Opinion AUSTRALIAN Politics: Adelaide Board Discussion Part 6

Another lefty climate activist billionaire that's good at telling us what's good for us but not so for him....Do as I say, not what I do like that other lefty tryhard Leonardo DiCaprio. Worse still Cannon-Brookes is a tax dodger extraordinaire,,(parasite).

‘Don’t create a problem’: Advice for private jet owner Cannon-Brookes

Tech entrepreneur and clean energy evangelist Mike Cannon-Brookes has bought a private jet. Is it possible to travel in style and save the planet at the same time?
www.afr.com

‘Don’t create a problem’: Advice for private jet owner Cannon-Brookes​

For the climate-conscious billionaire class, it’s not easy to avoid the allure of private air travel. Just ask Elon Musk and Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest.
Tech entrepreneur and clean energy evangelist Mike Cannon-Brookes is the latest to join their ranks, shelling out for a 19-seat Bombardier 7500 to transport him and his family on their various intercontinental jaunts. Cannon-Brookes is a billionaire by virtue of being the co-founder and chief executive of software giant Atlassian. He runs his sizeable clean energy operations through a private vehicle called Grok Ventures and was once dubbed “Double Bay Jesus” by Rampart columnist Joe Aston.










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Mutineer said:
Another lefty climate activist billionaire that's good at telling us what's good for us but not so for him....Do as I say, not what I do like that other lefty tryhard Leonardo DiCaprio. Worse still Cannon-Brookes is a tax dodger extraordinaire,,(parasite).

‘Don’t create a problem’: Advice for private jet owner Cannon-Brookes

Tech entrepreneur and clean energy evangelist Mike Cannon-Brookes has bought a private jet. Is it possible to travel in style and save the planet at the same time?
www.afr.com

‘Don’t create a problem’: Advice for private jet owner Cannon-Brookes​

For the climate-conscious billionaire class, it’s not easy to avoid the allure of private air travel. Just ask Elon Musk and Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest.​

Tech entrepreneur and clean energy evangelist Mike Cannon-Brookes is the latest to join their ranks, shelling out for a 19-seat Bombardier 7500 to transport him and his family on their various intercontinental jaunts. Cannon-Brookes is a billionaire by virtue of being the co-founder and chief executive of software giant Atlassian. He runs his sizeable clean energy operations through a private vehicle called Grok Ventures and was once dubbed “Double Bay Jesus” by Rampart columnist Joe Aston.​

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Just a tip Bicks - most of the wealthy don't pay their fair share of tax. It's got nothing to do with their political persuasion. They tend to be greedy types... though there are some exceptions. They also tend to be do as I say rather than do types too.

No issue with bringing it to light though that they are hypocrites.
 
Hahahaha talk about an own goal by those Labor Ministers that were all over Dutton when Albo is guilty of exactly the same..



Albanese attended political fundraiser on same day as Dutton

The admission on a Perth radio station comes after the prime minister swerved questions at a Thursday press conference.
www.abc.net.au

Albanese confirms he attended a political fundraiser on same day as Dutton amid Alfred preparations​

In short: ​

Anthony Albanese attended a political fundraiser on the same day Peter Dutton flew from Brisbane to Sydney to attend one at the home of hospitality magnate Justin Hemmes, which attracted criticism from Labor ministers.

The PM confirmed the fundraiser in an interview on Nova Perth on Friday, after swerving questions on the subject at a Thursday press conference.
 
What a mess, no wonder Bill Shorten got the hell outta there...


Australian law firms made $37m representing ‘failing’ NDIS amid calls for royal commission​

Pensioner Mark Toomey, whose son Geoff suffered a brain haemorrhage, has been asked to re-prove his son’s disabilities. See who’s making millions off the failing scheme.

A Freedom of Information report revealed one expert has received more than $135,000 from the NDIA for tribunal work.

Pensioner Mark Toomey, whose 35-year-old son Geoff suffered a spontaneous brain haemorrhage 10 years ago, which destroyed half his brain, said it was farcical and that every year his son was asked to re-prove his “unchanging disabilities”, with the agency often ignoring the reports submitted. He estimates the total cost of these reports, in his son’s case alone, was around $200,000.

Last week NDIA CEO Rebecca Falkingham made a shocking admission at Senate Estimates when she said staff were not able to read “280 page” clinical reports.

“The NDIS is an appalling mystery box in terms of where does the money go?” Mr Toomey. “The traceability, the accountability in the whole system is appalling.”

