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“A surge in retirements of public servants entitled to generous defined benefits schemes could undermine government plans to defer drawdown on the Future Fund, with the Department of Finance reporting that retirement benefits for former bureaucrats, parliamentarians and judges make up almost all of its $175.7bn in administered liabilities. Amid ongoing warnings about the mammoth size of superannuation liabilities, The Australian can reveal the number of retirements from the Australian Public Service has soared at the same time as the Albanese government bureaucracy in June last year ballooned to 198,529.” ••••••••••••••••••••• The trough is never deep enough for these grifters is it? That liability of $175 billion has been discounted for inflation but not indexed for wage increases. In other words the true liability is much much higher. When I got it costed five years the undiscounted figure was $334 billion so it would be much higher now. People First is the only party that has a policy to means test this bureaucratic junket. Note in the clip I say 168, it should be 168,000. If you want to help us rein it in please sign up today at Peoplefirstparty.au

@RetrieverLeo @australian They really don't care who sees what they are doing. I expect it's because they know the system itself is protecting them. Wheels within wheels.

@CaBettyB @australian The moment I saw the ridiculous "I love the NDIS" stickers,banners and posters, I knew it was headed for disaster. One is not supposed to "love" something like that. Then I saw the personal number plates at the sunny coast. NDIS1..........

Labor must not 'tear down' the NDIS as it seeks to rein in the $50bn-a-year scheme, the party’s former leader and disability minister Bill Shorten says, urging blame for cost blowouts to be laid squarely at the feet of 'shonks, fraudsters and criminals', not disabled Australians. Read the full story: bit.ly/3OmG8tf

@RetrieverLeo @australian @RetrieverLeo Very interesting. Then there is the NDIA itself. The extraordinary wages, inefficiencies, unnecessary expenditures, cumbersome ineffective processes. The fish stinks from the head is a truism which aptly applies here.

@CaBettyB @australian I wonder what even some basic surname searches would bring......

'You cannot just take at face value what's offered in today's society by mass media...how do we teach people to be more critical thinkers' Father Robert Prevost

Australia’s social media ban for minors isn’t working: 61% of kids still access accounts, while 4.7M were shut down. Meanwhile, 27% moved to riskier platforms. The ban isn't helping kids— it is harming them. Parents, not the government, are better suited to manage kids’ online use, says Cato's @dr_inserra. Learn more: ow.ly/6cM250YLfRN

🔥 BREAKING 🔥 The Reserve Bank of Australia is about renovate its headquarters in Sydney for $1.2 billion at the expense of the taxpayer. You hard earned money at work Australia. Haven’t you had enough yet?!

Biggest issue in Australia is being ignored. Our government is far too big - it’s smothering us. The people running government are not public servants - the public are their servants.

@CentralReserva9 @Britannia_Royal @AndreaE46911188 🤣🤣🤣

@Britannia_Royal @AndreaE46911188 And they put crowd barriers up

A handful of people turned up to see Harry and Meghan, in what is an utterly embarrassing public outing. George Soros should get his money back.

Australia holds 30% of the world's uranium reserves. It is the Saudi Arabia of the Southern Hemisphere, yet it refuses to lift mining prohibitions in key regions, refuses to recognise U as a critical mineral, and refuses to lift the ban on nuclear energy. Mind-blowing stupidity

@Joanne17156375 @InvictusAus @WeAreInvictus @joanne17156375@ @InvictusAus @WeAreinvictus Let's see how the Sophie Chandauka law suit goes so we get to the truth.t Appreciate you are a fan a have a strong desire to protect him. Hoping this is correct and you are just not a paid bot.

@CaBettyB @InvictusAus @WeAreInvictus Disgraceful behavior? You don’t know what you’re talking about. He’s done more for veterans than any of the royals who parade around in their fake medals. Sentebale, both princes & all trustees walked away because of Sophie the grifter who is single handily destroying the charity

Name a more iconically Aussie gift than a pair of thongs (or flip flops) #InvictusGames alumnus Joel and his family presented Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex with a pair of personalised thongs before they set off sailing with other alumni. @WeAreInvictus

@Joanne17156375 @InvictusAus @WeAreInvictus Of course he is - which actually makes it worse. Didn't realise that gave him a free pass for his disgraceful behaviour - just ask his other charities e.g. Sentebale, African Parks. Interesting and sad that you think it is.

@CaBettyB @InvictusAus @WeAreInvictus Harry is the founder of Invictus you moron

Ricky Gervais on 60 Minutes Makes a Crystal-Clear Case for Free Speech He put it perfectly: the great thing about freedom of speech is that I can say what I want, and you can say you're offended, and I get to decide whether I care or not. Because let's be honest, there's nothing you can say that someone, somewhere won't find offensive. That's why blasphemy laws are so absurd, they're basically trying to protect an all-powerful deity from having its feelings hurt. At the end of the day, we should be free to criticise any idea. Just because you're offended doesn't automatically mean you're right. Spot on, Ricky. Free speech isn't about never upsetting anyone, it's about the right to speak anyway.

@theprojecttv @theprojecttv Oh please there’s no warm welcome. There’s no large crowd. Now, how exactly is anyone meant to believe you are a serious news outlet when you write this sort of nonsense you are looking more like a pay as you go PR outlet for attention seekers

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have received a very warm welcome in Sydney, where they were greeted with a large crowd.

A quiet power shift has changed our Australian democracy. Private equity firms and super funds are increasingly leading unelected bureaucrats and regulators who in turn tell politicians what to rubber-stamp. COVID showed the blueprint: big pharma and technocrats set the agenda, MPs followed. Our Parliaments are increasingly simple conduits for private capital. To hear more from me and stay up to date, signup to my email newsletter here: alexantic.com.au/join

Two weeks ago, in a national address, the PM promised $1 billion in interest free loans to support farmers and fuel suppliers. Two weeks on, they still haven’t seen a cent, and there is nowhere even to apply for a loan. There is only a website to "register your interest" and that hasn't been updated for a week. Farmers across Australia can’t plant crops and Labor has failed to deliver the support it promised. You can’t fix a fuel crisis with empty announcements. What’s the hold up PM?

With yesterday’s fire at Victorias oil refinery Australia is skating on very thin ice. Albanese needs to take immediate action to get the military to build an oil refinery. The private sector is driven by profit not national security. That’s why Government needs to own and operate essential services along the private sector. We have public schools and hospitals because we know that the private sector won’t build these essential services if they can’t make a buck. You’ve only got to look at bank branch closures and the privatisation of our Insurance offices to see that once completely privatised, services rapidly decline. The same for oil refineries - we need energy for our essential services such as the Military, Health, Policing and Agriculture. Therefore the government has to step in and build refineries as the private sector can’t be trusted to put the national interest first. The same for our state governments. They need to urgently start building coal fired power stations if they want to re-industrialise Australia. The QLD premier is talking about big game when it comes to the Taroom trough but that is years away at best. How about he gets busy and starts building more power stations for the coal that we know we have.

BREAKING: Ben Roberts-Smith freed on bail in advance of war crimes trial. I saw his mother smile in the front row of the court as the judge revealed his decision - a great triumph for the fair administration of justice in this country. Mainstream media journo got up me for interfering with their shot while recording this. THE OLD MEDIA FEARS THE NEW!!!!

@Patricia344130 By the looks of him he could do with a few more goes at that cleansing process.

“I had to cleanse myself before fatherhood”. Oh do fuck off you pathetic moron. Making money by slagging off your family never stops even after all these years. Change the broken record & get on with your privileged life.