Stuart Dawes

family. chelsea. gaming. aquariums

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

We’ll host Real Sociedad at the Bridge in a pre-season friendly. 🇪🇸

[Stuart Dawes @StuartDawes]

Hydration breaks suck

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Whistleblowers play a critical role in exposing misconduct, but too often they pay a high price for doing the right thing.

The KPMG whistleblower told parliament they would not speak up again after alleged retaliation, loss of employment, circulation of their identity and gaps in legal protection.

Senators Deb O’Neill, Barbara Pocock and Richard Colbeck and others have done outstanding work highlighting the failure of the system.

🇦🇺 needs a standalone Whistleblower Protection Authority to protect people in the public and private sectors who come forward in the public interest.
https://t.co/aE18C6Uxja

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

So it turns out gas companies CAN pay more tax and would be willing to do so if it means they don't have to reserve gas for Australians 🤦‍♂️

How about they pay tax AND prioritise Australian gas for Australians… a 25% gas export tax would raise $17B/year AND reduce prices for Australians.

Keep up the pressure at https://t.co/dcjuwV2f9S

https://t.co/g31um7S0FE

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

It's absurd that large mining companies receive huge taxpayer-funded diesel subsidies while everyone else pays. Fuel excise doesn't go to roads it goes to general govt revenue.

Treasury forecasts the fuel tax credit scheme will cost the budget $47 billion over 4 years. Coal companies alone could receive another $6.2 billion if more mines are approved.

It's time to end fuel tax credits for large mining companies.
https://t.co/cEiwSiv56M

[CFC F_Boy @fullbol_tweets]

🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE: Levi Colwill on players wanting to leave Chelsea for other 'Bigger clubs"

🗣"If you're leaving, please do it really quick.

Some of us have known only Chelsea throughout our lives, and for me, it will always be that way.

Something they should know is that Chelsea is bigger than any player. This club was here before us and will still be here long after we're gone.

The only thing that matters is having people who are fully committed to the badge, the fans, and what we're trying to build.

If you want to be here, fight for Chelsea. If not, then it's better for everyone that you move on and let those who love this club carry it forward."

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

This👇🏼 is EXACTLY why we need lobbying reform & greater transparency over ministerial diaries - things I've been pushing alongside colleagues on the crossbench for years.

"In-house lobbyists" (people who work for a company or peak body) should be subject to the same rules and cooling off periods as "third party lobbyists" (people who work for a lobbying firm).

Action on these changes are well overdue.
https://t.co/5pl8kG20Ow

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Charging aged care residents $15 to watch a volunteer performance 🤯
That is appalling.

I've also seen providers charging people to have a monthly Zoom call with their family.

I’m glad the Minister has referred this to the regulator. I'll follow up to see if strong action is taken.
https://t.co/F5uzT3ZgA9

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Some of Australia's largest mining companies receive hundreds of millions in diesel fuel tax credits - BHP alone received $622 million last financial year.

At a time when the budget is under pressure and Australians are feeling huge cost of living pressures, these subsidies need to end.

We should be capping fuel tax credits to look after farmers and small miners but make the biggest miners pay the full price for diesel like everyone else.
https://t.co/yYDk1tPxXF

[Futebol Chelsea @FutebolChelsea]

Chelsea 25/26 team 🤡

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

I don't think it's fair for the government to change the tax rules for Australians and Australian small businesses but rule out changing the tax settings for major multinational companies from data centres to the gas industry.

Australians deserve a fair return.

Go to https://t.co/dcjuwV1Hkk and join the call for a 25% tax on gas exports.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

We need to keep up the pressure because pressure works.

It's time for a 25% gas export tax.
https://t.co/ugLKdpOgc8

[The Footy Feed @TheFootyFeed]

All these fines, punishments, points deductions recently, yet somehow, Man City were charged in February 2023 with 115 breaches of financial rules in the Premier League and we STILL DON'T KNOW the outcome of this.

MORE THAN THREE YEARS AND STILL NOTHING.

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

Premier League is proposing to allow clubs to negotiate settlements over alleged breaches of its financial rules rather that seeing their cases automatically refereed to an independent commission, according to Sky News' Mark Kleinman.

[Lea @Lea_EFC]

The Premier League tried and failed to relegate Everton twice with two separate points deductions and now they’ve changed the rules.

Every Evertonian in the world knew this was going to happen.

The Premier League is corrupt to the core

[Lea @Lea_EFC]

Serious question 🙋

Are the Premier League changing the rules, so they don’t have to punish Manchester City if they are found guilty?🤔

Something smells fishy here when Everton and Nottingham Forest have suffered points deductions that almost relegated both clubs.

Thoughts 💭

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

The PM continues to echo the gas industry’s lines that tax on offshore gas (PRRT) will go up over time, but the budget papers revised the revenue for this year DOWN and show revenue from the tax will be LOWER in 2029-30 than it is today 🤯
https://t.co/AOXVBq4n4g

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Choosing Budget day, when almost all federal political journalists are literally locked in rooms without their phones or internet access, to release key reports into gambling & aged care wait times is not the level of transparency our community expects and deserves from government.

This is an age-old political tactic to “take out the trash” - releasing disappointing information under the cover of bigger news when people are distracted - needs to be called out.
https://t.co/3SwwzstMGF

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

There are more than 2,200 people with privileged access all areas lobbyist passes to Parliament House.

After repeated calls for transparency, not a single Labor, Coalition or Greens senator or MP has disclosed who they are giving this access to.

At a time of intense lobbying on issues like making sure Australians get a fair return for our export gas, that should concern all of us.
https://t.co/lYkJzWp2dm

Go to https://t.co/OmDUHQJUq8 to call on your MP to disclose who they are giving access to.

[Xabi Alonso Cam 🎥 @XabiAlonsoCam]

Pass it on 🫡