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@Daniel_Sugarman @Mr_Andrew_Fox Hard disagree. One can sympathise with the (unwitting) participants in the Children’s Crusade.

These stupid, stupid arseholes. It's like a 21st century re-enactment of the Children's Crusade.

@john_macgowan @DavidShoebridge Shoebridge: “For my next witness I call - Macgowan’s phone”.

@DavidShoebridge Did you ask him about my phone

I asked the outgoing NACC Commissioner three times why he resigned. Three times the answer was "I refer you to my statement." The man tasked with holding others to account couldn't give a straight answer about his own conduct AGAIN.

@SincDavidson I know what you mean, but it’s actually worse than that. Parliament is not simply “independent. It’s “sovereign”. Which means when it cannot decide on something (like the level of immigration), that itself is a decision. Which won’t be fixed, as you say, with a subordinate body.

We already have an 'independent body' to make decisions and 'run things'. It's called the 'Parliament'.

@taipan168 @mikesalter74 I took this in central Athens in 2019

@taipan168 @mikesalter74 Athens uniquely combines incredible interpersonal hospitality and friendliness and obnoxious rhetorical displays of utter contempt and hostility

Tell us what you really think!

@ajphelo To be honest I am glad they have hired people who actually understand markets even if McKinsey’s incentives are all wrong - which they are. Blundering into oil markets with only Treasury to advise them would be .. ummm … a mistake.

Can someone remind me why we have government? Consultants net $1m to model fuel reserves theaustralian.com.au/nation/albanes…

The Hantavirus outbreak is coming to it's natural end No one who wasn't on the boat got infected It was a bad and unusual event and 3 people sadly died but never had potential for global impact The Ebola outbreak is a far more worrying crisis

@lukeburgis Sold. Wanting was life changing for me and a book I have literally forced upon people since I read it

My upcoming book, "The One and the Ninety-Nine", is AI-proof because no AI knows what it's like to confront a sudden Alzheimer's diagnosis which makes you question everything you thought you knew about identity. I felt convicted that I must write it from the heart—to tell part of my personal and family story—from the most human place possible. You can support my work by pre-ordering it today. I'm confident that you will find both humanity and hope in it: amazon.com/One-Ninety-Nin…

@austdef Iron law - any entity that does not explicitly state itself to have intent that is not “Left” will become left over time.

Worth noting some Australian history here. In the late 1960s and early 1970s similar trends emerged. Economic and social policy splits in the Liberal Party produced the "Liberal Movement", which eventialy combined with the nascent (centrist) "Australia" and "Unite Australia" parties to form the centrist "Australian Democrats". Under Senators Don Chipp and John Siddons, the Australian Democrats were centrist and had strong defence and economic credentials (Chipp had been Minister for the Navy 1967-68 and had RAAF service in WW2, and Siddons was an industrialist). The early Australian Democrats were respected, even by their opponents, for their defence and economic policy credibility. Over time, the Australian Democrats tended to lose a distinctively centrist focus on such issues and suffered electorally accordingly. The current, professedly centrist, "Teals" look to be generally following a similar evolutionary path regarding defence and economic-policy issues. The major contextual difference to the 1960s-1980s period is the corresponding and continuing loss of electoral support by the mainstream parties (Labor, Liberals, Nationals). (The Australian Greens have always been an amalgam of Left, hard-Left (and, especially in NSW, far-Left and extreme-Left) factions, not a truly centrist party. This remains evident in their defence and economic-policy stances).

@taipan168 Significantly less scaffolding than in recent years so you were fortunate!

Have wanted to come here for ages so it was great to have finally seen it! 🇬🇷 I've now seen three of the ancient monuments that were on my list of yet to see (the others being the Taj Mahal and Machu Picchu).

I recommend watching this video right up to the end. Note that after the ‘more fairer’ tax changes the giraffe has less money balls and the zebra has the same money balls. The net effect of the ‘more fairer’ tax changes is the government has more money balls. I believe this is entirely accurate. The government wants more money balls. The government wants it all.

@TANJ_User @redsteeze Chapman gets the jitters, shoots Yoko instead. She survives, but just. Lennon does four more years of AOR dross then comes back in 1987 with the best rock album of the 1980s. I miss that album almost everyday.

@redsteeze Waylon Jennings doesn't give up his seat to The Big Bopper and dies in the crash. The Big Bopper records/releases the Twist; Chubby Checker becomes a minor footnote. Without the catchy theme song, The Dukes of Hazzard is canceled after 1 season. The Highwaymen never happen.

