@littlebirdietv Trainers & jockeys numbers are doing well haha..obviously not all "participants" are sharing in the 4 fold increase in returns ..hmmm..
I don’t give a fuck who started it. I’m aware now of the gross waste in government. Enough of this wanking. The UN is just a talkfest for fuckwits that achieves nothing other than burning taxpayer dollars from many nations.
Koch tells RBA to ‘name who forced your hand’ on next rate rise - The Australian - 22 Sep 2026
Mr Koch’s open letter to RBA governor Michele Bullock says “a meaningful slice of the inflation your board is trying to contain is not being generated in a shopping centre. It is being set in a cabinet room”.
Household spending is down with families now “at a kitchen table with a calculator”, economic growth is subdued and business conditions are negative for the first time in six years.
“So who did the growing? Government, and not by a little,” he says. “Commonwealth government spending has climbed to 26.8 per cent of GDP… the highest level outside the pandemic since 1986. State government spending isn’t helping either.
“Public sector wages grew 3.4 per cent against 3.1 per cent in the private sector. ABS CPI data suggests government-influenced prices have been rising much faster than market-driven prices, with categories such as childcare, education, healthcare, utilities and insurance doing much of the work. In other words, some of the stickiest price pressure isn’t coming from shoppers splurging… it’s coming from prices governments set, subsidise, regulate or index.”
Oil is only part of the story. And Aussie households have already paid, absorbing three rate rises this year. “Households complied. Governments didn’t seem to.” he says. “Yet only one of those two gets the higher interest rate bill.”
He is calling for “plain speech, backed by numbers”.
That would mean quantifying how much of the cash rate rise is attributable to government spending fuelling demand in its monetary policy statement and showing Australians where the cash rate would sit today had public demand grown in line with nominal GDP instead of ahead of it.
He is also calling for a “fiscal statement signed by federal and state treasurers, committing to a public spending path consistent with your inflation target, with the RBA reporting publicly on whether it’s met”.
“Say it out loud,” he says. “If your board must move on 29 September, please do them (Aussies) the courtesy of naming who forced your hand.”
Southport terrorist Axel Rudakubana has appeared in court accused of throwing boiling water mixed with sugar at a prison officer.
This wouldn't happen if he was in the ground, exactly where he should be.
Restore Britain's policy of a referendum on the death penalty is just.
A grammar school for boys in Stratford-upon-Avon, 80% white British to 42% in ten years. Just ten years.
School after school after school - utterly transformed by mass immigration.
It's unacceptable, and we should have the courage to say so.