Dr Michael Copeman

@mario4thenorth Cancun and Justin Trudeau have a lot in common: Invented in the 70s; Popular with vacuous Boomers; Built for recreation, not work; And happy to be away from Canada.

🚨 UPDATE Trudeau has been located. In Cancun. Not on vacation. As a “guest speaker” at the 89th Banking Convention. He told them the USMCA review isn’t really a “renegotiation”, just a “checkpoint.” The man who: -Left Canada with GDP per capita growth of 3.2% in TEN YEARS -Oversaw a brain drain of 40% of our potential top earners to the US -Crashed Canada’s happiness ranking from 5th to 25th -Left 6.5 million Canadians without a family doctor -Doubled food bank visits -Left 233,000 pay complaints unresolved in his own government’s payroll system -Weakened our hand against Trump -Was forced out by his own party …is now in Mexico telling bankers how North America should “unlock its complementary potential” and build a “win-win-win.” The man couldn’t even run his own caucus & he’s advising Mexico on continental trade strategy? This is what happens when there’s no accountability. You wreck a country and land on the speaker circuit. Trudeau 2.0 is running Canada. Trudeau 1.0 is in Cancun. Neither of them is fixing this mess bro.

@JEChalmers If your PhD were in economics, and not in Paul Keating’s politics - how did he get preselected originally in Bankstown, by the way? - you’d know that a change in inflation from 3.8% to 3.7% is not significant.

BREAKING: New figures show that annual inflation moderated in February. Headline inflation moderated to be 3.7% through the year. This is down from 3.8% through the year to January. While we’ve seen inflation tick down today, it was too high before the war and the conflict in the Middle East will make it worse. We know that people are still under pressure and that’s why we're continuing to deliver responsible cost of living relief.

@benonwine What would Sir Lenny propose in the Obama family? Michelle is descended from slaves - so she gets reparations. Barack is descended from white slave owners - so, he. … pays Michelle? Then the two daughters get … nothing?

Absolute RUBBISH then all British people are owed Reparations from Italy for the Roman Empire!

Instead of focusing on improving the fuel supply situation in Australia, we get a focusing on punitive punishments instead. Dutifully pathetic as always Anthony.

@zatzi Seems no way that @Keir_Starmer could return to working as a barrister (once his Labour MPs replace him, likely soon). What Court would believe an advocate with so many lies on his record when in politics?

Labour’s manifesto that wasn’t worth the paper it was written on…. 👇

@PeteWargent @cmkusher Australia needs new cities along its temperate East coast. These were planned back in the 1960s, and then stopped by fledgling “green” movements. Greens now need to a) admit their error, and b) allow the projects to proceed to house all Australians well.

Australia continues to not build enough new housing for its rate of population growth We haven't been building enough housing for our rate of population growth and with inflation expected to surge this mismatch could easily grow over the coming years @cmkusher ozpropertyinsights.substack.com/p/australia-co…

@TimRRead If Australia mined all its resources and had hydroelectric schemes providing electricity, our Govts would have more money to pay teachers. Greens stopped that.

Victorian public school teachers and support staff have walked off the job in the tens of thousands. The message is clear. Our teachers and support staff deserve better, our public schools deserve better.

@JEChalmers Just disgraceful, Jim, that your main response to this crisis is to threaten huge fines against people who sell petrol and diesel in Australia. Just totally un-Australian. Why not fix the crisis instead?

We’ve just introduced new legislation into Parliament to help consumers get a fair go at the petrol pump with bigger penalties for false and misleading conduct and cartel behaviour. We’re putting petrol companies on notice. We won’t cop big corporates treating Australian motorists like mugs.

It’s disgraceful of @AlboMP and @JEChalmers that their main response to not having enough petrol and diesel for Australia’s needs (thanks to careless Govt planning) is to fine people who sell petrol in Australia huge sums. #auspol

@BarbaraPocock Or you could look at the big picture and see that Labor’s high inflation, high taxing years have eroded the ability of ordinary workers to afford things. But Greens will always back Labor, come Hell or high water.

