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[David Vance @DavidVance]

The West as a whole needs to learn from this.

[Ryan Dally @Ryandally08]

#BREAKING MP Kevin Hogan blasts PM
Anthony Albanese in Parliament for destroying Australia's risk reward economic model.

Hogan's critique is razor sharp, the government has systematically inverted incentives for private enterprise.

Historically, risking capital meant keeping the return.

Now, the framework forces a parasitic transfer of wealth “You take the risk and the Albanese Government gets the reward” Hogan argued.

Hogan then rages that this isn't just failed policy, it's a calculated “unforgivable" deception of the Australian electorate.

Hard to argue.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Remember the European Hospital in Khan Younis last May?

Israel struck a targeted site there, and the world lost its mind.

Palestinians denied any tunnel existed underneath. The UN and European governments rushed to condemn Israel for attacking a “hospital.” Outrage, headlines, accusations of war crimes… the usual script.

Then June came.

The IDF took international media into the very same location and showed them the tunnel… a full Hamas command center, right under the emergency room.

Weapons, rooms, infrastructure. And yes, that’s where they found and confirmed the body of Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas’s top military commander and brother of Yahya Sinwar.

The strike that killed one of the architects of October 7 was surgically precise, and entirely justified.

Under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, hospitals and other medical facilities lose their protected status when they are used for military purposes, such as command centers, weapon storage, or troop movements. By deliberately turning the European Hospital into a Hamas base, the terrorists themselves stripped it of any legal protection.

Not a single apology from the UN or the European governments that rushed to condemn Israel. Not one admission they were wrong. They simply moved on to the next round of accusations.

This is the pattern. Hamas hides its terror infrastructure under civilian sites, uses hospitals as shields, and the international community reliably attacks the defender for responding, only to be proven wrong again and again and again when the evidence emerges.

How many times does this have to happen before the world stops falling for it?

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

"You are not likely to see Henry Nowak’s words stenciled on a mural. No corporation will change its logo. The same establishment that made a few words immortal when spoken by a black man in Minneapolis has met the same words, spoken by a white boy dying on a British street, with what can only be described as a determined, institutional silence. That silence is not neutral. It is a statement. It tells you exactly whose suffering the system has decided counts, and whose does not."

[Katherine Deves 🇦🇺 @Katherine_deves]

Is the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner an idiot?

She is if she thinks pregnancy protections extend to men

#AustraliaFirst

[Osher Feldman @OsherFeldman]

𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭’𝐬 𝟑𝟎% 𝐭𝐚𝐱 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬’ 𝐢𝐧𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐝.

A devastated uncle, Rod, just spoke out, their father passed in April, leaving a modest trust for Jacinta (16, brain damaged from birth) and Jason (19).

These are kids with a single mum, just trying to get some stability after losing everything. Now the government wants a bigger cut.

“They’re dipping their hands into the pockets of a dead man and taking his money that’s destined for his own children.”

Rod agrees with Angus Taylor, this is cruel, unmandated, and immoral. A death tax by stealth.

Ben Fordham to Albanese & Chalmers: “explain this to these two kids.”

Heartbreaking.

[Melinda Richards 🇦🇺🇺🇸 @goodfoodgal]

Good morning!

As promised… posting every day until the whole of Australia has seen it.

Show your friends.
Share it round.
Watch it again.

Oh… and for the rest of the world? Have pity on us. It’s our Finance Minister.

[Ryan Dally @Ryandally08]

Anthony Albanese responds to news that the coalition intends to change the Sex Discrimination Act to redefine woman as “biological woman”

Albanese “I’m not engaging in culture wars”

ABC “they say woman want these spaces so they feel safe”

Albanese “that’s not my priority”

ABC “so, no appetite for changing the definition of a woman?”

Albanese “it’s important that woman’s spaces be available for everyone”

[Satoshi Wolf @SatoshiWolf]

My wife's dad is an old school Wog.

Hard working. Loves his family. Frugal. All round great bloke.

