@FranMooMoo I didn’t realise my $100 donation would class me as a “billionaire” …. as soon as I find all that money, I’ll buy a private jet, so I can fly around the world righteously saving the planet :-)
Could it be Labor’s donors are squeezing the politicians that are in their pockets?
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Sam Bamford just got WRECKED on his own podcast by proud Aussies while trying to defend his dumb new ethnonationalist obsession.
To the point of a full-blown leftist meltdown.
There's no coming back from this. #2WorldsCrashout
Well done @ProfJoannaHowe and James for exposing this fraud.
JOHN CLAUSER, 2022 PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE WINNER:
"I can very confidently assert, there is no climate emergency.
As much as it may upset many people, my message is the planet is NOT in peril.
Atmospheric CO2 and methane have negligible effect on the climate.
The policies government have been implementing are totally unnecessary and should be eliminated.
So far, [we] have totally misidentified what is the dominant process in controlling the climate, and all of the various models are based on incomplete and incorrect physics.
The dominant process, is “the cloud-sunlight-reflexivity thermostat mechanism.
Clouds are all bright white, and they reflected 90% of the sunlight back into space making them the most crucial yet most overlooked aspect of the climate system.
Two-thirds of the Earth are ocean. The Pacific Ocean alone is half the Earth. The average cloud cover for the Earth is 67%; about 50% over land and 75% over oceans.
I claim that the above conspicuous properties of clouds are the missing part of the puzzle."
Pauline Hanson was Australia’s first political prisoner. Bronwyn Bishop described her incarceration as politically motivated and “outrageous”
Never forget what they did to Pauline
Humiliated, arrested, convicted and imprisoned - her youngest children were still living at home when their mother was taken away
Pauline was strip searched and served 11 weeks before the case was dismissed on appeal
See why she has never stopped fighting against injustice? And why she has never stopped advocating for single parents, veterans, the poor and the marginalised? See why she cares? To her this is deeply personal
@OneNationAus
1/x I notice many people confusing "transit passage" and "innocent passage" regarding the Strait of Hormuz. There also appears to be uncertainty about what qualifies as an "international strait." Let's clarify the differences. 🧵
A Chinese paedophile has avoided deportation after a tribunal decided the impact on his depressed wife and daughter outweighed the protection and expectations of the community.
The ruling was made due to Direction 110, which has been kept in place by immigration minister Tony Burke, despite it resulting in dozens of serious criminals being given Australian visas in recent months.
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.
The Australian federal government has been consistently spending far more than anticipated on public order and safety over the past 14 years...
Chart: @Mark_Graph
The chart below shows the effective capital gains tax rate facing a business owner who invests $250,000 upfront, holds for 10 years, and then exits at different valuations. The result is striking: under Labor’s proposed CGT changes, Australian founders and investors would face an effective tax rate of up to 46% — roughly double the burden faced in most comparable markets, including the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Japan and New Zealand. And this is not just a founder problem. The same logic applies across all small, medium and large businesses, and any asset, including listed equities, property, private equity, venture capital and crypto. If these changes proceed, Australia will become one of the least attractive places in the developed world to build, invest, take risk and realise gains. The one major asset still sitting outside this tax net is the owner-occupied home, which remains CGT-exempt. That creates a powerful distortion. If investment properties, businesses, shares, commercial property and other assets are hit with materially higher effective CGT rates, capital will rationally look for shelter in the family home. The likely result: less capital for startups and productive enterprise, lower productivity, more pressure on rents as investors retreat from housing, higher inflation and interest rates, weaker demand for risk assets, and even more money being recycled into owner-occupied property — the last great tax haven in Australia. In short: this is not just a profound increase in the tax burden, with zero consultation in the name of giving imprudent politicians more money to waste. It is a major repricing of risk-taking in Australia. It is not reform: it is highly regressive, as it seeks to punish entrepreneurial success, which is the key driver of long-term jobs, incomes, growth and prosperity. It does not boost productivity: it destroys it by actively discouraging innovation and business creation. It will not lower the cost of living: it will lift it by boosting rents and making us much more inefficient. It will not reduce interest rates: alongside rampant and reckless government spending and record migration, it will pressure the RBA to raise our mortgage repayments. What is perhaps most shocking is that only 12 months ago this government was elected on the basis promising to never make these changes...
The abusers will have some explaining to do how they took away their childhood and a lot more, the children will be the ones that suffer. #aberdeen#childabuse
When Albanese and his army of stooges try to claim that the massive numbers of people he has flooded into Australia are “normal” and “just what was expected after COVID,” they are outright lying through their teeth.
In the 2022 Federal Budget, Treasury forecast net migration for 2022/23 at just 180,000.
Albanese actually imported 536,000.
For 2023/24, Treasury’s own forecast was 213,000.
Albanese rammed through 446,000.
That means in just his first two years in power, while Treasury predicted 393,000, Albanese deliberately imported 982,000 people — nearly 600,000 more than forecast.
No wonder Australia is suffering a brutal housing crisis and crippling cost-of-living disaster.
Albanese ripped open the floodgates on purpose. He knew these hundreds of thousands would become eligible to vote at the next election — and he’s banking on them voting Labor in return for letting them in.
This wasn’t incompetence. It was a calculated, cynical ploy to import future voters and change the country against the wishes of ordinary Australians.
Team Jacinta Nampijinpa Price wishes Jacinta a very happy birthday today.
Thank you for your tireless advocacy, strong leadership and unwavering commitment to the people of the Northern Territory and all Australians.
We hope you have a wonderful day celebrating with family and friends, and we look forward to another big year ahead.
Happy Birthday, Jacinta! 🎉
In 2010, Professor Michael Flood wrote an article critical of Australian Father's Rights successes in ensuring equal access and custody of their children in divorce, and equal legal rights to decisions regarding their children.
His reasoning? The new laws *might* expose women and children to abuse.
In the same paper, he acknowledged abuse claims in divorce were rare.
Make no mistake- Flood is against men, and against Father's Rights. Every study and article he publishes seems to be a selection of anything potentially negative, even if he has to imagine it, such as most recently identifying "a desire to appear confident even when not confident" as a toxic trait to uphold masculine stereotypes in young men.
We are tired of men who seek nothing more than basic parenting rights being treated this way. We are exhausted of the same self-elected social leaders who claim to be focused on ending abuse ignoring the very real and documented abuse perpetrated by women and mothers, instead weaponizing the issue soley to disadvantage men.
https://t.co/KhHUy19MoD