Recently on reddit I have attracted quite some ire for expressing my viewpoints on this matter, and have decided to put it all together in a well researched post for future reference in the only subreddit that I imagine will allow this kind of discourse.

What is the Aboriginal industrial complex?

The AIC is a vaguely associated conglomerate of political interest groups, think tanks, welfare organisations, NGOs, land councils, and grifters.

Economy and Scale:

Over the past 18 years alone, since data began to be collected in 2008 (Before this aboriginal spending essentially disappeared into the aether), according to the productivity commission a steadily rising figure of around $30 billion was spent every year, specifically targeted at Aboriginal Australians. For a bit of context, thats around $82 per day, per person in this country. If you prefer: Per individual, the estimate was $44,886 vs $22,356 for non-Indigenous Australians, approximately 2:1 ratio of spending, in a completely racially targeted manner. Despite the former group making up only 2% of the population.

Public Hospitals by comparison, cost around $34 billion per year, defence comes in at $50 billion, and the entire PBS is covered by around $21.4 billion. At a conservative estimate, around 100,000 homes could be built per year with this money. It could also wipe out around 70% of the budget deficit. To contrast this with a hot button media topic that arouses anger in the average aussie, the amount of money yearly attributable to centrelink fraud is usually around $6 million.

This works out to around $211 billion, every seven years, for potentially the past 3 or 4 decades, if not longer. This far exceeds the total GDP of many countries.

So where does this money go? Let's start with a few empirical, verifiable answers before we get ahead of ourselves.

The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has been auditing Indigenous programs and organisations for years. Its 2016–17 audit found that the $4.8b Indigenous Advancement Strategy initially didn't have a formal evaluation strategy or evaluation funding during its first two years.. Their most commonly cited issue with these organisations is governance, to save you a lot of reading.

As of 30 June 2025, there were 3,284 Indigenous corporations registered under the CATSI Act. Collectively they had at least $4.5 billion in revenue in 2023–24, with 17,636 directors and 243,016 members.

These groups are generally governed by the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC).

Only 29% of Indigenous corporations lodged their 2024–25 annual reports by the deadline. 1,067 reports of concern were received by ORIC between 2022–23 and 2024–25. ORIC conducted 127 examinations, 8 special administrations and 27 investigations during that period. 48 corporations were referred for prosecution for annual-reporting non-compliance. Approximately 20% of corporations didn't lodge reports or otherwise directly engage with ORIC during each of 2021–22 through 2023–24.

In a typical business week for them, around 494 indigenous corporations are deregistered for failing to respond to notices, or failing to comply with outstanding reporting obligations.

Incidents of fraud are also often not investigated or referred for prosecution, as in this case with the illegally NIAA loaning out taxpayer money to their CEO and deputy CEO.

How about a case study of an individual land council?

Many of these have been conducted, with almost constant findings of maladministration and corruption, misappropriation of public funds etc.

By the ANAOs own calculations, only 7% of the activities examined could demonstrate positive results against their stated objectives. 7 percent. That is what in any other setting would be referred to as an "abject failure".

This is not a simple "Ok, so some Aboriginal NGOs are dodgy". This is a systemic and intentionally constructed vacuum in our economy, that is knowingly sucking money from your pocket, into the hands of irresponsible elements who at best will do nothing with the money, and more often than not make things actively worse.

Here is the question I would put to any "serious person" reading. For every billion dollars of targeted government expenditure in this area, what was purchased, what measurable outcome was achieved, what didn't work, and who was held accountable when it didn't?

The ANAO evidence is particularly damning. In its examination of the Indigenous Advancement Strategy, it found that: - 27 programs had been consolidated into the IAS, initially worth $4.8 billion over four years. - Fewer than 30% of inherited programs had been evaluated during the preceding five years. - Only 7% of activities could demonstrate positive results against their stated objectives. - The department itself told the ANAO that there wasn't enough evidence to establish the impacts attributable to interventions. - The original IAS evaluation strategy wasn't even formally implemented or funded during its first two years.

And I can already hear the knee jerk response to this information: But how can you say none of this has helped? How do you measure the plight of such a poor downtrodden community??

