Dave Rowell

@_Tumbawumba @theheraldsun @Philssay Says anonymous “expert” on X.

@theheraldsun @Philssay It’s not difficult getting Australia fuel self-sufficient. Lots of good ideas out there. It’s just the willingness to do so that’s the problem here. Everyone is just dragging their feet because of net-zero. Dump it and let’s go!

Fuel self-sufficiency is within Australia’s grasp by ending bans on drilling, turning coal into oil, financing diesel refineries and storing crude in caves, according to a new plan from an influential think tank > bit.ly/4sGUrYA

@JohnnyDavidVO @JEChalmers How?

@JEChalmers Encouraging credit debt. Careful folks, if it's Labor, it isn't in your best interests.

BREAKING: Australians will no longer pay $1.6bn in card surcharges from October 1. People shouldn’t be punished for using a credit or debit card. That's why the Reserve Bank will today take steps to end credit and debit card surcharging from October 1. This change will make a meaningful difference with Australians no longer paying $1.6 bn a year in surcharges, and small businesses will save $910m.

@HonTonyAbbott Tony who?

Australia might still be the world's best place to live but we're letting ourselves down big time. Four weeks into the Iran war: 10% of our servos wholly or partially out of fuel. 30% of farmers worried they lack the diesel to sow or harvest their crops. Flights being cancelled. No Australian-flagged fleet of tankers that could be tasked with a fuel rescue mission; with no naval ships capable of helping to break any Iranian blockade; and with no Australian air power yet despatched to the Middle East to help the US-Israel campaign against an apocalyptic theocracy, even though the Straits will never be secure while it lasts. Successive governments convinced themselves that an 'unstoppable green energy transition' meant access to fossil fuels was neither necessary nor desirable. That was always a fantasy, and now we're paying the price. Fossil fuels are still responsible for 90% of our energy needs. The Bondi massacre was a wake up call on social cohesion. The Iran war is a wake up call on national resilience. Dealing with both means recovering the self-belief needed for Australia to stay Australian. Time to face facts on energy. Read my latest at The Tony Abbott Newsletter: tonyabbott.au/p/fuel-insecur…

@Rizzabeast @sharron_one What message would it send to 400,000 people who aren't politicians, and mostly don't even work for the government?

@Hadronyche9 @sharron_one It would send a message.

This is a comment made by Ross Transport - a family owned transport business - on Facebook this morning. The governments are the enemies of this nation. facebook.com/share/p/1RpYMV…

@Rizzabeast @sharron_one how would it have any impact given that the vast majority of politicians don't live in Canberra?

@sharron_one Is it time to stop all trucks in and out of Canberra?

@DeanMcCrae1 I got about half way through this before I gave up.

Australia a bit like myself has a superpower and that superpower is energy. My energy has been a little drained batteries low trying to shore up and protect my families future as Australia heads into what I consider a recession/ depression by design. The wankers will come out with some technicalities on what defines a recession but these will be the same retards who can’t define a woman. We are watching a final push to destroy the middle and working classes. Farmers Truckers keep your heads up stay strong it will get worse I am certain but we can help each other, as truckers and farmers put prices up to combat government failings, and more and more get closer to shotguns in mouths status and some political wanker uses the argument that that’s why guns should be banned as opposed to why are we being pushed to these brinks , the government blames us, spends more and inflation keeps climbing so the interest rates go up squeezing mortgage holders in particular those ambitious Aussies who have mortgages up towards a million odd dollars that’s a lot of fucking debt to carry on a house that in all reality costs 50% less than it was built for once the taxes and bullshit that caused the high cost of the build are factored in. What happens when that massive class hits is Bruno and collapses under the weight well I’ll tell you they go broke banks repossess or they are forced to sell at pennies on the dollar and who had money to buy those homes that are on paper worth a million dollars? Almost no one so pricks like blackrock buy them at a discount and guess what because they are so benevolent they will rent them back to you for the same rent as you were paying in mortgage because you and your family still need shelter. You will own nothing and be happy/ Car sales EV car sales have spiked this month not people desperately in love with EVs but people desperately trying to afford to live so so what will happen the talking heads and Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen MP and the rest of the retard brigade are going to spruik the success and demand. For EVs under their amazing leadership while the country collapses fiddling as Rome burns. These fuckers should ALL be on trial for treason

@Ross_W26 @craigkellyAFEE @KarenPiefke How?1

@craigkellyAFEE @KarenPiefke The GG will play a big part in that too, protecting Labor from dissenting voices.

