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I tweet about life, the universe, and everything that takes my fancy. Known to be sarcastic. Free market economist.
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Forecasting recession will soon be illegal in Australia
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Pro-lockdown activists now annoyed that other people are disrupting their lives.
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When otherwise respectable middle class people engage in street protests - and get arrested for doing so - the government is in trouble.
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Foreign investors should reflect that the Australian government deported Djokovic because they didn't like his views - not because he broke Australian law or was a danger to the community.
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Until Covid many Australians thought we had competent government.
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'VicPol not required to wear their masks when shooting at protesters.' Via
@TimQMLCNorthVic
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Foreigners can come to Australia, but Australians can't go to WA. Makes you wonder why we have a federal government or constitution at all.
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Serious question - how is this legal? The Reserve Bank Act 1959 s36(1) 'Australian notes are a legal tender throughout Australia.'
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Looking forward to sensible actual liberals in Canberra.
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Government finally realises that people who not actually ill can go to work. Two years, several lockdowns, and billions in public debt later ...
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Dan Andrews finally ran out of everyone else's money.
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High speed rail from the same people who promised us high speed internet.
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I'm not going to be lectured on Nazism by a man whose police force harassed Jews on their high holy days.
I want to be very clear here.
Nazis, racists and bigots have no place in politics.
They have no place in our parliament.
And they have no place in our state.
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If it is safe enough for a nurse to hold the hands of dying Covid patients why isn't it safe for a family member to do so?
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Ugly aspects of the Australian psyche on display. Envy and tall-poppy syndrome.
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Deported in case he 'excites' anti-vaxxers. I think everyone is excited already.
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First time in human history that a Canberra resident has worried about cost or where the money is coming from. 🤣🤣🤣
Things we don't know about the Coalition's nuclear delay tactics:
1. The cost
2. Where the $ would come from
3. Where waste would go
4. Whether the plants are feasible
5. How states will be convinced
6. Who will pay the price of higher bills
7. What impacted communities think
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'Forced' by whom?
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I never thought I'd ever need to vote against Apartheid, again, in my lifetime.
But here we are.
I do know, and I voted 'No'.
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Internal polling must be showing that people have had enough.
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With monarchy there is a risk that the head of state will be a moron. With a republic there is a guarantee the head of state will be a political moron.
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All those 'it's okay to punch a nazi' lefties suddenly condemning political violence.
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How politicians and 'top economists' view the lockdown.
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So the question is: How can an Australian retailer, operating in Australia, refuse to accept Australian notes in payment for goods and services?
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The fact that non-academics can become vice-chancellors of universities tells you it's not about education anymore.
Can't believe Bill Shorten has been made Vice Chancellor of a university. I thought it was bad enough when Julie Bishop was made the figurehead (Chancellor) of ANU - but at least we then had a Nobel Laureate as Vice Chancellor! But a Vice Chancellor who has not been a professor?
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Repeat after me: "You have no right of privacy against your own government. Any information you give the government is public information." Never believe anything else.
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So the world may have suddenly changed and a whole bunch of rent-seekers may be sitting on stranded assets.
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'Despite confining Victorians to their homes for 23 hours a day, Victoria had more COVID-19 deaths than any other state, in absolute and per capita terms.'
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Jobkeeper is now over. Lockdown is not going to be a paid holiday. Expect to see more resistance to State government overreaction.
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How about petrol stations display the pre-tax price of petrol?
Do you think the big supermarkets should have to display the price they’re paying the farmer for the meat, milk or vegetables alongside the price they’re charging customers?
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You don't have to be religious to wish someone well. Just a decent human being.
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So Labor get to appoint a hard-left party operative to a non-political position and it's everyone else who are stuck in the dark ages?
This is a game everyone can play. Then the same people wonder why trust in institutions is falling.
Those who criticise Sam Mostyn based on her views or sex are stuck in the dark ages of division:
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After nine years of John Howard's B-team government we're getting Rudd-Gillard's B-team government. Who isn't excited?
