Matt Lewis

[Matt Lewis @MyLewisMatt]

@Markyles Gee I hope you’re right 🤞

[Matt Lewis @MyLewisMatt]

@HelpRodger Labor did the same thing banning live cattle exports. Massive money made since then by those that bought cheap cattle and cattle properties

[Matt Lewis @MyLewisMatt]

@JEChalmers You must be referring to the government economy yes?

[Matt Lewis @MyLewisMatt]

@JEChalmers If virtue signalling was an olympic sport you and your cronies would be world champions

[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.

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[Matt Lewis @MyLewisMatt]

@JEChalmers Modeling predicted you were supposed to be wiped off on the curtains

[Ryan Dally @Ryandally08]

Back in 1996, Pauline Hanson visited a remote Aboriginal town in the Northern Territory and had questions for the ASIC commissioner as to where all the millions of taxpayer dollars, which are allocated to these places, are actually going given the state of the town.

She notes the streets are filthy:

“If you have such an affinity for the land then why is there so much rubbish laying around the street”

Aboriginal Elder “it’s a minor thing, it’s a misunderstanding on your part of Aboriginal culture”

Hanson “what it needs is leadership”

Elder “all you do is carry on with racist, stupid, ignorant remarks, we have insufficient funds to change anything”

Hanson “what is enough money? There is not a bottomless pit out there”

The money, where is it going?

Pauline then takes a drive through the town noting all the debilitated housing with broken windows and holes through the walls.

Hanson “With the money being allocated, why are the houses in this condition?”

When it’s pointed out that 70% of the community has been affected by alcoholism, the elder rages.

Elder “White people are the biggest drunks in the world”

He then blames the Government for not providing employment opportunities.

In the 30 years since Pauline’s visit, alcoholism remains at record levels and sexual assault also remains at record levels.

After millions upon millions of taxpayer Government grants, the only thing that has changed since Pauline’s last visit.

Is the date.

[Gav Meister @GavinBrx]

An Australian family in Perth just sat down and did the maths the government hoped you’d never do.
Cost to buy & own a home over 34 years: $2,016,850
Taxes paid to the government over the same period: $2,717,865
You paid more in tax than for your own house. Let that sink in.
Breakdown:
• $2.2M in income taxes, GST, duties & excises
• $105k in council rates
• $94k in vehicle taxes across 7 cars
• $300k in tax on your super (the money meant for retirement)
And what’s the big relief in the 2025 Budget? A $268 tax cut.
That’s $5.15 a week — less than a pie and a beer.
You’re not bad with money. You’re being taxed into the ground.
I love this country, but I’m bloody tired of everyday Aussies working their whole lives just to hand over more to the government than they spend on their home — while those collecting it face zero consequences.
The numbers don’t lie.
Time to prepare, protect and future-proof your family. The fighting spirit is needed now more than ever.
(Martene Wallace on Instagram)
What do you think? 🇦🇺

[christopher joye @cjoye]

This is so incredibly good:

Economist Joseph Schumpeter warned that capitalism weakens when prosperous societies become so comfortable they forget where prosperity came from – and begin resenting the entrepreneurial class that created it.

A country might survive high taxes for periods of time. What becomes dangerous is something deeper: the moral suspicion of ambition itself. The creeping belief that commercial success is inherently exploitative, that profit is morally dubious, or that founders should quietly accept punishment for surviving years of uncertainty.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers should think carefully about the signals embedded in this budget. Tax policy communicates values. This budget signals that founders are not viewed as partners in national prosperity, but simply reservoirs of revenue whose success is viewed with suspicion...

Civilisation advances because some people are willing to bet on tomorrow before tomorrow exists. Australia should be doing everything possible to encourage those people to build businesses here. Because once a society begins treating ambition as something suspect rather than admirable, it eventually discovers that no nation can remain prosperous after teaching its most ambitious people that they are unwelcome.

https://t.co/nxmwyx9aZc

[Matt Lewis @MyLewisMatt]

@JEChalmers You have gall, I will give you that Jimbo. Can’t wait to see the arse end of you and your cronies though

[Ozpollies @OzPollies]

Tax his land, tax his wage,
Tax his bed in which he lays.

Tax his tractor, tax his mule,
Teach him taxes is the rule.

Tax his cow, tax his goat,
Tax his pants, tax his coat.

Tax his ties, tax his shirt,
Tax his work, tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco, tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.

Tax his cigars, tax his beers,
If he cries, tax his tears.

Tax his car, tax his gas,
Find other ways to tax his ass.

Tax him good and let him know,
After his taxes he has no dough.

If he hollers, tax him more,
Tax him ‘til he’s good and sore.

