Gareth Thomas

Love this planet, excited by change

[JayJay @JayJay91341991]

Why does Australia continuously pander to toxic stale pale males? 🤮

#auspol

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

Do you stand with Tom Hardy?

I do.

[MeesheeisLost 🤍🖤🏴‍☠️ @Mishhell20]

Thank you so much Russell T Davies.
This is exactly it. It's taken me 40 years to figure it out. Working out my gender identity has been the most liberating experience.
#Happypridemonth
#TipToe

[Rupert's Conscience @RupertsConscie1]

I will always stand with Grace Tame...from Gadigal to Gaza. #IstandwithGraceTame

Charlie Pickering is a flog, not worthy to breathe her name.

Sick of Zionists trying to silence Aussies.

[Tom Red Memes @TomRed43]

#auspol2026 #insiders

[Dirtyleftie @CraigSarg73]

Parts of that post are factual, but a lot of it is opinion, speculation, or misleading framing.

A few points:

1. Labor is not “taking a big cut of his life’s work” simply because he owns a family home and an investment property.
* The family home remains exempt from capital gains tax.
* If the investment property was purchased many years ago, there may be transitional arrangements and a large portion of any gain may have accrued under the previous rules.
* Capital gains tax only applies when an asset is sold, not simply because someone owns it.
2. There is no inheritance tax in Australia.
* Children can still inherit property and assets.
* However, if inherited assets are later sold, capital gains tax rules may apply depending on the circumstances.
3. The claim that the money will be used to fund “freeloaders” is political rhetoric, not fact.
* Tax revenue funds everything from hospitals, schools, roads, aged care, defence, pensions, disability support, and debt repayment through to government administration.
* Whether spending priorities are appropriate is a political opinion.
4. The NDIS does have fraud and waste issues.
* Governments, auditors and the National Disability Insurance Agency have acknowledged this and are attempting reforms.
* But the vast majority of participants are people with genuine disabilities who rely on the scheme.
5. His story isn’t unusual.
* Many migrant families worked multiple jobs, saved aggressively, bought property, and focused on leaving something to their children.
* That contribution is real and deserves recognition.
* Equally, governments argue that tax systems should not heavily favour wealth gained through capital appreciation over income earned from work.

The real debate is not whether hard-working people like your father-in-law deserve respect. Most Australians would agree they do. The debate is whether tax concessions on investment income should remain as generous as they have been, particularly when housing affordability has become a major issue.

So the emotional part of the post is understandable. The claim that Labor is simply confiscating his wealth to give it to freeloaders is political spin rather than an accurate description of how the tax system works.

[Stephan Gris 💉💉💉💉💉🇺🇦🇵🇸❤️ @GrisStephan]

I am at least as much concerned by people inculcated into the IDF’s evil culture as I am about ISIS brides returning home

Both have worked with toxic murderous people to inflict terrible damage on innocent people, many of them children

Both should be thoroughly vetted 😡

[Dirtyleftie @CraigSarg73]

Some further thoughts on the Federal Budget and the tax reform debate.

A lot of the outrage over Labor’s proposed CGT and trust changes ignores a basic question: why should people earning the same income pay vastly different tax depending on how they earn it?

Why should someone earning $100,000 through wages pay more tax than someone earning $100,000 through capital gains, trust distributions or investment structures?

For decades Australia’s tax system has heavily favoured speculative investment, especially existing housing. Since the Howard-era changes in 1999, investors in detached housing have often paid far less tax on gains than workers pay on wages. Negative gearing and the 50% CGT discount encouraged borrowing into existing property rather than productive investment or new housing supply.

The current reforms attempt to rebalance that system.

Critics claim this destroys aspiration or punishes young Australians, but the actual data tells a different story. Only a small percentage of under-35s report capital gains or own negatively geared investment properties. Meanwhile the biggest beneficiaries of current concessions are overwhelmingly high-income earners and wealthy asset holders.

The claim that government is becoming a “47% shareholder” in businesses is also nonsense. CGT only applies to profits on sale, not the total value of a business, and only at the top marginal rates after inflation adjustments.

The trust reforms raise the same fairness question. Why should people able to split income through trusts pay less tax than ordinary wage earners who cannot? Trusts have legitimate business and asset-protection purposes, but tax minimisation should not be the primary one.

Even economist Saul Eslake — who spent decades as chief economist for ANZ and Bank of America Merrill Lynch argues the reforms increase equity overall, while still allowing concessions for genuinely productive investment like new housing and startups.

The debate ultimately comes down to whether Australia’s tax system should keep rewarding speculative wealth accumulation more generously than ordinary work.

[T. Bernadetti @MrsRoyKeaneo]

Jamie Raskin is visibly shaken after reading the unredacted #EpsteinFiles

"Donald Trump's name is all over these files...I saw a reference today to a 9yr old girl".

