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How the fuck do we live in a country where many young Aussies have crushing HECS debts and others can’t find a bulk-billing doctor and yet Japan is buying Australian gas for ZERO DOLLARS and selling it for EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS in profit every fucking year? #NewsCorpse

The Shell Australia Country Chair just told the Senate committee that 6 or 7 gas companies have contributed $1 million each to fund a huge campaign against a gas export tax 🤯 and smaller companies have also contributed. Gas companies are spending millions to ensure Australians aren't paid a fair share for the export of our gas. Go to ourgas.com.au to help fight back against their propaganda.

@JaneCaro They voted for a man that gave them permission to be objectively terrible racist, sexist, ableist assholes without being held to account. They sold their vote, their kids’ future and their democracy to feel ok about being terrible humans.

A couple of things: in a remote regional community above award is offered because without that incentive you do not get the staff. Generally seasonal jobs also come with free accomodation. An unskilled cleaner/housekeeping role here will get you upwards of $40p/h As far as skills visas go, in my industry a chef must be paid a set minimum, which is also above award. I think you’re talking about things you really don’t have any experience with or understanding of the realities. It also costs an employer a shit load of fees to hire those workers, and in many cases it’s more expensive than hiring locals. If there were queues of locals wanting these jobs we’d be hiring them, because they have a lower net cost.

Fuck off Pauline. I work in a remote QLD town. Half our workforce for the tourist season are here on visas. We wouldn’t be able to have a season without them, because in a town of 800 people there isn’t an existing seasonal workforce to draw from. You either know this and are just being divisive for political gain, or worse, you don’t know this yet you’re sitting in the senate making decisions that affect us all. By the way, what global event caused this problem? Care to talk about that?

Libertarian Cooker Economics by some boof called "Ben Robson" In his wildly fictitious take on Capital Gains tax (below) this cooker 'economist' manages to crash a stationary car into an invisible midget. We take the bullshit apart here and delight some with a quick clip featuring a busty latex clad newsreader. On a serious note, read how these cookers bullshit > Here: The short version: x.com/TheNoisyTrunk/… More detail: x.com/TheNoisyTrunk/… Libertarians, what are they good for.

Here she goes again — kicking our most vulnerable to maintain the grievance and rage that appeals to her base. She’s back to Aboriginal people this week. … Let’s fact-check the “$30 billion Aboriginal industry racket” claim, because it’s one of the most persistently dishonest figures in Australian political debate. Of that $30 billion, 81% is mainstream expenditure — hospitals, schooling, welfare — available to all Australians. The Productivity Commission confirmed only $5.6 billion is Indigenous-specific funding. Not $30 billion. $5.6 billion. And that $5.6 billion in targeted funding exists for exactly the same reason the government funds free bowel cancer screening for Australians over 45, free breast cancer screening for women over 50, and prostate cancer campaigns for men. Because when a specific group dies at catastrophically higher rates from preventable causes, you direct resources accordingly. That is not a racket. That is what taxes are for. It is the entire basis of preventive health policy in this country. We don’t argue about those campaigns. Nobody calls BreastScreen a racket. Nobody demands prostate cancer funding be scrapped on the grounds that women don’t get it. Apparently we only argue about it when it’s the colour of the prostate being examined. Or the colour of the breasts being screened. The data on why Indigenous health funding exists is not subtle. 68% of deaths among Indigenous Australians are preventable. That is 2.3 times the rate of preventable deaths among non-Indigenous Australians. Indigenous Australians die from rheumatic heart disease at 20 times the rate of other Australians. In the Northern Territory, over 50 times. Indigenous children aged 5 to 15 are 55 times more likely to die from it than other Australian children. This is a disease effectively eliminated in the rest of Australia decades ago. It still kills children here. It is entirely preventable. So here is the only question that matters: why are we having a public argument about the money being spent to prevent children dying, instead of the fact that children are dying? There is only one answer. It is the colour of the children. And even with that targeted spend, the funding still falls short of what need-based modelling requires. NACCHO and Equity Economics put the current annual health funding shortfall at $4.4 billion. The argument that this is too much money is being made while the actual problem is that it is not enough — and has never been enough. Here is the deeper problem with calling it “Aboriginal money.” That label makes the spending visible and politically vulnerable in a way that mainstream funding never is. It gives politicians licence to frame an entire cultural identity as fraudulent — not a program, not a contractor, not a bureaucracy, but the people themselves. And it gives successive governments the cover to keep underfunding, because cutting “Aboriginal money” is easier to justify politically than cutting hospitals. The racket framing does not follow the money. It follows the people.

@RegisBuckland @RennickGBR And he had Covid prior. People do have heart and other health issues after having had Covid.

@RennickGBR Any cardiologist will tell you Warne was a prime candidate for a heart attack. Poor diet, no exercise, drank a lot, took a cocktail of drugs all his life. Look at the listed drugs found in his room where he died! Only fools think it’s the vaccine.

“Shane Warne’s son Jackson believes that “forced” Covid vaccines killed his father at the age of 52. Warne died of the Thai island of Koh Samui in 2022 of a heart attack with a post-mortem confirming that the cricket legend had died of natural causes. However, speaking on the 2 Worlds Collidepodcast Jackson, 26, said he believes that Covid vaccinations had a part to play his father’s death. “I definitely think it was involved and I don’t even think saying that is controversial anymore,” Jackson said. “Even if Dad had underlying health issues, I think this brought it straight to the surface, and that’s one thing I’ve always struggled with, because my first impression (was to) instantly blame the government.” ••••••••••••• The government is to blame. They knew about it because I told them the vaccines were killing people and they ignored me. The only to hold these politicians too account for Covid is to vote the major parties out of government. Sign up to Peoplefirstparty.au today if you want to help put the politicians responsible for Covid vaccine injuries and deaths behind bars.

