Richard Davies

[Richard Davies @Richard01357064]

Getting them off the streets to improve the safety of innocent residents and motorists is the first and most essential priority.

They are already lifelong criminals.

Would the death penalty be better for society? Because it would at least guarantee community safety.

[Richard Davies @Richard01357064]

Deloitte's warning should concern every Australian.

For years governments of both persuasions have used population growth to disguise economic eakness.

More people.
More taxpayers.
Bigger GDP.

But - A bigger economy is not the same thing as a richer people, when:

❌ Productivity stagnated.
❌ GDP per capita declined.
❌ Housing affordability collapsed.
❌ Infrastructure struggled to keep up.
❌ Government spending kept rising.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers calls it "global conditions". Queensland's LNP talks about "managing growth". Neither wants to confront the underlying problem:

Australia cannot import its way to prosperity.
Wealth comes from productivity, investment, innovation and economic freedom.

A nation becomes richer when its people become more productive—not simply more numerous.
That is the Libertarian alternative.

[Richard Davies @Richard01357064]

Perhaps ambitious to think Albanese might resign over this. After all, it is never his fault - Always some excuse is used.

Labor "being a party of perverted misogynists" might also be overstating it a little .... although a core of hard truth is evident here.

But what should happen is ... Anthony Albanese should resign over these comments AND the Labor Party should comdemn Albanese and despatch him promptly.

[Richard Davies @Richard01357064]

How is it that the number of first home buyers is in rapid decline?

[Reece Pickens @ReecePickens]

@Richard01357064 We pay more every day for our own economic destruction.

[Pacific Left @PacificLeft]

There's entire layers of society who are committed to the idea that the state exists to give your specific group handouts, tax breaks, free money, a kiss on the cheek, free pony rides, and a handjob too because fuck it why not at that point

[Bashful Bill @bashful_bi70210]

PM Albanese has shared with the nation who he would shag and then he eyes off female leaders for the size of their "melons".

These are remarks which show Albanese is unfit for high office, and unfit to lead Australia.

Early onset dementia along the Joe Biden pathway?

[Richard Davies @Richard01357064]

Cronyism is more common with big, socialist governments.

Less common is smaller governments which tackle competitiveness in market places i.e capitalism

[Richard Davies @Richard01357064]

18 months into government, it's time for an honest report card on the Crisafulli Government.

Credit where it is due.
✅ Adult Crime, Adult Time was promised and delivered.
✅ Tougher bail laws were introduced.
✅ More police were recruited.
✅ Victims, for the first time in years, feel like they are being heard.

The early signs suggest these reforms are having an effect.Victims of crime are reportedly down around 7.2%.
Serious repeat youth offenders are down approximately 17%.
Break-ins, stolen cars and robberies have all fallen from their recent peaks.
Crime victim numbers per capita have declined since the reforms began.

That deserves recognition.

For years Queensland governments talked tough on crime while offenders became bolder and communities became less safe. The Crisafulli Government identified the problem and acted. On this issue at least, Queenslanders can reasonably conclude that the government has improved on its predecessor.

But governing Queensland is about more than crime.And this is where the LNP increasingly risks becoming Labor with a blue logo.
❌ Queensland debt is still heading towards $200 billion, with projections now exceeding $216 billion by the end of the decade.
❌ Interest payments alone are heading towards almost $8 billion per year — money that will not build a single hospital bed, classroom, road or police station.
❌ Queensland's AA+ credit rating carries a negative outlook, with ratings agencies warning about deteriorating debt metrics and budget pressures.
❌ The public sector wage bill continues to grow and is becoming one of the largest pressures on the State Budget.
The uncomfortable question is:
Who actually runs Queensland?
The elected government?
Or the public sector unions?
Because after 18 months there has been little appetite for serious reform of the bureaucracy, improved productivity in government services, or measures to restrain the growth of spending that created this debt trajectory in the first place.

The ghost of 2012 still haunts Queensland politics.

Labor spent a decade convincing public servants that every reform proposal amounted to "Newman cuts". The LNP appears so concerned about reliving that political battle that it risks surrendering the economic debate before it even begins.

Queenslanders voted for:safer streets,
lower debt, responsible financial management,
and a government prepared to make difficult decisions.

On crime, the government can point to genuine progress. On the state's finances? The verdict remains far less favourable.

Queensland is still on track to become Australia's most indebted state while maintaining one of the largest and fastest-growing public sectors in the country.

The verdict after 18 months?

David Crisafulli has shown courage confronting violent repeat offenders. The question now is whether he can show the same courage confronting the political influence of the public sector establishment. Because unless someone is prepared to tackle spending growth, debt and bureaucratic expansion, Queensland's next crisis won't be youth crime. It will be the bill.

Queenslanders voted for change, not simply a more competent management team for the same system. If the government wants to be remembered as more than a pause between Labor administrations, it must show the same determination on economic reform that it has shown on law and order. Credit where it is earned. Criticism where it is deserved. That is what accountability looks like.

