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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺

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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺

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Joined August 2018

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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺
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Apr 4
In our latest full chat, @DFA_Analyst and I explore Australia's fuel & economic situation as the crisis in the Middle East continues. As well as exploring some of the broader economic & humanitarian impacts of so much of the energy supply going missing.
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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺
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Nov 7, 2024
Summing up Aussie politics today....
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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺
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Nov 7, 2024
That moment in the future when a 15 year old Australian apprentice finishes their 38 hour work week but then can't go home and watch a YouTube video.....
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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺
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Jul 20, 2024
The top post on Reddit Australia today. This is what happens when real wages for under 35s go no where for ~20 years and in that time housing prices go to the moon.
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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺
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Nov 7, 2024
How exactly is the govt going to enforce this? Are we going to need to have some sort of govt login which cross checks your license, Medicare card or passport against a govt database before you can go on Twitter?
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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺
@AvidCommentator
Jun 3, 2025
Centrelink: If you are a couple, we consider you a unit for financial purposes ATO: If you are a couple, we consider each of you individually for financial purposes I always thought that was a funny distinction.
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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺
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Feb 8, 2025
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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺
@AvidCommentator
Oct 31, 2025
$100 says this becomes a mess of unintended consequences.
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Oct 30, 2025
The new democratically elected body, named Gellung Warl, will enable Indigenous peoples to be consulted on laws and policies affecting their communities.⁠ Follow live. ebx.sh/s3bSKA
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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺
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Jul 27, 2025
Should a young Australia couple who are both working full time, who never have a hope of affording the median house in their city pay taxes to fund the pension of a couple with $480k in cash and a $3m house? Discuss
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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺
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Mar 21, 2025
'International students not to blame for rising rents, Australian study finds' "There is no link between international student numbers and the cost of rents" So additional demand has no impact on prices, right......🤦‍♂️
'Thrown under the bus': Study concludes international students not to blame for rising rents
From abc.net.au
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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺
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Mar 16, 2025
Does anyone actually genuinely believe either side of Aussie politics will reduce migration to the point where the housing deficit will be resolved? The more I look at the numbers and underlying state of the economy...It would take courage to face the actual reality of things.
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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺
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Sep 29, 2025
"Victoria Police say just 5,400 repeat offenders are responsible for 40% of the crime in the state." What an absolute joke.
Victorian crime reaches record highs, new figures reveal
From abc.net.au
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Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺
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Mar 29, 2020
Replying to @RealCandaceO
Japan - Used masks extensively from day 1 (it was an existing part of their culture) - People obeyed govt directives, far more so than in Europe/US - The Japanese stayed home as much as possible & schools closed They have a distinct cultural advantage vs Europe.
Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺
@AvidCommentator
Apr 2, 2025
Australia is developing an imbalance between the number of men and women in the 15 to 24 age demographic. There are now 6.5 more men than women per 100 people in that age demographic.
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