Clowns to the left of me. Jokers to the right. Here I am.
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Yep. This. Exactly this.
I do a bit of audit work here and there. I can assure you one of these easiest, most efficient and most economic methods for reducing fraud is the pervasive threat that 'someone may sing'
@DrCameronMurray I was at your talk on sunday. This is an effective foil against the game of mates (only when illegality is concerned however)
I'd like to see temporary migrants who are employed in the 'grey areas' be offered this incentive. It's offensive Aus businesses should be forced to close because only they complied with employment law, tax laws, etc
BREAKING: President Trump reveals his new anti-fraud program set up to reward people who expose fraud with a 1% commission on the money uncovered.
"If you turn somebody in and you, let's say report and you find $1 billion, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%."
I want you to sit with this for a minute
Helen Haines attacker actually complained about the system making it too hard to get off the pension
Which is, of course, code for 'you are paying me too much'
Because that was his conundrum...
Why work? When for only a few bucks less you can stay home, drink and do drugs?
Perhaps hard working Australians need to reassess whether or not we are actually being TOO generous in terms of the welfare we bestow upon others.
The 'take cycle' cannot function in perpetuity
Maybe it's time we considered alternative welfare models, that incentivised work, and disincentivised staying on welfare forever
Has mendicancy killed Australia?
It's now emerging that Brendan Nugent was on a disability support pension for a considerable time.
Yet not only did he complain about the difficulty in obtaining this pension, he then railed against the system making it difficult to wean one's self off this welfare.
Read that again: society's fault he couldn't get sit down money. Society's fault he wouldn't go back to work.
I've known a few grubs like this over the years.... Always quick to claim chronic fatigue, but never short of adrenaline when a protest came to town.
Always ready to bemoan 'the rich', but eager to extract as much money from the system as was possible.
Its my observation that the proudest Aussies are the ones whose contributions are oversized.
They pay huge tax bills. Additional imposts as the cost of business. They struggle on and work hard, yet genuinely love their country.
Which contrasts greatly with those who seek perpetually subsidised uni degrees of little economic worth, spending their days protesting about climate, gaza, first persons or whatever is the outrage de jour.
We seem to be approaching that moment when we need to have a serious conversation about *forcing* people back to work.
Reduce immigration
Incentivise employment of hard core unemployed, youth, first persons, elderly, etc
COULD ALBANESE BE GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER?
Allegations are emerging that the Office of PM&C have been compiling a dirt file on Dr Helen Haines.
Whilst this is as nauseating as it is insidious, I hope all Australians understand this is ‘par for the course’ for all political parties – all the way down to their rank and file, branch levels.
But what may stick in Australians craw is twofold:
1. Is there a tenable link between the existence of this file and yesterday’s incident?
If so, I anticipate the Governor General (no matter how conflicted she otherwise may be) stepping in and calling a double dissolution of parliament.
The ALP will lose both houses.
2. What proportion of the 59 staff within the DPM&C has been expended to this activity, as opposed to more appropriate matters of state?
If this does not bring down a government from within, nothing does.
Has mendicancy killed Australia?
It's now emerging that Brendan Nugent was on a disability support pension for a considerable time.
Yet not only did he complain about the difficulty in obtaining this pension, he then railed against the system making it difficult to wean one's self off this welfare.
Read that again: society's fault he couldn't get sit down money. Society's fault he wouldn't go back to work.
I've known a few grubs like this over the years.... Always quick to claim chronic fatigue, but never short of adrenaline when a protest came to town.
Always ready to bemoan 'the rich', but eager to extract as much money from the system as was possible.
Its my observation that the proudest Aussies are the ones whose contributions are oversized.
They pay huge tax bills. Additional imposts as the cost of business. They struggle on and work hard, yet genuinely love their country.
Which contrasts greatly with those who seek perpetually subsidised uni degrees of little economic worth, spending their days protesting about climate, gaza, first persons or whatever is the outrage de jour.
We seem to be approaching that moment when we need to have a serious conversation about *forcing* people back to work.
Reduce immigration
Incentivise employment of hard core unemployed, youth, first persons, elderly, etc
Has mendicancy killed Australia?
It's now emerging that Brendan Nugent was on a disability support pension for a considerable time.
Yet not only did he complain about the difficulty in obtaining this pension, he then railed against the system making it difficult to wean one's self off this welfare.