He worked 3 jobs when my wife was born and stayed at one of the companies for 43 years.

He has one investment property, the house my wife was born in, and their family home in an affluent area.

He has enough money to do whatever he wants but he's a tightass. Unbelievably tight.

I've spoken to him about it many times and he says all his life he followed a plan, built wealth, a great life for his family and has a simple goal to pass it down to his kids and grandkids.

We told him for years to enjoy his life's work. That's what we want. Fly business class. Go to expensive restaurants often. Buy whatever gadgets you want. Just enjoy it!

Nope. He is deadset he is passing on his accumulated wealth to his kids and grandkids.

Now it seems Labor will be taking a big cut of his life's work. In the spirit of "intergenerational fairness".

The confiscated wealth will be used to pay the ever expanding political class, send it overseas to things that have nothing to do with him, support free loaders and an NDIS program littered with fraud and waste.

Tall poppies will tell me why should he be able to accumulate wealth and pass it to his kids when they can't.

Well, try spending more than 40 years of your life working, saving and investing to give your family a head start in life.

Like every parent should do for their children.

[Lisa @Lisa9Sophia]

RACIST: This is the most racist video you’ll ever see…

Penny Wong stands in Melbourne, a city built by European migrants, AND ERADICATES US from history. Then she demonizes us

According to Wong, Melbourne was built by indigenous people and Labor’s new immigrants who publicly pray in parks as a way of intimidation

No it wasn’t. Melbourne was built by European settlers who farmed, mined, constructed and administered one of the most incredible cities on Earth. A tram literally goes past (trams are English technology installed over a hundred years ago in Melbourne) as Wong keeps spitting vile hostility towards Australians of European heritage

We need to change the Constitution and make sure only citizens who were born in Australia can stand for Parliament. These lies must stop

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Behold, the worst women in Australia and the man they've chosen as their leader.

[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

The Australian government unilaterally deciding to confiscate 47% of the capital gains of every business person in the country has radicalised me, yes https://t.co/yBi3zuz4lt

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Western society is currently divided between people who know this is a man and are prepared to say so and those who know this is a man but lie out of obedience to an ideology. There is no third option. Literally nobody on earth thinks "Roxanne Tickle" is actually a woman.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

When boys’ feelings matter more than girls’ rights. Choose Podi-him!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

A glaringly obvious double-standard

[MAZE @mazemoore]

2016. Guy McPherson (a climate change expert, scientist, and professor from the University of Arizona) says that there will not be any humans on the planet by 2026 due to the effects of climate change.

Trust the scientists. 😜🤣

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“Miss Grover left the court without making any comment. She later posted on social media saying she was “absolutely devastated” & that women were being discriminated against.

… I also said, “we will all wake up tomorrow & men will still not be women.” An important point.

[christopher joye @cjoye]

There are two other dire consequences of this budget that nobody is talking about. The first is that the budget’s introduction of an effective capital gains tax of up to 45 per cent - 47 per cent – previously capped at 23.5 per cent for assets held more than 12 months – hits younger savers hardest, precisely because they have the highest portfolio exposures to high-growth assets such as listed global equities, Australian shares, crypto, venture capital and private equity.
When anyone builds a portfolio for younger investors, they rationally load them up with the highest-growth and most volatile assets on the basis that a long investment horizon allows them to weather the inevitable volatility storms.
As investors age, these portfolios shift into more stable and income-rich asset classes such as cash and bonds, which are net beneficiaries of the CGT increase, because their post-tax returns now look more attractive relative to growth assets.
As many investors have noted online, why would you allocate to a bunch of high-risk growth companies when Albanese and Chalmers are going to take almost half the upside while wearing none of the downside? Rather than helping younger generations, the highest CGT rate in the developed world will hammer them.
And it is a double whammy because the many early-stage companies that have historically employed 20- and 30-somethings will now consider moving overseas. Their investors will simply not want to trade away half of their upside to the public oligarchs.
If you allocated $10,000 to bitcoin after the March 2020 pandemic shock – which many young punters did, and which would now be worth approximately $92,000 – the new CGT regime imposes vastly higher amounts of tax.
A self-funded retiree on the tax-free threshold would go from paying nothing to almost $24,000. Somebody earning between $18,000 and $45,000 a year would see their tax bill jump from $7400 to $23,900 – a 222 per cent increase. Those in the $45,000 to $190,000-plus tax brackets would have their bill rise by 93 per cent.
Since the new CGT regime is, by definition, much more costly on higher-growth investments, it will punish younger investors who have much greater risk appetites and lower average incomes.

