Sam Kennard

The secret to happiness is freedom. The secret to freedom is courage. Thucydides

[Sam Kennard @SamKSS]

@SincDavidson These children are ungrateful and naive, Sinc. Imagine a football game without fossil fuels. No lights, no irrigation, no fertiliser, no broadcasting, and worst of all cold pies and warm beer 😱

[Aidan Morrison @FootnotesGuy]

Bit by bit… the admissions of climate overreach come creeping out.

[Sam Kennard @SamKSS]

@TheKouk Thanks Kouk but just pouring people in to a country for top line GDP growth is no an economic sensation.
Carry on.

[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

Individual French workers pay tens of thousands to social security every year only to watch the recipients burn their cities down
https://t.co/ufvBQxWY3L

[Sam Kennard @SamKSS]

Exceptional on the Orwellian new laws proposed by @AlboMP .

This is likely to be the content that this government would want to prohibit too.

[Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 @PaulineHansonOz]

The Albo-rithm: Please Explain

The Albanese Government wants to control the internet. They'll call it safety. It's censorship.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

The government today will introduce sweeping censorship that @AlboMP & @AnikaWells lie about. Below she claims the government wants to create a bot army of fake accounts for “research” when the bill clearly intends for them to be used in partisan warfare against fooled citizens.

[Institute of Public Affairs @TheIPA]

“This is by far the worst censorship legislation we have seen in the West.”

Michael Shellenberger, founder of Public and CBR Chair of Politics, warns that the Albanese government’s proposed Digital Duty of Care could give the government sweeping censorship powers and allow it to operate unlimited fake social media accounts.

📺 Watch more: https://t.co/eWXMEdu8U5

#Censorship #Politics #Australia

[Sam Kennard @SamKSS]

$700,000,000 / 13,000,000 people =$53.85 per person.

Epic Jim. You’ve truly outperformed. You must be so proud.

[Jim Chalmers MP @JEChalmers]

BREAKING: 13M Australians have benefitted by $700M since our July 1 tax cuts came in.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Well, that was wild. I'm at the Australian Parliament and just left a meeting with two staffers for the governing party. They told us that the government needed more power to censor things like the upcoming US execution of Nidal Hasan.

When I asked why they needed to censor that video, one said it was to prevent copycat killings. Copycat killings by governments? I asked. Er, no, they said. Copycat killings like of a backpacker, several decades ago.

So, under that logic, I pointed out, the government should censor things like last year's Bondi massacre, where two Muslims killed 15 people, no? Well, that was news, they said. Didn't they realize their bill would allow the government to censor news? They didn't seem to know, or care.

They also admitted that they did not know that the bill would allow the government to create and operate an unlimited number of fake social media accounts to attack its political enemies and spread disinformation. Having presented them with information they had never heard about a bill they had clearly not read, they emphasized to us, strenuously, that they were moving forward with the bill.

So there you have it. The government wants the power to arbitrarily censor scenes of violent crime, or violence, for any reason. And it wants the power to use an unlimited number of fake accounts to wage offensive disinformational warfare against the Australian people.

Given that the Bondi massacre last year increased public opposition to mass migration, and support for the populist One Nation Party, it seems obvious that the government wants to censor such events in order to protect its political power.

It's quite telling how obediently governing party members insist such a law is needed without even knowing what's in it.

[Sam Kennard @SamKSS]

@Potstirrer111 Good luck

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

The censors are demanding terrifying new powers. My full warning to the West.

[Sam Kennard @SamKSS]

@EricInAdelaide @DHughesy @Greens @dhughsey They lied.
That’s it.
Aren’t you tired of liars? Irrespective of political allegiance.
If not, you’re in the cult.

[Sam Kennard @SamKSS]

@John_Poelwyk @OGmusical Don’t bother John. He’s just another nameless coward troll with few followers. Credibility fails right there,

[Sam Kennard @SamKSS]

Chalmers does comedy… ‘Premier investment destination’… 😂😂😂

Australia has the second highest company tax rate in the OECD.

[Jim Chalmers MP @JEChalmers]

I’ll be engaging with more than 30 business leaders and investors and my Japanese counterpart in Tokyo in a packed couple of days to showcase Australia as a premier investment destination.

This is all about strengthening cooperation, boosting investment and building resilience in both our economies in Australia’s national interest.

[Sam Kennard @SamKSS]

You are too kind to imply that the Albanese Govt has been slow about getting serious on productivity.
The truth is that they are deliberate and very driven to destroy productivity.
Layers of new corporate red tape, more complex tax system, higher taxes, and more rigid IR regulations. They pay lip service to productivity, while everything they do makes business, work and investment harder and less rewarding. As a result, capital is going on strike, or leaving.

[Sam Kennard @SamKSS]

@DHughesy It’s only a racket if you’re not in on it, Hughsey.

[Dave Hughes @DHughesy]

Federal Labor Digital Minister Andrew Charlton was a Kevin Rudd staffer back in his PM days. When KRudd imploded, Andrew started a consultancy helping business ‘Connect with Government’, he sold it to Accenture for 35 million in 2020. Over 32 million of that was ‘goodwill’. Andrew then worked for Accenture for a while. He bought a 2 million dollar house in Parramatta to get that safe Labor seat in 2022 election, while mainly still living in an Eastern Suburbs mansion. Accenture get massive Federal Government contracts to improve things like the BOM website, 80 million went to Accenture for that. The website got worse, not better. After that flop, Accenture got even more taxpayer funded contracts, around a billion dollars worth, funded by the ATO sending small businesses broke and taxpayer debt. Apparently Andrew has nothing to do with Accenture getting contracts.
Andrew is what Labor is now.
He may be their next leader.

[Sam Kennard @SamKSS]

Good to see Lowe being forthright. Not sure he was so candid in the past. This spending problem goes back many years by both sides in govt, and even further enabled by each when in opposition. Those commentators & economists calling it out have been ignored or disparaged.

[Institute of Public Affairs @TheIPA]

“We're spending today and leaving the debt for our kids.”

Former Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Dr Philip Lowe joins IPA Chief Economist Adam Creighton as the inaugural guest of ‘The Prosperity Question' podcast to warn that Australia's persistent budget deficits are leaving future generations with more debt, more interest and a lower standard of living.

📺 Watch the full discussion: https://t.co/DPgwEAhaMm

#GovernmentSpending #Debt #Australia

[Sam Kennard @SamKSS]

lol… Every single day of the year solar fails to work.

[The Australian @australian]

Chris Bowen says there hasn’t been a day in the past four years a coal-fired power plant hasn’t broken down without notice, proving renewables are more reliable. Read the full story: https://t.co/oA454ig49s