Kathi Tait

[One News Australia @OneNewsAu]

🟠 LABOR RECEIVED $36 MILLION IN PUBLIC FUNDING. WHERE IS LABOR'S AUDIT? 🟠 Anthony Albanese spent two days demanding One Nation prove its donations were real. So let's talk about the money nobody's allowed to ask him about.

THE QUESTION HE NEVER HAD TO ANSWER

The CFMEU has donated $4.3 million to the Labor Party, a figure on the parliamentary record. Liberal MP Zoe McKenzie told Parliament the fuller number is $11.5 million in donations and support under this Prime Minister's leadership. The government that took the money abolished the ABCC, the watchdog that prosecuted the union's lawbreaking, and two years later the union's construction division was placed under administration over corruption and bikie infiltration.

THE $36 MILLION FROM TAXPAYERS

While the argument ran over whether One Nation's $59 donors were real, the Daily Telegraph published an analysis of AEC public funding from the last election, reported by Sky News today:

• Labor: more than $36 million
• Liberals: more than $28 million
• Greens: more than $12 million
• One Nation: $6 million
• Nationals: $4 million

THE AUDIT ONE NATION DIDN'T HAVE TO DO

One Nation produced a source code audit inside 48 hours. Software engineer Daryl Monnink reviewed the website's code and live databases and found the $2.2 million counter includes only successfully received and validated donation payments. 28,000 donors, $59 average, and Sky's independent tech experts backed the findings.

Labor's $27 counter campaign has no live tally and no published total. Hanson's number, sourced to the grapevine, is about $20,000. Labor won't confirm or deny it, and under the disclosure rules running until January, it never has to.

One more thing. The $50,000 donation caps that would've changed all of this were Labor's own law, due 1 July. Labor delayed them to January 2027.

Read the full story here: https://t.co/tz6aWUWrKu

[Doni Roy Jackson 🎗️🎗️ @drjgamingyt]

Lets travel back in time, to 1997, at the launch of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party at the Ipswich Civic Center.

This was the protest at the front of the Civic Center.

Noticed anything different? This protest was directed at Pauline Hanson. Not reported by mainstream media that year, because the media then didn't give them any attention.

So, to all those thinking that the "Ditch the Witch" advertisement campaign happening in Victoria is sexist, think of this photo, taken in 1997.

Sources:
https://t.co/WsjZ9spBwM
https://t.co/TR4oA9nR7t

[Kathi Tait @GenXGma]

@mikefutia Scale

[Kathi Tait @GenXGma]

@Matt_Camenzuli The people are sending a message to Albo et al lol

[Kathi Tait @GenXGma]

Slip slop slap Australia 🇦🇺 If you still trust the government you need to wake up

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

STUDY FINDS SUNSCREEN USE LINKED TO DRAMATICALLY HIGHER RISK OF MULTIPLE SKIN CANCERS

A UK Biobank analysis of 470,000+ people found sunscreen users faced significantly higher risk of:

- MELANOMA: +292%
- BASAL CELL CARCINOMA: +140%
- SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA: +126%

This is what happens when you slather rapidly absorbed hormone disrupting chemicals all over your body while blocking vitamin D — one of the body’s key defenses against cancer.

These dramatic cancer signals remained even after accounting for major skin cancer risk factors: age, sex, skin type, tanning ability, sunburn history, sunlamp use, and time spent outdoors.

[Kathi Tait @GenXGma]

@MRobertsQLD Let’s go! 🇦🇺💪

[Kathi Tait @GenXGma]

@OneNewsAu We’ve already smashed 1 mill😎🇦🇺💪

[Kathi Tait @GenXGma]

Labor’s hypocrisy 🤓

[WaltzingRNLilydale @rn_lilydale]

In 1994, to 1997 the ALP ran a 3 year campaign against Pauline called "Ditch the Witch." They stood outside the Ipswich civic centre with signs and even with dogs wearing signs on them with "Ditch the Witch" And the "Witch of Ipswich" Now the ALP are crying over the use of the word Witch, calling it sexist and an attack on women..

[Kathi Tait @GenXGma]

@QBCCIntegrity Just donated it was very close to one million but I think the site just crashed!

[Madero @fuwap15]

2 YEARS now, since the Banking Senate Inquiry tabled it's recommendations, to ensure Rural & Regional communities have access to cash & basic banking services?
The @AlboMP Government has still failed to respond?
Meanwhile Licensed Post Offices @LPOGroup hold the fort!

#auspol

[Kathi Tait @GenXGma]

100%

[Kathi Tait @GenXGma]

So they buy up all the smaller supermarkets so that we’re forced to shop at the big ones and then they offshore all the support jobs. Great job ACCC

[Kate🦋M© @Kate3015]

It was only a matter of time before the big shift offshore started. Woolies is another joining the shift.

Woolworths moves corporate jobs offshore to cut costs and battle rivals.

Woolworths is offshoring hundreds of corporate jobs that will affect staff in finance, human resources and IT, as the supermarket giant seeks to simplify its operations and slash costs amid rising competition.

A Woolworths spokesperson confirmed the outsourcing but declined to say how many workers would be affected because the company would begin consultations with staff on Wednesday morning. The corporate office employs almost 10,000 staff.

The supermarket giant joins a list of other companies such as the major banks, which have been offshoring customer service roles and some white-collar jobs, mostly to Asia.
In May, National Australia Bank flagged plans to hire more than 1000 staff at its offices in Vietnam and India.

Officeworks, owned by Wesfarmers, is also cutting hundreds of local jobs as part of a corporate restructure, and moving customer service centre roles to India and the Philippines.
https://t.co/rwDkcHdQD3

[Rob Smith @Ausbobsmit]

A One Nation Government will remove the GST on building materials when you build a family home.

