Liberal Senator for Victoria. Shadow Minister for Finance. Proud Mum. St Kilda fan. Authorised by Senator Jane Hume, Liberal Party of Australia, Richmond, VIC.
If you are one of the people on here attacking the Prime Minister’s daughter, for any reason, it’s time to take a good hard look at yourself. It’s shameful. Imagine that was your child. Abuse isn’t acceptable period, let alone of children. Be better.
#auspol
A note to any activist sons of billionaires 🎩🥂thinking of stalking the booths today: Team Liberal is still fronting up, still delivering, still making our case, still unintimidated
#KooyongVotes
#auspol
Wow Stephen, this is grubby. This meeting between the PM and
@piersmorgan
was last week, around the same time Albo met with him.
Albo spent his weekend enjoying the hospitality of Lisa Wilkinson and Peter Fitzsimmons, while the PM met with QLD Premier and emergency services.
Brisbane is under water, Lismore is about to be. SE NSW is bracing for a deluge, Ukraine is under siege …. but sure …. Spend 45 minutes with a talk show host.
Senator Kitching was a truly fine senator, a proud and fierce Victorian and a friend. While we came from different corners to the political ring we shared values of liberty, human dignity and a belief in the ability of public policy to create public good.
The PM has tested positive to Covid. I wish him a speedy recovery, as I'm sure do most Australians regardless of views. It will be telling how many on here wish him ill. Remember, politicians are just people- and we should be better than wishing each other poor health.
#auspol
This is totally and utterly unacceptable. I condemn this totally. Threats and violence are not acceptable in any part of our society, including in our political system irrespective of political views. My best wishes to Kielan for a speedy recovery
@AndyMeddickMP
.
Dan Andrews must back down and withdraw Victoria from the Chinese Belt and Road deal.
Michael O’Brien and the Vic Libs are crystal clear- they will withdraw Victoria from the
#BRI
#BeltAndRoad
#SpringStreet
#SpringSt
#AusPol
Daniel Andrews'
#BeltandRoad
deal with the Chinese Govt is putting his own ego and politics ahead of the national interest and Victorian jobs - absolutely disgraceful.
Only a Vic Liberal Nationals government will stand up for Victoria by withdrawing from
#BeltandRoad
#springst
‘Earlier today, I made a mistake. I’m human - but when I make a mistake, I’ll fess up to it’ - Opposition leader
@AlboMP
has addressed his earlier stumble, when he couldn’t say the cash rate or unemployment rate
#auspol
@9NewsAUS
#ausvotes
This insanity must end. Have a heart
@AnnastaciaMP
. You can find a way to get sportspeople and their partners into Queensland, surely there is a solution to be had here.
A Sunshine Coast boy with cerebral palsy, who has just undergone major surgery in the US, is stuck in a Sydney quarantine hotel, against doctor's orders. His father is speaking out after the pair was denied entry into Queensland. Full story only on
@7NewsSC
@7NewsBrisbane
Whilst unsurprising, this is very disappointing from Zoe Daniel.
A ceasefire will only keep Hamas in power, able to rearm, reorganise and repeat the deliberate murders, rapes, beheadings and kidnapping of innocent people.
Julia Banks says she wants to protect retirees income...yet she is preferencing LABOR??
Labor’s retiree tax will
hit around 900,000 retirees with 84% on taxable incomes below $37,000.
It’s official: a vote for Julia Banks in
#Flinders
is a vote for Bill Shorten.
#Hypocrisy
@PatsKarvelas
Our magnificent city will bounce back. Despite the events of the last few days, record numbers of Victorians rolled up their sleeves & got the jab, quietly getting on with doing the right thing so we can open up. Less visible but they're easily the majority. That should give hope
@juliabanksmp
@juliabanksmp
you giggled and cheered when ScoMo reminded Labor that coal is Australia’s second biggest export. You never once spoke out against Adani in the Party Room. Your principles are breathtakingly selective. I’ve let you off the hook for your hypocrisy long enough.
A 'rookie error' of just happening to split one cheque into 8 separate donations, each under the disclosure threshold...with links to coal. Yes, why would Zali want that to stay hidden?
Sure. Pull the other one.