Chris Bowen reminds the media it was Labor in 2023 who put the law in place for fuel reserves to be kept Australia after “4 refineries closed” under the Coalition. “It hadn’t happened until then” “If I was the Liberal Party, I’d stay pretty quiet about these matters.”🔥 #auspol

@AlanWil63289568 @Lyallstyle75 @strangerous10 They prefer to pretend the current government has done nothing and it’s irrelevant that the previous actually did absolutely nothing. Still dooming it’s not their useless team.

@Lyallstyle75 @strangerous10 If you knew anything you'd stay out of this. If you knew that Labor proposed an increase in our fuel reserves at the end of last year, and the LNP voted against because they believed doing so was inflationary, you'd realise the Tories were to blame them, now and always.

Albanese fires back on Sunrise after Barr repeats Barnaby Joyce’s ‘Greenies stopped drilling’ claim on the Great Aust Bight, reminds that Joyce was “Deputy PM twice” & “nothing happened.” - & the 4 refineries that closed were all under LNP, while reserves were sent “to Texas” 💥

Australians attacking the AFP Comm as a DEI have no idea what she has achieved. Let the Bali Bombings investigation. Worked in the Solomon Is peace keeping force. Was AFP Asst Commissioner responsible for anti Terror unit. This is a person that has made policing her life!

Some figures reported by The Age today on Victoria. Some basic figures show economic growth is at 2.7 per cent for the December quarter 2025 (it was 1.7 per cent in 2014), unemployment at 4.7 per cent in December (6.8 per cent in October 2014), rapid population growth continues.

Wow! I forgot how many trolls there are on X. After tweeting about how many current politicians have qualifications relevant to their portfolios (in response to Pauline Hansons appalling political record)-what followed was a barrage of arguments that relevant expertise is somehow bad for the country —classic Trumpism and Hansonism. Revealing. And terrifying. Trump literally said he loves the uneducated — at a rally — and got cheered for it. That’s the playbook: manufacture resentment toward expertise so that incompetence becomes a virtue and accountability becomes elitism. The really dangerous part isn’t Hanson or Trump themselves — it’s that their supporters have been successfully convinced that being against knowledge and evidence is somehow authentic and brave. That questioning a politician’s relevant expertise is snobbery rather than basic accountability. You’d never apply the anti-expertise logic anywhere else. Nobody says “I don’t want a qualified surgeon, I want someone who just gets it.” Nobody says “I don’t care if my engineer has credentials, I care about his character.” As if Hanson’s character is to be admired. But somehow when it comes to the people managing the economy, health policy, and Indigenous affairs — suddenly expertise is suspicious. It’s not anti-elitism. It’s anti-accountability — and Hanson has made a 30-year career out of it without fixing a single thing she complains about.

@xevekiah “If it was traumatic, why can’t she remember clearly?” That should be grounds for a fucking purjury charge because it betrays basic medical fact. Why the fuck do courts allow this ascientific chicanery? Memory loss is a COMMON PATTERN IN TRAUMA SURVIVORS

The PM and Chris Bowen spoke to every news editor yesterday afternoon about the content of last night’s National address but the panic and hysteria occurred nevertheless. #MediaHysteria

When a leaked WhatsApp group message from the Liberal State council shows Jess WIlson is backed in the by the head of a church accused of conversion therapy and branch stacking, the fiction is over. Jess Wilson is not resisting the religious right. She's dependent on it.

@AshPolitik And that’s the issue. They’d worked themselves into an angry state trying to compare a pandemic to a war. Showing no understanding of the sacrifice involved in either. Australia. The whinging country

Those angry at nothingburger of calm and assurance would be angry if restrictions and rationing was implemented. Angry whinging people are just that.

@ampalsson @cmdibley The issue is that their government doesn’t stay in its lane. Their superiority has always been laughable. Australia might be a long way from Europe but we have more understanding of geography and world economics.

But .... according to the MAGAmericans, we have no right to comment because we are not American voters and therefore have to "stay in our lane" Screw'em and their belief that they are the top of the world. Screw'em and the American cowards who today travel to Europe but try to pretend they are Canadians to avoid some of the backlash Americans get in Europe and Australia Screw'em for thinking they are better than Europeans /Australians by virtue of nationality Screw'em for being the dumbest and most brainwashed nation on earth

Hey Americans on here chiding us in other countries for criticising Trump: he is our business. Petrol in Australia is in short supply & currently costs $2.48 p/l (that’s $9.37 p/gallon.) We didn’t bomb Iran. We are all suffering because of your stupid President.

Cookers spent all day on here trying to rile people up that Albo was going to announce “mandates” or “rationing” just to froth harder when he gave people a message of calm, kindness & consideration for our fellow Australians All the values the MAGA/No Nation loons don’t hold

“The Australia Institute has published our annual tally of subsidies, concessions and tax breaks to major fossil fuel users and producers . . . Our estimate is $16.3 billion in 2025-26,” writes Rod Campbell. Read the full piece on The Point: theaus.in/4rDmjvo