Graham Young @GrahamY

They're working on the Goebbel's principle that when you tell a lie it should be as big as possible and you should repeat it as often as possible. The changes do not make home ownership easier, it makes investment harder. Bad luck renters.

Dave Hughes @DHughesy

6 hours ago

And they never will have anything else because you think that hardworking people’s investments, bought with money you already taxed at a ridiculous rate, is yours. Quit today mate. We are done.

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The biggest problem is that they are borrowing to py for this largesse. The bill will be due about the same time their child joins the workforce. Talk about intergenerational inequity.

Lisa @Lisa9Sophia

a day ago

Taxpayers are paying Mums to sit at home for SIX MONTHS but guess what? They aren’t even looking after their kids because taxpayers are paying for childcare 3 DAYS A WEEK And here’s the best bit if my family earns less than $373,094, I still get the Paid Parental Leave every

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Finally, some good news 🩷

Conservatives are in the middle of a marriage breakdown. Half of Coalition voters have left. It's a question of trust. Saying the right things is not enough - they've done that too many times before.

The Scottish government has finally been dragged, kicking and screaming, into compliance with the law.

Mark McLaughlin @MarkMcLaugh1in

2 days ago

All transgender prisoners will be moved out of women’s prisons today, the Justice Secretary has revealed

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“Some readers will find this uncomfortable. Others will dismiss it as unkind. But here is the undeniable biological fact that underpins this entire debate: the only prerequisite to being a “trans woman” is to be male.” The op-ed that the ABC refused to publish 👇

Men to be removed from women only space they should never have been allowed in in the first place.

*** An Open Letter To The World *** Dear World, I understand that you are upset with us here in Israel. Indeed, it appears that you are quite upset, even angry. Indeed, every few years, you seem to become upset by us. Today it’s Lebanon, yesterday it was the brutal repression of the Palestinians, before that it was the bombing of the nuclear reactor in Baghdad, the Yom Kippur War, and the Sinai Campaign. It appears that Jews who triumph — and who therefore live — upset you most extraordinarily. Of course, dear world, long before there was an Israel, we, the Jewish people, upset you. We upset the German people who elected Hitler and upset the Austrian people who cheered his entry into Vienna. We upset a whole slew of Slavic nations: Poles, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Hungarians, and Romanians. And we go back a long way in the history of world upset. We upset the Cossacks who massacred tens of thousands of us in 1648–1649. We upset the Crusaders who, on their way to liberate the Holy Land, were so upset at Jews that they slaughtered untold numbers of us for centuries. We have upset the Roman Catholic Church that did its best to define our relationship through inquisitions. And we have upset the arch-enemy of the Church, Martin Luther, who in his call to burn the synagogues and the Jews within them showed an admirable Christian ecumenical spirit. And it is because we became so upset over upsetting you, dear world, that we decided to leave you — in a manner of speaking — and establish a Jewish state. The reasoning was that living in close contact with you as resident strangers in the various countries that comprise you, we upset you, irritate you, and disturb you. What better notion than to leave you and thus to love you and have you love us? And so we decided to come home — home to the same land we were driven out of 1,900 years earlier by a Roman world that apparently we also upset. Alas, dear world, it appears that you are hard to please. Having left you in your pilgrimages and inquisitions and crusades and Holocaust — having taken our leave of the general world to live alone in our own little state — we continue to upset you. You are upset that we repress the poor Palestinians. You are deeply angered over the fact that we do not give up the lands of 1967, which are clearly the obstacle to peace in the Middle East. Moscow is upset and Washington is upset. The radical Muslims are upset and the gentle Egyptian moderates are upset. Well, dear world, consider the reaction of a normal Jew from Israel: In 1920, in 1921, and 1929 there were no territories of 1967 to impede peace between Jews and Arabs. Indeed, there was no Jewish state to upset anybody. Nevertheless, the same oppressed and repressed Palestinians slaughtered tens of Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Safed, and Hebron. Indeed, 67 Jews were slaughtered in one day in Hebron in 1929. Dear world — why did the Arabs, the Palestinians, massacre 67 Jews in one day in 1929? Could it have been their anger over Israeli “aggression” in 1967? And why were 510 Jewish men, women, and children slaughtered in Arab riots between 1936 and 1939? Was it because Arabs were upset over 1967? And when you, dear world, proposed a UN partition plan in 1947 that would have created a “Palestinian” state alongside a tiny Israel, and the Arabs cried “No!” and went to war and killed 6,000 Jews — was that upset caused by the “aggression” of 1967? And by the way, dear world, why did we not hear your cry of upset then? The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who, when they had all the territories they now demand be given to them for their state, attempted to drive the Jewish state into the sea. The same twisted faces, the same hate, the same cry of “Itbah al-Yahud!” — “Slaughter the Jew!” — that we hear and see today were seen and heard then by the same people. The same dream: destroy Israel. What they failed to do yesterday, they dream of today, but we should not repress them. Dear world — you stood by during the Holocaust, and you stood by in 1948 as seven states launched a war that the Arab League proudly compared to the Mongol massacres. You stood by in 1967 as Nasser, wildly cheered by wild mobs in every Arab capital in the world, vowed to drive the Jews into the sea — and you would stand by tomorrow if Israel were facing extinction. And since we know that the Arabs dream daily of that extinction, we will do everything possible to remain alive in our own land. If that bothers you, dear world — well, think of how many times in the past you bothered us. In any event, dear world — If you are bothered by us, here is one Jew in Israel who could not care less.

