Founder @qctrlhq making #quantum tech useful for you. Professor. Speaker. @fondationgphg Academy member. Unabashed supporter of constitutional democracy.
They're the smart ones. They get what amounts to private tutoring from a globally leading scientist.
Sometimes winning really is mostly just showing up.
This is crazy town.
#PatientZero in Perth was recently allowed to travel from Aus to India for a wedding and back.
But there are tens of thousands of stranded Australians awaiting access to return.
I just do not understand this prioritization. #COVID19
I was subject to a no-grounds eviction from my #NSW#rental property about 8 weeks ago.
After 7.5 years in my property - never missing a payment or asking for a reduction during COVID - I was given 30d to get out.
My sin?
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Dear @ScottMorrisonMP @billshortenmp: despite political differences I am certain you can agree there is no room for explicit support of Nazi ideology in Australian parliament.
Will you move to censure Sen Anning for his participation in a far right rally at taxpayer expense?
#Housing#greed destroys lives.
We need full reform of renters protections in #NSW@ChrisMinnsMP
Being forced to move on a no-grounds eviction cost me a huge chunk of savings.
If even professionals like me are getting smashed, those less fortunate have no hope
/fin
We need a wholesale change in the economy away from property investment as a specially advantaged asset.
I was, frankly, wealthy enough and stable enough in my jobs to take time and eat the cost.
A single mother? Impossible. A shift worker? Impossible.
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Peak #Sydney#privateschool entitlement. The hashtag #ProudShoreMums, coupled w/ args based on "not all #Shore boys" & "other schools are doing the same" used to deflect criticism of indefensible behavior. The kids learn it from their parents.
@JaneCaro
But even if you don't care about the social impacts, let's take the pure economic rationalism approach.
If we want a diversified economy with high-wage jobs in #NSW, people have to be able to comfortably afford to live here and have security in their lives.
/fin +1
This landlord owned a fleet of rental properties. I get that as an asset class, property investors want to maximize returns.
Therein lies the problem. Because housing is a necessity for the functioning of a civilization AND it's also the most tax-advantaged asset in AU.
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Minister - doctors triage patients based on how sick they are. If any Australians are delayed in receiving treatment it's only because you delayed #AsylumSeekers treatment so long that they have become the most seriously ill patients in hospital.
Home Affairs Minister @PeterDutton_MP on asylum seekers: “We’re seeing people at hospitals missing out on medical services because people are taking it from Nauru and Manus. Australians will be angry about that as well.” #auspol#7News
My ~70yo mother arrived at the polls at 5:55 am in suburban New York today.
She waited in a line circling the block for an hour and a half to #VoteBiden.
Suburban New York.
The #turnout is insane.
Even without context, it blows my mind that government #FreedomofInformation requests are adjudicated by senior advisers to the politicians in question rather than an independent third party in government. #auspolsmh.com.au/politics/feder…