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Australian Politics

The paradoxical implication is that the same psychological characteristics that enable male managers to rise to the top of the corporate or political ladder are actually responsible for their downfall. In other words, what it takes to get the job is not just different from, but also the reverse of, what it takes to do the job well. As a result, too many incompetent people are promoted to management jobs, and promoted over more competent people. (quote from: 'The empty smirk' by John Birmingham)

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

One of the clearest markers of privilege in Australian society is whether your problems get cast as ‘clinical’ or criminal. This is how we end up with 10 year old children in police custody and 50 year old MPs sent off for counselling.

Lisa Pryor

If you steal a bottle of water you get fined. If you steal a whole water truck you got to jail. But if you steal all of Australia’s water and sell it to foreign interests, who then sell it back to desperate Australian farmers at twice the price, you get called ‘the Honourable’.

Victor Kline