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@Skywatcher21396 @BenFordhamLive Finally someone in this thread with some sense.😂

@BenFordhamLive Drones with spear guns loaded with power heads

Calls for a shark cull are growing louder. It follows a horror shark attack on Coogee Beach. Former PM Tony Abbott says we have to “put people before sharks”. Listen to the details HERE. 2gb.com/kill-them-tony…

@JulieIr38425636 @BenFordhamLive They ate humans.

@BenFordhamLive WTF did the sharks do wrong? Be sharks! Stay out of the water, it’s there home!

@DavePaul__ @BenFordhamLive They are coming into our water. Tell them to keep to their water. FAFO sharks.

@BenFordhamLive They were there first! It's their water we are intruding on!! The majority of shark victims alive realise this to. How many times have we heard them say it? We will seriously impact the ocean wildlife if we do. Use drones, use artificial barriers if need be without impacting life

@JimmyRob2110 @politikarma @MikeCarlton01 Do you really not understand? Try a little harder. Accept for a second that at least some of the people supporting her are not stupid and then ask yourself: why would a non-stupid person prefer someone other than the Labor, Greens, Nats or Libs?

@politikarma @MikeCarlton01 How can Hanson be doing this well? A desperately sad state of affairs in Australia that a notorious, long term grifter can be pulling the wool over the eyes of an increasingly stupid electorate.

Tell me one thing Pauline Hanson has actually done to prioritise the working class over herself? Skipping dessert during a dinner with Gina Rinehart doesn’t qualify #auspol #paulinehanson

@dqueezy @JohnLeFevre I'm not sure what impresses me most: your grammar or your logic.

@JohnLeFevre He, nor his companies, actually PAY taxes. So there's a big issue with this argument.

This single tweet cost California hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, revenue, and jobs:

@Khanima_ @ZeekArkham @SenWarren $8m a day? 🤣🤣 He spends more than a $100m a day paying peoples' wages. Would you like that to stop? It's so funny how you young kids think things through.

@ZeekArkham @SenWarren Um... Zack? Do you even get it? I don't think you do. Sure, Liz Warren is worth $8m or thereabouts; but Elon Musk could spend that amount literally every day and he would never run out of money in a hundred years.

Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth. We need a wealth tax.

@OMGTheMess A super-complicated, unevenly targeted rort conceived by financially illiterate commies. Even with grandfathering, the calculation method for minimum 30% CGT, severely penalises holders of older investments if the taxpayer is also realising post july-2027 gains and losses.

Noel Whittaker AM, one of Australia’s most renowned financial authors, said the detail in the legislation is “designed to quietly inflate investor tax bills” and described it as “a rort”.

@smith_johnxxxx @JacintaAllanMP You'll stop wasting people's time. Currently agents use out-of-range-hopefuls to create a fake image of desirability to boost demand from in-the-money bidders. Not everything a corrupt communist government does is bad.

@JacintaAllanMP What an absolute joke. What the hell difference is that going to make when there are one thousand immigrants at every auction?

For too long, Victorians have wasted their Saturdays at auctions chasing homes they were never going to get. That ends now. Labor's Australian-first laws will require agents to publish a reserve price at least seven days before any auction or sale.

@GreeneLouiseAus Being a women, or being the victim of a crime, doesn't give her a free pass to incite a mob of communist lemmings to violence.

I am absolutely fed up with the relentless targeting of Grace Tame. Let's be clear. There is a difference between fair criticism and a public pile-on. What we keep seeing directed at Grace is not constructive debate. It is constant scrutiny, personal attacks, outrage cycles and a level of judgment that seems reserved for women who dare to speak too loudly, too honestly or too unapologetically. Grace Tame survived child sexual abuse. She helped change laws. She gave a voice to countless survivors. She has spent years doing work that most people would never have the courage to do. Yet the attacks never seem to stop. A few weeks ago it was the Prime Minister taking aim at her. Now it's Charlie Pickering. Before that, countless commentators, columnists and social media critics. Different names, same pattern. And frankly, it disgusts me. No, women in public life should not be immune from criticism. Nobody is. But there is a world of difference between criticism and the kind of sustained public hounding that seeks to diminish, discredit and exhaust someone. As someone who has experienced public judgment and media attacks, I know how destructive these campaigns can be. They reduce human beings to caricatures. They erase context. They encourage outrage while ignoring the very real emotional toll on the person at the centre of it. What troubles me most is that women who survive violence are so often expected to be perfect. The moment they become angry, outspoken, political, imperfect or inconvenient, they are treated as fair game. Grace Tame has contributed more to the conversation about sexual abuse and survivor advocacy in this country than most of her critics ever will. Maybe it's time some of the men lining up to take shots at her stopped and asked themselves a simple question: Why are they spending so much energy attacking a survivor instead of supporting the change she helped create? Enough. #gracetame #charliepickering

@JacintaAllanMP $70,000 for a vanity plaque at a train station? Really? And you want us to think you care about cost of living?