Read that again: society's fault he couldn't get sit down money. Society's fault he wouldn't go back to work.
I've known a few grubs like this over the years.... Always quick to claim chronic fatigue, but never short of adrenaline when a protest came to town.
Always ready to bemoan 'the rich', but eager to extract as much money from the system as was possible.
Its my observation that the proudest Aussies are the ones whose contributions are oversized.
They pay huge tax bills. Additional imposts as the cost of business. They struggle on and work hard, yet genuinely love their country.
Which contrasts greatly with those who seek perpetually subsidised uni degrees of little economic worth, spending their days protesting about climate, gaza, first persons or whatever is the outrage de jour.
We seem to be approaching that moment when we need to have a serious conversation about *forcing* people back to work.
Reduce immigration
Incentivise employment of hard core unemployed, youth, first persons, elderly, etc
I can assure you this logic will go well over most people's heads
Yet it is further rationale for cutting migration. Especially from China.
For if CCP / PRC functionaries are openly influencing Chinese nationals here in Australia, we are essentially opening our doors to political subversion
I wish more people could grasp this risk.
Reports of China-linked transnational repression targeting people in Australia are deeply concerning. As Australia’s close security partner, the U.S. stands with Australians in defending individual freedoms, national sovereignty, and the right to live free from intimidation – in their own country. These shared values are central to our alliance: news.com.au/national/crime/e…
I really hope we can salvage just something out of this awful situation for Dr Haines. I've been truly sickened by some of the commentary today, not merely the left, but a tiny percentage of quite revolting commentary from some right leaning accounts too.
So whilst we wait and hope for Dr Haines to make the fastest and fullest recovery humanly possible, what can we expect to learn from this?
I'm going to offer up some normal themes, and one that borders on the impossible.
Please share your ideas too.
A thread.
1/
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2/ The criticality of enabling truer democracy faster
I'm not sure for how many centuries casting a vote on paper and tallying those votes has been de rigueur, but a replacement is long overdue.
But more importantly, so too is the notion we vote for a party, and then have to accept each and every policy or program they stump up.
A far better mechanism would be for propositions to be raised and voted on at the same time as a broader election.
Imagine allowing each of the Top 4 parties on proposition each, and potentially another 2 or 3 through some side runoff process.
Imagine this allowed the entire country or state to vote on the more contentious policies of the day.
Should we ban abortion?
Should we ban coal?
Etc etc
In a manner that obligated the successful government to abide by the outcome.
Realise two things:
1. If run as a paper ballot in conjunction with an election, the delivery costs are massively reduced
2. This could potentially be administered digitally instead
2/ The criticality of enabling truer democracy faster
I'm not sure for how many centuries casting a vote on paper and tallying those votes has been de rigueur, but a replacement is long overdue.
But more importantly, so too is the notion we vote for a party, and then have to accept each and every policy or program they stump up.
A far better mechanism would be for propositions to be raised and voted on at the same time as a broader election.
Imagine allowing each of the Top 4 parties on proposition each, and potentially another 2 or 3 through some side runoff process.
Imagine this allowed the entire country or state to vote on the more contentious policies of the day.
Should we ban abortion?
Should we ban coal?
Etc etc
In a manner that obligated the successful government to abide by the outcome.
Realise two things:
1. If run as a paper ballot in conjunction with an election, the delivery costs are massively reduced
2. This could potentially be administered digitally instead
🤖 Made with AI
I really hope we can salvage just something out of this awful situation for Dr Haines. I've been truly sickened by some of the commentary today, not merely the left, but a tiny percentage of quite revolting commentary from some right leaning accounts too.
So whilst we wait and hope for Dr Haines to make the fastest and fullest recovery humanly possible, what can we expect to learn from this?
I'm going to offer up some normal themes, and one that borders on the impossible.
Please share your ideas too.
A thread.
1/
Bit of a hairbrained concept from Paul Murray on Sky24.
Security for all politicians.
If we run the numbers - that's about 220 for the Feds.
Naturally State MP's then ask their share too.
Which is 847 MP's for all houses, all levels.
Given there'd be at least 4 per MP, maybe 5 (weekends, evenings, etc) - that's 4250 security personnel.
At an assumed cost of $200K per person inc kit, that's $850 million per annum.