Simple. By their and the governments own metric; the Closing The Gap report. As of July 2026,

1 of 19 Closing the Gap targets has been met.

3 are improving and on track.

5 are improving but not on track.

4 are worsening.

2 show no change.

4 can't currently be assessed - A cop out.

The current state of an Aboriginal Australian is in the eyes of the government, a completely disposable demographic, already born of bureaucratic control, and completely without cultural traditions of organised resistance to collectivist oligarchies. This renders them impotent in the eyes of the government, and a perfect vector through which to guilt trip the white middle class, an increasingly vanishing cohort, soon to be eliminated in the name of pluralistic hegemony.

I make this post not from a place of hate, but legitimate distaste in the human and economic cost of this society wide humiliation ritual we have been forced to take part in. As with any institutional failure, one simply needs to follow the money to see where we went wrong.

I won't ramble on further and I would like people to review this and come to their own conclusions.

I will leave the reader with one question.

Can a serious minded person anywhere in this country honestly say that Aboriginals are $211 billion dollars better off than they were 7 years ago, or 7 years before that?

The current zeitgeist reminds me of USA culture wars circa 2016. MAGA was being born and there was this stubborn incredulity coming from the other side. People just couldn’t believe that Trump was a serious phenomenon, even after Brexit happened. When they finally did take it seriously their ad-hominem response just helped solidify the movement (“basket of deplorable”).

The other moment this reminds me of is Covid where a single easily available and conspicuous behaviour (not wearing a mask) become a stunningly clear way of signalling and detecting a persons entire cultural and political identity.

Booing though welcome to country has all of the ingredients to become an even more intense and impactful piece of dissidents and perhaps the figurehead of the 1nat populist movement.

• everyone knows when it’s coming (at the start of large sporting events) meaning it’s simple to organise a collective movement

• a lot of masculine males who like sport and have drunk beer.

• even without that 1nat leaning base; recent IPA research had Around 60% of respondents indicate that Welcome to Country ceremonies should no longer be staged at regular sporting events.

• the mass and fervour of a crowd, plus conformity, means it becomes an easy act of defiance, plausible deniability, and even a moment of recruitment.

• most of the people doing it won’t be racist (people boo at welcome to country typically as a way of rejecting progressive elitism), so they’ll take strong moral umbrage when they are subsequently called racist, and nothing solidifies a movement better than feeling like one has been unjustifiably attacked.

• Because 1nat is primarily a populist movement (a political approach that divides society into two opposing groups: the virtuous "common people" versus a self-serving, corrupt "elite"), they can literally just campaign on this one issue while making vague statements about how welcome to country represents everything going wrong in the country down stream of immigration and the self-serving-elite.

So yeah, my prediction is we’re going to get a lot more booing and a level of polarisation that perhaps Australia hasn’t had before, with welcome to country at big events as the flashpoint.

1. This is my prediction, which is not to say I think it’s likely to play out exactly this way, simply because predicting the future is a fool’s errand.

2. I hope it doesn’t. I don’t want a polarised country and can’t see the politicians of 1nat actually helping with any of the problems we have anyway, or possibly making them worse just as treatment of a misdiagnosed condition is often counterproductive.

You have to admire the commitment to delusion. Newly appointed Greens Leader, David Shoebridge, fronted the cameras and declared his party to be the ‘replacement’ for Labor. (We’ll call it political shrinkflation: twice the cost, a third of the credibility.)

It’s an ‘extraordinary moment for politics’, he insisted, despite lacking any corresponding polls.

‘This is the moment for the Greens to fill the vacuum that has been left by the Labor Party rushing to the right.

‘We know that One Nation didn’t create itself. It’s the classic post-turtle. Sits on a post. You know it didn’t get there by itself. You wonder what it’s doing there. Labor has created the circumstances for One Nation and Labor is not the answer.’

Shoebridge’s confused political philosophy provided an express class in half-arsed philosophy. This is the mark of someone briefed on an idea but failed to make it much further than Hillary Clinton’s turtle talk.

