Alex White
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Working hard for Australia
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Personal views.
There is a specific genre of journalism that the corporate press reserves for threats to the ruling class...
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What if “millionaire flight” reporting was a lie to keep you poor? | Alex White
There is a specific genre of journalism that the corporate press reserves for threats to the ruling class. You can see it in the recent Reuters feature, “Norway's lesson for Europe on wealth taxes: le...
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November 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
There is a specific genre of journalism that the corporate press reserves for threats to the ruling class...
alexwhite.org/2025/11/what...
alexwhite.org/2025/11/what...
There's 100,000 houses in Melbourne sitting vacant during a housing crisis.
A significant cause of this is the financialisation of our housing, where professional investors basically gamble (speculate) on massive profits from future capital gains.
A significant cause of this is the financialisation of our housing, where professional investors basically gamble (speculate) on massive profits from future capital gains.
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
There's 100,000 houses in Melbourne sitting vacant during a housing crisis.
A significant cause of this is the financialisation of our housing, where professional investors basically gamble (speculate) on massive profits from future capital gains.
A significant cause of this is the financialisation of our housing, where professional investors basically gamble (speculate) on massive profits from future capital gains.
"the number of empty dwellings across Melbourne rose from 27,408 to nearly 32,000, increasing ...from 1.5 per cent in 2023 to 1.7 per cent in 2024"
Time to increase the vacancy charge - it's pure financial profiteering from landlords that needs to stop!
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
Time to increase the vacancy charge - it's pure financial profiteering from landlords that needs to stop!
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
Number of empty homes surging in three key areas of Melbourne
The increase in empty properties last year was enough to effectively wipe out one in every nine newly built homes, one expert says.
www.theage.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"the number of empty dwellings across Melbourne rose from 27,408 to nearly 32,000, increasing ...from 1.5 per cent in 2023 to 1.7 per cent in 2024"
Time to increase the vacancy charge - it's pure financial profiteering from landlords that needs to stop!
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
Time to increase the vacancy charge - it's pure financial profiteering from landlords that needs to stop!
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
Awful coverage from Reuters about the wealth tax in Norway that frames the wealth tax not as a democratic tool for redistribution, but as an economic danger that inconveniences the ultra-wealthy! Not to mention that billionaire-flight is a debunked myth!
www.reuters.com/business/nor...
www.reuters.com/business/nor...
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Awful coverage from Reuters about the wealth tax in Norway that frames the wealth tax not as a democratic tool for redistribution, but as an economic danger that inconveniences the ultra-wealthy! Not to mention that billionaire-flight is a debunked myth!
www.reuters.com/business/nor...
www.reuters.com/business/nor...
Kehoe is correct that there is a monopoly problem in Australia but he is telling on himself when he focuses on two areas (law and medicine) where there a fair bit of competition rather than supermarkets, newspapers and publishing or banking where there are real monopolies and cartels.
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Kehoe is correct that there is a monopoly problem in Australia but he is telling on himself when he focuses on two areas (law and medicine) where there a fair bit of competition rather than supermarkets, newspapers and publishing or banking where there are real monopolies and cartels.
Call me old fashioned but perhaps apprentices should have their wages increased so there's no need for these government funded allowances.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Call for more support for regional apprentices facing city cost barriers
Regional apprentices are out of pocket for frequent travel and accommodation costs to attend city-based TAFE studies.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Call me old fashioned but perhaps apprentices should have their wages increased so there's no need for these government funded allowances.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Online Violence Against Women & Girls can impact their physical & mental health, stop them from participating in society, and lead to real-life violence.
Read our explainer to learn how social media platforms are enabling online VAWG and what they can do to stop it👇
Read our explainer to learn how social media platforms are enabling online VAWG and what they can do to stop it👇
Violence against women and girls online: explained
Social media platforms are enabling violence against women and girls (VAWG) online. Here’s how.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Online Violence Against Women & Girls can impact their physical & mental health, stop them from participating in society, and lead to real-life violence.
Read our explainer to learn how social media platforms are enabling online VAWG and what they can do to stop it👇
Read our explainer to learn how social media platforms are enabling online VAWG and what they can do to stop it👇
"The liberal administrative class insists on engagement when the great unwashed of the community are about to make a demand. This is because they know “engagement” will fail to get radical results, as it has for decades."
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🗣️ Why community assemblies will change British politics forever
Systemic change requires people power
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November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"The liberal administrative class insists on engagement when the great unwashed of the community are about to make a demand. This is because they know “engagement” will fail to get radical results, as it has for decades."
rogerhallam.com/community-as...
rogerhallam.com/community-as...
"If and when the AI bubble pops, everything that inflated it will have been obvious the entire time"
www.theverge.com/business/828...
www.theverge.com/business/828...
Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memo
The Streisand Effect strikes again
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"If and when the AI bubble pops, everything that inflated it will have been obvious the entire time"
www.theverge.com/business/828...
www.theverge.com/business/828...
Why does the struggling worker resent the "dole bludger" more than the CEO? Because the CEO is abstract and invisible. The neighbor receiving welfare feels like a visible insult to the worker's daily sacrifice. It is a desperate defense of a "moral economy" that no longer rewards hard work.
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Why does the struggling worker resent the "dole bludger" more than the CEO? Because the CEO is abstract and invisible. The neighbor receiving welfare feels like a visible insult to the worker's daily sacrifice. It is a desperate defense of a "moral economy" that no longer rewards hard work.
This is a good example of how financialised housing is a massive money funnel sending income from everyday people to financial markets.