#auspol
#hypocrisy
Independent MP Zali Steggall has admitted she made a "rookie error" for not properly disclosing a $100,000 donation, but denied she tried to hide the financial contribution:
Claims aired on Insiders this morning regarding the PM & the gender pay gap are absolutely, demonstrably false. The PM has been concerned with combatting the gender pay gap for years in public life, including as Treasurer and now as PM.
While for many seats the count is far from over it is clear that Labor will form Government. I’d like to extend my congratulations to Anthony Albanese & Labor, & wish them well for the sake of all Australians. I hope that in the next three years they have wise heads & good hearts
Labor Minister on
@SkyNewsAust
this morning – what will the government do right now to ease the cost of living? response was “the number one thing we can do in the short term is explain to people what is going on”.
Is this government for real?
No plan, just excuses.
Ok it’s Friday night. We’re in lockdown. I’ve taken about as many meetings as a contact tracer this week… I thought I’d share a bit of mixology with you.
@StephenJonesMP
Wow Stephen, this is grubby. This meeting between the PM and
@piersmorgan
was last week, around the same time Albo did the same.
Albo spent his weekend enjoying the hospitality of Lisa Wilkinson and Peter Fitzsimmons, while the PM met with QLD Premier and emergency services.
Worth remembering every second former Labor Minister now chair of
@IndustrySuper
is in the media is paid for by super fees- the same fees funds lose out on if someone takes money out of super to buy a home.
As Keating said “In the race of life, always back self-interest”
#auspol
An honour to be asked to take on the role of Minister for Women's Economic Security. The advancement of women has always been a passion for me, and one I've been vocal on in politics since my maiden speech.
#auspol
By popular demand, and given it’s Thursday going into Easter...I thought it was time to whip up another cocktail for you.
This time it’s the Liberal libation 🔵
Mixed with ingredients from Flinders, Indi and Casey!
#VoteLiberal
and have a terrific weekend 😊
Albo's speech tonight was all about him, all about Government, all about taxing and spending. He doesn't get it- it's about you. Your hopes, your effort, your jobs, your businesses. We know government doesn't create prosperity, you do.
#budgetreply
#budget2020
#auspol
I’m sure many on here, particularly the drips, will make the choice to tweet abusive material about the PM’s wife and children tonight. If you choose to do so, know this: your vicious misogyny says everything about your character, and nothing about theirs.
#auspol
#60minutes
Given that Josh Frydenberg is interested in things I’ve said more than three decades ago, with one even making front page ‘news’, here’s my 1981 essay on ‘The Neoclassical Theory of the Competitive Market System’ as submitted to Sydney Uni as part of my Economics Degree.
A reserve seat in court to watch on while an activist tries to unseat
@JoshFrydenberg
because his mother fled the holocaust?
Weird and gross voyeurism
@simonahac
.
Is this honestly how you were raised?
You really are a bad loser and a small fraction of a man.
#auspol
Climate 200 founder
@simonhac
attended court Tuesday for the challenge to
@JoshFrydenberg
’s election (based on his Hungarian-born mother’s statelessness post-Holocaust). Is he backing the claim even
@GetUp
described as “beyond offensive”?
#auspol
.
@JEChalmers
says early release of super is ‘robbing’ people.
Only Labor would say accessing your own savings is robbery 🙄
This ‘government knows best’ mentality (from the
#retireetax
proposing ALP) is why you’ll always pay more and get less with Labor
#itsyourmoney
Vale Dame Margaret Guilfoyle AC DBE. A pivotal figure in the creation of the modern Liberal Party, Australia's first female cabinet minister holding a portfolio; Australia's first female Minister for Finance. An extraordinary legacy. And a personal hero to me. What a loss.
A
#Kooyong
resident just texted me to say that
@_Oliver_Yates
referred to himself as a LIBERAL at the prepoll booth today. Really Ollie? You preference Greens and Labor & said you would support Labor in a hung parliament. Liberal? Hardly!
@JoshFrydenberg
did you overhear this?
Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Senator Jim Molan. He was a big-hearted man who dedicated his life to the service of his country. Through all, he treated everyone with dignity and respect. We’ve lost a great man and a great Liberal. My thoughts are with his family.
