Luke

@Matt_Camenzuli Matt, if Australia is so terrible, leave! You got your arse handed to you running on the above platform last election, after spending $1 million in one seat. You’re the minority. You’re a whinger who hopes the country fails. You don’t pass the Taylor’s Australian values test

“Australians used to be happy” the driver said, as he drove me along one of our shiny new Sydney motorways. I was in his Taxi today - one of the seventeen he currently owns. He used to have thirty. Times are getting much tougher. All his diesel cars are currently parked - because it does not make financial sense to operate them. Diesel is way too expensive. Like almost everything else here today. He came to Australia from India 20 years ago. He studied, he worked in corporate Australia, and then he built his Taxi business. He assimilated and worked hard building his business. He was recently fined $3500 for missing a quarterly tax return for one of his cars. It was an oversight and it was his first time – so it was waived. But it got him wondering – “whose side is this government on?” I often wonder the same thing. People came here to build a life, to better themselves, and provide a better life for their children. They worked to fit in, and now, like so many others, my Taxi driving friend today wonders how on earth this immigration system benefits Australia and Australians. Open flood gates in an economic crisis, an energy crisis, and now a fuel crisis impacts us all. But I felt the pain in my driver’s voice today when he explained the total injustice he felt, a man who has performed exactly as he was asked to when coming to Australia. Getting through a very difficult criteria, being educated and working. He spoke of people - that he certainly thought would not have passed the bar he did - come flying in at a rapid pace without being asked to change in any way to fit in. He told me that he thinks that is wrong. He thought their behaviour makes it hard for those who came decades ago and did the right thing. Those that contribute. Those that pay taxes, and speak the language - well. I think he is right. The man had impeccable English. His Taxi – the flagship – was absolutely immaculate, and there was one of those very nice plastic wrapped Lotus Biscoff Biscuits waiting in the door handle and a bottle of water in the centre console. It was one of the most comfortable Taxi rides I have ever had. Just as we arrived at the destination, he turned to me and said, “you know, when you go into business you want to grow – and it is just so hard right now, the government is in the way at every turn, everything is just so hard – surely they are not that stupid…” I of course agreed with him. But the worst part for him is that as things get worse. It is the Taxi industry that cops it first and hardest. People in Australia are just not happy anymore, especially the ones that take the risks, that provide the services that we just take for granted. Even migrants. It seems like much of our problem today stems from an immigration system that is very different to the one that helped build Australia. It makes it hard - not only for those of us that have been here for generations - but harder still for those who came relatively recently and did the right thing and continue to do the right thing. Immigration must be cut back significantly. It is making most of us terribly unhappy, and that is just un-Australian. I just want Australia back.

@EricLDaugh Australia’s not happy with the US either. A friend who is a bully is no friend at all. Trump’s actions just push Australia closer to China.

🚨 PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ANGRY WITH AUSTRALIA "Australia was NOT THERE having to do with Hormuz." "I'm not happy with Australia because they were not there when we asked them to be there. Australia was another one!" Our allies need to STEP UP.

@mrsks91 @KatyKray73 Good for you. Doesn’t change the fact that they produce a non viable product without government subsidies. They’re dole bludgers.

@Dcl0891 @KatyKray73 Wow, that’s quite the claim there. I for one am very thankful for dairy farmers. Hats off to them all.

Pat the dairy farmer praises Albanese’s $20M ad campaign for saving petrol! Thank God that money went to such good use. Well done Albo! 👏😏

@mrsks91 @KatyKray73 Who doesn’t? Just like every regional bumpkin. Always have their snout in the taxpayer trough.

@Dcl0891 @KatyKray73 Know Pat we’ll do you, Luke?

@AngusTaylorMP Who advises Taylor? Is he responding to rile up the Lib membership because his leadership is nearly done? Why respond calling it racist? Every journo will now ask if is Taylor racist. With the result being the Libs being wiped out of every city at the next election. #auspol

Response to statement from Paul Keating: I always suspected that Paul Keating didn’t support Australian values, but now he has dropped any pretence. To suggest it is “racist” to put Australian values at the centre of our immigration policy shows just how out of touch he is with Australians, as is the Labor Party. This is the immigration policy we have to have. Immigration numbers are too high. Immigration standards are too low. And both must change. It’s time for Paul Keating and the Labor Party to put Australians and Australian values first.

