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@RichardAOB
Apr 5, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
43 years and 6 months after the Whitlam government was elected, both Labor and the Coalition had been in government for the same amount of time (21 years and 9 months).
In that time... 1/4
Annual employment growth was 0.216% higher under Labor. Given the size of today’s labour market that amounts to 25,710 extra jobs per year. Since 1972 565,000 addition jobs were created under Labor. 2/4
Overall quarterly GDP growth was 0.03% higher under Labor. In today’s dollar terms that’s approximately $1.7 billion per annum. Over 22 years that accumulates to a difference of nearly $40 billion, about $1600 per person. 3/4
Since 1972, the Coalition has delivered half a million less jobs and $40 billion less in growth than Labor. It is time for the myth about the Coalition being better economic managers to end. 4/4

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Oct 20, 2020
Here’s a lesson in manners for you @AlexanderDowner (1/6)
In 1942 the Australian 2/2 Independent Company was trapped in East Timor after the Japanese invaded. Most escaped capture and fled into the mountains where they waged a guerrilla campaign and were later re-enforced by Australian commandos. (2/6)
Their survival and the success of their campaign was entirely due to the assistance of the East Timorese, who suffered torture, mass executions and starvation at the hands of the occupying Japanese in retaliation. We owe the East Timorese an enormous debt of gratitude. (3/6)
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Sep 13, 2020
Imagine Labor had won the last Federal election. Then imagine:
That we had the most intense bushfires in our recorded history and the PM went on holiday to Hawaii (1/10)
That Labor MPs were found to have used signs in Chinese during the election to deceive people into voting for them and the PM said nothing

That the minister for Sport had been caught illegally using millions of dollars to target winnable electorates and the PM did nothing (2/10)
That the country went into recession for the first time in 30 years and the government didn’t have a plan to get us out of it (3/10)
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Jun 11, 2020
"Australia when it was founded as a settlement, as New South Wales, was on the basis that there'd be no slavery...It was a pretty brutal place, but there was no slavery in Australia."
- Scott Morrison

Hold my beer...(1/7)
The Australian colonies were built with convict labour. Most convicts were leased out to private citizens and placed entirely under their control. The unwillingness of wealthy landowners to give up convict labour was the reason it continued for so long in Australia. (2/7)
Indentured labourers, known as Coolies, were brought to Australia from India and China in the 1800. They were given contracts to work for 5-6 years in return for food, lodging and minimal pay (which most never received). (3/7)
Read 8 tweets
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Jun 8, 2020
In case anyone is wondering what Tony Abbott's services to Indigenous Australians are: (1/5)
During his tenure as Health Minister in the Howard government, Tony Abbott oversaw a $460 million shortfall in Indigenous health funding. (2/5)
Abbott's first budget cut $534 million from Indigenous funding while ignoring advice from Treasury on closing tax and superannuation loopholes and offshore tax evasion schemes, which would have saved 100 times that amount. (3/5)
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Jun 5, 2020
We're not racist but...👇
29% of our prison population are Indgenous (3.3% of Australians are Indigenous).
34.3% of incarcerated women in Australia are Indigenous.
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Apr 30, 2020
A few points on Andrew Forrest:

The cost of the 10 million COVID-19 test kits Forrest purchased through his registered charity, the Minderoo Foundation, will be fully reimbursed by the government. (1/7)
In return for for this taxpayer funded activity, Forrest has considerably enhanced his his standing with both the Australian & Chinese governments (whose Consul General Forrest brought along to the press briefing) & his ability to call in favours from both governments. (2/7)
Forrest's well publicised acts of philanthropy amount to a tiny fraction of the tax he refuses to pay. Not to mention the money he saved from running a tax-deductible campaign against the Minerals Resource Rent Tax, which helped deliver government to Tony Abbott. (3/7)
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