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The Opposition leader is saying some words. #auspol

@AndrewMortime @mackaysuzie @Peter_Fitz I like the way Jim Chalmers professionally carried out his Ministerial duty presenting a well researched budget. Not grandstanding, just doing his job competently. Hope we get reasonable debate from the Opposition.

@Peter_Fitz I agree with Ross Gittins. It's painful to be nice about politicians, but Jim Chalmers has got this one right. We cannot have unfettered negative gearing distorting aggregate private investment in the way that it is.

Yes, mate. So strange that he has been the SMH's most popular and authoritative columnist on economics for half a century, and yet there you are, an anonymous troll, who knows more than he does. Just amazing, isn't it?

@AaronDodd Maybe a bit of responsibility will be the making of him! 🙃

Imagine having Barnaby as your mentor... #auspol

@pamelacurr @JonesHowDareYou @david_horton2 Imagine if governments 'hopped to' this fast for First Australians.

@JonesHowDareYou @david_horton2 Are First Australians receiving similar funding?

I see Australia's No. 1 supporter of genocide, the very very Zionist Executive Council of Australian Jewry, will receive $124 million in the latest federal budget—for extra security. There's more than $600 million in the budget for 0.4% of the Australian community. FMD. #auspol

@philmupp1 @25MMCC It's such a waste of our time. So sick of the slop fed to the people.

#abc730 The media led by the toxic Murdoch media will hound Jim Chalmers for the next week about broken promises. Hypocritical gits gave Tony Abbott a much smoother ride when he broke 12 promises in 2014. They are no doubt hoping we have short memories.

@cheryl_kernot @j4gypsy Yes. Australian political journalism is so slow and plodding because it chooses to pursue dead-end angles that don't really promote constructive debate. They also conflate opposition talking points with public interest.

Surely focussing so much on “broken promises” is a waste of interview time #abc730 Chalmers is so good at explaining the changes & joining the dots of wider policy such as the entire housing policy and whole budget.His responses to Ferguson’s questions/comments were substantial.

@dailytelegraph That's funny. Labor didn't run a candidate.

#OPINION - One Nation has shown it can win votes from Labor and it’s proved it’s a party of the working class that feels betrayed by the elites, writes Andrew Bolt ✍️ bit.ly/4uLk3nP

@7_jenkinson Tim Wilson wants to talk about the smaller number of young people who have high salaries or money from their parents to by an investment property. We want to talk about the people who are despairing because they can't buy a house to shelter themselves/their families.

Tiny Tim certainly hasn't changed his stripes, he went into 2019 scaring pensioners with a totally fabricated death tax now he's invented a tax on home deposits. #Budget2026

@elliemail Pretty hard to comprehend the depth of these abuses. So disturbing.

⚠️ #RadicalZionism RULES❗️ These acts are beyond abominable … imagine what a sicko one would be to think this up as something to do on Palestinian prisoners. 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine NOW 🇵🇸 🍉FtRttS 🍉

@SueBarrett @elliemail @rachelrwithers Wilson is only interested in being in government at any cost. The end justifies the means, no matter how dirty the tactics.

Tim Wilson will 'never, ever, ever' be treasurer. @rachelrwithers has nailed it. Wilson has one setting - protect the wealth of the few - and no crisis, no electoral catastrophe, and no amount of disaffection among ordinary Australians will shift it. As a Goldstein constituent who has watched him since 2016, I can add this: the performance is entirely consistent. Wilson is a master of the performative gesture - the provocative tweet, the theatrical press conference, the karaoke clown moment in parliament that generates a day's worth of headlines and zero legislation. He confuses noise with substance and attention with achievement. An undisclosed shareholding during a taxpayer-funded inquiry he chaired. A political brand built entirely on controversy rather than delivery. He lost the seat in 2022 to a community independent who delivered in one term what Wilson never managed in two. He won it back in 2025 on the thinnest of margins and the most expensive anonymous attack campaign in recent Australian electoral history. The constituents are still waiting. The flip-flopping on One Nation is not confusion. It is self-preservation in real time. Wilson has no core values beyond self-protection and self-enrichment - he bends with whatever wind he calculates will keep him relevant, funded, and in the room. He does not serve Goldstein. He has never served Goldstein. He serves himself - and the donors and ideological patrons who have bankrolled his career from the IPA to parliament and back again. The Farrer result and the One Nation surge are the direct consequence of decades of economic policy that Wilson has championed - and he still cannot see it. That is not strategic blindness. That is ideological capture. He will never, ever, ever be treasurer. And Goldstein is next. @crikey_news crikey.com.au/2026/05/12/tim… @auspolfiles @aaronsmith

@SkyNewsAust They were a locally (Albury) based news crew. Far from the city. I’m surprised Barnaby can’t make the distinction.

@SkyNewsAust cannot trust One Nation to standby anything they say

@SkyNewsAust Barnaby Joyce continues to undersell the knowledge, skills and resources in the regions.

@SkyNewsAust Barnaby was a Nationals MP for decades, and he can't acknowledge that the ABC represents regional areas in a way that no other media group does. The ABC is the only broadcaster in many regions as the commercials have deserted them. Also emergency broadcasting! #auspol

Barnaby Joyce has defended the decision to ban the ABC from a One Nation event in Farrer, saying the national broadcaster is an "inner city clique that doesn't represent Australia." skynews.com.au/australia-news…

@SkyNewsAust Australia's population lives in the cities. But ABC caters for regions too. They provide weather and local interests and stories, as well as life-saving emergency services during disasters line bushfires. Sky doesn't do any of that. Just RW propaganda that suits One Nation.

@SkyNewsAust Unlike @newscorpaus & @SkyNewsAust, SBS News & the ABC (Aust Broadcasting Corpn) are widely considered the most trusted news organisations in Australia As public broadcasters, they consistently outrank commercial media for impartiality & accuracy, particularly during crises

@DougCameron51 @deniseshrivell Today, we will hear all about financial pain for investors. Easing the plight of people who can't start an independent adult life because they can't find housing should be a priority. Investors buy up the cheaper housing that first home buyers should be able to purchase.

Labor must reverse the neo liberal model of turning public housing into ghettos of poverty and disadvantage. We could create a lasting Labor legacy by building a good society that cares for all and provides affordable, sustainable homes. Reject profit before people.

@FetchStep @anguswmackinnon No. It's valid to report in the news, but when it turns into a partisan pile on, it is not good faith public interest journalism.

@justwo7 @anguswmackinnon Do you believe she should be exempt from the Law ?

#LaborCrimeFamily exempt from law. PM: Well, there's no place for crime in Australia in any form . JOURNALIST: Anika Wells has had to repay $10,000 for breaches of the expense rules PM: Anika Wells has apologised. She has paid it back, the money has been paid, as was appropriate

@colonelhogans @CrankyFranky13 Grrrrrrrr!

One Nation were also blasting John Farnhams “Your the Voice” at their election HQ. No respect whatsoever for artists copyrighted music. The same song Hanson who condemned “Your the “Voice” during the campaign for The Voice. The same John Farnham who Hanson attacked for supporting the Voice.