Pauline is 100% right.
Albanese lied through his teeth — again — when he claimed his mass migration policy was all about bringing in “skilled workers.”
Albanese mass migration policies are all about flooding Australia with migrants who’ll become reliable Labor voters so Albanese and his mob can cling to power indefinitely.
It has nothing to do with skills and everything to do with stacking the electoral deck.
Classic Labor: import your future voters and screw the Australian people who pay for it.
Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada spoke about the contradictions of human nature:
“Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one hardly ever use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about their living relatives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have one often don't appreciate it. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the satiated complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.”
The key to happiness is gratitude: truly seeing and appreciating what we already have, and understanding that somewhere, someone would give anything for what we take for granted.
Wow. I expected the budget was going to hurt Labor but... WOW.
Latest Roy Morgan, importantly it was conducted AFTER the budget was released. This is even worse for Labor than I thought it could possibly be.
🚨 LEAKED 2026 AU FEDERAL BUDGET INFO 🚨
It's not looking great for property investors...
According to the leak:
- New buyers lose negative gearing from July 2027
- 50% CGT discount replaced with indexation
- Post-budget purchasers ranked #3 hardest hit
Why would anyone buy an investment property under these new rules?
Existing owners largely grandfathered. New investors take a massive hit.
Property investors, how are you feeling about this move? Are you repositioning capital?
The @ausgov@JEChalmers@AlboMP are destroying everything young Australians aspiration with their new capital gains tax in the budget. Young Aussie invests $10k @15% pa for 50yrs =$10.84M.
3% inflation, indexed cost base =$44k. Real gain $10.79M.
Current CGT (50% discount)=$2.63M tax
Proposed 48.5% on indexed gain=$5.23M tax
@ausgov wants to DOUBLE the tax on long-term success.
Punitive raid on aspirational Australians. #AussieTaxGrab
Theft from aspirational Australians will be delivered in the budget next week. Young Aussie puts in $10k, compounds at 15% for 50 years → $10.84 million.
Inflation-indexed cost base: just $44k. Current CGT: $2.63M tax.
Labor’s new proposal: $5.23M tax.
They want to seize HALF your life’s work.
This isn’t tax reform — it’s theft from aspirational Australia.
Stop punishing success. #TaxRaid #AussieDreamKiller
Calling it what it is. The @ausgov rumoured CGT changes are a declaration of war on small business and startups.
Entrepreneurs building real companies, creating jobs, taking risks are now facing double plus the tax on success.
Shares, businesses, farms will all get hammered.
Australia doesn’t have a revenue problem. We have a productivity and aspiration problem.
This pure tax grab kills the next generation of Australian
Stop it.@JEChalmers@AlboMP #AussieTaxGrab
Excited to see the Chainlink Standard getting adopted across multiple financial ecosystems, various chains, many high value use cases and the top institutions.
The future of the global financial system is on-chain and the on-chain world has to have a globally adopted set of standards for how on-chain transactions reliably work, both inside a country's financial ecosystem and across countries, to create the new global financial system.
The Commonwealth Bank has threatened to cancel and close the accounts of a leading Australian businessman because he wouldn’t explain to them where his money came from and why he had sums of cash.
The CBA has sent the warning in writing to Louis Christopher, who runs leading investment research company SQM, ironically an organisation regularly quoted by the finance industry on trends in the real estate market.
Mr Christopher has described the bank’s extraordinary threat:
“Just out of the blue, the bank sent me the enclosed email and demanded to know:
1) How I have built up my wealth?
2) Why have I made cash withdrawals?
3) If I am holding cash at home, why?
4) Why did I make certain transactions to third parties.
“I called the bank and it was true. They were going to suspend all my accounts this week if I didn’t tell them the answers to the above questions. Said Austrac gave them the authority to do that.”
AUSTRAC is the government’s financial investigation and intelligence arm.
He’s described the ordeal as extraordinary.
“What I have just gone through this morning with CBA is disgusting. Absolute despicable, Orwellian stuff. Driven by Austrac”.
The Federal government has empowered banks to start questioning customers on what they are doing with cash and where sums deposited come from.
Mr Christopher said, “soon, you will be restricted on what you can and cannot spend. ‘That's too much money being spent on your next holiday, sir’."