Economic Rigor

 Kyle has always claimed he was the most successful broadcaster in Australia which made him think he was untouchable. That might have been the case when he was on the up, but for the last 2 years, his ratings, even in the Sydney fortress, have been on the decline Has been losing almost 8500 listeners every survey since 2023. Maybe young people dont wont to listen to two 50+ crusties talking about sex, drugs and woowoo anymore.

 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 d...

 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.

 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

 

 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), ...