Farmer, writer, mom, wife.
Australia
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In the relentlessness of our world, I find my peace on the farm.
Here, we have the steady rhythm of the seasons, the gentle passing of each day.
There is comfort in the sound of horses thundering across the paddock, lambs calling to one another and playing on the rocks while their mothers happily graze.
There is an unbreakable truth in nature, and we thrive by immersing ourselves in it.
Here are a few images from life on the farm.
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Activist: "Farmers pump their cows full of antibiotics. It's in every glass of milk."
Dairy farmer: "Do you know what happens if it is?"
Activist: "People drink it."
Dairy farmer: "The tanker gets tested at the gate. One cow's worth of antibiotic in 20,000 litres and the whole load goes down the drain. Every farm on the run that morning gets their milk tipped, and the farm that did it pays for all of it."
Activist: "So you're saying it never happens."
Dairy farmer: "I'm saying a treated cow on this farm gets red tape round her leg, goes to the back of the parlour, and her milk goes in a bucket for 6 days. I treat her like she's radioactive, because financially she is."
Activist: "You still use them."
Dairy farmer: "On a cow that's ill. Same as you. The vet writes it up, the date goes on the wall, and the wall's checked. Use on this farm is about half what it was 10 years ago, and that's every dairy I know."
Activist: "Routine use in feed, then."
Dairy farmer: "Illegal for years. Growth promoters went 20 years ago. You're describing a chicken shed in a country I don't farm in."
Activist: "You can't prove it's not in the milk."
Dairy farmer: "I can prove it 3 times a week, because they test it 3 times a week and send me the sheet. When did you last get a sheet on your oat drink?"
Activist: "That's different."
Dairy farmer: "It is. Nobody tests it. Mine's the most inspected liquid in your kitchen and it's the one you're scared of."
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Did You Know - We are Going Backwards Faster Than any Other Developed Nation on Earth
Not one of the worst. The worst.
Real per capita household disposable income in Australia fell 1.1% in 2024. Across the OECD the average rose 1.8%. Finland was the only other developed nation to record any decline at all and theirs was 0.4%.
Australia was last, alone at the bottom.
And it did not start in 2024. Since mid-2022 real per capita household disposable income has fallen by around 8%. Over the year to June 2023 it was down 5.1% while the OECD average rose 2.6%.
At the same time full-time Australian workers are now paying an average of 20.3% of their income in tax up from 18.1% the previous year. The highest effective tax rate in over two decades.
The government’s response to this? A tax cut of $268 a year from July 2026, less than $5 a week.
Meanwhile gross national debt is heading to $1.22 trillion by 2029. Government spending is at 28.5% of GDP. The NDIS alone costs $52 billion a year more than the entire defence budget and is still growing faster than inflation under the government’s own plan.
Australians are not imagining it. They are not being dramatic. The data confirms it.
We are going backwards faster than any other developed nation on earth and the Treasurer is calling $5 a week responsible economic management.
What are your thoughts…?
Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺
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We are dealing with one of the most horrific medical products in the history of the world which on the highest quality of evidence has almost certainly maimed or killed MILLIONS across the world and CONTINUES to do harm. Yet based on the poorest evidence (a modelling study) ‘it saved millions of lives’ is touted as fact by grossly incompetent, complicit and cowardly journalists. It’s time for everyone to grow some balls and face these cold hard uncomfortable truths. Let me repeat. Until we fix commercial ( and psychopathic ) distortions of the scientific evidence societal mental, physical and social well being will continue to decline.
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Someone explain this to me slowly, because I'm clearly the idiot here.
We plant a Mediterranean nut in a Californian desert. It doesn't rain there, so we drain a ten-thousand-year-old aquifer until the ground itself sinks a foot a year and whole towns get shorter. The trees can't fight off fungus, so we spray the lot. They can't pollinate themselves, so every February we truck thirty billion bees across a continent and let a fair share of them die in the crush. Then we chill the harvest and sail it six thousand miles to Britain, where it rains constantly and always has, to be blitzed with water and gums and sold to you at £2.40 a carton with a green leaf on the side.
