澳洲袋鼠 🇦🇺🦘

bouncing kangaroo, order of blue heelers

[Kos Samaras @KosSamaras]

Every few years our political class goes looking for the “quiet Australians.” In 2019 they found a flattering fiction…..the aspirational mortgage-belt couple, the franking-credit retiree, the tradie worried about his ute that was being threatened by EVs. It was all BS. There was zero data behind any of it. But it told us exactly which Australians our political and commentariat class are willing to lend agency to. It’s almost never the people who actually are the real quiet Australians.

The real ones don’t read the opinion pages. They empty your bins. They wipe your parents in aged care. They clean the office after you’ve gone home. They work the night shift at the meatworks. And the political class treats their labour as the one cost that can always be squeezed and the one claim that can always be deferred.

Watch what happened when 7,000 ASU members stopped Melbourne’s bins this year. The councils blamed the state’s rate cap. The state said the councils were sitting on healthy surpluses and crying poor. Each side pointed at the other, and the garbo, a human being who just wanted to stop picking up weekend shifts to break even, dissolved into the gap between two institutions. That’s the bet our political class makes again and again: muddy who’s responsible, and the public will shrug and move on.

But voters aren’t fooled, and this is where the political class keeps getting it catastrophically wrong. In Hume, the council that told 17,000 households their bins were a casualty of state stinginess is the same council that found $24 million to restore the Broadmeadows Town Hall. The money is always there for the building, the precinct, the plaza, their own renos. It’s the people who keep the suburb from drowning in its own waste who are told the well has run dry, that there is no money to help them feed their kids.

This is why the system is being turned over. We keep telling ourselves the revolt against the major parties, the surge to One Nation, is a story about culture or grievance or misinformation. A moral failing in the voter to be fixed with better messaging. It is nothing of the sort. It is an entirely rational response from an outer-suburban, mortgage-stressed working class that has watched its political class find money and agency for everyone except people like them.

My article on why Garbos are just as important as health workers - below.

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

I don’t think the Epstein Class was ready for a clean and sober @HunterBiden

[NutBush Villain @nutbushvillain]

@HunterBiden

[澳洲袋鼠 🇦🇺🦘 @popgomouse]

@HunterBiden @ABreitbartClips The bait is well left alone

[Stephen Koukoulas @TheKouk]

Fun fact Thursday:
Latest annual GDP growth 2.5%.

Average under the previous govt (ex COVID to be fair)
Sep 2013 to Dec 2019: 2.4%

And still the tin foil brigade complain about conditions today - can't wait for the replies to these facts

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Lots of pro russian Irish people telling me to ‘go to the front lines & leave Ireland’

I’ve just come here from Nikopol. The press armour is still in my bag. I watched Russian drones hunt civilians with my own eyes. That’s why the indifference here is so despicable, especially while Ireland still supplies alumina to Russias war machine.

I’m not going anywhere. This investigation continues

[stranger @strangerous10]

Jane Hume skewered as she scrambles to avoid choosing between first-home buyers & investors.
PK doesn’t let it go, then when cornered, “that’s a ridiculous question.” 🙄 Yikes.

She’ll be now praying no one sees this pathetic display, esp people locked out of housing. #auspol

[Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom]

A big reason why oil prices aren't much higher: a steep fall in Chinese demand.

"The amount of oil arriving in China by ship in the past 30 days has fallen to 7.5m b/d from about 13m b/d at this time last year."

"The reasons for the sudden drop in Chinese buying are unclear." https://t.co/ckYxJykkwm

[Andy Hutchins @AndyHutchins]

Best part of Hunter Biden, Shitposter Extraordinaire is that you KNOW Don Jr. is sweating out his hair gel trying to craft a tweet that would be even one percent as cool.

[Soopervillain - 🇺🇸 @Excellentspeelr]

The thing about Hunter Biden is that America loves a comeback story.

His mom and sister killed. His brother killed. Ravaged by addiction. Pursued on all fronts.

Comes back a stronger and better man.

Attacking this guy is just gonna play badly.

[Richard Yabsley @RichardYabsley]

Australia has 48 days of fuel available.
12days more than before the ME war began.
Thanks ALP.
#qt

[TrendSpider @TrendSpider]

🚨 BREAKING: SpaceX $SPCX to IPO at $135 / share, with 555,555,555 shares available

[Rathbone @_rathbone]

Meet the new Epsteins

[Daniel Best - Author @20thCenturyDan]

Albanese on Tony Abbott being brought back as Liberal Party president: "At least when they brought back the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, they chose ones that were successful."

Gold.

#auspol #QT

[Financial Times @FT]

Trump’s empire of debt https://t.co/UNhmTjmPOz

[Hunter Biden 2028 @HunterFor2028]

Hunter Biden on Stephen Miller: "There's something f*cked up about that motherf*cker"

[The Saturday Paper @SatPaper]

Peter Costello’s decision to offer a 50 per cent discount on capital gains was clearly designed to benefit some conservative mates, writes former Liberal Party leader John Hewson. https://t.co/8zAlk7QuQl

[澳洲袋鼠 🇦🇺🦘 @popgomouse]

@Ben_Davison1 Super is actually a legally provided tax haven.
Seriously!

Those "super is a tax" crowd will likely depend on age pensions with an entitlement mentality

[澳洲袋鼠 🇦🇺🦘 @popgomouse]

@DrNeilStone You do know that Donald Trump don't shut up.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Hunter Biden has done a better job of exposing Trump family corruption in a few days on social media than some elected Dems have in their entire terms. Even MAGA voters are listening to him.

Something to think about.