WHY CAN’T BANKS WEAR THE COST OF CREDIT CARD FEES INSTEAD OF SMALL BUSINESSES OR THE TAXPAYER This whole credit card fee schmoozle has just been a massive cost shifting exercise from the banks onto the taxpayer and small business. Jim Chalmers needs to resign over this and if he doesn’t then Albanese should sack him. Why should banks be getting a free pass in the middle of a cost of living crisis? The return on equity of the banks is greater than 10% or in excess of $40 billion despite being backed by the taxpayer whenever things get shaky. If anyone can absorb the costs of credit cards it’s the banks. It’s bad enough that Labor is ideologically flawed, but to know the impacts of these costs on small business and do nothing about it is unforgivable. It’s time to stop pandering to the big banks. Sign up to Peoplefirstparty.au to take a stand. •••••••••••••••• “Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino has conceded the government knew the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) was considering banning credit card payments in July, months before the decision was made public. The ATO's decision in late September to stop accepting credit card payments from December 1 sparked backlash from the business community, which eventually forced an intervention from the prime minister and the treasurer to underwrite the costs and allow credit cards to be accepted by the tax office until mid-2027. Mr Mulino today said he and Treasurer Jim Chalmers were first made aware of the ATO's intentions months ago.”

MORE BOM DATA FUDGING EXPOSED The Bureau of Meteorology has been caught out transcribing raw written weather records incorrectly onto their databases. For years I have tried to expose the data tampering by the Bureau of Meteorology in order to distort climate records. I’ve been constantly ridiculed throughout my political career as being unqualified to comment on the issue because I’m not a “scientist”. Yet this has never been about science. It’s about record keeping plain and simple, and the integrity of those records. Something that I was qualified to speak about given my 25 years in managing financial records and studying statistics up to Masters level. Whats particularly frustrating about this is that this isn’t the first time the BOM has exposed for fudging records and yet they are continually allowed to get away with it. This includes the media continuing to report their records used to promote “climate change” as though they are the gospel. If you want to fight this corruption then sign up to Peoplefirstparty.au today. •••••••••••••••• “A forensic audit has uncovered false readings and widespread errors in the Bureau of Meteorology's raw climate data, including blocks of temperature readings copied and pasted across different years and seasons, raising questions about the integrity of records used for climate analysis. Anomalies in the BOM's online temperature records ranged from whole months of duplicated data decades apart to statistically impossible whole weeks of identical temperatures to one decimal place. The data errors are not just historical, with the audit, conducted with pattern-recognition software, finding more than 40 per cent of the flagged entries or events dated after 1990. Mr Berger said none of the findings required any knowledge of climate science but were purely data-integrity failures that would disqualify any dataset in any other field of science. Mr Berger undertook the audit with retired scientist Geoffrey Sherrington who said he lived by the motto "trust, but verify". "We are concerned that government policies like net zero are informed by data represented as raw and unadjusted when under investigation by our forensic pattern analysis programs, that is incorrect," Mr Sherrington said.”