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youtu.be/ceS_jkKjIgo #offended

@JimmyMcd62 And now you are being re-colonised by the world

Please Boston dont confuse Scottish and English. We are both part of the British isles along with Ireland and Wales. Sometime ago our southern neighbours decided it would be best to colonise the world. We in the devolved nations suffered greatly at their hands.

@DavidPocock Ah, so now the fuel duty is not for roads. Its just general govt revenue

It's absurd that large mining companies receive huge taxpayer-funded diesel subsidies while everyone else pays. Fuel excise doesn't go to roads it goes to general govt revenue. Treasury forecasts the fuel tax credit scheme will cost the budget $47 billion over 4 years. Coal companies alone could receive another $6.2 billion if more mines are approved. It's time to end fuel tax credits for large mining companies. theguardian.com/australia-news…

@SamCKx He promised to fix immigration. Achieved nothing

If Keir Starmer does resign, history will look back on his reign and scratch its head as to why the hell he was so hated. On paper, he's probably delivered more to working British people in such a short time than any PM for decades. After inheriting an absolute mess: NHS waiting lists fallen. Worker's rights improved. Rail operators nationalised. Improved relations with EU and improved UK's global reputation. Removed non-dom tax status. Halved childcare costs. Boosted state pensions. Lowest homicide rate in 50 years. Lifted 550k children out of poverty. Immigration vastly reduced. We are in the age of billionaire funded misinformation, whose sole purpose is to topple democratically elected leaders, and insert leadership that favours the wealthy elites over the working people. Looks like the game plan is working...

@ctindale What happened to the IELTS test? Half the migrants in the workplace cant be understood

Why is simply wanting to speak English so objectionable ? Because to require English slows down the immigration rate

@CallumLyon Have you run the numbers on a Big Mac? That is the global standard

In 2015 the UK started charging people 5p for plastic carrier bags. Minimum wage in 2015 was £6.70 which means you could buy 134 carrier bags with an hour's wage. Fast forward to 2026, minimum wage is £12.71 and carrier bags are now around 40p meaning an hours wage would buy you 31 carrier bags. That's 103 less carrier bags and a 700% increase on the original price. But only a 89% increase in wages. We're getting robbed in this country.

@piersmorgan Not all Muslims

Horrifying. This is what happens when people - you know who you are - shamefully demonise all Muslims for the hideous crimes of a small minority.

@cmdibley Not sure that supporters actually want her as PM

Not only can Pauline Hanson not speak English well, she can barely read it.

@texas268953 @bowtiedstocks ....and expensive. The small development in bulimba charges $1000 per month strata

@bowtiedstocks Graya are really heavy on advertising, they are everywhere. Most of their buildings are very ordinary…..

It is fitting that as the debt fuelled housing market is on the verge of imploding I see more signs branding and collateral from this lot than any time previous Something about timing and cycles…

Because this post was a bit triggering for some people, here is a smaller property with land in France. $600k AUD.

@r3tarddownunder I have one doubt

Indian immigrant Uber driver throws hot coffee over a white woman after arguing about a booking issue.

@Mon4Kooyong Wogs in the western suburbs make more money off smokes and vapes than the government anyway

Tomorrow, we'll be legislating on illegal tobacco imports. I'll be moving an amendment to stop politicians and political parties from accepting money from the tobacco industry. Let's see how people vote on this one.

@pittworldwide Logical people

Just under half (48%) of Australians have at least one parent born overseas. So who the fuck is voting for a woman who is so clearly against immigration?

@DrDeeMichell @PaulineHansonOz Short answer - no

As Kos Samaras has pointed out, @PaulineHansonOz didn't say anything about violence against women on Wednesday. This is despite the fact that 1 in 3 women are likely to experience violence & 1 in 5, sexual violence. We know that men are mostly the perpetrators of violence against women. Was PH silent on this because its more likely to be far-right men who are misogynistic & violent?

@TonyShepherd4 Still too high

@BrigadierKetch The wives and family know but yet say nothing

There are pedophile rapists of every ethnicity, but the ability to summon 20-30 friends and relatives on short notice who also want to participate is pretty uniquely Pakistani and absolutely a reflection of their culture.