Mr Toomey claimed the scheme had become the “new Robodebt” because of the way the agency treats participants.
He said legislation brought in late last year, allowing bureaucrats to reassess people’s plans at any time, has seen funding suddenly cut, leaving those impacted at breaking point or suicidal.

A Change.org petition started last month against the NDIS cutting kids’ plans has 7700 signatures.

Mr Toomey, based in Melbourne, said he’s in touch with 900 people who say they’ve been harmed by the NDIA’s actions and want to sue.

He said a royal commission was needed to show the level of misfeasance in public office, as well as lay bare the financial failings.

Staff wages have also ballooned by more than a quarter of a billion dollars since the last election.
 
What a mess...


Queensland mum’s NDIS debacle with disabled sons as she was quizzed by NDIA​

A Queensland mother has opened up about the two and a half day grilling she copped from from the NDIS tribunal system and the “ridiculous” call that was made.



An intellectually disabled teenager was pitched as a suitable carer for his disabled brother by an NDIS agency expert, it can be revealed.
And when the NDIS tribunal panel dismissed the proposal, it was suggested the boy’s grandparents take up the slack instead.
The recommendations, floated at an independent review hearing, were labelled as “ridiculous” by the boy’s mother.
The mum and her husband, who can’t be named or pictured because of a non-publication order, can only provide limited care.
The mum said she wanted to speak out to expose what people with a disability and their families have to endure in order to get the funding they are entitled to.

She likened the tribunal system to a “David and Goliath battle”, favouring the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA)’s multimillion-dollar war chest.

She said the questioning by lawyers was relentless.

One lawyer spent 45 minutes quizzing her on how she changed her son’s nappy.
“The entire time I didn’t feel like I was believed by the NDIA,” she said.

“In addition to having to be questioned for two and a half days straight, I was also trying to prepare my questions for the next day. So, I was up all night learning how to be a lawyer, learning how to litigate the case, learning how to support my son, but also attending to my son in the middle of the night and trying to get enough rest that I could focus on the next day.

“And in all honesty, after the case my entire body just shut down.”

Going to tribunal also meant she had to get new medical reports to back up her claims, costing taxpayers $10,000.

The case, which was finalised in the boy’s favour, resulted in him getting 10 times the amount of funding the NDIA originally was suggesting.
 
disgraceful in VIC

‘Nobody’s stopping it’: The taxpayer money trail from building sites to the underworld

A major investigation has revealed how gangland and bikie-linked figures are receiving large payments from companies on publicly funded projects.
www.theage.com.au

The Victorian government covered up rampant and ongoing CFMEU-linked organised crime infiltration and corruption on its multibillion-dollar Big Build infrastructure scheme by failing to ensure scrutiny of “senior bureaucrats and ministerial offices”, according to the top investigator appointed to clean up the construction sector.

The accusation that Victorian Labor has in effect run a protection racket comes amid new revelations of wrongdoing including the employment of “baseball bat-wielding violent people” on the Big Build, where women have been bashed and then black-banned after they complained. A major investigation by this masthead and 60 Minutes has also uncovered how gangland and bikie-linked figures are receiving large payments from companies on publicly funded projects looking to gain favour with union insiders, leaving state and federal taxpayers in effect underwriting payments to the underworld.
 
119others said:
disgraceful in VIC

‘Nobody’s stopping it’: The taxpayer money trail from building sites to the underworld

A major investigation has revealed how gangland and bikie-linked figures are receiving large payments from companies on publicly funded projects.
www.theage.com.au

The Victorian government covered up rampant and ongoing CFMEU-linked organised crime infiltration and corruption on its multibillion-dollar Big Build infrastructure scheme by failing to ensure scrutiny of “senior bureaucrats and ministerial offices”, according to the top investigator appointed to clean up the construction sector.

The accusation that Victorian Labor has in effect run a protection racket comes amid new revelations of wrongdoing including the employment of “baseball bat-wielding violent people” on the Big Build, where women have been bashed and then black-banned after they complained. A major investigation by this masthead and 60 Minutes has also uncovered how gangland and bikie-linked figures are receiving large payments from companies on publicly funded projects looking to gain favour with union insiders, leaving state and federal taxpayers in effect underwriting payments to the underworld.
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Nah nothing to see here....The Victorian ALP Andrews/Allan Government has been the most corrupt, incompotent and dictatorial Government in Australian history and that takes some doing, even old Joh Bjelke-Petersen would blush at some of the goings on in 'Dicktator Dan Andrews Viktoriastan.
 
