Tim McNally

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

Humans thrived on animal fats for thousands of years until industrial seed oils were introduced in the early 1900s. Since then, obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates have exploded. Yet we demonize butter and meat while embracing inflammatory oils that oxidize in our bodies.

[Costa2 @costa0070]

Labor @AustralianLabor and DV.
@ACurrentAffair9 .

[Talent League @TalentLeague]

Finn O'Sullivan is the Telstra AFL Rising Star nominee for Round 15 🦘

The No.2 pick in last year's Telstra AFL Draft produced another impressive performance in North Melbourne's victory over Carlton, picking up 18 disposals at 78 per cent efficiency.

[Talent League @TalentLeague]

O'Sullivan played juniors with Koroit before moving to Melbourne for school and representing the Oakleigh Chargers in the Coates Talent League.

He was named in the 2023 U18 Boys All Australian Team and CTL Team of the Year and featured in the 2024 Marsh AFL National Academy.

[AFL @AFL]

Yet another young Roo with a bright future ahead 🤩

Check out the best moments from round 15 @Telstra AFL Rising Star nominee Finn O'Sullivan.

[Jason Richardson @JaseRicho]

So bloody good!

Well done @cdsymons & @7horseracing

Go Brenton!

[7HorseRacing 🐎 @7horseracing]

"It's a bit of a dream job that I never knew was there." 👏

Former jockey Brenton Primmer has recently embarked on a new journey working with animals thanks to the support of good friend @cdsymons and the team at Warrnambool Wildlife Encounters.

@RacingVictoria @TheFunkyFarm

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

Does anyone remember the media covering any debate on during the election campaign ?

[Senator Matt Canavan @mattjcan]

Presumably, The Australian Financial Review’s editorial (“Nats’ populism a threat to Liberals’ economic reset”) was written before the front page was set for the day.

Your front page warned that high power prices could force yet another Australian fertiliser plant to shut down. How could power prices be so high when we were promised that net zero and the huge investment in renewables would lower them?

The Nationals are not a threat to an “economic reset”. The biggest threat to Australia’s economic revival is the Professor Pangloss groupthink that berates anyone who dares propose a different idea to fix the dire state of things in this country.

Our productivity has fallen by 5.7 per cent in three years. Real wages have gone back a decade. Interest rates on Australian government debt have increased fivefold, and we risk losing our AAA credit rating.

We have never had an economic decline at this pace. Peter Dutton did a good job of pointing out all these problems. It is just that his message was, “your life is really crap under Labor but we are not proposing any major changes to fix things”. That did not add up, and so we were thrashed.

Likewise, the Financial Review writes as if all we need is one more AFR Energy Summit, one more CSIRO report or one more energy governance board (we already have more bodies than a graveyard in this space). Perhaps if we just have one more conversation about “sensible tax reform”, everything will be fine. Just explain to me slowly how indexing our tax brackets would help make Australian fertiliser production viable again.

I am glad my run for the Nationals leadership has given the comfortable, coddled and second-rate political class of this country a shake. We need a shake-up. Our country is in decline. We are losing our living standards, we are losing our jobs, we are losing our industries, and we are losing the confidence that we are the Lucky Country.

Just in the last few years, we have lost our urea industry (the most used fertiliser in Australian farming), our plastics industry and our nickel industry. We have just two fuel refineries left. And, one of our remaining two steel mills is in administration. It will be saved only by a huge taxpayer bailout. All these sectors face crippling carbon taxes under Labor’s net zero by 2050 goal.

These losses do not just harm our economic security, they also hurt our food and national security. Half of our nation’s food is grown with fertilisers from natural gas, and we now import that fertiliser from China and the Middle East. We cannot make AdBlue from scratch, so if our sea lanes are embargoed, our entire trucking fleet would be brought to a standstill.

Given the scale of this crisis, maybe, just maybe, it is time we had a debate on whether our current energy plan of “wind and solar renewables backed up by big batteries and firmed by gas-fired peaking plants” is the right idea. The Financial Review calls this plan “rational”. Well, Tony Blair disagrees. He recently called the net-zero goal “irrational”, and Peter Beattie said this week that we had “stuffed it” with too many renewables.