@Volkstaat10 If you didn't realise this 10 years ago then i have little sympathy

Written by someone else but very well said... South Africans keep asking how much worse things can get. That is the wrong question. The question is what happens when decline becomes permanent. For more than thirty years we have adapted to failure. When electricity failed, we adapted. When policing failed, we adapted. When municipalities failed, we adapted. When water systems failed, we adapted. When roads deteriorated, we adapted. When corruption was exposed, we adapted. Every crisis became another inconvenience to work around. Every failure became another expense. Every expense became another sacrifice. What we call resilience today would have been considered unacceptable twenty years ago. The danger is not the collapse of institutions. The danger is the collapse of expectations. South Africans no longer expect functioning municipalities. South Africans no longer expect reliable electricity. South Africans no longer expect effective policing. South Africans no longer expect government accountability. We expect failure and then congratulate ourselves for surviving it. That is not resilience. That is surrender disguised as resilience. The average South African is now paying to replace functions that government was created to provide. Private security. Solar systems. Generators. Water tanks. Boreholes. Medical aid. Private education. Armed response. Tracking systems. Insurance products designed around government failure. Every year more responsibility moves to the citizen. Every year more authority remains with the state. That is the imbalance nobody is discussing. A citizen who spends most of his income defending himself from decline is not building a future. He is preserving the present. His children inherit the same burden. Then their children inherit it again. Eventually an entire generation grows up believing this is simply how a country operates. That is the true danger. Not that South Africa collapses tomorrow. Not that there is some dramatic event on the horizon. But that decline becomes institutionalised. Permanent. Accepted. Normal. History shows that societies rarely lose their freedoms all at once. They lose them gradually as independence becomes more expensive and dependence becomes more necessary. The question South Africans should be asking is not whether the country is getting worse. The evidence already answers that. The question is this: At what point does survival stop being resilience and start becoming acceptance? Because once a nation accepts deterioration as normal, the battle is no longer against corruption, crime, failing infrastructure or incompetent governance. The battle is against the belief that nothing better is possible. And that is the moment decline stops being temporary and becomes a way of life. Written by Shaun Schutte 14 June 2026”

@Catheri09875779 @ThoughtGuardian You realise this is an AI photo, right?

@ThoughtGuardian I don’t think it was a good idea to have themselves photographed.I can now see why they should be closed down🤡🤡🤡🤡

SBS Journalists Go On Strike, Refuse to Work Until Pauline Hanson Retracts Threat to Defund SBS

@ThoughtGuardian I have to admit i do enjoy SBS world news. Please dont cancel it Pauline

@duriansneedluv2 While we may be secular with no official state religion, the federal government still funds 1000s of mainly Christian schools and most public holidays are based on Christian events. So you cant ignore it

@nick_van_d Given that Christianity is long dead and buried in Australia, I think we can disregard a 130-year-old "preamble". Unlike America, we are a secular society and not everything in TPUSA is going to translate in Gina's wet dream of "MAGA down under", to support her $$$ aspirations.

Pauline says Australia is a Judeo Christian nation . Wrong again . We are a secular nation . She doesn't know .

Statement on Senator Pauline Hanson's National Press Club address Senator Pauline Hanson used the National Press Club to revive a tired and divisive narrative: blaming Muslims, multiculturalism and immigration for Australia’s challenges. The Australian National Imams Council (ANIC) rejects that premise entirely. We will not respond from a position of apology for our faith, our community, or our place in this country. Muslims have been part of this continent’s story since before British settlement. Makassan traders from the islands to our north were visiting the coasts of Arnhem Land and trading with Aboriginal people for generations before the First Fleet arrived. The cameleers who helped open the interior came later, and the first mosques were built under Queen Victoria in the 1800s. We are not guests asking to stay. This is our home, and our place in it is settled. ANIC opposes violence and incitement without reservation, whoever commits it. But Senator Hanson draws no meaningful line between a criminal fringe and well over a million Australian Muslims. To vilify an entire faith community is not policy. It is division dressed as public debate, and it weakens the social harmony Australia needs. We would add a point of principle. The label “extreme” is often applied selectively and politically. A view that one person finds extreme, another may regard as ordinary. Many Australians, by that same measure, would regard Senator Hanson’s own views as extreme. More importantly, holding a strong or unpopular opinion is not a crime, and it does not lead inevitably to violence. A confident society tolerates a wide range of beliefs and judges people by their actions, not their thoughts. The distinction Senator Hanson refuses to make, between belief and violence, and between a community and the few who break the law, is the very distinction that protects everyone’s freedom, including her own. Australia’s real pressures, housing, energy and the cost of living, are not eased by blaming those who pray differently, look different, or speak another language at home. Australia is strongest when it protects freedom of religion, equal citizenship, multicultural harmony and respectful disagreement. ANIC’s invitation to Senator Hanson stands, as it has for many years. We believe in dialogue with all Australians and remain open to engaging constructively for the greater good of our nation and the country we all share.