Allan Green

#auspol Australia should not have to defend itself against attacks from #Trump who with #netanyahu have brought the world economy to it's knees by launching the most #STUPIDWAR in history trashing their credibility to replace a Dictator with in his son sbs.com.au/news/article/a…

#auspol #insiders Why aren't #MSM rushing out to interview Electric Car Owners?? There is defintely no Fuel Crisis for people who own Electric Vehicles and now they are more affordable than ever - There's nearly Half a Million of them in Aus already racv.com.au/royalauto/tran…

Back in 2022 Scott Morrison and his coalition government halved the fuel excise for six months. This excise cut cost the government between 6 and 8 billion dollars to implement. Initially Scott Morrison was reluctant to implement an excise cut and played down the fuel crisis and costs as temporary off the back of the Ukraine war. Interestingly at the time, Morrison called fuel prices a global issue, saying “You don’t go and completely recalibrate your budget based on fluctuations in oil prices. They’ve gone up, they’ve gone down”. Angus Taylor also weighed in, saying “Australia cannot control international price spikes”. Ironic 🙄 considering An*us has been foghorning most of the blame this week for the fuel price hikes on Labor - not on “international price spikes”. Eventually Morrison backed down and halved the fuel excise due to mounting pressure. Initially there were savings at the fuel pump for consumers - but in less than 2 or 3 weeks fuel prices were creeping back up to pre-excise reduction levels. So what was happening? While there was some price gouging going on, the international competition for supply driven by the war in Ukraine continued to push global fuel prices higher. These rising costs largely offset any savings. People were paying just as much for fuel as they were before. The problem with cutting fuel excise is that it creates other substantial problems. It increases the likelihood of fuel shortages as people buy more fuel and stock up just like they did in the great toilet paper crisis of 2020. People panic when they think they are going to miss out on something. Which is what is going on right now. Joe and Karen down the road are buying fuel in bulk just in case - which is decreasing supply and making it appear like we are running low on fuel NOW. Cutting fuel excise could also lead to increased inflation as people with enough income spend more money on hoarding fuel. In 2022, people on higher incomes spent more money on the initial cheaper fuel while those on lower incomes bought what they could afford. A disadvantage for low-income earners straight away. Of course, in 2026, mining magnates like Gina Rinehart are screaming for a fuel excise cut from Labor. This is not because Gina thinks poor people deserve a break. Gina stands to save millions in the short term on cheaper fuel. Millions on top of her billion-dollar profits. While I didn’t hear her screaming for a cut in 2022 from the coalition, it is not people like Rinehart who should be benefiting - but in their angst-driven cost-of-living crisis, people tend to forget that those with the most will also benefit the most. It’s also interesting to note that Australia’s oil refining production has declined dramatically over the last two decades. Six of eight refineries shut down and converted to import terminals. Five of the six closures occurred during periods of coalition government. The remaining two refineries are Ampol’s Lytton site in Brisbane and Viva Energy’s Geelong refinery. Both are supported by government fuel security subsidies to remain open. Believe it or not m, we do currently have enough fuel in reserve. Two to three months’ worth. the government are working on coordinating shipments and distribution. What is going on at present is panic buying. This panic buying has been stirred up via vested interests for the purpose of creating chaos, division and fear. As usual. I will never forget the panic buying that ensued because people thought they were going to run out of food during the pandemic - and of all things - toilet paper. The shortages and the crisis were created by those who panicked and cleaned out supplies. There was never a food shortage. There was never a toilet paper shortage. People create these shortages via their responses to media fear mongering, dog whistling crises and culture war rhetoric. Exactly what is going on now.

@Microinteracti1 #auspol & This is exactly the sort of Govt Pauline #Hanson #Barnaby Joyce and #Gina Rinehart want to import to Australia

