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[KaiDASH @isKaiDASH]

BEHOLD, THE TOWER OF GLORIOUS HYDRATION

[Jim Chalmers MP @JEChalmers]

A PM that says capital gains tax will be unchanged while working on a secret plan to do the opposite #auspol https://t.co/eWm3uO7tVj

[John Macgowan @john_macgowan]

It’s not surprising in the slightest. “You tax things you want less of”. The Government has been over taxing brewers for decades, and guess what happened - people drink less beer. So now there are less people making beer, more sales of imports, tighter margins for micro brewers. Higher incentives for black markets. Lower quality. Less tax for government. I don’t know how many more times this has to happen before they figure it out.

[The Cyberpunk Dingo @cyberpunkdingo]

This is one of the biggest scams in Australia and every Australian should be aware.

Australia's biggest tech companies are laying off local workers and shipping their jobs to India, while simultaneously telling the government there are not enough skilled tech workers in the country.

The government then responds by handing out tens of thousands of visas to overseas tech workers, many from the same countries those jobs were just sent to. And throughout all of this, Australian technology graduates are entering a job market that is increasingly stacked against them.

The Commonwealth Bank made this embarrassingly visible in 2025. The bank retrenched over 300 Australian technology workers, then within weeks began advertising the exact same roles at its Bangalore subsidiary. The Finance Sector Union called it a direct breach of the enterprise agreement. Telstra cut 650 domestic roles around the same period while expanding its outsourcing relationships with Indian technology firms. These are Australia's largest and most profitable corporations, not struggling startups cutting corners to survive.

According to the Australian Information Industry Association, around half of all Australian organisations are already offshoring IT functions, with AI and cybersecurity being the most commonly exported disciplines.

So where does the skills shortage claim come from? Largely from the same industry groups whose members are doing the offshoring. And the government has responded to that lobbying by dramatically expanding the skilled visa intake. The Skills in Demand visa, which replaced the old Temporary Skill Shortage 482 visa at the end of 2024, recorded 86,240 applications in its first full year, a jump of 34.5 percent in a single year. Over 68,000 visas were granted, with 119,440 holders now working in Australia under the program. Indian nationals alone received 12,360 of those grants, a 59 percent increase year on year. ICT roles including Software Applications Programmer, ICT Business Analyst, and Cybersecurity Specialist are consistently among the highest-volume categories in the program.

The minimum salary attached to the main visa stream is $76,515. That sounds reasonable on paper, but what it actually does over time is set a ceiling disguised as a floor. When you flood a sector with temporary workers, the going market rate for that sector gradually drifts downward toward whatever the threshold allows. Australian government reform documents from 2025 acknowledged this explicitly, stating that employer-sponsored migration had been suppressing wages in certain sectors because businesses were using the visa pipeline instead of investing in training or raising pay to attract local workers.

Then there is the question of why Australians are not training in these fields in the numbers the industry claims to need. Australia produces around 7,000 IT graduates annually. That figure has flatlined because the career math stopped working. Wages are being held down, entry-level roles are disappearing offshore or being filled through visa programs, and young Australians are drawing the rational conclusion that technology is not a reliable career path. The industry then points to the resulting shortage as justification for more visas. The cycle feeds itself.

The workers being brought in under these programs are also not exactly thriving. A major 2026 survey of nearly 10,000 migrant workers across Australia found that two thirds were being paid less than they were legally owed, with a quarter underpaid by more than ten dollars per hour. The reason this goes largely unreported and unchallenged is straightforward: complaining about your employer when your right to remain in the country depends on that employer's continued sponsorship is not a real option for most people. The visa structure makes workers compliant in a way that no union-busting campaign could reliably achieve.

An absolutely monumental scam at the highest level.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A farmer dies in April 2026.

His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.

The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.

On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.

In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.

The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.

The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.

A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.

The Treasury collects £140,000.

The land never produces British food again.

[Gerard Rennick @RennickGBR]

While the rest of the nation gets hit with higher capital gains tax, there’s a special carve-out for foreign investors in renewable energy.

They get to keep the 50% CGT discount at a cost of $425 million to the taxpayer.

Foreign investors already don’t pay Capital Gains tax on shares and intangible assets. Why didn’t Chalmers crack down on them?

The answer of course is that the Labor party, like the Liberal party are controlled by foreign interests.!

But wait there’s more.

