🦉🤝🌍 Johnboy Halyucinations

Seditionist MMT activist & anti-neoliberal ideologist, Noam Chomsky’s type of anarchist/marxist, now engaged in a Sustainable Economic Masters at Torrens Uni

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Australia while associated with food sovereignty, relies on food banks for a social safety net, yet Nordic countries historically viewed them as a peripheral, "last resort" measure & a sign of policy failure but food security is about to become an issue: https://t.co/k33WxYa5lg

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@Bourne_Identica @greg16676935420 Not Kentucky but in Australia 68.5% of households have lawns. Of 11M houses, that is aprox 7M. In 2025 there were 17,402 lawn services. 19.7% aussies never mow their own lawns = 138K yards. 138K / 17.4K = 8 yards/business. Greg needs 730 customer requests/year. Good luck Greg! 🤪

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This is an example of the sort of fallacious propaganda that Chalmer’s misleads the public with - that unemployment is doing anything but going up and getting worse under this government. Poverty is increasing & the working class is getting screwed.

https://t.co/CmSVAkd0CQ

[Jim Chalmers MP @JEChalmers]

BREAKING: New numbers just released show 65,000 jobs were created last month, and unemployment fell.

Unemployment is down again to 4.1% and 1.2 million jobs have now been created on our watch.

Under Labor, more people are working, earning more and keeping more of what they earn.

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@John_T_Harvey Thanks John, I hope to be reading it soon. Hopefully I got is cheaper than Steven's copy with that discount code which he was boasting about, before someone hacked his twitter-Account. Nice to still be learning more from you even though Contending Perspectives was a while ago.😀

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@ProfSteveKeen This is not Steven Hail & this is a lie. Steven's lost control of his account & has said so his students. Steven admitted to responding to a voting for a podcast from whom he thought was one of his students & his account in no longer under his control. This bastard is not Steven

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@StevenHailAus @ProfSteveKeen This guy is lying, Steven has lost control of his account and has said so his students. Steven admitted to responding to a voting for a podcast from whom he thought was one of his students & his account in no longer under his control. This bastard has hacked his account.

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@tomfoster66 @twtrrr @k7n3s @RBAInfo Tom is right Imogen, for 25yrs we had dominantly less than 2% unemployment & Whitlam abandoned those policies & in service to Capitalists, politicians will not resolve the issue with solutions that had decades of success. These are choices as I described in my paper from last yr.

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@tomfoster66 @twtrrr @k7n3s @RBAInfo This attached is an extract from an academic literature review I wrote on the RBA article that came up with the flowchart above showing the greater flow of people into sufficient employment from folks classified as no longer part of the Labour force (OLF).

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@tomfoster66 @twtrrr @k7n3s @RBAInfo Given as RBA flowchart shows folks classified as “out of the labour force” by ABS, transition month to month straight into employment at twice the rate people who are officially “unemployed” do; I would suggest the classifications ABS divide the labor market into, need a revamp!

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@twtrrr @k7n3s @RBAInfo Pre-pandemic ACOSS poverty was around 3M & R.M. under&unemp’ was around 2.5M which is a 16.6% lower than 3M as per attached graph. So the figures were entirely consistent with claims by both organisations. So post-pandemic R.M. under&unemp’ claims approx 3M, is likely accurate.

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@twtrrr @k7n3s @RBAInfo If you look in the 2nd graph I did, I marked where poverty estimates were. They are above RM’s figures because about 16% are children and RM’s under&Unemployment figures don't include children. ACOSS figures correlate far better to Roy Morgan figures for that gap, than ABS’s do.

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@twtrrr @k7n3s @RBAInfo I’d probably say it t’was “employment” market that has the structural inequality built in. Australia doesn't have the informal employment markets some do, but 1/3 of out market is part-time & nearly 100K in the gig economy earn no wages. Over 20% under&unemployed & larger poverty

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@twtrrr @k7n3s “Institutions” would have been better but I hit the character limit in that post. I wanted to talk about the impact to my old employer, the RBA as well, & now that I have made another tweet

https://t.co/XYb4TafkG1 I can sneak this one in to explain. 😁

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@twtrrr @k7n3s Yes, I was referring to ABS, Dept of Employment, Services Australia (who run Jobseeker) and Roy Morgan, which I reasoned would become evident once you read the article. Listing them takes up a lot of word space in Twitter, so “bodies” was good enough.

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@BrucePh51819561 @maximumwelfare Real wages not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels, & unemployment is rising, reaching new heights since Labor took office. Interest rates halted their decline, & growth remains sluggish. Drops in inflation are due to global factors not Labor.
https://t.co/0DHQA73vmz
*sigh*

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@AusCommenter Real wages not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels, & unemployment is rising, reaching new heights since Labor took office. Interest rates halted their decline, & growth remains sluggish. Drops in inflation are due to global factors not Labor.
https://t.co/0DHQA72Xx1
*sigh*

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@TheKouk Unemployment has been steadily rising by all three indicators and even the sideline additions since just after the election. Its getting worse not better and your dismissal of it as hardly relevant especially to the RBA is irresponsible.
https://t.co/0DHQA73vmz
Do you not get it?

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@twtrrr @k7n3s Might I suggest if you want to understand why there’s such diversity in the bodies that generate numbers of each unemployment measure there is my piece in Economic Reform Australia: https://t.co/0DHQA73vmz. It is obvious & yet it has harsh impact on the RBA & political messaging!

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@phlogga @lynlinking @independentaus Well that’s not true because the government has the purse strings and so can fund what ever is for sale in the economy. Relying of the restrictions of the private purse & the capitalist imperative to only do something at a profit is what got us into this position in the 1st place

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@lynlinking @phlogga @independentaus I didn’t say drop policies, I used an idiom meaning “missed an opportunity” to realise the need to treat climate like the existential emergency it is and do the sort of building of renewable economy Prof Ross Garnaut, "Super Power" book describes and not give into Woodside.