simonandrew.bsky.social
Dad, husband, leftie.
On Dharawal land.
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"Advance Australia Fair" to the "Gilligan's Island" theme fits too.
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cockies vs cow cockies vs being cocky ?
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If its Lucas Hieghts, then they're irradiating something.
My guess, soil samples, building materials, to see how long they take to cool back down to normal after being exposed.
That would be the kind of thing you'd want to know if you were storing waste.
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Musk is going to need a presidential pardon for DOGE.
He won't get it from Trump.
He won't get it from a Democrat.
He needs Trump impeached so he can get one from JD.
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Allow it.
What makes it a good bargaining chip is no one wants to buy it anyway.
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She'd be rolled by some more ambitious rival before that ever gets the chance to happen.
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Sussan Ley will never be PM.
She's a seat warmer.
In the unlikely event that the LNP ever get close to being ahead in the polls, some other ambitious Lib is going to knife her in the back before she gets a chance.
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He's allowed US Steel to be taken over by Nippon Steel.
They're buying it at $55 a share.
He's saying 'partnership' and 'new investment' but its a takeover. Biden had blocked it as not being in the national interest.
Making America Great Again by selling it to the Japanese.
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done
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There is already a common place precedent for taxing unrealised gains - council rates.
They are levied on what the state valuer general considers the property to be worth today, not the original purchase price.
No one considers that 'dangerous'.
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This is not true.
Not being indexed is not the same as "never going to change".
Income tax brackets aren't indexed either - they still change - quite regularly.
There is practically no chance that the $3m threshold would still be at $3m in 20 or 30 years time. Young Australians will not be affected.
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The transfer balance cap doesn't directly impact how much revenue the govt raises in a year.
For this tax, this new threshold does.
And like the income tax brackets there will be times across the cycle when the treasurer will want to raise or lower it at their discretion to conduct fiscal policy.
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...which is then followed by him taking credit when or if someone else manages to fix it.
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Just sit back and watch Gina start to play them off against each other..."but daddy said I could have a nuclear power station" .. "mummy lets me import cheap labour all the time"
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"not indexed" doesn't mean "never going to change".
Income tax brackets aren't indexed either, they still change, regularly.
Will everyone be in the top bracket in 30 years time? No.
Every federal budget, every rate, threshold, parameter is free game for modification.
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"on unrealised gains". So are council rates. You don't pay rates on what you bought the land for, you pay them on what the valuer general says it's worth - today.
Affects way more people - where's the outrage?
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If they want to lift the ban, its simple.
Win an election, form government and lift the ban.
2028's looking bad for them, but let's see how they go in 2031...
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And sure, the $3m isn't indexed, but that doesn't mean it will stay the same forever.
Income tax brackets aren't indexed either. They still get changed.
Its just not an automatic change.
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Its cute the way she talks like she's not just a seat warmer.
No one wants the job right now. Not after the shellacking that they just copped.
They're not going to let her reform anything.
They'll roll her when, or if, things ever start looking up.
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...and two notifications for every meeting invite or reschedule. One email in Outlook, one activity notification in Teams.
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Sussan has one of the LNP's safest seats.
Timmy has one of the most marginal - in fact, they are still counting.
They just had a leader that lost his seat.
Timmy has no chance this term.
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Is it to distract from the China tariffs being on hold again for 90 days?
Losing the trade war with China? Drop a drug-prices-dead-cat on the table.
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Hastie sits back and lets Angus and Sussan get jeered at for the next year and a bit.
Then he steps up as Hero and Savior before the election.
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At some point, they're going to try and suspend elections too, aren't they?
They'll use the same sort of logic.
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In this case, I can't tell which way around that applies?
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Yep
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Taylor's defining feature is his incompetence.
Price has one thing in common with Dutton; the more people see of her the less they like her.
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It has a strong "Don't mention the war" vibe to it.
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To the best of my knowledge, despite Trump's tariffs being applied worldwide, even down to islands of penguins, no other country has felt the need to impose doll rationing or pencil ownership restrictions on their children as a response.
Its just the USA.
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Yeah, but, the campaign already had a slogan - "Get Australia Back On Track" and, late in the campaign, after Trump's tariff nonsense had hit, when they were trying to distance themselves from Trump, she went off track with "Make Australia Great Again".
It was a dumb move.
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Zoe Daniel is struggling in Goldstein too.
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They may have already lost the next election.
They'd need a 'good' night in 2028 just to get back to where they were.
This was a Labor landslide, they'd need a massive landslide back the other way to get back in power.
Labor would have to monumentally stuff things up for that to happen.
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Both leading, with over 60% counted. Bradfield closer than Kooyong.
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...and then he did, without the system.
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I reckon as soon as Antony gets his system back, he's calling it.
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ABC counts are stuck
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Speers: "You think we're in for a thumping?...
...of the coalition"
He caught himself just in time.
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Good luck!