It’s going to be a miserable 2 months…
Ads, ads, ads everywhere…corrupt scum bags smiling as they peddle lies…its going to be unavoidable.
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“They” is not the Feds.
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And the states can’t afford too unless the feds increased taxes and gave it to the states. So of course that’s not happening. Feds wear the heat while states get the credit.
Did someone really change their name to Nigel Farager to endorse this?
I guess it could be worse: Nigel Faragest!
They hope to next get Nigel Moore-Faragier.
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So it’s on.
Scummo light V Mr Vanilla.
Just vote.
Caretaker Government. All the pollies and their staffers leave the Bush Capital.
As the old hands used to say, the Public Service gets back to running the country again.
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Which ones which?
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Hope it means the end of Dutton! But, you never can tell.
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I’ll be watching the count in Dickson on the night
Angus can take over.
Ran through the Sportsbook odds, ALP favourites in 66 searts, LNP in 71, Greens 2 & Independents in 11.
Take that how you want, it will be interesting night.
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Probably could afford to scrap stamp duty is the GST was broadened. Might also simplify the tax system a bit.
Neither side has the appetite for tax reform however.
Age
Analysis: Opposition Leader Peter Dutton made two big promises in his campaign pitch that he is yet to back up with detail.
The first: “We will reduce tax”.
The Coalition has repeatedly said Australians are paying too much income tax, leaving open the possibility it would cut taxes. But this week, it has vowed to repeal Labor’s new laws that reduce the first tax rate from 16 per cent to 14 per cent – effectively raising tax.
The second: “Reduce Labor’s record migration intake”.
Cutting immigration is a significant part of the Coalition’s pitch. But it has not yet revealed its targets or plans – expect that to happen in the next few weeks.
All we know is that Dutton has walked away from his initial vow to cut net arrivals down to 160,000. Labor has forecast net overseas migration will slow to 255,000 in 2026-27. The Coalition says it will introduce foreign student caps, but it blocked Labor’s bill to do so last year.
Reality check: With Dutton’s press conference all wrapped up, let’s look back at some of the claims he made, and check them against the facts.
Rents have indeed risen by about 18 per cent and the price of gas and other household fuels have grown by more than 30 per cent, according to the ABS’ inflation gauge from March 2022 and December 2024.
However, Dutton’s claim that households are paying 30 per cent more for groceries does not align with the ABS’ figures which show the price of food and non-alcoholic beverages has climbed by about half that amount, at 14 per cent over the same time period.
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Letter to the editor
“ A good friend is a public servant in Canberra. He works for the Health Department in a job created by this Government. He’s not a Dr or a nurse and doesn’t work in a hospital so, if elected, Peter Dutton will fire him.
Do you know what he does? He works to ensure that the recommendations handed down by the Royal Commission into Aged Care are rolled out successfully. He works to ensure that in our old age in public and private aged care homes we will be treated with the dignity and receive the care we deserve after paying taxes and contributing to our society our whole lives.
The Liberals ran the aged care system into the ground and now Peter Dutton wants to fire the people who are trying to fix it.
Put the Liberals last, they do not give one stuff about you.”
The covid pandemic revealed just how atrociously run the private aged care clincis are, which anyone with experience of them already knew. By comparison the public runs were enormously better and loss of life was minimal. Letters to the editor aren’t reportage but this one is on point.
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Our justice system is a deadset disgrace
Former NSW police officer Kristian White will not go to prison after he fatally shot a 95-year-old great-grandmother with a Taser, and will instead serve his sentence for manslaughter in the community.
Justice Ian Harrison handed down his sentencing decision in the NSW supreme court on Friday, saying the incident in his opinion “falls in the lower end of objective seriousness” for manslaughter and that time in prison would be a “disproportionate” sentence.
Harrison sentenced White to a two-year community corrections order. The conditions include 425 hours of community service and reporting to a community corrections officer.
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Tony Bourke’s newsletter has this amusing story:
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Digging a little deeper into the circumstances and cause of death.
She had a history of injuries from falls. Normally there would have been staff around her, including behind her, to catch her as she fell. Her cause of death was from injuries as a result of hitting on hard objects as she fell.
Her fall was triggered by the cop tasering her.
The Judge would have followed the Judges Blue Book on the facts and their relative weighting in determining the cop’s sentence, consistent with precedent.
The sentence is open to appeal if the judge is considered to have been in legal error in the weighting of the facts.
I’d hope the NSW DPP appeals the sentence. It does seem manifestly inadequate.