Mary Birnie

[Aussie Bitcoiner @crowthevegan]

Welcome to Australia.

If you’re a superannuation fund and you invest in shares, you pay 10% on your capital gains. If you’re a foreign entity, you pay 15%. If you’re a young Australian trying to save for your first house, you pay 30%.

Shout out to @AlboMP and @JEChalmers for giving us “inter generational fairness”. We’re governed by absolute clowns 🤡

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The reaction of dogs when the father leaves the living room vs. when the mother leaves

[Rob Smith @Ausbobsmit]

Albanese is holding a press conference with the PM of New Zealand. A journalist asked why New Zealand doesn't have CGT tax and the NZ PM said it would be a wrecking ball for the economy. Albanese was rattled, is rattled. Albo tried to stop him from speaking. Albanese is rattled.

[Mary Birnie @chasethe]

@RositaDaz48 He has NO idea of how the real world works,

[Kofy Time @kofy_time]

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[Rosita Díaz @RositaDaz48]

I STAND WITH BEN ROBERTS - SMITH 🫡🇦🇺

“We will support him to the day we die” ..

Kids of fallen SAS heroes break silence on BRS ..

As Leigh Locke ducked out for some errands, she repeated her usual instruction to 12-year-old Keegan: "Make sure you keep the front door locked"
Just half an hour later, she returned home to find the screen door ajar. Her heart plummeted.
Keegan had opened the door after peeping through the curtains and seeing an army chaplain in his "full kit" alongside senior officers adorned with their medals.

She instantly understood the grim message.

“It happened just like it does in the movies,” Ms Locke told https://t.co/ibvicq28p0.

— “I asked them: ‘Did you actually cuddle my son when you told him?’’’

Keegan’s father, Matthew, died on October 25, 2007, from a single round to the chest from a PKM machine gun.
He was killed during Operation Spin Ghar, a critical clearance operation in Afghanistan’s Chora Valley, supporting the International Security Assistance Force and Afghan Security Force efforts against Taliban sanctuaries in the Uruzgan Province.

Matthew was leading a six-man foot patrol with Task Force 66, navigating a treacherous river system, when his team suddenly came under heavy fire. Though evacuated by helicopter, he succumbed to his injuries soon after.

- From that devastating moment, one of Matthew’s closest friends immediately took young Keegan under his wing, “stepping up for him in every way possible”.

🇦🇺That steadfast father figure was – and remarkably, still is – Ben Roberts-Smith.

“After we found out, I don’t remember the next few days; it’s all a blur,” Ms Locke told https://t.co/ibvicq28p0.

“Keegs was a boy, rapidly transitioning into a teenager, and without Ben, we would have been utterly lost.

“Ben was there to kick Keegan’s butt when he needed it, to tell him off when necessary. You could certainly call him a mentor, a true father figure.

“He was never shy of a cuddle; it wasn’t just a handshake, but a proper, comforting squeeze when Keegan was growing up. He’s 30 now, but that profound relationship endures.”

Keegan Locke told https://t.co/ibvicq28p0 there was a significant gap in the public narrative surrounding Ben Roberts-Smith.

“I can’t speak to him as a soldier, but I can certainly speak to him as a man, and what he’s truly like as a man,” he said.

“I’ve got a pretty good bulls**t meter.

“He’s one of those blokes who has always been there for all of us kids who lost a parent.”

— Mr Locke said the profound bond between the men of the SAS is something he has witnessed his entire life.

“The undying and unwavering code they share is what truly defines the SAS; it’s a family network. They push as hard as they can, sometimes to the death, and they know each other will always be there,” he said.

“That’s the vibe I’ve always got from Ben. There have been many like him, it isn’t just RS; there are a lot of them who embody that spirit. It was such a demanding period when they were in Afghanistan.

“They might complete a six-month deployment and return, still needing to undertake promotional courses, field exercises, and care for their own families. Yet, RS would consistently take me fishing, and attend all my rugby games. Even as I got older, he always made time. When I joined the army, he would always catch up with me in Townsville, taking me out for dinner whenever he was in town.”

Every January, Mr Locke would attend a Legacy Camp in Western Australia with other children who had lost a parent.

“RS consistently took time out of his own demanding schedule to help run the camp year after year, not just for his best mate looking after me, his child, but extending that care to hundreds of children who had lost their fathers in Afghanistan, in the police force, and in the fire services,” Mr Locke explained.

“He genuinely looked after us all. He embodies service and sacrifice – it goes far deeper than just being a military person; he’s a truly genuine, good person.

[Marisa Sanchez @MissManchez]

@DeanBulters @AislingOLoughl1 Wrong. This is only possible because the puppets carry out the puppet masters evil plans.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

I grew up in a different time. Australia around the 2000s was unbelievably great - we took it for granted, we didn't know how good we had it.

The Government of the day was lead by John Howard for 11 years. His approach was to make government as small and unobtrusive as possible. Every decision was based on the idea that the "Aussie battler" should be better off. If you work hard, take risks and add value to society the government should not get in your way.

They paid off the national debt. The economy was strong. There was a boom in entrepreneurship. It was easy to build housing. Life was great - possibly the best it's ever been in history.

Contrast this mindset with Australia and the UK today. Both governments this week announcing higher taxes, more debt, more regulations, more restrictions on those who do the right things and more benefits for those who don't.

They believe the answer to every problem is bigger government. They see the hard working, risk taking, value adding people as the piggy bank. They think the problem with millions of people who don't work or who commit disproportionate crime is that the government hasn't thrown enough money at it.

I've run businesses and lived under many governments in many places now. In every case where the country is working, the government does a few things very well and aims to leave productive, law abiding people alone. In every case where things seem to be getting worse and worse, the government has the delusional belief that it can tax, borrow and spend its way to utopia.

