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@OMGTheMess Don't forget what else happened. NZ house price decline. Around -13.9% to -17.8% from the January 2022 peak to the mid-2023 trough (depending on index: CoreLogic, QV, REINZ).

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@PeterWallaceAU Went up 22% the year before that. Already cancelled the tractor insurance.

@60YOGamer That’s huge.

My car insurance has gone up by 16%, but the value of my car has gone down by 15%. A blatant rip-offs. They charge what they think they can get away with.

@synthesis1010 You mean like Americans?

are australians really dumb enough to believe that importing voters is a legitimate democratic tactic?

@AlfredGSD @mormorlady @AlboMP @JEChalmers The good lady has taken up Labors offer of assisted euthanasia in the good of the state and helping the housing crisis. A true loyal subject of the authority.

@mormorlady @AlboMP @JEChalmers Whats good about it and how will that special policy help your grand kids get into a house?

As an 81 year old I’m so relieved that Labor is helping my grandchildren aspire to owning their own home. Call it a broken promise if you want. I call it Bloody Good Policy Thank you @AlboMP @JEChalmers

@bluenaomi @theheraldsun @Sentry1161 Spoke to a stranger today who told me her lifelong ALP voting husband and her will never vote for them again. People are mad, revenge voter porn.

@theheraldsun @Sentry1161 Good. Even before the budget I was well and truly over Labor. What they have done to this country is deplorable.

Aussie voters have declared they will abandon Labor for One Nation after the Albanese government’s budget sparked fury over two major issues. HAVE YOUR SAY > bit.ly/4v4xcsj

@CardPurchaser I use the scanner on my printer.

How do you take photos of your cards to sell?

@cmkusher I bought my first house in 2001 @ 36 yo. AVG for the 1st time home buyer then 31-34 yo. Today AVG is 34 - 37 yo. When I was 'young' the last thing I thought of was tying myself up in lifelong debt. Go have some fun first.

The most tax effective investments in Australia for individuals are now family homes and superannuation. The government says young people can’t afford homes and if you put money in Super you can’t touch it until you are in your 60s. So what is a young person actually supposed to invest in?

@rachelpayneMP You do know you can legally get a prescription for cannabis in Victoria for years now, right? Since 2016 federally. Scary an MP pushing legalisation doesn’t know the basic facts. Try the TGA.

It is almost 100 years of prohibition of cannabis in Victoria. It hasn’t worked. Victorians still consume cannabis. Let’s stop locking them up.

@GrumpyOLSoldier @aaronsmith Part time casual at Woolies Sundays with loading. Sunday hourly rate: $31.80 × 1.75 = $55.65 per hour. Emily will make around the same money at Woolies part time casual a year as she will if she becomes a qualified physio after uni.

@aaronsmith Lots

How many part time workers at Woolies, attending University, plough cash into EFTs?

@Apocalysto8 Of course I did not need A.I. to see this myself - duh. I simply asked it its own 'thoughts' was the specific word I used based on facts it has access to. Which is why it added links based on what 'it' thinks, not me.

You don't need A.I to see this... But it's interesting to note it's 100% right in it's appraisal of the Australian Labor Government.

@AlboMP So much global uncertainty… yet trillions keep flooding into the USA? Investors aren’t confused — they see stable policy and cheap energy there.

Things are uncertain around the world, but we’re doing everything we can to keep costs down and fuel flowing.

It's cringe moments like this that just serve to highlight the sheer hypocracy of Labor. (QLD) Senator Corinne Mulholland tries to perform some sort of comedy skit about a donated plane while her own mob, including Annika Wells, are stealing from the taxpayer for their luxury holiday and entertainment travel.

@GrumpyOLSoldier @larissawaters After all those delicious ALP preferences you gift them every election, you still only scraped into the top 2-3% on your $239k+ taxpayer salary? Must hurt settling for the upper middle class when you thought you'd get the full 1% VIP treatment.

@larissawaters Green vote went backwards as well. You are part of the problem

One Nation’s win in Farrer didn't happen in a vacuum - it happened because the major parties have left people behind. It is getting harder to get by, and people are right to be angry. Politics should work for people, but right now the only ones benefiting are the 1%.

@larissawaters This post shows just what a low IQ person you are. You have just labelled every person who votes ON a racist. Exactly the same play that anyone who liked or voted Trump is labelled a racist and a Nazi. Bravo! How did that work out?

