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David Kerr sadly passed last week. He was the inspiration and advocate behind the introduction of the Mobility Allowance in 1982, there will be a service next week on the 28/8 at 10:30 Christ Church Lavender Bay to celebrate his life. All are welcome

Jack! Says Vote YES

@hughriminton @AlboMP @10NewsFirst The LNP left Australia with a massive debt and unless we bring it down with budget surpluses Australian’s face a high cost of living for decades.

Why has your mortgage gone up? It’s the #VoicetoParliament, apparently. #PeterDutton says the PM’s “obsession with the #Voice (is) why you’re paying more for your mortgage” because ⁦@AlboMP⁩ has “taken his eye off the ball on economic policy.” #auspol ⁦@10NewsFirst⁩

As a nation we have everything to gain and nothing to lose by voting yes. A colossally moving, powerful, and informative speech by Minister for Indigenous Australians, @LindaBurneyMP Check it! @PressClubAust

@hughriminton @10NewsFirst Dutton give the voiceless indigneous people a voice. The sophistry of the LNP is despicable and self serving.

Asked to nominate the number one priority, as he sees it, for First Nations Australians, #PeterDutton said “I think Indigenous Australians, like all Australians, are facing cost of living pressures.” #auspol ⁦@10NewsFirst⁩

Congratulations @AshleighRaper for your professionalism at the ABC….you will be missed.

Tonight's @abcnews finance thing, mainly about inflation. I show that this year (Jan-May) it's 2.8%; in May, seasonally adjusted, ZERO; May original (not seasonally adjusted), MINUS 0.4%. The RBA must STOP HIKING INTEREST RATES. youtube.com/watch?v=_4MXoF…

@andreajeanbaker A wonderful interview.

@abcnews Shameful discrimination. No hope for over 65 year olds who were excluded from the NDIS when it was introduced.

NDIS Minister Bill Shorten said reforms to the scheme may lead to fewer future entrants with psychosocial disability, as the government seeks to curb growth by 27,000 over the next few years. ab.co/43ZAuQj

@BarbaraPocock The best strategy is to independently audit their conflict of interests processes. Ethical walls?

The PwC scandal is just the tip of the iceberg. So we want to hear from you. 📣 Do you have a story about dodgy behaviour, conflicts of interest or poor quality of work in the Big 4 Consultants? ➡️ You can make a submission (including anonymously) here: greens.org.au/consultants-st…

Shocked and very sad to learn of Simon Crean’s death. His life, cut short too soon, was filled with achievement for his members, his party and his country. Post politics he was very active on the trade front as in Paris in 2022 where we were independently trying to revive the Australia/Europe relationship and FTA - Lucy & I send our love and condolences to Carole and their family at this sad time.

“Being an opposition leader is an incredibly difficult job, but being an opposition leader who opposes the drums of war is incredibly brave.” -- Bill Shorten on Simon Crean and invasion of Iraq in 2003 theage.com.au/politics/feder…

The frenzied "debate" about the Voice is only serving to confuse everybody. In practical terms the Voice will be able to express its opinion on just about any public policy issue, because every one of them, one way or the other, impacts on indigenous Australians. So yes the Voice could offer its advice to the Reserve Bank. So what? It could offer advice to the Treasurer on the technical drafting of the latest Tax Laws Amendment Bill too. So what? In each case it wouldn't be a great use of time because absent a particular expertise in monetary policy or tax law, the Voice's views would not carry a lot of weight. Where they will carry weight, and should, is on matters directly or particularly relating to indigenous Australians and so it is natural that the Voice will concentrate its attention on issues where its views will be most influential. As to Australia Day - seriously? Of course the Voice will have a view on Australia Day and it would be very surprising if its view was not to move the date.

@pwafork The voice is just that a voice. As I read it such a question relating to Australia Day is beyond the scope of this referendum. Any question could obviously be put to Parliament once the voice is adopted by the electorate.

In April when I raised the issue of Australia Day being taken up by the Voice, Linda Burney and the PM tried to shut it down. Yet it keeps coming up because as worded, even the Voice's expert advocates say it (and much else besides) could become an issue. dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/a…

@QandA Gross neglect. Disabled people who were 65 at the time the NDIS was implemented remain excluded. The silence on this critical issue speaks volumes. Those of us affected by this arbitrary cut off are left to languish and die.

"We’ve had such enormous issues over the last decade around the NDIS” says disability advocate Sam Connor. Watch the full episode here: bit.ly/3qU13YA

@SirBAntMQ Why on earth does anyone bother to listen to a former PM?

@PaulineHansonOz It’s just a Voice! The chatter is just a distraction!

More reasons to #VoteNoAustralia The debate over the voice to Parliament is exposing the great divide that exists in aboriginal Australia. On the one hand, we have indigenous Australians experiencing genuine disadvantage in remote and regional communities – poverty, violence, unchecked sexual abuse, poor services and poor outcomes. On the other we have self-serving and self-loathing elites with a vested financial interest in entrenching this disadvantage. The real problem is not a lack of taxpayers’ money. The real problem is the lack of the will to act. The elites will not act effectively because they do not want to derail their gravy train. They are exploiting the truly powerless for their own agenda. They hate the skin they’re in, and have contempt for the people they claim to represent. Rather than accept responsibility for their own deliberate failures, they blame non-indigenous Australians. Sexual abuse of children in remote communities is not blamed on the perpetrators of the abuse, as happens in the rest of Australia, but on the whitefella. These elites, like Thomas Mayo, Lidia Thorpe and Marcia Langton to name a few, spew hatred for the whitefella. They need to take a good long look in the mirror. All Australians need to understand the voice will not empower the genuinely disadvantaged indigenous people we want to help. It will not stop the crime, the sexual abuse or the poverty in remote communities like Doomadgee, Arukun or Hopevale. It will only empower the self-serving and self-loathing elites who deny their people the agency and assistance they truly deserve. So #VoteNo, #VoteNoToTheVoice

@PaulineHansonOz What have these notions got to go with giving First Nation People being giving a voice? Nothing!!

"Reparations, land back, paid rent" "A series of tweets dating back to 2018 that were published by Thomas Mayo, an architect of the Voice referendum question show his vision for life after a Voice to Parliament is introduced - including reparations for Indigenous people, 'rent' being paid to live on Australian land and the abolishment of 'harmful colonial institutions'," writes @BrittanyChain for @DailyMailAU Read More: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Today @DavidPocock @Mon4Kooyong and I brought together MPs, Minister @jennymcallister and experts from @GrattanInst @RewiringAus and @SmartEnergyCncl to push for faster electrification of Australia. It’s a complex challenge. We need to start now.

@AdamBandt Time for the mediocre Greens to disappear into the ether. We have a housing crisis. Freezing rents is not the solution when supply is lacking.

Labor wouldn't guarantee a cent in the HAFF. Then, Greens pressure got $500m guaranteed from 2024-25. Then, Labor said they can't fund housing upfront. Now, $2bn starts next week. Today, Labor says they can't freeze rent increases. Everything's impossible until it's not.