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Welcome to The Wrap-Up — a summary of the day's top news and views. Today, we're discussing how much Aussies are expected to spend this Christmas, EV sales hitting all-time highs and the funding boost for the ABC. Also, Marvel's new film has flopped at the US box office. Tony Sheppard, Queensland State Manager of EVSE Australia, writes that the growth of EVs is significant — https://lnkd.in/eB5Uku6s Share your thoughts on this and any of these stories in the comments below. ✏️ Brendan Wong 📰 Sources Christmas spending set to fall: Nine News https://lnkd.in/eNJGH_Zf EV sales hit all-time high: Guardian Australia https://lnkd.in/e9_5nWYr ABC receives funding boost: Guardian Australia https://lnkd.in/ee_aV-9c Marvel flops, Moana tops again: Deadline Hollywood https://lnkd.in/gBdQNHN3
The growth of EV Sales hitting an all time high, from their base line the only way is up. What about the NV(Normal Vehicles) sales figures, I can only gather they are up as well. Why this one sided observation, is it paid for by the EVSE mob in brochure form and then picked up by the media?
I don’t believe the EV hype. This is just fiddling with numbers as a marketing tactic.
Just out of interest, from where does Finder source its data?
People just don't have money anymore .
Very informative Tony Sheppard
Great insight Tony Sheppard
UX Analyst + Designer (Systems Thinking), M.Des.Sc. (Des.Comp.)
5d'Good news', EV sales growing, from a comparatively low baseline. Yet, a sanity check for a now baked-in positivity bias and glibness, may be 'monster tucks' and giant SUV guzzlers, in high demand for school runs. But a real bucket of cold water on this optimism would have to be the 'big picture' of EV uptake, with supposedly much needed battery plants closing and with that, our 'holy grail' promise of 'economic reason' - jobs. You do the thinking, on what happens when a growing 'industry of the future' retrenches workers in a knee jerk reaction. The current 'lean' and 'agile' firms, worshiping shareholder primacy and treating work as any 'on demand' commodity, are completely at odds with labour economics, not to mention the other deity - 'growth'. So what about workers, people that companies now account for as a 'resource', those who moved, or worse, bought homes, counting on these jobs? Do they become losers invested in a new 'rust belt'? Funny how... Say, Danielle Woods, once a sober economic voice, now Chair of Productivity Commission, says that Australians are better off than in 2016 and inequality is not so bad. And suddenly, the problem of housing is 'supply' and productivity in construction. Tax loopholes are just fine!