SmartForStafford

Small Business, Employment, Health, Productivity, Housing. Father of 2 and here for you. Authorised D Smart PO box 8197 Wynnum North qld 4178

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

🎉 Congratulations to the Queensland State Emergency Service on 50 Years of Service! 🎉

@Qldses @Qldsesva @QPSmedia

This weekend QLD SES will march to celebrate a wonderful milestone — 50 years of dedicated service by the Queensland State Emergency Service (SES) and their volunteers.

From establishment on 11 December 1975, the Queensland SES has stood on the front line of natural disasters, emergencies, and community support, helping keep Queenslanders safe through floods, storms, cyclones, search and rescue operations, and countless other emergencies.

This anniversary is an opportunity to recognise the thousands of volunteers, both past and present, who have generously given their time, skills, and commitment to serving their communities.

Their professionalism, courage, and selfless dedication have helped build stronger and more resilient communities across Queensland.

To every SES volunteer, support member, family member, and partner organisation who has contributed over the past five decades — thank you for your service.

We wish everyone attending the SES 50th Anniversary Parade and Community Showcase in Brisbane a fantastic day of celebration as Queensland honours this remarkable achievement.

Join for the community showcase Saturday in King George Square or watch the march from 830am.

👏 Congratulations Queensland SES!
#QueenslandSES #SES50Years #ThankYouSES #CommunityService #Volunteers #Queensland #DisasterResponse #EmergencyServices #KeepingQueenslandersSafe #SES50thAnniversary

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

@negativevortex_ @AvidCommentator You called?

Wait, wrong thread. Carry on.

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

The social welfare nett should have a hierarchy.

1. Defence Force
2. Pensioners and Aged
3. Disability
Should be always be primary then
4. Family support
5. Job seeker
Then
5. Education
Then only if the budget os balanced
6. Foreign or non citizen support.

Its common sense

[Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 @PaulineHansonOz]

We've asked our Defence Force veterans to put their life on the line for this country, now the government wants to cap the amount of healthcare they receive in return.

While NDIS fraudsters are running out of control, the government is cutting nearly a billion dollars in healthcare funding from our veterans.

This is Labor's Budget.

Senate Estimates June 2026.

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

Why has the NDIS created so many millionaires? Are disability outcomes better? How good would they be if those millions weren't going to for profit grifters charging poorly designed rate cards. There's a simple fix 👇 #VoteSmart

[Gerard Rennick @RennickGBR]

People should not become wealthy from NDIS. .

“Key figures in the Gillard government, who founded the NDIS, have gone on to chair union-backed super funds that are the biggest financial winners from the disability scheme.

In the largest transaction in NDIS history, a firm co-owned by more than a dozen industry funds turned a $28m investment into a $360m payday in just four years.

The firm, IFM Investors, used its “private equity” division to buy over 80 per cent of the largest NDIS plan management company, Adelaide-based My Plan Manager, from founder Claire Wittwer-Smith in 2019.

Documents obtained by this masthead reveal IFM forked out $26.8m in cash to a former special ed teacher, who had started My Plan Manager (MPM) in 2014 after leaving a job at the National Disability Insurance Agency.

At the time of the buy, IFM Investors was chaired by ex federal Labor cabinet minister and one-time ACTU boss Greg Combet.

When IFM sold MPM in 2023, Mr Combet had left. But former Labor cabinet minister Lindsay Tanner had joined as a director.

IFM Investors is ultimately owned by industry super funds including Hesta – chaired by former Labor health minister Nicola Roxon – and Cbus, whose board is led by ex Labor treasurer Wayne Swan.

All four were ministers under Julia Gillard, who founded the NDIS.

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Disabled people should not be treated like commodities.

The fact that NDIS companies can be sold for millions of dollars shows that the scheme has been set up in a way to benefit grifters and not disabled people.

It should as no surprise that superannuation funds are involved in this grifting as they have a long established track record in grifting fees from poor working Australians.

Nor should it come as no surprise that the Labor party are behind this grifting.

Hiding behind their faux bleeding hearts are multimillionaires deceiving taxpayers of hard earned tax dollars and disabled people the proper support they need.

And don’t forget the money Superannuation funds pour into foreign owned renewables.

https://t.co/PeAaJW2pjF is the only party prepared to stop these rorts. Sign up today.

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

One Nation is the best marketing department for the @peoplefirstau policy suite and Gerard is the best economic policy writer One Nation could ever wish for.

If only marketing realised you can cut n paste the words, but you need the technician in the room to execute.

#VoteSmart

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

Interesting discussion around employment discrimination in relatiin to pregnancy or potenyial oregnancy in a workplace context.

It's time to #VoteSmart

[Rosita Díaz @RositaDaz48]

#TheSpectator

"I'm ... very confused."

