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CEO / Co-Founder @EmploymentHero & Hero Foundation, 10x better employment globally, EY Entrepreneur 2025, Jobs + opportunity for all
Sydney, Australia employmenthero.com Joined March 2009
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Yes please 🙏
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BREAKING: SpaceX seeks access to Australia’s 2 GHz band to expand @Starlink Direct to Cell.

Starlink is already connecting Australians at home and beyond the reach of mobile towers.

• 552,000 satellite internet subscribers by the end of 2025.
• More than 2.9 million users connected to Starlink through Telstra by July 2026, with over 26 million texts sent or received by satellite.

That’s already working in a country where mobile towers cover less than a third of the land. Around 5.55 million square kilometres still have no outdoor signal from a tower.

With access to the 2 GHz band, SpaceX could add regular phone calls and high-speed internet straight to phones and work with more Australian mobile carriers. Australia should give SpaceX the licence.
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@jason Verified account @Jason Nov 4
If you sponsor this podcast, calling for the execution of Elon Musk, I will never use your product… and will buy from both of your top two competitors

This is unacceptable and dangerous.

This a dog whistle to murder someone because you disagree with them — and this is the same guy who joked about the assassination against President Trump.

Fuck this piece of shit.
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$11,750 a year. That's the gap today's rise opens between an Aussie and a Canadian small business carrying a $500k loan, on the cash rate alone. 4.85% here, 2.50% there.
Against New Zealand at 2.75% it's $10,500.
Our owners are sailing the same race with a heavier boat.
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Please watch this @JEChalmers
Government borrowing is what drives inflation.
Borrowing to fund "relief" also drives inflation.
youtu.be/F94jGTWNWsA?si…
www.youtube.com Milton Friedman - Only Government Creates Inflation Milton Friedman points to government as inflation's only culprit. ...
Jim Chalmers MP @JEChalmers Nov 3
Today's decision by the RBA was widely expected, but that doesn't make it any easier for families and businesses.

It's difficult news for many Australians who are already paying a hefty price for circumstances outside their control.

We take responsibility for our part of the fight against inflation, which is why we're finding savings at the same time as we roll out relief.
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