I SMELL A RAT The exact details and wording of this so-called “Trade Agreement” remain conveniently hidden from public view. I’ll bet London-to-a brick on that buried deep in the fine print — deliberately concealed from the Australian people — lies some treacherous poison pill: A binding commitment that locks Australia into the destructive Paris Climate Accord. That means we will face harsh penalties and international sanctions if we refuse to obediently destroy our economy in pursuit of their suicidal Net Zero fantasy - I’ll bet that’s what Albanese & Ursula agreed in today. You cannot trust Ursula von der Leyen for a single second. She is a ruthless globalist who aggressively pushed the unsafe and ineffective Covid injections, a dangerous anti-free speech zealot hell-bent on silencing dissent, and the most extreme Climate Alarmist of them all. And Albanese has a long, shameful track record of selling out Australia at every turn. This entire deal smells of betrayal. I fear it will prove to be an unmitigated disaster for our nation — one that inflicts lasting damage on Australian workers, families, and our sovereignty for generations to come. The fine print needs to be scrutinised with most suspicious intent. But sadly, if you voted for a Labor MP, Green or Teal MP they won’t even read it and will support it like a trained seal. It should be very Parliamentarians duty to scrutinise the fine print - but there are only about half a dozen MPs and Senators in the entire Parliament that you’d trust to do that.

@blowingtom2 @KW9090909 Third!

@KW9090909 Fuck off idiot. We run a very respected democracy. It gives the cookers and morons like you the freedom to post shit like this. It also gives me the right to call you an uneducated fuckwit. The country is doing well.

When the fuck are we taking our country back?

@MFWitches Half are happy about it and the other half don’t care.

How in the shit-kicking fuck do we live on a planet where Americans in their tens or hundreds of millions aren’t in the fucking streets right now protesting the end of the fucking world as they know it? #NewsCorpse

@AofahKoff Because renewable energy has somehow become aligned with right/left politics wierd and sad.

Why is it, that all through Europe there are wind turbines right across the landscape. All of the people I have spoken to about them, don't have an issue with them and say they hardly notice them. So why is there so much contempt for them, here in Australia.

@georgieAM 80% didn’t vote ON or even have them as their second preference.

This wasn’t a landslide… it was a shift. The media will tell you it’s a Labor wave. But the reality is nearly 60% of South Australians didn’t vote Labor. What we’re actually seeing is something new: real opposition rising. One Nation potentially securing 2–3 lower house seats + 3 upper house seats in a Labor state… That’s historic. And it was done on a $100K campaign. Now imagine what happens next. More funding. More structure. More people stepping forward. This isn’t overnight. This is a movement. And what happens in SA… is about to ripple across the country. Victoria is next. Huge thank you to everyone who supported Turning Point, used our how-to-vote cards, and backed the content we reached millions. This is just the beginning.

@MFWitches @JaneCaro @Microinteracti1 @aimhighflygirl Well put.

This is a great essay. Beautiful writing. But your one mistake in it is believing the rest of the world is only just now starting to be alarmed and disgusted by America, and is only just now starting to, as you say, grieve. Because that’s not true at all. We in the rest of the world have watched on for many years as the bullies in America bombed and coerced sovereign countries which didn’t deserve it, for oil and power and blood lust and because you had the most guns and bombs and because you could. Trump is just the symptom of that hubris, exceptionalism, and underserved power gone extra-extra mad in recent years, but the actual fact of the hubris, exceptionalism and underserved power has been there for decades. So the very fact that you don’t seem to be aware that the rest of the world has known a lot of what you’re saying for many years is concerning, as it proves not much has changed and that you still believe there’s been much for a long time in America for the rest of the world to admire or grive. You have to give that up, you know. You have to give up the idea that America was widely admired and loved to be able to accept the full weight of the depraved lot of bullies and over-entitled brats most (not all) Americans still are. This might be an inappropriate thing to say on the thread you just wrote, but your idea the rest of the world is only just starting to grieve America can’t go past without comment or push-back. America has been broken and hated by many other countries for decades, but your leaders managed to paper it over by pretending it wasn’t happening for a long while. All Trump has done is openly expose the cruelty and complete moral collapse. He didn’t start it, he just held up a mirror. Americans will need to look very hard into that mirror if there’s any chance of becoming the country you think you once were.

Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@Neety55 No

Omg just heard half of voting people in Australia rely on the government for handouts? Is this real????? FUCK

@ppie_w @nuclearforaus You're right, plants need CO2. We also need a bit of cyanide in our bodies. But dosage is relevant. Take a teaspoon of cyanide then come back and tell us about how "more is always better".

@nuclearforaus Don't care about emissions. CO2 is plant food. More coal, forget about nuclear.

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@TheIPA the festering hatred comes from IPA.