Under the capacity investment scheme underwriting agreements, if the actual revenue earned by a project is below the agreed revenue floor, the Australian government will pay the project operator 90 per cent of the revenue shortfall up to the agreed annual cap for 15 yrs. (see comments)

The Labor government will grant “whatever it takes” subsidies to ensure “renewable” energy is a part of the energy grid, no matter the cost to the taxpayer.

But in keeping with the government vibe of transparency the cost of the scheme can’t be disclosed and I quote.

“The CIS is listed in the budget papers as a contingent liability, alongside the Snowy 2.0 hydro electric scheme, which has already blown out in costs by billions.

According to the budget papers, "The Australian government's maximum liability and estimated payments under these (CIS) agreements are not for publication due to commercial sensitivities".

It’s not hard to see why the major parties are struggling. Wasting taxpayers money and refusing to disclose it has to stop.

[Sky News Australia @SkyNewsAust]

The Albanese government has betrayed voters with a series of bombshell tax changes in the federal budget, despite multiple pre-election promises.

https://t.co/6rDypn64u4

[Sivori @sivori]

Anthropic is buying millions of rare books, scanning and destroying them because legally destruction is the safest option. This was a plot element in the Vernor Vinge novel, "The Rainbow's End", which I read 20 years ago.

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

Why is Penny taking hard-earned money from struggling Australian taxpayers and handing it over to Fiji?

$30 million. In cold, hard cash.

No wonder the Fijian bloke has a huge smile on his face.

And to show what a complete joke this is: according to the Reserve Bank of Fiji, consumer prices in Fiji dropped 0.85% year-on-year in March 2026 — following a 0.5% decline in February. That’s the third straight month of falling prices in Fiji.

Prices in Fiji fell for transport (-8.8%), housing (-3.0%), clothing and footwear (-1.9%), recreation and culture (-3.1%), and furnishings (-0.8%)

Of course, don’t expect the ABC to report any of that.

So while Australians suffer under some of the highest inflation and cost-of-living pain in the developed world, the Albanese government is forking out $30 million to Fiji — supposedly “to combat rising fuel prices” — even as Fiji’s own Reserve Bank confirms transport costs are falling sharply.
We are being lied to — and fleeced at the same time.

This is just another blatant deception from Labor.

They’re desperately trying to pretend the entire world is crippled by runaway inflation to cover up the sheer incompetence and economic failure of the Albanese regime - so hand Fiji $30 million cash, to create a false impression that everywhere is suffering like Australia.

We are being ruled over by a deceitful and corrupt Labor regime.

[Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺 @AvidCommentator]

How is having a median house price below $1m, "grim"?

h/t @BikoKonstantin1

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

The Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been community noted on X for trying the deceive the public.

What lying dishonest regime Albanese is running.

[Aus Integrity @QBCCIntegrity]

BREAKING: Mark Buttler feigning surprise that NDIS has blown out by an additional $13,000,000,000 ($13 Billion) in the last 4 months!!

This is wholesale fraud, accelerated by Labor. We are under criminal regime management.

[that stock chick @ausstockchick]

So sick of Albo saying he’s changing CGT discount to help overcome “intergenerational unfairness”.

The guy spent all our money on NDIS rorts and fake public sector jobs.

Plus mass migration campaigns sending house prices to the moon.

Then comes after investors.

Sick of it.

#auspol

[🐝🇬🇷 @bee_fumo]

Yunyun Syndrome came out.
And the english localization has come under fire for being one of the worst ones yet:

English translators caught
1. Removing Kaomoji
2. Inserting nonsense about fascism
3. Inserting trans stuff

Examples:
[japanese_ja] いらない
[english_en] i'd cut my uterus out if i cld
[korean_sa] 필요 없음
[spanish_la] No lo quiero.
[french_fr] J'en veux pas
[german_de] Brauch ich nicht.
[italian_it] Non lo voglio.
[portuguese_ptbr] Não quero
[russian_ru] He нaдo.

[japanese_ja] やあ (´・ω・｀)
[english_en] Yaaaa-ho~ :3
[korean_sa] 여어(´・ω・｀)
[spanish_la] Hola (´・ω・｀)
[french_fr] Salut (´・ω・｀)
[german_de] Hi (´・ω・｀)
[italian_it] Ehilà (´・ω・｀)
[portuguese_ptbr] E aí (´・ω・｀)
[russian_ru] Пpивeт (´・ω・｀)

The translation companies responsible seem to be
Dragonbaby: https://t.co/auRU3SBC2L
loc-x-load: https://t.co/6t0Y4VxRmK

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

The AEC spent over $500,000 trying to sue me in the Federal Court.