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State premiers have treated their federally funded health care systems as state fiefdoms. The federal government has condoned this expropriation of Australian citizenship rights from day one.
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Before the last election, the now government promised to bring down electricity prices by $275. Today my company told me my electricity bill was going up by $793. That is a $1069 difference from what I was promised.
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In images not seen in the western world since the 1930s Australian police break up Jewish worshippers celebrating Rosh Hashanah.
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Magnificent analogy.
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Nobody agreed to be governed. That's why the government have guns.
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I'm not going to be lectured on Nazi's by a man whose police force fired on unarmed protesters.
I want to be very clear here.
Nazis, racists and bigots have no place in politics.
They have no place in our parliament.
And they have no place in our state.
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Spare a thought for all those people who today are ashamed to be Australian. They can't even emigrate to New Zealand.
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Will this ban include Che Guevara t-shirts and the hammer and sickle?
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Judges who actually enforce the constitution? What a crazy idea.
Most of the Supreme Court justices seem inclined to side with free speech.
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If every student had to include the Lord's Prayer on their assignments or recite the Lord's Prayer before every lecture people would very quickly understand what's going on here.
Woke Australia: “Monash University has backed down on a policy requiring students to include an Acknowledgement of Country on assignments or lose marks.”
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Does the ABC have to pay fringe benefits tax? Why isn't this taxable income to Louise Milligan?
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I had such high hopes for Vivek. Clearly a poor judge of character.
There aren’t many people who understand the modern CCP better than former Australian PM & current Ambassador Kevin Rudd. We talked about his upcoming book "On Xi Jinping" and my new book "Truths." We don’t agree on every issue, but I respect Kevin as a man who has served his
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Australian government claims that a foreign multinational corporation has the responsibility to keep Australians informed. Okay - so why are we paying $ 1 billion a year for the ABC?
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Look on the bright side: the government issuing so much debt to pay for child care means that those kids will end up having paid for their own child care.
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There are respectable economic arguments for nationalised nuclear power.
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Like promising to deliver the Stage 3 tax cuts in full?
That was a lie.
You shouldn’t be allowed to lie to win an election.
Electoral reform in 🇦🇺 is long overdue.
Let’s get it done - and done right - before the next election.
Huge thanks to
@ZaliSteggall
for all the work she has done leading this push.
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The ABC pays no income tax at all.
Lots of multinational companies use legal means to reduce the amount of tax they pay. If governments supported companies that paid more generously, it might shift the dial on what's considered acceptable.
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Your semi-regular reminder - government does not create jobs.
We’ve created more new jobs than any first term government on record.
Our plan means more people in work, earning more and keeping more of what they earn.
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Australia's new governor-general, on a salary of $700k+, is worried about the cost of living and growing inequality.
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Am I the only person who had never heard of Tenacious D?
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Australian federal Senator detained by police. This is what liberal democracy has come to.
BREAKING: Senator Alex Antic escorted from Adelaide Airport to a medi-hotel and 14 days quarantine after he was granted an exemption reserved for unvaccinated travellers. Last week PM confidently said “Alex is double-dose vaccinated”. More soon via
@theTiser
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ABC reporters are not "captured" by Greens lobbyists. They ARE Greens lobbyists.
The ABC has been on an anti-Adani crusade for years, its reporters captured by Greens lobbyists and unable to deal with the issue, or the company, fairly, writes Chris Mitchell
#auspol
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The Liberals - always leading you on but never failing to disappoint in the end.
Peter Dutton will not leave the Paris agreement and is committed to the Coalition’s net zero by 2050 pledge:
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David Attenborough has a bachelor degree. Sussan Ley has a Masters.
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I seldom use cash myself - usually pay by card anyway. But that isn't the point.
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If you don't like those rules the government will make up other rules.
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@jkalbrechtsen
For $1 billion we're getting the best incompetence money can buy.
#envyoftheworld
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Hopefully, when this is all over, Australian politicians won't just be humbled, they will have been humiliated.
Unlikely though - they have no shame.
Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has blasted X owner Elon Musk’s response to the Australian government’s orders as “not fair and not right”.
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It's not enough that the Police - who were following orders - be prosecuted. The people giving those orders should be prosecuted too.
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A reminder why the Australian government doesn't want people vaping.
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Once upon a time causing the loss of a major client or sponsor was a sackable offence.
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Day 2 of the election and star candidate has already taken cover.
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First they came for the free speech activists and the journos remained quiet. Then they came for the journos and the free speech activists laughed and laughed.
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The treatment of Gigi Foster was nothing short of scandalous. The toxic culture on display reflects poorly on the economics profession.
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All points are false. Retirees will now pay company tax rate of 30% on their marginal dollar. Refunds cost other taxpayers and the government nothing. It was never entitled to the money.
1. Not a tax and no one will pay more tax.
2. 4% of Australians who don’t pay tax are given these government payments based on how many shares they own. 96% of Australians pay for it.
3. These payments currently cost around $6b of TAXPAYERS money and will soon cost $8b.
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What? These people?
Neo- Nazis dressed in black and cowardly wearing masks, give the Hitler salute at an anti migration rally in Melbourne. What an insult to Australian values and to the children and grand children of countless Australians, born or migrated here, who fought the evil of Nazism.
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Literally nobody could have foreseen this happening: "The high price of cigarettes is driving illegal chop-chop tobacco crime syndicates"
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We need a government that stops spending money.
We need a government that spends taxpayers’ money in the national interest, not in their own interest.
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This is elite snobbery. Why shouldn't a bowls club not be a multi-million $ business?
Liberal candidate for Dunkley Nathan Conroy has come under fire for saying he ran a multi-million dollar company at the age of 24. It was a bowls club.
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Remember the Australian population is unarmed.
Since when do we need machine guns on display at the Domestic Terminal luggage collection of Brisbane Airport?
This photo was taken this evening, and I have to say I felt intimidated…
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Mind you - you do have to enjoy the irony of an elected Senator arguing that she didn't agree to be governed while voting for laws that govern everyone else.
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The words of the Australian national anthem got changed from 'young and free' to 'one and free' earlier this year. The Feds forgot to notify the State premiers.
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The author of this tweet is an employee of the government owned Australian Broadcasting Corporation. This is what unbiased reporting looks like.
Completely humiliating for the Coalition.
Vindication for a Premier & a party winning 3 fixed terms in a row.
(Done before in Aus?)
Media who wrote conspiracy theories & fuelled them & said this was the worst govt in Oz history might want to ask themselves some questions.
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Why stop there? Maybe they could be imprisoned? Shot in the streets? Have their leaders arrested? Oh wait ...
Can we all now agree that anti vaxxers should be discouraged and condemned, strongly and forcefully, whoever and wherever they are, by all political leaders? Not just selectively.
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What? People don't trust the government! Like this is a bad thing?
High-profile independent Zali Steggall has warned that Australia is at risk of a movement of people not trusting the government and the election process.
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How is that short sharp lockdown working for you?
Reported yesterday: 1,965 new local cases and 0 cases acquired overseas.
- 41,177 vaccines administered
- 73,443 test results received
- Sadly, 5 people with COVID-19 have died
More later:
#COVID19Vic
#COVID19VicData
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Journalists who don't sponge off the taxpayer? Journalists who have to attract paying customers?
There’s something about this photo … can’t quite put my finger on it.
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International Investors beware: Australian courts will not enforce property rights.
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Everyone is calling out Dan Andrews as a hypocrite - cooking with gas when his government is about to ban gas in new homes. ... but look closely. This is another staged photo - that cook top is not switched on.
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'Arbitrary authoritarian rule, supported by a politicised police force and a compliant media is no way to live.'
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Surely police breaking up anti-vax rallies would be vaccinated themselves?
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Yes - stamp duty should be banned. Land tax too.
Do you think access to affordable housing should be a legislated human right?
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I can't believe US inflation is still so high after the Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act.
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A wake up call to all those people who claim no trade-off between the economy and public health.
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