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@Onsway54 @james00000001 It’s a world price. They have gone up in the US too and they are close to petroleum independence.

@james00000001 Why the price increases?

Chris Bowen just announced that all 6 missing shipments of jet fuel have now been replaced. Petrol and diesel shipments have not been affected by the war in Iran. This PROVES that the Labor government has managed the fuel crisis properly. The shortages are due to HOARDING!

@CampbellNewman I thought you were a Premier of Queensland? You should understand that excise is a fixed amount per liter. There’s no windfall because the price has gone up. GST, which is proportional to the price, all goes to the states and territories. There is no windfall for the Feds.

What about the massive windfall you are making in fuel excise and the States with GST?

@FootyonNine Pretty straightforward solution, don’t require the stadium. Instead upgrade existing facilities and review the need for a new stadium in 2035.

"You're saying delay Tasmania having an AFL team?" With Tassie's stadium pushed to 2031, Eddie McGuire believes a 'serious discussion' is starting around the AFL about whether the Devils' entry needs to be delayed by two further years. #9FootyClassified | 9 & 9Now 🖥️

@TMFScottP Are you forgetting that John Howard built the Darwin to Alice Springs railway? This is despite every government since federation not doing it because no CBA showed it was a good idea. What about the Ord, the largest white elephant in Oz history built in the 60s? It’s always been.

Can you imagine this lot (and the last lot), in decades past? We'd still have a blacksmith industry, a cooperage industry, a buggy-whip industry, a stump-jump plough subsidy, we'd still be making clothes and cars and Rank Arena televisions. ...and low living standards to match!

@TMFScottP That’s always the case, even in the heady reform days of the 1980s and early 1990s. The big issue is will those with a media megaphone actually be responsible and help the government staring down the self interested and those wanting to make a puerile political point.

This is... dire. I'm a big proponent of Budget reform, but even I'm starting to wonder if the (short term) window has closed, given where the global and local economy might be by early May. Perhaps some of the reforms will need to be staggered.

@ellymelly Mine was $380 for summer in a house with 3 people living in it running air con a lot. Your problem is not the government, it’s your ability to sign up to a contract that benefits you. Fairly typical for cookers, make bad decisions and want the government to fix it for them.

My energy bill is $520! WHERE THE F- IS THE 'CHEAP GREEN ENERGY' CHRIS BOWEN? WHERE 😠 You lying bastards.

@Rizzabeast @OMGTheMess @Avalon_42 Complete BS, its expanded access to the EU market. Farmers are POd because they didn’t get unlimited access, but that was never going to be on the table.

@OMGTheMess @Avalon_42 Ask a beef or lamb exporter mate this has destroyed the market, capping how much can be exported. It literally kills our beef and lamb markets.

Getting a bad feeling about this agreement

@Greg_Cheesman Well put your money where your mouth is and mount a High Court challenge. Otherwise posting on socials is just meaningless performative BS designed to stir up the ignorant and the ideological.

🚨 CONSTITUTIONAL CONTEMPT 🛑 We have a massive problem in the heart of our democracy 🏛️, and it stinks of pure incompetence and betrayal! 🤮 Right now, Fatima Payman is sitting in our Senate 🇦🇺, drawing a taxpayer-funded salary 💰, while remaining a dual citizen of Afghanistan! 🇦🇫 Section 44 of the Australian Constitution is not some dusty old piece of paper you can ignore when it’s inconvenient—it is the supreme law of this land! ⚖️ It says loud and clear: if you hold allegiance to a foreign power, you are out. 🚫 You are disqualified! You are ineligible! 🙅‍♂️ I don’t want to hear the pathetic, whining excuses that she "tried" to renounce it. 🤥 "Trying" doesn't cut it when it comes to the sovereignty of Australia! 🛡️ You either cut the cord with a foreign regime or you stay out of our Federal Parliament. ✂️ It is black and white, yet here she is, making laws for Australians while still tethered to a foreign nation! 🔗 And look at the gutless Labor Party! 😱 They are sitting on their hands, doing absolutely nothing! 💤 Why? Because they are terrified! 📉 To act on this would be to admit they are a total circus 🤡 that failed to vet their own candidate. They would rather let the Constitution be trampled on than admit they were too lazy or too incompetent to check a passport! 🛂 Labor is protecting their own reputations while the sanctity of our Senate is being flushed down the toilet! 🚽 This isn't just a mistake; it’s a middle finger to every single Australian citizen who expects their leaders to be one hundred percent loyal to this flag and this flag only! 🇦🇺🫡 The law is the law! 📖 If you can't be bothered to follow the Constitution, get out of the chamber, get out of the Senate, and get out of the way of people who actually put Australia first! 👊 #Greg4Victoria 🗳️ #Victoria2026 📍 #OneNation 🦁 #AusPol 🗣️ #SpringStreet 🏛️

@JIMJIM1612 @ausstockchick And you don’t think people don’t know what they doing when they place center parties above fringe parties? Of course they do. Have more respect for the voters.

@croc1964 @ausstockchick Exactly — preferential voting isn’t random. Voters rank candidates in order of preference, and those flows decide who wins. People who only focus on first-choice votes often miss how their preferences shape results. Understanding the system matters.

