Shaun Carter #YES 🇺🇦

We are excited to share the New South Wales’ Housing Pattern Book has been released! @nswdphi @government.architect.nsw⁠ ⁠ The Pattern Book is a wonderful selection of high-quality architect-designed homes that allow people to reimagine their houses, streets, and city. These…

Hasten slowly: Voters wary of reform surprise from Albanese smh.com.au/politics/feder… The Henry tax review is remains relevant - many of its reforms are worthy of consideration. This is what I'd like to see: - Tax multinationals properly. - Tax our resources properly. - Remove…

This week, Garnaut told me that Albanese’s “trip is as important as Bob Hawke’s trip to China in 1984 that set up the iron ore trade. It’s the future of the Australian economy.” Albo working hard to improve the economy for Australia’s future. theage.com.au/politics/feder…

Adam Creighton says net migration in 2025 may be between 550,000 & 598,000. I am happy to accept a bet that it won’t be within 150,000 of these estimates. Not even close.

The AFR with the list of 50 richest CEOs in Australia. Oddly they count unrealised share holdings to determine how rich they are. But the AFR has told us that you can't count such things when trying to tax super balances above $3m. Guess they aren't really rich at all....

At launch of NSW Pattern Book for Low Rise Housing. Led by Govt Architect Abbie Galvin, Premier & Planning Min @paulscullymp. Housing designs can be purchased at discount, with fast track approval process. Great work by 8 invited architects. Hope for better housing design & $

Density with amenity means putting higher numbers of residents in best of environments -such as facing parks/public spaces. Here our project to replace 100 houses with 600-840 park-front apartments. @ 6 storeys, levy to improve street & park, drop wires, +cycles, calm traffic 1/2

Privatisation has been a universal failure - never was any proof (as opposed to mere assertions) that the private, more efficient, or accountable, than the public sector

If the RBA has lost its way on interest rates, we’ll suffer from its fumbling smh.com.au/business/the-e… "When rates rise to discourage people with mortgages from spending on other goods and services, they actually encourage the retired to spend more. So the negative effect on the…

The country which could save our climate future - hint: it's not the US ... youtu.be/lOEFacrAG2w?si… via @YouTube #ClimateCrisis #auspol

One woman is killed every four days in domestic violence in Australia. But hey, we’ve got an anti-semitism crisis.

The fight over your backyard: Why NIMBY has become a ‘dirty word’ abc.net.au/news/2025-07-1… "It’s been the defining motivation of our Labor government for the last three years — not because of a New York Times bestseller — but because we’re working to correct a 40-year failure of…

Abundance: the US book is a sensation among our progressive MPs. But can it spur action in Canberra? theguardian.com/australia-news… As Keating used to say, "I always believed in burning up the government’s political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy". And if the Government of the day…

Never forget - News Corp is US-owned and exists to promote the interests of the United States, not Australia. "The Australian" is probably the least aptly named publication in the country

The missteps of the RBA are quite obvious. Worth a read

So why this frenzy of economists’ guesses … when they are so often wrong? Wrong at guessing what other economists would do! Yet they suffer no consequences - surely so many other professions would be sued for being so wrong so often?

Inequality has meant Australia collects less GST. There are better ways to collect more revenue than just raising the GST, which would hurt poorer people more. ✅ Apply GST to private school fees and private health insurance ✅Tax the gas industry properly @GrogsGamut #auspol