Troy Overstone 🍷

Wine, Food, Music, Dad. HOW DARE YOU?

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@swspurs @MichaelMc17

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@Roger_the_Sheep Tackling is part of the game. Equal to every other aspect of the game.

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@AFL_LOTG @j0shuaclarke__ He had time to either handball straight away or kick quicker. He looked up the ground to where he was going to kick. He had prior.

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@JeremyHogg9 @RalphyHeraldSun @adrianbarich He had prior opportunity

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@FClutterbuck @BodieHunt LOL paid 99/100. Bad kicking is bad football though. Teams lower down the ladder I’d say don’t get the best umpires

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

This is a new classic of the 'twisting reality on its head and shitting brainworms into an entire population' genre. Chris Uhlmann is the idiot's idiot

[SuMc @mc_sumac]

Had to laugh. Trump now proposing to put 12.5% tariff on Australian goods due to not dealing with slavery. Aust minimum wage has increased to $26.44 ph from 1/7/26. US min wage is checks notes $7.25. Trump is a joke.

[💧 Johny Miller ([email protected]) @jmil400]

Watch the Coalition housing spokesperson tell us how they will deal with the housing crisis. God help us should they ever return to the Treasury benches.
@abc730
#AndrewBragg
#auspol

[Troy Overstone 🍷 @Troybaba]

Incredible. Lie, avoid facts, offer nothing and did this willingly on TV. They must think we are all as thick as posts.

[💧 Johny Miller ([email protected]) @jmil400]

Watch the Coalition housing spokesperson tell us how they will deal with the housing crisis. God help us should they ever return to the Treasury benches.
@abc730
#AndrewBragg
#auspol

[Dirtyleftie @CraigSarg73]

Is Australia amongst the highest taxing countries in the OECD?

Gemma Tognini says we are.

The Australian's attack-dog columnist has been frothing at the mouth since Jim Chalmers released his budget, complaining that Labor’s policies will crush ambition and the drive to work hard (she is not an orphan of course).

“Once the white-hot rage about this horrible, envious, lazy budget subsided I realised that the Canberra Bubble is more than just a throw away phrase,” wrote Gemma.

“Only people with no experience of the real world, of personal risk, could come up with financial policy so offensive, so tinged with jealousy and so diminishing of anyone who has the audacity to show some aspiration.”

Gemma followed up her angry op-ed with an equally incensed Instagram post in which she said that Australia is being hamstrung by one of the highest tax rates in the OECD.

“The tax burden is huge!” she exclaimed. “Terrifyingly huge!”

Gemma then encouraged her fans to do some research and find out what’s really going on.

Educate yourself, she commanded.

I took Gemma’s advice and went to the OECD site to check where Australia ranks, fully expecting to be as burdened as those Nordic folks who pay a toll each time they have a bonk (or so I've heard).

I discovered that Australia is not near the top (Belgium, Germany and Austria rank the highest).

We are not even near the middle (that would be Spain, Estonia and Lithuania).

We are, in fact, near the bottom.

Incredibly, we are three spots below the United States.

The United freaking States!

A place where healthcare will cost you a kidney.

I double checked with the folks from The Australia Institute and they backed up what I had found out.

“Australia is one of the lowest-taxing countries in the developed world. Australia raises very little tax revenue compared to similar countries,” said these most reputable of researchers.

Gemma is right when she says that when it comes to tax there are better places to live and work than Australia.

Amongst the countries sitting below us on the OECD table are Mexico and Israel.

Sure, you’ll get taxed less but you will have to spend your savings on flak jackets and bodyguards.

So follow Gemma’s advice and do your own research.

You’d be nuts to trust a columnist in The Australian.

[Troy Overstone 🍷 @Troybaba]

Thinking of @dannykellywords COYS 🤍

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🤍 🤍 🤍 #COYS

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Vicario ❤️

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@BigMal84 @AF_Hell LOL it’s a still image and you’re saying there is an action of tunnelling. Brilliant.

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

🚨 James O’Brien ABSOLUTELY RINSES a Brexit voter live on LBC

Brexit voter Richard: “You’re very rude to me, aren’t you?”

James: “I am very rude to you because of what you’ve done to my country.”

One year on: GDP hit by 6-8%, trade down 15%, businesses struggling, no sunlit uplands in sight, just excuses.

This level of brutal accountability is what we need back.
Full rinse here 👇👇👇👇

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Jessanomics: reduce debt via tax breaks for Airbnb landlords and $15k a year elite private schools, delivered by driving a forklift illegally ($3k fine for Jess, $100k the employer).

Driving the economy like she drives the forklift - unlicensed, inexperienced, and into a wall.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Bruce Springsteen appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show tonight and COOKED Trump and his goons

“I’m here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke…. and because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Stephen, these are small minded people. They got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about”

[Dire-Wolff - Koko Muluridji Country @redclaw42]

A must read for those sick of the flood of political disinformation in Aus and its list of funders…

[Mike Reiss @MikeReissWriter]

We're mad because the movie version of THE ODYSSEY which we haven't seen, doesn't match the vision of the book we never read.

[Troy Overstone 🍷 @Troybaba]

@Quartermain10 Please explain?