Tom Palmer

Opportunity for all. Murdoch Law & LSE Public Policy.

[Tom Palmer @tomppalmer]

@antoine_briens @PrometheanLogix @RichardHanania If the state can be "indeed innocent until proven guilty" the concept is totally meaningless!

[Tom Palmer @tomppalmer]

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[David Hollyoake @Holly_Da]

ABC’s 'Always Was Tonight', hosted by Tony Armstrong is pitched as satire, but it's not. It's a divisive and it is disgusting. It attacks every Australian the Left doesn't like

It is culture-war propaganda. It is racialised humour. It's moral grandstanding funded by taxpayers.

Preaching unity while practising division is peak hypocrisy, but we wouldn't expect anything less from the Leftist propaganda outlet called the ABC.

If a show like this mocked black, gay, trans or any other group, the Leftists would be up in arms.

[Tom Palmer @tomppalmer]

@Noahpinion Strawman rubbish @Noahpinion . I've followed you for years and ths is literally the stupidest thing you've ever said. Trump-level gaslighting. Get a grip.

[Rowan Dean @rowandean]

Time for a new National Conservative Party in Australia made up of the Nats, conservative Libs, One Nation, Libertarians etc. Repost if you agree

[Mark Di Stefano @MarkDiStef]

"Max Chandler-Mather conceded defeat in his inner-Brisbane electorate amid widespread and mostly unexpected gains for the Albanese government in what had been its weakest state.

The Greens MP suffered an almost 17 percentage point two-party preferred swing..."

[Tom Palmer @tomppalmer]

@GiovanniTorre So all good for the party then? Greens supporters hate the party exclusively attacking Labor and it shows.

[Tom Palmer @tomppalmer]

@CaroDiRusso You've put more garbage into that single sentence than the entire gathering created though

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

We have to talk about age: Donald Trump is too old to serve as President. He rambles. He keeps forgetting names. His vocabulary is in decline. He has trouble finishing sentences. Many experts think he's demented. Clearly unfit to serve as commander-in-chief.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

It's interesting that having lost the election Rishi Sunak promptly called to congratulate his opponent and orchestrate a smooth transition of power without the traditional months of whining, litigation, and occasional riot.

[Tom Palmer @tomppalmer]

@DavidSligar Worth remembering that initially, no one "enforced" anything

[Tom Palmer @tomppalmer]

@KosSamaras For all those reasons, it probably would have been better if she didn't do it in the first place

[Patrick Gorman MP @PatrickGormanMP]

Peter Dutton has never EVER been to Collie in WA.

Not once during 20 years in parliament.

Now Dutton chooses Collie for his nuclear reactor and his radioactive waste.

I know WA’s future is as a renewable energy superpower.

📸 Charging my EV in the heart of Collie.

[Mark Reed @markreedwa]

I’ve said the word “Hinkley” a ridiculous amount over the last few months when people raise nuclear energy. The Liberals are ideological zealots on the issue, refusing to acknowledge the blowouts when building nuclear. Half life of this announcement should haunt them for a decade

[🌏 Zali Steggall MP @zalisteggall]

🚨Could we have reality check on the absolute comedy show live with @PeterDutton_MP @AngusTaylorMP @tedobrienmp
Why is this being platformed like it is in anyway a sensible or realistic policy? Not a single proper answer, just deflecting and straight out lies.
#auspol

[Nathan Goldwag 🇺🇦 @GoldwagNathan]

One of my favorite things about the Trump era is that any invocation of civic virtue is implicitly understood by his supporters as a direct attack on him and them.

[Rose Jackson @RoseBJackson]

Gay + lesbian families exist everywhere in NSW.

Book bans should exist nowhere.

Stop being weirdly obsessed with how other ppl live their private lives and thinking you look tough punching down on minorities. It’s pathetic.

Don’t like the books? Don’t read them.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Karl Polanyi, one of the twentieth century’s most insightful and influential socialist thinkers, passed away exactly 60 years ago. His masterpiece, The Great Transformation, remains the most powerful critique yet produced of market liberalism — the belief that societies can and should be organised through self-regulating markets. This is one of my favourite quotes from the book, which perfectly sums up the nature of contemporary neoliberalism, characterised by all-powerful states that have to employ increasingly authoritarian measures to impose the logic of capital:

“There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as cotton manufactures — the leading free trade industry — were created by the help of protective tariffs, export bounties, and indirect wage subsidies, laissez-faire itself was enforced by the state. The thirties and forties saw not only an outburst of legislation repealing restrictive regulations, but also an enormous increase in the administrative functions of the state, which was now being endowed with a central bureaucracy able to fulfil the tasks set by the adherents of liberalism.

The road to the free market was opened and kept open by an enormous increase in continuous, centrally organized and controlled interventionism. To make Adam Smith’s ‘simple and natural liberty’ compatible with the needs of a human society was a most complicated affair.

Just as, contrary to expectation, the invention of labor- saving machinery had not diminished but actually increased the uses of human labor, the introduction of free markets, far from doing away with the need for control, regulation, and intervention, enormously increased their range. Administrators had to be constantly on the watch to ensure the free working of the system. Thus even those who wished most ardently to free the state from all unnecessary duties, and whose whole philosophy demanded the restriction of state activities, could not but entrust the self-same state with the new powers, organs, and instruments required for the establishment of laissez-faire”.

[OwenWhittle @OwenWhittle]

Between calling young workers pet names and declining a young worker a weekend off - it’s hard to pick the biggest red flag in here. But posting negative feedback of individual workers in a social media group really takes the cake.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

I don’t think you should underrate the sincerity with which some billionaires just believe it would be better to end electoral democracy as the best way to keep corporate and capital gains taxes low.