Graham Lethlean

Hobby farmer, love AFL, Cricket, Politics married with 3 Tin Lids, King of likes and retweet’s

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Forget all the huge supermarkets and their mawkish Christmas adverts, this was the best Christmas advert - Enniskillen pub Charlie's put out this advert back in 2023. It’s brilliant.

[Graham Lethlean @LethleanG]

@hasselljpb WELL done John 👍

[Dave Hughes @DHughesy]

Don’t touch it! Not a cent has been put in the future fund since Howard/Costello got booted to usher in the reign of Kevin07. The last 4 billion went in during the first few months of Kevin’s tenure but that was already set. The future fund has grown to 356 billion with only 64 billion in taxpayer money contributed and none since 2008. I celebrated KRudds election hard. We had a party that night. I was an idiot. What the future fund’s growth represents today is how rich Australia could be if we had kept on this prudent financial path, rather than got completely distracted by Labor’s bullshit. Again, I have only just realised this. And following Coalition Governments also have not been good btw. We need to go back to simple maths. Our politicians think they’re rock stars who need to be in the limelight every three seconds and they waste billions of taxpayer dollars in the process.

[Dave Hughes @DHughesy]

Ever wondered why PM Albanese is so ill-advised? Like does anyone advise him. I did the research, strap yourself in. For context Labor legend PM Bob Hawke had 15 staff in his PM office.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

An very important message!

[Avi Yemini @OzraeliAvi]

She Was NOTHING Like the Other Protesters... 👀

I went to a ‘kids protest’ against Pauline Hanson expecting more of the same.

Then I met this student.

We disagreed on plenty, but she did something almost nobody else there was willing to do: have a genuine conversation.

Maybe there IS hope for the next generation after all.

SUPPORT: https://t.co/iT0QfjLqoc so we can keep hitting the streets!

[Dave Hughes @DHughesy]

Hughesy, quick one.

We've got a small restaurant in Perth. Paid our staff super every quarter for five years, in full, never missed.

Turns out the ATO counts it as paid when it hits the employee's fund, not when it leaves your account. Clearing house takes five days. We paid on the due date. So it landed five days late.

Five days late = the whole quarter counts as never paid. Then 10% interest a year on the full amount, backdated to 2021, ignoring the fact we paid.

Bill came in at $140k. Thats interest on money that's been sitting in our staff's super accounts earning for them the whole time.

Best part is there was no way to check. No report exists. You can't even get a login to the clearing house. I asked. They said employers don't get one.

Accountant says he's got other clients the same. Feels like half the small venues in the country are sitting on this.

Anyway, on a payment plan, still open, still cooking. Just gonna work a whole year and all profit goes to the ATO. Cheers

Is this fair ATO?

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

To Britain’s farmers -

You got through one of the hardest summers in a generation. Five heatwaves. A flash drought. England’s driest July on record. Grass that stopped growing. Harvests weeks early. Fields that baked, cracked, and still had to be worked.

That is not a season you simply endure. It is long days, winter forage opened in August, water rationed, and crops taken when they were ready - yield or no yield. Arable, livestock, horticulture, dairy: none of you escaped it.

Congratulations is the right word, even beside the exhaustion. You kept animals watered and fed. You got the harvest in. You kept food moving when the weather was doing everything it could to stop you.
September rain has given the land a first drink.

The outlook now leans towards a wetter, more unsettled autumn. That is what is needed: rain that soaks in, soil that will take a drill, grass that grows again.

Thank you, well done. And here’s to hoping autumn is kinder!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​🍻

[Bryn Davies an OA dad @tofar1]

Another attack on livestock farmers. If this gets up. The livestock industry is fucked and they know it. Who could afford to hire a vet to put rings on lambs or put down a hangstrung sheep. Or mules.

[J. C. de Vries @J_C_deVries]

I am not a builder. I am not an engineer. I am not a farmer, nor a miner. I cannot build a railway, sink a mine shaft or raise a bridge. In the civilisational sense I am spectacularly useless, merely a steward of memory through my work. But I refuse to let that memory be softened or rewritten.

