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[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

Boo hoo 😢 Your $10m house is now only worth $9m.

Meanwhile, ordinary Australians are struggling to afford a home at all. Forgive me if I don’t mourn the paper losses of Sydney’s property elite.

#HousingCrisis #SydneyProperty #CostOfLiving
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[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

@MythBuster54 @Adam_Creighton I’ve never seen someone fit the definition of “retard” so much before I saw this comment 😂 get some English education Moron

[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

@craigkellyAFEE Absolutely the most qualified! Especially compared to “DR” Jim chalmers 😂

[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

An AI agent broke into an Australian government Medicare portal, accessed non-public files, and OpenAI took nearly 3 months to tell us.

No personal Medicare records are believed to have been accessed, thankfully.

But if this is the future of AI, 3 months is an eternity in cybersecurity.

https://t.co/hFUMeYioCd

[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

A KKK leader endorsing Pauline Hanson doesn’t make her KKK or prove she shares his racist beliefs. You don’t inherit the beliefs of everyone who votes for you.

And One Nation’s growing support didn’t appear from nowhere. Many of those voters previously supported Labor, Liberal or other parties. Their worst beliefs weren’t automatically attributed to those parties then, so why now?
Just ridiculous and quite frankly disgusting 👎

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[Adam Creighton @Adam_Creighton]

One Nation is criticised for 'lack of policy detail'.
This is the 2026 allocation of Personal Staff to parties and leaders.
(Allocated at Anthony Albanese's discretion).
Outrageously biased against ON.

[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

@RoseCaporale Exactly. If businesses can rely indefinitely on importing labour rather than training, employing and improving the productivity of people already here, we shouldn’t be surprised when the economy becomes dependent on migration to keep growing. That dependency is the problem.

[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

The revealing part of One Nation’s migration plan isn’t the 766,000 cut. It’s the panic. Net migration was 301,000 of Australia’s 412,500 population growth last year. If slowing that “smashes the economy”, maybe the real problem is an economy dependent on population growth.

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[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

@fatbooty32 @Adam_Creighton Well spotted Poindexter 🤓

[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

@ResterContent Albo being a liar is a regular headline these days 😂 people are finally waking up!

[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

Australia’s housing market is so ‘affordable’ you can now buy a $29.2 million property for the bargain price of $20 million.

Factor in stamp duty, inflation, agent fees and that’s roughly a 47.6% all-in loss.

Finally, some cost-of-living relief for ordinary Australians.

Skip the smashed avo this weekend and you’re basically there. 😅

#auspol #albo #inlfation

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[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

$2.8 billion later and the blast furnace is shutting down with 600 jobs reportedly going. At some point “saving Whyalla” has to be measured by outcomes, not announcements and dollar signs. Taxpayers and workers deserve a serious explanation of where the money went and what it actually achieved.

[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

@BenFordhamLive Funny how taxpayer money keeps developing an uncanny ability to find its way into marginal and government-held seats. If the grants genuinely stack up, publish the business cases and let taxpayers see the justification. Transparency shouldn’t be controversial.

[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

You keep calling it a Ponzi scheme and then warning me that we must keep feeding it because otherwise it collapses 😂 You realise you’re making my argument better than I am, right? And no, the choice isn’t “mass migration forever” or “destroy millions of livelihoods”. That false binary is doing some heroic work here.

[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

You keep describing the system as a “Ponzi scheme” while arguing we must maintain the inflow because reducing it would hurt. That’s not a solution to the dependency, it’s an argument for perpetuating it. And the recession scare is particularly odd when Australia has already experienced repeated quarters of falling GDP per capita. I’m supporting an economy that grows because Australians become more productive and prosperous, not because we continually add more people to keep headline GDP positive.

[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

Then we agree your original contribution was simply “it’s possible migration cuts could affect aged care”. Groundbreaking. Nobody disputed that. The discussion was whether the proposed cuts justify the dramatic claims about aged care collapsing. Four essays later, you still haven’t established that. But at least we’ve narrowed the claim down considerably.

[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

You’ve spectacularly proved my point. You call it a “Ponzi scheme”, then argue we can’t reduce the inflow because the economy would crash. “We can’t stop because stopping hurts” isn’t a defence of the model, it’s an admission of dependency. And if we’re measuring living standards by GDP per capita, Australians have already spent much of the past three years in per-capita recession anyway.

[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

@r3tarddownunder If you choose to move to Australia permanently, respecting the country and making a genuine effort to integrate shouldn’t be controversial. You don’t have to abandon your heritage, but openly rejecting the culture of the country that welcomed you is a different matter.

[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

@PaulineHansonOz If headline GDP needs record population growth to look healthy while GDP per capita and living standards stagnate, that isn’t an economic miracle. It’s a denominator trick. The economy exists to improve Australians’ lives, not just make the aggregate number bigger.

[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

@RennickGBR Amazing how quickly “responsible government spending” becomes flexible when the money happens to land in the right electorate. Taxpayers deserve business cases, not coincidence.

[Beau Sargent @beau__sargent]

Ah, we’ve arrived at “could have an impact”. Of course it could. Cutting migration could affect thousands of industries in some way. That was never the question. The argument was that these cuts would seriously damage aged care. After four essays, the evidence for that has apparently become “could”. Quite the journey from calling people dickheads for questioning it.