Just 3 months into 2026 & already teachers, journalists, nurses, early childhood educators & maritime workers are taking significant industrial action across Aus. Labor, which claims to be the party of workers, must prioritise wage justice for workers who are being left behind.

@CaroDiRusso CoVID taught us: 1. Most pollies enjoy making draconian rules, on poor advice by people with limited experience. 2. Powerful groups (building workers, actors, sportsmen, pollies) are allowed to break rules. 3. Policies for elderly/vulnerable are neither humane nor effective.

During Covid we learned a lot about our fellow Australians…

@ramonagusta And that all fines levied or actions taken against businesses for not complying with EU will be waived.

Farage should inform Labour MPs and the EU that this act will be reversed on DAY ONE of a Reform government.

@MarkoMatvikov NDIS budgeting seems largely divorced from changes in medicine. (Both LNP and Labor chose to sideline medical expertise in NDIS.) Fraud of one type or another is the biggest overrun - but deterring this, when rewards are so high, is hard.

@drmcopeman Could it be true that: a) such advancements and changes in types of treatments were allowed for in the original budget; and/or b) this isn't the only (or even biggest) component of the overruns?

Labor and Greens have no intention of properly addressing NDIS fraud. All they’ve committed to is a growth target of 8% in the short term - and now 5-6% in the long term. These little tweaks that lack urgency aren’t in line with community expectations. Shutting down this investigation is protection of a program with fundamental failures.

@OMGTheMess Hotel tax, Taxi tax, Meat tax, School Fees tax, Overseas Holiday tax, Wedding Reception tax, Private Hospital tax, RSL membership tax.

EV user tax Property tax Death tax What else will Chalmers introduce?

@goodfoodgal Public expressions of regret - distanced from personal admission of responsibility - are the highest form of self-sacrifice permitted under @AustralianLabor Party rules.

RESIGN Michelle Rowland

@MarcusH_01 Khrushchev presages this question in memoirs (20 years before Soviet Union collapsed). He notes you need a certain kind of man to run effective branches of command and control economies - devoted, inspiring of loyalty, and pragmatic. After WW2, Russia produced fewer and fewer.

Genuinely wtf how did one side of the Cold War just completely die without any mass violence or anything Like I know the whole historical context but it’s still WILD to me that the Soviet Union and entire Eastern Bloc just peacefully died

@archeohistories “60 beans for me, and one Fur Elise.”

This legendary composer counted every single coffee bean. Out loud, and in front of his guests... Ludwig van Beethoven, composer of the Ninth Symphony, the Moonlight Sonata, and approximately one thousand pieces of music that still make people cry 200 years later, refused to let anyone else make his morning coffee. Not because he was a control freak. Well. Also, because he was a total control freak. But specifically because he had a rule: exactly 60 beans per cup. No more, no less. And he counted them himself, one by one, every single morning. His biographer Anton Schindler documented it in 1840: "He allowed sixty beans for each cup, and lest his measure should mislead him to the amount of a bean or two, he made it a rule to count over the sixty for each cup, especially when he had visitors." He had a cook and employed housekeepers. He had the staff, but he still counted the beans himself. Modern coffee science says 60 beans weigh roughly 8 grams, which is almost exactly the dose in a Nespresso pod. The man who composed the Fifth Symphony accidentally invented the perfect espresso ratio in 1810 by counting beans like a man who had completely lost the plot. His doctor eventually banned him from coffee. Beethoven ignored this completely and kept drinking it until the very end. © Eats History #archaeohistories

@BijanOmrani @ChurchTimes Could they tell?

Blimey @ChurchTimes I don't think this is quite what is going to happen to the hereditaries, I hope...

@PadraigBelton It will be lovely to see Nell Gwyn and her oranges again. Orange Woman Good!

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