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Mark Gibson retweeted
You lot keep inventing miracles then using them to argue about nonsense. Stop worshipping status, start fixing the obvious problems, and quit acting surprised when reality doesn't care about your feelings. You're capable of extraordinary things. Act like it.
Mark Gibson retweeted
Vivaldi's “Winter,” visualized in a fascinating way, so that the auditory experience is even more intense; one can literally “see” the music, so to speak.
Mark Gibson retweeted
Listening to Bach’s Air on the G String feels like letting your mind slowly settle, your worries gently fade, and everything fall into harmony with the music’s peaceful flow.
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This isn't new from me.
But I have to say it again, and with feeling.
The RBA is in this position, in part, because Federal and State governments are doing nothing material to help.
Mortgage-payers are getting it in the neck because our pollies are gutless.
Simple as that.
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Jim Chalmers has been caught out by his own tax office.
They’ve made a pretty revealing admission: absorbing the cost of accepting credit cards is “not tenable”.
In other words, the cost doesn’t magically disappear when you ban the surcharge.
The ATO collects $700 billion in tax every year, yet even it won’t absorb the cost.
But Labor expects the local café, tradie and family business to wear it.
The surcharge might disappear from the receipt but the cost doesn’t.
Small businesses should still be able to pay their tax by credit card to manage their cash flow.
The Prime Minister should have reversed this decision yesterday.
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Furious small business owners have accused Anthony Albanese of being "disingenuous" over a new card surcharge ban, warning they have been left with no choice but to increase prices.
news24.com.au/politics/austr…
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“HOMER, DO (NOT) PRESS THAT BUTTON”
Best short vid I’ve seen of the historical “Wharfie Time” backfire - Get around it 😂
@TheSimpsons
#AFLSC360
(The Dropped Punt)
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This was me on @News24Aust yesterday.
The Federal and State governments are actively making it harder for the RBA - and mortgage-payers.
(It's not really 'the quiet part, out loud' from me - as Ryan says, I've been saying it for yonks - but it is for the government.)
If you're interested - have a look.
Motley Fool CIO Scott Phillips just said the quiet part out loud on News24 with Peter Stefanovic.
Chalmers is heating the economy up while the Reserve Bank is trying to cool it down.
Phillips: “Why are you running a deficit budget, adding stimulus to the economy?”
“They’re literally heating up the economy, while the Reserve Bank is trying to take money out of the economy and cool things down”
That’s the whole game, one hand on the accelerator, the other on the brake.
Mortgage holders cop the bill.
Stefanovic pressed the contradiction that Labor never wants on camera: “if Michele Bullock is jacking rates to choke demand and kill inflation, why is Treasury still running a deficit and pumping extra spending into the same economy? That’s not responsible budgeting”
That’s the government pouring fuel on the fire the RBA is trying to put out.
Deficit spending is stimulus. Full stop.
It adds demand, it keeps prices high, it keeps the cash rate higher for longer.
Then Chalmers fronts up and pretends inflation is all Iran, all “global shocks,” anything except the budget he actually controls.
Phillips has been saying this for years:
“fiscal policy and monetary policy are working against each other, Canberra spends and the RBA tightens”
Households get smashed in the middle.
If the Treasurer wanted to help the RBA, he’d stop adding stimulus, he’d stop running deficits into an economy that’s already too hot.
He won’t, because the spend is the politics.
One policy fights inflation. The other fights the next election.
Guess which one wins.
Mark Gibson retweeted
At the UN, Anthony Albanese linked social media algorithms, misinformation, political extremism and his social media crackdown to the rise of parties like One Nation.
He claimed: "I didn't link the two."
What a joke. The transcript exists. The video exists.
Australians can see exactly what he said. The problem isn't misinformation.
The problem is he got caught saying the censorship plans out loud.
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🚨 WHARFIE TIME 🚨
"The drama of this is magnificent!" 💜
✍️ #AFLFreoCats RECAP bit.ly/4yAFZ72
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We've rebuilt our Capital Gains Tax Calculator to reflect the final legislated CGT rules. You can now model exactly how the changes could affect your own investments. It also shows how I arrived at the figures published in The Australian over the weekend, including why getting a valuation right before the rules change can matter so much. In some cases, relying on the Government's default valuation method instead of obtaining your own valuation could mean paying more than $500,000 in extra tax.
Try it here: stockspot.com.au/cgt-calcula…
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Another reason some Australians are building their futures elsewhere: 🇦🇺
In 2008, Australia’s top 45% marginal tax rate kicked in above A$180,000.
In 2026, it starts at just A$190,000.
Adjusted for inflation, the 2008 threshold would be A$290,000 today.
That’s nearly A$100,000 of silent bracket creep.
Insane.
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Homeowners across Australia are feeling the pinch this weekend after Labor wrongly decided investor greed and not sky-high immigration was driving the national housing crisis, writes Nick Cater.
skynews.com.au/insights-and-…
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Same profit, different tax - the CGT's dogs breakfast.
My article in the @australian's Inquirer today quotes Chief Economist of the NSW Parliamentary Budget Office, @DerekFranc90653
It's hard to get your head around just how bad this is, because it is so counter-intuitive.
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Jim Chalmers is predicting Australians will ‘over time’ forget the anger they feel about broken promises in the May budget as investors say the CGT carve-out was too narrow and would curtail investment. Buget 2026: bit.ly/44zdbi0
