James Wright

Orisson Group | Innovation, technology and sustainable futures

[Ben Kingsley @benkingsleyAU]

The AFR View - “The government’s budget narrative about addressing intergenerational inequity and helping first home buyers break into an overheated property market has been reduced to a farce. As has Chalmers’ economic credibility. His bold claims that the tax changes are “the broadest productivity push in a budget since the 1990s” were directly contradicted by Treasury’s confirmation this week that they are more about equity and redistributing wealth than about growing the economic pie”.
I concur.
These tax hikes are economically damaging and won’t fix housing other than wipe off billions in market value for all home owners and see rents rise in inner and middle suburban house markets.
#auspol

[Geoff Wilson @GeoffWilsonWAM]

‘Australia now has the highest CGT in real terms’. How embarrassing!Exactly why investors are fleeing. Taxing real gains at up to 47% (30% floor) after killing the 50% discount kills returns on shares, property & startups. This is an investment death sentence disguised as fairness. The new CGT must be stopped

[Geoff Wilson @GeoffWilsonWAM]

In 3 days 10,000+ Aussies already standing up against these damaging CGT changes. Every signature counts → Sign & share 👇

[Geoff Wilson @GeoffWilsonWAM]

These lunatics have to be stopped. It is extraordinary for Treasury to suggest that capital gains tax settings do not materially influence investment decisions. Every entrepreneur, investor and small business owner in Australia knows the after-tax return drives capital allocation. If higher taxes did not matter, governments would simply raise them indefinitely without consequence. Of course they matter.

What Treasury is effectively admitting is that these changes are not primarily about productivity, economic growth or increasing housing supply. They are about redistribution. That is a profound shift in Australia’s economic philosophy.

The danger is that Australia is sending a message that aspiration, risk-taking and long-term investment will be punished more heavily in the future. That weakens confidence, discourages capital formation and ultimately makes the country poorer.

When Treasury says ‘the revenue has to come from somewhere’, the real question is why the government believes higher taxes on investment and enterprise are preferable to controlling spending and growing the economy.

The claim that CGT concessions do not influence investment behaviour is disconnected from commercial reality. Venture capital, start-up investment, small business formation and long-term equity investing are all highly sensitive to after-tax returns. Capital is mobile. If Australia becomes less competitive, investment will simply flow elsewhere.

[James Wright @JamesWright71]

I just requested an early access to #RunnerH

Can't wait to try out their AI Agent !

#CES2025 demo below by @hcompany_ai

https://t.co/Up8KO4UQDI

[H @hcompany_ai]

Heading to #CES2025 in Vegas? Put Runner H to secure for you the must-see events. Perfect lineup in minutes! #RunnerH

[James Wright @JamesWright71]

Fascinating discussion at the #aisummit with the Qld Ai Hub

[James Wright @JamesWright71]

@jodie_cook Jodie you might find @Copilot_HQ story interesting…relatively new agency but helping us understand what’s possible c/w roadmap, and building out and deploying horizon one solutions - sales coach and AMA internal and external agents all trained on our data and in our domain

[James Wright @JamesWright71]

@NeuraSapiens This is a really exciting space/development…agents collaborating, reviewing other agents work, making sense of the new data/insights from across an array of agents…the mind boggles @Copilot_HQ

[James Wright @JamesWright71]

@bindureddy Fantastic summary Bindu, I can see every business wanting/needing this @Copilot_HQ

[James Wright @JamesWright71]

@SullyOmarr Just needs a “wow” use case to get it…a business having a team member that knows as much as anyone in the team and can assist with coaching staff, 3x the marketing team, AMA instant chat with everyone internally and with customers, all that is wow @Copilot_HQ

[CopilotHQ @Copilot_HQ]

Discover CopilotHQ's AI Copilot & Unleash Business Potential! 💼

AI Copilots - the brains behind a network of AI agents, allocating tasks efficiently for optimal performance & resource use. Say goodbye to managing AI agents individually! 🎯 #AI #AICopilots #BusinessTech #LLM

[CopilotHQ @Copilot_HQ]

🚀 Follow us! 📢 Excited to announce our new website! 💻
https://t.co/z7zz82suUU

Subscribe to our newsletter for cutting-edge insights on rapidly deploying AI in your business today. #ArtificialIntelligence #Business

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Alarm bells should be ringing everywhere. We seem to have underestimated the chance of climate breakdown causing simultaneous harvest failure in the world's major breadbaskets. It's an issue I discuss in Regenesis, but it appears much worse than we thought https://t.co/hOwARCkhPg

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

With everyone all abuzz about AI, let's revisit a few concepts from my AI post 8 years ago.

Hard to say if we're witnessing the beginning of the long-predicted "intelligence explosion" or just a sporadic burst of new advances. Either way, an S-curve seems to be picking up steam

[James Wright @JamesWright71]

Lot of takes on ChatGPT but I can’t not see it as an absolute game changer … the conversational interface makes it the “everyday for everyone” productivity tool that will reshape teams and roles and businesses faster than maybe any other tech has in the past

[Tom Randall @tsrandall]

ChatGPT saved me an hour of spreadsheet work today. It wrote a complex sorting script beyond my ability, explained how it works, and helped me deploy it.

The party tricks have been fun, but this was a whoa moment for me similar to the first time I used Google Search.

[Laura Tingle @latingle]

This election was the most transformative you can imagine — and it goes beyond Albanese's w… https://t.co/SwvF9KM5aq

[James Wright @JamesWright71]

Good job Australia 🇦🇺

[James Wright @JamesWright71]

@AvidCommentator Family selling in Sydney…20% below end of February valuations…sentiment takes moments to change, not weeks/months

[James Wright @JamesWright71]

@jesflres 🙋🏻‍♂️

[James Wright @JamesWright71]

@peter_tulip True certainly for the last decade, but last 3 months, nothing we’ve seen since last century, and “official measures” to be fair are far from the lived reality…so the longer the wait the greater the pain #auspoI