The budget’s forecasts have inflation hitting 5% mid-2026 with oil already up 66%. The $250 tax offset doesn’t arrive until 2028. By then RBA may have hiked rates again, mortgage costs more, fuel costs more and Labor’s handing you $250. Thanks for nothing. #Budget2026. #auspol
If this budget was really about housing affordability, stamp duty would be federally addressed, social housing would be mass funded, and land release would be accelerated. Instead we got tax tweaks that take effect in 13 months. #Budget2026#auspol
Tonight Labor pointed investors at new builds. They’ve already pointed first home buyers at new builds. Basic economics: more money chasing the same supply = higher prices. Who exactly does this help? #Budget2026#auspol
The new build the investor buys comes with full depreciation, higher borrowing costs to negatively gear, AND higher rent. The taxpayer funds the deduction. The tenant pays the premium. The first home buyer misses out. Same house. Three victims. #Budget2026 #auspol
Restricting negative gearing to new builds doesn’t save money because new builds cost more, depreciate more, and rent for more. Every new investor deduction will be BIGGER than the existing property ones they replaced. Labor has done the math wrong. #Budget2026#auspol
@JimLittle1 So the defence is he used a national address to tell Australians things are going to get significantly worse food supply, fertiliser, crop yields and then offered no plan to address any of it? That’s not leadership. That’s a hostage video without the ransom note. #NPC#Auspol
Today’s #NPC address the day after Albanese’s national address confirms nothing is different except Australians now know with absolute certainty there is no plan. There never was. #Auspol
Albanese just hijacked every TV & radio network in Australia for a national address on the oil shock crisis… to say absolutely nothing. History will remember this as Albo’s April Fools’ Day gift to Australia. All performance, zero action. Classic. #Auspol#OilCrisis
Hear me out. Who advised Albanese to commandeer every national network tonight only to deliver nothing during a real crisis? Nobody that incompetent gets that advice by accident. The Labor backroom has started the clock on Albo. Tonight had to be a setup. #Auspol 🤔
Australian Prime Ministers have reserved national addresses for moments of war, crisis & grave national importance. Tonight, Albanese used that sacred platform during a genuine energy crisis and delivered nothing. A historic low for the office. #Auspol
@couriermail The @couriermail has seriously lost its collective mind. Funny how a “train wreck interview” disappears down the page once the narrative doesn’t hold up. Maybe focus on the real issues instead of the beat-ups.
Fuel running out and prices rising and still no clear plan. Australians don’t expect control of global oil, but they do expect leadership at home. #auspol