@CalTwomey AFL HQ have gotten way too big for their boots. Giant egos who forget it is the clubs, members & fans that are the lifeblood of the game, not them. They are a self absorbed bunch of incompetents. Time for some to move on & leave OUR game alone.
@newscomauHQ Hmm, how many MPs do they have in House of Reps right now? How many senators in upper house?
They can do diddly squat at moment, let alone muster up the votes on own to defeat anything in either house. All Newscorp bullshit. Election still 2 years away.
Why let China BUY Australian land when you can give it to terrorist genocidal Zionist Israeli's FOR FREE to build death drones to murder Palestinian babies!!
What happened to Australia first??
Gina Rinehart unpatriotic
Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart proposed offering free Australian land near Townsville, Queensland, to skilled Israelis to establish advanced defense manufacturing.
The proposal was made during a speech where she was introduced by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, and it also included a separate suggestion to grant Queensland islands to Elon Musk for SpaceX operations
Speaking at the Speech by Mrs Gina Rinehart AO - Townsville Bush Summit, Rinehart suggested utilizing the inland town of Prairie (located 340km from Townsville) as a free land option for Taiwan's microchip industry, paired with tax holidays, a nearby port, and airport access
Proposed Incentives: Free land use, tax holidays, an international airport (or heliport), and connectivity to the Port of Townsville.
Another own goal is to not listen to public who requested a RC into Murdoch media empire. Now virtually all media in Aus is RW/conservative & working to oust you from power. You seriously lack judgement PM.
@AlboMP@AustralianLabor So Advance are going to run ads against your government. Isn’t one of big donors to Advance Jillian Segal & her partner? Isn’t it a giant own goal to have woman you appointed to a high paying envoy role actively working against you?
@AFL@CalTwomey Club CEO’s should get together and formulate their own plan outside of AFL HQ. Plus include AFL fans association. Tell Dillon & the rest of AFL idiots to fark off. Time to put fans & clubs before AFL greedy bosses.
Geez Sarah Martin's good:
"Pauline Hanson accessed a federal govt rebate scheme to install solar power on her Qld home, despite calling for an end to public subsidies for renewable energy projects."
https://t.co/JFftx1HbXK
@CalTwomey Why can’t they stop fiddling with game? Some of changes already made should be axed. Actual game is so far removed from what made it unique it is laughable. Poor umpiring standards, pathetic fixtures, fiddling with drafts, free agency comp farce. All about $.
@Mahnoor18288159 No. She is not competent at putting a sentence together, basic maths etc, she would be a disaster with any form of political power. She is incapable of that sort of role.
History being repeated. I’m sure not many Australians know about the 1940s campaign to establish a Jewish community in the Kimberley’s. Gina’s father Lang was an influential supporter of it.
Lang Hancock was an outspoken supporter of Dr. Isaac Steinberg's proposal (known as the Kimberley Plan) to establish a Jewish settlement in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Hancock, a prominent pastoralist and mining magnate, advocated for the plan as a means to develop the remote northern region of the state. His support was rooted in his broader belief that populating and developing northern Australia was vital for the nation's progress and security. The settlement proposal, led by Steinberg on behalf of the Freeland League, ultimately failed after facing staunch opposition from the federal government and concerns over establishing autonomous enclaves.
The Sanewashing of Hanson Is at Its Peak.
This is how Trump came to power: platform the lies, skip the follow-up, let the headlines call it “proving her critics wrong.”
We are all watching it happen in real time.
At the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson said the following. Not one claim was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.
-1. Unlike the Prime Minister, I welcome scrutiny.” Hypocritical. In the same speech she announced she refuses ABC interviews, will scrap the SBS, & will make the ABC subscription-only. The event allowed 2 hours; standard format gives 25–30 mins for the address. She spoke for 50-halving the time left for questions. When Guardian journalist Sarah Martin used that remaining time to ask about her daughter's $150,000 taxpayer-funded advisor role, Hanson called her “a trashy journalist” and banned her from all future press conferences.
