It’s called “green lighting”: Greens in Senate (Sen Nick McKim) ready to wave through major tax reform in Australia - fat super, fat trusts, property market distorting CGT, negative gearing. Now what about export LNG? Phil Coorey AFR has the story. 👇👇
Thanks Andrew Hastie MP for acknowledging the media, including the ABC, plays an important role in Australian democracy. CPAC address Perth WA 6/3/26 in which he laments the “uniparty” (LNP/ALP) has undermined public trust in government. andrewhastie.com.au
Get the facts on fuel supply.
The words of a real leader. A leader of courage and conviction. A leader who puts peace before craven compliance and subjugation of his nation to an illegal war and an autocratic warmongering US President.
Well done Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez!
Like clockwork.
Where’s the consumer protection for Australians @acccgovau.bsky.social? Unleaded 91 now 219.7c per litre up 50c in a week -clear evidence of price gouging and a blight on national productivity/inflation. Do something! Iran war started only 6 days ago.
President Carter was 💯% right in 70s: moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy ASAP also needed to enhance national security @sanho.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social
War with China in three years? Paul Keating unleashes on Nine Entertainment (SMH/The Age) Red Alert hysteria www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/06/p...
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'Rude, arrogant and entitled’: ex-Prince Andrew’s arrest is the inevitable conclusion to a sordid royal tale of privilege and protection johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...
War on Iran signals urgent need for Australia to end risky imported oil dependency johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...
US/Israel-Iran war: “The biggest casualty of all is going to be the global oil and gas industry”. Yes, all countries will now hasten their decarbonisation strategies. 👇Ambrose Evans-Pritchard explains why we must delink from the corrupt global petro cartels.
By definitions established since Nuremberg the US/Israel bombing of Iran is a war crime.👇Geoffrey Robertson KC advocates a new “rules based order” that excludes a UN Security Council veto currently abused by Russia, the US and China (re Taiwan).
Here’s Shane Wright’s analysis of property investor distortion of our housing market. Banks (shonky compliance?) are lending much more to investors than first home buyers as they scramble for available stock. RBA and APRA asleep at their wheels. SMH/The Age.
Yes there are many MPs who have more than one negatively geared investment properties. This is clear evidence of conflicts of interest when discussions about tax reforms are raised in their party rooms. @jimchalmers.bsky.social @timwilson01.bsky.social
Should not be available for any investment property. Its the tax system of public money subsidising private investment. Always was, always will be a distorting rort.
Here’s the strongest case for limiting negatively geared investment properties to just two. It’s grown into a market distorting Ponzi scheme. James Kirby (The Australian) bravely reports: 👇
“You can’t handle the troot”: Angus Taylor, leader of the federal parliamentary Liberal Party, agrees to suppress the Minchin/Goward review of the party’s 2025 election loss. Noted.
Breaking rort news; Gasp! “Sources” confirm to Mr Cranston (The Oz) that Treadury is modeling limiting negative gearing on investment property to two. If true Jim Chalmers is a very brave Treasurer. That + CGT reform will make Tim Wilson empuced with aspirational rage.
“Children should not suffer the consequences of a parent’s evil deeds” - Jamal Rifi op ed 26/2/26. Returning the Australian children from Syria would make Australia safer in the future. Alas with Porleen, Angus, Albo this counter terrorism strategy is too hard to understand. 👇
“Reptiles of the Press” is an old descriptor. In Waterford’s case it’s a compliment = non-partisan, critical, unsentimental.
Power and caution: Here's a helpful critique of PM Albanese from veteran Canberra reptile Jack Waterford: Albanese’s real opponent is not Angus Taylor >> johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...
Good morning folks: the Royal Commission opening public hearings will be live streamed 10.30 am today, Tuesday 24/2/26. Check the Commission’s website 👇
Estimate 50% cigarettes bought Australia now illegal, ~$11.8 billion in excise evaded by smokers.Cig excise 2020 was federal government’s 4th-largest tax source, collapsed. 2026, tobacco excise forecast raise $5.5 billion vs original 2022 $13.6 billion in FY 2025-2026
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Dear Premier Jacinta Allan, to clear the air about alleged CFMEU corruption in Victoria’s infrastructure Big Build please amend the IBAC Act to give this investigator the coercive powers it needs. Corruption is conducted in criminal secrecy. 👇
Every whistleblower I've ever spoken to believed (correctly) they were doing their public duty, bc others failed.
None wanted to become a "whistleblower".
Yet they're punished by systems designed to destroy them.
Labor promised to protect them but have only tormented them with inaction & gaslighting
Dear Premier Jacinta Allan, if, as alleged, Victorian taxpayers are being massively ($15B+) ripped off by CFMEU criminality they deserve urgent reform of IBAC Victoria’s investigative powers = coercive, follow-the-money.👇
Get Turnbull! Yet another Murdoch columnist, Tony Switzer, enraged by “narcissistic” Malcolm Turnbull’s personal attacks on his party’s hardliners, now including “the most qualified idiot”, our new Opposition leader. 👇
Yes that’s the dilemma for Australian electors. Who is the least dangerous lunatic to put in charge of our little asylum. It’s so distressing to see NACC fail at the first hurdle when so many struggled for years for its establishment.
Yes that’s the dilemma for Australian electors. Who is the least dangerous lunatic to put in charge of our little asylum. It’s so distressing to see NACC fail at the first hurdle when so many struggled for years for its establishment.