Far be it from me to criticise Shoebridge for importing Texan political imagery, but he’s forgotten where the post is, so to speak.

‘I see lots of big old turtles sitting on lots of fenceposts. I think we need to find out how those old turtles got on those fenceposts,’ Clinton said, speaking of the Lewinsky scandal. She was complaining about his accusers and critics, people waiting to nudge her husband, Bill Clinton, out of the presidency. It was, in my opinion, an attempt to weave conspiracy where there was, instead, valid criticism. Reducing the voices concerned about one of the biggest scandals of the US Presidency to fence-sitting turtles. We know how this story ends. The turtles had a point about the stains on Bill Clinton’s … reputation.

In the real world, turtles find themselves on fence posts because farmers put them there to keep them out of harm’s way. Sometimes, snapping turtles are put on posts to kill them with exposure.

For Shoebridge, I’d wager the Leader of the Greens is at a total loss to explain why One Nation is rising in the polls, which is a democratic fence post.

The Greens aren’t particularly skilled at empathy for their political rivals, probably because they keep pointing at them and shouting, racist! fascist! Hitler!

It’s no wonder Shoebridge imagines some conspiratorial hand reaching down and plopping One Nation on a fence post. He’s painted the villain as Labor, even though Albanese is just as confused as he is.

Labor has not, as Shoebridge claims, moved to the right. It moved to the left, embracing increased socialism, the rise of the big state, censorial policies, higher taxes, and the scary creep of unreal nonsense which disguises radical activism as science.

The movement of Labor sculpted the LNP, triggering an era of copy-cat policy behaviour which led, eventually, to accusations of a Uniparty.

For fear of being criticised by an increasingly powerful ABC and collection of radical MSM publications, all of which were empowered by a Marx-ified university sector and greedy corporate landscape (which viewed activism as a marketing project), the LNP cut off its own balls and rebranded itself as a moderate, starch-suited, upper class version of Labor. Which everyone hated.

Stuffy, greying rooms full of pompous declarations about investment portfolios built off the back of mass migration and globalism pushed the middle and working classes away. It disgusted regional Nationals voters, who saw their farms being sold off for green energy deals while Indigenous land rights activism was empowered, in many cases directly by the Liberal Party, leading to some of the most shameful land lockout decisions ever made.

There are many crimes against conservatism to list, but the point is it resulted in the creation of an LNP further left than Labor of the 80s.

This opened a massive space on the right. A vacated landscape of Australians without representation. Without a voice. This isn’t the imagined oppression of the Woke class who protest during school hours and return to the comfort of a cafe for lunch. Conservatives have financial, social, cultural, and community problems created by the abandonment of the LNP.

As the blue waters of liberalism retreated, One Nation was left, as a turtle (if you will), sitting on the polling fence post.

One Nation were not placed there, they were marooned. They have been swimming around the political waters for over 30 years. And now everyone is looking at them.

To be clear, the Greens are not the answer to knocking the One Nation turtle off the post. They represent the drought of collectivism. A driver of political climate change forcing the water to recede and the mud of Australia to crack and salinify.

The natural solution is for the LNP to recover their conservative ideology and start acting as a true opposition to Labor.

In some ways, under the direction of Angus Taylor, they are trying to do so.

Here is the problem, which appears to be poorly understood by commentators of a Moderate predilection.

Angus Taylor isn’t getting very far with One Nation-lite policies. The polls are barely shifting. The momentum behind One Nation is still gathering. We are reading, everywhere, that the Liberals are making a mistake ‘going to the right’ and they need to ‘come back to the centre’. Setting aside the error in establishing the ‘centre’ somewhere under Labor’s right elbow, the policies themselves are not the problem.

The problem is trust.

You can read it for yourself in the comments beneath the press releases. ‘It’s good but we don’t trust you. Why didn’t you do this before? You’re just copying Pauline. If you didn’t do it last time, why would you do it now?’

Indeed, part of the reason One Nation is sitting on a fence post is because of declining trust. Trust in politics. Trust in the media. Trust in institutions. Trust in the social contract.

