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@7NewsAustralia Don’t forget to install heaps of fire extinguishers

The federal government is exploring plans to build Australia’s first new oil refinery since the 1960s, in a move that could cost up to $10 billion as concerns mount over the nation’s fuel security. The Prime Minister is currently in talks with energy companies to gauge their interest in the massive infrastructure project, amid ongoing disruptions to global trade and escalating tensions in the Middle East. Australia currently has just two oil refineries remaining after eight facilities closed in the early 2000s. One refinery operates in Brisbane, while the other is located in Geelong. #oil #oilrefinery #petrol #fuel #australia

@AlboMP Yay more free!

And the best part is - no receipts needed.

@cb_doge It’s all worth it if we achieve our Net Zero goal. 😂

NEWS: Australia’s birth rate hits another record low 🚨 Fertility falls to ~1.48 in 2025 — **2nd straight record low since 1924** • Projected to drop further to ~1.42 • Far below the 2.1 replacement level Australia is now nowhere near replacement level. This is exactly the decline @elonmusk has been warning about for years.

@elonmusk Keenly waiting for its release in Australia 🇦🇺

Cybertruck is so awesome. Until you’ve tried it out, you have no idea, because there’s nothing like it. Best product Tesla has ever made to date.

@AlboMP Can u reduce fuel excise? It’s making business very hard.

Our new laws to crack down on petrol price gouging have just passed Parliament. We're doubling penalties for companies doing the wrong thing. Because there's no excuse for increasing profits at the expense of Australians.

@RupertLowe10 Petter Dutton - conservative PM candidate tried that too here in Oz. It only damaged his campaign….

Farage blaming ‘work from home' for Britain’s troubles is just so lazy, whilst attacking the idea of youngsters seeking a work-life balance. It is predictable and it is boring. For young men and women in modern Britain, finding their way in life is incredibly difficult. No use people of my age telling them that if they stopped buying cappuccinos, they’d all be able to afford a home within a few years. It’s just not true. Wages are stagnant. House prices are high. Interest is excruciating, on mortgages and student loans. Everything costs SO much. Rent bleeds them dry, how on earth are they supposed to save 20k for a deposit, if not far more? What, to buy the leasehold on a dingy flat? They don’t even own it, then get done by service charges and whatever else. Raising a family in Britain is brutally difficult. Childcare is extortionate, so yes - working from home does make that more possible. Good. If British men and women want to have more children, we should be making that as easy as possible. A lawful relationship between an employee and a private employer is none of our businesses. If they decide working from home is workable, then good for them. If not, that’s fine too. From my experience in business, happy workers are good workers. They care. They want the business to succeed. That benefits everyone. A healthy work-life balance is essential. Absolutely essential. Anyone who has run a successful business will tell you that. Politicians of my age are so far away from what young men and women are dealing with. Of course there are many who take the piss, and we should brutally crack down on them. But the good majority of British men and women want to work hard, contribute to society and build a prosperous life for their family. If they do that from their desk at home, or one in the office, I really don’t care.

@TheNorfolkLion I do this in Oz…… but I’m from England lol 🤔

I always do this… Is this just a British thing? ✊🏻🇬🇧

Net Zero is economic suicide. It must go.

@KonstantinKisin Very well put.

@VladTheInflator Was it climate change? :p

Its been clean for 5,000 years, but suddenly there's trash all over the mountains? Gee, wonder what changed....

@DrewPavlou @PeteZogoulas How to support mate?

UPDATE: A far-left lawyer with a ''Diploma in Islamic Finance'' just hit both @PeteZogoulas and I with simultaneous cease and desist notices for reporting on an NDIS business in West Sydney with a $250,000 super car parked out front. We have hours of footage, I think we're potentially sitting on the Australian version of @nickshirleyy's fraud investigation. We really want to show that these abuses are happening all across the West. But we really need help to protect ourselves legally. NDIS fraudsters are incinerating up to $10 billion a year in tax payer money. But Australia's almost non-existent free speech protections mean we already face lawsuits before publication. We really need support from patriots like @elonmusk

@JessicaDAmir Standard, I always half expect this to happen when using Uber.

My pre-booked Uber never arrived. No one picked me up at 4:30 am as agreed. No replacement ride was arranged. No regular cabs or taxis available. I’m now 38 minutes late for work. Australia needs change. Bring on Tesla’s Cybercab. Australia needs robo-taxis!

@PaulineHansonOz Merry Christmas!

One more sleep!!!! I've been given the best present this Christmas - a surprise visit from my daughter and grandkids from Tassie (NOT AT THE TAXPAYERS EXPENSE). Thank you for everyone's tremendous support this year. I'll take a few days off to spend with the family and swim a few laps in the pool over these typically hot summer days before hitting the road again on January 2 across Tasmania. Be safe on the roads these holidays and I'll see many of you on the long list of stops we have planned in the New Year across the country. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

@AmboRudd Can u plug that nuclear sub into the grid, so we can get some cheaper electricity please?