• “Babies are aborted the day before birth.” Fabricated. Late-term abortion is highly restricted, requires medical approval, and occurs only in genuine medical emergencies.
• “Interest rates are heading towards 10%.” False. RBA cash rate: 4.35%. Forecast to fall, not rise.
• “There’s no gender pay gap — just women taking time off.” False. WGEA confirms the gap exists at equal hours, equal roles, regardless of career breaks.
• “$30B a year on Indigenous programs.” False. Only 18% (~$5.6B) is Indigenous-specific. The rest is the Indigenous share of mainstream services every Australian uses.
• Transgender people were compared to “militant Islam.” False and dangerous. ABS data: transgender and gender-diverse Australians make up 1% of the pop’n. There’s no body of research showing transgender ppl commit crime at elevated rates-in fact it shows transgender people are dramatically more likely to be victims of violence— assault, sexual violence, and homicide rates against trans people are well above general population rates in most studies (US, UK, and Aust data all show this pattern)
• “23% of Australians can’t speak English.” False. That 23% speak another language at home — most are bilingual. Limited English proficiency: just 3.2%.
• “The CEFC has had $200 billion.” False by a factor of six. Actual legislated capacity: $33 billion.
• “I care about the homeless and hungry.” Hypocritical. In the same speech, she backed cuts to Indigenous-specific funding — despite Aboriginal homelessness running up to 10 times higher than the non-Indigenous rate.
• $90 billion in cuts, no plan. ~$35 billion of it remains unaccounted for. No modelling.
• “I support worker rights.” False. Voted against minimum wage increases, penalty rates, criminalising wage theft, casual conversion rights, same job same pay, and the right to disconnect. Took a $100,000 pay rise while voting against a tax break for low-paid workers
• Called Australian workers “lazy.” She has attended just 12% of Senate estimates since 2016 & 53% of parliamentary votes. Paid over $200k a year
• Labor have let immigration get out of control.” False. Net overseas migration has fallen every year since the post-COVID peak in 2022-23 — 538,000 → 446,000 → 306,000 in 2024-25. She also recycled a 26-year-old ABS pop’n projection as a fresh “next 50 years” forecast
Said: This beautiful country belongs to all Australians born here and those who have joined us”- in her opening line; then spent the next 50 minutes demanding a monocultural society, comparing transgender Australians to militant Islam, inflating migration and language figures, denying the gender pay gap, and repeating the debunked $30 billion Indigenous funding myth. Welcomed everyone in the first sentence. Spent the rest of the speech defining most of them out — and offered no plan to fix anything she raised, only $90 billion in cuts.
Not one follow-up question. No source data on a single figure in the entire speech. This is what unchallenged looks like.
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Pauline Hanson went full Trump rather than answer one simple question about her daughter's tax-payer funded job.
This 6 point chronological timeline shows exactly what Hanson was dodging:
1. Sean Bell lived in Queensland and, was Pauline Hanson's adviser for 9 years.
2. NSW One Nation Senator Warwick Stacey resigns after just 6 weeks.
3. Sean Bell is then parachuted into the vacant NSW seat by Hanson.
4. Pauline's daughter Lee Hanson is then hired as Bell's adviser, having never performed that role ever before, and on a salary up to $180k - all taxpayer-funded.
5. MPs can't employ their own family - so Lee, who lives in Tasmania is assumed to be technically employed by Sean Bell - a NSW Senator. Very convenient.
6. Despite being employed as an Advisor to a NSW senator, Lee still lives in Tasmania and spends much of her time campaigning for One Nation.
Now you see why Hanson went 'full Trump' rather than answer.
I want to thank Gina Rinehart for exposing One Nation’s clear alignment as THE Pro-Israel 🇮🇱 party.
Without her bold and forthright statement, many Australians would still be unaware of their concerning plans involving the potential handover of SOVEREIGN AUSTRALIAN LAND!!!land.
Australia cannot & will NOT become the new Gaza.