The largest payout to date raises important questions about the evidentiary framework supporting vaccine injury claims. My four-year audit of TGA’s COVID-19 safety monitoring found that 93 of 150 investigated signals have no publicly documented decision rationale — meaning the analytical basis for regulatory decisions is not accessible to treating doctors or claimants.
Full audit:
https://t.co/ElDkMMhxOq
Compensation analysis: https://t.co/5MEjgNaNOi
SSRN: https://t.co/PpOSctYqBa
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The Loy Yang A power station in Victoria's Latrobe Valley generates 2210 megawatts of electricity. Around the clock. Every day. Rain hail or shine. It supplies roughly 30 percent of Victoria's entire electricity needs and powers over two million homes. It has been doing this since 1984.
The active coal pit that feeds it covers 650 hectares. The total site including everything around it is 6000 hectares. To put that in perspective for anyone in regional NSW that is roughly the size of a decent family farm.
In 2023 AGL spent 92 million dollars refurbishing one of its four generator units to keep it running reliably until its scheduled closure. The station is not worn out. It is not running out of coal. It is being closed by a political decision not an engineering one.
Now here is the part that should make every Australian stop and think.
The coal is not running out. The Loy Yang mine has reserves of 168 billion tonnes of brown coal. At current usage of 30 million tonnes per year that is enough coal to last roughly 500 years on that one site alone. Geoscience Australia calculated total recoverable brown coal reserves across the entire Latrobe Valley at more than 76 billion tonnes. At current production levels those reserves are expected to last more than 1000 years.
And getting at it is not difficult. The layer of dirt covering the coal seam is only between 5 and 24 metres thick. The coal seam below it averages 180 metres thick. You remove a thin layer of topsoil and there it is. The Victorian Government has already extended the mining licence to 2065. The mine was originally planned to operate until 2048. It is being deliberately closed 13 years early.
So what does it take to replace it.
To generate the same amount of electricity from solar panels during daylight hours you need somewhere between 14000 and 16000 hectares of panels. That is more than 20 times the land area of the entire Loy Yang site including the mine. And after all that solar produces nothing at night. Nothing on heavily overcast days. And nothing at all after a hailstorm tears through the installation.
So you need wind turbines to cover the nights and the cloudy days.
Australian wind turbines have a real world capacity factor of around 30 to 35 percent. That means a turbine rated at 6 megawatts only generates an average of around 2 megawatts of actual power across a full year because the wind does not blow consistently. To replace 2210 megawatts of around the clock coal power with wind you need installed wind capacity of roughly 6500 to 7000 megawatts. At 6 megawatts per turbine that is over 1100 wind turbines.
The Sapphire Wind Farm in NSW has 75 turbines and covers 8921 hectares. Scaling that up to 1100 turbines you are looking at roughly 130000 hectares of wind farm sprawling across regional Australia.
And even then it still cannot guarantee power on a calm cloudy night. For those periods you need batteries or pumped hydro storage which requires yet more land and yet more billions.
So to replace one coal power station and its mine covering 6000 hectares you need approximately 14000 to 16000 hectares of solar panels plus approximately 130000 hectares of wind farm plus thousands of kilometres of new transmission lines to connect it all to where people actually live plus battery storage or pumped hydro for the gaps.
That is a total footprint of somewhere between 130000 and 150000 hectares against 6000 hectares for Loy Yang. More than 20 times the land area. Mostly on prime agricultural land across regional Australia. And it still cannot guarantee a single watt on a calm cloudy night.
The transmission lines needed to carry all this electricity are already blowing out catastrophically in cost before they are even built. The Central West Orana transmission zone near Dubbo started at 650 million dollars and is now confirmed at 5.5 billion. Eight times the original estimate. The VNI West project connecting Victoria and NSW went from 3.9 billion to potentially 11 billion. Project EnergyConnect from South Australia to NSW went from 1.53 billion to over 4 billion. Every dollar of every blowout goes onto your electricity bill for the next 30 to 50 years through network charges.
Australian taxpayers and electricity customers have already paid more than 29 billion dollars subsidising the renewable energy industry over the past ten years. The 2024 federal budget committed another 22 billion on top of that. That is over 50 billion dollars and counting.
For a fraction of that money Australia could have built several modern high efficiency gas or coal power stations that would generate reliable electricity around the clock on a fraction of the land. Or we could have a serious conversation about nuclear power which France has used for decades to generate cheap reliable around the clock electricity on minimal land with zero carbon emissions.
