Tim Neale 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

Australian Rural Consultant of the Year, 2018. Pearcy ICT Entrepreneur of the Year (Qld) 2019. Founder of @data_farming

[MotoGP™ Grand Prix of Australia @ausmotogp]

Absolute. Cinema.

#AustralianGP #MotoGP

[Jack Miller @jackmilleraus]

Not sure how I’m supposed to keep it together this weekend. A pretty bloody special surprise from the team with this livery for my final MotoGP race here at the Island. Honestly means the world to me. 1/2

[Tim Neale 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 @TimNeale1]

@jackmilleraus Thanks for all the memories Jack. Seen you race in Portugal, Barcelona, Netherlands, Phillip Island, and..... Toowoomba. Looking forward to @WorldSBK @MotoPG_Podcast

[Andrew Whitelaw @WheatWatcher]

Two minutes into Australia and who do I meet? @TimNeale1

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

A despicable new low in Australian politics.

I sat with Helen Haines on the cross-bench. Although we disagreed on many issues, she was always professional and a thoroughly decent person to work with. The kind and respectful words being said about her by many are 100% correct.

Her criticism of Albanese’s corrupt rorting over the Marrickville Golf Club affair was absolutely correct. She was doing her job, holding the government of the day to account, and standing up for her electorate, who missed out on the largesse of that corruption.

And remember, this wasn’t any ordinary rort — Albanese personally benefited from it, owning a property in the same street — and then he attempted to mislead parliament over it. Many politicians have been forced to resign over much less.

And for that, it’s reported that our despicable Prime Minister decided upon revenge — that Helen Haines needed to be punished — to set an example to other cross-benchers: criticise Albanese, and they’ll come after you with a dirt file.

And think about the timing: Albanese had his minions compile a dirt sheet on Helen Haines and released it in the media at the very same time they were finalising legislation to give the government the power to create false and fictitious “sock puppet” identities to disseminate government propaganda.

The revenge attack — the releasing of a dirt sheet on Helen Haines — demonstrates that the Albanese regime is unfit to have such powers.

And then there’s the sickening rank hypocrisy — Albanese calling for a “lowering of the temperature” and to “turn down the temperature” — this from a government that has vilified anyone who questions their economic policies as a “climate denier,” using the term “denier” to equate them to a Holocaust denier.

And anyone who says importing a million people in two years is too many is vilified as a “racist".

And anyone who opposes Albanese’s socialism is vilified as a “far-right extremist".

What an absolutely disgraceful and disgusting government we are living under.

[Tim Neale 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 @TimNeale1]

@WheatWatcher I didn't want to say anything.....

[Tim Neale 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 @TimNeale1]

@WheatWatcher How often do we meet in airports.....?.... Crazy how much we both travel

[Tim Neale 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 @TimNeale1]

@Ausbobsmit Gross..... Nett......it's all the same

[Tim Neale 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 @TimNeale1]

@stationmum101 I think you've just identified on the major difference between motels and hotels (which I was brought up to believe was a pub). You can open a motel Window but not a hotel one. I travel a lot and it's very anmoying as I hate aircons

[Tim Neale 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 @TimNeale1]

@LambproHolbrook My Collie's head got stuck down a piece of 90mm stormwater pipe once. It was probably 200mm long. She was half dead when found her. Still alive today though!!

[iMc Fels 📲🌾 @ipaddockapps]

Give it a few years to debug and refine, and bingo

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Wow, wow, wow. I just left the National Press Club where Minister of Communications @AnikaWells spoke. She repeatedly and brazenly lied about the fake accounts, claiming they were only for enforcement, even though the legislation says in black and white that the eSafety Commissioner can use them in unlimited ways for "educational" and "promotional" purposes.

One big moment came when a Politico reporter got up and said something about how mean people like @PaulineHansonOz were to eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant. Seriously. A supposed reporter was white-knighting for a government official during the official Q&A. The same reporter had come up to me before Wells' speech and asked if I had criticized Inman-Grant. Who needs government censors when you have Politico?

After he asked his question, Wells showed the most emotion, describing online criticism of Inman-Grant as "abuse." She also talked about her own staff's supposed suffering. I kid you not. The mask dropped, and you could see what really upset her: people — including a sitting Senator — criticizing government officials.

After gaslighting the audience about fake accounts, Wells repeatedly insisted the government wasn't trying to censor content. She said this after filling her speech with examples of content she claimed harmed people. You couldn't make it up.

This legislation is the culmination of decades of progressives equating words with physical violence. Wells cynically compared her legislation to prevent psychological "harm" to various laws that protect people from physical harm, like seat belt laws.

BTW, Wells never said what content it was that she thought caused eating disorders. Pictures of skinny women? Dietary advice? Who knows. Nobody asked.

Another important moment came when Wells explicitly said Australia would be pursuing censorship alongside other nations, including the UK, France, and Spain—all countries where governments risk losing power to populists.

I spoke with Julie Inman-Grant before the speech began and asked about the fake accounts. She insisted they were there just for enforcement, and when I asked why the law allowed them to be used for government propaganda, she said she might write an "enforcement memo," which, of course, would have no impact on the legislation.

After her speech, I went up to Wells and asked if she was seriously saying the legislation didn't allow the government to use fake accounts for government propaganda. She refused to answer. A man who said he was from the National Press Club stepped in front of me and said I could interview her afterward. But that wasn't possible because they rushed her out the back to avoid any difficult questions.

So there you have it. The pettiest people in Australia are seeking to silence citizens and their political opponents in the name of protecting children. These deeply intolerant and cynical people want to control what you can see and say online. And they're doing it with most of the media's support. Australia has reached a new low in its rapid descent into dogmatism, intolerance, and censorship.

[Tim Neale 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 @TimNeale1]

@stationmum101 And the problem is? This report is clearly commissioned by spoilt brats

[Tim Neale 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 @TimNeale1]

@stationmum101 Awesome. Prob going to be challenging get enough patrons in your part of the world. Now you need to buy an old church

[Tim Neale 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 @TimNeale1]

@stationmum101 You can also check on our finance minister who doesn't know the difference between gross and net.....

[Tim Neale 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 @TimNeale1]

@JohnCleese Sounds like a Monty Python script. In my head I can hear you saying it.

[Tim Neale 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 @TimNeale1]

Grain #harvest is well underway in the North, and soon starting down South. Here is a webinar we did the other day about using satellite imagery to help determine where to start harvesting, as well as information about @datafarming yield mapping . https://t.co/sj2S2vJK5T

[Tim Neale 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 @TimNeale1]

Great for @datafarming to support #carchmydrift podcast. Light hearted discussion on all things Ag. Thanks boys https://t.co/Qjs8SGeOW7

[Peter Waddell @dburner996]

The Darling downs #ElNino curse delivered again!

Happy to have something to harvest after 24mm in crop rain. Good subsoil moisture and 65mm in May did the heavy lifting.

[Tim Neale 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 @TimNeale1]

@therealbiztang Exactly. It's called alcohol tax....

[Tim Neale 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 @TimNeale1]

$10 for a #greatnorthern zero alcohol beer in Brisbane. Wow!