The job of opposition parties, commentators and voters is not merely to change governments. It is to ensure governments continue changing course. Queensland needs safer streets, smaller government, lower debt and a government prepared to govern in the interests of taxpayers — not just the interests of those already inside the system.
#Queensland #qldpol #auspol #DavidCrisafulli #DebtCrisis #PublicSector #Taxpayers #YouthCrime #AdultCrimeAdultTime #EconomicReform #SmallerGovernment #Libertarian #QueenslandPolitics

[Richard Davies @Richard01357064]

🚨 BIG GOVERNMENT IS MAKING AUSTRALIANS POORER. IT REALLY IS THAT SIMPLE. 🚨

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the economy is doing well.

Australians know otherwise.

The facts:

📉 GDP growth forecast to slow to just 1.3%.

📉 GDP per capita has suffered one of the longest declines in modern Australian history.

📉 Productivity is experiencing its worst performance in around 60 years.

📉 Inflation remains above target and prices remain permanently higher.

📉 Unemployment is forecast to rise towards 5%.

📉 Government spending is heading towards 30% of GDP.

📉 Businesses face rising compliance costs, taxes and energy costs.

📉 Families increasingly struggle to navigate government services they already pay for through their taxes.

This isn't simply a downturn.

It is a warning that the Australian economic model is becoming less productive, less competitive and less prosperous.

Jim Chalmers' response?

❌ "It's the global economy."

❌ "It's supply chains."

❌ "It's the Middle East."

❌ "It's oil prices."

❌ "It's China."

❌ "It's the previous government."

❌ "At least we avoided recession."

❌ "Inflation is coming down."

❌ "Unemployment is still low."

❌ "Reform takes time."

Meanwhile Australians are asking a simpler question:

If the economy is doing so well, why does almost everyone feel poorer?

Because headline GDP isn't the same as prosperity.

Because population growth isn't the same as productivity.

Because creating government jobs isn't the same as creating wealth.

Because spending more taxpayer money isn't the same as making Australians richer.

Libertarians see the problem differently.

⚫ When government spending grows faster than the economy, taxpayers carry the burden.

⚫ When regulation grows faster than business investment, productivity suffers.

⚫ When bureaucracy grows faster than service delivery, Australians become frustrated and disengaged.

⚫ When government becomes too large and too complicated, citizens need experts simply to access services they already fund.

That complexity is itself an economic cost.

A hidden tax.

A productivity drain.

A brake on growth.

Labor blames global events.
The LNP promises to manage the same system more efficiently.
Libertarians want to change the system itself.

✅ Smaller government.

✅ Lower taxes.

✅ Simpler regulation.

✅ Affordable and reliable energy.

✅ Government services people can actually understand and use.

✅ More freedom for workers, businesses and investors to create wealth.

Prosperity is not created by governments spending money.

Prosperity is created by Australians producing, investing, innovating and trading.

The choice is becoming clearer:

🔴 Bigger government and lower living standards.

🟡 Smaller government and greater prosperity.

Join the movement for a freer, simpler and more prosperous Australia.

#Libertarian #EconomicFreedom #LowerTaxes #SmallerGovernment #Productivity #CostOfLiving #Australia #Taxpayers #FreeMarkets #Prosperity #Queensland #LessGovernment #GDPPerCapita #ProductivityCrisis #JimChalmers

[Libertarian Party NSW (Liberal Democrats) @LibertariansNSW]

End Multicultural NSW Grants!

Do you want up to $20,000 on a grant for your multicultural event? Well apply at Multicultural NSW to fully publicly fund your event.

There is nothing good about this.

Firstly, the Minns/Mookhey economic vandalism machine cannot afford to give out free money - our state is circling the drain pipe as it is.

Secondly, when did positive discrimination become a positive thing? If a community wants to fund its community event, it should be able to stand on its own two feet, not take out of the pockets of struggling citizens.

The NSW Libertarians believe these grants should be abolished immediately. Especially while citizens are being pummelled by Federal and State Labor's relentless taxes and regulations, they should not have to fund these grants too.

[Angus Taylor MP @AngusTaylorMP]

Just like that, Labor is taking more of what you earn.

[Libertarians Queensland @LibertariansQLD]

🔔Queensland’s projected State debt is forecast to reach $216.5 billion by 2029–30.

Borrowing today doesn’t make debt disappear tomorrow. It simply shifts the cost into the future through higher taxes, reduced services or more borrowing.

Queenslanders deserve responsible financial management, lower taxes and a government that lives within its means.

You earn it. You keep it.

Source: Queensland Budget 2026–27, Budget Paper No. 2 – Budget Strategy and Outlook. Queensland Treasury. Projected Non-Financial Public Sector borrowings reach $216.472 billion by 2029–30.

#LibertarianPartyQLD
https://t.co/iKKDqMFQ3P
@LibertariansAus @_davidlimbrick @Thejimpenman @brobson_politic @LibertariansGaz @CampbellNewman

[Richard Davies @Richard01357064]

Voters need another party ..... but not necessarily One Nation.