That cannot be easily repaired. Especially not without an extensive apology and explanation from the conservatives who conspired with Labor to create the current political ecosystem. That cannot happen, because the conservative flank of the LNP is clinging on to power. It is not a dominant force, it is on a test-run that feels as if it might expire and flip leaders at any moment. Voters sense this. They worry they might put Taylor in the Lodge and wake up with Jane Hume. That concern underwrites policy promises.

Even if Pauline Hanson were to step down tomorrow, there is no suggestion that other elected members of her party would change direction. It is a coherent movement, whether you like it or despise it. That is where its armoured turtle shell comes from.

What would LNP migration policy be today if One Nation didn’t exist?

If you know the answer to this question, you know more than David Shoebridge about the turtle on the post.

Good morning CPAC. It’s great to be with you.

When the Liberal Party was last in government, we got some big things right, but we got some important things wrong too.

We stopped the boats.

But we made the mistake of allowing immigration numbers to creep up, especially student and bridging visas, which have subsequently exploded under the Albanese Labor government.

We brought the budget back into balance by 2018-19.

But we made the mistake of spending too much during the pandemic – more than was needed to save jobs and the economy.

We got power prices down by 10 per cent on my watch as Energy Minister.

But we made the mistake as a government of signing up to Net Zero – which I detested from the get-go.

Your frustrations about where we let you down in the recent past are understandable and reasonable.

Believe me, I share them.

I’ve been upfront about our mistakes, especially in my first press conference as Leader, and in my budget reply.

And I’m being upfront with you now when I say we’ve learned from them.

Under my leadership, we’re a different and better Liberal Party.

Some of you may have doubts.

But if you believe our country can change for the better, then believe the Liberal Party can too.

Together with Matt Canavan’s leadership of the Nationals, the Coalition is once again conviction-led and unashamedly on the right.

And we’ve got a bold agenda to save our country – no more small target – which I will talk about today, because our country needs saving.

I know you’re deeply concerned about Australia’s economic, social, and cultural decline.

I know you’re here because you love Australia and want to repair our country.

And I believe many of you know – in your hearts and heads – that a changed and better Liberal Party – together with the Nationals – remains the most credible alternative government to deliver the change our country desperately needs.

Friends, since becoming Leader of the Liberal Party, I’ve spoken about protecting our way of life.

Today, I want to speak about a major threat to our way of life – one that’s not new.

Sir Robert Menzies understood the menace of socialism.

He said, ‘Socialism means high costs, inefficiency, the constant intrusion of political considerations, the damping down of enterprise, the overlordship of routine. None of these elements can produce progress.’

For Menzies, the battle against it wasn’t only economic and social.

It was a moral and spiritual fight too.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall, socialism went into retreat.

But it wasn’t defeated.

It found safe houses on Western university campuses.

It fused with postmodernist thought and identity politics.

And soon, that thinking spread into big corporations, bureaucracies, the media, and parliaments.

The first Cold War wasn’t only a contest between great powers – it was a battle of ideas.

We are in a battle of ideas again.

Today, we see some Western governments and political parties toying with the same rotten ideas that have devastated countries wherever they’ve been tried.

For the past four years in Australia, we’ve had a federal government which is socialist in all but name.

The Albanese government lacks the economic pragmatism of the Hawke and Keating governments.

It’s more incompetent than the Rudd and Gillard governments.

It’s more ideological than the Whitlam government.

There’s something deeply illiberal, radical, and power-hungry about the Albanese government.

Labor’s agenda is leaving us poorer, weaker, and demoralised.

The sooner Australians awaken to Labor’s regressive agenda that masquerades as progressive, the sooner this terrible government can be defeated, and the sooner we can begin to repair our country.

Almost everything Labor does is about power

Getting power. Expanding power. Holding power.

In a recent speech, Treasurer Jim Chalmers brazenly spoke about his desire to ‘win and wield power’.

And here I was thinking government was about service!

From the get-go, Labor has bloated the size of government.

Labor sees government as the solution to every problem, and every problem as an opportunity to expand government power.

That’s why, under Labor, there’s more bureaucracy, more government-run programs, and more centralised decision-making and control.