@MChandlerMather You’re not Pocock. To start with, he can hold a seat. 🙄

In Norway, gas export revenue is used to fund free university education and a world class public pension system. In Australia gas export revenue is more likely to add an extra wing to a CEO’s mansion than help any ordinary Australian

@moss_andrews @MadsMelbourne They might be. The problem is there is no one of any talent in a non Labor party in Victoria. Better the devil you know.

@Dcl0891 @MadsMelbourne Well from up here in NSW I gotta say I thought Victorians would be up for anyone but Labor.

THIRTEEN Ministers have resigned (without pay) from Jacinta Allen’s Victorian government this week! Somethings going down 🤔

@moss_andrews @MadsMelbourne As tired as a government it may be, you’d only need to show that visitor the opposition. It’s a binary choice. If you’re going to oust one party, you have to be confident the other can do a better job. No one has confidence Wilson could run a chook raffle, let alone the state.

@Dcl0891 @MadsMelbourne Good lord. All that debt and corruption and they get a licence to continue for another 4 years. You just couldn’t explain it a visitor from outer space 😵‍💫

@moss_andrews @MadsMelbourne Where will the Libs pick up seats? They need 16. Maybe few in outer Melb. Maybe lose a couple in inner Melb. Both the Libs & Nats will have to defend all their regional seats against One Nation. The net result could be that they actually go backward. A likely Labor retain.

@Dcl0891 @MadsMelbourne Surely Victorians won’t for Labor again regardless of how hopeless the opposition is

@MadsMelbourne Yes. Been in his seat since 2006. Twice failed opposition leader. Needs to be loved on.

@Dcl0891 Is Mathew guy still in parliament?

@6EQUJ5wow @Goalkickingguru ‘Us younger people’ You bots need to understand how to utilize younger people’s language No young person would ever use that language. Try harder.

@Goalkickingguru Us younger people know we are never getting our hands on our super. The government will take it in the coming decades. It's just more theft.

Half of the working population earn less than $80000 a year. 40% of people retire with a mortgage. If they never had to pay into superannuation they would retire in a better economical position. Superannuation is forced saving. Let people control their own destiny

@Goalkickingguru People could make better choices. Not pissing every cent you earned up the wall would be a good start. There is no cost of living crisis for 90% of Australians. There’s a living above once means crisis.

@hopelyonekanoby @MadsMelbourne What do you care? You’re a Seppo. Stay out of our business.

@Dcl0891 @MadsMelbourne Of course they are. Well done.!

@hopelyonekanoby @MadsMelbourne They’re on track to retain government.

@Dcl0891 @MadsMelbourne And then all the Labor fuck wits vote for the same shit that got us in the mess we are in. Perfect way to control the ignorant stupid dumb fucks.

@flydamsell @Matt_Camenzuli Don’t need to. It’s two consecutive quarters of negative growth. Now, how many quarters of negative growth have there been in the last four years?

Economists warn of recession... Where on earth have they been for the last 4 years? Record insolvencies in the real economy. A housing sector on its knees. Rocketing inflation. Intrest rate rises anyway. More like a depression.

@JasonWr25262117 @KatyKray73 @MadsMelbourne @sandytogs Hope isn’t a reliable lever to pull in my experience.

@Dcl0891 @KatyKray73 @MadsMelbourne @sandytogs Hope not Labor win again. 🤯🖕

@88TheHandOfFear @MadsMelbourne Well, looks like they’re going to win.

@Dcl0891 @MadsMelbourne Replacing corrupt pigs with more, and Retards like Diambrosio still remain, corrupt, inept, weak corrupt fools

@DirtMccGirt @greg_447634 @Matt_Camenzuli Every. Single. Quarter. Why do these jokers keep claiming the sky is falling in when Australians have literally never had it better?!

@greg_447634 @Matt_Camenzuli Since covid Australia's total GDP has been growing. That's the opposite of a recession.

@greg_447634 @Matt_Camenzuli What’s the definition of a recession?

@Matt_Camenzuli Warn of recession... what do they think has been occurring since covid?