Marianne L

Retired Div Therapist, lover of music, family, movies, gardens, interested in fair politics for everyone!

[Peter FitzSimons @Peter_Fitz]

Born and bred on an orange orchard, mate, youngest of seven children, and the whole family would often help dad on school holidays fill the half-ton crates. I got 2 cents for every small bucket filled.
Is that ok?

[Marianne L @2nann]

@CraigSarg73 @MRobertsQLD Labor inherited huge bill from the LNP+ Labor is doing all those things why do you copy
their ideas!

[Noticing Expert @noticing_expert]

Oh my God. I don't get how they can say things like this on stage, in front of a camera - and there isn't outrage or pushback.

She is flat out saying they want to control the narrative & limit access to information that would make them look bad. And that they will pressure AI companies to program their services differently so they can "control the whole digital world"

[Marianne L @2nann]

@Bill1729180 @SimonBanksHB Not good if u are a worker! FFS- he should be ashamed

[Ruth L @RuthL613313]

@SimonBanksHB @Ben_Davison1 Don’t forget this ON supporters 🤬

[Margarine 😷 @Buttermarg2]

@ajamesbragg What is clear is that Senator Bragg hasn’t even read the budget papers.
They are very clear on what is and what isn’t a new build.
How embarrassing for Senator Bragg.

[DonnA @DonA50398021506]

@CraigSarg73 She has repeatedly argued that the current system is biased against men. She claimed that some mothers make false accusations as a tactic to deny fathers access to their children. Statistically 95% of accusataion are true, yet she thinks women are liars.

[Marianne L @2nann]

Yeh, apparently while some businesses close down over 400,000 start up!

[stranger @strangerous10]

@JNampijinpa Jacinta Price is ignoring the fact that ABS data shows record number of businesses opening & far outpacing closures. Jacinta Price also ignores corporate profits are also up.

The facts don't lie, but Price certainly does. Business is doing fine.

[💧Fishernotcatcher @Fishernotcatch1]

@DaveMilbo Wasn't Martin Luther a peace activist? Totally opposite to pauline

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Australian media isn’t covering this but what’s happening in Cuba is dreadful. Trump signed an executive order cutting off Cuba’s last oil supply. Ten million people are paying with their lives. Sewage systems are failing, food is rationed, it’s getting worse.

[Janie @AmandaP11076997]

@MikeCarlton01 What the fuck?!
I knew he was bad but this is trumpesque.
He should be very embarrassed 😳

[Duncan Watson @DuncanWatson8]

@MikeCarlton01 But credit where credit is due : Uhlmann does something thought to be a journalistic impossibility : he makes Greg Sheridan look sane.

[Utopia Lost @MsUtopia]

@MikeCarlton01 Christ on a bike - is this the level of intellect we have crawled down to? Is Uhlmann seriously comparing an educated, highly skilled speaker, activist & intellectual giant of a man to a backyard bogan with meanness & spite as her only assets in her toolbox?

[Marianne L @2nann]

@RickFHarris @MikeCarlton01 FFS! Is he crazy????

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

@MikeCarlton01 possibly silliest headline of all time

[MormorLady @mormorlady]

Umm

Investors can still buy as many houses as they want to

But

The Australian taxpayer won’t be paying them to do so

Good policy yes!!

[Dirtyleftie @CraigSarg73]

Compare the pair.

Anthony Albanese and Pauline Hanson both entered federal politics in 1996.

Same year.
Same country.
Same broad opportunity to leave a mark.

Nearly 30 years later, here’s the comparison.

Pauline Hanson:

Bills originated and passed into law: zero.

Her great parliamentary hits include:
• a failed COVID vaccination bill
• a failed burqa ban
• a failed immigration plebiscite
• endless motions, stunts and tantrums that generate headlines and but no actual law

Her own political legacy is mostly framed around:
• blocking other people’s legislation
• forcing inquiries
• leveraging crossbench numbers
• complaining loudly enough that the media mistakes volume for achievement

Parliamentary attendance rate: 53%.

Which does raise the question if Pauline attended parliament a bit more often, might she have actually managed to get something done beyond scowling at modernity?

Anthony Albanese:

Bills passed into law in government include...
• legislating the 43% emissions reduction target
• 10 days paid domestic violence leave
• cheaper childcare through a higher subsidy cap
• energy price caps on gas and coal
• household energy bill relief
• establishing the National Anti-Corruption Commission
• the Help to Buy shared equity housing scheme
• banning foreign purchases of existing homes
• wiping billions in student debt
• full school funding reform
• RBA reform
• the under-16 social media ban
• the Future Made in Australia manufacturing package
• criminalising wage theft
• lifting minimum wages for the lowest paid
• delivering two consecutive budget surpluses
• EV fringe benefits tax exemptions
• aged care pay rises
• support for nurse and midwife wage rises
• legislated super on paid parental leave

Parliamentary attendance rate: 83%.

And that’s as the Prime Minister, with international travel, diplomatic obligations, cabinet management, legislation, party discipline, question time, and the small inconvenience of actually running the country.

Compare the pair.

One has spent decades in politics and can point to a list of legislation, reforms and institutional changes.

The other has spent decades in politics and can point to a list of grievances, failed bills, lost crusades and media appearances.

One knows how to govern.
The other knows how to linger.

One built policy.
The other built a brand.

One passed laws.
The other passed through parliament just often enough to remind us she’s still there.

Same starting line.
Nearly 30 years later.

One of them knows how to run the country.
The other knows how to run a permanent one-person protest stall inside it.

Compare the pair.
General advice only.
Please consider your personal circumstances before mistaking noise for achievement.

[Jo @Joann5joann]

@ElaineM11584892 My blood cancer medication was put on the PBS last September- blood cancer month. I would have had to pay 4,950 per month @ I qualified for it, so as a pensioner I pay 7.50/ mth, @ my weekly blood tests are bulk billed. Thank you labor party. Wouldn't happen under the LNP or ON.

[Marianne L @2nann]

@cruicerod @JohnRuddick2 Why is Barnaby commenting on abortion?