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@TMFScottP aluminium smelters require 24/7 baseload power

If you'll excuse me, I'm off make my fortune. Today, I'm going to buy a failing, capital-intensive manufacturing business in a regional area, employing a few hundred people. Tomorrow, I have a meeting with the State and Federal ministers for a billion dollar handout. Straya!

@MHJeffrey027 @RoverFantasy @FootyonNine @CalTwomey Another hypothetical that isn’t true in most cases.

@Donv34 @RoverFantasy @FootyonNine @CalTwomey Then the players pull a Jason Horne-Francis, demand a trade after a year and the struggling club is back to square one

.@CalTwomey exclusively reveals the AFL is considering a 'radical change' to this year's draft that would see clubs who have a top 5 pick that's moved down due to a bid, be granted an EXTRA selection at the end of the first round. #9FootyClassified | Watch on 9 & 9Now 🖥️

@MurrayWatt What good is it when you give a tax cut but then lift taxes in other areas

Under Labor every taxpayer will get a tax cut.

@Blue_New_Black @AFL @CalTwomey Protected in the sense you need to have the selection to use it.

@Donv34 @AFL @CalTwomey How can you trade for pick #1 if it is "protected" as you say?

Clubs would be given an extra draft pick at the end of the first round if their top-five selection is pushed back by an early bid under a proposal being considered by the AFL. @CalTwomey has the details: afl.com.au/news/1484166

@Blue_New_Black @AFL @CalTwomey If you want him trade up to get

@Donv34 @AFL @CalTwomey So Cody Walker would be only available at pick #6?

@Blue_New_Black @AFL @CalTwomey It would still exist just not in top 5 picks

@Donv34 @AFL @CalTwomey Terrible idea. The father son rule is special rule that is only in the AFL. This should be protected for the history of our game. The muddy part of the water is NGA and Academy players.

@WillcocksSimon @FootyonNine @CalTwomey Yep too bad so sad

@Donv34 @FootyonNine @CalTwomey So after all the work Port did to turn Dougie Cochrane into an AFL machine they just have to sit there as Essendon come in a sweep him up?

@Mediocratiz @FootyonNine @CalTwomey Why not just scrap free agency on that basis ?

@Donv34 @FootyonNine @CalTwomey No, why would teams invest in NGAs if they can't access the talent they develop out of it?

@WineGlassTatt @AFL @CalTwomey Exactly. It’s just smoke and mirrors from the league

@AFL @CalTwomey how does that help? Access to the best still denied, but you get end of first round talent?

@bpw07 @FootyonNine @CalTwomey The draft system is a circus. Way more complicated than it needs to be but intentional so that they can skew the draft to support the expansion clubs.

@Donv34 @FootyonNine @CalTwomey This makes way too much sense, the AFL will never go for it

@RoverFantasy @FootyonNine @CalTwomey The best players need to go to to the worst teams to speed up their rebound

@Donv34 @FootyonNine @CalTwomey There needs to be some consideration of the unintended consequences of a proposal, which the AFL have so far shown incapable of doing themselves.

@tigerdm71 @FootyonNine @CalTwomey Clubs have to trade into top 5 picks

@Donv34 @FootyonNine @CalTwomey Or - picks 1-5 the matching club has to actually pay a massive premium!

@RoverFantasy @FootyonNine @CalTwomey Let’s not talk hypotheticals. My proposal is superior to what has been floated.

@Donv34 @FootyonNine @CalTwomey Clubs may then just manipulate the draft by getting kids to play shit in order to drop their draft ranking, then the worse clubs are even worse off

@1116sen @WhateleySEN Multiple things can be true at the same time. Saints can be whinging about a lot. GC are a nepobaby. Lions are just sooking hard they will lose players when clubs dangle a big carrot in front of them.

“‘The moaners’ would be a better name than the Saints” Tony Cochrane takes aim at St Kilda and Ross Lyon over their “moaning” about Chris Fagan’s comments. @WhateleySEN | #AFL

@7NewsMelbourne @tyra_stowers Interesting. People are scrambling to get an EV before the ships stop coming to the country with them.

Electric vehicle sales are surging with demand fuelled by record high petrol prices, inflation and interest rates. Motorists are scrambling to cut costs sending new and second-hand EV sales skyrocketing. @tyra_stowers

@akuberka @chinafutureclub Reducing excise wouldn’t stop the price from surging. The reason the price dropped during Covid was demand fell completely off a cliff and it got so bad the oil price went into the negatives.

@Donv34 @chinafutureclub an over inflated NDIS ! highest interest rates of any developed country . 0.59 $ per liter fuel excise that could be reduced like it was during covid .

I’m worried about Australia. Cost of living is out of control. The spending power of one dollar has rapidly declined. Real estate prices are a generational disaster.. Now petrol prices are exploding and nothing is being done to fix any of it.

@mrMDofficial @Black_Panthress @7NewsAdelaide @HanniHowe People aren’t panic buying. They are buying before prices surge even further which is a completely rational instinct. Money isn’t infinite to regular consumers. They can’t just print it like the government can.

Mate, government will ration fuel to prioritize food supply if it really got that bad, the only problem we have is the same people who panic bought toilet paper when covid hit and nobody could get toilet paper are doing the exact same thing with fuel. Blowing through inventory for no reason, creating demand shortages that exceed supply shortages.

Adelaide's fuel situation is getting worse - on top of the price shock, a dozen metro service stations have now run out of unleaded. The RAA is reminding motorists not to panic buy and let the distribution system catch up. @HanniHowe

@Terri_1987a I stopped and thought about it and still think the duopoly stinks

People who say they'll be voting One Nation at the next Victorian state election need to really stop and think. If you're protesting against the LNP all you're doing is handing Bendigo Barbie Jacinta Allan and Labor another 4 years in government. Stop and think what you're doing.