Hey John,

It's almost December and this is Tam's Takes!

I don't know about you, but I have no clue where the year has
gone! The next few weeks are sure to fly by.

But with Christmas coming up, it makes the current cost of living
pressures even more obvious. Something I think the Government can
do right now for hundreds of thousands of the poorest Australians
is by making Jobseeker payments exempt from income tax. The age
pension is already exempt, so why not Jobseeker? Take a look at t

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his speech I did in the Senate
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to learn more about why I think this will help.

MY QUESTION TO YOU:

Do you put your Christmas tree up before December 1st or after?
Do you have a hard rule about when the decorations go up?

Email me at [email protected] or reply to this
email with your thoughts!

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MY HOT TAKE:

I saw an article that said up to 46% of jobs could be replaced by
AI by 2030. Are you worried about this?
— Joe (via email) ( [email protected] )

Half the country losing our jobs — I’d say that’s pretty
concerning! But then again, I’ve seen reports that it's more
likely to affect white collar jobs than blue collar jobs.
Accountants and lawyers might be at risk from AI, but ChatGPT is
never going to be able to build you a house.

Seriously though, it’s out of fashion these days to have industry
policy out of government. We used to have governments picking
industry winners and losers based on what they thought was
important to the national interest. Free markets saw that go by
the wayside.

But if we’re going to lose 90% of jobs for lawyers, accountants,
journalists, graphic designers, data analysts and other
white-collar jobs, maybe we need a new kind of industry policy
again.

We’re paying universities to put thousands of students through
every year in jobs that aren’t going to exist in five years time.
And we’re going to need 100,000 people trained in computer skills
in the same time, and we’re not training anywhere near that.

The money we’re giving universities to put people through degrees
that equip you for jobs that won’t exist isn’t going to good use.
Maybe we could put that towards encouraging people — who are
planning on studying in areas apart from digital skills — to
study what we know we’re going to need. If they’re studying it
for the incentives you’re going to have much more drop-outs, but
you’ll have some who’ve never thought about a career in tech who
find they love it, and those would be the ones you’d save from
half a life on the unemployment grind. It’d be picking winners
all over again, but at least that way you guarantee someone’s
going to win.

Someone who doesn’t build houses, anyway.

YOUR TAKES:

Last month I asked you: Should the Federal Government cut the
fuel excise again?

Here's some your responses:

The cut to the fuel excise should be subsidised for those on low
income. For the rest of us it should stay as it is now. At this
level, it’s enough to encourage people to switch to EVs. In
addition, the govt should cut the incentives and subsidies to the
gas and oil industry, which was ~$11billion last year. In
addition they should be taxed with mo loopholes. They have made
super profits in the trillions and don’t pay any taxes, so they
don’t need any more taxpayers money toward their profits and
doing this would save at least $8 billion to be used more
equitably addressing homelessness or making education free for
example.
— Jess

Absolutely the fuel tax should be lowered. Everyone is doing it
tough, especially the most vulnerable. For me personally, I try
to do all I need to do on one day so I'm not using too much fuel.
For so long I have wanted to just go for a drive to get out of
the city, but that is just a pipe dream at the moment
— Kim

No they should not cut the excise. Just learn how to be good
managers of the revenue. They are hopeless to many hands in the
trough.
— Michael

A fuel price reduction would help counter the current fuel price
increase; fuel is an essential commodity for most and for country
people unavoidable as we don't have access to public transport
unless we live in a major regional centre.

I support a reduction in the cost - please!
— Susan
My thoughts on cutting the fuel excise? Here's a video of what I
think:

Let's continue the discussion - reply to this email (
[email protected] ) and let me know.

Time to start counting down the days until Christmas - 31 days,
if you were wondering!

Until next time,

Tammy Tyrrell

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