@tim_blee There are a lot of economists that say this is a great budget, but Australian news media do not want to know them. News in Australia at present is confined to Anus & Poorleen, not the real news as it's to hard!
Hardly a conga line of ALP Supporters but what do Chris Richardson, Ken Henry, Amy Auster Saul Eslake and Nicki Hutley have in common? Much to the chagrin of the maniacal Murdoch and Stokes goons, they all SUPPORT the Budget Tax changes. Seen this covered in any of the shit rags?
@Lee_AnneWalker@markgkenny Isn't it great to get a very rare honest,articulate and unbiased journalist on the Insiders Show, this is a current affairs show that has deteriorated badly since Barry Cassidy left.
An Open Letter to Tim Wilson MP
@TimWilsonMP
Sunday 24 May 2026 – 11:44 AEDT
Re: National Press Club Address 20/5/26
Dear Mr Wilson,
On 20 May 2026, during your address to the National Press Club, you referred to a young entrepreneur named Sienna Jovcevski and her business, Tweeny Skin.
According to the official transcript and video of your speech, you stated:
“At the age of 12, Sienna set up Tweeny Skin in her bedroom.”
“Built after school, packed orders on weekends … reinvested basically every dollar back into the business.”
“Yet while Sienna finishes her HSC, she has learned she has a shareholder who wants to take half the reward of her effort.”
You later referred to this “half” as a potential 47% tax outcome when questioned by ABC journalist David Speers.
Mr Speers specifically asked you:
“The government says existing exemptions for small business would remain. So how exactly would Sienna lose half her profit?”
You responded:
“Well it depends on when Sienna chooses to opt out of her business and sell it and for what price…”
You later added:
“It could, depending on the exit strategy and price, ultimately face up to 47%.”
Mr Speers then asked:
“But is it possible she could pay no capital gains tax as well?”
To which you replied:
“We’re dealing with hypotheticals… It depends on when she decides to exit, it depends on what she sells for, it depends on what stage of life she’s at based on the current application of the law.”
Given the seriousness and specificity of the claims made in a nationally broadcast address, and the potential for those claims to alarm small business owners and young entrepreneurs, it is reasonable for Australians to seek clarification as to the factual basis of the example you presented.
Accordingly, could you please clarify the following:
1/. Prior to referencing Sienna Jovcevski and Tweeny Skin in your speech, did you make any enquiries regarding the legal ownership structure of the business?
2/. Did you seek to determine whether the business operates as:
→ a sole trader,
→ a company,
→ a discretionary trust,
→ or another legal structure?
3/. Did you seek to determine whether the business is legally owned, operated, or controlled by Sienna Jovcevski personally, or by other individuals, entities, or family structures associated with the business?
4/. Did you make any enquiries as to whether existing small business CGT concessions may apply to that business in the event of a future sale?
5/. Did you obtain or review any information regarding the approximate turnover, profitability, or scale of the business before presenting it as a national example of the impact of proposed CGT changes?
6/. Did you receive any professional taxation or legal advice supporting the proposition that the business would realistically face an effective 47% tax outcome under the circumstances you described?
7/. Given your acknowledgment that the example was hypothetical and dependent upon numerous unknown future variables, do you accept that your original framing may have conveyed a misleading level of certainty to viewers?
8/. Have you since sought clarification regarding whether your example accurately reflected the operation of Australia’s current small business #CGT concession framework?
These are reasonable questions arising from statements made by a Federal Member of Parliament during a nationally televised address on taxation policy.
Australians are entitled to expect that examples used in public policy debates, particularly those involving taxation and small business, are properly verified, accurately framed, and presented with appropriate factual context.
We look forward to your clarification.
Sincerely,
The Noisy Trunk
On behalf of many Australians
Dr Andrew Charlton exposing One Nation
“Every single time they face a choice between battlers and billionaires, they choose the billionaires”🔥
I agree, the ‘battler’ jig is up. Time to call them the Gina Rinehart Party. #auspol
With Tony Abbott coming in as Federal Liberal Party President, presumably he'll be stepping down as an "independent director" on the Fox Corp board, lest the parent company of Fox News be perceived to be politically biased: theaustralian.com.au/business/margi…
I’m sorry to say this, but everyone who intends voting for One Nation is a bloody idiot
She doesn’t have one policy that will help
Her policies are spurious, divisive, corrosive ineffective
All they do is feed her insatiable appetite for power & money
@angelar68197975 And we'll never get the best for all, when we have a 3 ring circus in parliament, now in the Lower & Upper Houses. Reminds me of a song, "Send in the clowns". As if the ragtag remains of the Libs & Nats were not enough!
A group of Australian citizens were kidnapped on international waters and beaten senseless on camera by their captors - Israel
The most prominent Israel advocate in Australia - Jillian Segal - has so far said nothing about the welfare of her fellow Australian citizens nor condemned this atrocious abuse of human rights and brutality by her home state of Israel
Jillian Segal is an employee of the Australian people charged with promoting "social cohesion" and her silence on this blatant Israeli abuse of her fellow Australians is a disgrace to these abused citizens and to the Australian taxpayers who fund her
"I think you need to take a Valium, take a Bex and have a lie down," Mr Petre told ABC News.
A much-needed reality check for the ultra-wealthy crying about having to pay their fair share. Thank you Mr Petre. #auspol
Dave showed his true colours attacking the Andrew's Government during Covid restrictions.
Now he's at it again,a
very biased take on NDIS and tobacco tax.
How long before we see him supporting Poorline.
@AmeliaBee7 Really, that's some State secret the Herald has uncovered, I'll bet that had to have had a bevy of their top reporters on the job to scoop this one. It seems that the BS & lies happening with right wing pollies isn't enough to keep them happy
‘Former Premier who hasn’t been in politics now for some time plays golf’ is the idiotic trash we’ve come to expect from this Murdoch rag
The desperation to stir up “covid era” outrage in a state that re-elected him overwhelmingly DURING the “covid era” is particularly pathetic
David Speers, what you offer on a Sunday morning is simply the individual opinions of 4 persons & a interviewed guest. When we bag your show because of it's Liberal bias, it's the opinions of thousands. The ABC needs to rid itself of you & others!