If you are going to claim that our current energy plan makes sense, it would be great if you could point to one country where something like what we are doing has lowered energy prices. The Financial Review complains that the Coalition’s nuclear energy plan was “wildly expensive” and would create a “nationalised” energy industry. Yet, it says nothing of the billions upon billions of taxpayer funds that are constantly funnelled into our mendicant renewables sector.

During the election, the Labor government gave yet another $2 billion subsidy to our aluminium industry because its plan to run on green energy is not actually cheaper than running on coal. What is most depressing about the Financial Review editorial is that it is largely not about how we make Australia’s economy better. The paper used to bravely lead the charge in arguing for economic reform, even when this was unpopular. Instead, it now mainly provides naive advice on how to win elections, from people who have probably spent more time working for McKinsey than running actual political campaigns.

Politics is not management consulting. You do not win elections by conducting market research of your customers and positioning yourself in the “sensible centre” of their views. In politics, the centre of the road is where you get run over. And, we just got made into roadkill. In politics, you have to inspire your supporters with a cause, with a mission, with a higher purpose to give your army an esprit de corps.

When Labor won with a one-seat majority in 2022, the Coalition deluded itself into thinking that with just a few tweaks, we could sneak back into office. Now that we are at our lowest ebb since World War II, the small target approach won’t work. If we are going to have a fighting chance at the next election, we are going to have to fight.

I appreciate the Financial Review’s advice because it has helped clarify my thinking. As you say, the Nationals know how to win elections. So maybe we should trust our instincts next time and give it a red-hot crack.

[Topher Field @TopherField]

People were charged for cutting down single trees on their own property for fire preparation, yet the government does this and it's fine.

The hypocrisy is criminal.

[Aus Integrity @QBCCIntegrity]

Hi @PeterDutton_MP @LiberalAus @The_Nationals

Hot tip - if you want to make any headway in this upcoming election, amongst other things, Dump and cut all ties to UN, WHO & WEF.

Prove you’re not captured. Commit now.

Look at the hero’s feedback here for @DavidCrisafulli LEARN

[Moira Deeming MP @MoiraDeemingMP]

Communist Victoria - Jail for words -

[Newgate @NewgateFarm]

🚨New 2YO winner for Cosmic Force ‼️

Stay Cosmic shows his class winning on debut for @pstokesracing 🏇

Bred @KingstarFarm like his full brother Stay Focused & owned by @RacingBennett ⚫️ 🟠🏁

We look forward to watching this very promising colt showcase his talent this prep👀

[The opinionated Black woman ~ Aunty @Theblackfemini3]

Albo can go well and truly fuck himself!

I won't be conscripted, what say you?

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

“If you have a man standing there, telling you he’s going to reduce the World population by 10-15% - what does that mean to you? Someone’s gonna die”

[GemmaTognini @GemmaTognini]

What. A. Total. FLOG.
https://t.co/VLvt1BMdpc

[Aus Integrity @QBCCIntegrity]

Say what?!

BREAKING: Labor are proposing tax cuts on foreign ownership of houses to the likes of Blackrock, Vanguard and other institutional investors.

“You will own nothing and be happy”

Labor is ACTIVELY selling Australia out from underneath our feet

[KeepTheSheep @keepthesheepWA]

They won’t listen, so we’ll make them hear us. #KeeptheSheep 🐑

[National Farmers' Federation @NationalFarmers]

Impressive effort by SA farmer Harry Schuster to celebrate Australia Day! 🇦🇺🌾🚜

[Port Fairy Golf Club @portfairygolf]

Round 1 of the Moyneyana Classic and not a blade of grass out of place. Huge credit to our small team on course given the amount of foot traffic and dry weather we’ve had. 💪

Some more big events coming soon, so stay tuned 🏆

@cdpgolf1 @AusGolfPassport