Instead we are deliberately closing a perfectly good power station that was just refurbished for 92 million dollars. Walking away from a coal reserve that would last 500 years. Covering tens of thousands of hectares of prime agricultural land with solar panels made in China using coal fired electricity. Building 1100 wind turbines across farming country that still cannot keep the lights on after dark. And spending hundreds of billions on transmission lines that blow out to eight times their original cost before the first pole is in the ground.
We are closing a 6000 hectare power station and mine that has powered Victoria for 40 years to build 150000 hectares of solar and wind infrastructure that cannot match what it replaces.
And the people making these decisions do not farm a single acre of the land they are covering with panels and turbines.
Another round of questioning regarding the Labor government's pursuit of environmental water. And frankly, the answers I'm getting from the Department and Minister Watt leave me deeply concerned for our rural communities.
Here is where we stand: I asked the officials exactly how much water they’re still looking to strip from the system. It turns out they are only about halfway to their 450-gigalitre target. By their own admission, there are still 229 gigalitres left to be recovered. That is a massive amount of water that will no longer be growing food or fibre.
I asked Minister Watt why he’s ignoring his own Labor counterparts in the New South Wales Legislative Council, who voted unanimously for a Royal Commission into water. The Minister dismissed the idea as an "expensive repeat," preferring to stick to their own reviews. It’s clear they don't want a truly independent set of eyes looking at the damage being done.
This is the part that should really worry every Australian.
The government is paying an average of $5,040 per megalitre for buybacks. Meanwhile, temporary water trading prices have jumped 250% over the last decade. They are forcing water prices to "ludicrous levels."
They claim they want "value for the taxpayer." The Reality? They’re outbidding farmers, forcing them off the land.
When I asked how much more taxpayer money is needed to finish these buybacks, they refused to give me a number, claiming it’s "commercial-in-confidence." Simply, they don't want sellers to know!
All Pain, No Clear Gain!
I asked them directly what exactly this 229 gigalitres will achieve that justifies gutting our farming sector. The answers were the usual bureaucratic fluff about "supporting variations in flows" and "waterbird breeding."
They are prioritising bird breeding over the survival of the towns that feed this country.
The government admits their "Sustainable Communities Program" is in such early stages that they can't even tell if it's working, yet they are charging ahead with buybacks that will be finished by December 2026.
We cannot allow "environmental outcomes" to become a suicide pact for regional Australia.
— Senate Estimates | February 2026
"3.7 Billion doses of Ivermectin have been given to human beings...Ivermectin is COMPLETELY safe. You are more likely to die from Tylenol than you are from Ivermectin."
~Dr Paul Marik, MD
"After Penicillin, It has had the GREATEST influence on the health of humanity."
The lie of “multiculturalism”, which needs to die after its failure as a 50 year experiment in Australia, grossly devalues our existing culture.
Our culture is NOT ‘wonderful because of its diversity’ as I saw one woman claim while lamenting the alleged rise of ‘Islamophobia’ in Australia, on social media tonight.
It’s wonderful because it is rooted in two centuries of Australian national development.
This was built upon British systems and institutions… in turn built on centuries of evolved Anglo Celtic Christian ethics and culture… in turn built upon millennia of European culture and philosophy all the way back to Ancient Rome and Greece.
What we enjoy here — the wealth and freedoms and rights — and which too many of our young and other fellow citizens clearly just take for granted — actually CAME FROM SOMEWHERE and evolved over millennia.
It didn’t come from “diversity”. And it didn’t evolve from the same cultural lineage as Islam.
It came from the refinement of our Christian European heritage - and the active defence and protection of it FROM other cultures like Islamic culture, which had invaded, colonised and sought global expansion to eradicate our culture.
So… Some of us are not prepared to let our culture be thrown away in the name of the relativist and very questionable Marxist concept of DEI.
Sorry, not sorry.
Of course a small number of Islamic people can be integrated into our society. Immigration is fine if limited to sensible numbers. But no, we’re not a “multicultural” nation. And if you live here as a Muslim, you have to accept you are never going to be the dominant cultural force, and will have to adapt, integrate and assimilate into our culture which is of Christian heritage, even if now largely secular. There will never be Sharia law. You will have to respect Australian law above Islamic teachings, and you should seek — with humility and gratitude and respect — to integrate with our culture and customs of dress as much as possible. Just as a guest might in a friend’s home.