Strange. I recall so much sound and fury directed at Gladys and NSW over case numbers compared to Victoria from the likes of
@Lisa_Wilkinson
and
@normanswan
.
But nary a peep about the comparisons now.
I wonder why? 🤔
#auspol
#ausmedia
A glance at Brian Mitchell’s (Labor Member for Lyons) social media is deeply uncomfortable reading. I think it is in the public interest for the people of Lyons to be aware of his views and behaviour, that Labor endorses (or has turned a blind eye to)
#auspol
🧵1/9
I established a Senate Inquiry into the cost of living crisis.
Its focus is hearing from you and developing real solutions.
Your stories can help others.
Share your experience here:
The Albanese Government’s decision to reject Qatar Airline’s request for more flights has been described as “deeply regrettable and a source of deep disappointment” and means less competition and higher fares according to evidence provided to the Cost of Living Committee today.
Superannuation doesn't belong to Government. It doesn't belong to superannuation fund managers.
It belongs to working Australians.
The Morrison Government is enabling Australians to access their own savings, when they need it most, as
@JoshFrydenberg
said this morning.
PM
@ScottMorrisonMP
& OL
@AlboMP
rightly acknowledging
@MarisePayne
's extraordinary accomplishments as the longest serving female Senator in Australia's history, and the longest serving member of this Parliament.
Congratulations my friend, Australia is stronger for your service.
Now that
@LouiseStaley
has proclaimed that politicians have to cop tough personal questions, I think it’s fair to ask where she got this shit outfit, what it cost and why she bought two sizes two small. Also name of hairdresser.
Today I listened to two powerful advocates for change at the National Press Club, emphasising many points on which I and the Government sit in firm agreement.
#NPC
#auspol
1/5
This is Labor’s candidate for Higgins.
Labor’s candidate for Higgins undermined the rollout, public confidence in AstraZeneca and more broadly the health advice.
When
@AlboMP
and Labor say they care about people before politics remember this.
Ignore the rot. Get vaccinated.
Ladies & gentlemen, the Greens. Any comment on this
@AdamBandt
? Following on from your silence after Senator Thorpe suggested my friend & colleague
@hollieahughes
should just have “shut her legs” [to avoid her autistic child’s birth], perhaps this time you’ll find a voice
#auspol
If
@simonahac
🎩💸🥂wants to be taken seriously, he should man up and put his name on the ballot, campaign with his policies rather than his inheritance, and disclose all his donors like everyone else.
The views of the extreme
@Greens
Kooyong candidate
@JulianBurnside
revealed in
@theheraldsun
today on female genital mutilation were abhorrent. Female genital mutilation is illegal and has no place in our society.
And before the what-abouters start up it would be totally unacceptable for any child, any time, including from any political persuasion or point of view.
@PatsKarvelas
Sorry to hear people are behaving that way, PK. It's totally unacceptable but sadly still very common, and no mystery public figures of a certain gender cop it far more than others.
Without strong finances, a country’s best ideas lay dormant, and potential unrealised.
It is a privilege to have been asked to take on the roles of Shadow Finance Minister, and Shadow Minister for the Public Service and Shadow Special Minister for State.
Vexatious claim dismissed.
Petitioner to pay costs.
Nice one, Michael Staindl.
Now perhaps you and your mates can let
@JoshFrydenberg
get on with the job that he was elected to do.
Honoured to have been asked by Prime Minister
@ScottMorrisonMP
to take on an expanded role focussing not just on fintech but on Australia's thriving digital economy. As the PM said, the digital economy is becoming increasingly important for Australia's future & Australian jobs!🇦🇺
If you haven’t broken the law there is nothing to fear. Didnt you say that at ICAC when your closest NSW colleagues were found guilty of corruption?
Ian MacDonald, Tony Kelly, Joe Tripodi, Eddie Obeid. Perhaps Labor have picked the wrong spokesperson on Ensuring Integrity 😂
Spoiler alert: No! It actually allows Australians to invest their own retirement savings in a first home, and return that investment (and a % of capital gain) to their super when they sell. It’s a double win for working Australians.
Super is YOUR money.