Take a look at Libertarians who are pushing for smaller, less meddling governments and much lower taxes.

Pay less tax and all wage earners will be far better off.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Forget the media gloom and doom — Earth's biosphere is in great health.

Additional CO₂ levels have boosted primary crop production, which has soared by 54–56% since 2000. This represents a total of 9.5–9.6 billion tonnes of farm produce. Total production in 2000 was approximately 6.1 billion tonnes.

Wheat production alone has grown 36% (from 585m to 798m tonnes) with minimal land expansion. A global expansion of green life has been captured on NASA satellites and vetted by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Higher CO₂ is the catalyst:

* Sahara Desert: New growth on around 8% of the area.
* The Arctic: 38% increase in vegetation mass since 1985.
* Global greening: 5.5 million km² — roughly twice the size of the Amazon Rainforest.
* Australian agriculture: The 2025-26 season had its third-highest wheat production on record; yields estimated at 2.90 tonnes per hectare, roughly 10% above the 5-year average.

World agriculture is breaking all previous records.

[Richard Davies @Richard84228293]

Time to replace Albanese with a 'doer'.

Australia needs a Prime Minister who does what he says he will do.

[Bashful Bill @bashful_bi70210]

Early Childhood institutions are not educational.

They are poor imitations of a 'stay home' parent.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

There should never have been an ideologically driven campaign to dismantle coal, oil and gas.

This was a colossal policy failure. The UN dived headfirst into the global warming agenda for political reasons, transforming natural climate variability into an ideological stampede that demonised fossil fuels — without proven, affordable, practical alternatives ready.

No organisation on Earth is less suited to lead environmental policy than the UN. The result has been costly and counterproductive.

China’s coal boom proves the point: 94 GW under construction in 2024 alone, with more approvals flowing. They pair it with renewables, but coal remains the reliable backbone keeping industrial costs low. Globally, coal, oil and gas still supply around 81% of primary energy; wind and solar just 3-6%.

Nuclear is the logical pivot. The best path was always a steady transition to nuclear — large plants for big load centres, Small Modular Reactors for regional and industrial clusters. They are factory-built, carry passive safety and have shorter timelines.

Progress is building. The US is funding first-of-a-kind SMRs (GE Hitachi BWRX-300, Holtec SMR-300, NuScale), Canada is advancing at Darlington and there are partnerships in the UK, Sweden and Poland.

The first commercial rollout is targeted for late 2020s to early 2030s, though delays are chronic.

Exploding electricity demand from AI data centres is now forcing the issue — renewables alone can’t deliver the baseload. If the West had prioritised nuclear over the renewables gamble, we’d likely have cheaper, cleaner, more reliable grids today.

Tech giants are now actively bypassing traditional regulatory bottlenecks by directly financing or partnering with nuclear providers (like recent SMR deals in the US).

Nuclear generation is hitting record highs, with 15 new reactors adding around 12 GW soon. The IAEA has repeatedly raised its outlook: in the high case, capacity more than doubles to around 992 GW by 2050.

But trust and public money have been eroded by wind and solar’s failure to deliver reliable transition — leaving no replacement in sight.

Yet, the most obvious solution has been staring the West in the face all along.

[Richard Davies @Richard84228293]

Time to replace Albanese with a 'doer'.

Australia needs a Prime Minister who does what he says he will do.

[Richard Davies @Richard01357064]

Who then is the loudest rooster in the hen house?
Pauline Hanson or Anthony Albanese?
Both crowing about polling support.

Voters though are heartily sick of the politics,
Sick of struggling with costs of living,
Sick of higher and higher electricity bills,
..... and sick of politicians claiming different to what they can see with their own eyes.

Electricity bills are not coming down.
Wages are not going up relative to costs of living.
Costs of living are still out of control.
Groceries are still going up in price.
Houses are not being built to keep down rents and prices.
First Home Owners are still struggling to get into home ownership.
Medicare cards do not cover all the costs of health issues.
Women still cannot get their own safe places or even bathrooms.

Yet we have a Prime Minister telling us all who he would shag, crowing in Parliament and social media about how wonderful he is; but government is performing with the collective brain power smaller than that of a rooster.

[Richard Davies @Richard01357064]

Who then is the loudest rooster in the hen house?
Pauline Hanson or Anthony Albanese?
Both crowing about polling support.

Voters though are heartily sick of the politics,
Sick of struggling with costs of living,
Sick of higher and higher electricity bills,
..... and sick of politicians claiming different to what they can see with their own eyes.

Electricity bills are not coming down.
Wages are not going up relative to costs of living.
Costs of living are still out of control.
Groceries are still going up in price.
Houses are not being built to keep down rents and prices.
First Home Owners are still struggling to get into home ownership.
Medicare cards do not cover all the costs of health issues.
Women still cannot get their own safe places or even bathrooms.

Yet we have a Prime Minister telling us all who he would shag, crowing in Parliament and social media about how wonderful he is; but government is performing with the collective brain power smaller than that of a rooster.