Terry Riley

Interested in politics and effective policy, strong believer in the independence of the CSIRO and technological solutions for all fields of endeavour.

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

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Pauline Hanson has been a senator for long enough to have accumulated a generous parliamentary salary, superannuation, and the benefits of public office, while positioning herself as the voice of forgotten Australians she claims to represent. The contradiction is telling. She speaks the language of the battler while operating comfortably within the very political establishment she rails against. That is not representation, it is performance.
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Her policy priorities do not reflect the daily concerns of most Australians. The things keeping people up at night in 2026 are mortgage stress, rental affordability, healthcare costs, and energy bills. Hanson's agenda, centred on immigration restriction, culture war grievances, and conspiracy-adjacent positions on vaccines and climate, speaks to a segment of the electorate but not the mainstream. Most Australians want practical solutions, not political theatre.
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There is also the matter of delivery. After decades in politics Hanson has not delivered meaningful reform on any of the issues she claims to care about. She has collected a wage, raised her profile, and kept her base engaged, but the structural problems she gestures at remain unresolved. If she genuinely understood the lives of ordinary Australians, she would know that what they need is results, not rallies.

[Bo Reidler @2020digging]

FMD what rubbish!

[❤️ Time for Unity not Division ❤️ @Trish_Corry]

For those shedding a tear over house prices falling, these numbers may change your mind
Greg Jericho

An average home would cost $595,500 now if prices were the same relative to income as before John Howard turned the market into an investor casino. Link in comments

[Dirtyleftie @CraigSarg73]

Political parties raising money isn't unusual.

Labor does it. The Liberals do it. The Greens do it. One Nation does it.

The difference isn't that One Nation is asking for donations.

The difference is that "Fire the Liar" isn't really a campaign about policy. It's a campaign built around anger.

The message isn't "help us solve housing", "help us lower power bills" or "help us improve health care".

The message is essentially: "You're angry. So give us money."

That's what makes me uncomfortable.

Australians are doing it tough right now. Every party has the right to ask for support. But when a campaign is designed primarily to inflame outrage and then immediately convert that outrage into donations, I think it's fair to question what's really being sold.

Support a party because you believe in its ideas.

Support a party because you think its policies will improve the country.

But if a political movement relies on keeping people permanently angry so the donations keep flowing, that's not leadership.

That's a business model.

[Dirtyleftie @CraigSarg73]

One Nation you can’t slash taxes, promise billions in new spending and still expect the numbers to add up.

Wind and solar projects are largely financed and owned by private companies, not taxpayers. Even if her proposed cuts saved around $18 billion, she’s also proposing billions in tax cuts while expanding government spending elsewhere.

At some point the maths matters. You can’t keep cutting revenue and increasing spending without blowing out the deficit and adding to the national debt. That’s not economic management it’s a recipe for bankrupting the country.

[Bo Reidler @2020digging]

#afternoonbriefing McIntosh admits she hasn’t been keeping up with the NDIS senate inquiry yet makes the hysterical claim that people may die? On what basis can she possibly say anything if she’s been absent? Why even platform her views if she’s not doing her job?

[Kenny Devine @TheKennyDevine]

What I've learned from Sky News After Dark over the past month:

We need to make housing more affordable without making houses cheaper or having people earning more.

The government should be doing more because it's their job but also less because socialism.

Negative gearing and the CGT discount have played a big part in what got us to this point, but they shouldn't be changed at all.

Young Australians being able to afford their first home is almost as important as an investor being able to negatively gear their twelfth.

[Honest Alder (not dishonest crank Alder) @Tw_timerAlder]

Good news.

Globally the share of gas in electricity generation is declining.

This is thanks to the rapid deployment of renewables across the world.

Don’t let the UK energy cranks tell you nobody is following the path to clean power.

The data proves they are lying.

[Terry Riley @dankatriley]

@ArrowInvestor Seldom do such comparisons end up being apples v apples. More likey apples v onions.

[Terry Riley @dankatriley]

@marggilroy @bareran09 @MargieJay50 And no one in the media ever pulls anyone up for claiming we have mass migration. They just let that out and out lie go out there unchallenged. You only need Google the definition to know it is a lie.

[Peter Gardner @PeterDGardner]

Australia endorses ambitious new global electrification target to hasten exit from fossil fuels https://t.co/3e2PA3ANYR

[Terry Riley @dankatriley]

@Terrytoo69 Bit like Trump. I reckon if you read what the sycophants say, you only have to reverse it into the polar opposite and you will get closer to the actual truth.

[Terry Riley @dankatriley]

@lesstenny Since the youngest boomer is 61 and 42% of boomers are retired with 30% of the 42% financially comfortable, it is a false claim. For boomers that are in the market, it either a first home or they are downsizing. The remainer would be the one percent that already own everything.

[FeathersMcGee @FeathersMcGee]

Capital gains tax outcry is sad and predictable, fuelled by vested interests. This is a bold push for change - The Age https://t.co/aYgpv1bswx

[Deborah Lyttle @lyttle_deb9361]

Very disappointed in @abcmelbourne @rwillingham being the biggest critic of @JacintaAllanMP
Willingham has said several times he’s a Liberal so why does @abcnews not have someone from the Left as well? Waste of taxpayer funds if you ask me

[Terry Riley @dankatriley]

@FinancialReview Who, the IPA I suppose.

[Dr Josie McSkimming @JosieMcskimming]

‘it’s vitally important that Albanese and Jim Chalmers press on with enacting the budget’s plans to limit negative gearing, end the capital gains tax discount & start taxing family trusts.’
Yes Ross Gittins! 👏 👏

⁦@AlboMP⁩ hold your nerve!

https://t.co/bYv1aequks

[Toilet Paper Australia @toiletpaperaus1]

Remember how we said that One Nation had not costed a single one of their key policies?

Well, their call to increase military spending to 5% of GDP got costed. It would cost $400 billion… in 4 years.

For context, AUKUS is wasting $368 billion over FIVE DECADES.

[BethinCanberra @ElbK19]

Sky blew up the Liberals. Without Sky, ONP would be nowhere.
The question is why? Why does Rupert & the billionaires want ONP in power. Because Pauline Hanson will do their bidding. The Gas Lobby wrote her Gas Policy. Healthcare is next. Greedy billionaire interests eh!
#abc730

[Terry Riley @dankatriley]

@David_McMahon75 Your bleating is unbelievable.