Don't ever stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles. #Trump

[David Nino Rodriguez @ninoboxer]

🚨BREAKING: There is NO water in The Rio Grande?!

I’m standing here in New Mexico and the river is completely DRY.

Nearby AI data centers are consuming massive amounts of water to keep their systems cool.

Meta’s Los Lunas facility alone has reportedly been tied to roughly 75 million gallons of water usage per year connected to Rio Grande resources and it’s only ONE of many projects expanding across the state.

People can argue over the exact numbers, but one thing is undeniable… these facilities require enormous amounts of water and there are more data centers across the country being built as we speak.

This is starting to look like an environmental disaster in plain sight.

We need to put pressure on local representatives and the President to examine this environmental crisis before it’s too late.

[cmdibley @cmdibley]

Imagine being a soldier in a national army and you’re ordered to detain peaceful unarmed protesters. So you take them into custody and torture and rape them. It’s not normal. There is something deeply sick at the heart of Israeli society.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media.

A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.

Lets make this viral again 👇

[Ash @AshPolitik]

The "death tax" scare campaign is the laziest dog whistle in the playbook.

Here are the facts straight from the Budget papers and ATO:

Inheritance isn't taxed.

Estates aren't taxed.

Farms are exempt.

Small business CGT concessions are retained in full.

Existing testamentary trusts are grandfathered.

Fixed testamentary trusts can still be set up for new wills at zero extra tax.

The only change: new discretionary testamentary trusts created after 12 May 2026 will pay a 30% minimum on trust income from 2028.

There are about 10,500 testamentary trusts in Australia — 1% of all trusts. And only the discretionary, income-splitting variety set up from now on is caught.

30% is what a nurse on $80k already pays on her top dollar.

The Right isn't defending battlers.

They're defending the tax planning industry that lets wealth split income across grandkids and bucket companies to pay less than wage earners on the same money.

If you want to leave assets to your kids, nothing stops you.

What's stopping is the loophole.

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

Israel tied up children and babies, KILLED them, then buried them in mass graves.

A French aid worker: “We found a mass grave in Gaza containing 300 bodies. Small children were killed with their hands tied behind their backs

EuroMedHR: Inside the mass graves, they found children & babies with their hands bound with zip ties

This photo is from 2 mass graves discovered at Nasser Hospital, southern Gaza, in April During the genocide, the EuroMedHR documented over 130 mass graves of victims of the Israeli genocide

[Stephen Koukoulas @TheKouk]

Fun facts:
In the 15 years since September 2011, the number of dwellings has increased by 2.395 million.
Population (natural & immigration) has increased by 5.292 million people.
Assuming 2.4 people per dwelling (a conservative estimate) there has been "over building" of 190,000 dwellings.
At 2.5 people per dwelling (the latest estimate) there has been over building totalling 279,000 dwellings.

[نحو الحرية @hureyaksa]

أقوى مداخلة سمعتها في حياتي!

نائبة رومانية في البرلمان الأوروبي ضد إسرائيل:

"لن أكون دبلوماسية في الحديث عن غزة، إذا قتلتم أطفالي، ساقـ.ـتلكم. تتحدثون عن روسيا وتتجاهلون ارتكاب إسرائيل أبشع تصفية جماعية في التاريخ. نجلس هنا ونتفرج على إسرائيل وهي تقتل الأطفال وتجوعهم"

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Breaking @smh:

ABC, SBS reject @AlboMP & Jillian Segal's definition of antisemitism.

The ABC warned that examples associated with the definition: "risk conflating legitimate political and policy critique with antisemitism."

SBS: “We will not be adopting the IHRA definition”.

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

This bloke doesn’t recognise that he’s a part of a generation that has never or will never exist again.

A generation with cradle to grave prosperity.

Never before in history has a generation benefited so much from the hard work of their parents and the economic circumstances of their adulthood.

Bouris has less in common with his hard-working father than a young Australian trying to make ends meet in uncertain times.

He speaks of the accumulation of property as some form of human right, that it’s some form of Australian story, but it’s really a situation and a mindset that has only been enjoyed by a small group of Australians.

Bouris literally made his fortune giving Home loans away in the first homebuyer grant period of the early 2000s, and he helped to contribute to an industry that is the most overinflated economic property Bubble on the planet.

Bouris probably doesn’t remember Australia, whereby governments build houses as a human right, where Menzies era governments of both persuasions owned the lions share of rentals in the country.

Not rich immigrant property magnates, not money obsessed Australian entrepreneurs.

The only reason this fellow can talk like this, it’s because his lived position allows him to do so.

A point not lost at all on the people who can’t really do anything right now.

[Hasan alrabay @HasanEssam29636]

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death.

Gaza in 2023 and 2026!