Tax his coffin, tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he lays.

Put these words upon his tomb,
“Taxes drove me to my doom!”

And when he’s gone, we won’t relax,
We’ll still be after the inheritance tax.

[christopher joye @cjoye]

The chart below shows the effective capital gains tax rate facing a business owner who invests $250,000 upfront, holds for 10 years, and then exits at different valuations. The result is striking: under Labor’s proposed CGT changes, Australian founders and investors would face an effective tax rate of up to 46% — roughly double the burden faced in most comparable markets, including the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Japan and New Zealand. And this is not just a founder problem. The same logic applies across all small, medium and large businesses, and any asset, including listed equities, property, private equity, venture capital and crypto. If these changes proceed, Australia will become one of the least attractive places in the developed world to build, invest, take risk and realise gains. The one major asset still sitting outside this tax net is the owner-occupied home, which remains CGT-exempt. That creates a powerful distortion. If investment properties, businesses, shares, commercial property and other assets are hit with materially higher effective CGT rates, capital will rationally look for shelter in the family home. The likely result: less capital for startups and productive enterprise, lower productivity, more pressure on rents as investors retreat from housing, higher inflation and interest rates, weaker demand for risk assets, and even more money being recycled into owner-occupied property — the last great tax haven in Australia. In short: this is not just a profound increase in the tax burden, with zero consultation in the name of giving imprudent politicians more money to waste. It is a major repricing of risk-taking in Australia. It is not reform: it is highly regressive, as it seeks to punish entrepreneurial success, which is the key driver of long-term jobs, incomes, growth and prosperity. It does not boost productivity: it destroys it by actively discouraging innovation and business creation. It will not lower the cost of living: it will lift it by boosting rents and making us much more inefficient. It will not reduce interest rates: alongside rampant and reckless government spending and record migration, it will pressure the RBA to raise our mortgage repayments. What is perhaps most shocking is that only 12 months ago this government was elected on the basis promising to never make these changes...

[Matt Lewis @MyLewisMatt]

@Voz_Dennis I would like to read your report please Dennis
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[Matt Lewis @MyLewisMatt]

@TopherField Fuel excise tax will return soon enough

[Matt Lewis @MyLewisMatt]

@PatrickGormanMP I think you’re suffering from Barnaby Derangement Syndrome 🤣

[Melania ♠️♦️♣️♥️ @Melanianez]

Senator Alex Antic: “ Australians deserve to know the extent to which WEF has influenced and infiltrated our country and how far it’s gone, and we’re gonna find it”

Who are the people deciding our fate and our children’s future?

Who are the corrupt politicians selling us out?

Who are these powerful foreign lobbies? Who are their accomplices robing us of living peacefully?

Who decides on our behalf?

No more hiding games, we mastered every single next move of yours!

We have got to fight now or we will perish!

[Matt Lewis @MyLewisMatt]

@SandraEckersley I’m sure you are very lovely and well meaning Sandra. Please consider that there are many Australians who may be living a very different existence to you. I encourage you to transect the real Australia and visit some of these so called nutters. It’s a big country

[JAKE FLAGPIES23 🏆🖤🤍 @IncrediblyBozza]

This was @PaulineHansonOz in 2021.

These comments have aged like absolute 🍷 right now.

#auspol

[down under @downund60580785]

I’m DONE.
50 FUCKING YEARS of sweat.
Two trades.
Diploma engineering
Busted my ass.
Raised good kids.
Paid every damn tax.
Obeyed every law.
Voted like they told me to.

And for what?

A system that laughs in our face.
Politicians who lie straight to our facess.
Promises of “better days” that were just bait.
While THEY cash checks and WE get the bill.
They mollycoddle their chosen voter base with exorbitant government grants, NDIS and assistance.
Regardless how vile their statements against Australians and their celebrating of the most evil regime since hitler
They blow 15 souls on bondi beach and this piece of shit takes guns from aussie farmers
We built this country.
We carried it on our backs.
We’re the suckers who still believe in “hard work pays off.”

Newsflash:
It doesn’t.
Not anymore.
Not for honest, humble, middle-class hard working Australians

We’re not “slaves” anymore.
We’re awake.
We’re pissed.
And we’re not shutting up.

Who else is fucking DONE being exploited?

[Scotty Chal @shallowchal]

Australias Dirty Secrets 🤫
1. We support the war in Ukraine but use Russian oil.
2. We import non assimilating cultures to replace our own people.
3. We use mass immigration to fudge economic data.
4. The government despises you but smiles as it wrecks the country.
5. Free trade wrecked Australia.
6. Australia is a Ponzi scheme full of disabled people and disability workers.
Full interview in comments 🧵