That is the environmentally friendly option.
Twelve miles down the road there's a bloke with cattle in a field. Rain falls on the hill. Grass drinks it. Cow eats grass. Nothing pumped, sprayed, chilled or shipped. No bees died. Her entire supply chain is weather.
That is the planetary emergency.
And it'll be explained to you by someone holding a carton of desert water, wearing a fleece made of crude oil.
Asking for the cow. She's been very patient about it.
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A college economics professor stated that he had once failed an entire class. That class insisted that socialism is functional and that no one should be poor and no one rich, that everyone is equal...
The teacher told them, "OK, we will do an experiment on socialism in this group.
All grades will be averaged, and everyone will get the same grade, so no one will fail and no one will get a 10."
After the first test, the grades were added up and divided by the number of students, and everyone got an 8.
The students who studied intensively were upset, but those who studied less were overjoyed.
As the second test approached, the students who had studied a little learned even less, and those who had studied more intensively told themselves that they also wanted a "handout", so they also studied less.
The average of the second test was 6.
When the third test was given, the average score was 4. To the great surprise of all the students, they all failed.
The teacher told them that socialism will eventually fail because when half the population sees that they cannot work, because the other half will take care of them, and when the half that worked realizes that there is no point in working anymore, because others are the beneficiaries of their labor, then that is the end of any nation
The story may be a fable not a fact but the moral is real
Get it?
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It’s preposterous. The average Australian citizen now needs a team of accountants and experts just to navigate the regulatory maze its Parliaments have created.
Multiply that across dozens of regulatory bodies and you get a system that will trap the unwary.
Decades of politicians have created an overly complex, overly regulated society where obeying the law feels almost impossible for normal people.
This isn’t freedom, it’s control.
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It makes you want to weep for Australia.
Here we have Tasmania’s largest farm — Rushy Lagoon, a massive 22,000-hectare of prime, productive, irrigated land that has been a powerhouse of beef and dairy production in northeast Tasmania for decades.
And now it’s being deliberately shut down for dodgy “carbon credits” — worthless pieces of paper peddled by grifters, spivs, and rent-seeking parasites in the name of Net Zero so they can profit while the nation suffers.
Just when you think it can’t get any worse — congratulations, Australia — our taxpayers are being forced to fund this insanity with $69 million.
That’s right. Chris Bowen’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation is pumping $69 million of our money into the deal to become a minor shareholder in the destruction of productive farmland.
Think about the level of this insanity. $69 million of Australian taxpayers money is being used to help a foreign company buy Australian farmland and shut it down.
It’s no different from Luddites buying a factory and smashing the productive machines with sledge hammers.
At this is happening the exact moment Australia’s productivity is collapsing and living standards are in freefall, Labor’s priority is closing down real, productive agriculture.
This is economic sabotage.
With this decision today, Australia is a poorer, weaker nation.
Productive land is taken out of commission, food production is hit - so we’ll pay higher prices at supermarket and taxpayers foot the bill so the carbon credit scam industry can flourish.
I weep for what Labor and Anthony Albanese are doing to Australia.
They are vandalising our productive economy, enriching their mates, and driving us into decline — all while lying that this is “progress.”
Enough.
Australia deserves better than this destructive, ideologically deranged government. If they are not voted out at the next election, the Australia we‘ve known and loved will be gone forever.
theaustralian.com.au/nation/…
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Clare O'Neil let the cat out of the bag today. She openly admitted that Labor planned to crash the housing market. She called it a "correction"
Voters would have liked to have known this before the election. They now owe more than their house is worth.
Albanese is grinning ear to ear. He sold at the top of the market, as did Clare.
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The problem isn’t seed oils or Red 40.
It’s the death of meaning. And until we face that, nothing else is going to fix our health or happiness.
The real question isnt what poisons we should remove in our food...it's how we became a culture that’s okay feeding people this garbage in the first place.
It’s because we live in a world that’s lost all sense of the sacred.
We don’t see humans as souls anymore...just machines to profit from.
