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Is small business having a lend of us? The card transaction cost was a few cents - 0.25 or so, sometimes less, of a purchase. They’re raising prices by dollars. How about they complain to banks for charging a fake fee for costs they barely incur? And they certainly don’t do a good job of keeping the service reliable and equipment up to date. Rather than yelling at government, maybe they need to remember who is charging them and take it up with them instead of charging us as a way to punish government.

The Port of Darwin leased to a Chinese company for 99 years in 2015 The trade minister who negotiated those deals took an $880,000 a year job with that same company the day after he left Parliament

A former WA Premier took jobs with mining giants his government regulated then joined the board of a media company linked to an export deal granted under his watch

A former Prime Minister built renewable energy and storage policy then built a company that profits from it Just 3 different people as there’s many more

Same pattern that’s played out for decades

The only people with the power to write the rules are the ones those rules are meant to hold accountable

That leaves them accountable to no one and not one Australian voted for any of it We need system change Australia Politicians will never change a system they benefit from

This is going to take Australians collectively standing behind system change

Senior Liberals including opposition leader Angus Taylor addressed CPAC in Brisbane while Pauline Hanson dominated the crowd with conservative messaging.

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Angus Taylor (Liberal opposition leader): Taylor urged fractured conservatives at CPAC to focus on ditching the Labor government, attending as the first sitting opposition leader to address the conference.
Pauline Hanson (One Nation senator): Hanson got two standing ovations and called Taylor a "smarmy management consultant", saying the public would not endure him replacing Albanese as PM.

Next · Sunday: Sarah Henderson, Dan Tehan, and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price are due to speak at CPAC in Brisbane.

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Is PHON the new home for everyone who sees voting as a panacea for the wheels falling off the bandwagon of endless upward class mobility? There is a slight issue there with an endless-growth economy needing finite planet to expand into to expedite that endless upward mobility, after all. I met a dude at the pub once who described fascism in terms of a pack middle-class tantrum over busted class mobility bandwagons, seemed pretty on the money.

Labor do nothing else but manage the electorate and manufacture consent after the manner of inverted totalitarianism; the tail wags the dog the same way ACTU-affilliated business unions like the SDA discipline workers on behalf of capital. We want grifters who will protect us from unpalatably complex reality, but the other side of the coin is we have to suffer their rule.

The tories never had any pretences to being anything other than aristocrats; their rigid authoritarianism reflects the incapacity of the corrupt aristocracy of wealth to even adapt as far as rolling class hierarchy turds in egalitarianism glitter, rearranging the deckchairs on the titanic and putting bandaids on cancers. Between the tory stick and the laborite carrot, takers of rat race bribes are typically going to choose a carrot, until the stick-sellers can convince everyone they're in danger and they need stongmen to hide behind.

On that exact count Pauline Hanson dragged John Howard to the right by flanking the tories with xenophobic scapegoating for the systemic inability to force a planetary fit with an endless-growth economy. She obviously has no trouble with the other proto-tories of the ALP since centrists wouldn't know the meaning of standing on principle to save themselves, which is apparently why they can't.

A tense Senate Estimates hearing erupts as Senator James Paterson presses Australian Treasury officials over the deterioration in the underlying cash balance over the medium term, eventually obtaining confirmation of a $54 billion figure. Paterson challenges Treasury’s preference for presenting the deterioration as a percentage of GDP rather than in nominal dollar terms, arguing that Australians deserve to understand the size of the deterioration in actual dollars. Treasury officials explain that medium-term projections use an aggregated methodology and that nominal figures become less meaningful over longer periods, while also pointing to spending commitments including the Health and Hospitals Agreement and the defence precinct at Henderson. The hearing then turns into a political clash over transparency, methodology and whether focusing on the final year of the medium-term period adequately captures the cumulative deterioration. Watch the full exchange between James Paterson, Treasury officials and the government representative.

The amount of candidates for one nation that have allegedly done dodgy things or have said things that marginalized things is crazy.

People would gladly want former criminals and people who are extremely religious instead of people who think long term? I don’t get this.

2017- One Nation picks former Hells Angel bikie as Logan candidate

2025- One Nation rehires convicted rapist to run federal election campaign

Bruce Preece has been accused of domestic abuse, including a charge of breaching an intervention order.

Another candidate, Tyler Green, has made more than a dozen antisemitic, racist or homophobic posts on social media over the past six years.

One nation accuses labor of being antisemitic yet they choose a antisemitic candidate themselves?