)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Trump’s ICE raids have reduced the employment rate of US-born male workers, according to a new study. The study also found that employers have not increased wages to attract US workers. Hello? Not only is Trump’s deportation agenda patently cruel, it’s also terrible for the economy. Despicable.
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Study Shows How Trump's ICE Raids Cost Americans Jobs | Common Dreams
Trump's aggressive immigration raids are not only tearing families apart, but they're also destroying jobs for both immi
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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Shockingly inappropriate way to treat people in #poverty. We need a campaign to end the ‘mutual obligations’ provider rip off. Sue Russo and Co making billions. #auspol @davidpocock.bsky.social @davidshoebridge.bsky.social
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
We need a thread like this for Barnaby….
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
How about we invest in fast rail? www.news.com.au/finance/busi...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/07/2026
Extremely important investigation - I cannot emphasise enough how every single freaking day we are dealing with the consequences of the success of this lie. Gas is basically treated like it's not a fossil fuel, even among some climate / energy advocates. It is so so so bad
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“Labor’s latest AI rules have deleted the word “renewable” from any connection to obligations or requirements.”
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/07/2026
How odd: the federal opposition, QLD gov't, the data centre lobby and a random corporate lobbyist all saying data centres shouldn't be subject to climate regulations, all within days. Must just be a coincidence :)
News headline warning energy red tape could stall an AI data‑centre boom, illustrated by a smartphone showing ChatGPT text beside a towering data‑centre building with a busy crowd in the foreground, symbolizing technology, infrastructure and public impact.News article excerpt quoting Coalition housing spokesman Andrew Bragg saying the opposition would not block proposed laws to address the data centre boom’s impact on energy prices and water supplies.Queensland’s green scheme pushback threatens data centre demand — article header above an aerial view of a riverside data centre with rooftop solar arrays, surrounding native trees and nearby apartment towers.Opinion headline from the Financial Review: "Green energy mandate means data centres won’t be built," an editorial arguing net-generator rules could prevent data centre construction, showing the byline Patrick Gibbons and a small black-and-white author portrait.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Artificial intelligence company Firmus plans to use state-owned agricultural irrigation water www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
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Data centre builder lets slip plan to use irrigation water
Data centre builder Firmus Technologies posts to its website a statement, since removed, indicating its intention to get some of its cooling water from the state-owned irrigation system, adding "but w...
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We know the solutions: - homelessness is solved by govt providing homes - unemployment is solved by govt providing jobs #jobguarantee
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"The Howard-era system fills the pockets of private equity and millionaires, while leaving jobseekers without work." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
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Job system broken for workers, booming for private equity, report says
A new report argues Australia's employment services system is failing jobseekers, while filling the pockets of private equity firms and millionaires.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
My summary of how I would give this speech were I Minister for Employment. Mutual obligations are bullshit. Privatized employment services are cruel. Jobseeker payments are cruel magnified.
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Cities Should Sell Municipal Bonds to Their Own Public Banks
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Reclaiming the Public Interest: Cities Should Sell Municipal Bonds to Their Own Public Banks
By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson Editor’s Note: The following essay, originally published on February 22, 2026, offers a foundational theoretical framework for what has since been concretized…
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Read this and find out whether neoliberalism has contaminated your thinking …
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Fantastic commentary on Albo's AI speech. AI as "advanced synonym generator". 😂 Yes - govt needs to remember its power to regulate, and withstand pressure from intl/US-based corporations. shows.acast.com/we-used-to-b...
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ONLY FRAN: The enshittification of AI is coming | We Used to be Journos
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Yes, if we are talking state-owned **public** housing… “An initial target of 6 per cent would be closer to estimated demand and consistent with the current OECD average of around 7 per cent.”
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This piece has the cleanest explanation of how administrative agency "internal money", as controlled by the OMB with payments processed by the Bureau of Fiscal Service, works. I/we will be doing more on this in the future. In the meantime, subscribe! www.crisesnotes.com#/portal/signup
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Notes on the Crises
Coverage of the ongoing Impoundment and Unitary Executive Constitutional Crisis
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Patricia Pino @patriciapino.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Supply shocks have made the sectoral character of inflation impossible to ignore. But we still haven’t fully grappled with what that implies for monetary policy and how we manage inflation. My new piece 👇: The Sectoral Anatomy of Inflation open.substack.com/pub/patricia...
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The Sectoral Anatomy of Inflation
Why a single instrument aimed at demand cannot reach multifaceted inflation dynamics.
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Anne Maxwell @annemaxwell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
“Americans concerned about AI outnumber those who aren’t by more than a 4 to 1 margin, according to a March survey of about 1,400 U.S. adults by… —55%—said they believed AI was doing more harm than good.”
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