tim ritchie

@MGrahMcIntosh Just let people be! Violence against women and girls is overwhelmingly committed by people who identify as men. Trans women aren’t the main game if you are looking to protect women and girls. It feels like politicking to make a point of differentiation from the Government.

The Coalition will change the Sex Discrimination Act for Australian women. Please take a moment to share your feedback here - form.jotform.com/261351010938046

Enough of the big picture stuff, let’s look at the detail. Sydney has been damp these past weeks, and a wooden garden chair in my backyard has become a nursery. Where the armrest meets the upright, a tiny forest of mushrooms has emerged, only a mm or two in height.

@GeoffWilsonWAM It time the rich paid some tax, those who actually work have always paid tax. This Howard & Costello perk for the wealthy is long past its used by date.

We must all stand up and fight back against the Government’s vicious tax grab and their string of broken promises. All Australian starting their own businesses and all investors deserve better than this economic sabotage. We must call it out. Join the army of millions against this insanity.

@LyleShelton Just so you know, your Christfacist dogma does not represent me.

Next Wednesday I'm back in the Queensland Supreme Court after the drag queens filed fresh legal action trying to shut down my judicial review before arguments are even heard. This case has never been about me. It’s about whether ordinary Australians can question radical gender ideology without being dragged through years of legal warfare. The punishment is the process. That’s why I'm taking this fight from the courtroom to Parliament. 👇 I’m running for the NSW Parliament because Australia’s free speech crisis must end By Lyle Shelton Next Wednesday, May 20, I will again be back in the Queensland Supreme Court after the drag queens suing me filed a Section 14 application attempting to strike out my judicial review case before I can even make any arguments. After more than six years of legal proceedings over my criticism of “Drag Queen Story Time” events for children, the case has become a stark lesson in how anti-vilification laws are being weaponised against Australians who express mainstream views on gender ideology and the protection of children. That is one of the key reasons I am running for the New South Wales Legislative Council at the next state election. While I was sued in Queensland when I lived there in 2020, similar anti-free speech laws exist here in NSW. Indeed, these laws have been extended in recent years in response to antisemitism in a way that will clamp down on legitimate speech even more. If elected, I intend to fight for reforms that protect Australians from being dragged through years of costly legal warfare simply because someone claims to have been offended or hurt by political commentary. I am deeply grateful for the outstanding work of my legal team at the Human Rights Law Alliance. Without them, defending myself against this relentless litigation would have been impossible. But the truth is this problem cannot ultimately be solved by good lawyers alone. The real solution is for parliaments to repeal or radically reform laws that allow activist complainants to weaponise subjective hurt feelings in order to punish political opponents. Australians are increasingly discovering that the punishment is the process itself. Even when people eventually win, they can still lose years of their lives, enormous financial resources and emotional energy defending basic freedoms that previous generations simply took for granted. The original 2023 QCAT ruling found my comments did not amount to unlawful vilification. The drag queens appealed to another member of QCAT and re-ran their case in 2024. Then in late 2025, the QCAT Appeal Tribunal overturned key parts of that decision deciding that my speech was capable of inciting hatred, serious contempt or severe ridicule of the drag queens. Reading the decision, I saw that the Tribunal set a very low bar for what constitutes hate speech that will have serious implications for all Australians. This prompted my judicial review application to the Supreme Court. My judicial review application argues the Appeal Tribunal adopted the wrong legal test and expanded Queensland’s anti-vilification laws beyond what Parliament intended in a way that is fundamentally out of step with precedents set in other courts and in other States. This should concern every Australian, regardless of where they stand politically. If criticising drag queens as being unsafe to perform for children in public libraries can trigger six years of litigation, then nobody engaged in public debate is truly safe. The drag queens are also asking the Court to require me to pay their costs of participating in the appeal because Supreme Court proceedings operate within a normal court costs jurisdiction. This despite the fact that the Drag Queen’s lawyers are government funded and I have had to crowdfund over many years to defend this case. That underlines how serious this case has become. But their fears of paying costs could be allayed tomorrow if they dropped their legal action against me. Instead of dragging me through the courts, we could hire a hall and have a civil debate about the merits of exposing children to sexualised and gender fluid role models. What began as a blog about children and gender ideology has evolved into a major test case about freedom of communication about important societal issues within Australia. Australians should be free to peacefully express views on contested moral and political issues without fearing years of legal harassment. That is why I am taking this fight from the courtroom into the political arena. If we want to restore genuine freedom of speech in Australia, we need more than legal defences after the damage is done. We need lawmakers with the courage to repeal the bad laws that make these cases possible in the first place. media@familyfirstparty.au

@SkyNewsAust This guy?