Europeans built Australia. Not “contributed.” Built. The farms, mines, railways, ports, roads, bridges, dams, power stations, factories, universities and institutions which turned isolated colonies into one of the richest nations on earth did not appear by accident. Our ancestors crossed mountains, cleared land, sank shafts, strung telegraph wire across a continent, opened the Pilbara, built the Snowy Mountains Scheme and spanned Sydney Harbour. They did it through hardship and mistakes, yes, but also through ingenuity, discipline and enterprise.

Yet the coping never stops. Serious people increasingly speak as though Australia emerged from a multicultural committee meeting, with everyone contributing equally to the institutions and prosperity we inherited. They idolise Aboriginal Australia, as if pre-colonial society were perfectly peaceful, harmonious and free from conflict, all while casting white Europeans as though they alone brought violence to the continent.

Apparently the railways laid themselves. The wheat belt farmed itself. The mines excavated their own ore. The dams rose from the valleys. The Westminster system, common law and universities presumably washed ashore already assembled. Point out who overwhelmingly built these things and suddenly historical reality becomes racist. The people who built the country increasingly appear chiefly as villains, the "evil white colonisers," while those who arrived yesterday receive retrospective credit, as if without them, our civilisation would be nothing.

I will never build a harbour bridge or blast a railway through the Blue Mountains. My job is smaller and more pathetic: I keep the ledger. I remember who built the roads, raised the towns, worked the mines, farmed the land, fought the wars and built the institutions. We built it. The least we should do is stop pretending otherwise.

[Old Soldier @OMGTheMess]

The top tax threshold sat at $180,000 back in 2008.

Today it sits at $190,000 — a tiny $10,000 increase across 18 years.

Meanwhile, inflation over that same period has risen dramatically, meaning the purchasing power of $180,000 back then is roughly equivalent to around $270,000 or more today.

The government is making billions from bracket creep.

[Graham Lethlean @LethleanG]

@bouta_nt That’s ridiculous! What did the big Buggar eat?

[Bruce Cook @bruzo2]

I wonder if Chis Bowen has read Chris Uhlmann in the Weekend Australian?

[Graham Lethlean @LethleanG]

@AdamCoffeyNT @JakeWolki Yeah I don’t know what the all the fuss is about!

[Graham Lethlean @LethleanG]

@callydupe Nice to be bogged 😂welcome back 👍

[Graham Lethlean @LethleanG]

@simonmaechling Don’t do it?

[Graham Lethlean @LethleanG]

@HoolyMcg 😂

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

The coal-fired capacity of Australia’s national electricity grid is down to just 21 GW.

And under Net Zero, aggressively championed by Labor, the Greens, and the Teals this remaining 21GW will be forced to close, with Australia prohibited from replacing them with new high efficiency coal fired power stations.

Their delusional justification? That Australia unilaterally abandoning coal will somehow “stop bad weather.”

This is virtue-signalling fantasy at its most destructive.

Meanwhile, China is roaring ahead with another 501 GW of new coal-fired power under development or construction.

Net Zero is nothing but a traitorous act of economic sabotage.

The betrayal is peddled by lying grifters, spivs, and rent-seekers who insist new coal plants are “uneconomic.” All while they stuff their pockets with taxpayer-funded subsidies to import Chinese-made solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries.

And then there are the gullible brainwashed low IQ fools - Communist China’s useful idiots - who have swallowed this propaganda, burying their heads in the sand to fact that China already has more coal-fired capacity per capita than Australia and in addition has more than 20 times the entire capacity of Australia’s existing coal fleet (which we are closing down) under development.

Think of our National destructive stupidity - for every GW of coal that Australia plans to close down - China is planning to build another 20GW.

Australia’s Net Zero advocates aren’t misguided idealists—they are actively harming the national interest.

By sabotaging our reliable energy base, enriching foreign suppliers (especially China), and weakening our economy and sovereignty, they function as economic traitors engaged in self-inflicted industrial sabotage.

Their policies de-industrialize Australia, export jobs and emissions overseas, and leave Australians poorer and more vulnerable.

Reliable, affordable energy base on Australia’s coal resources is the foundation of prosperity. Undermining it to chase symbolic global targets while our competitors laugh and build is not leadership—it is national self-harm.