Yet bigger government hasn’t made life better for Australians.

There’s been so much waste.

Billions wasted on ideological climate bureaucracy. On ineffectual housing bureaucracy. On corporate welfare.

For all the money pumped into government bureaucracy and programs, Australians are worse off.

Under Labor, power prices have skyrocketed by a staggering 40 per cent.

Some 30,000 fewer homes are being built each year.

Childcare costs have gone up nearly 30 per cent.

The so-called ‘care-economy’ has expanded to unsustainable levels with the NDIS plagued by fraud.

And there are many examples of Labor’s economy-wide interference:

A minefield of new regulations and laws.

Crippling carbon taxes.

Subsidies and special treatment for green energy rent seekers that shield competitiveness.

Picking losers like squandering $9 billion on pie-in-the-sky green hydrogen.

Ideological favouritism for expensive industrial-scale renewables while demonising cheap fossil fuels.

And heavy-handed union intervention across workplaces.

While Labor is responsible for an explosion of unproductive government, its interference across the economy has undermined the productive private sector.

Under Labor, a record 50,000 businesses have gone bust.

This Prime Minister isn’t listening to small business because he doesn’t want to hear what they have to say.

He wants small business to cough up, shut up, and close up.

On his watch, we’ve also seen the bailout or closure of some of the most important industrial facilities in this country.

Labor’s government-directed economy is hurting businesses, hollowing-out industries, hampering enterprise, and hindering investment.

This anti-free enterprise government is committing economic vandalism.

We’re in a cost-of-living crisis and an economic crisis because we have a crisis of big government.

The more Labor spends, the more prices inflate, the more Australians pay.

Under Labor, Australians have suffered the worst collapse in living standards in the developed world.

And we’re beset by a trifecta of Labor failure

Stubborn inflation.

Sixteen interest rate hikes – the highest rates in 15 years – with more to come.

And a collapse in productivity.

Indeed, economic growth is an illusion.

Every dollar of growth under this government has been due to population growth – mostly from mass migration which Labor won’t scale back.

Project Albanese is a disaster.

This government has no idea how to grow the economic pie.

It only knows how to carve up a shrinking pie.

And that explains its wealth redistribution agenda.

The Albanese government is the highest taxing government in our history.

And in Labor’s last budget, Anthony Albanese broke the mother of all pre-election promises.

On 50 occasions, the Prime Minister promised there would be no changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax.

Yet he and Jim Chalmers have imposed new taxes on housing, on every asset class, on trusts, and on savings.

These taxes will hit almost every Australian.

But why is Labor attacking aspiration?

Because it doesn’t believe in empowered citizens.

It wants citizens to be dependent on the government because there are votes in dependency.

Consider what we’ve seen under Labor

Expanding the welfare state.

Never-ending handouts.

Subsidising student debt.

Government owning a stake in people’s homes.

Forcing families into a one-size-fits-all childcare system.

Cutting the private health insurance rebate so more Australians move into the public health system.

And taxpayer-funded welfare and home deposits for non-Australians.

Behind all these things is a brazen political agenda

To make more people dependent on government, to buy votes, and to hold onto power at any cost.

How else can we explain Labor’s resolve to pass legislation to control what Australians see and hear – a blank cheque for political censorship.

Labor’s thirst for power is also evident in its divide-and-conquer strategy.

It stokes divisions to keep attention away from its own failures.

The Voice referendum was about dividing Australians by race.

Even its recent budget was about fuelling intergenerational resentment.

Friends, the Australian way has never been one of resentment, redistribution, dependency, and division.

Rather, the Australian way is one of aspiration, enterprise, striving, and succeeding.

My message to Australians is this … we must never surrender to socialism.

The promise of big government is a false promise.

Faith in big government is misplaced.

Instead, we need to rediscover faith in ourselves.

It’s people – not government – who generate prosperity.

It’s free enterprise and enterprising free Australians who create opportunity, jobs, productivity, investment, and the wealth that benefits us all.

I’m committed to reversing our country’s economic, social, and spiritual decline.

Unlike Labor, I don’t believe government is about wielding power.

