KrisB

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@Exodus15_11 @DrEliDavid The Tesla demo was great. If you can’t even acknowledge that, maybe you’ll realise you look at the world through the goggles of your politics.

But doesn’t sound like you ever take the goggles off and take a rational balanced view of what’s happening.

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@elonmusk I don’t know why @elonmusk is sticking with women when so many men want to f*** him right now.

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@deandunham Yes

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@JellyFace5 @MCHARJ2 That’s important right?

[Australia, Explained @AusExplained]

Dear ABC,

If you're looking for opinions on the Census Data, here's mine.

I'm a former data analyst (crime), but I also designed a data matching algorithm still used today by Victoria Police because of its effectiveness, so I have some professional skin in the game.

I am unable to defend the 2026 prioritisation of Census questions.

How does "We urgently need nationally exhaustive information about whether someone identifies as straight, gay, bisexual or another sexual orientation"...

While we didn't obtain nationally exhaustive information about whether households can access a GP,

whether they have unmet childcare needs,

whether working people commute three days rather than five,

whether households are involuntarily overcrowded because they cannot find housing.

Or these types of questions, which would surely be hard to argue against from a prioritisation perspective of best value for data capture, and best opportunity for Australians to provide a holistic picture of their lives;

Citizenship / visa or residency status (because Country of birth doesn't tell government whether someone is a citizen, permanent resident, international student, temporary worker, etc. Those populations can impose quite different infrastructure/service demands).

Year a non-Australian-born person obtained permanent residency/citizenship (because there is much better longitudinal information about settlement and integration than birthplace alone)

Primary mode of transport normally used (Census asks about journey-to-work circumstances, but hybrid/WFH has made a single Census-day travel snapshot much less informative than it once was).

Housing capacity/occupancy pressure (Bedrooms alone is crude. Ask whether people are sharing bedrooms, using converted garages/studies, or accommodating people who would otherwise live elsewhere. That's enormously relevant during a housing shortage).

Reason adults remain in/shared household (Understanding drivers of Financial necessity, caring, cultural preference, disability, housing unavailability etc...would distinguish genuine housing stress from chosen multigenerational living & inform other pressure points th Government can focus on).

Internet quality/access (As infrastructure in its own right, particularly with WFH, telehealth and online government services).

Household energy characteristics (Solar, battery, EV charging, gas/electric heating etc... would be extraordinarily useful for electricity-grid infrastructure planning)

Many of these variables have extremely obvious relationships with hospitals, roads, rail, schools, housing, childcare, workforce participation and infrastructure investment.

The ABS also removed “number of children ever born” from the 2026 Census (it will return in 2031).... while introducing gender and sexual orientation.

From a strategic-planning perspective, fertility and family formation are among the most consequential long-term variables imaginable. They affect future school enrolments, workforce size, dependency ratios, healthcare demand and population ageing.

This missed opportunity to capture all those above mentioned data sets to inform in policy/planning areas isn't just a shame, it's borderline failure of professional judgement.

We removed access to data that could inform those things, and replaced it with gender questions.

Who managed to convince a ABS strategic review board
“We don't have enough justification to collect fertility information every Census, but sexual orientation warrants universal national collection every five years”??

I'd love to see the cost-benefit/consequences methodology behind that decision !

The reality is the Census can only ask so many questions, and we should prioritise the ones that provide the greatest benefit for planning Australia's future, not pander to the "feelings" of a tiny majority of people that got warm and fuzzy because a national census survey "affirmed" their gender.

Thank you, if you read this.

[KrisB @KrisB2]

@ZiaYusufUK She’s pretty painful to watch

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@RebelNews_AU Abc is clearly a left wing media outlet and should not be funded by the taxpayer.

Would be happy to see it disappear on a self funded model

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@ArrowInvestor Why does the media call it tax reform?

It’s simply a tax INCREASE.

Not complicated.

[KrisB @KrisB2]

@CaroHarp @TheFP I had an ex who went Doctor shopping fishing for an autism diagnosis.

When i asked the psych if they had ever NOT diagnosed a patient with autism (they specialised in teenage girl autism diagnosis) … of course … they refused to answer

Clear now the diagnosis was false

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@KobieThatcher Buying interest group support

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@luxemiaa 122k posts in 12 months - obviously a bot

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@Neccccy Hehe if you did where would you aim (joking ofc)

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@BernieSanders Utter rubbish. Like they are going to stay and donate 4.4 trillion. That’s not how they got rich

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@Marlayna29 Too black and white a framing. A successful career woman is very attractive… likely smart, a learner, often positive and being successful more likely grateful and active.

Arrogance no. However being a career woman doesn’t make them arrogant.

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@SenMcConnell Yet you reckon Americans shouldnt need ID to vote. You are an imbecile

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@EUAITaxonomy @critical_dawson First class wanker posting on X

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@eurofounder Is this post sarcasm? Surely must be

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@MrPitbull07 Depends on the service. I live in Australia

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@strangerous10 I used to like him. Now he consistently plays the role of a first class wanker.

Shame. Shame.

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@CBSNews Ignoring their criminal entry to the USA?