Debra Dickson

[Debra Dickson @viaggare]

@kevinbonham "One bloody Nation" rolls off the tongue quite nicely.

[Debra Dickson @viaggare]

@PaulineHansonOz Disgusting!

[The Noisy Elephant @TheNoisyTrunk]

Here's the embarrassing thing for Dave Hughes. HE VOTED for CHANGES to #CGT
Watch as we expose #davehughes

#hughesy is full of shit.

He voted for capital gains tax and negative gearing changes in 2019. He inadvertently confirms it in this interview; he states very clearly that he's always voted labor.

Therefore, he voted for Bill Shorten in 2019. In fact, he admits that he voted for Bill Shorten in 2019, and guess what? The platform that Bill Shorten ran his political campaign on was cuts to the capital gains tax.

HUGHESY, you've been sprung mate.

#Noisy 𓃰 Nails the dimwitted comedian.

#Trunked.

[Debra Dickson @viaggare]

@JayJay91341991 Never interacted

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The Sanewashing of Hanson Is at Its Peak.
This is how Trump came to power: platform the lies, skip the follow-up, let the headlines call it “proving her critics wrong.”
We are all watching it happen in real time.
At the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson said the following. Not one claim was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.
-1. Unlike the Prime Minister, I welcome scrutiny.” Hypocritical. In the same speech she announced she refuses ABC interviews, will scrap the SBS, & will make the ABC subscription-only. The event allowed 2 hours; standard format gives 25–30 mins for the address. She spoke for 50-halving the time left for questions. When Guardian journalist Sarah Martin used that remaining time to ask about her daughter's $150,000 taxpayer-funded advisor role, Hanson called her “a trashy journalist” and banned her from all future press conferences.
• “Babies are aborted the day before birth.” Fabricated. Late-term abortion is highly restricted, requires medical approval, and occurs only in genuine medical emergencies.
• “Interest rates are heading towards 10%.” False. RBA cash rate: 4.35%. Forecast to fall, not rise.
• “There’s no gender pay gap — just women taking time off.” False. WGEA confirms the gap exists at equal hours, equal roles, regardless of career breaks.
• “$30B a year on Indigenous programs.” False. Only 18% (~$5.6B) is Indigenous-specific. The rest is the Indigenous share of mainstream services every Australian uses.
• Transgender people were compared to “militant Islam.” False and dangerous. ABS data: transgender and gender-diverse Australians make up 1% of the pop’n. There’s no body of research showing transgender ppl commit crime at elevated rates-in fact it shows transgender people are dramatically more likely to be victims of violence— assault, sexual violence, and homicide rates against trans people are well above general population rates in most studies (US, UK, and Aust data all show this pattern)
• “23% of Australians can’t speak English.” False. That 23% speak another language at home — most are bilingual. Limited English proficiency: just 3.2%.
• “The CEFC has had $200 billion.” False by a factor of six. Actual legislated capacity: $33 billion.
• “I care about the homeless and hungry.” Hypocritical. In the same speech, she backed cuts to Indigenous-specific funding — despite Aboriginal homelessness running up to 10 times higher than the non-Indigenous rate.
• $90 billion in cuts, no plan. ~$35 billion of it remains unaccounted for. No modelling.
• “I support worker rights.” False. Voted against minimum wage increases, penalty rates, criminalising wage theft, casual conversion rights, same job same pay, and the right to disconnect. Took a $100,000 pay rise while voting against a tax break for low-paid workers
• Called Australian workers “lazy.” She has attended just 12% of Senate estimates since 2016 & 53% of parliamentary votes. Paid over $200k a year
• Labor have let immigration get out of control.” False. Net overseas migration has fallen every year since the post-COVID peak in 2022-23 — 538,000 → 446,000 → 306,000 in 2024-25. She also recycled a 26-year-old ABS pop’n projection as a fresh “next 50 years” forecast

Said: This beautiful country belongs to all Australians born here and those who have joined us”- in her opening line; then spent the next 50 minutes demanding a monocultural society, comparing transgender Australians to militant Islam, inflating migration and language figures, denying the gender pay gap, and repeating the debunked $30 billion Indigenous funding myth. Welcomed everyone in the first sentence. Spent the rest of the speech defining most of them out — and offered no plan to fix anything she raised, only $90 billion in cuts.
Not one follow-up question. No source data on a single figure in the entire speech. This is what unchallenged looks like.
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[Debra Dickson @viaggare]

@TheKennyDevine FFS!

[Debra Dickson @viaggare]

@GrogsGamut Badge of honour.
The most disappointing thing today was watching the disinterest of those "journos" seated behind the questioner.
No interest in crowd reaction, Hanson's reaction to any question.
But I guess they'd already been on the telly?

[cmdibley @cmdibley]

For those of you who say voting Independent & Greens is a wasted vote, spend some time watching these guys in Senate Estimates saving our democracy & holding Ministers & public servants to account. Two of our hardest working, most effective Senators ever.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Peace deal is almost done except for the peace and the deal

[Debra Dickson @viaggare]

Zero understanding of national holidays or time zones.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Burgum: "It's obviously President Trump two moves ahead of his critics as always. Nothing short of aspiration for peace in the Middle East. I mean, who on a Saturday afternoon over a holiday weekend can pull together all of the world leaders from the gulf state allies, get 'em all on a phone call?"

[Debra Dickson @viaggare]

@Idontgive2u I can't tell you how many times, as a 60 something woman, I have heard younger people moan behind me.
I know what I need to do at eg immigration, atm, bus tickets in foreign countries.
I'm sure there will come a time when I won't. Hopefully I catch it before it happens. If not?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump says that 5 doctors administered a cognitive test to him during his first term and adds, "the first question was you have a bear, a snake, an elephant, and a horse. Name the horse."

[Michael Freeman @michaelpfreeman]

Future historians will study how a great country could have elected such a moron.

[Debra Dickson @viaggare]

@cecegkh Who cares about their hairstyles and the fashions of the day.
To me the series resonates just as well today. They may have run a show on looking for a partner through the personals (today's Tinder) but they tackled many womens issues and ageing.
Ignore the clothes and hair.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

OMG this is hysterical.🤣

[Debra Dickson @viaggare]

@Zoppy_McZop @HomersOzPol @jeff_kennett Sorry, but I'm talking about on a single old aged pension. And trying to take control of their health.
Even a tiny increase may tip them over into the public system.
I'm old. I've just had 2 surgeries which I and my health ins paid $6500. How does making me pay $400pa more help?

[Debra Dickson @viaggare]

@Zoppy_McZop @HomersOzPol @jeff_kennett Well, good for you if you can afford it. I'm just saying it will be the breaking point for many. I think 44,000 was the budget estimate.
44,000 people who would have funded their own, cataract, knee, hip replacement surgery. Can't really see how that stacks up.
20 year olds -No

[Debra Dickson @viaggare]

@Zoppy_McZop @HomersOzPol @jeff_kennett Look, we all have kids and grandkids and want the best for them.
I can tell you that pensioners will need to opt out of private health insurance.
How will that help?