Thanks for nothing Upgrade Albo and grim Jim Chalmers...


‘Strategic battle’: Aussies struggling to make ends meet​

Grocery bills have surged during the Albanese government’s first term, with families facing a “strategic battle” to make ends meet. See how prices have soared and how you can cut costs.

Grocery bills have surged by 30 per cent during the Albanese government’s first term, leaving families $3000 a year poorer, exclusive analysis reveals.
Experts say the relentless rise in the price of consumer staples has transformed what was once a routine task into a “strategic battle” to make ends meet.

Supermarkets say more customers are responding to cost increases by shopping at multiple chains, as well as by eating more canned and frozen food.

Soaring grocery expenses have been even harder to deal with because of the simultaneous intensification of financial pressures from utilities such as electricity and home loan repayments or rent.
The cost of living is the number one vote driver by a wide margin, with groceries the greatest source of concern, according to recent research by SEC Newgate.

Secret shopping by this masthead shows a basket of 29 items from Coles costs 36 per cent more today than it did in June 2022. At Woolworths, the increase has been 30 per cent. And at Aldi, there’s been a 26 per cent jump.

Based on the trio’s market share, the average increase has been about 32 per cent.

That’s added more than $60 a week or $3000 a year to the cost of a typical family shop.

Comparison website Finder’s head of consumer research Graham Cooke said more shoppers were buying from multiple chains, using coupons and doing bigger shops to exploit bulk-purchase programs.

“What was once a routine weekly task has transformed into a strategic battle against rising costs, forcing many to adopt extreme shopping habits,” Mr Cooke said.
 

Broken state of Victoria’s roads long blamed on floods — but how much recovery work really got done?​

The Allan government slashed road works by 90 per cent to accomodate flood recovery last finanical year. Now, it can be revealed the “very little” amount repaired with the $250m blowout.

The Allan government repaired just 750,000sq m of flood-damaged roads last financial year, despite spending $250m more than budgeted to accommodate the maintenance works.
The Herald Sun in November reported the Department of Transport had cut road works by 90 per cent across the state in 2023-24 so that maintenance crews could focus efforts on strengthening roads damaged by floods.

It meant just one million sqm of road was repaired under regular works (resurfacing or rehabilitation) in 2023-24, compared to 10 million sqm the year prior, and 12.9 million sqm in 2021-22.

Defending the cuts to regular road maintenance, an Allan government spokesperson previously said: “A significant portion of the state’s 2023-24 planned road maintenance program was directed towards asphalt patching, in response to what data told us the network needed at that point in time.”
But a Herald Sun investigation into the budget diversion has uncovered that at least $250m was used to repair just 750,912 sqm of flood-damaged roads last financial year.

This is on top of the $441m budgeted, used to repair one million sqm of road across the state.

Meanwhile in 2021-22, the government repaired nearly 13 times the amount of road (12.9m sqm), but managed to spend tens of millions less on the maintenance works ($617.4m).
 
And more dog whistling from Mr Potato Head -

Dutton wants referendum on giving politicians ability to deport dual citizens

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and his senior MPs have held high-level talks about a referendum on powers to strip citizenship for dual nationals who commit serious crimes.
www.smh.com.au

The more he concentrates on these issues, to be like a mini-Trump, the less he is offering solutions to COL. He opposed every COL measure and it would appear as we get closer to the election, people are starting to notice.

They are giving zero economic policies so far and Angus “boofhead” Taylor is saying they will decide tax cuts after the election. WTF! The Coalition deserve another term in Opposition.
 
kirky said:
And more dog whistling from Mr Potato Head -

Dutton wants referendum on giving politicians ability to deport dual citizens

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and his senior MPs have held high-level talks about a referendum on powers to strip citizenship for dual nationals who commit serious crimes.
www.smh.com.au

The more he concentrates on these issues, to be like a mini-Trump, the less he is offering solutions to COL. He opposed every COL measure and it would appear as we get closer to the election, people are starting to notice.

They are giving zero economic policies so far and Angus “boofhead” Taylor is saying they will decide tax cuts after the election. WTF! The Coalition deserve another term in Opposition.
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So Albo's named the election date has he?
 
