Jonathan Gorham

Commonwealth public servants are up 14.7% since Albanese took office. That is almost double the growth of the private sector. It costs an extra $16.8 billion a year. That is about $1,600 for every household in Australia. Every year.

Desperate drowning man @JEChalmers has asked the brains trust at Treasury to come up with productivity ideas. He’s all out of them even though he attended a productivity ideas fest with unions & business more than 12 months ago - which he clearly ignored. Productivity is now minus 0.2% a new low, while inflation has reached a new high. The bloke is clueless & feeling the heat along with @AlboMP & the rest of the gang of @AustralianLabor clowns. The trouble is Treasury has demonstrated it is not any better

257 people are working for housing Australia, that’s 257 people for 2,000 houses in 3 years. This is why Australia is in the current inflationary mess that we are in. Private-sector standards would not treat this performance as acceptable for long without consequences. If you want to turn the country around put Labor LAST!

An Open Letter to the University of Sydney @Sydney_Uni @mscott Regarding the appointment of Jacinda Ardern as Professor of Practice Dear Professor Scott, I read with absolute disgust that the University of Sydney has appointed Jacinda Ardern as Professor of Practice, where she will apparently be sharing her wisdom on empathetic leadership, social cohesion and civic trust. You cannot be serious. You are quoted as saying: "Dame Jacinda led New Zealand through events of profound consequence and her leadership demonstrated that empathy and resolve do not compete with one another; each can strengthen the other." Appointing Jacinda Ardern to teach social cohesion is rather like appointing Jeffrey Dahmer to teach a course on wellbeing, or Jimmy Savile to run the local daycare centre. The sheer absurdity would almost be funny if the consequences of her leadership weren't so hideously tragic. My name is Alia Bland. I am a co-founder of Voices for Freedom, an organisation established in New Zealand in 2020. For years, we stood alongside tens of thousands of ordinary Kiwis whose lives were torn apart by the policies of Ardern's government. While the international media fawned over her kindness and compassion, we were dealing with the wreckage. At the height of the COVID response, we were receiving upwards of 1,000 emails a day. Desperate people reaching out because they had lost their jobs, their incomes, their homes and, in many cases, their will to live. People nearing retirement were forced to sell family homes they had spent decades paying off. Some are still living in caravans five years later. Marriages collapsed. Families fractured. Lifelong friendships were destroyed. People who had served their communities for decades were suddenly treated like lepers because they declined a medical procedure. Some of the people who came to us had spent their entire lives believing New Zealand was a decent, fair-minded country. Watching that belief crumble, and seeing what it did to them, was heartbreaking. I cannot adequately describe the anguish in those emails. The desperation of parents wondering how they would feed and house their families. The humiliation of hardworking people being marched out of professions they loved. The despair of people who had done everything society asked of them, only to discover that their own government considered them disposable. And presiding over it all was Jacinda Ardern, smiling for the cameras and telling the world how kind New Zealand was. Kind? For whom? Her government deliberately created a two-class society. Ardern herself acknowledged it publicly. New Zealanders were excluded from workplaces, businesses, events and ordinary social life. People were coerced into accepting a medical intervention under threat of losing their livelihoods. And those who suffered adverse reactions to the COVID vaccines faced another nightmare. We fought for vaccine-injured New Zealanders whose lives had been devastated by serious physical harm, while many struggled to have their injuries acknowledged or receive adequate support. The government's public assurances about vaccine safety deserve particular scrutiny. Officials knew about the myocarditis risk, including among young people. We have examined the records. Yet people raising legitimate questions about those risks were routinely dismissed and vilified. The damage went far beyond lost incomes and broken relationships. An enormous number of New Zealanders lost faith in the very institutions they had trusted their entire lives. Government, health authorities, education, police and the media. That trust has not magically returned because Ardern has moved on to more prestigious surroundings. While her government was busy marginalising people, we were building a nationwide support network to help them survive. Voices for Freedom grew to more than 100,000 people on our mailing list, many representing entire families. More than 45,000 people signed up to our local groups across the country, which are still operational today in 2026. We established industry groups to help people fight for their careers, provided support through employment disputes and legal challenges, organised practical assistance and hand-delivered millions of flyers to households throughout New Zealand. We did this while facing censorship, public vilification and government surveillance. Official records obtained since have confirmed that our activities and communications were being monitored and reported on. Our volunteers gave everything they could to help people who had been abandoned by the institutions meant to protect them. And now the University of Sydney wants to hold up the woman responsible for overseeing this period as a shining example of empathy and social cohesion? It is sickening. Professor Scott, did anyone at your university bother to speak with the people whose lives were destroyed under Ardern's leadership before celebrating her appointment? Have you spoken to the former nurses, teachers and police officers who lost their careers? The families who lost their homes? The people still suffering from vaccine injuries? The parents whose children no longer speak to them? Or did you simply swallow the carefully cultivated international image of Saint Jacinda, the compassionate leader who saved New Zealand? I wonder whether you have considered why this internationally celebrated former prime minister now lives in Australia rather than the country she once led. The depth of hostility towards her among many New Zealanders should give you pause. Because I can assure you, there is another side to that story. And there are hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders who live with the consequences. I have no objection to universities studying Ardern's leadership. In fact, I would encourage it. There is an enormous amount to learn from what happened in New Zealand between 2021 and 2023. Like, what not to do... But presenting her as someone uniquely qualified to teach empathy, social cohesion and civic trust, without acknowledging the extraordinary human suffering that occurred under her leadership, is an insult to the people who paid the price. We were there, Professor Scott. We saw what happened. We picked up the pieces. We are still picking them up. Some of those people will never recover what they lost. And the woman who presided over it all gets a professorship in empathy. What an absolute disgrace. Yours sincerely, Alia Bland Co-founder, Voices for Freedom New Zealand

