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Opposition leader Angus Taylor concedes One Nation is on track to win the Farrer by-election, with Liberal Party preferences being directed to ON over Independent Michelle Milthorpe. “You choose the least-worst option when it comes to preferencing.” #Insiders

12 candidates have been officially declared for the Farrer by-election! Check out this list of candidates in ballot paper order 👇 What's next? Ballot papers will be designed & printing will begin. aec.gov.au/farrer

Another two Canadian charities have had their registration revoked after the CRA found they were using donor funds to support the Israeli military. zurl.co/GqkJi

Rich people, rich lawyers, rich judge dismiss crimes against a “difficult” woman. Free to go .. "Mr Catalano's barrister Jason Gullaci SC said his client, a father of nine, had a clean criminal record and "significant" property and business interests." abc.net.au/news/2026-03-1…

Thread: 🧵 Busy morning with media exposing Goldstein Liberal Tim Wilson's @TimWilsonMP campaigner, but now also Tim's own secret former ownership of a "grassroots" childcare campaign group with Jason Falinski and other Australians for prosperity group members #auspol

After the loss of my own Community Independent for Goldstein in 2025 to the do-nothing, embarrassing, performative Tim Wilson, I’m donating to @michelle4farrer to help expand the independent cross bench who seem to be the only adults in the room holding the Government to account

Goldstein Liberal Tim Wilson @TimWilsonMP is being paid almost $300,000 per year to be THIS cringe & useless in parliament - now breaking out into very poor song. Liberal colleagues visibly embarrassed. Goldstein needs indp Zoe Daniel. Let's get #zoe2028 trending. #auspol

Tim Wilson can’t handle the heat & ends up scolded as Jim Chalmers reminds of his call for Medicare privatization, dismantling Super, describing WFH as apartheid Wilson jumps to complain as Speaker calls out the “absolute abuse of standing orders” “Everyone saw that”🔥 #auspol

So let's be clear: the man auditioning to run Australia's economy has a financial interest in it performing badly. Tim Wilson holds an investment that makes money when the Australian share market falls. His register of interests confirms it. A financial adviser called it "terrible." It has lost 75% of its value since 2020. His spokesperson's response? He's kept it because of "the poor economic policies of the Albanese government." So the shadow treasurer is not just betting against the Australian economy. He is using that bet as a political weapon. The man posting inflammatory petrol imagery is literally funded by the petrol industry. The man promising Australians hope is literally betting against Australia. Hope is not a strategy. 👇 suebarrett.substack.com/p/hope-is-not-…

Tim Wilson is PRAYING you won’t check his outlandish spin (See post image below). We did. He needs a prayer book. Let’s start with the uncomfortable bit Tim is hoping you won’t notice. For reasons known only to #AngusTaylor, #TimWilson has just been appointed Shadow Treasurer. No one knows why. No one understands why. And Tim’s own record does absolutely nothing to explain why. Because if this appointment came with a banner, it would not say “pick me, I know numbers”. It would say “trust me bro”. So let’s look at the receipts. Credentials check. This is where it already falls apart. Jim Chalmers Jim Chalmers • About 6 years in senior economic shadow portfolios Nearly 4 years as Treasurer • Has written budgets • Has delivered fiscal updates • Has been accountable for outcomes, debt, inflation, the lot Tim Wilson • Zero years as Treasurer or Shadow Treasurer prior to 2026 • Longest stint in any ministry or shadow ministry - under 1 year • No prior responsibility for national debt • No responsibility for budgets • No responsibility for inflation So when Tim starts lecturing the country about who should be “sacked” for debt, understand this clearly. He has never once carried that responsibility himself. Not once. _________ Now let’s deal with his main claim “Under Labor Chalmers got promoted to Treasurer and has poured debt petrol onto the inflation bonfire.” This is not spin-adjacent. This is spin cosplay. Let’s be very clear. • Inflation Labor inherited in 2022 (Q1) - 6.1% • Inflation now - ~3.8% That is roughly 37% lower than what Labor inherited. So Tim, if this is petrol, it’s the kind that puts fires out. We repeat, slowly, for the thick end of the LNP. • Debt position in May 2022 - Labor inherited record net debt after a decade of Coalition government • Inflation on entry - CPI was 6.1%, already embedded before Labor budgets took effect • Current inflation - ~3.8%, materially lower That alone nukes the “petrol on the bonfire” metaphor from orbit. __________ “Most people would be sacked for sending a nation into a trajectory of unsustainable debt” This line is doing Olympic-level gymnastics to avoid one basic truth. And this sudden posture of fiscal authority comes from the same Tim Wilson who, in 2020, was publicly accused of giving unlicensed financial advice after encouraging Australians to dip into their superannuation to buy a house. Much of the debt Tim is now clutching his pearls over was handed to Labor in 2022 like a flaming bag of dog shit. And pretending otherwise does not make it disappear. ________________ The Wayne Swan adviser fairy tale Wilson’s next move is to blame Chalmers’ time advising Wayne Swan. This is weak for two reasons. First. The major structural spending growth identified by the e61 analysis spans 30 years. Second. The largest debt surge in modern Australian history occurred well after that period, under Coalition governments, especially during COVID. Even the report Tim is leaning on criticises multiple governments, not one adviser, not one minister, not one party. This is not a villain story. It’s a timeline. ______________ What the facts actually say (the bits Tim skipped) • Australia still sits in the bottom half of advanced economies for debt • There is no imminent debt crisis • Spending growth has occurred over decades, driven by: • • Population ageing • • Health • • NDIS • • Childcare • • Looser fiscal discipline across governments over 30 years Not one term. Not one adviser. Not one convenient scapegoat. _______________ Final word, Tim Your spin prayers have not been answered. You are days into your first-ever Treasury-adjacent role, lecturing someone who has spent nearly a decade actually carrying economic responsibility. This is not authority. It’s audacity. >>So kneel before the High Priest of facts.<< #NOISY.

Look at all that social cohesion @AlboMP

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Today I step into a new role as Shadow Minister for Planning, Housing and Building. My focus is building a Victoria where owning a home is within reach, planning works for people not against them, and our state is once again the best place to live and do business. #springst