You can’t do it differently until you imagine it differently.
By George Monbiot, adapted from a BlueSky thread, 2nd April 2025
One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools – neoliberalism and fascism – it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives.
Warner Bros Discovery’s Max streaming service debuted in an already-crowded Australian market on Monday. Warner Bros Discovery executive Jean-Briac Perrette is upbeat about the outlook for the sector, contending that streaming will be a “fantastic business”. “The streaming business, and the media business, to a large part, is moving towards a handful of successful, big
The Market Ear sees squirming robots. CTAs in US equities CTAs have aggressively sold US equities and are now estimated to be short $30bn. Not a huge number per se but we are at an interesting “extreme” level looking back over the past 10 years. This would be supportive evidence for a tactical long trade.
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Recall Labor’s Powering Australia Plan, which promised to reduce NEM wholesale electricity costs by $11 per MWh, from $62 to $51, by 2025. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hailed this modelling by RepuTex Energy as “the most comprehensive modelling ever done for any policy by any opposition in Australia’s history since Federation”. Albanese also repeatedly spruiked that
Goldman’s Andrew Boak has been more right than everyone so far. In her post-meeting press conference RBA Governor Bullock noted that today’s decision to keep the policy rate unchanged at 4.10% was a consensus decision and that the Board did not explicitly consider a rate cut at the meeting. Importantly, Governor Bullock did not repeat
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Progressive think tank Per Capita has released a report criticising the low wage growth experienced by young Australians, which has prevented them from purchasing a home. Per capita claims young Australians have suffered from a “lost decade during which real wages barely grew”. At the same time, home ownership rates for younger Australians collapsed. “In
I’ll be speaking at an event next week in Sydney as a preview for the federal election.
The event is hosted by my employer GovConnex along with FTI Consulting.
We’ll be previewing the election and discussing prospects for a possible hung parliament. There will be an opportunity to ask questions followed by drinks.
Tickets are free but there is limited capacity and I expect the venue to fill up.
The event will be at the Mint in Sydney from 5:30pm on Thursday April 10.
The gas goons are on the run. Reuters. At a conference in Sydney, Australian executives of Shell (SHEL.L), opens new tab , ExxonMobil and Chevron (CVX.N), opens new tab pushed back on the coalition’s proposal, arguing more government intervention would hamper the development of gas supply. These people are like a broken record. They will do as they are
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Last year, an Instagram video of a migration agent instructing rejected student visa holders how to appeal their decisions to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) went viral. The video was deleted after a public backlash, but not before I transcribed its contents. Below is what the migration agent said via video: “What I have heard
