The RBA isn’t just failing Australians—it’s actively transferring wealth upward. A searing look at the corporate elites running the bank, the myths they peddle, and how to dismantle their power.
Category: Economics, Australian Politics, Corporate Power, Economic Policy, Neoliberalism, Social Justice
The Sledgehammer and the Scalpel: Why the RBA is Punishing You for Corporate Greed
As the RBA raises interest rates, the real culprit of inflation—corporate greed—goes unchecked. A searing analysis of how Australia’s economic policies punish workers while protecting profits.
The Hollow Crown: Australia’s Liberal Party and the Contest for a World That No Longer Exists
The Liberal Party’s leadership circus isn’t just about who wins—it’s about whether Australia can afford the show at all. From Angus Taylor’s Cayman-stained ledgers to Andrew Hastie’s heretical protectionism, the contest for the Liberal crown reveals a party—and a country—grappling with a world order in freefall. Part 1 of a 2-part analysis.
The Blue Bacillus: How the Liberal Party’s Corporate DNA Became a Fatal Infection
The Coalition’s polling collapse reveals a terminal decline. When corporate DNA meets authoritarian legislation, democracy itself becomes the casualty.
AI: The Emperor’s New Algorithm, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Recognise the Same Old Con
After billions in development, Microsoft quietly slashed expectations for Copilot, its AI wonderchild that can’t reliably perform basic tasks. The pattern is grimly familiar: massive investment chasing promised returns that never appear, followed by market correction when reality intrudes. But this bubble comes with a uniquely toxic twist—AI’s environmental cost accelerates the very climate crisis it claims it will solve.
Data centers now gulp enough water annually to supply hundreds of families while generating marketing copy riddled with errors. Training GPT-3 alone evaporated 700,000 liters of clean freshwater. Meanwhile, Australia’s Albanese government subsidizes data center expansion while manufacturing collapses, emissions targets slip through accounting tricks, and workers face automation without security.
The millenarian faith in AI’s salvation delays the unglamorous work we actually need: rapid decarbonization, public investment in resilience, and democratic reform to counter corporate capture. Time to stop waiting for miracles.
The Blind Spot That Reveals Everything
We excised Brenton Tarrant from our consciousness because examining him would require examining the political culture that helped produce him. Meanwhile, elite networks use “combating antisemitism” to advance right-wing agendas funded by the same corporate interests that profit from inequality. Part 2 reveals how institutional power operates through selective attention to religious violence.
The RBA’s War on Workers: When Orthodoxy Becomes Cruelty
The RBA promises to defeat inflation by crushing households, not profiteers. Class discipline dressed as economic management.
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