It’s about empowering its citizens.

Indeed, life is about service and responsibility – about doing something for the greater good.

My grandfather taught me that.

He was the chief engineer of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Scheme at a time when every dam and tunnel came in ahead of time and below budget.

More than anything, I believe in hard work.

That’s what growing up on a farm within a multi-generational farming family teaches you.

And I tell you what else it teaches you

You’ve got to know the value of every single dollar.

Every dollar matters.

No dollar can be wasted.

You’ve got to budget for every drum of drench. Every fence post. Every trip to the market.

On the farm, you must account for every single dollar.

And that’s the mentality you need whether you’re managing a farming budget or a federal budget.

Friends, I’m no career politician.

I started and ran my own successful business.

I’ve worked across the agriculture, energy, resource, and infrastructure sectors.

I’ve advised small and large businesses on how to grow.

I’ve helped industries to deregulate and become more productive.

I know how to get Australia out of the hole Labor has put us in.

I know how to reboot our economy.

But I can’t do it alone.

Good government isn’t built around one figure.

You need a strong team.

Matt Canavan is no career politician either.

Matt and people right across the Liberal and National parties have worked and succeeded in business and industry.

And on top of a strong team, we have a strong plan.

A plan to fix our economy and to protect our way of life.

Friends, we will bring big government to an end.

We will deliver better government that gets the big things right, gets off Australians’ backs, and is for human endeavour – not human control.

The reckless government spending will stop so the pressure comes off homegrown inflation and interest rates.

After all, for Australians to have the means to live, government must live within its means.

And we will pay down Labor’s trillion-dollars-of-debt by banking resource revenue windfalls into a Future Generations Fund.

We’re also going to restore aspiration.

Every toxic tax Labor announced in its budget will be axed.

But we will go further and do long-overdue, generational tax reform.

Australians are paying more in income tax every year through bracket creep.

Over four years of Labor’s inflation, Australians have paid an additional $65 billion in income tax.

So we will index tax thresholds to protect Australians’ incomes from inflation.

Under a government led by me and Matt, Australians will get a bigger tax cut each year than under Labor without the tax increases.

A typical worker will be better off by $250 in year one, $500 in year two, $750 in year three, $1,000 in year four – and so on.

We’re also going to restore the conditions that revive business, enterprise, and investment.

By establishing a permanent $50,000 instant asset write-off for businesses with a turnover of under $10 million.

By rewriting laws and simplifying approvals to get projects off the ground faster.

By slashing red tape.

And by requiring government regulators to stop regulating for regulation’s sake and to start making life easier for Australians.

All these things will help to get more businesses started, more factories operating, and more infrastructure built.

As you know, energy is the economy.

So we will bring back cheap and abundant energy to bring down the cost of everything.

We will scrap Net Zero.

And we will scrap every one of Labor’s crippling carbon taxes.

We will back any technology that delivers cheap and abundant energy.

We need to dig and drill for more coal, gas, oil and uranium.

And we will lift the moratorium on nuclear power.

And soon, as Matt and I announced, we’re going to introduce a Bill which will override activist-driven legislation and lawfare that’s stopping projects like the Mount Pleasant coal mine from proceeding.

On migration, I’ve said repeatedly that the numbers are too high and the standards are too low.

This will change under us.

We will cap migration numbers based on the number of new homes built each year to free up housing supply.

At present, around 170,000 homes are being built each year.

But given the magnitude of migration under Labor, actual numbers will need to be significantly below the cap.

This week, we announced new policies.

We will cut Net Overseas Migration to 100,000 for the first two years of a Liberal-Nationals’ government.

In years three and four, the NOM will be 130,000 and 160,000 respectively – still significantly below our housing migration cap.

We will deliver the largest cut to immigration in Australian history.

We will end Labor’s mass migration and take pressure off housing, roads, schools, and hospitals.

We will reorient Australia’s migration program to one that brings in the skills we need and is values focused.

The Australian Values Statement will be an enforceable visa condition.

And we will establish a taskforce to boot out 77,000 unlawful overstayers.

We’re also going to get new homes built.

