Gary Jeffery

These are Australians. Do you want any more evidence that Australia’s immigration system is broken? Labor and Liberals sold this country out. Diversity is our strength…GFY! Vote @OneNationAus

Spending more while getting less is usually a good sign of corruption, fraud, waste and incompetence. Our education system in California is profoundly broken.

Keating’s move here is the oldest trick in the political handbook: take a dispute about culture, cohesion, assimilation and national continuity, and flatten it into a morality play in which one side gets to preen as virtuous while the other is denounced as wicked. It is a way of avoiding the argument by declaring it already settled. Once the word “racism” is used as a ritual incantation rather than a serious description, the discussion is no longer about policy, citizenship, or the terms on which a nation holds together. It becomes a theatre of denunciation. And that is convenient, because the deeper question Angus is trying, however imperfectly, to reach is whether a country may still ask what sort of common culture it intends to sustain without being told that the very act of asking is morally disreputable. The historical abuse is just as bad. To drag Menzies into this as though he were a patron saint of borderless liberal abstraction is ridiculous. Menzies believed in immigration, yes, but immigration into something. Into a common civic life, a common language, a common set of national habits and loyalties. He did not believe that a nation was a hotel lobby, a place through which populations drift while elites congratulate themselves on their enlightenment. He believed citizenship meant belonging, and belonging meant adaptation. That is not racism. That is the elementary grammar of nationhood of which Keating is poor student . What Keating is really doing is protecting a modern taboo. He knows that once you permit people to discuss cultural confidence, assimilation, and continuity in plain language, the entire managerial pose begins to crack. So the racist accusation must come first because it silences. It creates a false bifurcation: either you accept the dissolving of national culture without protest, or you are to be classed with bigots and fools. That is not argument. It is intimidation dressed up as moral seriousness Much of Australia’s modern political discourse now operates through this bifurcation: not an argument about policy, consequences, or national interest, but a moral sorting ritual in which one side claims virtue and the other is cast as morally illegitimate before the real question can even be asked. As much as Keating is entertaining he’s corrosive to the country’s future

@hamishgryan @0bservationism @ChrisEconomist @peter_tulip @grok are people in major western cities less or more happy than people in regional areas of the same country?

@0bservationism @Gnu352 @ChrisEconomist @peter_tulip Egypt is an underdeveloped shithole. Try Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City or New York. I doubt you’ll find that people are any less happy than their rural peers. You’re talking utopian lefty drivel

Most of us choose to live and work in proximity to many other people. Because dense cities create jobs and high wages. Agglomeration economies outweigh congestion. On balance, the externalities of density are positive, not negative; but our policies mistakenly assume the opposite

@AvidCommentator Yep, unfortunately we have decided to outsource all 3.

Statement of the obvious, but it should be the goal of policymakers not to need any overseas migration. We should be targeting conditions favourable for replacement fertility rates, educating our own populace to do skilled roles and paying those doing low skill work decently.

@IFM_Economist Unemployment spiked over 7%. Same will happen here.

What was the political debate like in Canada that led to this outcome? How can it be framed in Australia to achieve an optimal outcome for the people that government represents? Noting that since 2005 the Australian population has grown 37% and Canada's 29%.

@tanya_plibersek Low IQ people resort to calling policy racist. Why don’t you make a case for mass immigration….probably above your pay grade.

What Paul said.

@ChrisEconomist @peter_tulip Maybe visit India. Lol.

@peter_tulip Yes Density helps prosperity Yet planning fights density The implication is clear - planning fights prosperity

@MishGEA @grok You don’t understand banking. If the US sanctions a company or country they are completely shut out of the US$ system, all US$ accounts are frozen. Try buying Saudi oil now, what are you going to rock up with $1 billion in cash…lol.

The Petrodollar Theory Is Dead. It Never Made Sense to Begin With I retitled my previous post to the above. @grok Several readers asked me to discuss the petrodollar. Here are two pertinent theories. mishtalk.com/economics/petr…

@DrCameronMurray Then you don’t understand how banking works. All US$ are held by only banks that are a licensed US$ clearing bank, everyone else uses a correspondent US$ bank. If the US sanctions a company or country they are completely shut out of the US$ system.

I have never really understood why so many think there is some kind of “petrodollar” power. You can just convert your euros to dollars to buy oil, and when you receive dollar from oil convert them to any other currency. You don’t need to HOLD a lot of US dollars, nor does it necessarily create a continuous net demand for US dollars.

@AngusTaylorMP @mattjcan It’s already an obligation, just not enforced.

If you want to call Australia home, you should speak its national language. We will make learning English an obligation for permanent visa holders - not an option.