Their allegation?

That the authorisation statement at the bottom of my election signs — “Authorised by Craig Kelly” with my office address — was ILLEGIBLE.

They seriously argued the font was too small, even though any voter could walk right up and read it clearly from two metres away.

Yet the same AEC happily allows entire election signs to be written in foreign languages that are completely illegible to the vast majority of Australian voters.

And if people can’t read English, should they even be on the electoral roll and voting?

How the hell can someone make an informed decision on who to vote for if they can’t read English?

[Matthew Camenzuli @Matt_Camenzuli]

$49,296 is not a middle income. Yet in Australia it is taxed as though it is. It is in fact, the minimum wage. The tax brackets at the lower end are not set high enough, and it was never the intention of the creators of the progressive tax system, to punish the lowest income earners in this way.

To give this context, the average rental in Australia costs $33,800 a year. It costs about $5,896.80 per year to fuel the car once a week on today’s prices. That is $39,696.80 before tax is even considered, and then there is the small matter of food and incidentals like clothing.

A person earning minimum wage in Australia today will pay $6302 in taxes and Medicare levy. So, after rent, fuel and taxes, there is just $3297.20 to live. That’s $63.40 cents a week - better pray that rental has free electricity.

Back in the 80’s, the minimum wage was closer to $12,000 and the tax-free threshold was closer to half that amount, the rest of the wage fell into the next bracket not the middle bracket like it does today. Back then we refined our own fuel and had the cheapest electricity in the world. Purchasing power was much higher, and a family could live on that single income.

Today, a household wouldn’t survive on one wage.

Even a couple, both earning minimum wage would struggle to rent in a capital city. After living expenses and tax, there would hardly be enough left to put a bung in a flat tyre. Heaven forbid the fridge packing it in.

No wonder we have a birthrate crisis. No wonder we have a loneliness epidemic. No wonder people are just so sad.

The greatest insult to the worker on minimum wage, paying tax as a middle-income earner in this impossible environment is - without a doubt - watching the government waste the money.

Watching Ministers blow their travel allowances and funding the waste in the NDIS is just too much to take.

It isn’t fair.

The Parliament must urgently address this problem. Tax brackets need to be completely redrafted, especially on the lower end of the spectrum where every single dollar counts. The big borrowing, big spending Dr. Chalmers must learn to live within his means and find savings – just like the rest of us.

It’s tough.

I just want Australia back.

[Kumo! ☁️ @MaruzenskyLover]

when i go 4th in a debut race and i maruzenuinely clock it to go 7th

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

A CORRUPT, DISGUSTING STITCH-UP

So now we know exactly why they deliberately waited to arrest Ben Roberts-Smith in Sydney.

They didn’t want the trial in his home town in Brisbane, in front of jury his actual peers in Brisbane.

They rigged it for Sydney because a Sydney jury is far more likely to be packed with Hamas & Hezbollah sympathisers and their leftist inner-city latte-sippers friends who carry a deep prejudicial hatred of our military.

In short, they think they have a better chance of a guilty finding in Sydney than Brisbane - so they stitched it up so he’d be arrested in Sydney.

And these "prosecutors" are in bed with Channel 9 — who have a massive commercial stake in seeing him destroyed.

That’s why Nine’s cameras were conveniently parked at the airport like vultures, filming him being taken off the plane to create the impression that he was “at the airport trying to flee the country" because he’s guilty.

Now almost every single juror dragged into that courtroom will have that prejudicial image burned into their brains.

This is outright corruption.

It stinks to high heaven.

And these holier-than-thou, corrupt bastards have the absolute gall — the sheer stinking hide — to lecture their prosecution is all about “justice.”

[Aidan Morrison @FootnotesGuy]

Very glad to have collaborated with Robert on this piece in the @australian.

I'll come back tomorrow with some more details on the numbers.

TLDR: Estimates of transmission costs have proven worse than useless. The few precedents we have suggest a disaster ahead.

[KaiDASH @isKaiDASH]

RT @ChibiReviews: BREAKING NEWS:

Upon researching the situation, I have confirmed Crunchyroll is indeed strangling Muse Asia.

For those…

[FuelAustralia.org @FuelAustralia]

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