I visited the exhibition Time in the empty space on top of the Flinders St train station in #Melbourne this weekend.

Really cool work by street artist Rone, imagining a world from decades ago that has been abandoned and left to decay.

Glad to see this piece out today about the RBA's approach to climate (and our submission to the RBA review).

https://greencentralbanking.com/2022/12/01/rba-governor-climate-role-australia/

Important point that many miss on this: changing the RBA mandate isn't strictly necessary!
The RBA can do most of the important things on climate already. But it chooses not to because of uncertainty around boundaries (mandate change is *one way* to fix this)

#AusEcon #AusPol

It was cool to see our data from the Oxford #COVID19 Government Response Tracker in the Guardian today on this article about continued lockdowns and protests in China.

In addition to the national China data here, we publish province-level Chinese policy data too.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/28/chinas-covid-lockdown-protests-complete-guide-in-videos-maps-and-charts

You can tell it has been raining a lot on the east coast of Australia because Lake George is FULL of water

(This “lake” is a mostly flat plain that usually just has a small puddle on one side)

😬 this is not a great apology from RBA governor Philip Lowe. It is the equivalent of "I am sorry if you got offended by what I said"

A better apology would admit to getting it wrong. Even though it wasn't his fault (no one predicted Ukraine!) he was still wrong.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/reserve-bank-governor-philip-lowe-says-sorry-to-australians-who-took-out-mortgages-expecting-interest-rates-to-stay-unchanged-20221128-p5c1q0.html

#AusEcon #AusPol

a few times this week I have seen someone say something interesting, I've gone to interact with them... only to realise they are doing unmonitored cross-posting. The lights are on but nobody's home.
I don't need that in my life!

So I'm setting up a new filter to catch twitter cross posting with terms "RT", "t.co" and "@twitter.com". Any suggestions on for fine tuning?

I was quoted in ABC Fact Check yesterday saying it is "literally impossible" to substantiate Matthew Guy's claim about longest lockdowns.

...unless he has access to some mythical dataset that no one knows about  

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-21/fact-check-is-melbourne-world-s-most-locked-down-city/101659926

#vicpol #auspol