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@nickcat7 Take care Nick

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@Giuseppe_8888 @blowingtom2 @roberts_pa97578 If inheriting a business automatically made someone successful, every second-generation company would be thriving. Most aren’t. Whatever you think of Gina Rinehart, building Hancock Prospecting into a mining giant took more than inheritance.

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@KirstiMiller30 @DrAmandaCohn Intersex conditions exist, but exceptions don’t eliminate the rule. Humans are a sexually dimorphic species with rare developmental variations. That’s why nearly every person can be identified as male or female from their biology.

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@KirstiMiller30 The analogy doesn’t work. A trans woman remains a trans woman regardless of which bathroom or sporting category they use. The debate is about sex-based spaces, not denying someone’s identity.

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@KirstiMiller30 The question isn’t whether trans women lose athletic ability,they do. The question is whether enough of the male puberty advantage remains to affect fairness in some sports. That’s where the disagreement lies.

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@KirstiMiller30 @BBCr4today @JustinOnWeb Absolute performance wins sport, not relative lab metrics. The corrected data still shows trans women have 22–27% higher absolute power than cis women. That’s the advantage that matters.

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@KirstiMiller30 @BBCr4today @JustinOnWeb How about this study?

https://t.co/Q9NLSLpbBc

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@KirstiMiller30 @BBCr4today @JustinOnWeb “Zero studies exist” isn’t accurate. There are published reviews concluding that some advantages from male puberty can persist after hormone therapy. The disagreement is over how much those differences affect sporting performance and fairness.

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@KirstiMiller30 @BBCr4today @JustinOnWeb Hormone therapy clearly reduces performance. The question is whether advantages from male puberty remain relevant in female sport. That’s why many sporting bodies still have restrictions. Inclusion matters, but so does fairness, and the science is far from settled.

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@blowingtom2 @GavinBrx The real debate is, are Australians getting good value for the tax they pay?

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@Jackat19 @blowingtom2 @DaleH1234 @matt_barrie It’s 50/50 negative/positive

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@TMahonys @Peter_Fitz Why not take the policies to the election?

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@blowingtom2 I care about first home buyers too. But many investment property owners are ordinary Australians trying to self fund retirement so they don’t rely on the pension later. The real answer is increasing housing supply, not punishing long term investment.

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@echoes1971 @abcnews Holding politicians to their promises isn’t “tabloid journalism” it’s one of the core functions of journalism. If governments can dump commitments without scrutiny, elections become meaningless.
And the insults don’t change that.

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@echoes1971 @abcnews So now Kerry O’Brien and Barrie Cassidy count as “real journalists” because they undermine your argument, while Ferguson, Karvelas and Jane Norman are suddenly all LNP shills.

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@echoes1971 @abcnews Political journalists have aggressively questioned every government for decades.
Look up Kerry O'Brien and Tony Abbott

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@echoes1971 @abcnews Howard got smashed over “never ever GST.” Abbott got smashed over broken promises. Hockey got smashed over the 2014 budget.
You’re confusing “questions I don’t like” with “bias.”

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@echoes1971 @abcnews Calling people “cheering dickheads” instead of making an argument isn’t exactly helping your case.

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@hpglassford @9NewsMelb They did break an election promise