Of course, Paul did say 'only when needed' - but Helen Haines was shopping on the street. Hardly a high risk event.
So 24x7 it would likely be.
Australia cannot afford this. There are better solutions.
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For the sake of clarity, one of the biggest winners from Vic Uniparty decision to cap tolls for consumers will be uber drivers and van drivers.
Which include an outsized proportion of temporary migrants.
Always nice to know that people in regional Victoria are again subsidising the costs associated with immigration
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What's wrong with rusted on Libs like Michael Kroger?
Whilst admonishing Albanese for buying votes (hecs reductions), he conveniently ignores the fact that in his home state, Jess Wilson is busy chasing Ben Carroll in a race to the bottom with toll road caps.
For those leftists who find my suggestion below a little unsettling...
It would behove you to remember that State Labor Premiers have been craven in their rush to introduce corporate manslaughter charges - always ready to threaten business owners or executives with fear of incarceration lest an unfortunate accident happen...
...and this was no accident.
What changed to make a man suddenly hate a person he has actually supported?
It's not drugs - they'll make you crazy but you still know your friends from your enemies. Something made this man want to kill this poor woman - which means 'he processed information he'd not previously been privy to'
What was it?
COULD ALBANESE BE GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER?
Allegations are emerging that the Office of PM&C have been compiling a dirt file on Dr Helen Haines.
Whilst this is as nauseating as it is insidious, I hope all Australians understand this is ‘par for the course’ for all political parties – all the way down to their rank and file, branch levels.
But what may stick in Australians craw is twofold:
1. Is there a tenable link between the existence of this file and yesterday’s incident?
If so, I anticipate the Governor General (no matter how conflicted she otherwise may be) stepping in and calling a double dissolution of parliament.
The ALP will lose both houses.
2. What proportion of the 59 staff within the DPM&C has been expended to this activity, as opposed to more appropriate matters of state?
If this does not bring down a government from within, nothing does.
The Policy Guy retweeted
Albo's office seems to be playing the same way as Dan Andrews' Premier's Office.
Then again, Albo takes advice from Andrews...
And this is why I continuously argue the Australian university sector is failing dismally....
Has anyone noticed the sudden spate of personas here on X all touting the 'Dr' honorific, on account of having obtained a worthless PhD?
By way of example, let's take the good Dr here:
Bachelor of Arts (Women’s Studies), Uni of Adelaide
Bachelor of Theology, Flinders Uni
PhD in Theology/Women’s Studies, Flinders Uni
She's since 'progressed' to become a teacher. As they say, those who cannot do...teach.
It is both shameful and economically ruinous that our nation continues to fund such worthless dalliances, which generates nothing more than extremist lunatics.
What I was thinking:
"That Haines was attacked the very day that Hanson was deriding Jacqui Lambie for taking offence at One Nation’s mockery of her vaginal prolapse, and demanding that the Tasmanian senator “have a bit of a laugh” at a condition that hundreds of thousands of Australian women suffer from, was exemplary timing for a political operator who more than anyone else in the country has fostered a darker, nastier and more hateful political tone."
The attack on Helen Haines will be no defining moment, only another step towards fragmentation via @crikey_news crikey.com.au/2026/10/20/hel…
This is the sort of shilling that was likely the result of the dirt file.
I imagine most ALP shills have had the good sense to remove their offending posts by now
Seems if you want to avoid having ALP shills critique your posts...
The only course of action is to confront them with the truth.
They don't seem to handle this too well.
For clarity, this was smart tactics by @aaronsmith - the best way to suppress these facts is for him to block me immediately.
Censoring the truth is so du jour
@DHughesy
Has the Albanese dirt file been shopped around MSM journos only, or across ALP functionaries state and federal?
@DHughesy
You're one of the amplifiers of ALP dirt Aaron.
It wouldn't surprise me if you'd been actively involved in the propagation of the alleged dirt file.
Whilst my guess is you're a Victorian functionary, not Federal, the insidious filth that is our ALP likely interacts at all levels of government.
So what is your view on this?
Any truth to these allegations?
If so, have you been involved?
If Dr Haines were to succumb to her injuries, what chance Albanese and staffers from DPM&C might be found complicit? Would this be tantamount to manslaughter?
I presume there would be many Federal charges one could level too.
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