Ephesus

It’s not the end until it is

[💧Sandi Keane @Jarrapin]

Stop mega-polluter Santos from wrecking our groundwater and climate by fracking in the Territory's Beetaloo Basin. https://t.co/ZnhTuYvT0D @NoCSGGurley @nocsg_sandhi @nocsgsydney
@nocsgg
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[Ephesus @CSGstinks]

Who else has noticed how energy bills not being used for grievance politics. It's because affordable batteries are transforming energy generation economics. And Australia is leading the world. https://t.co/4KwMaw9XVu

[Ephesus @CSGstinks]

@Peter_Fitz Robbie Mortimer needs to return to his real job as a special needs teacher that he left in 2023.

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

In the 17 years since the future sub program commenced, Defence has spent 3,400 million NOT buying French subs 🤦‍♂️ and 1,000 million NOT life extending Collins subs 🤦‍♂️ and 5,000 million on US subs that WON’T arrive🤦‍♂️. #waste #CapabilityGap #AUKUS #aupsol https://t.co/4ry9ffLnYV

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Some of Australia's largest mining companies receive hundreds of millions in diesel fuel tax credits - BHP alone received $622 million last financial year.

At a time when the budget is under pressure and Australians are feeling huge cost of living pressures, these subsidies need to end.

We should be capping fuel tax credits to look after farmers and small miners but make the biggest miners pay the full price for diesel like everyone else.
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[Ephesus @CSGstinks]

Ponga Stinks

[Ephesus @CSGstinks]

@AngusTaylorMP i am really not sure how these two things are connected

[💧Sandi Keane @Jarrapin]

Lousy reporting on 7.30 tonight. No mention Inland Rail was for Barnaby’s CSG donors including branch line to Gladstone paid for by us taxpayers! Also BJ’s questionable purchase of several parcels of land. 👎Do your job ABC!

[David Sharaz @SharazDavid]

Why is Crikey the only media outlet calling this out?

Australia has one of the most concentrated media markets in the world, dominated by ..... News Corp

[Ephesus @CSGstinks]

Bargain of the year, spend $11milliom, save $17bn When will numeracy become mandatory for mining ministers, and public servants come to that

[Mark Ogge @MarkOgge]

Wow, it only cost the foreign owned gas lobby $11.2 million in ads to stop Albanese Government introducing a tax that would have raised $17 BILLION every year ongoing for Australians.

Thats a 1,500% ROI… minimum!

At least we know calls the shots.

[Ephesus @CSGstinks]

@TimWilsonMP how little are they being paid if the CGT on the shares would be less than 30%. Tax is currently 30% on every dollar of profit you earn over $45,000 in an interest savings account

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

"Death Tax" hehe

... brought to you by the people who didn't pay any tax for 10 years

[Ephesus @CSGstinks]

@macsween_prue @AlboMP @JEChalmers

[Ephesus @CSGstinks]

@PaulineHansonOz a billionnaire will only get it if they do PAYG. what billionaire does that?

[Ephesus @CSGstinks]

Really great news about the trusts getting standardised with regular tax to be paid by the wealthy. Good policy is policy that is standard across the board.

[Ephesus @CSGstinks]

@TimWilsonMP The new additions to the PBS including for cystic fibrosis are great. I'm also really happy about the end of the medical insurance discount for over 65s, this should always have been means tested at worst. #insiders

[Ephesus @CSGstinks]

Is the goal really home ownership or stable, affordable housing for people under 30, under 40 so they can get on with their lives. #abc730 #insiders

[Ephesus @CSGstinks]

@OneNationAus scrape scape

[Sue Barrett-Onward We Press @SueBarrett]

Tim Wilson will 'never, ever, ever' be treasurer.
@rachelrwithers has nailed it. Wilson has one setting - protect the wealth of the few - and no crisis, no electoral catastrophe, and no amount of disaffection among ordinary Australians will shift it.

As a Goldstein constituent who has watched him since 2016, I can add this: the performance is entirely consistent. Wilson is a master of the performative gesture - the provocative tweet, the theatrical press conference, the karaoke clown moment in parliament that generates a day's worth of headlines and zero legislation.

He confuses noise with substance and attention with achievement.

An undisclosed shareholding during a taxpayer-funded inquiry he chaired. A political brand built entirely on controversy rather than delivery.

He lost the seat in 2022 to a community independent who delivered in one term what Wilson never managed in two. He won it back in 2025 on the thinnest of margins and the most expensive anonymous attack campaign in recent Australian electoral history. The constituents are still waiting.

The flip-flopping on One Nation is not confusion. It is self-preservation in real time. Wilson has no core values beyond self-protection and self-enrichment - he bends with whatever wind he calculates will keep him relevant, funded, and in the room. He does not serve Goldstein. He has never served Goldstein. He serves himself - and the donors and ideological patrons who have bankrolled his career from the IPA to parliament and back again.

The Farrer result and the One Nation surge are the direct consequence of decades of economic policy that Wilson has championed - and he still cannot see it. That is not strategic blindness. That is ideological capture.

He will never, ever, ever be treasurer. And Goldstein is next.
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[Alan Baxter ♛ @AlanBixter]

@KatyKray73 In Australia, the solar panels installed on grazing land are suspended 150-200cm above the ground so that cattle and sheep can graze beneath them. The panels condense water from the air over night, improving grass growth and provide shade for the stock during the day. /2