If there is precisely one thing you watch today, make it this. French Senator Claude Malhuret. A microphone. And the most magnificently savage dismantling of the Trump administration ever delivered in a language they almost certainly don’t speak. He covers Iran. He covers corruption. He covers the kind of staggering, industrial-scale incompetence that would get you fired from managing a car park. And he does it with the calm, unhurried certainty of a man who has read every page of the indictment and found it, if anything, worse than expected. France has never pretended to like these people. But this is contempt elevated to an art form. The kind of refined, aristocratic disdain that takes centuries of civilization to produce and approximately ninety seconds to deploy. Malhuret sounds like he is four seconds from the button. Not out of panic. Out of sheer, exhausted disgust. Honestly? Understandable. Watch it. Share it. The adults are speaking. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Nobody in the Trump administration planned for Iran to shut the Strait of Hormuz. Nobody planned for sustained missile strikes on American bases across the Gulf. Nobody planned for an energy crisis. Nobody planned for Europe to look at Washington, shrug, and walk the other way. Nobody, it turns out, planned for very much at all. Read the accounts of how this war was decided and you are left with one deeply uncomfortable realisation: the people who launched it appear to have been genuinely surprised by almost everything that followed. The Iranians shot back. The allies didn’t show up. The oil price went vertical. All of it, apparently, news to them. Which leaves two questions so obvious they’re almost embarrassing to ask. What exactly did they think was going to happen? And did anyone, in any room, at any point, think further ahead than the applause? Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Let’s keep this in the spotlight every day.

The public will be banned from Victoria Park in Brisbane from 1 June until 2032 to build the Crisafulli Colosseum. The land was to remain in public hands & be heritage listed before Jarrod Bleijie made his property grab. #qldpol

BREAKING: Trump just attacked NATO and then goes on to say that "25 years ago" he said that NATO was a "Paper tiger" and that "they would never come to our rescue". FACT: 25 years ago was March 26, 2001. Less than 6 months after that, on September 12, 2001, NATO invoked Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty for the first and only time ever. They lost 1100 soldiers fighting for us. Trump is a Moron.

Of course Japan doesn’t want a 25% gas export tax. Japanese consumers benefit greatly from OUR gas, supplied to them by multinationals who get it for free. It’s time OUR Government thought about benefits to Aussies from the export of OUR valuable and finite gas resources. #auspol

#auspol What was the brief for the Designers for the Victoria Park Stadium? Can you take up the most park space possible by putting it right in the middle please? Victoria Park is a beautiful large open space that currrently gives the City of Brisbane 66 Hectares of Open Space

@Qldaah #auspol So the only thing the #Bleijie & #Crisafulli have actually started is the one Stadium that'll NOT be used for the Olympics & is being paid for & owned by Private Developers Meanwhile the #CheapAss Stadium Designers have plonked it down Right in the Middle of Vic Park

Cosplaying construction worker, Jarrod Bleijie has uttered a Trumpian 3-word slogan as he begins the drilling process that will ultimately lead to the demolition of the Gabba & deliver a bonanza to property developers at Woolloongabba. #qldpol

#auspol The real question here is what is the Republican Party going to do about it?? or is #Trump already a Dictator??

JD VANCE: “Iran was going to use Nuclear Suicide Vests to kill tens of thousands of people. That’s why they had to attack.” These people still haven’t realized that we’re not buying a word of their Israeli-written propaganda bullshit.

Heartbreaking reality. Tucker Carlson reveals that under the cover of the US funded Iran war, Israel is systematically destroying ancient Christian villages in Southern Lebanon. They are openly seizing Lebanese territory and bulldozing homes while the world stays silent.

Pauline Hanson’s failure to declare 5 trips on Gina Rinehart’s jet, including to Mar-a-Lago, are troubling on their own. But now Gina is a major player in Australian gas, and Hanson last week voted against a 25% tax on gas exports, Australians should be sceptical.

@mjfree Not only does this need to be fixed but every #MIGA operative needs to be removed from the US Govt as well

Former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that Netanyahu blackmailed Trump with recordings of his conversations with Epstein. Sounds about right to me.

#auspol For the #Oppositon to be claiming the new Aged Care Algorithm is as bad is insulting to the victims of #Robodebt For them to be the same People would not just be denied additional Aged Care They would be sent a Bill for Previous Care With NO REVIEW just Debt Collectors

@Qldaah #auspol It's a wonder Jarod Beijie and David Crisafulli haven't cancelled it Like they have all the $$$Billions in new Wind Farm and Big Battery Investment because there's 10 NIMBY Farmers opposed

Initiated by the Palaszczuk government, Queensland's current EV network of 54 fast charging locations. The Crisafulli government has made no new committments to its extension. #qldpol qld.gov.au/transport/proj…