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Anton Nilsson

Anton Nilsson

Oct 15, 2026

15:04
Is that a bit of a sense, do you think, Anton, that this is, uh... that the, the, the, uh, approach will be more material, more concrete, and less to do with cultural issues, or where, where did Shoebridge kind of indicate that they were headed?
15:15
One thing that stuck out to me when I interviewed Shoebridge was, or actually stuck out to me beforehand, is he immediately, when he became leader, started using this phrase "the 1%" quite often, which I assume is, you know, Bernie Sanders inspired.
15:29
You know, the idea that 99% of people are worse off than the top most powerful and rich 1%, basically.
15:35
And Shoebridge said that the use of his, the phrase was part of a messaging overhaul that they'd started working on months prior, and then when the leadership change happened suddenly, I guess he felt that that was a opportune moment to, to roll that messaging out and start hammering home that message.
15:52
If we think about the digital duty of care bill, it fits into that in the sense that US social media companies are portrayed as the big, bad elite institutions oppressing the Australian masses, I suppose.
16:03
And, uh, in this sitting week so far, you've seen other comments by Shoebridge where you can see the same tendency.
16:09
For example, he, he called out this Labor-controlled joint AI committee earlier today that, uh, he said was a stitch-up and that Labor was trying to pretend to do something about AI, but not willing to challenge what he called a US billionaire-controlled industry.
16:39
We're here to replace them." Um, does that more aggressive tone kind of relate to that as well?

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