James Lake

Radio news expert with 15+ years in commercial broadcasting. Experience delivering seamless network news integration with Footy, Cricket and the Olympics.

[James Lake @jamesrobertlake]

@status_is_down Also for customers of Southern Phone

[James Lake @jamesrobertlake]

@status_is_down Yes, Nunawading, Victoria

[Matt Barrie @matt_barrie]

What they won't tell you at today's productivity summit:
Everything is cooked.
Businesses face astronomical land, labour & energy costs. Why?
Albo hitting the pedal on the mother of all immigration programs in order to flip electorates has thrown kerosene on the mother of all housing bubbles which is now a conflagration consuming all.
Labour costs through roof as everyone's drowning in rent & mortgages, and 10% real inflation, yet even with highest casual wages in the world people are choosing between heating and eating.
Energy through roof pretending windmills and solar can power a G20 economy. Hot tip: you can't. You need to move the power through time and space to where its needed. You also can't run industrial thermal loads or precision manufacturing on intermittent power with phase instability.
The mass immigration program is importing welfare recipients, not workers. 30% don't pay tax and I would think the vast majority are net negative in costs to the tax payer for services and infrastructure.
Australian education is now regarded as a joke.
Entire non-govt sector created 53,000 jobs in 2024, but they're bringing in about that many PER MONTH.
New mortgage issuance is money creation, so is out of control government waste like $50b+ of NDIS p.a.
That money issuance has real inflation running at 10%.
The country is utterly cooked, blind freddie can see the wheels are falling off the bus at a tremendous rate. They think they can fix it with 2 days WFH and a 4 day work week which will collapse CRE.
The housing market will pop and it will not be a soft landing, it will bring down the banks and the AUD.
I'm sure today a few brain farts think there's no problem another tax can't fix.
What multinational would touch this place?
What viable business can you create here?
Suggest one.
There's 122 pay guides to decide what to pay someone, the funeral industry has different rules to the cemetery industry.
7.1m people work >35h, 1.5m SME owners leaves 8.6m people supporting 28m others including 2.5m public servants.
Half the country is dependent on the taxpayer now.
Manufacturing can't run, smelters can't run, can't make plastic, glass, a tin can ffs.
Everyone's white knuckling it to make mortgage payments and eat, dodging yet another gaza protest and hoping they don't cop a machete to the head.
Want to improve productivity? You can't until you deal with input costs.
I feel sorry for the poor fools that turned up to the round table because they'll just be used as a veneer of legitimacy to push through some more awful policy.

[McCrindle @McCrindle_]

A recent survey found that almost half of Australians (47%) indicate that social media is having a negative impact on their mental health.

It raises concerns about how to manage the overall usefulness of social media against the harms it can bring.

https://t.co/qMWmhJ5cgr

[Tobi Emonts-Holley @tobi_emonts]

Cheat codes I know in my 30’s I wish I knew in my 20’s:

[James Lake @jamesrobertlake]

@shanemcinnes Mate I remember watching this moment on TV as a 6yo, and perhaps was pivotal in sparking my own passion for the Games

[Shane McInnes @shanemcinnes]

The best “in memoriam” piece I’ve seen in years. Beautifully put together.

[James Lake @jamesrobertlake]

Merry Christmas @myer !! Please tell me you're actually selling the cute lavender soap bears in store for real?

[James Lake @jamesrobertlake]

@tashlee what an amazing post to open Twitter to this morning!

[James Lake @jamesrobertlake]

Aussie workers are missing out on $11k in unpaid overtime each year! Do we demand the pay, or stop doing the extra work?

https://t.co/6WRCqVFpNm

[James Lake @jamesrobertlake]

@andrew_lund @VenturaBus I wanted to get a bus from a train station on Friday night at about 7pm - missed it by 1 minute between train pulling in and bus pulling out - next service was 60 minutes away!

[Adarsh Chetan @AdarshChetan]

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[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

On June 28, 2009, the world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking threw a party at the University of Cambridge, complete with balloons, hors d'oeuvres and iced champagne. Everyone was invited but no one showed up. Hawking had expected as much, because he only sent out invitations after his party had concluded. It was, he said, “a welcome reception for future time travelers,” a tongue-in-cheek experiment to reinforce his 1992 conjecture that travel into the past is effectively impossible.

[James Lake @jamesrobertlake]

Major expansion roadworks will slow down traffic on the Eastern Freeway for the next 5 years
https://t.co/jwHhFeYA4m

[James Lake @jamesrobertlake]

Mixing it up again: The AFL wants to start the 2024 men's season in Sydney
https://t.co/YsD67PPBx4

[telemelbs @telemelbs]

A birds favourite place, the 9 News Melbourne skyline camera!

[James Lake @jamesrobertlake]

Are Australians getting too fat to fly? https://t.co/HwnYW2MgSD

[James Lake @jamesrobertlake]

"I absolutely respect the decision of the Australian people" says a defeated Anthony Albanese after 60% of voters say No to the Indigenous Voice https://t.co/PVbWIoUijb