ARN Media's case against Kyle Sandilands

 ARN Media finally cancelled the Service Agreement with Kyle Sandilands.

Why are they able to do this you ask? Bullying.

Under Australian Law, even contractors must adhere to Company OH&S policies that generally cover bullying.

Without seeing Kyle's Service Agreement, you can pretty much guarantee that there would be a clause in there that states as much and that a breach of that clause would constitute severe misconduct which would be grounds for termination of the agreement.

So ARN Media must have concluded that the events of Feb 20 were in fact bullying and a breach of policy. That would explain the direction for Kyle not to contact Jackie O (which is standard in bullying allegations)

The fact that Kyle claims that this behaviour was normal is beside the point. Bullying is not about intention. Its about whether a reasonable person would feel bullied by the behaviour. Its also different in that this time, Jackie is believed to have made a formal complaint, which she did not do previously.

The only question to me regarding whether the Service Agreement could be legally cancelled is if Kyle's company attempted to resolve the breach of OH&S policy. The only way to do that would have been for effectively Kyle to be sacked from his own services company.

Never going to happen.

So it goes to the lawyers. But if I were a betting man, I think Kyle should be looking to settle. No way will he be able get his $88 million.

Atlassian Job costs - Less about AI and more about Revenue per Employee metric

 Atlassian has announced employee cuts to the tune of 1600 people. But is it about AI, or more about fixing bad management.

In the last 3 years, the FE's have increased by 3113 workers, from 10,726 to the current level of 13813.  Atlassian now has a Revenue per Employee metric of $356953.

Compare this to say other SaaS platforms like ServiceNow ($441,395) or Salesforce (472,652) and Atlassian is looking a bit employee fat.

The cuts will bring back numbers to 2024 levele and make this important metric more reasonable compared to its peers (if it can keep subscription revenue growing)

So once again, the specter of AI is really just a fig leaf to improve past mistakes of over hiring.

Australian IT Managed Services Companies by Revenue (2023-2024)

 Time to update the companies again (Revenue figures in AUD $ from the ATO)

The major takeaways

- IBM Revenue continues to fall off a cliff. Hard to believe that 10 years ago, they had revenues of over $4 billion a year

- Accenture now the leading IT Service Provider in Australia

- Fujitsu has improved

Why ARN Media Need to get rid of the Kyle and Jackie O show

 

% of 10-14 year olds on Puberty Blockers in Australia - around 0.11%

 Been looking at the whole Trans thing lately and I was wondering if there is a way to work out how many kids are on puberty blockers in Australia for Gender Dysphoria.

Stats are few and far between so we might have to extrapolate a bit.

Firstly, prior to 2013, a family court hearing was required to start children on Puberty blockers for under 18's. Post 2013 however, as long as parents and doctors agreed, it was permitted without court approval.  If we assume a transition period for the case to work its way through the medical community, we can estimate say that the use of Puberty blockers for Gender Dsyphoria started in Australia in 2015, that provides a a starting date.

In regards to how many kids get prescribed puberty blockers in Australia, only WA and QLD provide info.

WA  - 20 kids between Jan 1 and Oct 31 2025 (so that would be extrapolated to 24 for the full year). WA has approx. 194,789 kids between 10 and 14 in 2026 (extrapolated from 2016/2021 census growth), so we can say that the rate of prescription is 0.012% a year

QLD - 491 kids between 2020 -2025. So that is an average of 99 a year. QLD has approx. 389359 kids between 10 and 14 in 2026 (extrapolated from 2016/2021 census growth. So we can day the rate of prescription is 0.025% a year

If we take an average of those two, we get an Australian wide current average of 0.019%. If you apply that to the Australian number of kids aged 10-14 (1,805,012 (2026)), we have the numbers being 341 kids a year Australia wide are prescriber Puberty Blockers per year.

But that is at the current rate. If we assumed no kids were prescribed until 2014, there is 11 years of yearly prescriptions to get to 341 prescriptions. If a assume a linear rate of growth of  (341/12 = 31 cases a year we have the following scheduled

2015 - 31

2016 - 62

2017 - 93

2018 - 124

2019 - 155

2020 - 186

2021 - 217

2022 - 248

2023 - 279

2024 - 310

2025 - 341

Adding that up, that gives us a grand total of 2046 kids who have been prescribed Puberty Blockers over the last 11 years.

As a percentage of kids between 10-14 Australia, that works out to be 0.11% A pretty small percentage.

If we assume that 0.09% of kids suffer from Gender Dysphoria (estimates from the ABS), that means of 16,245 GD kids in 2025, 2046 kids have been prescribed Puberty blockers for treatment, which is around 12.6%. Which does match estimates from the US.

Labor Government Housing Budget - 2022/23

 Just been looking through the budget on housing...some dodgy ass stuff happening

The Labor government has raided the National Housing Infrastructure Fund (which was set up in 2017) to help pay for its housing initiative. However the fund was set up for infrastructure funding to local governments, not to create housing itself. Over $1 billion over the 4 years forward estimates.

Its all smoke and mirrors with Labor...

 

Top 20 ranked Soccer sides potentially going to be knocked out of the group stages of World Cup

 We have the following in trouble and who need to win convincing in their final games to have a chance to get through.

Belgium - (2nd Ranked Team) - 39% chance of going through

Argentina (3rd Ranked Team) - 44% chance of going through

Denmark (10th Ranked Team) - 28% chance of getting through to the next round. Is playing Australia though

Germany (11th Ranked Team) - 22% chance of getting through

Mexico (13th Ranked Team) - 22% chance of getting through

USA (16th Ranked Team) - 33% chance of getting through

Senegal (18th Ranked Team) - 39% chance of getting through

Wales (19th Ranked Team) - 15% chance of getting through