https://t.co/MJKvQZXvKw

[jeroen blokland @jsblokland]

This is one of the most intriguing charts in the world right now.

Not necessarily because China’s annual CO2 emissions are on another planet, we all know that already, but because climate ideology remains almost entirely centered in Western Europe.

If you truly believe that frustrating housing development, blocking roads, gluing yourself to buildings, or throwing soup at priceless art is the way to make the world better, why are you not doing it where it has the biggest impact?

If you believe in catastrophic climate projections, including the extreme scenarios that even the United Nations is now moving away from, and if you believe that destroying things and severely disrupting people’s lives is the way to reduce CO2 emissions, then at least focus on where the biggest reductions can actually be achieved.

Instead, after years of societal damage, activists keep demanding more idiotic measures in countries that have already cut emissions and are nowhere near China’s levels.

In Europe, climate ideology has produced massive imbalances: housing shortages, energy insecurity, loss of competitiveness, industrial decline, wealth destruction, and rising polarization.

All without anything close to a meaningful global reduction in CO2 emissions.

[Aus Integrity @QBCCIntegrity]

Grok does a decent job of tracking Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Lies… Did it miss any?

Here we go:

Broken promises, backflips and lies by Anthony Albanese since 2022:

• Promised household power bills would be $275 cheaper a year by 2025. Prices rose instead.

• Promised second stage power price cuts after 2025. Pulled the plug on rebates at end of 2025 with no further cuts delivered.

• Promised to keep Coalition’s stage three tax cuts exactly as planned with no changes. Changed and restructured them.

• Promised no changes to superannuation. Introduced new tax on balances over $3 million.

• Promised real wages would grow and rise above pre-election levels. Failed to deliver.

• Promised 450 gigalitres of environmental water under Murray-Darling Basin Plan. Delivered only 27.5 gigalitres.

• Promised 50 urgent care clinics by his own deadline. Missed the deadline.

• Promised new Pacific Engagement Visa by his own deadline. Missed the deadline.

• Promised Makarrata Commission for truth-telling and treaty. Abandoned it after Voice referendum failed.

• Promised no changes to negative gearing. Now pushing or allowing changes.

• Promised long-term immigration planning locked in. Walked away from it.

• Promised 42.5% Commonwealth funding of hospital costs by 2030 with no caps. Walked back and added funding caps.

• Promised to deliver on every single election commitment. Broke multiple as listed.

• Backflipped on removing sexuality, gender identity and sexual variation questions from 2026 census.

• Initially refused royal commission into Bondi terror attack and rising antisemitism. Backflipped and announced one.

• Backflipped on hate speech legislation by splitting the bill to get it through Parliament.

• Lied about falling off the stage during 2025 campaign event. Video showed he tumbled off; he repeatedly denied it and claimed he just stepped back one step and was fine.

• Removed the RMIT ABC election promise tracker amid scrutiny over broken pledges.

• Promised to buy back Darwin Port from Chinese ownership before 2025 election. Still in Chinese hands, promise not delivered.

• Promised a royal commission into the COVID-19 response. Delivered a watered-down inquiry instead and blocked calls for a full royal commission.

• Promised a new era of transparency and open government plus FOI reform so laws couldn’t be flouted. FOI refusal rates nearly doubled to 23 per cent and full disclosures hit historic lows.