Nurses can’t split their salary among family members to cut their tax. Labor’s trust reform makes the system fairer. #auspol

Now do the Libs and how many staffers they'll have & what their salaries will be if they get in to power. I assume you know this, otherwise you'd be a hypocrite. Also, what do Albo's staff do? You seem to be implying that they're all doing next to nothing & their jobs are bogus.

This level of lying is not normal. According to Anne Ally we are seeing huge economic growth, with an average of 900 companies created each day, 27,490 per month, or 1.4 million since Labor took office. While the sad reality is that an average of 1,000 shut down each day, roughly 30,000–31,000 per month, or 1.46 million since Labor took office. Labor is a criminal cartel, not a democratically elected party.

PM Anthony Albanese’s upcoming holiday schedule before Christmas 2026: 🇭🇺 Oct 22-23: Budapest (Hungarian Rev. 70th) 🇦🇬 Nov 1-4: Antigua & Barbuda (CHOGM) 🇹🇷 Nov 11-12: Antalya (UN Climate Conf.) 🇵🇭 Nov 16-18: Manila (EAS & ASEAN) 🇨🇳 Nov 18-19: Shenzhen (APEC) 🇮🇳 Dec TBA: New Delhi (Quad Summit) 🇺🇸 Dec 14-15: Miami (G20) This will cost us a fortune. Not to mention the money he will give away, our money. All in the name of "climate change" Albanese is pictured here, waving to nobody. The tarmac is empty.

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Anika Wells: “This is a work trip.”
 The diary: no record of the meeting.
 $4,000 to a friend’s birthday party.
 Should she still be a Minister?

The latest stuff-up on fuel is going to blow your mind. Australia currently has an oversupply problem! Labor incentivised ships to hurry up and wait and it’s costing between $30-$60,000 a day, per ship, going on to the tax bill, then the bowser price!

Detailed new analysis by The Australia Institute reveals the “immediate positive impact” this year’s property tax changes have had on those who’d previously been locked out of the housing market. Chief Economist Greg Jericho explains. Learn more here: australiainstitute.org.au/po…

ALBANESE AND CHALMERS ARE WAGING WAR ON SMALL BUSINESS AND AUSSIE FAMILIES The ATO is hunting down small businesses and families over decades old paperwork errors on trusts. A historic $47,000 liability has ballooned to an $890,000 bill today. Trust holders are bracing for up to $13.3 billion in advice and restructuring costs just to survive Jim Chalmers’ new 30% tax on discretionary trusts. Wilson Asset Management estimates family businesses face $10.5b in restructuring fees plus $2.8b in tax advice, two to three times what the budget claims the tax will raise. RSM Australia reports fully compliant families being pursued for administrative mismatches from the 1990s. Records are long gone. Advisers face professional indemnity claims decades later. FTDT hits at 47%, then interest compounds daily. Effective rates are exceeding 90%. No tax avoidance. No mischief. Just technical errors that can destroy a business and the family behind it. CPA Australia calls it a known trap Labor is leaving untouched while stacking a new tax regime on top. This is not tax integrity. It is a cash grab that risks gutting investment, especially in construction, while small business pays the price. Australia’s backbone is being treated like a revenue target. By a Government who just can’t get enough of your money.

Oh they’re laughing at us alright. While Australian families struggle with electricity bills, groceries and fuel prices, taxpayers deserve transparency about how ministers are spending public money. Anika Wells claimed $3,681 for an Adelaide trip that included attending a Labor colleague’s wife’s birthday party, she says she conducted official business with SA Health Minister Chris Picton during the celebration. Is she serious? Yet documents obtained under FOI don’t specifically identify that meeting, both ministers insist it happened; surely taxpayers are entitled to ask for independent evidence? Public money is not a personal travel allowance and Parliamentary entitlements exist to serve the Australian public and their use should be able to withstand serious scrutiny. The most important outstanding question is whether contemporaneous records, correspondence or meeting notes can substantiate the discussion Wells says took place. Good money says it didn’t.