We've put more police and PSOs in shopping centres since December. The data shows it's working:
• More than 1,000 arrests
• 193 drug seizures
• 164 weapons seized
• 416 cautions issued
• 329 fines issued
• 13,203 vehicles checked
An extraordinary - and blatant - foreign influence campaign to interfere with New Zealand politics using social media as a vector - this account with over 122,000 followers (describing himself as being based in England), began a sustained attack less than an hour after I published a post calling out the nonsense being stirred up about our FTA with India.
@ryu_tay@theAZtrader Don't see the issue. If you looked after your future, saved and invested you won't get a pension from the government. After paying a lifetime of tax, the least they can do is give you some tax concessions.
“Of course, people should pay tax when they make money, but the disincentive to build cracking businesses as opposed to taking low-risk options must be acknowledged. Older investors whose portfolios are skewed towards low-growth, yield-producing assets may find their tax bill actually shrinks under a new regime.” 👈 This is exactly the problem!!!
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I don’t believe the Diggers who fought and died for Australia need to be “Welcomed to Country.”
These men gave everything for this nation on foreign battlefields. There’s a time and a place for Welcome to Country ceremonies but honouring our fallen servicemen isn’t one of them.
The child r*pist & murderer that stole the life of a 5 year old Aboriginal girl in Northern Territory has been arrested & taken to hospital after mob found him & beat him.
Hundreds of the local mob have surrounded the hospital demanding they bring him out so they can get their own justice.
Personally, I think they should let the community deal with him.
Our justice system is useless, he will say he has mental health issues & they will just release him again.
Bring back the Death penalty for ANYONE that intentionally harms a child 😡
@timetravelStu@emilyjuniper_ 100 years worth of anzac days says otherwise - only in the last 2 years has there been a WTC, anzacs didn't fight to be lectured about how creating the civilised and economically powerful country it is today isn't their land.
@myrobertpaulson@emilyjuniper_ It’s just an acknowledgment mate. You also said it was recently invested which is a lie.
If you have trouble accepting our countries culture maybe you should live somewhere else?
Indigenous Australians compared to the rest of the country
Assault: 650% higher
Domestic/Family Abuse 3,100% higher
Murder 600% higher
Child Abuse 700% higher
Sexual Assault: 180% higher
Drug Abuse 40% higher
Alcohol Abuse 20% higher
Rape 570% higher
Can we talk about this?
Pauline Hanson is shown pushing Port Arthur conspiracy nonsense. Hanson has also defended hiring a convicted rapist.
And Jess Wilson’s Liberals are preferencing her party. What does that say about Jess Wilson?
@therealrukshan Oooh look, someone that knows absolutely nothing about what "welcome to country" means, is happy to show his ignorance to the world. Dickhead just has to dickhead I guess.
You cannot "Welcome to Country" men and women who have already paid the ultimate sacrifice, as if they are foreigners in the very land they defended.
You cannot claim diversity is our strength while paying lip service to a performative ritual whose very words exclude everyone else as outsiders to that country.
You cannot claim indigenous history is to be revered while promoting the erasure of Australian history by denying its rightful recognition.
Australia is a land of many unnecessary contradictions. The longer this continues and society remains fractured, the faster others, far removed from any care for either side, will take advantage for their own ends.
@BLUEfingers2021 Go ahead, there is no shame in it. Our ancestors didn't fight so that their grandchildren would become a minority in their own country and be welcomed to their own country.
any person or group encouraging other people to boo the Welcome to Country at tomorrow’s Anzac Day service should be named and shamed. they don’t deserve to be part of our beautiful nation and they sure as hell don’t represent what our Anzacs fought for.
@threedogsonekid@FinancialReview the greens aren't even the ones pushing for a gas export tax, even they're paid off.
it's happneing mate, over 90% of aussie want it, they know they're getting ripped off.
you can keep on drinking the cool aid.
@myrobertpaulson@FinancialReview Gas sector paid ~$22b in taxes and royalties 2024/25. Generates tens of billions in export income.
Don’t fall the Australia Institute and Greens misinformation.
West Australian Premier Roger Cook has cautioned that despite the "superficial appeal", a new tax on energy exporters would harm the state's long-term prosperity. ebx.sh/b7TaOf