If all that’s not OK for you, and you feel uncomfortable here and it’s a bit of a culture shock, that’s OK. And very understandable. So we’ll call you an Uber to the airport and you can take a plane to any of the world’s many Muslim dominant nations with our love and best wishes for a happy long peaceful life.
@OneNationAus@LibertariansAus@RennickGBR@LyleShelton@FamilyFirstAUS@PeopleFirstAus@DavePellowe@shallowchal@TheMcMullan@ChavuraStephen
@LucyTurnbull_AO Yes, we need at least a few thousand diesel generator powered EV charging stations spread out across this vast land. Will the tankers bringing the diesel to the generators be electric powered? Wait.... Something's wrong with this picture. 🤔
This week a war started in the Middle East, a war that will pause the importation of 20% of Australia’s oil supplies.
Labor has not increased our reserve oil supplies or prepared our nation for this shock since taking office four years ago.
As the Maritime Union of Australia said this week,
"Australia is an energy exporting nation. It is indefensible that we cannot guarantee our own fuel supply. Fuel sovereignty is a national responsibility. The time for half measures has passed; decisive action is required now."
Our oil reserves are running low, primarily because of the idiotic energy policies pushed by Labor and the Greens, and too often implemented by the Liberals, which have shut down our domestic oil refining capabilities.
The United States has been very clear for a long period of time that war with Iran was imminent.
Never once did Labor pause and reflect on their policies or increase our strategic reserves of oil.
Like a tone-deaf school prefect, Labor Minister Tanya Plibersek screeched at Barnaby Joyce on national TV this week that, and we quote, “this is a good reason to have electric vehicles”.
Those outrageous comments drove Barnaby Joyce to despair.
One Nation has long had a raft of policies that would increase our domestic supply of energy, including oil. We would protect our domestic market from shocks like this by increasing our strategic reserves and halving the tax on petrol, which Labor has raised eight times since taking office.
Labor will seek to profit from this war, whereas One Nation would give back to taxpayers and battlers.
On May 9 the electorate of Farrer will get a chance to vote on the policies that Labor, the Greens, the Teals and the Liberals have been using to damage Australia.
This electoral test will primarily be about energy. The cost of fuel is a primary driver of inflation and increases the cost of everything.
When all is said and done, Australia can walk one of two paths. The left wants energy poverty, no manufacturing, a destroyed rural sector and citizens living in tents.
Or Australians can back a party prepared to rebuild our nation, cut red tape, stop government waste and lower taxes. Most of all we have a plan to make energy, both petrol and electricity, substantially cheaper.
It’s that simple. The Farrer by-election is the choice between One Nation’s offer of hope and better living standards, or more of the radical left’s destruction of Australia. Because remember, the Teals and the Liberal Party vote with Anthony Albanese more often than they oppose him.
We WARNED that the terrible new ‘hate speech’ laws would be misused for political reasons. We just didn’t think it would be THIS fast. Australia is facing the WORST attack on free speech in its history from BOTH major political parties. #freespeech#australia#theotherside
Labor and the Greens just killed a Senate inquiry into fuel security and Australian refineries.
We used to refine almost all of our fuel here in Australia. Thanks to Net-Zero, we're down to just two refineries - in Brisbane and Geelong.
Australians are rightly nervous about spikes in fuel prices. With an interest rate rise double whammy coming up, the cost of living crisis is getting even worse
This inquiry would have laid out a way to ensure more refining is done here in Australia so that we can insulate ourselves from international price spikes.
Unfortunately, Labor and Greens don't want Australia to be self-dependant. One Nation would end Net-Zero and refine fuel here!
Ivermectin is an incredible drug & not just taking it orally, it also has amazing topical applications...severe chronic skin conditions & cancers disappear."
-Dr William Makis, MD
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- **Scabies**: Eliminates mites burrowing under the skin; often used as a 1% cream applied overnight & repeated.
- **Skin Cancers**: Success with basal cell carcinomas, squamous cell carcinomas & even melanomas shrinking or falling off after consistent application.
- **Severe Acne (e.g., Cystic)**: Provides relief for stubborn cases where other treatments fail, reducing inflammation & lesions.
- **Pre-Cancerous Lesions**: Reports of spots on the skin (like actinic keratosis) disappearing without chemo creams.
- **Warts and Growths**: Warts & wart-like bumps vanish after topical use.
