Rob D

The 5 million Angus Taylor thinks don’t vote and the millions in their households who do. Angus Taylor thinks he’s punishing non-citizens. They can’t vote, so it’s a free hit. That’s the entire logic. But it’s a logic only someone who has never lived in the big cities would consider. In the suburbs that decide elections, the household, not the individual, is the political unit. Three generations under one roof or in the same suburb. Grandparents on partner visas. Parents holding PR while the citizenship queue grinds on. Citizen kids enrolled to vote, working part-time, doing the family’s Services Australia paperwork at the kitchen table. Strip the NDIS from a permanent resident and you have not touched a single voter directly. You have touched their daughter. Their son. Their citizen niece. And they vote, very deliberately, for the people in their family who cannot. This is exactly the structural shape of post-war migrant Australia. Greek, Italian, Maltese, Lebanese, Vietnamese households where the citizen children voted for the whole family. It is alive and well, three generations on, in the outer suburbs the Coalition needs to win government. Taylor has told every one of those households that in his Australia, their parents are second-class. He thinks he’s chasing Hanson voters in Farrer. He’s actually handing Labor a permanent structural lock on the seats that decide who governs. And he has possibly committed his party to losing opposition status at the next election. Full piece and analysis below

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“However, some of the biggest winners in the state appear to be in the mining sector, who are celebrating Chalmers’ decision to make no changes to tax settings for resources projects.” Nine journalist really thinks **not** being taxed out of existence makes you one of the budget’s “biggest winners”.

Strategy to win 2028 federal election: • cut immigration from 500k/yr to <100k/yr The end.

This is good. $2b for 65,000 homes = $31k a home. That is a bigger bang for the buck than other Commonwealth policies. And it's on message.

Federal National Party. Stuck in the past, not doing their research. Every government policy that helps people buy or afford something (not invest, not speculate) overwhelmingly benefits lower-income earners. The Electric Vehicle FBT exemption is exactly that policy. Don’t take my word for it. We surveyed Australians and the data is unambiguous. Scrap the FBT and the people hit hardest are blue-collar workers, culturally diverse households, and the precariat, the very people Matt Canavan claims to speak for. The idea that this is a tax break for the rich is class-blind. If you’re wealthy, you buy the EV anyway. You don’t need a novated lease for the maths to work. The FBT exemption is the rung on the ladder for everyone else, the tradie, the nurse, the warehouse worker, who would otherwise stay locked into petrol prices they can’t avoid. Canavan’s pitch is that working Australians need fuel excise relief. What working Australians actually need is the policy lever that makes a cheaper-to-run car affordable in the first place. Yanking it out to fund a few months of cheaper diesel isn’t economic populism. It’s like most of the Coalition’s policy at the moment. Poorly researched and firmly at home in 2010. Link to details below.