Angus Taylor has accused Labor of imposing $22.5 billion of extra taxes on Australians through bracket creep as he promises to cut major climate policies to pay for a reshaping of the tax system. skynews.com.au/australia-news…

@SkyNewsAust .... writes Gerard Henderson, that's where I stopped reading.

Sarah Ferguson coarsely corrected Tim Wilson for reading his notes during a 7.30 interview this week, while forgetting she frequently references them herself, writes Gerard Henderson. skynews.com.au/insights-and-a…

@DrAshSays No filter, just a long exposure with a tiny aperture.

@timritchie Ah, the serenity… Starburst filter?

Don’t be fooled by this perfect dawn scene at Sydney’s Clovelly Beach, the word is the sky will darken soon and up to 9mm of rain throughout the day.

@SkyNewsAust All you haters got to hate, why not just let people be happy. Violence against women and girls is perpetrated by men, not trans women.

Australia has been labelled the “laughing stock of the world” by a women’s rights advocate after the Federal Court dismissed the appeal of the Giggle v Tickle ruling. skynews.com.au/australia-news…

@ProfJoannaHowe As a dad to a well adjusted daughter who welcomes trans people to wherever they want to go, your view of your fellow humans disgusts me.

As a mum of a teen girl who wants to go to the Olympics, the decision in Tickle v Giggle disgusts me. We need our country back.

@SenatorCash You know the biggest threat to women and girls are men, not transwomen.

Biological women and girls deserve single sex spaces. That is just common sense.

@arbsmichael One thing, science and the end of a broadly inhabitable planet.

Angus Taylor just handed down a strong, classical Liberal budget reply speech. An optimistic address grounded in the hope and the detail we need. Key points include: ✅️ Repeal the Labor CGT, Negative Gearing, and Trust tax increases in full. ✅️ Net zero GONE. ✅️ End tax breaks for electric vehicles. ✅️ End build to rent tax breaks for multinationals. ✅️ No welfare or NDIS for non-citizens. ✅️ First home guarantee scheme for Australians only. ✅️ Any business with a turnover of up to $10m to be able to instantly write off any asset of up to $50k. ✅️ Abolish the safeguard mechanism. ✅️ Indexing tax brackets to inflation to end bracket creep. ✅️ Cap immigration numbers based on the number of homes built each year, permanently. Immigration to be significantly below that cap for the first few years to allow catchup. ✅️ Deport the 70,000 VISA overstayers. ✅️ Keep coal fired power plants running as long and hard as necessary. ✅️ An energy source agnostic approach to electricity generation, including nuclear (repeal the ban). The Liberals and Nationals under Taylor and Canavan, coupled with the rise of One Nation pose a major threat to the Labor-Green duopoly. Both houses of parliament are winnable. Will the Australian people vote to rid our nation of socialism? Bring on 2028.

@SkyNewsAust Andrew Bolt, Sharri Markson and Ross Greenwood - well there's a lineup of idiots. Who would want them to talk you up?

Angus Taylor's budget reply speech has been broadly welcomed by Sky News' Andrew Bolt, Sharri Markson and Ross Greenwood, but the trio cautioned the Opposition Leader still had work to do to win over Australians. skynews.com.au/australia-news…

@homeconserv @senbmckenzie Labor

@senbmckenzie Then introduce legisaltion to force labour and the greens to vote it down or deal with this abominable siutation.

The outcome of the Tickle V Giggle court case has been handed down. The Nationals position is clear: women have a right to feel safe. Full stop. Single-sex spaces exist for a reason - safety, privacy, dignity and fairness and the we will never stop standing up for those rights. #auspol

@australian And you trust this man?

Opinion: Angus Taylor is committing to fully removing bracket creep for the first time in 44 years and ending a regressive and massive tax burden on younger Australians. Read more: bit.ly/4dr0IRO

@SenatorCash Why can't people be left alone to be who they want to be?

@Bgee12345 @GusLefty @newscomauHQ 32 followers, solid

@GusLefty @newscomauHQ I don’t listen to a cunt with lefty or righty in his name. Fuck off retard

It's finally happened. FULL STORY: bit.ly/4eMY7nA

Who is bored at the thought of the return of the climate wars?

@SkyNewsAust The apple hasn't fallen far from the infected tree with this fellow.

Young Australians have just seen their dream of homeownership slip further away after Labor’s budget - let's see if One Nation or the Liberals can capitalise on it, writes James Bolt. skynews.com.au/insights-and-a…

Poor #shallowtim, not a hope of holding Goldstein now his party has turned their backs on hard working permanent residents and their extended families.