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paulwallbank

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Tech comms and policy guy. Described by a former Aussie Prime Minister as 'a brain damaged dickhead'. Anything posted here is the product of my own febrile mind and not the official position of any employer, government body or shadowy global organisation.

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paulwallbank,
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@ajsadauskas @unionagainstdhmo @firstdogonthemoon @stilgherrian @mpesce As an early contributor, supporter, and long time subscriber, Crikey often infuriates me. Keane's takes are often dreadful and his writing on business is truly terrible.

paulwallbank,
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@ajsadauskas @franksting @unionagainstdhmo @firstdogonthemoon @stilgherrian @mpesce I've nearly unsubscribed from Crikey a number of times because of Rundle's tosh.

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It’s a truth universally acknowledged that Australian event Q&As will feature 'questions' that are twelve times longer than the long winded answer.

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Medicare is dead. #auspol

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The sun sets on another swimming season at Boy Charlton pool. See you in September.

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How good is brutalising and ripping off Australia's most vulnerable people? We learned nothing from Robodebt: Landlords charging Centrepay transaction fees to vulnerable tenants against scheme policy https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/19/centrepay-centrelink-scheme-landlords-transaction-fee-policy?CMP=share_btn_url

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The real question about Labor's industry policy is how does a nation rebuild a manufacturing sector after fifty successful years of systemically dismantling the previous one.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/14/albanese-government-interventionist-industry-policy-aims-big-but-how-can-australia-compete-with-us-and-china?CMP=share_btn_url

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Remarkable how AUKUS is being advertised in the US media. You can see how Australia is being taken for a sucker.

https://youtu.be/xtoh5f0BJwc

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The end of cheap money continues to bite the Aussie startups: Start-up deals fall to six-year low as tech winter persists https://www.afr.com/technology/start-up-deals-fall-to-six-year-low-as-tech-winter-persists-20240405-p5fhps

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Half way point on this morning's slow run.

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Drinking with the lads in Pyrmont and I keep being distracted by this magnificent fig tree. It's a beauty and there's like a thousand lorikeets nesting
in it

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There's clickbait, there's hysteria, and then there's SMH articles. Is this the silliest article you will ever read?

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-baltimore-disaster-shocked-sydney-could-we-see-a-similar-tragedy-here-20240327-p5ffjd.html

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This is what modern Australian politics has become: Labor rams through latest High Court immigration fix that will send people to their deaths. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/labor-to-rush-through-beefed-up-deportation-laws-ahead-of-high-court-challenge-20240326-p5ff8m.html

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Pushback two minutes early. For the ultimate first world problem, I'd forgotten how irritating cufflinks are in an economy qantas seat.

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AI Confidential: Yeah so @Kobotic and I are doing a thing online 27/3 Sydney time

AI Confidential is where we spill the tea on all things artificial intelligence in a chill, candid and Chatham House Rule online setting.

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ai-confidential-tickets-859163760937?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

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@kcarruthers @Kobotic no plural? You've won me!

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Good morning Darwin.

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Are baby geckos in your hotel room good luck? I'd like to think so.

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Every time I visit Hobart I'm struck at how pedestrian unfriendly the city is. Which is saying something coming from Sydney where the NSW Government's War On Pedestrians continues unabated.

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Remind me again how responsible the Liberal Party and their lackeys are with money. I can't tell you how much this irritates me: North Sydney pool rebuild to exceed $100m, as costs and delays blow out

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/north-sydney-pool-rebuild-to-exceed-100m-as-costs-and-delays-blow-out-20240206-p5f2qm.html

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Had a frisson of excitement i'd been upgraded when my seat today changed from 26K to 4F. Sadly it turns out Qantas have switched the A330 to a 737. Some seriously pissed off business class passengers on this 5 hour flight.

paulwallbank,
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@timrichards it really is. How would you feel if you'd burned a bunch of points for a lie flat just to end up in an ancient armchair

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I'm no fan of the Albanese government, but the media narrative equating the PM to his utterly despicably dishonest predecessor is really getting irritating.

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That moment when you ask yourself: "where did that impressively large huntsman spider go?"

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So how did we go folks?

paulwallbank,
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@timrichards good man. Woking for Australia. You'll be on board of Woolworths before you know it.

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