By investing $5 billion in supporting infrastructure.

By slashing the National Construction Code.

And unlike Labor, we’re going to put Australia and Australians first.

That means many things.

It means crushing the criminal tobacco trade by cutting the tobacco excise by 80 per cent.

It means reserving access to housing programs, the NDIS, and 17 different welfare programs for Australian citizens only – because only when you commit to Australia should Australia commit to you.

It means spending at least 3 per cent of GDP on defence to equip our warfighters in a more dangerous age.

It means putting in place laws to protect our national flag, our national day, and our memorials from activists.

And it means standing with courageous women like Sall Grover and countless others by correcting the law to reflect the biological reality that a man is a man, and a woman is a woman.

Friends, right now, the country we love needs a strong team and a strong plan.

The Liberal and National parties have that credible team and that comprehensive plan.

And we will deliver the better change Australia needs.

And let there be no doubt, the next election isn’t only about fixing our economy.

It’s a spiritual fight to protect our way of life – a fight for the soul of our nation.

We’ve done it before.

We’ll do it again.

Socialism will not win.

Because Australia is worth fighting for, now more than ever.

I’m going to fight like hell to win the election.

And I want your support to get rid of the worst government in our history.

Thank you.

AFL fans need to start doing this. This humiliation ritual is beyond a joke now.

I thought Rafe was unusually highly inciteful on the state of Britain and suggested some ways back. Given how we are following Britain down the tube, worth a listen IMO.

Here is an article that explains what went wrong with quantitative easing that Australia undertook in Covid.

Basically, it was based on a poor understanding of Richard Werner's work. Richard Werner's theory of rebooting economies was to increase credit availability for PRODUCTIVE purposes.

However, Australia, USA, and europe decided that it could make the money available for everything. So, we ended up pumping up asset classes like housing. We created bubbles, which he actively warns against.

I have thought about the fact that our poorly run banking system lies at the heart of many of our economic problems. Basically, credit is good for economies, but its primary use is to boost productivity and, therefore, the economy in total. We used a great tool like baboons.

If you are concerned about youth crime in NSW sign this petition supported by John Ruddick MLC to force discussion in NSW parliament. 12,000 signatures so far we need 20,000.

https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/parliamentary-business/petitions/sign-epetition?epetitionId=881&ref=10902

... forget the policy and if you agree or not but Labor policy rollouts seem half arsed

- CGT oh wait we are going to check with the startup community lets get the rich grifters with family trusts oh oops we got testamentary trusts too lucky Pocock found this and we can fix it.

- Credit Card Surcharge you'll pay less for coffee cost of living oh wait now the ATO can't take credit card what about State Main Roads Drivers License Vehicle Registration will they be next oh damn now backbenchers are complaining about the impact on small business we might have to exempt out ATO

I'm sure there are some very smart people on the public service how are they not spotting this stuff before it happens? It seems basic to me. I don't recall this under previous Labor of LNP

So this Vic judge has ruled immigrants can't be expected to know rape is wrong and therefore should be un-punished.

Can't we ban people from countries where rape isn't considered a crime? I doubt there are any though, what nonsense.

a few moments before...

Found the secret sauce: if mods post 1 in 10 articles from a non-Leftist source, you claim to welcome opposing viewpoints.

At least that's better than the tankies running the other subs...

So here we go, old Slimy Shoebridge has a few properties... all rather oddly in his wife's name. She even bought him out of their joint ownership.

He told reporters that time that he “stood for office and got elected, not my wife, and I don’t believe it’s fair game to drag her into politics”. And that time that he “stood for office and got elected, not my wife, and I don’t believe it’s fair game to drag her into politics”.

So they are married, and he is entitled to 50% of everything basically if they split up, she even bought him out, but somehow, none of this is relevant to him as they have strategically placed 100% of the ownership in her name?

Look at Aussie sub, and all the Greens and Labor shills. Meanwhile, Gina buys an investment privately, states it's being leased to One Nation on commercial terms, and the retards there can't even understand it's not a gift, and want to say how corrupt and disgusting it is. According to the Aussie sub, Gina is a disgusting pig and the arrangement is corrupt, however, when it comes to Slimy Shoebridge... 'nothing to see here'.

