@therealrukshan@OzraeliAvi Knock on our door and ask… my 4$$ you would @AlboMP You just stuck you hand in the pocket of every Australian without asking. In fact you promised you wouldn’t and then forced your hand in anyway.
@TMFScottP Or could it be that the buyers will end up being large investment funds (black rock, state street, etc.) who have a different tax agreement with government, think BTR style incentives.
Labor’s budget frames changes to property investment as “intergenerational fairness”, but I think that misses the bigger issue. With vacancy rates near 1.1 per cent and strong migration continuing to add pressure to housing demand, taxing mum-and-dad investors won’t solve Australia’s affordability problem.
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@LukeMikic21 I am ashamed of our government for many reasons, and yes we are over taxed, however, your math doesn’t math.
Australia has a progresive tax system; meaning you get taxed along a sliding scale. Your calculations are based on a flat rate not a sliding scale. I call BS!
“Bastiat proves beyond all doubt that the proper function of government is to protect the lives, liberty, and property of its citizens, but not to provide for them.”
“For in order to provide for some, first it must take from others, becoming the mechanism for legalized plunder.”
@craigkellyAFEE The visual is still a false representation. They make it look like labour is 50+% when it isn’t even a third - all other colours would fit inside red. Another way they lie.
Gad Saad's no-holds-barred defense of free speech
“In a free society, I have to tolerate racists, imbeciles, assholes, falsehood spreaders. I beat them by speaking better ideas.”
The only limit? Direct incitement to violence (e.g., “let’s go beat/kill Jews at the synagogue tonight”).
Everything else — even savage criticism of Judaism, Islam, or any ideology — is protected.
“Your feelings are hurt? F off, grow a pair.”
No belief system is above scrutiny.
No ideology gets a free pass.
1:25 clip — raw, unapologetic truth 👇
Where do you draw the line?
Direct incitement only… or do we need more “protections” from offensive speech?
Your honest take.
Here's another concern with the governments hate speech bill, Part 5.3B.
The Minister doesn't have to give a group any procedural fairness when listing them as a 'prohibited hate group'.
That means no due process, no consideration of the facts and no fairness before a decision is made.
If the minister lists a group, then it will be illegal to be a member, lead, recruit, fundraise or support the group. The minister can put these restrictions in place even if no one from the group has ever been convicted of a crime.
That's a huge amount of power to be used without any procedural fairness.
Leaving Gladstone after last nights branch meeting.
On the way out I stopped at Rio Tinto’s Alumina Refinery.
The bauxite ore for Rio is sourced from Weipa.
When bauxite was originally discovered in Weipa, the then State Government insisted that that the bauxite was refined into Alumina and Aluminium.
This lead to the creation of the Gladstone refineries and is an excellent example of what government should do in preserving our Nations wealth.
Given much of metal refining is now automated, the argument that Australia can’t compete with our neighbours in regard to manufacturing due to higher wages is redundant.
Given Australia has access to abundant energy resources there is no reason why we can’t bring manufacturing and metal processing back on shore.
Australia needs to start value adding to our critical minerals instead of letting them go offshore like Albanese has recently done. The lost upside value would be in the hundreds of billions.
People First has a range of policies that will promote onshore processing and manufacturing such as abolishing payroll tax, restoring the military apprenticeship scheme and building coal fired power stations.
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@NaomiSeibt One minor correction. Nazis were / are leftists; its in the name, ‘National Socialist German Worker’s Party’.
The post war leftists framed it as right wing to distance themselves from it. Nazism always was and always will be left wing
@aammiitt2 That US interest is shorting to accumulate on the cheap, me thinks.
And this 4-day trailing. Curious to see what it looks like in a few days. $JBY $BKB