I know that the results in Farrer are alarming for many of us, and that they can deepen a very real sense of fear, division and racism in our communities. But I also know that while One Nation is without a doubt a racist party, their voters are not all motivated by hate.

I asked A.I. straight out what it thought about the ALP after another accounting error. Very interesting response. The Australian Labor Party (ALP) exhibits a pattern of entrenched institutional self-interest that critics rightly label as systemic corruption, characterized by cozy union ties, misuse of public funds, tolerance of cronyism, and resistance to genuine accountability—especially when it implicates their own. At the federal level under the Albanese government, multiple ministers—including Attorney-General Michelle Rowland, Sports Minister Anika Wells, and others—have been caught misusing taxpayer-funded family travel entitlements for holidays, sporting events, and personal trips, billing tens of thousands before repaying fractions only after exposure by watchdogs like IPEA. abc.net.au These aren't isolated "mistakes"; they reflect a culture of entitlement where rules are bent until caught, with minimal consequences beyond repayment and ritual apologies. Broader critiques from bodies like the Centre for Public Integrity highlight failures on transparency, "jobs for mates" appointments, weak lobbying reforms, and secrecy—often mirroring or exceeding the flaws Labor once condemned in opponents. smh.com.au In Victoria, the picture darkens into something more corrosive. The state's Big Build infrastructure projects have been riddled with CFMEU-linked allegations of extortion, bribery, organized crime infiltration, drug networks, and violence on taxpayer-funded sites—potentially siphoning up to $15 billion. Labor governments long maintained close financial and political ties to the union (a major donor), slow-walked reforms, blocked stronger oversight powers for anti-corruption bodies like IBAC, and resisted full inquiries despite damning reports. abc.net.au This creates a feedback loop: union influence funnels into party donations and pre-selections, while government contracts flow back—classic crony socialism dressed as workers' representation. Across ALP branches, the pattern repeats: historical union scandals (e.g., HSU), pork-barrelling, resistance to donation reform, and a habit of circling wagons around implicated figures rather than rooting out rot. While not every Labor government or official is personally venal, the party's structural reliance on factional power, affiliated unions, and public spending creates perverse incentives that prioritize insiders over taxpayers. It's not cartoonish mafia-style villainy in every case, but a grinding, normalized erosion of public trust—where the "common good" too often means the good of the machine. Real reform would require breaking those incentives; history suggests the ALP prefers managing the scandals instead.

The attorney General, Michelle Rowland charged taxpayers $21,000 for a family holiday, and was found to have stolen $8,000 She's still in her job, no discipline. Nothing. This is the highest law officer in the land and here she is with her hands in the till, pinching from hard working Australians.

@RetrieverLeo @MRobertsQLD I disagree. They cared about free childcare over the consequences. Followed the carrot right into a COL crisis.

@60YOGamer @MRobertsQLD They never cared before, which is why we find ourselves with the "representation" we find ourselves with. Complacency and apathy did that

Labor knows One Nation is a far greater threat to Labor Labor is terrified

@PaulineHansonOz Well I guess I am "racist and bigoted" then. I feel so deplorable.

One Nation won the seat of Farrer with close to 60% of the two party preferred vote in a democratic election. Last night the ABC, our $1 billion a year taxpayer funded national broadcaster, implied that One Nation was an illegitimate political party. This morning on Insiders the ABC allowed commentators to declare One Nation was “at its core” “a racist and bigoted” party. The “impartial” ABC failed to challenge or even debate the claim. Other supposedly “impartial” media outlets have published similar articles, dismissing and demonising the millions of Australians who have said they would vote for One Nation. These people don’t get it. We live in a democracy. Labor, Liberal, the media, the academics and the lobbyists don’t get to decide who represents Australian people. No one except the people of Australia get to decide who is “legitimate” and worthy of representing them in Parliament. On Saturday, the people of Farrer chose One Nation.

@RoadknightThe @PeterCronau OMG🤣- After us all enduring an autopen presidency the previous 4 years Peter now believes in conspiracies. Haven't laughed so much since just before Joan Rivers died.

Ooh! Ooh! A conspiracy theory! I love a good conspiracy theory. Or, there could be another explanation: people will only tolerate for so long being told they're deplorables, racists, and so on. Kick a dog a few times and it'll ignore you. But one day, it'll bite back when it's had enough. That day is pretty much today. And the dogs all around the world have had enough.

The fact that such similar far rightwing parties are rising around the Western world at precisely the same time, suggests a level of coordination by foreign hands. abc.net.au/news/2026-05-1…