What Is Left

We Of The Never Never.

[Ash @AshPolitik]

Under the One Neuron regime, Pauline would deport half the team.

[Wazza from Melbourne @Melbourne_says]

Nestory Irankunda, a refugee from Tanzania, Africa.

Current status: Deadset hero in the whole of Australia right now. 👏🏼

Awkward day to be a racist, ain’t it.

Go #socceroos

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

On Pauline Hanson: Raf Epstein on #Insiders nails it - "the media hold her to a different standard."

Which is to say, no standard at all.

We've never had a detailed policy interview with Hanson. And a rare policy question sees Pauline unravel.

[🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ChrisNewAccount]

Man with net worth of $20 million has breakdown on live TV because he'll receive less government tax support. #auspol

[Nannan. @NannanBay lower class Australian @NannanBay]

I'm sticking with the party of medicare and good international relationships, lower taxes and fairness for workers. Not perfect but closest to the things I care about in our country.
LNP: chaotic
ON: no depth, no solutions.
https://t.co/CFOLNzGbsY

[Senator Tony Sheldon @TonySheldonNSW]

When they can be bothered to show up, One Nation’s voting record reveals that they’re on the side of billionaires, not battlers.

[What Is Left @ColinDDavey]

@BenWill8254 @Bonobeau2 @strangerous10 I’d be happy to go back and swap her debt pile and mining leases of public resources for my humble home and debt that came with it back then as I worked on for an average wage. The crocodile tears don’t wash it, she is a privileged elitist bankrolling hard right grifters.

[Kos Samaras @KosSamaras]

Every few years our political class goes looking for the “quiet Australians.” In 2019 they found a flattering fiction…..the aspirational mortgage-belt couple, the franking-credit retiree, the tradie worried about his ute that was being threatened by EVs. It was all BS. There was zero data behind any of it. But it told us exactly which Australians our political and commentariat class are willing to lend agency to. It’s almost never the people who actually are the real quiet Australians.

The real ones don’t read the opinion pages. They empty your bins. They wipe your parents in aged care. They clean the office after you’ve gone home. They work the night shift at the meatworks. And the political class treats their labour as the one cost that can always be squeezed and the one claim that can always be deferred.

Watch what happened when 7,000 ASU members stopped Melbourne’s bins this year. The councils blamed the state’s rate cap. The state said the councils were sitting on healthy surpluses and crying poor. Each side pointed at the other, and the garbo, a human being who just wanted to stop picking up weekend shifts to break even, dissolved into the gap between two institutions. That’s the bet our political class makes again and again: muddy who’s responsible, and the public will shrug and move on.

But voters aren’t fooled, and this is where the political class keeps getting it catastrophically wrong. In Hume, the council that told 17,000 households their bins were a casualty of state stinginess is the same council that found $24 million to restore the Broadmeadows Town Hall. The money is always there for the building, the precinct, the plaza, their own renos. It’s the people who keep the suburb from drowning in its own waste who are told the well has run dry, that there is no money to help them feed their kids.

This is why the system is being turned over. We keep telling ourselves the revolt against the major parties, the surge to One Nation, is a story about culture or grievance or misinformation. A moral failing in the voter to be fixed with better messaging. It is nothing of the sort. It is an entirely rational response from an outer-suburban, mortgage-stressed working class that has watched its political class find money and agency for everyone except people like them.

My article on why Garbos are just as important as health workers - below.

[Kos Samaras @KosSamaras]

https://t.co/gwXo8EkS9K

[Rick @colonelhogans]

@KosSamaras Pauline Hanson has disagreed or voted against every pay rise and every bit of legislation by the Labor government for Australian workers.

Especially health, aged care and childcare workers.

[Misinformation Fact Checker. @MisinfoFact]

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson publicly opposed an above inflation wage increase for Australia's 3 million lowest-paid workers.

Pauline Hanson: Talks like a Battler, votes like Billionaire.

#auspol

[Anthony Albanese @AlboMP]

Every Australian aspires to own their own home.

We're delivering real change and helping make that a reality.

[cmdibley @cmdibley]

The Right complaining about the ‘backlash’ against Pickering is a bit rich. He chose to denigrate Grace Tame & criticise her appointment by @abcnews as he is free to do. And he’s free to be a proud #Zionist. Just as we are free to publicly denounce him for being an arsehole.

[Toilet Paper Australia @toiletpaperaus1]

How One Nation genuinely be moving right now:

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

What a nasty bitter miserable corrupt woman.. If you agree please repost. 😩 @PaulineHansonOz #auspol

[Squizz @SquizzSTK]

Tim Wilson gets caught blaming Labor for data when the LNP was in government🙄

Jim Chalmers "I wonder why he's including Mar 2022 and pretending Labor was in office .. that was the biggest fall in productivity in more than 40 years! So it always pays to check the numbers"

#qt

[Misinformation Fact Checker. @MisinfoFact]

Sally McManus fires back at One Nation's working class appeal: "Pauline Hanson is consistent consistently voting against worker's rights."

Citing Hanson's consistently opposition to unfair dismissal laws, penalty rates, and wage theft protections. #Auspol

[Rick @colonelhogans]

MAGA and One Nation.

Your hero Trump love’s pardoning pedophiles and criminals.

🚨 Trump commuted the sentence of pastor Rodney Gibson, a drug dealer.

Gibson has now been arrested again for sexually abusing his 15-year-old foster child.

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

It’s like trying to re-warm last Tuesday’s Chicken McNuggets in the microwave…