The latest Dollars & Sense is up - talking GDP, datacenters and minimum wage (and @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social being a content creator)
australiainstitute.org.au/post/data-ce...
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"So instead of some new submarines, or a new submarine, that we're *definitely* going to get...
"It's all gonna be old submarines that we're *definitely* going to get?"
@emmashortis.bsky.social & @angusrb.bsky.social on the latest update to the AUKUS submarine deal. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4u5tWf5
We had our own little Shangri-la Dialogue right here in the People's Republic of Victoria.
Spoke about Aukus, the Australia-US alliance & Pete Hegseth's atrocious US flag pocket square.
My late grandma was the last Broncos supporter in my family. We went to every home game together for years.
I'm supremely confident she would go fucking nuclear on the club if she was around to see this.
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Greg Jericho
Security boi brain really is something. www.aspistrategist.org.au/sorry-mr-car...
Australians lose $32 billion to gambling every year.
"We are the biggest losers in the world per capita when it comes to gambling," says Martin Thomas, CEO of the Alliance for Gambling Reform.
"It's reshaping a whole generation."
🎧 bit.ly/4nXsbPW
@ebonybennett.bsky.social #auspol
As Trump blusters over Iran, prospects for real peace in the region slip further away.
@emmashortis.bsky.social examines the latest AUKUS submarine announcement & how the Trump administration is facilitating the demise of the international order the US helped create. #auspol
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Emma Shortis
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The Australia Institute
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With what little economic growth there is being driven by data centres, is it really a net positive for most Australians?
"So instead of some new submarines, or a new submarine, that we're *definitely* going to get...
"It's all gonna be old submarines that we're *definitely* going to get?"
@emmashortis.bsky.social & @angusrb.bsky.social on the latest update to the AUKUS submarine deal. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4u5tWf5
International rules still matter. That was the common theme at this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, particularly for Indo-Pacific nations. Australia’s deputy prime minister and defence minist...