One Nation will allow pensioners to work and keep their income, along the lines of the New Zealand model.

One Nation will build coal fired power plants, and in the longer terms, start works on Nuclear.

One nation will scrap half of the fuel tax, slashed in half from day one. Helping you at the pump.

One Nation will pull out of Paris, and abolish the climate change department. Saving endless millions.

One Nation will close the tap on endless immigration. Immigration into Australia will become a privilege, not a right.

Just some of the things One Nation will do given the chance.

[AussieLoyalist @LoyalistAussie]

I saw this on @oikirkybruz’s Instagram today. Totally agree.

[Davey @TheRealDavey2]

The current 50% CGT discount is not a "benefit".

The Government has insisted that the existing 50% CGT discount is an unfair “benefit” – a giveaway tilted toward the wealthy that the Budget can no longer justify handing out, and which it is now time to take back. But there is a sleight of hand buried in that very framing, and it deserves to be named. The entire debate has been conducted on the premise that the 50 per cent discount is a benefit the taxpayer receives – something handed out, like a subsidy, that the Government may now sensibly withdraw. This framing should be rejected outright.

The discount is not money the Government gives to anyone. It is money the Government refrains from taking. Those are not the same thing, and the difference is not pedantic. The capital being taxed was earned, saved out of already-taxed income, and put at risk by the person who owns it. When the Government declines to tax half of the resulting gain, it is not bestowing a gift; it is simply leaving the taxpayer in possession of more of what was already theirs. To call that a “benefit” the taxpayer enjoys is to start from the assumption that the money belonged to the Government in the first place, and that anything the taxpayer keeps is a concession granted by the state’s generosity. It is precisely backwards. The default is not that the Government owns your capital and graciously lets you keep some. The default is that the capital is yours, and the tax is the imposition that must be justified.

[Kathi Tait @GenXGma]

Sorry but WTF is a comfort letter? Are we a serious fuckin country?

[Rosita Díaz @RositaDaz48]

Premier Jacinta Allan's government was forced to provide bailout guarantee letters to the state's fire agency and environmental watchdog after concerns emerged about their deteriorating financial positions, as Labor MPs increasingly conclude a leadership change and complete reset are the only way to avoid an electoral wipe-out in November.
Documents obtained under Freedom of' Information laws reveal the government signed a "Letter of Comfort for Fire - Rescue Victoria" and separately approved an "EPA funding supplementation and letter of comfort" on November 21, 2024.

The letters effectively assured lenders and auditors that the Allan government would continue to support the agencies ­financially if required, despite mounting losses and growing pressure on their balance sheets as the state’s net debt tracks ­towards $199.3bn by 2029-30.

The existence of the arrangements, disclosed in a register of ministerial briefs for then-treasurer Tim Pallas, comes after the Allan government issued similar letters of comfort to at least eight other agencies in recent years, highlighting the extent to which parts of Victoria’s public sector have become reliant on explicit Treasury backing amid growing fiscal pressures.
Opposition Leader and Treasury spokeswoman Jess Wilson said the increasing reliance on government support exposed the state’s worsening financial position. “This concerning trend demonstrates the dire state of Victoria’s finances and ultimately means poorer services and higher costs for Victorians,” she said.
“As Victoria’s alternative premier, cleaning up the books and restoring proper financial management is my top priority.”
The state’s fiscal position is one of the drivers fuelling concerns within Labor ranks about the government’s trajectory, with MPs increasingly questioning whether Ms Allan can recover from a prolonged collapse in ­support before the November election.
The Premier faces the prospect of a leadership challenge when parliament returns next week, with senior Labor figures continuing to urge Deputy Premier Ben Carroll to consider a tilt at the leadership. However, it is now considered more likely that any move will occur in July or early August rather than during the upcoming sitting week.
Scores of Labor MPs have been called into party headquarters for briefings on the electoral threat facing them. Labor has identified more than 30 of its own seats as being vulnerable to the Coalition, One Nation and ­independents. The Coalition needs to gain 16 seats to win majority government.
One senior Labor source told The Australian that Labor MPs had the choice of “walking off the cliff with Jacinta and having to find a new job, or rolling the Premier and keeping their job”. The source acknowledged that whoever replaced Ms Allan would need to launch a “complete reset” and stop defending the ­legacy of Daniel Andrews.
“If caucus thinks that things under Jacinta will be better than anyone else, they can neither read nor count and have most likely been hiding under a rock for the last 12 months,” the source said.
Supporters of Ms Allan insist it is too late to change leaders and argue the party must unite behind the Premier.
While a small number of MPs within Ms Allan’s Socialist Left faction have withdrawn their support, the bloc is not yet large enough to combine with the Right faction and install Mr Carroll.
Ms Allan on Tuesday ­acknowledged One Nation was taking votes from Labor but dismissed speculation about her leadership and said she wouldn’t be standing down.
“We also see how One Nation is cannibalising the Liberal Party vote, the National Party vote. And I will also acknowledge that it is taking a slice out of the Labor vote as well. We have to see that, hear that, understand that, keep listening to Victorians,” she said.

I’ve seen these reports (of a leadership challenge). I don’t know who these people are. I ­acknowledge there’s a few anonymous people, a small number.

[Kathi Tait @GenXGma]

@toy59496 Add to that the cost of restructuring!!

[Kathi Tait @GenXGma]

Does this guy know he lives in Australia? It’s time all these people got off their high horses and came back to their Aussie roots - common sense and toughness. It’s also hysterically funny to see the double standard.

[Kathi Tait @GenXGma]

@RositaDaz48 Welfare recipients plus govt employed would probably make one third