Ivan Ballin 💊 🇦🇺 Seeking God? Jeremiah 29:13

Brent oil just ripped back to $112. And right on cue petrol in South Australia is now pushing $2.85/L. This is how it works: Global price goes up… Australian Government leaves the tax on… You wear the cost increase. Let’s be clear here; - Over 50 cents per litre is fuel excise - Then they charge GST on top of the tax - And they wonder why families are struggling In my electorate of Mawson, this hits harder than elsewhere, we have; - Longer drives - No alternatives - Tradies, families, farmers, small businesses all rely on fuel This isn’t optional spending. This is basic survival. One Nation would: - Cut the fuel excise - Restore local fuel security - Lower the cost of living immediately Because fuel isn’t just fuel, it feeds into the cost of everything. Groceries, access to services and getting to work. This election comes down to one question, do you want politicians who just talk about the problem… Or someone who will actually work to reduce your costs? $2.85 fuel is a policy failure and not just bad luck. Vote accordingly this weekend 🇦🇺

It’s unpleasant to see mainstream frame the issue in this way. Instead of turning young Australians against older Australians, we should be asking harder questions about the policies that inflated our asset prices and eroded purchasing power in the first place. It wasn’t the “boomers” who designed tax incentives, monetary expansion, or deficit spending. It was governments and the central banks. When currency is expanded faster than productivity grows, purchasing power falls. Asset holders benefit. Wage earners fall behind. That’s not a generational war, that’s a conscious policy choice. Young and old Australians have more in common than the childish headlines like this suggest. Most retirees aren’t living large at all, they’re also struggling with higher energy bills, food prices, insurance premiums and growing healthcare costs. The real debate shouldn’t be age versus age. It should be: - How do we restore purchasing power? - How do we align immigration, housing supply and infrastructure? - How do we stop inflating asset prices through structural incentives? - How do we grow productivity instead of just paper GDP growth? Divide and distract is politically convenient for the duopoly. Structural reform is much harder. Don’t fall for these cheap political tricks.

As an electrician by trade and someone who sells solar panels and batteries, I want you to understand that I am not anti renewable technology. But I also understand how electrons flow down a piece of copper and how power generation systems actually work. The South Australian government keeps bragging about our “renewable penetration”, yet we consistently pay some of the highest electricity prices per kW in the country. That tells you and I that something is fundamentally broken in how the system has been designed and installed. We’re generating excess energy precisely when we don’t need it and then paying emergency prices when we do. We’ve removed our firm generation capacity well before building adequate replacements and now households are quietly funding system security, volatility risk and duplicated infrastructure through their power bills and retailer contracts. I don’t care what powers our grid, what I do care about is that families can afford to live well, businesses can invest and the lights stay on reliably. Engineering needs to come before ideology because lived reality should matter more than Mr Malinauskas’ press releases.