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Is Anthony Albanese destined to be the most disappointing prime minister ever? | First Dog on the Moon

Sadly, Betteridges Law of Headlines* does not apply #auspol. www.theguardian.com/... * If there is a question in a headline, the answer should be "No"

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How could this happen?

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SInce I have no idea why anyone would vote LibDem, I won’t take a guess.

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Labour - Brexit was a bad idea, and we are going to rejoin in time. Farage - Brexit a great idea but betrayed by government. That leaves Tories with the unappealing claim that if you squint hard enough, actualy existing Brexit looks good. Greens need to push Labour to move faster.

Now that #Rejoin is back on the #ukpol agenda, it will swallow everything else. Talk about industrial policy etc makes no sense until the direction of travel is decided. My distant analysis: good for Labour and Farage, who have clearly opposed positions.

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3 in 4 managers find it difficult to work with GenZ - ResumeBuilder.com

"Kids these days!" Boomers were hippies, X-ers were slackers, Millennials were entitled, and now we get the same about Gen Z. Actual truth, lots of bosses are and always have been not bad at their jobs, and particularly bad at dealing with young workers.

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A ResumeBuilder.com survey finds that 49% of managers and business leaders say it’s difficult to work with GenZ all or most of the time.

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't buy this as a general proposition. Losing a political fight doesn't oblige you to be gracious, or to accept the outcome as final. In Rudd's case, he was dumped in favour of Gillard, and returned the favour. And he's had a significant career since then, not that of a bitter ghost.

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't agree with Greens on Ukraine, but in the end aid is fungible. If we give them butter, they can use the money they save to buy guns.

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

as another commenter points out, cosplay is more specifically visual than LARP, so there is still a distinction

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Looking at #ukpol from afar, I’m struck by the completeness of Starmer’s disappearance. I’ve seen no assessments of his record, favorable or not. He appears more as a zero starting point, against which Burnham can be rated. A year ago, he had a massive majority and an iron grip on the Labour Party

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LARP is a bit newer but as you and I show familiar to old folks who are moderately online. Not like skibbidi dibbidy or whatever

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Both. Pollies wearing hard hats a classic example of cosplay. And LARP typically refers to performative radicalism

Not impossible if we went to PR, but unlikely

NYTImes claiming LARP (meaning fakery rather than actual gameplay) is the new hit word for the young folk. I thought it was already in the dictionary, though I would more commonly use “cosplay” for the same thing.

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Can't think of anything Marles has done that matches this. And he is an absolute licksplittle

Minister's Trump lamb plan labelled 'ill-informed' by super sector

Has there ever been an Australian government minister as craven as Don Farrell? Wants to use our savings to undercut our agricultural producers in order to appease an angry dictator. If Albo doesn't sack him, it shows he is just the same #auspol.

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Trade Minister Don Farrell asks the Trump administration to consider sparing Australian sheep farmers from future tariffs in exchange for Australian investment in America's lamb industry.

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Minister's Trump lamb plan labelled 'ill-informed' by super sector

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Trade Minister Don Farrell asks the Trump administration to consider sparing Australian sheep farmers from future tariffs in exchange for Australian investment in America's lamb industry.

Annnoying McWhorter column in NY TImes today making a cultural trend out of two women, years apart, passing as oppressed minorities.

We are all getting older all the time, at least until we are just plain old.

Can’t offer much consolation except to focus on the people around you

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Eventually this usually happens or else the two party system breaks

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And a lot of the movement is within the right and left pairs, with the result that Labor-LNP “two party-preferred” estimates sit very close to 50-50 most of the time. More on this later, I hope #auspol

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An obvious fact, but not often spelt out. The Australian electorate is now split four ways, with (from right to left), One Nation, LNP, Labor and Independents + Greens all getting between 20 and 30 per cent in most polls.

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If that’s the case why don’t you actually say it. Putin and Trump are bloodthirsty butchers and you are repeating their lies.

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To which swathes do you refer ? They haven’t even taken the rest of Donetsk which they mostly occupied in 2014. Not a single major city just some towns reduced to rubble.

Not for the million or more Russians who've been casualties in the pursuit of Putin's delusional ambitions? Even with Trump and Xi on his side, he hasn't gained any ground in years. Why are you backing these evil men?

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This is Trump-Putin nonsense. Johnson and Biden are long gone, and the idea that they were decisive is silly. The Ukrainians have offered ceasefire after ceasefire.

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Putin started the war and can stop it any time he wants, with a ceasefire on the current line of contact. The Europeans didn't ask for this war - they were keen to trade with Russia even after the annexation of Crimea. And, from Bucha onwards the Ukrainians know they must fight to the last.

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Shoebridge is right - don’t reform Labor, replace it..

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Larissa Waters tried accommodation and was rewarded with the bastardry of the “offset for koalas” deal. It’s time to admit that Labor, LNP and One Nation are all on the same side, and that we need a pro-planet, pro-humanity, anti-Trump alternative.

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I’ve always favoured the idea of an informal Labor-Greens coalition. But at least with Albanese in charge, that’s not going to happen. He’d much rather deal with the LNP (or, if push comes to shove, One Nation). Adam Bandt tried bargaining hard, and was successfully demonised.

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Seriously it did all start with Putins invasion. There’s always a pretext

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Random Sarah @random-sarah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And all because for no reason at all they took a set against that nice Mr Putin

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Former RBA guy Philip Lowe blames government spending for rate rises & Anus runs with it. Yeah, this guy - Lowe, who joined the board of investment banking and asset management giant Magellan Financial, made the comments in a podcast published by the Institute of Public Affairs #auspol

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 27/09/2026

Russia occupies Oleshky. Around 2,000 civilians remain and run out of food, medicine, water and electricity. Russia, as the occupying power, is responsible for facilitating humanitarian relief. Ukraine found another way in: its forces delivered ~4 tons of food by drone to 100 locations across town.

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NY Times has a lengthy puff piece on Rahm Emanuel (not linking), and the absurd idea that he might run for president. The back story is that Emanuel is acting as a cutout for Hakeem Jeffries in raisng money from wealth right wing donors. I think I can guess which donors. #USpol #Aipac

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Quit agent mode and went back to chat, which confirmed that my experience was pretty much the norm. Here’s a reddit threat on this. www.reddit.com/r/Cla...?

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Following NY Times puff piece about guy automating his life with Muse, I decided to try out OpenAI agentic software on a fairly straightforward expense claim. Fannied around for about 10 minutes, then got stuck at the login phase.

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I'm not really close to any, and I don't have a clear answer myself.

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let;s leave it there. You can find my thoughts on the topic if you want to search a bit

1. So Turnbull gets credit for equal marriage? 2. He wanted the credit, but he didn't want to do the hard work of defending a model. Initially assumed he was popular enough to win easily, gave up when that turned out to be wron

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The reforms to CGT weren't his. They were imposed on him by Chalmers and others, despite his promise not to touch them. And I fail to see why we should be thankful for the mess he made of the Voice (which I pointed out throughout the disastrous campaing).

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Inside Albanese’s factional dominance: ‘They’ve all been executed, except one’

"A long, long time ago, Albanese said he picked a side. He has never stopped counting those who didn’t pick his." Albo vindictive hatchet man who cares only about the trappings of office. And we are stuck with him, unless he screws up so badly as to give us Hanson. #auspol www.thesaturdaypaper...?

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Through brutal calculation, Anthony Albanese has achieved complete control over Labor’s faction system – a fact reflected in the party’s cautious approach to policy.

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