@charlesmurray Singapore is mostly Chinese…wrong classification

I think that's almost exactly how I categorized them (full disclosure: also using Grok).

@ctindale Look at @AlboMP begging Brunei for oil, a country located now only spitting distance from Chinese artificial bases in the South China Sea. What exactly does our security committees discuss?

Alexander Hamilton’s point in the 1791 Report on Manufactures was that political freedom rests on material independence. A nation that cannot make essential goods for itself is never fully sovereign, because its choices are constrained by whoever controls supply. Liberty in that sense is not just a matter of constitutions, elections, or abstract rights. It is the practical ability to clothe, arm, build, repair, and provision your society without waiting on the permission of rivals, creditors, or foreign producers. Hamilton understood that dependence on outside manufacture leaves a country exposed to coercion, shortages, price manipulation, and strategic weakness. So when he defended domestic manufacturing, he was defending more than industry. He was defending the physical basis of independence itself. Freedom, in his framework, requires productive capacity, because a people that cannot source its own necessities will sooner or later find that its formal liberties are subordinate to material dependence. I'm Australia, Menzies made much the same point . He understood that national strength depended on more than parliamentary forms or legal sovereignty. It depended on the capacity to produce, build, and supply from within. His defence of industry, infrastructure, and developmental nation-building came from the view that a country as exposed and distant as Australia could not rest securely on imported dependence alone. In that sense, freedom was tied to productive self-reliance, because a nation that cannot materially support itself leaves its security, prosperity, and room for political choice in other hands. We need to return to these values of national resilience . x.com/GregoryW_Rob/s…

@samstrades Fat bitch gotta eat. They work for us, yet never make the case why it benefits us.

Of course this plus size idiot would say this, she's Howard's original mass immigration architect Further evidence Libs are a captured party, captured by corporate lobby who has an insatiable appetite for cheap and easily exploitable labour (don't be silly and stick with #ONP) #auspol #immigration theguardian.com/australia-news…

@Wineraner @RIGHTORIGHTOtwo @SpectatorOz Yes and QLD sugar cane farms. Mal Meninga’s family. His story is that his family hid in the bushes when the labour inspectors came.

@Gnu352 @RIGHTORIGHTOtwo @SpectatorOz Was the trade you mentioned related to "blackbirding" and other de facto slave labor schemes for supplying labor for guano mining and the like?

In the 1840s, there was a push from Australian farmers to import cheap Indian workers to act as shepherds. Reading the testimony of these pastoralists is striking. They were aggrieved about the unreliability and high expectations of British settlers in a tight labour market. They provided explicit details about just how much cheaper – and tractable – Indian workers were compared with both free settlers and convicts. And they warned of dire economic consequences if their request was declined. Colonial authorities listened – and said no. Authorities Wanted an Egalitarian and Cohesive Australia. This decision was based on a clear understanding of the economic and social impact of cheap foreign labour. It also reflected officials’ insistence that the narrow interests of employers should not trump broader goals. So, what happened to fix the shepherd shortage? Wire fences. Article | spectator.com.au/2026/04/the-jo…

@RIGHTORIGHTOtwo @SpectatorOz Wrong. Educate yourself and Read the cabinet papers. The Chinese weren’t even mentioned.

@Gnu352 @SpectatorOz More to do with Chinese labor

@VeryInsig @DrewPavlou Well said.

@DrewPavlou A society with a very clear majority culture can easily accommodate people from minority cultures. The majority culture provides common ground. But as that majority erodes, so too does its ability to maintain that common ground. No majority culture, no common ground.

Gout Gout is a good guy, if you win Olympic medals for Australia I rate you as a positive contributor

@ctindale @RonStoeferle @LukeGromen @kevinmuir Yep. Short end rates will soon be negative thanks to Fed complacency, pushing money out the risk curve.

Textbook Tindale’s Trap in real time !. The USD’s reserve status delivers the usual safe-haven flood → instant liquidity, valuation support, and a lightning-fast V-recovery. Markets look bulletproof: “we’ve now made it all back.” But that same mechanism keeps redirecting capital away from tradables, eroding industrial complexity and the ability to turn financing into real physical output when the next shock hits. The Financial Ledger snaps back. The Material Ledger keeps thinning. It's complacency that is caused and obscured by the FOMC framework that’s designed to financially everything x.com/ctindale/statu…

As discussed yesterday @ctindale @LukeGromen: #Complacency.... ht @kevinmuir

Australia’s tobacco excise tax….

@Noahpinion Fossil fuels are amazing!

Nothing ever happens, until one day something happens