Meaning is essential, but it's been gutted from our society, with everything central turned into a fake alternative...
Nature --> apartment buildings.
Community --> social media.
Sex --> porn
Marriage --> hookups
Real food --> packaged crap
Religion --> politics.
We’ve swapped the things that made life rich
for things that make us hollow
And now people are walking around with massive holes inside them, trying to fill it all with money, junk food, hookups, and empty pleasure.
So we get business execs chasing profit like it’s God,
doing whatever it takes to squeeze a little more margin out of human misery.
And consumers numbing themselves with whatever’s cheap and easy just to feel something.
If we actually want to make this country healthy again,
we need more than a ban on Red 40.
We need to re-enchant life.
We need to remember that our bodies are sacred.
That the earth is sacred.
That our work matters.
That we are all connected.
What you do to another, you do to yourself. Poisoning someone else always comes back around.
Health starts there. Not with better labels, but with meaning.
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The problem with the welfare state and its confiscatory taxation system is that there are ZERO repercussions if politicians steal your money "legally" and squander it accordingly. Any system that decouples the natural link between causes and effects will lead to disaster. This is why what starts off as a small temporary levying of taxes more than 100 years ago becomes the tax code that we see today. Politicians do not view an individual's hard-earned money as theirs to keep. Rather they view your money as something that they allow you to keep a small portion of. Accordingly, you should be "thankful" that the government allows you to keep any of your money. This "proves" that they are kind and empathetic. It is a complete moral inversion of personal agency, liberty, and freedom. No system should take so much taxes from you that it forces you to work 10 extra years to make up for what was taken from you.
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Every Aussie needs to watch this podcast!
Just watched the full podcast, I keep up to date with the rules but even this caught me off guard. This is absolutely shocking for everyone especially young people!
Sometimes the level of idiocy in Australian politics gets too much and you just have to switch off for awhile. It’s a survival mechanism. You’ll find me on my horse checking our lambs… #farmlife #aussiefarmers #keepthesheep
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One of Australia’s greatest financial success stories has been the rise of ordinary people becoming investors. Over the last 30 years, millions of Australians have gradually moved from relying purely on wages and property to owning shares, ETFs and diversified portfolios. Not just wealthy people, but teachers, nurses, tradies, students and young families trying to build financial security over time.
That’s why the government’s proposed CGT changes feel like such a profound mistake.
This piece in today’s The Australian is my attempt to explain why I think that matters.
theaustralian.com.au/wealth/…
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A farmer dies in April 2026.
His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.
The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.
On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.
In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.
The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.
The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.
A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.
The Treasury collects £140,000.
The land never produces British food again.
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An Australian family in Perth just sat down and did the maths the government hoped you’d never do.
Cost to buy & own a home over 34 years: $2,016,850
Taxes paid to the government over the same period: $2,717,865
You paid more in tax than for your own house. Let that sink in.
Breakdown:
• $2.2M in income taxes, GST, duties & excises
• $105k in council rates
• $94k in vehicle taxes across 7 cars
• $300k in tax on your super (the money meant for retirement)
And what’s the big relief in the 2025 Budget? A $268 tax cut.
That’s $5.15 a week — less than a pie and a beer.
You’re not bad with money. You’re being taxed into the ground.
I love this country, but I’m bloody tired of everyday Aussies working their whole lives just to hand over more to the government than they spend on their home — while those collecting it face zero consequences.
The numbers don’t lie.
Time to prepare, protect and future-proof your family. The fighting spirit is needed now more than ever.
(Martene Wallace on Instagram)
What do you think? 🇦🇺
New CGT + trust taxes: $8 billion raised over 5 years — hitting regular Aussies.
A gas export levy: $17 billion raised— every single year.
It's not rocket science. We’re opting to financially cripple average Australians instead of modestly tax the foreign-owned gas giants.
Pure political choice by this Labor government.
#CostOfLivingCrisis #TaxTheGasGiants #LaborFail #AussieGas #EnergyPrices #AlboFailed #LaborFailed