Geoff Whiddon

Retirement and Aged Care Strategy Specialist

[Geoff Whiddon @agedcareguy]

@TMFScottP Really? Is Malcolm Roberts amateurish? What about Barnaby? What the electorate may be wanting is down to earth people. Politicians who truly might want to represent them. Considering at the moment there is a small amount of representation I think the amateurish call is too soon.

[Geoff Whiddon @agedcareguy]

@SimonBanksHB Good. Shows that he can read legislation in its entirety and know when it’s not good for Australia. Split the bills and see how the votes go.

[Geoff Whiddon @agedcareguy]

@RossCameron4 I’m not getting something. Does Chris want to claim losses when the stock is not sold to offset gains? And the ETF comparison- if there is no return there is no tax payable?

[Geoff Whiddon @agedcareguy]

@sue_thurley @NoelWhittaker Noel hasn’t “advised” for some years now. Those who are rich rarely bother with Centrelink payments. It’s usually those who have a little too much to qualify that can be helped with advice. Play by the rules!!

[Geoff Whiddon @agedcareguy]

@MattMnard @NoelWhittaker And yet the rules allow for this. Principal place of residence is exempt from age pension assessment. Assets test cut-off is $1.084m.

[Geoff Whiddon @agedcareguy]

@TMFScottP @willfreeborn Makes my simple idea look easier to apply?

[Geoff Whiddon @agedcareguy]

@TMFScottP I thought 10% pa discount with the ability to carry forward one gain in a 10 year period. More “keep it easy” than first principles though.

[Geoff Whiddon @agedcareguy]

@TMFScottP Careful what you wish for. Saw some stats over the weekend from a game in ‘89. 28 penalties blown - none of the games over the weekend had that many penalties/6 agains blown.

[Geoff Whiddon @agedcareguy]

@TMFScottP Can I use this towards the $275 energy rebate they promised at the last election?

[Geoff Whiddon @agedcareguy]

@TMFScottP To be fair I can’t think of the last unpopular economist that got elected to Govern. Hard part about politics, you have to remain popular to hold on to your job.

[Geoff Whiddon @agedcareguy]

@southsow @TMFScottP Rugby league used to be the Winfield Cup. It’s still going.

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

CASH FOR ACCESS - $2500 for Dinner with Albanese

And Labor are rorting taxpayers by scheduling a cabinet "meeting" hours before in the same city, so they can bill taxpayers for airfares and accomodation for there travel.

And even though Ministers get a free meal at the Labor fundraiser - they still pocket a taxpayer funded travelling allowance which meant to cover meals.

Never have had a worse government.

https://t.co/o0ZYiJr0As

Albanese and his grubby ministry just got caught again—schmoozing corporate fat cats and $110k lobbyist donors at the flash Ritz-Carlton in Melbourne on Thursday, straight after a taxpayer-funded "ministry meeting" that conveniently covered their luxury flights, hotels, and perks.

This wasn't governance. It was Labor's sleazy pay-for-access circus in full swing: the Federal Labor Business Forum's annual elite dinner, bankrolled by Conexus Financial, where big business buys face time with the rule-makers who decide their fate.

Albo's cynical trick?

Schedule the full ministry pow-wow hours earlier so every minister can slap their posh travel on the public purse—then pivot straight to the cash grab.

No shame.
No apology.

This is the THIRD time in six months he's pulled this blatant rort: fake official business as cover for a high-roller fundraiser.

It's not leadership—it's a taxpayer-subsidised auction of influence.Australians are sick of being fleeced so Labor can feast with the elite.

[Malcolm Roberts 🇦🇺 @MRobertsQLD]

A sneaky deal is buried in the Treasury Laws Amendment (Supporting Choice in Superannuation and Other Measures) Bill 2025, which passed the House in November 2025 and will be before the Senate soon.

The Albanese government is trying to give one of their favourite lobby groups, Equality Australia, a special financial favour: Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status. This means donors to Equality Australia can claim a 100% tax deduction of the donation.

Equality Australia first tried to get this status using normal channels. They went to Australian Charities and Non-for-profit Commission (ACNC), the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) and the Full Federal Court.

ALL of them said NO.

And the reason? They were not considered charitable and were a lobby group, therefore not qualifying for a tax deductible status.

So, what does Labor do? They bypass the courts and write a special law just for them. A free kick for Labor-Green supporters.

Make no mistake: Equality Australia is a lobby group. Their own Strategic Plan proves it.

For years, they have waged a war against nearly 2,800 Christian, Catholic, and Independent schools across Australia.

They want to strip away the protections that allow these schools to operate according to their faith.

By giving them DGR status, the Government is handing Equality Australia a taxpayer-funded war chest to attack the rights of parents and faith-based education.

AND the Prime Minister’s hand-picked Governor-General is a patron of this group.

We must stop the government from using your tax system to fund political campaigns against our schools and our community standards.

[Malcolm Roberts 🇦🇺 @MRobertsQLD]

I questioned officials from the Department of Home Affairs on the government’s failure to deport over 100,000 individuals who have no legal right to be here.

There are 101,976 individuals who were refused a protection visa and have yet to be deported. Some of these cases date back as far as 1994.

I highlighted a recent case where a South African man was raided and detained at dawn just 24 hours after his visa was cancelled. The government clearly has the capability to enforce our borders and laws. So why, out of over 100,000 people here illegally, did the government only involuntarily deport 5 people in a single month? That’s a 0.005% deportation rate.

When I asked for an honest explanation, Minister Watt did what he always does: he resorted to name-calling and labels to avoid the discussion.

Australians deserve an immigration system that actually enforces the law, not one that picks and chooses when to act while tens of thousands stay here illegally.

— Senate Estimates | December 2025

[Kat A 🌸 @SaiKate108]

A timely reminder from Ricky Gervais.

Free speech is the right to criticise any ideas including religion.

Blasphemy style protections are ludicrous. That an all powerful deity must be protected from having its feelings hurt.

Ideas do not have rights! Only people do. Including the right to criticise any belief system without censorship.

Offense is the unavoidable price of true freedom.

‘Just because your offended doesn’t mean your right.’

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:

1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality)
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality)
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost)
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)

The last one is how government spending works 🚨

[Geoff Whiddon @agedcareguy]

@TMFScottP As I always tell clients - it goes up by percentages or points and goes down by billions of dollars.

[Geoff Whiddon @agedcareguy]

@TMFScottP Link it to the Transfer Balance Cap which is already indexed.

[Geoff Whiddon @agedcareguy]

@SandraEckersley @KennethMoo25538 You’re assuming they need to take an income stream. They can choose to leave the funds in accumulation phase and draw amounts needed out of the income the farm generates.