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Alan Austin

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Australian journalist based in France

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · 3d

If the Coalition hadn't stacked on more than $600 billion in debt during its criminally incompetent regime, this year's budget would have been in surplus – for the 3rd straight year – and likely remained so henceforward.
The message is clear. Never let the Coalition anywhere near government again.

If Australians want nice things, try shunning the destructive newsrooms

The latest economic update strongly endorses Labor and repudiates the media-backed Coalition.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · 10d

Confirmation Trump provokes violent attacks comes from the trial courts where defence attorneys have argued that defendants were following Trump’s orders. More than 235 criminal trials have heard this defence.
No trial court has found any other American political leader has inspired violent crime.

Australians much safer than Americans in an increasingly dangerous world

After decades of steady decline, violent crime worldwide is escalating.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · 17d

Almost all US economic news is negative, despite Trump sacking the top statistician last month after data showed jobs lost in July.
This has cast doubt on all economic data, has reduced marginal investment in the US economy and kept interest charges higher.
This will likely make Americans poorer.

Global economic times are tough — especially for the corrupt and inept

The latest data shows the U.S. economy is continuing to slide alarmingly.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · 24d

Of the last 24 US political killers, none was a leftist.
One was a Black nationalist, 4 were registered Republicans, 15 were MAGA, 4 were far right extremists.
All were inspired by Donald Trump's 40+ overt calls for violence.
The critical step in ending this wanton bloodshed is his impeachment.

The vector of political killings in the USA is still Donald Trump

Ideologically-motivated violence in the USA is overwhelmingly inspired by President Trump.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · Sep 7

In a scathing opinion piece the CEO of ACOSS claimed that ‘one in eight of us still lives in poverty, including one in six children’, and that 'wealth inequality is worsening'. When we track the data underlying this condemnation of Labor in 2025, we find it was collected under the Coalition in 2019.

Data shows Albo reducing poverty while welfare sector insists he isn’t

Claims from Australia’s welfare peak body appear at odds with reality.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · Aug 31

The Herald Sun ran a story showing the cost of living crisis is over – based on data from March, 2024.
This was not reported then because they were pushing the false crisis narrative before the 2025 election. Luckily this failed.
Now let’s see how long until the other loser media report the truth.

Doomsayers proved wrong again as businesses expand and prosper

Official data on Australia’s economy continue to undermine the Albanese Government’s critics.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · Aug 25

Australian companies pay just 12% for social security/superannuation, compared with 20% - 45% in most of Western Europe. Australia also has dividend imputation and many other tax avoidance lurks.
There is no valid case for reducing the company tax rate from 30%.
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Labor set to make the big reforms in its third term

Last week’s economic roundtable allows Treasurer Jim Chalmers to continue his incremental agenda now and radically transform the nation later.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · Aug 20

Earlier this afternoon New York time, US federal government debt clicked over $37 trillion 208 billion. That is one trillion dollars higher than on inauguration day last January.

Trump has just added one trillion dollars to the debt. In seven months, with nothing to show for it.

Earlier this afternoon New York time, US federal government debt clicked over $37 trillion 208 billion for the first time. That is one trillion dollars higher than on inauguration day last January. Th...

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · Aug 18

The irrational decisions of the corrupt and mentally deranged president are impacting erratically.
So far, Australia is winning. Trading partners now buying more from Australia include the USA, Indonesia, Mexico, Turkiye, the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Peru, Vietnam, Portugal and Belgium.

Tough economic times sort out the successful global traders

As the world deals with the turmoil of Trump’s erratic tariffs, the latest data shows Australia is among the winners on exports.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · Aug 10

The brief period of artificial activity in early 2025 is over. Exports and imports tumbled in June, despite most tariffs not yet in place. The US economy lost 402,000 jobs.
Other worries include investment, interest rates, consumer spending, tourism, business losses and Trump's deficits and debt.

After the Biden boom comes the Trump tragedy

The latest statistics confirm the U.S. economy is entering the rapid deterioration phase.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · Aug 3

“Inevitably, a dodgy numerator divided by a dubious denominator will yield an unreliable dividend. This is why the official ABS productivity number no longer works.

“A revised formula is essential. This will fix both econometric errors and media falsehoods.”

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Australia’s excellent productivity masked by flawed statistics

Alan Austin has contributed to the Albanese Government’s Economic Reform Roundtable. This is the text, slightly edited and with extra graphs.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · Jul 27

“Of all economies transformed by progressive policies, Australia is Exhibit A.

“Every variable tumbled through the nine years of the conservative Coalition from 2013 to 2022.

"Since then, the advances under Labor have been impressive."

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Progressive political parties improve prosperity

Economic outcomes show reformist governments are managing current global conditions far better than conservatives.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · Jul 13

“Some very stupid ‘journalists’ are accusing the PM of failing to meet the orange rapist in the White House.
“In fact, Albo is one of the smart leaders getting desired outcomes without a direct encounter.
“Australia is definitely winning with record exports.”