“The result has been a country where hatred festers, division hardens, and our own sense of who we are fades.” Instead of policing speech, governments should confront the real issue: decades of policies that have weakened social cohesion and shared national identity. 📰 Margaret Chambers in The Spectator believes Australians deserve leaders who defend free speech and national unity, not silence dissent: bit.ly/4lxxaVW

@CalltoActivism I get so sick of these "what do you notice" posts. If you have noticed something, tell us what it is. This one, like most, appears to show nothing particularly remarkable.

Cameras just caught Trump sitting on Marine One. What do you notice? 👀

@HonTonyAbbott Tony who?

Under AUKUS, Australian sailors are embedded on US submarines to learn how to crew nuclear-powered subs. So when the USS Charlotte torpedoed an Iranian frigate, you'd expect our personnel to be at their stations. Instead, our government ordered them to their bunks. Our people were little more than submarine tourists. This government suffers from a kind of practical pacifism, where the only circumstances our armed forces might conceivably be permitted to fire a shot in anger is at an enemy actually bombing Darwin. At some point, the US president who's supposed to give Australia up to five Virginia class nuclear powered submarines is going to ask why he should divert firepower to a country that won't use it. Could a country that benches personnel already embarked on a US sub ever be trusted to be at America's side when it really counts? Read my latest at The Tony Abbott Newsletter: tonyabbott.au/p/submarine-to…

@TheIPA how strange that the representatives of the mining lobby should be attacking EV's.

“If you're one of the 98% of Australians that doesn't own an electric vehicle, Labor doesn't give a stuff about you.” With petrol prices climbing past $2 a litre, many Australians feel the government is out of touch with the everyday cost of driving and living. 📺 Daniel Wild and Peta Credlin discuss: bit.ly/3PkvvHn

@AntiElonSMD @RizviAbul @RestoreAussies Why? He’s right.

@RizviAbul @RestoreAussies Stick to migration you fucking retard.

We are run by infantile socialists, who know nothing, except how to navigate and leech off an ever growing bureaucracy. The industrial, geopolitical and financial illiteracy of our rulers is beyond comprehension. For over two decades they have been warmed about over-globalisation and the risks of over-dependence on imports, and dangerous levels of de-industrialisation. Their incompetence is genuinely dangerous, especially when our entire nation runs on diesel and petrochemicals. Agriculture, transport, energy - all are being put at a dangerous level of risk. When you spend your entire life at university and within the Canberra bubble, you learn very little about how the real world works. Australia needs a restoration 🇦🇺 Re-industrialisation and an abandonment of Net Zero.

@MichelleMaxwell Wow! He knows how to polish shoes! What a brilliant man! He should get a Nobel Polishing Prize!

Love this❤️ Some of the most valuable lessons we learn in life come from our parents. This was shared by Garvit on FB. 🚨TODAY I don't understand why Trump, despite being a billionaire, still behaves like this. What if I told you that the billionaire President of the United States does something every single morning that he refuses to let ANYONE help him with - something his father taught him over 60 years ago that he’s NEVER stopped doing, and the reason why is going to teach you what real character looks like. Every single morning for the past 60+ YEARS, Donald Trump personally shines his own shoes. Not his staff. Not hotel services. Not shoe shiners. TRUMP himself. With his own hands. His own polish. His own time. White House staff offered countless times: “Mr. President, we can shine your shoes for you.” Trump’s response every time: “NO. My father taught me when I was a boy: A man shines his own shoes. It builds CHARACTER. It reminds you that no matter how successful you become, you’re not above basic discipline.” Think about this: Trump has been shining his own shoes since he was a CHILD in the 1950s. Through building his empire. Through becoming a billionaire. Through becoming PRESIDENT. Still. Every. Morning. Shining his own shoes. Staff members have witnessed this routine: Trump wakes up, and before important meetings, before presidential briefings, before running the country - he sits down with shoe polish and brush and shines his own dress shoes. “My father said: ‘The day you’re too important to shine your own shoes is the day you’ve lost your character.’ I never forgot that.” For over SIX DECADES, Trump has honored his father’s teaching. 60+ years of daily discipline that nobody photographs, nobody praises, nobody even knows about. Just a son keeping a promise to his father: “I’ll never be too big to do this myself.” Here’s what this proves: True character isn’t built in big moments - it’s built in small, daily disciplines you maintain for DECADES even when nobody’s watching. 😭👞🇺🇸 Drop 👞 if Trump’s 60-year discipline inspires you. Comment: What did YOUR father/mother teach you that you still do? Share so people see: character = daily habits. Follow if father’s lessons = lifetime commitments. Trump’s polish = 60-y