🧵Growing up Wog in Australia My mum migrated to Australia in 1972, I was 7 years old when we landed here from Egypt. At school I was called wog and made to feel like I didn’t belong, like I was stupid because I couldn’t speak English. It didn’t matter I spoke French, Italian,

The biggest threat to our lives is not the brown people living next door - it is the blood sucking bullshitting tax free billionaire grifters who own our politicians. So of course “The Age” bury that mind blowing inconvenient truth somewhere past page 20 in the business section.

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The system is working exactly as it was designed. ▪️Adani’s $400 million royalty liability forgiven after a $600,000 donation. ▪️The gas industry paying less tax than beer drinkers. ▪️900 days of gambling reform delay with secret industry meetings running in parallel. ▪️The think tank that produced the Shadow Treasurer funded by the companies he now shadows. ▪️The party that wrote Australia’s donation disclosure laws writing itself out of them. ▪️A housing policy blaming immigrants for a crisis created by a 1999 tax discount. ▪️A leader who stepped off a billionaire’s jet to demand gas returns – then voted against the only mechanism that would deliver them. ▪️A political class that spent $22 billion on buybacks, while telling you to work harder. 👉 You want straight talking? Here it is. No jet required.: theaimn.net/you-want-straigh…

Rotten to the core - Australia used to be fair, this level of grift is now standard #auspol

While we're on it, the Commissioner & Dep Commissioners of the #NACC receive (free) annual luxury Qantas Chairman's Lounge membership. That sort of soft bribery & persuasion should never be accepted, or ever be acceptable in people running an investigative anti-corruption body.

RT @HappyNacho73: Just saw a TikTok where a Northern Irish woman was talking about the DV crisis over there that’s causing justifiable conc…

We’re going backwards fast. This clip pretty much sums up the mess Australia is in. For 10 out the last 15 quarters, per capital growth has gone backwards and over the four years since Albanese has been elected per capita growth has gone backwards. It’s worth nothing the economic turmoil caused by Morrison’s response to Covid lit the match for this economic malaise. No major party has a plan to lift Australia’s prosperity. Tax rates and regulations need to be slashed, infrastructure needs to be funded and built, profits need to stop going offshore and our education/immigration sectors need to be completely revamped. People First has the solutions to address these issues. Please lend your support by signing up at Peoplefirstparty.au today.

This is standard practice Govt are the worst contract managers - proven over and over again - maybe it’s time govt contract management should be audited too across every level of govt #NDIS #auspol

Dear Journalists Here is a list of 21 individuals who have provided a public submission to the Senate Inquiry on CGT and yet the government have not published those submissions. To put this in perspective they only published six individuals. SIX. This is a gross abuse of their fiduciary duty to have an open an accountable democracy. The true number would be much larger and we have a lower limit of 61 submissions that are missing based on the government's own numbering up to 150 on their website despite only 89 submissions being made public. Despite this cherry picking, the only people that support a change to the CGT on equity and business are hand-picked economists, and the Australian Council of Social Services. Current list of those who have submitted and not published: @DerekFranc90653 @chrisbrycki @TheRealDavey2 @keithmarlowau @David_McMahon75 @acxjones @Hughmaxdavis @James16878077 @SeanoftheWeb3 @onslowshipping @MarshBrentnall @jsmith_dev @linzcom @leighjasper @ProphetHaza @whmacdonald74 @BankReformNow @F66Geoff @_swordfish6975 @xrpfanboi88 And myself Thank you to all that replied. @mcranston1 @PhillipCoorey @MarkDiStef @GeoffWilsonWAM @AngusTaylorMP @PaulineHansonOz @ajamesbragg @AlboMP @JEChalmers x.com/toy59496/status/206576… x.com/toy59496/status/206561…

“Not once, not twice, but thrice – that is how many times the former head of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union,Michael O’Conner allegedly told his union colleagues to inflate the cost of its promotional contract with the superannuation fund he also chaired. First Super is a small $5.3 billion fund run for timber and joinery workers. O’Connor sat on the fund’s board as co-chairman from 2008 until 2024, after being nominated by the manufacturing division of the CFMEU, which was a shareholder in the fund.” In October 2019, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority alleged that a conflict of loyalty had emerged for O'Connor. APRA has claimed in court documents that rather than look after the best interests of First Super and its nearly 80,000 members, O'Connor told a union colleague that the renewal of a promotional deal between the fund and the CFMEU was instead an "opportunity to get some money out of the fund". The contract was initially agreed in 2017 and involved First Super outsourcing member engagement work to the CFMEU, which charged a flat fee and also invoiced for contractors employed to do the work on behalf of the fund.” •••••••••••• How typical is this. Unions using your super for their own gain. Nor is it surprising that the union offical is the brother of Labor Minister Brendan O’Conner. It’s so blatant it just beggars belief that people still try to defend superannuation. It’s nothing more than a slush fund for rent seekers particularly the Labor party to clip $40 billion in fees and perks from every year. It’s time to make superannuation voluntary and stop ripping workers off. With household debt at record highs and interest rates rising people should be able to pay their mortgage off rather than risk it on dodgy paper assets. If you want to keep your wages in your pocket and not theirs sign up today at Peoplefirstparty.au

A hell of a lot of travel and "presentations" and conferences where they tell others about their job, the one they're not doing because they're all too busy travelling Oh and lots of new office refurbishments, car space rentals, legal advice from outside. For example, the Robodebt debacle cost Australians almost $2 million to have re-examined and then Brereton charged us $220K for his legal fees to cover himself for investigations into his conduct One conviction, zero public hearings

Great start Lobbying reform is needed because that have access shape policy - as we have seen Great work @DavidPocock & co #auspol

If you’re one of the 4,000 real estate agents that just got laid off by Ray White and wanna talk shit about your former employer, please feel free to reach out to my email address lol (in my bio)

Integrity @cathywilcox1

Japan is smart - putting it’s people first Australia is to blame for allowing this imho now we are waking up 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #auspol

Ah not just nice tow own a home - our retirement security depends on it - both super and age pension expect you to own your home outright - Fat chance for those who bought into the 5% deposit #auspol

“On taking office, Prime Minister Albanese doubled down on AUKUS. Now well into a second term of government the evidence is incontrovertible this government has forsaken independence in protecting Australia. And deceives its people on how it lets the United States control our priorities to its own benefit, damaging our own defence capacity. The implications of such betrayal are profound”, writes Mike Gilligan. And this is not the only policy front that the Australian PM is squandering during Labor’s short time in office. While polling suggests Australians are still broadly supportive of AUKUS, owing to a stream of anti-China propaganda, this will erode as the facts are absorbed, exactly as it was on giving the green light to Israel’s genocide and arms trading to murder tens of thousands of Palestinian children. These too were marginal issues that have now taken root in a context of cost of living pressures and housing insecurity, with high numbers now saying Australia is headed in the wrong direction. The Independent Public Inquiry into AUKUS will be a massive headache for @RichardMarlesMP and @AlboMP and the Labor caucus. pearlsandirritations.com/pos…

Gambling revenue is too good for government Clear signal of priorities from @AlboMP #auspol #taxthegas

Prof Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and public policy analyst. Columbia University: "AUKUS is designed to bill the Australian taxpayers and enrich the US military industrial complex. You have been had Australia, sorry to tell you. And your politicians should own up it."

Data centres All comes down to the utter lack of government’s accountability to Australians #auspol #DataCentres