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@griffonboi Underbool

Guess where I live

@Abouterf197543 @marksandspencer @SexMattersOrg You don't have to change in front of a man. You change in a separate cubicle to everyone else, so you are not changing in front of anyone.

Colchester @marksandspencer I asked where the women’s changing room was to try on swimwear. Manager Andrew (he/ his /him) says gender neutral changing areas are “completely safe” for women and girls. For asking him this question, he told me to leave the store. @SexMattersOrg

@7NewsMelbourne @jacstanley7 Large farming population in Bendigo? Tell me you've never been to Bendigo...it's an urban area and a city.

The premier is being accused of buying votes to shore-up support ahead of November’s state election. Jacinta Allan announced the second of two leading events coming to her hometown of Bendigo. @jacstanley7

@satvikrsharma Why would Labor lose votes to the Greens after they did a left wing thing that the Greens have been calling for for a while?

The more interesting thing to be honest is the Greens vote going up. Eventually Labor will have to reckon with PHON, move to the right on immigration (like in the UK) pissing off the left wing base which will move to the Greens. We are mirroring the UK rn.

@MatttDavey @ALeighMP His seat is in Canberra. Hell will freeze over before One Nation wins an electorate in Canberra.

@ALeighMP Running from the giant orange One Nation wave that is going to take his job and ensure he’s never allowed to affect our lives ever again.

UTA100: 100km, 4000m of elevation, a few thousand stairs, and fabulous volunteers. Huge thanks to everyone who made it such a terrific event. Finished in 15hrs. #auspolrunners

@kirkfletcher @NoelWhittaker Nobody who has a capital gain of less than 30% realistically has the capacity to invest in assets anyway.

@adamrayon @NoelWhittaker There was no 30% minimum pre-99. It was taxed at normal marginal rate.

Got a heap of emails in response to my columns in the Sydney and Melbourne papers today - I was amazed that many people thought the new top CGT rate would be 30% maximum - It's actually 30% minimum!!!

@econoadabsurdam I'd rather support disabled people

If we cut the NDIS to zero we could reduce every income tax bracket over 45k to 30% (approximately) which would you rather have

@bandtistbraden Labor underperforming in most cases is the broad left side of politics underperforming and normally occurs when the LNP and One Nation do well, but we're a democracy and a free country, you're allowed to cheer on the LNP and One Nation.

@adamrayon Laborites are so entitled that they’ll demand members of other parties mourn when Labor underperforms. Like that’s your job to fix!

If these swings were replicated at the statewide level, the Queensland Greens would GAIN Amy MacMahon’s old seat of South Brisbane. The party would come within 1% of victory in Greenslopes, 2% in McConnel and 3% in Cooper.

@haydenbeamish Yet Australia has much better provision of services. Funny that.

Australia’s new tax changes are a joke. $250k income + $50k capital gain = $106k in tax here. Same earnings in USA = $51k tax. I made an app to show you where all your tax goes.

@haydenbeamish Terrible ideas. A progressive tax system is much, much fairer. People who can afford to pay more tax should. People on lower incomes cannot afford 30% tax.

The budget fix isn’t hard. An idea: 1. 30% flat tax. No income creep. 2. GST to 13%. 3. Scrap the nuisance taxes. 4. 2% mineral levy. 5. Job seeker $500/fortnight. Encourage work. 6. NDIS $35k each. Cut the rorts. Voila. Surplus. albonomics.com

@the_transit_guy London is grey and rainy but not cold and snowy. A mild rainy, temperate city is fine. Places like Chicago, Minneapolis etc are much worse.

My guess is Chicago or London? One might even say Edinburgh?

What city or metropolitan area in the world is most hampered by its weather and climate? In other words, what city would be exponentially better if it had the weather of Southern California?

@heidimur One Nation gain

Vic Parliament to lose one of its most entertaining characters.

@Lisa9Sophia @AngusTaylorMP Fuck up cunt

Well done @AngusTaylorMP it’s time to FIGHT LIKE HELL. Well done particularly on giving people hope That was an excellent Budget Reply. I really liked: - Capping immigration, and deporting 70,000 overstayers - A fairer go for young Australians - Keeping Coal-fired power plants, increasing onshore fuel capacity and building new refineries (yay!) - Raising Defence Spending to 3% of GDP (long overdue!) - The FUTURE GENERATIONS FUND to fight debt - Lifting the Nuclear Ban!!! - AXING Labor’s TOXIC TAXES. Making sure taxes paid by hardworking Australians go towards Australians - Indexing taxation. Labor’s reckless spending has seen interest rates go up 15 times so this would be amazing - “Mass migration is changing Australia for the worse. Labor bringing 2 million too many too quickly”. Linking it to housing is critical - AXING HANDOUTS for NON CITIZENS. About time! - Lifting the Instant Asset write off to $50K - “Future Made in Australia in truth is a future made abroad, $18 billion is in the Budget net zero spending. Net Zero under the Coalition WILL GO” Thank goodness I really like this too - Labor puts Australians second and the Coalition will put Australians first Onwards

@NoelWhittaker Won't you be deceased soon?

The word in the street is it may be possible to reduce the impact of the punitive 30% tax on discretionary trusts by moving to a fixed trust. My tax experts tell me it was rather vague in the budget papers, and everybody's waiting for the next announcement from the government. Watch this space

@ellensandell Labor has wanted to do it since 2016...

If Labor cuts negative gearing & capital gains discount tonight, we should thank Adam Bandt, Max Chandler-Mather & all Greens MPs (incl. Leader Larissa Waters). Without their incredibly campaigning, housing & tax breaks for investors wouldn’t even be on the political agenda 1/2

@yuanlintech Around 50% of the seat (Albury) is not rural.

I changed some of my assumption of preference flows from micro-parties, and based on the lastest figures I now estimated that 64.9% of preferences from the Liberals and Nationals flowed to One Nation over IND Milthorpe. Still a pretty weak flow for a rural seat.

@mattjcan Probably for the same reason the Coalition didn't run in Batman in 2018.

The Labor hacks tonight seem so interested in Farrer that it does beg the question ... Why didn't Labor run there? 🤔

@TimWilsonMP Sure but if you are centre right One Nation will call you Labor lite and if you go to the right Labor will call you One Nation lite.

I have no interest in being Labor-lite, Greens-lite, Teal-lite or One Nation-lite. I will be fighting for a majority Liberal government with a bold and confident BIG Liberal agenda.