It’s great to see that our Constitution (and the High Court) protects citizen (in this case Victorian citizens) from the duopoly in the (Victorian) Parliament tilting electoral laws in their own favour. #auspol#democracy#independents💪
The Albanese Government hid a provision in a Superannuation bill which gave charity status to a lobby group, Equality Australia. For those who don't know, Equality Australia is an LGBTQI+ organisation committed to destroying religious freedom in Australia. For many years, Equality Australia has waged a campaign against Christian Schools Australia, as well as almost 2,800 other faith-based schools.
Their method is to target exemptions under the Sex Discrimination Act and similar state laws. These laws permit schools to fire, demote, or refuse to hire teachers based on sexual orientation or gender identity, or to expel or deny enrollment to students on those grounds, as being contrary to their religious teachings — although they only target certain religious groups.
Equality Australia does not mention Islamic schools or madrasas on their website. They have taken Christian schools to court, yet never Islamic schools, despite both religions treating these issues the same way. It's this double standard that defines Equality Australia as a lobby group, not a charity — and a gutless, dishonest one at that.
Equality Australia was refused charity status by the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission, then the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, and finally the full Federal Court, because they are a lobby group, not a charity.
The Government has legislated this approval because they are desperate to keep the transgender industry going to secure votes in crucial city electorates, which they are defending from the Greens.
I ask suburban, regional, and rural voters to reject the Government’s perverse agenda and vote One Nation to end the transgender madness and the Queer mafia attacks on Christianity.
Flashback, May 2024: Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese gets rattled by Elon Musk's free-speech agenda for X. QandA were rattled with the pushback. What free speech. #auspol
Credit: Danger Dan: Thank you for the memory, brilliant.
Explain to me like I’m 15, how Australian banks (the most profitable in the world) are able to issue loans and make a guaranteed margin of 2-5% WITHOUT any risk to the bank or shareholders itself?
They’re secured by government (taxpayer) guarantees and bail-in laws.
On that basis, govt could regulate their margin down to 0.25% and they’d still be an extremely profitable institution.
Do believe that women that obtain “Domestic Violence Order” (DVO) & claim the associated $5000 incentive to repay it back if the allegations are found to be fabricated?
@PaulineHansonOz
The ABC must be held to account when it doctors footage and photographs or otherwise conducts itself in a manner which compromises its statutory obligation to be impartial and accurate in its reporting.
#KennyReport@SkyNewsAust
We have been told that "net zero" has massive support in the polls to date.
But a new poll in the @FinancialReview just found that support for net zero is no longer in the majority.
Net support for net zero is now zero.
Common sense is winning the debate.
We should prioritise a cost of living target for Australians over emissions targets for global activists.
I've been trying to share a particular message for a couple of years now, and I can never quite find the words. I doubt I will tonight, but I have to try again because I watched my great friend get murdered over it today.
We have a choice: catharsis or civilization.
There's no other choice for us. We can have a civilization, where people are civilized enough to live, work, and trade with one another in a productive way, a safe way, a trustworthy enough way, or we can abandon it for the pursuit of letting the negative emotions of the past years, decade, or decades consume us.
There's no other choice.
If we choose catharsis, we let our emotions, our Pathos, get the better of us. We turn to our anger and look to give it more justifications. We turn to our frustration and seek an orgiastic release through whatever deeds vents it. We turn to our oppression, our rage, our despair, our fear, and we let it flow through us until the Pathos pours out and covers the land in what will eventually be fire and blood.
Catharsis is tempting, and stepping into it will be libidinous, orgiastic, elevating, and divine, until we realize that it's the feast of demons upon everything we could have built and everything we could have passed on to our children and our posterity.
Civilization is harder. It's bitter, in fact, in comparison to catharsis. It means swallowing hard and taking all those negative emotions and sublimating them into something productive, something that builds rather than makes us feel better. Civilization feels like injustice, in fact, even though it is the only basis for justice outside of Heaven and Hell, if they exist.
If we choose civilization, we're allowed to be mad, but we must temper our anger into right action that builds something to leave a better world, which will dissolve it, of course. We're also allowed to be frustrated, but we must sublimate our frustration into the dedicated search for real and lasting solutions to our problems in a civilization worth living in and passing to our children. We are not allowed to despair, though, and we cannot persist in fear. We must have faith that swallowing and metabolizing all of our negativity to turn it into a flourishing society is possible and worth it, and faith will drive out fear and is the mortal enemy of despair.
Civilization is not available on the wide path. It is the narrow path, at least so far as worldly life goes. Veer too far to one side or the other, or even for too long a moment forget your purpose or principles, and you lose the path, lose civilization, and lose everything worth having.
