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#BREAKING It can be revealed that Minister for Veterans' Affairs Matt Keogh has claimed $361,782.63 in expenses in the first three months of 2026. This includes billing taxpayers more for a single luxury return trip for his wife than the original annual travel allowance he scrapped for the grieving parents of a war hero. Keogh axed the annual travel budget for Victoria Cross recipient, Cameron Bairds parents, who used the $2,600 budget to travel to Victoria Cross events in honour of their deceased son, who was killed in combat fighting for Australia on the battlefield of Afghanistan in 2013. The Baird family were left "staggered" when the cash was withdrawn suddenly by Veterans’ Affairs Minister Matt Keogh. Mr Keogh could not find room in the budget for Doug and Kaye's Baird’s expenditure, but he certainly found room for himself, spending more than $350,000 of taxpayer money on his own travel in the first three months of 2026. His salary is another $380,000 a year on top of what he's spending on entitlements. This is a national disgrace and Matt Keogh must resign today. And Anthony Albanese must restore the Baird family’s entitlements. But given his disdain for our Military veterans, that won’t be happening anytime soon.

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This is so incredibly good: Economist Joseph Schumpeter warned that capitalism weakens when prosperous societies become so comfortable they forget where prosperity came from – and begin resenting the entrepreneurial class that created it. A country might survive high taxes for periods of time. What becomes dangerous is something deeper: the moral suspicion of ambition itself. The creeping belief that commercial success is inherently exploitative, that profit is morally dubious, or that founders should quietly accept punishment for surviving years of uncertainty. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers should think carefully about the signals embedded in this budget. Tax policy communicates values. This budget signals that founders are not viewed as partners in national prosperity, but simply reservoirs of revenue whose success is viewed with suspicion... Civilisation advances because some people are willing to bet on tomorrow before tomorrow exists. Australia should be doing everything possible to encourage those people to build businesses here. Because once a society begins treating ambition as something suspect rather than admirable, it eventually discovers that no nation can remain prosperous after teaching its most ambitious people that they are unwelcome. afr.com/politics/feder…

Good for young Australians and good for the nation. #auspol