I attended The Child Poverty Post Budget Hui yesterday and managed to catch up with economist Bernard Hickey for his take on the 2025 Willis budget. He is so informed and such a good communicator. If you don’t read or listen to any other analysis make sure you listen to his one.

Please take 20 minutes to understand that we don’t have a debt problem. What we have is an ideology problem.

The quote of the day, for me, came from a young speaker from Kelston Boys High School.

He framed robbing women of pay equity in terms of mothers who are struggling to pay the bills while striving to give their kids a better chance in life. He put it poignantly:

“You can’t put down mothers and expect their children to rise up and do well.”

Such insight from a such a young man. It took my breath away.

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