Sall Grover is an eloquent advocate for reality against fantasy. theaustralian.com.au/commentary/thi…

This is painful. At 8am yesterday morning, prices hit the max in SA for a solid half-hour. $20,300/MWh. Flooded with excess wind for days. Then nothing. For days. Let's check around and see how the 'always windy somewhere' thing plays out. 1/

@DavidPocock claims gas doesn't pay any royalties. Today's Queensland budget puts the lie to this.

Who says miners don't pay their fair share? They certainly do in Queensland. More than their fair share.

@TimWilsonMP is running this petition against the tax changes. notthetax.com.au/?recruiter_id=…

@jasontwebster Hadn't thought about fuel efficiency, but that is a very good point. If you can find a link that would be great.

Fuel excise does go towards roads, which is why a road usage charge is being proposed for EVs. But let's stop this silly argument. Apply a road user charge to all cars and ditch fuel excise. That would force the idiots to move onto something else.

David Pocock @DavidPocock

3 days ago

It's absurd that large mining companies receive huge taxpayer-funded diesel subsidies while everyone else pays. Fuel excise doesn't go to roads it goes to general govt revenue. Treasury forecasts the fuel tax credit scheme will cost the budget $47 billion over 4 years. Coal

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HORRIFYING: COVID Injections PROVEN to Cause Fatal Myocarditis Groundbreaking autopsy study confirms it. A systematic review of fatal myocarditis cases after COVID shots (Hulscher, McCullough et al.) examined autopsies. 100% were linked to the injections as the cause. Key facts from Dr. Peter McCullough & McCullough Foundation research: - Mean victim age: just 44.4 years old - Mean time from last shot to death: 6.2 days (median only 3 days) - Cardiovascular system was the only organ affected in nearly all cases Even more damning: In the largest review of published autopsies after COVID vaccination, 73.9% were independently adjudicated as directly caused by the COVID injections. Sudden cardiac death, myocarditis, heart attacks, and other fatal injuries dominated. Many deaths occurred within days to a week. The temporal link, autopsy confirmation, and Bradford Hill criteria all point to causation. This is not “rare.” This is documented death from the shots. The evidence is in the bodies. The cover-up ends here.

Last week I wrote a thread supporting @PaulineHansonOz's call to cancel Snowy 2.0. I argued that hard part was barely started. I've just glanced some of the geotechnical work from original the feasibility study. It's shocking. They knew that they knew nothing. A 🧵of horrors discussing the Long Plain Fault Zone, and the trouble of the headrace tunnel, which is the longest tunnel, at best half complete, with the most difficult geology still to come. I won't attempt to diagnose this in detail. But the risks were clear at the outset, and still aren't retired. 1/

Aidan Morrison @FootnotesGuy

a week ago

In other words, the hard part is just getting started. Becuase the geology has already caused terrible trouble for Forence, which has now completed 7km, and Monica is joining at the other end, which seems like where the fault actually is. 19/

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@jasontwebster That would make an interesting paper.

Labor/Greens Alliance delivers fewer houses for Australians and more homelessness. This is how you entrench intergenerational inequity. If you're a young Australian you should not vote for either of these.

@Woodygocats59 Twiggy, the purveyor of government-funded Green dreams? I'm sticking with the Productivity Commission. They're relatively incorruptible.

OK, so now you admit it does go towards roads. Thanks. And total budgetary assistance, not just subsidies, to the whole mining industry, not just fossil fuel producers, is $567.7 m, 87.4% of which is R&D measures. (Trade and Assistance Review 2023–24, Appendix B, Table B.1: “Budgetary assistance by industry grouping, 2023–24”).