#auspol
Liberal
@SenatorHume
explains the coalition's plan to let first home buyers use their super to buy a house. But is it a trap for young people when they get retirement age?
#TheProjectTV
Last year the Coalition delivered an additional $9.4m to the AEC to expand successful programs for additional enrolment and participation the NT. This comment is either unforgivably ignorant, woefully ill-informed, or a blatant lie. Which one
@AlboMP
?
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accuses the former Coalition government of having a "deliberate policy" of voter suppression in the NT. "It's not rocket science...this was straight out of the right-wing Republican playbook."
#auspol
@SBSNews
We all know that despite Labor’s promises, it’s never matched by delivery. And it’s always accompanied by a cost blowout
#BudgetReply
#Budget2020
#auspol
I was 16 when Scott & Charlene got married to an Angry Anderson song. After, they moved to Brisbane (a
Neighbour's euphemism for getting a Stock Aitken Waterman contract) & I stopped watching. Sad to see it go. Kylie a style icon, who may have influenced me just a bit
#Neighbours
Strange that the ALP are wheeling out Wayne ‘4 years of surpluses’ Swan and the put-out-to-pasture Doug Cameron to talk down Australia’s economic response to COVID19. Is
@JEChalmers
in hiding, or unable to get coverage?
Strong interview from
@SwannyQLD
on
@abc730
Calling out the need for more stimulus to create jobs and boost the economy.
I say build affordable public and social housing, delivers jobs and puts a roof over peoples heads.
Albo campaigning today with ALP candidate for Higgins who undermined the vaccine rollout, urged people to wait to get vaccinated & suggested that people not trust vaccine data…& when challenged couldn’t stand it & blocked me. Each way Albo of course says that’s all fine
#auspol
.
@Mon4Kooyong
doesn't know how a Budget works.
We’ve committed $35.5b in Vic infrastructure projects since 2013 & Vic gets 26% of Fed Gov funding for infrastructure over 10 yrs, in line with its population share.
Only
@JoshFrydenberg
can deliver for Vic & the people of Kooyong.
This is pure Liberal-IPA ideology because they hate the very idea of union super funds. That’s it in a nutshell.
@SenatorHume
is a rolled-gold hypocrite, having drawn a livelihood from a superannuation industry built on the historic success of Keating’s superannuation guarantee.
Julia Banks says she wants to support local businesses in
#Flinders
.
How does overriding the Fair Work Commission to increase penalty rates, raising taxes and acquiescing to Sally McManus and the ACTU help local business?
Julia Banks is preferencing...LABOR??
#Hypocrisy
Merry Christmas! These past two years have taught us to focus on the things that matter most. I’ve spoken in the past about my children, Harry, Charlie & Imogen- the conscripts to my political career but also my greatest cheer squad & support. I couldn’t do what I do without them
Only Labor would say accessing your own super savings during a pandemic is a ‘disgrace’. They don’t get it- it’s not their money, or super funds’.
It’s your money. Losing your home is catastrophic Jim, not using some super to pay your bills or mortgage in a crisis
#outoftouch
Yet again, today we heard that Labor’s price cap on gas has brought enormous uncertainty to the market. These measures will result in less investment in supply, ultimately increasing gas prices – which is the opposite of what the ACCC say is needed.
Labor's would-be Treasurer was on
@SkyNewsAust
this afternoon. Critical of the Government's
#JobKeeper
policy, when asked what Labor's alternative would cost... Well it's a non-answer we've seen before.
#SameOldLabor
Albanese, the man with the economics degree whose party has never trusted him with a Treasury portfolio. Never handed down a budget. Backed to the hilt $387bn new or increased taxes.
If you believe this pitch I have a bridge to sell you. You can’t trust Labor with the economy.
The Parliamentary Budget Office has released the 2022 Election commitments report which independently confirmed the Budget will be worse under Labor AND it will cost you more... 1/3
@GemmaTognini
Waiting for some very vocal people on this bird site to come to your defence. Waiting. Waiting.
It’s disgusting. It’s gendered. It must end.
.
@CreaseyLuke
’s posts are simply foul.
@billshortenmp
and
@AustralianLabor
must immediately disendorse him in the seat of Melbourne.