Transcript of a discussion between Dr Anna Cody - Sex Discrimination Commissioner - and Senator Michaelia Cash regarding the potential of transgender women to become pregnant any discrimination they might face.

MC: "Did you ask the Federal Court to extend pregnancy protections to transgender women?"

AC: "Senator, not from my recollection ... in the submissions we talked about the meaning of pregnancy and potential pregnancy and how that may apply to transgender identity."

MC: "How do you see that applying in the Act currently to transwomen?"

AC: "Transwomen. If someone who applies for a job, for example, and it is a transwoman, and she may be asked whether or not she intends to have children and if she replies, 'Yes, I do.' And then doesn't get the job because that employer doesn't want to employ women who may be of child-bearing age then she may have been subjected to unlawful discrimination on the basis of potential pregnancy."

MC: "I'm very confused. A biological male cannot become pregnant."

AC: "But the grounds of pregnancy includes 'potential pregnancy' as well as pregnancy."

MC: "But if they can't become pregnant how can you then become 'potentially pregnant'?"

AC: "It's about the unlawful treatment by the employer. If someone is treated unfairly on the basis of pregnancy or potential pregnancy then that is unlawful discrimination on the basis of pregnancy."

MC: "So, if a bloke came in and they said, 'Are you going to have children?' Which is the same question, really. And he said, 'Oh, yeah, maybe.' Are you saying that he could also claim that ground?"

AC: "If he didn't receive the job because..."

MC: "They can't get pregnant."

AC: "No. Not a man who is seeking a position then it's not going to apply to a man."

MC: "They're both biological men. It makes no sense.
A biological man.
You stated it.
A biological man can't get pregnant.
Am I correct?
Because if I'm not.
I've got to go back to school. I seriously do.
Because I missed that lesson in biology.
I went to a convent school ... the nuns may not have told me about that.
But you said a biological man can't get pregnant."

AC: "That's correct, Senator. But someone who is a transwoman may be assumed to be pregnant or to be able to be pregnant."

MC: "So, what stops a man putting on a dress, walking in, and claiming the protections? He's now a woman. You've admitted that."

AC: "That would be up to a court to decide whether or not it was discrimination on a..."

MC: "With all due respect, it is an absurdity of the law yet again which shows - again - the law does need to be changed because, for the record, biological men - doesn't matter what way you cut it - you cannot get pregnant and, quite frankly, it is an insult to women who actually are discriminated on because they want to have children when they biologically can get pregnant.

♦️The good news is that what we're proving today is that the law needs to be changed."

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

@neld34129 @JohnRuddick2 I read of this issue in the economist probably 20 years ago, in a 3rd world country, and the result today is that the dowry rev ersed

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

@DavidCrisafulli Lunch today is sorted!

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

Interesting development on Labor's Mass Immigration ploy, to cut immigration to wedge @OneNationAus

Labor is running scared
@AusLobby ?

#VoteSmart

[Old Soldier @OMGTheMess]

The Albanese government has quietly slashed a key migration avenue by half in what one expert has suggested is a “political ploy” to throw a spanner in the works for One Nation and the Nationals.

Grubs, just complete grubs

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

@negativevortex_ @Michael89529595 I will run, probably Bonner in Qld but I may go regional as my life is flexible.

I will run if I have a chance of winning myself or ensuring someone I'm aligned with wins via my preferences.

Rising tide lifts all boats

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

@negativevortex_ @Michael89529595 Only works due to the group ticket in Vic state, or possibly for a tilt at the federal senate. Lets hope people avoid the liars and #VoteSmart next time.

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

@LibertariansQLD @LibertariansVic @Real_King_Elvis @brobson_politic @JohnRuddick2 @Thejimpenman @GemmaNoiosi @MacarthurNSW @craigkellyAFEE @LibertariansGaz @libertarianact Correct, when will the general voring public wake up?

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

@StudLeeMD @OMGTheMess There we are then.

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

@GemmaNoiosi Unfortunate one must waste time on something so obvious. Distraction from other equally critical issues perhaps?

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

@GemmaNoiosi @JohnRuddick2 I'm in Australia. 💪

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

@fm_aus Without intimidation is the important part. Bill of rights for all Aust's. Jacob Hersant and Liam Parry both appear to have allegedly fallen foul of what should be enshrined free speech. They are the same. Their messages I may disagree with, methods illegal, but words, free.

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

@StudLeeMD @OMGTheMess I don't think your post means what you think it means. Capital loss is existential and binary, not an accounting loss. Enjoy the pokies.

[SmartForStafford @GetSmartVote_1]

@StudLeeMD @OMGTheMess If you lose your capital, you can't generate a gain from it. You need new capital.

Those losses are also ringfenced in the vehicle that lost them, say your business goes broke, you need to start anew for finance. When you sell, you can't use the capital loss.

Tough deduction