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Dealing with the madman in the White House unites the world

The unhinged decisions by the increasingly irrational U.S. President are having surprising global consequences.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · Jul 6

Denmark’s economy has surged from outside the top thirty a decade ago to world’s best today under the high tax policies of the Social Democrats.

How this has been achieved is quite remarkable.

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Denmark’s economy leads the world as Australia advances and USA declines

The Independent Australia ranking on economic management (IAREM) for 2025 affirms progressive policies worldwide.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · Jun 29

“The problem is not that Australians are now any less productive. Rather, the old formula no longer measures work output accurately.
“Substantial productive work has shifted into private homes since 2016, and particularly after Covid, where it is not so readily measured.”
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Chalmers urged to solve a productivity problem that may not exist

Pundits berating the Labor Government over productivity are getting it all wrong.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · Jun 22

If Trump abandons AUKUS, which looks likely, Albo can grasp this as the chance to take a quantum leap forward.
Technologically advanced unmanned underwater vessels will lower costs and reduce risks to personnel. This may allow cuts to military spending overall.

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AUKUS collapse offers Australia the chance to navigate an innovative future

Donald Trump’s likely abandonment of the AUKUS contract offers the Albanese Government a welcome reprieve from a costly folly.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · Jun 15

Like many wannabe dictators, Donald Trump takes delight in ordering deaths. In his first term he executed more than 4 times the number of death row prisoners killed by former presidents in the previous 60 years.
He has already resumed killing death row inmates this term.
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Brutality and deaths surge again as Trump provokes racist hatred

Increasing fatalities confirm that the period of healing in the United States under President Joe Biden is over.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · Jun 8

Australia has recorded 14 consecutive quarters of quarterly growth and 17 straight quarters of annual growth — the only OECD economy with that status.

The weak March quarter outcomes in comparable nations underscore the challenges, with trade destabilised by Donald Trump’s destructive stupidity.

Labor shifts more income from the wealthiest to the poorest

The March quarter national accounts confirm the Albanese Government is achieving its economic goals.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · Jun 1

Jim Chalmers’ deft economic management continues to break records.
The jobless rate in April marked 41 months below 4.25%, the longest streak since records began.
Australia is the world’s only economy with jobless below 4.2%, inflation below 2.4%, and continual GDP growth for the last 3 years.

Jobs, inflation and luxury spending all keep setting records

While MPs take a welcome break after the fire and fury of the May election campaign, the economy is ticking over nicely.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · May 26

Observers of US affairs are seeing the consequences of so-called Christians supporting Trump. His cruel administration is abandoning free speech, bipartisanship, compassion and the rule of law. It is cutting vital services, destabilising global trade and engaging in open corruption and criminality.

Australians resoundingly reject ratbaggery of the religious Right

The May Election confirmed no appetite for U.S.-style religious meddling in Australia’s politics.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · May 18

In Tolkien’s chapter, 'The Taming of Smeagol', Frodo captured the wretched Gollum and then cajoled him into helping destroy the ring of power. Thus did Smeagol aid his own destruction.

Parallels with Treasurer Jim Chalmers taming the malevolent forces of the slimy Murdoch newsrooms are several.

Australia's news media landscape may have changed forever

The influence of the malicious mainstream newsrooms should be reassessed following Labor’s stunning landslide.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · May 12

Worsening health and imprisonment outcomes suggest the process of healing which began with the Uluru Statement from the Heart in 2017 was reversed when the Coalition undermined the Voice referendum in early 2023.
Was Dutton’s treachery in wrecking the Voice why voters rejected him so resoundingly?

Now let’s see how Labor transforms the nation

Labor’s winning margin virtually guarantees it two terms of significant reform, with more beyond that highly likely.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · May 4

Let’s hope the Coalition's electoral mauling confirms that Australia’s lying pro-Coalition newsrooms have lost their influence, just as they have lost their integrity and credibility.
Will they now return to reporting what is actually happening accurately?
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Labor victory proves public rejected malicious media falsehoods

Saturday’s electoral mauling of the Coalition was a resounding rejection of the media lies and distortions.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · Apr 27

“The current malicious Liberal Party ad campaign claiming citizens are worse off under Labor is riddled with deliberate blatant lies, confirming their moral bankruptcy and contempt for voters.”

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Many critical values at stake in Saturday’s election

While the economy is at the top of most voters' minds, other issues matter more.

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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · Apr 21

Deficits for the four years 2023 to 2026 were forecast under Coalition settings to be $224.4 billion. Under Labor, deficits totaled just $31.9 billion.

There is no case whatsoever for newspaper editors to endorse the Coalition.

News editors must choose between majority or own selfish interests

With an election imminent, the differences between the major political parties have seldom been clearer.

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