MsTopG said:
Should be but aren't. Our so called leaders want us poor and beholden to the government.
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One of your best posts.

This is because the coalition squashed the minerals tax by supporting the filthy rich mining magnates.

We should have a system closer to the Norwegian system which puts money away for every citizen.
 
Kane McGoodwin said:
One of your best posts.

This is because the coalition squashed the minerals tax by supporting the filthy rich mining magnates.

We should have a system closer to the Norwegian system which puts money away for every citizen.
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Eat your heart out, mining. See how HECS is the real 'backbone of the economy'

Experts explain why students' HECS-HELP repayments generate more revenue than the taxes charged on commodities belonging "to all Australians".
www.sbs.com.au


Australia is the world's biggest liquefied gas exporter, yet it's our student loans, not tax on our commodities, that increasingly bear the load of our national budget.
In the 2023 financial year, the Australian Taxation Office collected $4.9 billion from students paying back HELP-SFSS loans, which includes HECS.
In contrast, the petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT) generated only $2.2 billion.
 
Doctor B said:

Eat your heart out, mining. See how HECS is the real 'backbone of the economy'

Experts explain why students' HECS-HELP repayments generate more revenue than the taxes charged on commodities belonging "to all Australians".
www.sbs.com.au


Australia is the world's biggest liquefied gas exporter, yet it's our student loans, not tax on our commodities, that increasingly bear the load of our national budget.
In the 2023 financial year, the Australian Taxation Office collected $4.9 billion from students paying back HELP-SFSS loans, which includes HECS.
In contrast, the petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT) generated only $2.2 billion.
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We need a major overhaul of our tax system but no major party is brave enough.
 
Mutineer said:
So Albo's named the election date has he?
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Well it can only be three dates now - May 3, May 10 or May 17.

The only policy he has announced is his brain fart that is decades away of coming to fruition.

And he seems to have these thought bubbles that get contradicted by another minister, ala Michele Cash on this immigration one.
 
LOL LOL LOL


Jim Chalmers on Tuesday refused to make an election promise that power prices would be “stable” under a second term of the Albanese government. The potential to prolong the use of coal may test the will of the Albanese government as it moves to fast-track the shift to renewables and clean energy.
Reality bites big time!!!

Suck it up Bowen, your headlong rush into renewables looks like taking another hit, a self inflicted hit!!!

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Power crunch fears trigger Yallourn coal power extension talks​

One of Australia’s biggest coal power stations is set to stay open for four more years, in an extraordinary reversal for the state Labor government’s renewable energy-only blueprint.

One of Australia’s biggest coal power stations in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley is set to stay open for four more years amid fears of devastating electricity shortages, in an extraordinary U-turn for the state Labor government’s renewable energy-only blueprint.
A decision to keep coal in the power system for longer underscores Australia’s volatile transition from fossil fuels to green power, even as federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen insisted a move to double the amount of renewable energy by the end of the decade remained on track.

The Australian can reveal owners EnergyAustralia, along with the Victorian government and the power grid operator, have held talks about delaying the mid-2028 closure of Yallourn. Instead, it could remain running into the next decade to dodge a power shortfall, although no decision on the length of an extension has yet been made.

The Yallourn station supplies 22 per cent of Victoria’s electricity and 8 per cent of the national market, and employs 500 workers.
Industry sources said the Australian Energy Market Operator had advised the Victorian government that Yallourn might need to be extended beyond 2028 over fears the electricity grid would be unstable if the giant coal plant exited.

A series of rolling talks had been held between AEMO and Victoria’s Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action over the mooted extension. EnergyAustralia had also held talks with the Victorian government over the plan, sources added.
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Mutineer said:
LOL LOL LOL


Jim Chalmers on Tuesday refused to make an election promise that power prices would be “stable” under a second term of the Albanese government. The potential to prolong the use of coal may test the will of the Albanese government as it moves to fast-track the shift to renewables and clean energy.
Reality bites big time!!!

Suck it up Bowen, your headlong rush into renewables looks like taking another hit, a self inflicted hit!!!

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So what is the Coaltion proposing for the next term to fix power prices?

What will they do that is different?

I keep asking, but you are very silent on this...
 
Kane McGoodwin said:
So what is the Coaltion proposing for the next term to fix power prices?

What will they do that is different?

I keep asking, but you are very silent on this...
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Ha

Well the ALP's plan ain't looking to wonderful so not a very high standard to reach.
 

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