Without civilization, though, we will find ourselves in a terror beyond our comprehension. Maybe it will be like the philosopher Thomas Hobbes described it in the wake of the terrible English Civil War, when civilization was nearly thrown aside. Violent, solitary or tribal, nasty, brutish, short, a wicked and selfish war of all against all. It looks like the favelas of Brazil.
Maybe we'll end up conquered, fighting among ourselves while our enemies feast on our folly. Maybe we'll end up holding it together, for a little while anyway, under a tyrant who can, for a time, make it all stop and demand order. Maybe we all just end up learning Mandarin and get along mastering the ins and outs of social credit existence.
Civilization is worth fighting for, and catharsis is the kind of momentary pleasure followed by pain that every virtue stands in opposition to. In a civilization we, and each of our children after us, can live as individuals, free to pursue our dreams in sufficient safety and opportunity to generate abundance. Catharsis will be a groupish disaster with all the allure and hangover of a drunken mosh pit.
Again, I'm not expressing myself the way I see this issue in my mind. It's such an important message that I just can't get right, no matter how I try.
What I will say is that, for any differences in the particulars my great friend Charlie Kirk and I have had, Charlie Kirk stood for, lived for, and acted to his dying breath for civilization. He was far too temperate and wise, even at 31, for catharsis.
How can I be sure?
Under strange circumstances once, I found myself out on a skiing boat on a lake with Charlie Kirk. Music was playing, we were having a good time enjoying the morning. Charlie, with his standard grin, bare chest in the sun, laughed a little and explained himself, "I had fun once, guys, and I hated it."
Then he made our host change the music from something fun and hip to... classical. And we ran up and down the lake alongside all the other party boats listening to Bach, Vivaldi, and Stravinsky, not having fun even once and loving it. Charlie Kirk lived for civilization, and nothing remotely like catharsis would have been near his mind, heart, or soul, even in its darkest, most frustrated moments.
Charlie wanted to win, but he wanted to win so that we can move away from evil and move away from cathartic, orgiastic destruction and toward civilizational order, where his family and children could grow up as strong, proud Americans.
That's how I know that Charlie understood the choice I still cannot articulate. We have two options, and only two. They are catharsis and civilization.
Charlie Kirk lived that we would have civilization. May Charlie Kirk not have died such that we spiral into catharsis and evil.
@QBCCIntegrity@senatorbabet They have a paper currently doing the rounds with each Aus jurisdiction tallying every agricultural subsidy offered up to primary industry
Plz don't sue me 🙏 🤞 The foreign owned gas cartels not only get most of our gas for free they also get off paying 0 in taxes! Which means YOU pay more than them! Time our politicians step up to the plate and take on these bludgers. #australia
🚨For those that haven't been taking notice, today is the day Albo's pollution tax on new cars comes into effect.
The most popular selling vehicle in Australia - the Ford Everest - will go up by $6,000 in purchase price this year, going up to $18,000 as (the NVES) phases in.
Then a Rav4... That's going up by nearly $3000, going up by over $11,000 over this phase in period.
But they will tell you that they care about the cost of living.
Please share, lets give this thieving Labor Party the 🥾 at the next election.
#broddersblast
I’ve asked why the Government doesn’t have an immigration & population strategy. We should be able to have a sensible, inclusive conversation & develop a plan.
Neither of the major parties have had one, or have plans to develop one.
I think we should.
https://t.co/H6PLQoNAR3
“Prominent activist Monica Smit has been ordered to pay more than $200,000 in legal costs after a court found she was unlawfully arrested during anti-lockdown protests in Melbourne in October 2020.
Ms Smit was awarded $4000 in damages after two of her three claims were successful, but substantial costs were awarded to the Victorian government on Friday as she had turned down a pre-trial settlement of $15,000.
“We did get a fair hearing but I don’t think this is fair,” she said.
“Do you think it’s fair for someone from the public to win their case and then have a $200,000 costs order against them? I don’t think people know that this happens — I don’t think that people know that this is the risk people take to stand up to authorities — and now they’re going to know.”
The 36-year-old sued the Victorian government for false imprisonment in July.
The County Court of Victoria on Thursday ruled two of the three arrests were unlawful, as the government had failed in those instances to prove the elements required under section 458 of the Crimes Act for summary arrest.
Ms Smit spent 22 days in custody on charges of inciting others to attend the 2021 protest. Those charges were eventually dropped, and she was later found guilty without conviction of breaching Covid orders."
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So let’s get this straight.
After getting unlawfully arrested twice by a totalitarian thug, Monica seeks justice only to be slapped with a $200,000 bill for doing so.
Just like our political system, our judicial system is sadly lacking in integrity.
It’s no wonder people are losing faith in our Institutions.
And Bravo to Monica for fighting the good fight. Your courage is to be commended.
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https://t.co/WbGinolvW6
#auspol