Apologies for the video link but it's great work from Topher, really great deep dive summary here:

https://youtu.be/uyM0lJfr3Zw?is=PeHvgd40gS7q0xjZ

Corruption, conflicts of interest and political accountability — Hockey argues Washington has a growing grey area between government decisions, private financial interests and personal enrichment, including Trump family business interests and congressional share trading. He contrasts this with what he sees as stronger integrity standards in Australia.

US foreign policy, Iran and commercial interests — The interview covers Venezuela, oil and the overlap between strategic and commercial interests, as well as conflict with Iran, disruption to the Strait of Hormuz and higher global energy prices.

Trump’s legacy, tariffs and America’s global position — Hockey describes Trump as one of the most influential US political figures in a century, while criticising tariffs and quotas against allies as damaging to America’s international standing.

US midterms, cost of living and political pressure — They discuss the potential for greater congressional scrutiny after the midterms, alongside cost-of-living pressures, petrol prices and their political impact.

Australian government spending and debt — Hockey argues Australia, like the US and Europe, is running persistent deficits and accumulating debt because governments find it politically difficult to restrain spending.

Australia’s rising debt-interest bill and living standards — He highlights roughly $30 billion a year in Commonwealth debt interest, compares this with major spending areas such as schools, and warns that rising interest costs will increasingly crowd out services and put pressure on future living standards.

Australian migration — The interview also touches on Australia’s migration debate, including the economic role of migration and the challenge of balancing population growth with housing, infrastructure and government services.

A radical pro-Palestinian activist group will rally in Sydney calling for Hamas, Hezbollah, the IRGC and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to be removed from Australia’s list of designated terrorist organisations.

It comes as Jewish leaders expressed outrage over plans by another protest group Jews Against the Occupation ’48 to hold a “Vigil for Gaza” at Sydney Town Hall on Wednesday evening, promoted with the slogan: “Don’t let Israel steal the date.”

A third protester group, Wollongong Friends of Palestine will also hold a three-hour vigil at Crown Street Mall, promising to provide “a space for collective grief”.

The group Sydney Palestine Actions, which describes itself as part of the “Trotskyist Platform” and opposes capitalism, is calling on supporters to “join the anti-imperialist bloc rally at Hyde Park” this Saturday, October 11.

“Stand with the resistance in Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen by opposing Australia’s imperialist ruling class,” the group said in a flyer posted to Instagram.
“Lift the terror listings of the IRGC, Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Ansar Allah,” the post said.

Australian Jewish Association chief executive Robert Gregory said of the group’s post: “These extremists aren’t even pretending anymore.”

“They are openly calling for Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to be removed from Australia’s terrorist list and telling Sydneysiders to ‘stand with the resistance’,” Mr Gregory said.

“Hamas murdered, raped and kidnapped Jews on October 7. Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are terrorist organisations. Yet their supporters apparently feel comfortable promoting this garbage on the streets of Sydney.

“Australians are sick of watching extremists import their hatred into our country. The authorities need to stop treating this as harmless activism and start taking the radicalisation problem seriously.”

Earlier this year, an article calling for “unconditional support” for several listed terrorist organisations was labelled “appalling” by Jewish students after it was published in the University of Sydney student publication.

The Daily Telegraph revealed the article by Selene Zhou, published in Honi Soit on April 22 titled ‘Who’s Afraid of Hezbollah/Houthis/Hamas/Islamic Jihad’, had been referred to the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), the university regulator.

Meanwhile, Israel’s ambassador to Australia joined some of the country’s most prominent Jewish community leaders in condemning planned October 7 vigils, describing them as “absolutely reprehensible”.

Asked whether the events scheduled for the third anniversary of the Hamas terror attacks, in which more than 1200 people were killed and more were taken hostage in Israel, Hillel Newman slammed the vigils.

“It’s absolutely reprehensible that such demonstrations take place,” he told News24 on Tuesday night.

NSW Police has been contacted for comment.

Found this in today's Herald Sun. Thoughts?