“With Australia’s economy now better-performed than ever and living standards at an all-time high, why do so many citizens want to burn the place down? Why are they so miserable and hostile?”
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Shadow treasurer Tim Wilson wants 'to pour water on Australia’s inflation bonfire’.
Bonfire? Really? Remember under Fraser, inflation was above 10% for 16 quarters. Under Menzies, it topped 20% for several quarters.
Inflation today at 3.76% is a wisp of smoke compared with past Coalition regimes.
The poor petals in the newsrooms don’t know what to do. They have invested heavily in the cost-of-living crisis – despite it having failed at the election – so are loathe to abandon it.
So which anti-Labor lies will work best now? Consumers crushed by expenses, or spending is fuelling inflation?
“Never before have Australians enjoyed such low jobless rates, low inflation, strong economic growth and vast wealth. Yet the message from the media and the powers that be is this: You are going to feel depressed about your dismal lives, regardless of how rich and well-governed you are in reality.”
Congress can remove Trump now via the 25th amendment.
In this case, advanced dementia would be the trigger, evidenced by his multiple unhinged invasion threats, the constant lies about his non-existent achievements and his verbal attacks against heads of state, public figures and allied troops.
The Salvation Army confirms poverty in Australia worsened until 2023, but has been reduced since.
While the Salvos do not highlight declining poverty, they do not claim it is still increasing.
In this respect, they are a welcome contrast to ACOSS and sundry food banks, which do falsely assert this.
More prisoners is not due to more crime. Violent crime in Australia has declined greatly since the gun law reforms.
The main reason is the shift from allowing unsentenced offenders to remain in the community to remanding them in custody.
This has not made the community safer.
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Of the 40 or so elections to be held worldwide in 2026, several will impact the fortunes of people everywhere.
The 2026 main act will be the November mid-terms in the USA.
Thereafter, Trump could conceivably be impeached for his many criminal offences, then removed, prosecuted and imprisoned.
"AN INTERVIEW on ABC's 7.30 in November asserted falsely that poverty in Australia was worsening under the Albanese Government. That segment failed to disclose that the appalling research findings it presented were collected several years before Labor took office."
When historians review 2025, this will be when America’s national leaders gave up any pretence to statesmanship. Their capitulation to Donald Trump’s greed, intentional violence, and undisguised malevolence has been on display all year.
The era when the USA was a leader of the free world is gone.
“Only three developed countries have had continual quarterly growth for the last four years, including Australia.
“Australia is still the world's only economy with AAA credit ratings, its jobless rate below 4.5%, and median wealth per person above $250,000.”
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“The percentage of Aussies in destitution is the lowest ever, and most of those struggling are nowhere near as poor as they were. These are important facts.
"By not affirming Labor eases poverty, ACOSS is useless. By implying the opposite, it is worse than useless.”
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The disarray within the Coalition over climate, leadership and direction confirms time is up. They should now disband, like earlier extinct parties which once ran the country then ran out of steam.
But it is the economy, on which they long claimed superiority, where they have lost all credibility.
“This is by far the deepest and most destructive debt blow-out in any country during peacetime. Ever. Together with all the other negative outcomes, this qualifies Trump as the worst economic manager in the developed world today.”
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"ABC News is now mimicking the Murdoch media in blatantly promoting the Coalition.
“In a shameful display of partisan politics, the ABC devoted almost an entire Insiders program to the Liberals and the Nationals – who will have no policy influence for at least a decade.”
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“Many Australians are still struggling, as Chalmers admits. But proportionally fewer than ever; and they are less destitute than 3 years ago. The middle are steadily gaining and the billionaires, while not enriched like in the US, will somehow struggle through.”
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“In 2024-25, the Tax Office launched 369 prosecutions, achieved 343 convictions and saw the courts impose $5.18 million in fines. That’s four times the numbers in the Coalition’s last year.”
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Trump has just added one trillion dollars to the US debt in eight weeks, by far the worst peacetime debt blow-out anywhere. Now Congress refuses to monitor the White House, Trump has fired the inspectors, and the Courts have given Trump monarchic powers, restraints on fraud and theft are gone.
“Obviously, I’m not going to vote for a lying, criminal predator, especially in the name of Jesus, because obviously that’s sick, and offensive. You don’t vote for the criminal.”
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Australia’s proudest period of good global citizenship was under Whitlam when 0.6% of GNI was allocated to overseas aid. It has been downhill from there.
The May Budget allocated $5,097 million, only a smidgeon above Julia Gillard’s last budget in 2012. This is 0.18% of GNI, the lowest ever.
If the Coalition hadn't stacked on more than $600 billion in debt during its criminally incompetent regime, this year's budget would have been in surplus – for the 3rd straight year – and likely remained so henceforward.
The message is clear. Never let the Coalition anywhere near government again.
Confirmation Trump provokes violent attacks comes from the trial courts where defence attorneys have argued that defendants were following Trump’s orders. More than 235 criminal trials have heard this defence.
No trial court has found any other American political leader has inspired violent crime.
Almost all US economic news is negative, despite Trump sacking the top statistician last month after data showed jobs lost in July.
This has cast doubt on all economic data, has reduced marginal investment in the US economy and kept interest charges higher.
This will likely make Americans poorer.
Of the last 24 US political killers, none was a leftist.
One was a Black nationalist, 4 were registered Republicans, 15 were MAGA, 4 were far right extremists.
All were inspired by Donald Trump's 40+ overt calls for violence.
The critical step in ending this wanton bloodshed is his impeachment.
In a scathing opinion piece the CEO of ACOSS claimed that ‘one in eight of us still lives in poverty, including one in six children’, and that 'wealth inequality is worsening'. When we track the data underlying this condemnation of Labor in 2025, we find it was collected under the Coalition in 2019.
The Herald Sun ran a story showing the cost of living crisis is over – based on data from March, 2024.
This was not reported then because they were pushing the false crisis narrative before the 2025 election. Luckily this failed.
Now let’s see how long until the other loser media report the truth.
Australian companies pay just 12% for social security/superannuation, compared with 20% - 45% in most of Western Europe. Australia also has dividend imputation and many other tax avoidance lurks.
There is no valid case for reducing the company tax rate from 30%.
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Earlier this afternoon New York time, US federal government debt clicked over $37 trillion 208 billion. That is one trillion dollars higher than on inauguration day last January.
The irrational decisions of the corrupt and mentally deranged president are impacting erratically.
So far, Australia is winning. Trading partners now buying more from Australia include the USA, Indonesia, Mexico, Turkiye, the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Peru, Vietnam, Portugal and Belgium.
The brief period of artificial activity in early 2025 is over. Exports and imports tumbled in June, despite most tariffs not yet in place. The US economy lost 402,000 jobs.
Other worries include investment, interest rates, consumer spending, tourism, business losses and Trump's deficits and debt.