Big Government is not the answer to most things - productive, hard working, entrepreneurial, value adding members of society are the engine room and should be protected and encouraged.

[Lee Walton🇦🇺 @LethalLee1]

@amandavanstone We didn't want Ley, we didn't want Morrison, or bloody Turnbull. We voted Tony Abbott in and the bloody Liberal Wets knifed him. There. Lesson for the day.🤨

[TheRoadknight @RoadknightThe]

The murder of little Sharon, the 5yo girl taken from her bed in a 'town camp' in Alice Springs, should be a clarion call for the government.

And I have some suggestions.

1. Ban the term 'Stolen Generations'. They are the 'Rescued Generations' - rescued from abuse and neglect.

2. Rescue and remove all children being brought up in substandard accommodation or by those who are too drug or alcohol-affected to provide proper care.

3. Apply the above as it would be applied to white folk in cities, without this nonsense 'cultural sensitivity' which is just a euphemism for acceptance of lower standards that would be unacceptable anywhere else.

3. Cease the notion that they must be placed 'with kith, kin, community or on country' where it cannot be proven that that care is as good as fostering/adoption by others in other locations - and not selected for their race. Too often children are shunted from one form of dysfunction to the next.

4. Demolish all ramshackle 'town camps' and relocate 'long-grassers' into appropriate accommodation within towns. This relegation of out-of-sight, out-of-mind has to stop.

5. Enforce mandatory school attendance with fines, deducted from fortnightly welfare if necessary. Non-attending children are most likely to be neglected or abused. They should be removed from parents who would deny them any sort of meaningful future because they can neither read nor write. This, after all, is passive child abuse.

6. Audit all expenditure on Aboriginal individuals, groups, charities, businesses, land councils and services - including mining royalties.

7. Begin to wean Aborigines off soul-destroying passive welfare that leads to hopelessness, helplessness, depression and escapism through numbing drugs and alcohol.

8. Create meaningful work to assist the above. Thousands of houses require repairs, maintenance, cleaning. Communities need rubbish collection and road maintenance, especially during the wet season, along with self-sustainability: growing fruit and vegetables, rearing chickens for meat and eggs, thereby overcoming the other problems of poor health and nutrition as a result of the cost of remote transport. There are countless opportunities for actual work that benefits the communities, in the broadest sense.

9. Apply the law and sentencing as it would be applied to a white person in a city. Justice is supposed to be blind, so there should be no privilege due to race or hardships during upbringing - we've all experienced hardships.

10. Stop 'othering' Aborigines. We are all Australians. We are all equal. Stop favouring one race over another. It's achieving the complete opposite of what is intended.

Here endeth actual truth-telling.

[Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 @PaulineHansonOz]

Season 4 - Episode 1

We're back!!!! The fortnightly episodes are twice as long and don't miss!

#OneNation #PleaseExplain #PaulineHanson #Stepmates #Albo #Labor #Parliament #Government #Canberra #OilCrisis

[Malcolm Roberts 🇦🇺 @MRobertsQLD]

The "Please Explain" cartoons are back for another season.

This is episode 1 - the best one yet in my opinion.

[ChristopherRussellH @RussellH888]

A former Special Forces Commando who served alongside Ben Roberts-Smith in Afghanistan has finally broken his silence.
His name is Dean Burgess.

He even speaks of the unwritten code of the “quiet professionals” and says he would feel like a traitor to the Brotherhood if he stayed silent any longer.

He describes the brutal truth our soldiers faced: an enemy with zero rules who hid behind women and children, used them as human shields, and laughed at our rules of engagement. Our troops were sent into that nightmare again and again under impossible restrictions.

Yet now the government is running a witch-hunt against the very men they ordered into that hell.

Stuff 'em, I am speaking out.
This gutless Labor government dragged our Victoria Cross hero off a plane in front of his kids, arrested him like a terrorist and locked him in Silverwater with the very terrorists he was sent to fight.

What happens in war stays in war, it's always been an unwritten code of honour by professionals who fought and some gave their live to protect us. You do not spend hundreds of millions crucifying soldiers for doing the job you sent them to do.

We still inflict our famous & stupid Australian Tall Poppy Syndrome on our own war heroes while bending over for every ideology we are too weak to name.

In 1980 Lee Kuan Yew was right when he warned us we would become the "poor white trash of Asia". Well Australia, it's Mission Accomplished. All gift-wrapped and paid for by taxpayers too gormless or apathetic to stop it.

At long last Australia is finally waking up. The rage is building. And we're not taking this anymore.

If you are reading this and feel the same way but can only say it in private, then WTFU, it's high time to grow a spine and start saying it publicly. For goodness sake stop hiding in the shadows whispering like controlled cowards.
#FreeBenRobertsSmith #FreeBSR

[Tim Wilson @TimWilsonMP]

Sadly, @AustralianLabor will never fix the fraud and corruption in the NDIS, because it is their supporters profiting from NDIS fraud and corruption. This is the economy Labor built, and it is for them, not you. Always remember: Labor governs for Labor, not Australians.

[Don't you worry about that.🇦🇺 @Sauronlordking]

If a farmer did this ,he would be in jail.

[Lisa @Lisa9Sophia]

How many animals will die this week for so called green energy? To all those saying koalas and wallabies aren’t being beaten to death at wind farms in Australia, you’re wrong

In Queensland the Clarke Creek Wind Farm instructs on “Fauna Euthanasia”

“A hard, sharp blow to the base of the back of the skull with a blunt metal or heavy wooden bar”for mammals during clearing and construction

Other wind farms use drug overdoses to kill koalas and animals

But Labor, the Teals and Greens say it’s SO green, SO environmentally friendly. It’s not

Awareness Credit: Channel 7 Spotlight (note there’s no other media prepared to cover this today)