- **Nodules and Lipomas**: Shrinking of benign fatty tumors or other skin nodules.
- **Cancerous Lymph Nodes**: Breast cancer patients noting reduction in auxiliary nodes when applied topically.
- **Perioral Dermatitis**: Helps clear rashes around the mouth.
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It’s time.
@ABCaustralia must simply be shut down.
There’s no fixing the toxic culture.
That they are now defending the fallen despotic Iranian regime, and questioning the right actions of the US under Trump’s leadership, is just despicable and unsustainable.
Australians must declare they have had enough. If we want a united, cohesive country with healthy balanced discourse, we cannot continue to fund this nonsense “public” broadcaster to the tune of $1.3billion a year. Or at all. It’s not fair to those of us fighting to do independent journalism with ZERO funding. It’s so politically biased it borders on corruption. Enough.
@TheIPA
From the Father of the Australian Parliament, Bob Katter
I was thrown out of Parliament today for daring to raise what millions of Australians are already talking about – that the Australian Government must immediately address the unsustainably high level of migration and its serious impact on the state of the nation, by urgently implementing a policy of ‘no migration without integration’.
That was the subject raised in my Matter of Public Importance. The Labor Government opposed it. So did the ‘woke teal’ MPs on the crossbenches. The Member for Warringah, Zali Steggall, went so far as to try to have me sanctioned just for raising the issue.
Australians deserve to know why.
The figures are staggering. It’s reported that, on average, about 340,000 student visas are issued every year… yet only 40,000 actually leave Australia. That means some 300,000 people are staying on, year after year, via the student visa system alone. Add 400,000 permanent migrants, and you are looking at some 700,000 people coming to stay every single year.
You don’t need to be a double-degree do-nothing to work out what that means. Keep this up for 15 years, and Australians will become a minority in their own country. I’m not prepared to pretend that doesn’t matter, and I refuse to apologise for saying as much.
Worse still, nearly three-quarters of these new arrivals are funnelled into Sydney and Melbourne – cities with no housing capacity, no infrastructure, no jobs. We’ve sent our manufacturing and industry offshore. Thousands of jobs have vanished. So why is the government flooding people into cities where there is nowhere to work or live?
What we are instead seeing is communities forming with no expectation or intention of integration. That is social disintegration, not multiculturalism.
To be crystal clear, this is not about race or religion. Australia has enduring, successful relationships with many nations and cultures. I come from a part of Australia where almost everyone comes from some minority background somewhere along the line – including many First Australians. Integration works when our values are expected and reinforced.
But assimilation matters. Shared values matter. Democracy matters. The rule of law matters. Respect for other Australians matters.
When people can stand in front of the Sydney Opera House, and chant calls for murder, and authorities do nothing… something has gone badly wrong. When those who stand up and say “we don’t do that in Australia” are punished, then something is broken.
Australians are sick of being shouted down, silenced and smeared as racists for asking reasonable questions about the future of our country. We’ve had a gutful. That anger isn’t going away; it’s growing.
By trying to shut this debate down, Labor and the teals are not stopping it – they are fuelling it.
— I was thrown out of Parliament today – but the issue isn’t going anywhere. Australians love this country. They want to remain Australians. And they have every right to demand a migration system that is sustainable, fair, and based on integration – not denial.
https://t.co/b21mG1yeVM
During this Estimates session with the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water of Australia (DCCEEW), I questioned the government on two issues: secretive appointments that erode trust and climate claims without evidence.
I quoted Gabrielle Appleby, a constitutional law professor and director of the Centre for Public Integrity, and asked the Minister a simple question: what impact has Mr Kaiser’s appointment had on morale within the department? The Minister assured me he has “absolute confidence” in Mr Kaiser and claimed there’s no evidence of a negative effect on morale. I moved on — however noted that he left out some aspects of Mr Kaiser’s background.
I went on to ask Minister Watt a simple, direct question: You claim we are facing "drier and warmer" summers — where is the specific data to back that up?
Instead of providing a source, Minister Watt resorted to his usual script. He tried to laugh it off as a "conspiracy" and claimed I simply "refuse to believe" the experts.
If the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO have the data, why is it so hard for Minister Watt to produce it?
I won't be put off by snide remarks. I will keep asking the same question until the Australian people get the transparency they deserve.
We cannot base massive economic policies on feelings and forecasts that no one is willing to defend with data.