Drew Wolfendale - Fusion Party President

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Look upon this one, anti-preferencers, and despair. This is the face of art. Behold it and crawl back into the holes from which you came.

@arbsmichael On this point you are absolutely right. They’re risking a future crisis for a small poll bump now.

Unpopular opinion: the 3-month fuel excise cut is the wrong move….for now. By all means, lower the excise (and the GST on fuel), but not yet. Australia already has dwindling fuel supply, and we know that high prices are (unfortunately) the best form of rationing. When fuel prices drop by 29 cents per. litre overnight (26.3 cents plus GST), service stations will be rushed, and fuel reserves will likely be drained faster than they can be replenished. The 3 month time limit will encourage stockpiling. Consumers might save a few dollars tomorrow, but at the cost of putting our long-term fuel security further at risk. This excise cut will increase the odds of a declared emergency and government imposed rationing which will inevitably pick both winners and losers. Reducing the cost of living is important, but the first action of government in a crisis should be to ensure our nation has the fuel supply we need to keep living. Once supply is shored up, it is fair to call for the federal government to permanently reduce or eliminate the excise and GST on fuel sales in Australia. But tax relief without spending restraint does not remove the cost, it simply defers it, adding to debt that future taxpayers must service. Relief at the bowser must be matched by spending discipline in Canberra.

Always voting Labor is an unusual thing for a Nats MP to do Fantastic, great move, well done Geoff

@Neoncaffeine @thechosenberg Some of us live in countries where 90%+ of people live in metro areas with very few abandoned buildings or accessible rooftops.

@DrewWolfSP @thechosenberg lowkey skill issue. there are free hobbies. if you're in a more rural area, nature walks. city / suburb, you can just climb rooftops or go to abandoned buildings. if you're cool there's lots of free stuff to do. paying for stuff on most outtings is a foreign concept to me.

Everyone’s lazier across the board and going out is effort

@simonahac I mean this new exemption is just going to hasten us towards an *actual* fuel shortage. It’s frankly insane. Doing this to boost poll numbers won’t help if we hit a crunch in a month.

congratulations punters! for 3 months you'll get 1/2 the discount on fuel excise that gina gets every day! (i support fuel excise exemptions for farmers & small-medium businesses, but any business claiming they *need* more than $50m in exemptions is having a lend of taxpayers.)

@cauliflwr_human @AlboMP It’s very upsetting

@AlboMP the prime minister is bowing to political pressure to make deranged policy decisions--that's ok, i'll still keep voting for that garbage

We're halving the fuel tax for three months to save you money when you fill up. Conflict overseas is pushing up prices at home. And we know Australians are feeling the pressure.

@QBCCIntegrity @AlboMP Reducing it at all is a great way to hasten the process of us getting into an actual real fuel shortage. It’s idiotic policy.

@AlboMP Halving? 3 months? Get your filthy fangs out of Aussies. Complete cut, until oil remains under $90/barrel for 3 consecutive months.

@jasonpizzino Sadly, very true

Australians only have ourselves to blame for the incompetent politicians we continually vote into power. Until we learn to study history, and become smarter, we'll continue to make the same mistakes with the next leader, and the next, and so on. No one is going to save us but ourselves. #fuelcrisis #18yearcycle

@TailedEagle @pauliec80859931 To refine yeah, but extraction from shale is a whole other ballgame.

@DrewWolfSP @pauliec80859931 Not sure why this is getting shilled hard, people forget that lighter oil is significantly easier to refine, much cheaper and more efficient to process compared to say, the black sludge in Venezuela. Light and sweet is the most valuable type of oil.

Today, I read that Australia has 17 billion barrels of recoverable oil. It would make us self sufficient in oil for 42 years & yet we refuse to produce it. We are totally fixated with net zero and have lost sight of the big picture. For the record, if we were serious about "net zero" nuclear would be on the table. Sadly, we're a resource rich, dumb country.

@aburtking @pauliec80859931 Its yields for diesel by weight are not great, even if they’re high quality, and it doesn’t yield the byproducts of heavier crude that actually make up a disproportionate chunk of oil profits. Ours is expensive to extract and would be mostly used by the cheapest consumer.

@DrewWolfSP @pauliec80859931 Nonsense, light and sweet is very desirable for making petrol and diesel.

@DaveMilbo They’ve never been able to settle on who they are. Are they a serious party? Or are they an environmental protest vote? Whenever they try and be both it ends badly for them, and they keep trying to be both.

Question: Why do you think the Australian Greens can't seem to bust out of the 10-14% range of the vote? Hostile media? Too beuigose? Their candidates? Their messaging? Their Their name? Is Australia just innately pro-war, pro-racism, pro-fossil fuels? The party seems stuck.

Day 316 of posting the obvious: Housing prices must come DOWN. #FusionParty #auspol #housing #taxreform #investmentpolicy #realestatelaw

@TonyHWindsor The main parties abandoned science and innovation in this country a long time ago.

Much being said about Urea (nitrogen) costs due to trumps war in Iran. The simple solution is to develop cereal plants that can produce a soil environment conducive to N production “similar” to legumes that produce their own Nitrogen.Recent work in the US indicates researchers are a bit closer to resolving this issue but much more needs to be done. Ive been whingeing about the slowness of Australian researchers to get serious for 25 years butAll the political parties including the Nationals have been controlled be the oil companies. The NFF have been useless as always but trot the politics out every time Urea hits the roof.

@notcherylkernot @Maggie_Perry6 @kevinbonham @benraue Even if Vern can rally a group of people together for an election, when the rubber hits the road, he’s incapable of being associated with people he doesn’t feel he 99% aligns with - so I suspect this will go the same way as everything else.

New political party dropped . NEXT. @Maggie_Perry6 @kevinbonham @benraue

@MrRexPatrick Sadly, Trump is the first western world leader I actually believe would be stupid enough to deploy a nuclear weapon.

"One diplomat recently involved in the peace talks says he fears that if Trump cannot see a way out" [of a war he started to ensure there would be no irresponsible use of nuclear weapons by Iran] "he will resort to a nuclear weapon." #auspol theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…

Day 315 of posting the obvious: Housing prices must come DOWN. #FusionParty #auspol #housing #taxreform #investmentpolicy #realestatelaw

@k_mahlburg One of those is very much still in doubt. Realistically only 3 are close to certain.

One Nation has won 4 lower house seats in SA and the ABC knows it but will only drop feed you that information next month.

Day 314 of posting the obvious: Housing prices must come DOWN. #FusionParty #auspol #housing #taxreform #investmentpolicy #realestatelaw