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Michael Pascoe

@michaelpascoe01.bsky.social
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The Summertime of Our Dreams author, Michael West Media contributor , winner 2022 Kennedy Award Outstanding Columnist, speaker, rugby, prefer to be skiing

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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 15h
"Some experts"? No, every expert who's not being paid one way or another to support the folly. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Hegseth calls US-built nuclear submarines the ‘apex predator’ of the seas. But are they right for Australia?
Some experts argue Virginia-class submarines government is buying second hand are good for fighting American wars, but not for defending Australia
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 18h
www.navylookout.com/mounting-con...
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Mounting concern in Australia over UK ability to deliver SSN-AUKUS - Navy Lookout
In this guest article, Rear Admiral Peter Briggs, RAN (Rtd), articulates the worries held by some amongst the defence establishment in Australia about the promises the UK has made on submarine deliver...
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The US - a warning for us
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Absolutely the case - and neither Labor, Liberal or One Hanson want to know about it
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
... 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."
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
...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...
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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.
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top,” Hegseth said. No, you really couldn't make this up.
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A pleasure being a guest with John Simon on Peter Martin's The Economy, Stupid. The big, bad world of monetary explored with an RBA insider who puts his case straight - lnkd.in/grvZ98xW
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The RBA Board delivered. Thank you for making me and my comfortable peers richer, boosting my unearned income so I can continue to splash the cash around." @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #auspol #rates michaelwest.com.au/a-blunt-tool...
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A blunt tool. RBA's incompetence is making the rich richer - Michael West
Having created market expectations that it would raise rates, the Reserve Bank board delivered, demonstrating its incompetence.
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Faruqi has demonstrated very quickly that she is not leadership material. Shoebridge and the retiring Barbara Pocock clearly the best Greens performers over recent years. IMHO
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Someone at the RBA will be relieved today's CPI number wasn't lower. Sounds silly? Read on... Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/a-blunt-tool...
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A blunt tool. RBA's incompetence is making the rich richer - Michael West
Having created market expectations that it would raise rates, the Reserve Bank board delivered, demonstrating its incompetence.
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thanks Sharyn. Now for Michael West Media
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
michaelwest.com.au/grifting-ica...
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Grifting icare, gouging workers. BHP's big insurance scam unveiled - Michael West
BHP and MinterEllison are covering up a coal industry insurance scam at the expense of mining workers and icare. Michael West reports.
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Need to update this from May - Nine shares down 45% in 12 months, hit 64c on Friday. AFR chief jumps - or something. Head of broadcasting & streaming made redundant, that part of the biz now run by CEO with no prior broadcasting experience. Board still gets paid. michaelwest.com.au/budget-hyste...
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Budget hysteria. The Murdochification of Nine's papers in full swing - Michael West
The media campaign against the Federal Budget is unprecedented, not for its vehemence but uniformity across Murdoch and Nine papers.
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The knackered NACC - doesn't know what corruption is, doesn't do anything when it's smacked in the face with it. No surprise is can't keep its own desk tidy.
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Jommy Tee @jommytee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Slow learners ...
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Chris Minns is one of the most can-do people you’ll ever see,” V’landys said. Of course, it depends on who's asking him to do.
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Jommy Tee @jommytee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Had 2 FOIs rejected by the Attorney-General's Dept under the rarely used s26(2) - all docs totally exempt from FOI. The docs relate to interference by the former AG, on two seperate occasions, in the appointment process for NACC Dep Com positions. Have appealed both decisions.
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One minute the AFR is telling me Labor has killed housing, the next there's a housing construction surge (as well as data centres) that requiresa rate rise. Make up your mind. www.afr.com/property/com...
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RBA faces rate squeeze as 60-year building surge fires up inflation
A labour crunch and soaring demand for data centre and housing construction is an added challenge for the central bank as it prepares to lift interest rates.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Albanese to deliver hypocritical speech telling China and the US not to use the Pacific as a chessboard. When he has reinforced Australia's role as a US pawn. #EndAUKUS #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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PM set to warn China and US the Indo-Pacific not their 'chessboard'
In a major foreign policy speech set to be delivered in New York, Anthony Albanese will declare the post-1945 world order "is no longer fit for purpose" and warn China and the US the Indo-Pacific is n...
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Whether it's Albanese’s rampant hypocrisy, Bragg’s wilful misinformation, Hanson’s fantasy non-policy, Minns’ laid-on-with-a-shovel mix of spin and lies, it’s very hard to decide who is our worst pollie on housing as they are all betraying the nation. Mine for MWM: michaelwest.com.au/lies-damned-...
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Lies, damned lies, and pollies talking about housing - Michael West
The housing debate is on again and as ill-informed as ever. But which politicians are telling the most lies about housing?
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
replies to Albo's X post are instructive - overwhelmingly disgusted. Wonder what bots pressed the heart.
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Compulsory reading for the usual suspects parroting words to the effect of "we need higher unemployment now".
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Top of the SMH home page just now - Albo, Trump and Stefanovic share top billing. WTF has happened to news judgement? Sun rises in east, bears defecate in woods, Stefanovic rants.
