Elwyn

Technology manager, car nut, music nut. trivia nut. mariners fan.

[Elwyn @elwynw]

@10SportAU Is it because rugby league is subsidised by pokies?

[Elwyn @elwynw]

@achingkneejoint Where Bop Girl by Pat Wilson and Gimme a Little Sign by Peter Andre are on high rotation

[Elwyn @elwynw]

@10FootballAU If @ParamountPlusAU and @Channel10 want viewers on their platforms, A‑League needs top billing. Leading with AFL/NRL just advertises rival networks’ sport. Prioritise the product you actually own

[Elwyn @elwynw]

@nexta_tv This is the Circly game. If you look at the circle , he made you look and can hit you on the arm. Australian schoolboy highjinks.

[Elwyn @elwynw]

@theprojecttv Not to worry, still on Prime, Disney and 7+

[Elwyn @elwynw]

@thegregfleet If only grand dad had died in the war pre coitus.

[Elwyn @elwynw]

@ausberlin___ Australian national sporting colours match tge floral emblem for Australia, the golden wattle bush.

[Elwyn @elwynw]

And a Tim Cahill style goal celebration #AUSTUR

[Elwyn @elwynw]

@nexta_tv Australian Driscoll’s berries for sale

[Cameron Murray @DrCameronMurray]

If you bought an investment home 10 years ago and sold it today, would you pay more or less capital gains tax under the changes in the budget?

Say you bought an existing $1m home in 2016 that is now worth $1.67m (the typical national gain this decade).

With the old 50% discount you pay ~23.5% of the nominal (if you start in the highest marginal income tax bracket), or $157k

The new proposed indexation firstly increases the nominal base by 35% inflation, so your real gain is $320k and you pay 47% on that, or $150k

So $7k less tax under the proposed new capital gains tax rules.

I was surprised at the complexity of some of the proposed tax changes. But the net rate of tax doesn’t change much on average - just more tax on abnormally high capital gains, and less tax on abnormally low capital gains.

[Elwyn @elwynw]

@NotHoodlum @RE_DailyMail Rod and Ronnie doing a Faces reunion?

[Elwyn @elwynw]

@ReidEnright Planetary leader is the head of the U.N. Antonio Guterres

[Elwyn @elwynw]

@theprojecttv thats unaustralian!

[A H @AaronHockey1]

@FootballAUS @Socceroos Haha and this from Fed Square 2022 annual report. Happy to spruik the benefit then? Wonder what has changed?

[Elwyn @elwynw]

@tompanos They should tailor the trigger based on causes. Fuel price rises affect the whole supply chain of Everything. So everything increased. That’s not bad consumer spending.

[Elwyn @elwynw]

It also reduces the environmental burden on future generations. Every tonne of ash processed is one less tonne sitting in a dam next to a river, a town, or a floodplain.

[Elwyn @elwynw]

For NSW, it’s a practical sweetener:
Close the coal units, but replace the economic hole with a new industry built on the waste they left behind. Cleaner land, new revenue, and jobs that stay local.

[Elwyn @elwynw]

This isn’t theory. International projects already recover rare earths, alumina, silica, and cement‑grade materials from coal ash. It’s a proven pathway to regional manufacturing and supply‑chain resilience.

[Elwyn @elwynw]

Instead of leaving ash dams as toxic monuments to the past, we can invite business to extract the value, clean up the sites, and create new jobs in the same communities that risk losing them.

[Elwyn @elwynw]

One option that rarely gets airtime: turning coal ash from a long‑term liability into a long‑term industry. It’s loaded with critical minerals, construction materials, and industrial inputs Australia currently imports.