Simon Fitzgerald

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

@LauraLoomer

[Craig Emerson @DrCraigEmerson]

I just checked it out. There are 27 higher taxing countries than Australia (all of them rich countries). John Symon’s claim that Australia is the highest taxing country in the world is utter rubbish.

[Simon Fitzgerald @simfitzgerald1]

@MenachemV @abcnews @australian @theage @theheraldsun @SkyNewsAust @3AW693 @2GB873 @aus_jewishnews @dailytelegraph Serious observation:
It seems certain people have a huge issue with women expressing their opinions. Is it a cultural trait or just a personal grievance? There is a long documented history of going after Grace Tame on this feed. Strong women clearly make some uncomfortable.🙄

[Louise Greene @GreeneLouiseAus]

I am absolutely fed up with the relentless targeting of Grace Tame.

Let's be clear. There is a difference between fair criticism and a public pile-on. What we keep seeing directed at Grace is not constructive debate. It is constant scrutiny, personal attacks, outrage cycles and a level of judgment that seems reserved for women who dare to speak too loudly, too honestly or too unapologetically.

Grace Tame survived child sexual abuse. She helped change laws. She gave a voice to countless survivors. She has spent years doing work that most people would never have the courage to do.

Yet the attacks never seem to stop.

A few weeks ago it was the Prime Minister taking aim at her. Now it's Charlie Pickering. Before that, countless commentators, columnists and social media critics. Different names, same pattern.

And frankly, it disgusts me.

No, women in public life should not be immune from criticism. Nobody is. But there is a world of difference between criticism and the kind of sustained public hounding that seeks to diminish, discredit and exhaust someone.

As someone who has experienced public judgment and media attacks, I know how destructive these campaigns can be. They reduce human beings to caricatures. They erase context. They encourage outrage while ignoring the very real emotional toll on the person at the centre of it.

What troubles me most is that women who survive violence are so often expected to be perfect. The moment they become angry, outspoken, political, imperfect or inconvenient, they are treated as fair game.

Grace Tame has contributed more to the conversation about sexual abuse and survivor advocacy in this country than most of her critics ever will.

Maybe it's time some of the men lining up to take shots at her stopped and asked themselves a simple question:

Why are they spending so much energy attacking a survivor instead of supporting the change she helped create?

Enough. #gracetame #charliepickering

[Simon Fitzgerald @simfitzgerald1]

@rollthekazbaar @australian @smh @dailytelegraph @2GB873 @3AW693 @abcnews lol it seems that you are either stupid or simple - maybe even both. The only r*p!ng that’s been proven has been perpetrated by the most moral army in the world 🤓

[Simon Fitzgerald @simfitzgerald1]

@rollthekazbaar @MenachemV @abcnews @theage @australian @theheraldsun @3AW693 @aus_jewishnews @Jerusalem_Post When you’ve completely lost the argument on facts, you resort to vile, made-up hysterics. Thanks for proving you have absolutely nothing intelligent left to say. 🙄

[Simon Fitzgerald @simfitzgerald1]

@MenachemV @AlboMP Stop spreading lies and misinformation.

Claiming a new law wiped 10% off home values overnight is a flat-out lie. Existing properties are fully grandfathered.

Cotality literally blames record-high listings and brutal interest rates for the property cool. Try using real facts.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

The Guardian just shattered the myth of the world's most moral army:

1,100 Palestinian civilians killed in the West Bank - Not a single Israeli prosecuted

Ninety-six percent of investigations into settler violence close without indictment

The biggest crime of Palestinians? Living in their own land

For that crime - they are shot, beaten, run over, executed.

And their killers walk free

[The Noisy Elephant @TheNoisyTrunk]

Nice story.

But the problem is the conclusion doesn't match the facts.

If your father-in-law owns a family home, an investment property and wants to leave them to his children, Labor is not taxing the inheritance because he dies.

There is no inheritance tax in the budget.

There is no estate tax in the budget.

There is no tax on the value of assets being passed to his children.

What Labor changed is the tax treatment of certain trust structures that some wealthy families use to reduce tax on future income generated by inherited assets.

That's not the same thing.

Notice how the post starts with a hardworking migrant family and ends with claims about "confiscated wealth", "freeloaders" and the NDIS.

That's because the facts aren't doing the heavy lifting here. The emotions are.

If someone can point to the section of the budget that taxes a person's estate simply because they died, post it.

Otherwise this is another death tax scare campaign built around a fictional tax that doesn't actually exist.

→ FACTS MATTER: https://t.co/GLyoJdA72X

[Simon Fitzgerald @simfitzgerald1]

@MenachemV @australian @theage @theheraldsun @2GB873 Please and don’t let the door hit you on the way out 👋

[Robert Carter @Bob_cart124]

@JohnCleese When you are this ignorant about Islam, it makes sense that you would fear it.

I urge anyone reading this rubbish to learn from good, decent Muslims who know their faith, rather than from a hateful and possibly senile Cleese.

[The Noisy Elephant @TheNoisyTrunk]

Not only did he eat cock, he ate cock on TV. He ate cock on TV and got paid for eating cock on TV.

I guess if you're gonna eat cock you might as well eat cock and get paid for eating cock.

BUT, AS A VEGETARIAN?

[The Noisy Elephant @TheNoisyTrunk]

Have you heard #DaveHughes "Hughesy" RANT on social media?

The wealthy property investor, once a funny comedian, beneficiary of #WealthyWelfare, having a fucking whimpering sob about the CGT capital gains tax?

Well, not only is he a fiscal fool, he doesn't understand the budget, he doesn't understand finances, and he doesn't understand superannuation. All of which he's now concluded means we should call a fucking election, because he's gonna get hit in the hip pocket, just a tiny little bit more.

Here is a man with multiple properties, one of his houses in 2017 was apparently valued at $3.06 million, if that was in my suburb, it would it be worth $5-7 million now. And that's just one of them. And he's fucking carrying on as if he's gonna lose his shirt, which, incidentally, he's never had a nice one.

Noisy doesn't hold back:

[Simon Fitzgerald @simfitzgerald1]

@MenachemV The double standard is sickening. You attack a Muslim grant while ignoring the $176M+ given to the ECAJ a group which is actively backing the collective punishment and slaughter in Gaza. Our gov is literally financing a lobby that supports mass atrocities. #auspol

[Simon Fitzgerald @simfitzgerald1]

@MenachemV @joshburnsmp Since when are you the official representative of millions of Australians?

[Simon Fitzgerald @simfitzgerald1]

@IsraelinOZ So what you’re saying is that this video is ai generated?

[איתמר בן גביר @itamarbengvir]

ככה אנחנו מקבלים את תומכי הטרור

Welcome to Israel 🇮🇱

[Simon Fitzgerald @simfitzgerald1]

@AngusTaylorMP *this should be marked as SPAM*

[The Noisy Elephant @TheNoisyTrunk]

@AngusTaylorMP Oh fuck, Angust Taylor has gone there - back to the "Borders"

Next, he'll be saying he'll STOP the boats, have the budget BACK IN BLACK and appoint himself to 5 Shadow Ministries, all while giving billions to Gerry Harvey.

What a fucking knucklehead /'\