The banks who hold those mortgages don't use them for deposits or loans. They use or sell your mortgage debt overseas.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The banks who hold those mortgages don't use them for deposits or loans. They use or sell your mortgage debt overseas.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian households spend twice as much of income on mortgages than five years ago, report shows
Servicing a new mortgage eats up 45% of a median household’s pre-tax income, up from 26% in September 2020, the analysis reveals
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This is a good example of how financialised housing is a massive money funnel sending income from everyday people to financial markets.
The banks who hold those mortgages don't use them for deposits or loans. They use or sell your mortgage debt overseas.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The banks who hold those mortgages don't use them for deposits or loans. They use or sell your mortgage debt overseas.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Very good that Commbank is being called out. Now we need some action.
The Big Banks have obviously continued their immoral and unethical business practices since the Banking Royal Commission.
www.afr.com/companies/fi...
The Big Banks have obviously continued their immoral and unethical business practices since the Banking Royal Commission.
www.afr.com/companies/fi...
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Very good that Commbank is being called out. Now we need some action.
The Big Banks have obviously continued their immoral and unethical business practices since the Banking Royal Commission.
www.afr.com/companies/fi...
The Big Banks have obviously continued their immoral and unethical business practices since the Banking Royal Commission.
www.afr.com/companies/fi...
Sadly Reuters producing junk articles that uncritically repeat unverifiable nonsense from people and companies with a vested financial interest in helping people dodge wealth tax and "sources on LinkedIn" 🫠
November 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Sadly Reuters producing junk articles that uncritically repeat unverifiable nonsense from people and companies with a vested financial interest in helping people dodge wealth tax and "sources on LinkedIn" 🫠
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
It is absolutely essential to oppose the rollout of AI into management decisions. Machines should not control people.
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www.afr.com/work-and-car...
November 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
It is absolutely essential to oppose the rollout of AI into management decisions. Machines should not control people.
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
We're spending a trillion dollars on a machine that spits out wrong answers half the time with no way of knowing when or what, and it only costs all our drinkable water and energy reliability. Oh, and the workers making it are scared to use it.
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"If the data is accurate...it would call into question the business model of OpenAI and nearly every other general-purpose LLM vendor" www.ft.com/content/fce7...
How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought
Inference inferred, revenue reconstructed, cash burn quantified
www.ft.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
We're spending a trillion dollars on a machine that spits out wrong answers half the time with no way of knowing when or what, and it only costs all our drinkable water and energy reliability. Oh, and the workers making it are scared to use it.
bsky.app/profile/hype...
bsky.app/profile/hype...
This entire uninspiring article is a perfect illustration of the poverty of political life under neoliberalism in Australia and the triumph of the "side show" over substance. The entire political drama revolves around a relatively modest, one-off tax cut!
www.smh.com.au/national/we-...
www.smh.com.au/national/we-...
‘We were like lemmings going over a cliff’: Inside Dutton’s $17 billion blunder
Anthony Albanese had kept Project Georgia a tightly held secret in the hope of forcing the opposition to make a mistake. As Niki Savva writes in an exclusive extract, the tactic succeeded beyond Labor...
www.smh.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This entire uninspiring article is a perfect illustration of the poverty of political life under neoliberalism in Australia and the triumph of the "side show" over substance. The entire political drama revolves around a relatively modest, one-off tax cut!
www.smh.com.au/national/we-...
www.smh.com.au/national/we-...
A major struggle for our times is for social ownership not merely adequate public services.
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The consensus trap | Alex White
There is a widening chasm between our democratic promises and our economic reality. We are witnessing the morbid symptoms of a plutonomy, an economy where growth is powered by and consumed almost excl...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
A major struggle for our times is for social ownership not merely adequate public services.
alexwhite.org/2025/01/the-...
alexwhite.org/2025/01/the-...
The IMF, the global agent of neoliberal capital, is trying to shake down Australia with its usual two-step: "Fix tax and cut spending." Translation: Cut services for the many to fund tax cuts for the few. It's an institutionalised money funnel to the plutocracy.
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The IMF, the global agent of neoliberal capital, is trying to shake down Australia with its usual two-step: "Fix tax and cut spending." Translation: Cut services for the many to fund tax cuts for the few. It's an institutionalised money funnel to the plutocracy.
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
www.afr.com/policy/econo...
Take a moment to read about the youth movements fighting for a better future around the world
"The roots of Gen Z’s rebellion run deeper than corruption or isolation. They’re tangled in decades of neoliberal and imperialist maneuvering."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/genz-v...
"The roots of Gen Z’s rebellion run deeper than corruption or isolation. They’re tangled in decades of neoliberal and imperialist maneuvering."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/genz-v...
GenZ vs the far-right: roots and responses
It’s no surprise that youth around the world are at the forefront of protests challenging broken and corrupt systems of governance. Black Panther co-founder Huey Newton said, revolution is in the hand...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Take a moment to read about the youth movements fighting for a better future around the world
"The roots of Gen Z’s rebellion run deeper than corruption or isolation. They’re tangled in decades of neoliberal and imperialist maneuvering."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/genz-v...
"The roots of Gen Z’s rebellion run deeper than corruption or isolation. They’re tangled in decades of neoliberal and imperialist maneuvering."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/genz-v...
The Liberal proposal to "significantly reduce immigration places" by cutting international students and skilled migrants is desperate neoliberal misdirection.
The real crisis is plutonomy. Property developers, banks and corporate landlords.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The real crisis is plutonomy. Property developers, banks and corporate landlords.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Liberals to target international students and skilled migrants in proposed cuts to immigration
The Coalition is preparing to thrash out the design of a policy to significantly reduce immigration places
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The Liberal proposal to "significantly reduce immigration places" by cutting international students and skilled migrants is desperate neoliberal misdirection.
The real crisis is plutonomy. Property developers, banks and corporate landlords.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The real crisis is plutonomy. Property developers, banks and corporate landlords.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...