The videos are short because they have to be. This is where the working goes: the actual numbers, where they came from, and the bit where I tell you what the other side of the argument is. Check me on any of it.
They come in pairs. One post shows you how a thing is rigged, the next one shows you what we'd do about it, and the long read is both halves in one place with the sources attached. Each of these becomes its own page as it's written. If you want one sooner, text me and I'll bump it up the list.
Rigged, then what we'd do
The supermarket gap, and cheaper groceries
What the farmer gets, what you pay, and the gap in the middle. Then the bit a state government can actually do about it, which is smaller than anyone running for office will admit.
Write-up coming
Rental bidding, and housing
How you end up bidding against a stranger for a house you haven't walked through, why it's legal again in practice, and what actually brings rents down rather than just sounding like it does.
Write-up coming
Toll road contracts, and public transport
A private profit guaranteed for decades, signed before most of Mernda existed. It's the reason the alternative never got built, and it's why a bus costs more to promise than a freeway.
Write-up coming
Gas, and ending coal and gas
One of the biggest gas exporters on earth, and look at your bill. Including what happened to the reservation scheme between the announcement and the existing.
Write-up coming
The loyalty tax, and data centres
You pay more for staying with the same retailer while the biggest new power users in the state negotiate a rate nobody will show you. Two ends of the same deal.
Write-up coming
Political donations, and integrity
Who gives, what they get, and why none of it is illegal. The one where the answer is cleanest, because we don't take any of it.
Write-up coming
Safer communities
No rigged post in front of this one. What the evidence supports, what's just an announcement, and the immigration part done through a local story instead of a claim.
Write-up coming
Childcare and disability funding, and rounding it all up
Two kinds of public money going in and getting caught on the way through. The disability one is my own story, and it's the reason I'm doing any of this.
Write-up coming
Super fees, and how we'll pay for it
A percentage that sounds tiny and costs a fortune over forty years. Then the honest version of where the money comes from, with the numbers you can argue with.
Write-up coming
The seven myths, answered properly
Renewables and your power bill, gas stoves, bad weather, nuclear, farmers, wasted votes, and whether we're just protesters. One long read covering all seven, because they're usually said together.
Everything you've heard at a barbecue
The honest answer to each one, including the bit where the criticism actually lands. If I only ever tell you the flattering half, you shouldn't believe me on the rest either.
Write-up coming
Climate, and me
These two run together in the last fortnight because they're the same story told two ways.
Your insurance bill is the climate bill
Premiums rising fastest exactly where people can least afford to move. Longer fire seasons, said plainly, with no lecture attached. Then the decades of policy failure that got us here.
Write-up coming
Denier, fence sitter, activist
Where I actually started on this, which is not where you'd guess, and what moved me. Three generations of my family, and the one that matters.
Write-up coming
Where it all starts
Ridiculous policies
Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and the one job a government actually has. The frame the whole rest of this sits inside.
Write-up coming
If you read one of these and think I've got a number wrong, tell me. Text me on 0411 275 577.
I'd rather be corrected by a neighbour than caught out by an opponent.