I am an old fart who after a lifetime of toiling in the electrical game is now happily retired back in the regional Victorian town I left ten years ago for OS.
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
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Gordon Nutt retweeted
Check under your bed tonight you might find communists .
NEW: MAGA voters say they're going to the polls to fight “communism”—but when asked what communism actually means, things get awkward FAST.
In The Daily Show's upcoming special “Red Flags,” Jordan Klepper puts Republican voters on the spot with one simple question. Their answers are something else.
These two minutes are worth watching. See for yourself!
Gordon Nutt retweeted
What part of the inflation rate is the RBA really targeting?
Inflation rose by 4.34% in the year to September. In looking at what could or should be done to deal with this inflation problem, it is important to see what drove that result.
Let’s look at just 3 components of the CPI basket: Petrol, tobacco and electricity.
Of the 4.34% annual inflation rate:
Petrol contributed 0.7702 ppts.
Tobacco contributed 0.1666 ppts.
Electricity contributed 0.3034 ppts.
Together these accounted for 1.24ppts of the 4.34% rate. The smart ones can see that without this trifecta of illusion, annual inflation would be 3.10%.
Rates hikes and petrol?
Tobacco is the Eddie the Eagle of the CPI basket. The ABS use the price of legal ciggies.
Electricity price increases are still artificially high as the ending of various rebates on 31 December 2025 artificially boosting its contribution to today’s inflation rate. From January next year, this effect will wash out.
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Originally drafted on the back of a beer coaster.
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Gordon Nutt retweeted
I’ll take a shot at answering one of these good questions. These poor young people are not dying for "no reason". They’re dying because Vladimir Putin's Russia invaded Ukraine and Ukrainians don’t want to be murdered. I hope this helps.
Gordon Nutt retweeted
Those nasty facts!
For the 4 Chalmers budgets, the cumulate balance is a surplus of $6 billion. The 2 surpluses were bigger than the 2 deficits.
Just saying.
The Orange Floater and Hog's Breath wanted global domination.
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