Why are the majority still voting for Labor? It doesn’t make sense! #ausbiz #auspol

@JIMJIM1612 @ausstockchick The voters allocate their preferences, so they know exactly how the system works. Pity some of the idiots on here who are just looking for excuses as to why their side didn’t do as well as hoped didn’t at least try to understand the system.

@ausstockchick Most voters don’t realize how Australia’s preferential system works. Voting Greens or independents often ends up helping Labor through preferences. People think they’re voting for one party, but when lower-ranked candidates are eliminated, their votes can flow to Labor anyway.

@PeterOB24979769 Gina’s not doing it out of the goodness of her heart. Question is what does she want? Looking at her previous statements, I guess the $2 p/h immigrants to work in her mines and the tax free “economic” zones that just happen to coincide with the location of her mines.

A Labor memo has circulated. Bang on repeatedly about Pauline using Gina Rinehart's plane. Well you knobs, keep it up. Because I can assure you, no one cares. It's no cost to taxpayers, unlike every meal you Socialist bastards sit down to.

@Adzbruv @Peter_Fitz Meanwhile ON is telling the irrigators in Fadden that they are going to give them as much water as they can. So where is this extra water for the farmers in SA coming from? Magic?

Why. Which of their specific policies do you like, and why?

@tommysantos14 Except, the world will know that US institutions are so fundamentally broken that allowed him to behave the way he has unconstrained and the electorate is so short sighted that it elected him again, despite the atrocious 1st term and attempt to overturn the election result.

When Trump leaves office: The Department of War will go back to being the Defense Department. The Trump Kennedy Center will go back to being the Kennedy Center. The Gulf of America will once again be the Gulf of Mexico. The unfinished East Wing (it won't be finished by the end of Trump's term) will be rebuilt by the next president, and it will not be a ballroom. Federal agencies packed with unqualified loyalists will fire those people and rehire the career experts Trump fired. The Department of Justice will go back to enforcing the law instead of protecting the president. Scientific agencies like NOAA, the EPA, and the CDC will go back to publishing research without political interference. The U.S. will re-align with its allies and not with its enemies. The presidential pardon power will stop being used as a rewards program for loyalists. Inspectors General will go back to investigating corruption instead of getting fired for it. The White House press room will go back to having briefings, with real journalists and not podcasters. U.S. foreign policy will stop revolving around flattering dictators. And the world will progress as though Donald Trump never existed.

@peters_malcolm If farmers would stop screwing each other over like they always do, this time by some hoarding, then that would help. Look where the shortages are, the cause is obvious. The reserves have effectively been moved to big farmers on farm storage.

Australia has never been more vulnerable to an energy crisis-abc This is a fuck up of monumental proportion. If Gov can keep fuel up they have failed big time. There needs to be an urgent meeting of cabinet to implement an urgent strategy to fix not only today but future supply

@SkyNewsAust US is self sufficient in fuel and their pump price is going up. It’s an internationally traded commodity, changes in world price largely drive change in domestic price. Doesn’t matter what production capacity Oz has, the price is up because of the war.

The Albanese government is under pressure to consider expanding domestic oil refining capacity as Australians stare down $3 a litre for fuel. skynews.com.au/australia-news…

@GreenTyler27 So you have a 70L tank which means you’re driving a large, less efficient vehicle. Do you really think the Govt should be managing all your risk, or should you wear some blame here from your choices? BTW fuel price is a world price. If you want to blame, look elsewhere.

$168.88 to fill the tank. This is Australia under labor 🇦🇺

@TMFScottP Works fine in the ACT and it’s been in place for a long time. Really depends on the way legislation is structured including penalties and remedies for lying. Same system is in place for 2nd hand cars over a minimum value in many states, which is a more problematic market.

If you understand incentives, you know why this is a *terrible* idea.

@TMFScottP Your focus is easy and happens anyway. If you want more, you have to resource it. My focus is a lot harder because of vested interests. EG we still haven’t reformed pharmacists arrangements despite it being on the books for 35 years. Howard govt stopped reform.

@croc1964 Both?

Jim Chalmers has a chance to really strike a blow at the upcoming Federal Budget. I was recently asked by a follower what changes I'd make. I don't have a perfect answer, but my draft list is below, and I'd love your thoughts in general, so I can improve it. Here goes: 1/n

@TMFScottP Your “red tape” reduction is focus on the wrong. The Coalition did and it achieved SWFA for a very high cost inAPS resources. Focus should be regulation that impacts competition. We have lists from the PC and other sources. Let’s just get on with that, it’s higher yield

And have a serious, non-ideological program of red tape and waste reduction, including removal of duplication and meaningful improvement in IT systems and processes. So, that's it. What have I missed (ideology aside)? 6/6

@TsarNicFanatic @AUSNIAN But Sydney tell us they’re an “international city”. London, Paris Berlin, Washington Beijing, Tokyo don’t make that claim all the time, so the only conclusion I can come to is I order to be a national capital, you can’t be an “international city.”

@AUSNIAN Nuke Canberra, Sydney should be capital

I was looking for images of modern Canberra, that werent just of the landmarks that everyone's seen before, and this is the first one I found.