A candidate who makes rape jokes and shares pornographic material online is not welcome in the Australian parliament.
#auspol
I’m sorry, Ollie, did you just say you had an “arrangement” with the Greens? And they dudded you by choosing a credible candidate? And now you’re mad at them because you’re polling so badly? Poor “independent”
@_Oliver_Yates
. What a terrible campaign you’re having.
.
@_Oliver_Yates
: When I went into the competition, we had a different Greens candidate. We had worked out how we were going to manage the arrangement
.
@PatsKarvelas
: Did the change damage the chances of replacing Josh Frydenberg?
OY: That would be the analytical assessment
Keating ‘elitist’ over early super: Hume | Financial Services Minister Jane Hume has savaged former Prime Minister Paul Keating over his “galling” criticism of the government’s early
#superannuation
access scheme.
#ausecon
#coronavirus
Congratulations to
@lidia__thorpe
for achieving preselection for the Australian Greens to replace Senator
@RichardDiNatale
.
As I wrote recently, there is a genuine camaraderie between women in the Senate. Welcome.
What an honour to work alongside the incomparable Marise Payne.
Grace and dignity, diligence and duty, courage and compassion.
An inspiration to so many women, our first female Defence Minister, and a forever friend.
Thank you for everything, Marise.
Yikes Julia. A careless rookie error but also an expensive mistake. Who will pay for reprinting?
@Getup
? Maybe
@alexturnbull
? After giving him preferences surely
@billshortenmp
could chip in?
Her presence, enquiring mind and deep thoughtfulness will be greatly missed, in the Senate but also in the lives of those who loved her dearly. Vale, to a great Australian gone much too soon.
Victoria has been languishing, not leading. Thanks to
@JoshFrydenberg
, and others who spoke up, Dan is now much closer to delivering on the National Plan. Victorians have been terrific, enduring the longest lockdown in the world and getting the jab. Now we need our lives back.
It’s no coincidence that the strong stand taken by
@JoshFrydenberg
, calling for Victoria to be put in the fast lane and given the same freedoms as NSW, preceded a late night scramble by
@DanielAndrewsMP
to ease restrictions.
Read
@australian
’s editorial
Seems the good doctor can’t take her own medicine.
Bit early in the campaign to give up defending her views to a constituent and potential Parliamentary colleague.
@AlboMP
is this how you intend to run your campaign?
This is Labor’s candidate for Higgins.
Labor’s candidate for Higgins undermined the rollout, public confidence in AstraZeneca and more broadly the health advice.
When
@AlboMP
and Labor say they care about people before politics remember this.
Ignore the rot. Get vaccinated.
Jim Chalmers is on the ABC talking down JobKeeper. He says it’s a mess.
Reality is it has helped keep millions in jobs.
Reminder:
@JEChalmers
was Chief of Staff to Wayne ‘these four surpluses’ Swan, architect of cheques to the deceased and pink batts.
Thanks for encouragement but I won’t be running for Higgins. I worked hard to get to the senate, I love it there, & this is a great opportunity to bring extraordinary new talent to the Liberal Party line up. Proud to campaign alongside
@KellyODwyer
& new candidate for Higgins
@Kate_McClymont
Oh I’ve had some doozies! Red ink, orders to immediately cease and MY WILL (always in all caps) letters galore, and predating the pandemic too. And of course the ones full of foul, sexist language and the occasional threat to boot.
This is harassment, not protest.
Anyone who can read a calendar knows that
@JoshFrydenberg
is in Canberra. The only people there are his staff, helping constituents.
To harass and intimidate them like this does nothing to advance XR’s radical agenda, it is just cruel.
#auspol
Extinction Rebellion activists have locked themselves to the door of Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's office and super-glued themselves to the windows.
#9News
Ageed.
1.2 million jobs in 5 years
Unemployment 4.9%
Female participation rate a record high
100,000 jobs for 15-24 yo in 12 mths
AAA ratings from all 3 agencies that actually know something about economic credentials
- All with lower personal tax and lower company tax for SMEs
.
@drkerrynphelps
says it's important to 'interrogate the government's economic credentials' ahead of a budget sitting in parliament, with the federal budget due to be handed down on April 2.
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#FirstEdition