Biggest music "what if" opinion. I'll go - Ian Curtis doesn't die and every song is still what New Order did. He's just the vocalist instead of Bernard for all of New Order's songs and it's still Joy Division. I've already been monetized, calm down, this is pure weekend curiosity slop.

@tax_oz @ALeighMP What on Earth does Leigh think a union negotiated “Fair Work” sectoral wage agreement is if not “wage fixing”?

@ALeighMP A fairer market via collective bargaining? So it’s ok when the unions collude? Those great creators of wealth, takers of risk and builders of economies 🤣

When employers collude, workers pay. That’s why we’re banning wage-fixing and backing a fairer labour market. My New Daily oped: thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026/0… #auspol

@brent_rc @cjoye Different type though: animosity from productive to unproductive, contempt the other way already

@cjoye Divide is true, but the animosity will go both ways.

So true

@_leanshadow @cjoye The animosity will go from the productive to the unproductive because the contempt already flows the other way.

@cjoye I think we'll see an increasing divide between two classes, the Productive and the Unproductive. Although animosity will only flow in one direction.

But they have never worked a day in the private sector; never started a business; built a new product or service; hired a single soul from their hip pocket; or struggled for years, always at risk of going under… What we are seeing is the lid being lifted on those who have always lived completely taxpayer-funded lives trying to take and tax as much as possible to feather the public sector nest. They have never known what it is like to draw a private wage and/or profit. They think it is a zero sum game: any private income, profit or capital gain needs to be redistributed back to government and its dependents. It is the only way they know how to make money: by taxing private citizens and corporations to fund the public oligarchy and its way of life…

@taipan168 Temple of Hephaestus! Wow the Agora looks more lush than last time I saw it

One of the things I love about cities like Athens, Rome, Paris and Istanbul is that you've got a well-preserved temple that is 2500 years old less than 100m from the metro line!

@Heminator @instapundit My operating assumption has always been that the West Wing actually a first class conservative parody of liberalism.

Once more with feeling: The West Wing is to politics was pornography is to sex—a complete fantasy that leads to unrealistic expectations and real world disappointment.

@redsteeze 1. Nirvana, Phoenician Club Sydney (capacity 750) 1991 2. My Bloody Valentine, Sydney 1991 3. Sonic Youth, Sydney 1994 4. Beastie Boys, same 5. Lana del Rey, NY 2011 6. The Police, LA 2014 7. Pixies, DC 2005 8. U2, Melbourne 1994 9. The XX, DC 2010 10. The Bangles, Annapolis 2012

I'm only doing this because it's Jon. Dumb: 1. Radiohead - The infamous show opening for Soul Asylum in Denver where they had their all of their instruments stolen in a van. 2. Pavement (First time staged dived to Cut your hair) 3. Belly (Tanya Donelly ran her fingers through my hair. Gave me an autograph during the opening band.) 4. Liz Phair (Sat on the stage behind her when she invited a bunch of people up to sit in her living room stage set) 5. Björk (My first ever live concert was U2 Zoo TV tour. I had no real idea who they were but I won the tickets off the radio. The sugar cubes opened for them on that tour. No idea who she or U2 was. Fun story my ninth grade teacher offered to chaperone me to the concert because her ex had tickets. I turned her down. Achtung Baby is my favorite album all time) 6. Oasis at a max capacity of 500 people mini theater on their opening US tour. Had not heard a single song of theirs. 7. Pulp at Radio City Music Hall in NYC. Enough said. 8. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Kings Theatre Brooklyn in 2017. Their first in a few years. 9. St. Vincent (pic attached) doing a vocal only piano performance of her electro guitar album at the Brooklyn Academy of music. 10. Sigur Ros outside at the BRIC Brooklyn Celebrates outside music performances. Chuck Schumer came out to introduce them and was booed.

@DaveSharma @JasonGFalinski LaSpender is learning the cost of being a Menshevik

Just a reminder that Allegra Spender called for: ❌ Abolishing the existing CGT discount ❌ Imposing a minimum tax on ALL investment income, regardless of marginal rate. ❌ Abolishing negative gearing. Labor’s Budget has done all this. Now she is denying ownership.😅😅

@MichaelKarlis Well. We got to the “send Jews to camps” part of the story a lot sooner than I thought we would.