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The US and UK arms industry, laughing all the way to the bank with $Bs of Aussie dollars. An “optimal pathway” to fleece gullible Australian politicians. We are being treated as mugs. Building infrastructure in the UK and while Aussie battlers can’t get a roof over their head🤬
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And we still pretend we're going to get working subs from this mob. Or maybe this is Perth's future - a dumping ground. Not Only Can’t America Build Submarines, It Can’t Retire Them, Either - The National Interest share.google/Td14bQJZBtKc...
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Not Only Can’t America Build Submarines, It Can’t Retire Them, Either
Submarine decommissioning is a lengthy and laborious process, and existing scrapyards are years behind—meaning that existing submarines must remain on the register, with full crews, until their time c...
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Daniel MZ Hogan @lugubriouslarry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yep
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Australians should not forget: The Israeli president who pardoned this racist murderer was given a special private briefing by the ASIO boss. #auspol
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good to see this finally get coverage in my old paper. This is the same mob who campaigned against me, but it wasn’t sufficiently newsworthy then.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Uniparty's new funding laws "will only shorten the journey towards complete disillusionment". Jack Ayoub #auspol #OneNation #democracy michaelwest.com.au/democracys-d...
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Democracy's despair. New donation laws to entrench Uniparty power - Michael West
Trust in our democratic process is in sharp decline, and the Federal Government's new donation laws are unlikely to change that.
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Tom Red @tomredmemes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Despite the owner, WaPo journalists are still doing some very fine work. Don't be too hard on them.
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"No episode in Trump’s second term better encapsulates the triviality of his agenda and the pettiness of the man. We knew he was a bully, we knew he was a narcissist; the plot had been building all along to those inescapable conclusions." wapo.st/4cVv6nL
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Column | The Kennedy Center is empty and in peril. Its community is in anguish.
The fiasco of this week’s closure reveals the truth of President Trump’s motivations — and what the arts community stands to lose.
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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Once again for the people in the back. Bari does not have any talent. She can throw a good party and chat you up but good, and people mistake that for ability. It was fine enough to open her empty vessel of a newsletter. It can't run a real organization.
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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
WELL WORTH A REPEAT
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 16/09/2026
Two events – Albanese’s arrogance over pork-barrelling and Andrew Hastie’s dignity in confronting One Nation’s slurs – framed the week, writes Paul Bongiorno. trib.al/1LXxNtv
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Hastie, Albanese and a question of integrity
A busy parliamentary week was overshadowed by two dramatic contrasts in political integrity and accountability. On the one hand there was Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and on the other Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie.
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
theconversation.com/more-than-2-...
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More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research
Genetic, archaeological and environmental evidence suggest the Indigenous population fell by more than 90% in the 70 years after the British invaded.
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That's the claim - but it's also about buying votes and the whole "let's make physical things" pitch. It would be cheaper to maintain a stockpile to cover the alleged chance of nobody wanting or being able to sell us steel. Or invest in new eletric arc furnaces elsewhere. Whyalla wipeout.
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Meanwhile, in South Korea: "properties in designated speculative zones owned by multi-home owners face capital gains tax rates up to 75%, or 82.5% including local taxes"
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
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Cost of saving Whyalla steel plant reaches $4m a worker
Economists warn that multibillion-dollar interventions risk locking employees into unproductive firms while hurting overall national productivity.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
FFS ABC, she did not apologise
Screenshot of ABC news front page: "Hanson apologises if she caused offence by Indigenous Australian remarks"
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The UK’s new Prime Minister clearly didn’t get Defence Minister Richard Marles’ memo stating “#AUKUS is full steam ahead”. Or maybe Marles was just referring to the pace at which our Treasury is sending cheques to the UK. 🤷‍♂️ #auspol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If only Albo would get as emotional - and do something - about the hundreds of thousands experiencing #homelessness after decades of neoliberal housing policies. #inequality #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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'Stunned': Emotional PM defends mum against Pauline Hanson remarks
Anthony Albanese has fiercely defended his late mother against criticism by Pauline Hanson, who has been called on to apologise for her remarks.
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Lund Glover Band killing it at Sydney Blues Society challenge. Ewan Lund a massive talent
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Tony Cartledge @decentral21.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Zionist lobby is losing its shine. Let's hope this is a turning point in it losing its power over #Auspol Congrats, Mary. michaelwest.com.au/mary-kostaki...
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Mary Kostakidis stared down the Zionist lobby, and courage won - Michael West
The Zionist Federation of Australia expected fear, expense and exhaustion to silence Mary Kostakidis. She stood her ground
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Alas @australia.theguardian.com makes the same mistake as everyone else, comparing Labor's corrupt grants-by-invitation with "sports rorts". It's actually Albo's version of Morrison's vastly bigger ($2.5 billion) and much worse community grants scam. Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/rorts-galore...
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Rorts galore. Why is Albo encouraging grant corruption? - Michael West
There’s a reason why the knackerless NACC doesn’t care about grant corruption: politicians don't want it to. Labor rorts
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You know who really did show up? Canadian police officers, firefighters, and medical personnel came to NYC, on and off duty, traveling independently or in groups to stand with Americans and help shoulder the enormous burden of recovery and cleanup at Ground Zero. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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