Mark Rodda - Independent for the Tamworth Region

@JEChalmers Why don’t we construct new refineries?

BREAKING: We've just secured another 200M litres of diesel. This brings the total additional diesel secured in the last seven days to approximately 300M litres. We’re doing everything we can to help secure more fuel for Australians.

@JohnAndersonAC Coalition governments since also increased the debt ceiling. Joe Hockey increased it and other Coalition treasurers increased it particularly during the pandemic. The Uniparty is the same.

Twenty years ago yesterday, the Howard government paid off Australia's national debt entirely. This month, that debt crossed $999 billion. Seven in ten Australians say they are worried about where this ends, as projections estimate a continual rise throughout the next decade. Link to article in comments below.

@news_australian 🤮

In times like this, is Australia better off if Scott Morrison was Prime Minister? DISCUSS👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 #auspol #scottmorrison

@AngusTaylorMP Flog off our resources to corporate party donors, vested interests, lobbyists. Angus the spiv.

Australians should benefit from what's beneath our feet. The resources powering our homes, fuelling our cars, creating jobs, and securing our future. It's the envy of the world. But under Labor? Tax it. Tie it in red tape. Make projects wait eight years for a decision. The result: jobs gone, industries stalling, and critical energy projects stuck in limbo while your power and fuel bills keep climbing. If we're not drilling, we're not prepared for moments like this, when global supply tightens, Australians pay the price. Today the Coalition has laid out the plan to get Australia moving again - more resources, more exports, more jobs, more homes. ✅ Fix broken environmental approvals ✅ Fast-track nationally significant projects like oil and gas ✅ Boost incentives for early-stage exploration ✅ Scrap Labor's carbon tax (aka the Safeguard Mechanism) Dig, drill, and pay down the debt bill. 🇦🇺

@AusPoll6 Check out the Coalition recently spruiking One Nation immigration policies. What do you think they would do if @AngusTaylorMP and @mattjcan were elected? Nothing!

🚨 NEW: Federal voting intention 🟥 ALP: 30.5% (+0.5) 🟦 L/NP: 23% (+0.5) 🟧 ONP: 21.5% (-3) 🟩 GRN: 13.5% (+1) ⬛️ OTH: 11.5% (+1) Two-party-preferred 🟥 ALP: 55.5% (-0.5) 🟦 L/NP: 44.5% (+0.5) Roy Morgan | 13-19 Apr | n=1620 | +/- 6-12 Apr

@CampbellNewman @DavidCrisafulli Nek minute you’ll flog it all off to your donor mates

It's great to hear that @DavidCrisafulli wants to open up the Taroom Trough oil basin for Australia. It's refreshing that at least one State Premier is effectively pointing out that our "energy crisis" has been self inflicted. A country that is awash with accessible hydrocarbons has chosen (up until now) to keep them in the ground. However, if the Premier is serious, then his Govt should immediately move to introduce enabling legislation in the Parliament to fast track the Taroom Trough. If it can be done for the Olympics to expedite a stadium, then surely it can be done at a time of national necessity? And btw, then we will see how serious @AlboMP is about having industry in this country.....

@JohnCleese from an Aussie that always loved and appreciated your humour John, thank you.

@TimWilsonMP @AlboMP @AustralianLabor Tim you blokes did fuck all to enhance our fuel, food and energy security and independence. You ruled during Corona times dishing out and wasting billions to corporate mates. Labor, Liberal and National are state captured, Epstein class, fifth columnists. You are just as bad.

A lot of people are canning @AlboMP’s 3 mins address last night. Yes, it could have been an email, but that misses its point. @AlboMP and @AustralianLabor are tenderising us. The sub-message is the situation is more serious than they’ve let on, and they’re laying markers.

@AlboMP @AngusTaylorMP @mattjcan The fuel crisis is the result of 30 years of indolence by major party fifth columnists - frittering away our nations resources with gay abandon. @AustralianLabor @LiberalAus @The_Nationals #Auspol2026 #fuelcrisis

@mattjcan We lost those carefree weekends under your regime Matthew.

Under Labor, people can no longer enjoy their weekends as they worry about rising prices, higher interest rates and a declining country. The Australian people deserve to get their carefree Sunday arvos back. I want the Australian people to be able to relax on a Sunday afternoon in a home that they own, watching their children play, while they enjoy a much-deserved drink, after a hard week's work. The good news is that we have all the resources here to fix things. We do not need to import energy, minerals, know-how or people. We have been blessed to have it all here. We just need to use Australian resources for the benefit of the Australian people again. More in @theaustralian below.

@actualAlexJames That’s the gravy train for many major party MP’s

220k per year for the rest of her life.

@DaveSharma I remember JobKeeper under your regime. Quite reckless too mate.

January inflation figures are out. Inflation is under control in every advanced economy EXCEPT Australia. ‼️🇦🇺 Australia 3.8% ⬆️ 🇺🇸 US 2.4% ⬇️ 🇨🇦 Canada 2.3% ⬇️ 🇪🇺 Eurozone 1.7% ⬇️ 🇯🇵 Japan 1.5% ⬇️ 🇬🇧 UK 3.0% ⬇️ 🇩🇪 Germany 2.1% ⬆️ Fuelled by reckless Labor spending.

@Barry_Asks @matt_barrie Neither of the major parties

@matt_barrie And who is held accountable?

australia has blown through the 50 year projection of population growth the ABS made in 2003 and they wonder why everything is catching on fire

@Awoneb @matt_barrie Both

@matt_barrie That's 13 years Coalition and 9 years Labor. Who's the villain?

@matt_barrie NGO’s/RTO’s everywhere, one in my town spends half the govt grants on wages/salaries and almost $2 million in director/ceo fees. It has got to stop.

There’s no fking way australia is this sick. NDIS is being used to print jobs for be voters being imported. If not NDIS it’s through ghost colleges and corrupt unis.

@Woody2Jenny @ausvstheagenda I don’t think the bottle of Penfold’s Grange was actually that much Jenny but $15 billion, the entire government should resign.

Barry O'Farrell resigned amid mounting evidence that he failed to declare a gift of $2800 wine - but hey you can be involved in a $15b CMFEU corruption scandal in Victoria and still hold your job. Is there any department that has the resources to investigate this - likely not as this and past governments have made sure that there have been sufficient funding cuts.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan says that she will not resign over the $15 Billion CFMEU corruption scandal.

@AngusTaylorMP @dailytelegraph Angus Taylor doesn’t believe in those values, we should shut the door on him.

If you do not believe in Australia’s core values of democracy, the rule of law, and freedom, we will shut the door. 🇦🇺 See the full interview with @dailytelegraph - link in their bio.

@DavidPocock It’s absolute bullshit - @AustralianLabor @LiberalAus @The_Nationals @AlboMP @sussanley @D_LittleproudMP bought and paid for. #auspol

Aussies pay more tax on beer than international gas companies pay on tens of billions of dollars worth of our offshore gas they export.

@petite_michelle @JohnCleese A latter day Curzon line, a pact?

We knew. US will sell Ukraine to russia

@bobjcarr Could we go back to the French?

Easily 100 times I must have predicted precisely this outcome. We don’t get the boats but we get to station US nuclear subs. Farewell forever any notion of a sovereign Australia as we also render ourselves a big fat target. theguardian.com/world/2026/feb…