While the Liberals are focused on opposing cost of living relief - I’m focused on making sure Government is working for Victorians.

@JEChalmers Hey Jim, who are you directing this propaganda at? Most of your supporters don't pay tax so tax cuts mean nothing to them. And hard working Aussie tax payers either see you as a lier or a financially illiterate moron.

NEWS: One month until 14 million Australians get another tax cut. Altogether Labor's five different tax cuts will benefit the average worker by up to $2816. We're getting on with the job of cutting income taxes and making the tax system better and fairer.

@babybeginner Your anti-man derangenent is off the charts.

My heart breaks for her. An entire country backed a man who abused her and wouldn’t take no for an answer. They gave him control over her. Control over her company. Control over her life. All bc she wouldn’t bend the knee to him. 😢😢😢

@shorewalker1 @slpng_giants_oz There are many other factors pushing prices up: - houses are bigger and better. I'd live to see a study that compared size/quality of the median house over time. All we hear is the price. - People have far more disposable income now. Eg 50% wage increase = 100% more boŕrowing

Not sure what you're arguing here. But my summary of the current research on this is as follows: - Migration likely affects housing prices. - And it almost certainly affects rental prices. But so far there's little evidence that migration is the prime factor behind the housing price rises that Australia has seen in recent years. clubtroppo.com.au/2025/04/21/imm…

Alan Kohler today exposed how #Insiders has been passing off political media hacks as authorities on economic issues. His authoritative yet plain speaking contribution was a refreshing change to the uneducated politically biased babble of the panel and host. #Auspol

@slpng_giants_oz Crunching some numbers here; new neg gearing and CGT actually make many investment scenarios more attractive, particularly high rent, low growth assets (eg units). Also deferring neg gearing claims to the year of property sale when CG pushes sellers into high marginal rates.

@Mal78Cho @BenWill8254 @slpng_giants_oz Most debate on these economic issues lacks clear numbers and facts. Alan did try to bring some of that this morning but unfortunately his live debating skills were rusty and some of his points were going over Squires' head.

@BenWill8254 @slpng_giants_oz Ben knows more than a guy who’s been doing economic analysis for over 2 decades and has his own private company. No wonder Pauline is on the rise - she is the leader of those who have done ‘their own research’

@JEChalmers Pre-july-2027 gains should be exempt from the new minimum 30% tax rule in the same way these gains will still be subject to the old 50% discount rule.

@JEChalmers The minimum 30% tax on capital gains is actually a retrospective tax on past earnings. Gains that have accrued over many years that were expected to be tax-free in retirement will now be taxed at 30%.

This is a Budget that makes the tax system fairer for workers, businesses and first homebuyers.

@JEChalmers The people who implemented this legal, valid, sensible strategy to fund their retirement will suddenly lose up to $9000 per year in extra tax.

@PKRJED @onslowshipping @rn_lilydale The issue is not the 30%. The problem is that it is a minimum of 30%. If my wife and i have $0 other income (eg retired) and have a $60000 gain from selling an investment property we will now pay $18000 in tax. Under old rules we would pay $1500. That's a $16,500 hit.

@onslowshipping @rn_lilydale People are whining about cgt. Go back in time no matter what taxes came and went on housing. Investors still ploughed money into property.

budget.gov.au/content/bp1/do… CGT discount removed on ALL assets, AND minimum CGT rate of 30%, even if you earned exactly $0 in normal income during that year. Perhaps the most disgusting, anti-productive, uncompetitive change to Australian fiscal policy in modern history

@Langvingers @onslowshipping Gains that are accrued before 1/7/27 will get 50% discount. That amount is then added to the top of your other taxable income. If your marginal rate is less than 30% then 30% tax will apply. If your marginal rate is 45% then you'll be taxed at 45%.

@onslowshipping But I can revalue my property at 1 July base ateat valuation and then have no capital gain but a minimum 30% . So does the 30% flow into my taxable income and then get taxed at 45% or is the minimum a net 30% tax payable on the gain?