Ready to rock and roll. For the first time a US nuclear-powered sub has undergone a maintenance period down under without a US support ship. Aussie and US teams knocked over more than 160 tasks together - a real boost for our shared capability. We’re full steam ahead on our AUKUS partnership.

@AlanJLSmith I get the point, took a long time to get there tho lol

Suppose that once a week, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to £100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay £1. The sixth would pay £3. The seventh would pay £7. The eighth would pay £12. The ninth would pay £18. And the tenth man (the richest) would pay £59.　 So, that’s what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every week and seemed quite happy with the arrangement until, one day, the owner caused them a little problem. “Since you are all such good customers,” he said, “I’m going to reduce the cost of your weekly beer by £20.” Drinks for the ten men would now cost just £80. The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes. So the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free but what about the other six men? The paying customers? How could they divide the £20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share? They realized that £20 divided by six is £3.33, but if they subtracted that from everybody’s share then not only would the first four men still be drinking for free but the fifth and sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer.　 So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fairer to reduce each man’s bill by a higher percentage. They decided to follow the principle of the tax system they had been using and he proceeded to work out the amounts he suggested that each should now pay. And so, the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (a 100% saving). The sixth man now paid £2 instead of £3 (a 33% saving). The seventh man now paid £5 instead of £7 (a 28% saving). The eighth man now paid £9 instead of £12 (a 25% saving). The ninth man now paid £14 instead of £18 (a 22% saving). And the tenth man now paid £49 instead of £59 (a 16% saving).　 Each of the last six was better off than before with the first four continuing to drink for free.　 But, once outside the bar, the men began to compare their savings. “I only got £1 out of the £20 saving,” declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, “but he got £10!“　 “Yeah, that’s right,” exclaimed the fifth man. “I only saved a £1 too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more benefit than me!”　 “That’s true!” shouted the seventh man. “Why should he get £10 back, when I only got £2? The wealthy get all the breaks!”　 “Wait a minute,” yelled the first four men in unison, “we didn’t get anything at all. This new tax system exploits the poor!” The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.　 The next week the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had their beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important – they didn’t have enough money between all of them to pay for even half of the bill!　 And that’s how it works. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy and they just might not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas, where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.　 For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

@stokdog 100%

Australia sells coal to China who use it to generate reliable cheap electricity. Australia takes the money from coal sales and buys Chinese wind turbines and solar panels that aren't reliable and makes expensive electricity. I don't think Australia has thought this through 🤔

@JasonClareMP Yay free handouts!!

It’s happening!! Today 100,000 young Australians will have their student debt cut by 20 percent.  This week one and a half million more Australians will have their student debt cut.  The week after that another one and a half million Australians will have their student debt cut.  We promised it. Australia voted for it. And we are delivering it.

@RositaDaz48 Replacing coal dust with asbestos dust. And paying a premium for the privilege.

The discovery of asbestos in turbines at a Chinese-built wind farm in Tasmania has sparked a national regulatory response amid fears a large number of turbines across the country will be affected. The hazardous material was recently found in brake pads used in wind turbine tower lifts at the Cattle Hill wind farm in central Tasmania but regulators say the problem will be more widespread. Chinese wind turbine manufacturer and wind farm developer, Goldwind, a major supplier of turbines in Australia, is working with regulators to determine the scale of the problem. It supplies turbines to a number of wind farms and has projects across NSW, Victoria and Queensland, including White Rock, Gullen Range and Biala in NSW; Clarke Creek in Queensland; and Moorabool and Stockyard Hill in Victoria. WorkSafe Victoria and SafeWork NSW confirmed on Friday that asbestos had been found in a number of wind farm sites and that investigations were under way in a co-ordinated response by state regulators. The brake pads are part of the internal mechanism of the turbines and there is no suggestion of community exposure or environmental contamination. The level of risk to workers and contractors is unclear. It follows the discovery of asbestos in coloured sand products imported from China which this week shut down schools and childcare centres in the ACT, Queensland and South Australia. A spokesman for WorkSafe Victoria said the wind turbine brake pads were imported into Australia and supplied for use in wind turbine lifts across a number of jurisdictions.

@Raindropsmedia1 Uber has become unreliable.

Uber drivers are allegedly hiding from customers to get them to cancel rides in order to still get paid and save on gas.😳 🚙

@JasonClareMP Yay, free stuff!

Phones will start beeping and dinging in a few weeks’ time. 📱📱 📱 It’ll be the sound of $16 billion coming off the shoulders of young Australians. We promised to cut student debt by 20% and it’s about to happen.