Tom Chesson

A happy place is a camera in hand wandering around Australian waterways.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

"It's not your country, it's our country."

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun tells CNN that he is sick of Hezbollah using his country and his people as a bargaining chip.

It amazes me how so many Westerners are surprised when people come forward to say they hate living next to terrorists who would happily let them die for a chance to see the Middle East free of Jews.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Hezbollah began firing rockets isn’t an escalation.

But Israel responding is escalating the conflict.

You cannot hate the New York Times enough.

[Kate🦋M© @Kate3015]

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has been caught misleading voters about why she has not yet costed her signature policies.

Hanson has repeatedly defended the lack of costing for One Nation’s flagship income-splitting policy by claiming the party could not access the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) before the last election because it did not have enough MPs to be recognised as a formal parliamentary party. She now argues that having more MPs gives One Nation access to services it previously could not use.

That claim is simply false.

The PBO’s own guidance makes it clear that its services are available to all parliamentarians, not just members of recognised parties. As the PBO states: “A parliamentarian can request a policy proposal costing or information or analysis about the budget or fiscal policy settings.”

In fact, Gerard Rennick had the very same income-splitting policy costed after leaving the Coalition, despite being the sole parliamentary representative of Gerard Rennick People First. The costing estimated the policy would reduce revenue by almost $70 billion over its first eight years.

Given the number of years Pauline Hanson has spent in Parliament, it is difficult to believe she does not understand how the PBO operates. The more reasonable conclusion is that she is offering an excuse for not having her policies independently costed

[Tom Chesson @tomchesson01]

@Kate3015 100% The PBO costings proposals go in under an individual Members name. A timeframe to get it done is given. The PBO is in constant contact throughout the process. If they can't cost it, they formally write to the Member outlining the reasons they can't & suggest alternatives

[Tom Chesson @tomchesson01]

@DavidSandow1 @KeyWater1 Recent rain didn't even fill farm dams and a lot of cattle have left the region with plenty heading out to the far west in the past couple of months.

Suspect other factors at play that have been completely ignored in the story ...

[Kate🦋M© @Kate3015]

'Trainwreck' - Senator Sean Bell unable to confirm if One Nation would kick people out of their homes.

It starts about 10.47 mark. https://t.co/1djmt7JCFt

[(((Coca Camhi))) @CocaCamhi]

Had to repost this 🤣
An oldie but one of the best!!
*WHEN A FLY FALLS INTO A CUP OF COFFEE . . .*
*The Italian –* throws the cup, breaks it, and walks away in a fit of rage.
*The German –* carefully washes the cup, sterilizes it and makes a new cup of coffee.
*The Frenchman –* takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee.
*The Chinese –* eats the fly and throws away the coffee.
*The Russian –* Drinks the coffee with the fly, since it was extra with no charge.
*The Israeli –* sells the coffee to the Frenchman, sells the fly to the Chinese, sells the cup to the Italian, drinks a cup of tea, and uses the extra money to invent a device that prevents flies from falling into coffee.
*The Palestinian –* blames the Israeli for the fly falling into his coffee, protests the act of aggression to the UN, takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives and then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, the Frenchman, the Chinese, the German and the Russian are all trying to explain to the Israeli that he should give away his cup of coffee to the Palestinian so there will be peace.

[Drew Hutton @DrewHutton45645]

I emailed the Queensland Greens today to resign from the party I founded. I’m very sad about this as the Greens was a major part of my life’s work. However, their support for gender extremism, their rejection of freedom of speech and their refusal to see the world in any other terms than the narrow class bubble they are in meant I had little choice.

I shall be looking to support progressive community independents who are good on the environment and are committed to changing the Sex Discrimination Act and banning puberty blockers.

More on this soon.

[Kate🦋M© @Kate3015]

Pauline Hanson could be held personally liable for One Nation’s failure to lodge audited financial statements for three consecutive years in Queensland — a clear breach of state law.

Missing this requirement once might be dismissed as administrative incompetence. Failing to comply for three years is a much more serious matter.

This is not a “get Pauline” campaign, as some in The Australian‘s comments section are quick to suggest. It is a question of basic accountability. If you present yourself as fit to be Prime Minister, the nation’s chief lawmaker, then your own organisation should be capable of complying with the law. Journalists highlighting this issue are not being partisan; they are doing their job.

And for those claiming double standards, the same media has devoted extensive coverage to scrutinising Albanese’s financial affairs and relentlessly examined Peter Dutton’s before the 2025 election. Political figures seeking high office should expect scrutiny. Consistency matters.

