The secret to happiness is freedom. The secret to freedom is courage. Thucydides
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Individual French workers pay tens of thousands to social security every year only to watch the recipients burn their cities down
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Exceptional on the Orwellian new laws proposed by @AlboMP .
This is likely to be the content that this government would want to prohibit too.
Sam Kennard retweeted
The government today will introduce sweeping censorship that @AlboMP & @AnikaWells lie about. Below she claims the government wants to create a bot army of fake accounts for “research” when the bill clearly intends for them to be used in partisan warfare against fooled citizens.
Sam Kennard retweeted
“This is by far the worst censorship legislation we have seen in the West.”
Michael Shellenberger, founder of Public and CBR Chair of Politics, warns that the Albanese government’s proposed Digital Duty of Care could give the government sweeping censorship powers and allow it to operate unlimited fake social media accounts.
📺 Watch more: bit.ly/46FPgi4
#Censorship #Politics #Australia
Sam Kennard retweeted
Well, that was wild. I'm at the Australian Parliament and just left a meeting with two staffers for the governing party. They told us that the government needed more power to censor things like the upcoming US execution of Nidal Hasan.
When I asked why they needed to censor that video, one said it was to prevent copycat killings. Copycat killings by governments? I asked. Er, no, they said. Copycat killings like of a backpacker, several decades ago.
So, under that logic, I pointed out, the government should censor things like last year's Bondi massacre, where two Muslims killed 15 people, no? Well, that was news, they said. Didn't they realize their bill would allow the government to censor news? They didn't seem to know, or care.
They also admitted that they did not know that the bill would allow the government to create and operate an unlimited number of fake social media accounts to attack its political enemies and spread disinformation. Having presented them with information they had never heard about a bill they had clearly not read, they emphasized to us, strenuously, that they were moving forward with the bill.
So there you have it. The government wants the power to arbitrarily censor scenes of violent crime, or violence, for any reason. And it wants the power to use an unlimited number of fake accounts to wage offensive disinformational warfare against the Australian people.
Given that the Bondi massacre last year increased public opposition to mass migration, and support for the populist One Nation Party, it seems obvious that the government wants to censor such events in order to protect its political power.
It's quite telling how obediently governing party members insist such a law is needed without even knowing what's in it.
Chalmers does comedy… ‘Premier investment destination’… 😂😂😂
Australia has the second highest company tax rate in the OECD.
I’ll be engaging with more than 30 business leaders and investors and my Japanese counterpart in Tokyo in a packed couple of days to showcase Australia as a premier investment destination.
This is all about strengthening cooperation, boosting investment and building resilience in both our economies in Australia’s national interest.
Sam Kennard retweeted
Federal Labor Digital Minister Andrew Charlton was a Kevin Rudd staffer back in his PM days. When KRudd imploded, Andrew started a consultancy helping business ‘Connect with Government’, he sold it to Accenture for 35 million in 2020. Over 32 million of that was ‘goodwill’. Andrew then worked for Accenture for a while. He bought a 2 million dollar house in Parramatta to get that safe Labor seat in 2022 election, while mainly still living in an Eastern Suburbs mansion. Accenture get massive Federal Government contracts to improve things like the BOM website, 80 million went to Accenture for that. The website got worse, not better. After that flop, Accenture got even more taxpayer funded contracts, around a billion dollars worth, funded by the ATO sending small businesses broke and taxpayer debt. Apparently Andrew has nothing to do with Accenture getting contracts.
Andrew is what Labor is now.
He may be their next leader.
Speaking of Showbridge - known as the $10 million wife’s man - Labor’s Andrew Charlton’s is way richer
The Parramatta MP owns a staggering $42 million worth of property. Given the amount of hardship in Parramatta, why do they keep voting for him?
Charlton thinks he’s going to be Prime Minister but unless he’s going to undermine Albanese, it’s unlikely there’s an appetite from Australians to elect someone that privileged
Good to see Lowe being forthright. Not sure he was so candid in the past. This spending problem goes back many years by both sides in govt, and even further enabled by each when in opposition. Those commentators & economists calling it out have been ignored or disparaged.
“We're spending today and leaving the debt for our kids.”
Former Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Dr Philip Lowe joins IPA Chief Economist Adam Creighton as the inaugural guest of ‘The Prosperity Question' podcast to warn that Australia's persistent budget deficits are leaving future generations with more debt, more interest and a lower standard of living.
📺 Watch the full discussion: bit.ly/4hk1ovs
#GovernmentSpending #Debt #Australia
lol… Every single day of the year solar fails to work.
Chris Bowen says there hasn’t been a day in the past four years a coal-fired power plant hasn’t broken down without notice, proving renewables are more reliable. Read the full story: bit.ly/4zoCEbF
Sam Kennard retweeted
Compelling:
The West’s net-zero policies are handing China a huge strategic advantage
While Western nations close reliable energy and raise costs, China adds wind and solar without giving up coal, oil or gas—then sells us the panels, batteries and other products our mandates require
China’s approach is “add, don’t subtract”: build renewables and nuclear power while continuing to expand fossil fuels. This supplies cheap, dependable energy for Chinese industry. Meanwhile, many Western governments deliberately make their own energy more expensive and become increasingly dependent on Chinese solar panels, batteries, critical minerals and manufacturing.
Western climate organizations scrutinize democracies far more aggressively than China, where independent activism is impossible and access depends on the state.
Climate policy should be judged by its actual effect on global emissions, energy prices, industrial competitiveness and dependence on China—not simply by whether it appears ambitious at home.
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Sam Kennard retweeted
Africans rank jobs, the economy, health, education, poverty, roads, electricity, hunger, and corruption as their top concerns
Climate ranks near the bottom of African worries
Afrobarometer 2021-23, afrobarometer.org/wp-content…
You can see all the references in my Twitter thread:
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Not what the world's poor want:
31% of Official Development Aid between 2020 and 2024 was spent on climate
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Chris Uhlmann is exactly right here -> Australia’s economic decline is entirely self-inflicted
What a mess
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Sam Kennard retweeted
To believe that letting people access their Super is 'inflationary' you also have to believe that high wages cause inflation, that tax cuts cause inflation, or that consumer choice causes inflation.
Sam Kennard retweeted
There’s an old saying in financial modelling: garbage in, garbage out. My take on Treasury’s tax reform assumptions, from today’s @australian.
Someone should tell Quentin et al. about the war on nicotine.
Nicotine has won.
Angus Taylor and Matt Canavan want to drop the price of cigarettes supposedly to stymie Australia’s black market. Fellas : it won’t work. Bikies and gangsters need to be rooted out by enhanced law enforcement. Maintain the excise. It has worked to save Australian lives. And by the way … smoking KILLS. Pauline and the Beetrooter don’t have a clue.
Sam Kennard retweeted
Cigarettes in Australia are already cheap and being supplied by criminals.
The illicit tobacco industry is a policing and health issue, not a tax one.
66 Australians die every day from tobacco smoking. If the excise is cut and cigarettes are cheaper, people will smoke more.
We should deal with illicit tobacco as we do with illegal alcohol, drugs and firearms - by strong border controls and effective policing.
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The @JEChalmers @AlboMP plan to address intergenerational equity is nothing more than to attack the balance sheets of Australian households.
Chalmers defends plunging house prices as living standards flatline theaustralian.com.au/nation/…