No doubt this post will attract the usual selective outrage. But selective outrage is cheap. Standards only mean something when they are applied equally. Either the rules apply to everyone, or they apply to no one.

https://t.co/8Su2sBCgMG via @australian

[Daniel @VoteLewko]

Fiona Byrne's SMH/Age piece defending Grace Tame's ABC hiring is a masterclass in journalistic cowardice.

Byrne dismisses Tame's comments to "Globalise the Intifada" a few weeks after the Islamist mass murder at Bondi Beach merely as "Controversial comments".

Eventually quoting Tame's 'controversial' comment buried toward the bottom of the page, she casually dismisses Intifada as "shaking off" but notes that "some critics say it celebrates violence and terrorism".

Excuse me? Some critics? How about anyone who actually knows anything about Islamist terror.

The second Palestinian Intifada caused approximately 150 suicide bombings and murdered at least a thousand innocent Jews. Among them a 15-year-old Australian girl, Malki Roth, blown to bits by an Islamist suicide bomber while sitting eating a pizza in a restaurant.

It was also the globalising of the intifada that saw Australian Jews murdered at Bondi Beach.

The piece then brands @OzraeliAvi as "serial right-wing agitator". That would be the same Avi whose reporting on Charlie Pickering was the only reason the story existed at all. The SMH who didn't cover the protest outside the ABC certainly weren't going to do it themselves.

[Tom Chesson @tomchesson01]

@Cam_McIlveen @LesleySteedman Seems One Nation got caught a few times too ... https://t.co/K3cV1BwLiJ

[Tom Chesson @tomchesson01]

@AustralianJA And yet Labor goes along with the mob and put Iran on a UN Committee overseeing the protection of women's rights!

[Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka]

Israel spent 18 unhappy years occupying South Lebanon and lost 500 men doing so over that period. Ehud Barak pulled them out, and Hezbollah built the area into a vast IRGC fort on Israel’s border, so 25 even less happy years followed. His strategic error, born of a vain hope for international acclaim, allowed the IRGC to keep Israel pinned down as they built nukes to destroy it. It nearly worked.

Israel is now in the process of demolishing that fort and ensuring that the armed monsters of Hezbollah can’t get anywhere near its citizens. They will stay there and hold the line until the Lebanese can sort out their mess.

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Iran has just been nominated to preside over the UN Committee for the protection of women's rights, human rights, and the prevention of terrorism.

YES, IRAN. And it was supported by the United Kingdom, Spain, and France.

This is not a joke. It's real.

- @isaacrrr7

[Tom Chesson @tomchesson01]

@DavidSandow1 @consettfarming @Kerin_Ag Can break a multi billion promise made on numerous occasions, yet never once explained beyond it was an election promise why the sheep live export industry was legislated out of existence ...

[Tom Chesson @tomchesson01]

@frogfarmer1 @DavidSandow1 I'm predominantly a wage slave & I have aspirations to work hard & own a house. The key driver for this is giving my kids a head start in life. If that isn't the Australian way then WTAF is? If they honestly believe what they say, can always leave their coin to a charity or govt

[Tom Chesson @tomchesson01]

@Kate3015 This might have something to do with it ... MP’s $42m property portfolio revealed - https://t.co/itpHvCUylr https://t.co/JTb7sTRHNx

[Juliet Moses @JulietMosesNZ]

This was in the Post yesterday following its story about the Israeli Embassy’s possible move:

“What we are witnessing is something darker and more dangerous: an eliminationist worldview that treats Israel as a unique and irredeemable source of evil whose eradication is a moral necessity and by extension, stigmatises "Zionists".
It applies a hyperfocus on Israel found nowhere else, which is how New Zealand ends up with a political party dedicated to a foreign state's demise rather than any domestic issue. This ideology borrows from the same conspiracy theories historically directed at Jews, and is impervious to reason or evidence.
Conditioning Jewish participation in public life upon renunciation of Israel's existence is not political critique. It is prejudice, no different in structure from telling Jews throughout history that they could earn safety by abandoning their identity, such as through conversion to Christianity. Even if some may choose to do so, it is still prejudice.”

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

THE UN HAS MÍNIMUM WAGE ATTITUDE ON OUR DIME

The author of the UN report that helped place Israel on a sexual violence blacklist admits: “I made it clear to Israel I would not visit any detention facility, even if offered.”

She further stated: “It’s not the responsibility of my office to do any verification.”

So a report carrying global consequences was issued by someone who refused to examine available evidence and says verification isn’t her job.

@UNWatch

[Southern Qld Landscapes @SQLandscapes]

Learning is part of the Fish Friendly Water Extraction Project funded by the Australian Government. Monitoring data and on ground experience will help inform the design of future fish screen installations.

#FishFriendly #DCCEEW #QldWater #AusGov @WaterQLD