Australian politics & energy realist | Nuclear advocate | Fact-based debates on power & policy
Sydney, New South Wales
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Every solar/wind/battery system installed today will need replacement in </=20yrs.
Plus we need 16x current capacity batteries/p-hydro 2050 & 6x large-scale wind/solar (AEMO). Plus massive grid extensions.
ALP's anti-nuclear scam is unsustainable, expensive, & won't Net-0 Co2.
Alleged Helen Haines attacker Brendan Nugent, retweeted Labor's Bob Carr's VILE posts criticising Israel.
Time for toxic inflammatory POLYPS like Carr to SHUT DOWN it.
One is a fake Treasurer the other is real. Who would you pick?
Costello used 24.2% of GDP tax to deliver consecutive, multi $ billion underlying cash surpluses, paying off $96 billion of Labor's debt and establishing the Future Fund.
During his time corporate taxes were strong while GDP p/capita steadily rose.
Chalmers' tax take @ 24.1% of GDP has the budget in an underlying deficit of $22.3 billion. He relies on bracket creep from individual taxpayers to fill the coffers and has triggered a GDP p/capita recession.
When adjusted for the size of todays economy, Costello’s fiscal position was about $60 billion better off than Chalmers' budget outcome.
Jack Hunter retweeted
Liar 🤥. Spin Jim again . ACTUAL debt went up ⬆️. Using forecasts again to deliberately MISLEAD ! The two key metrics from the Final Budget Outcome are the underlying cash deficit and gross debt (face value of Australian Government Securities). archive.budget.gov.au
2024–25 (previous year)
• Underlying cash deficit: $10.0 billion
• Gross debt at 30 June 2025: $928.6 billion
2025–26 (just completed year)
• Underlying cash deficit: $22.3 billion (0.8% of GDP)
• Gross debt at 30 June 2026: $971.4 billion (33.2% of GDP)
Debt ROSE by about $42.8 billion year-on-year !!!!! Here is Jim’s spin - even though the 2025–26 outcome beat the May 2026 Budget forecasts ($28.3 billion deficit and $982.0 billion debt).
Jack Hunter retweeted
“850,000 families and businesses will pay $2.8 billion in advice alone to deal with @AlboMP ’s trust tax before restructuring costs says”@cpaaustralia . @JEChalmers isn’t closing a loophole. He’s slugging the family bakery, the farm, the tradie and the SME with a compliance bill they never asked for.
This is a war on aspiration dressed up as “fairness.” Great reporting @mcranston1 theaustralian.com.au/nation/…
Bill Kelty AC, Labor luminary tells Chalmers & Albanese
"Don't insult me ..."
"You had the Treasurer [Chalmers] say workers should be happy because their wage share is increasing, but their real wages are falling ...”
“It’s just ridiculous and people get offended by it ... They can’t pay the bills, and you tell them your share of GDP is growing."
Kelty said Chalmers and Albanese were insulting voters by welcoming lower house prices as they preside over a fall in real wages that is making houses even more unaffordable.
“Real wages have fallen by 5 per cent [since 2021 - OECD]. Real wages are not improving in any significant way – they’re falling."
Kelty predicted more [inflation and interest rate] pain to come.
Jack Hunter retweeted
This is the most insane footage you will see in the Bangor, Maine universe....
....We have been officially invaded.
My friend Adam Stade Bangor Maine on a Facebook post shows us what happened. Go find his page and follow him.
Also, the only reason some of you know me is the Maine Wire, find them and follow them!
We used to buy cheap electricity. Now, to dodge higher prices, we buy consumer gear, and still pay for the grid.
Transition costs did that: extra wires, backup, certificates and subsidies. The bill arrives as higher prices. That is a carbon tax in all but name.
A household then drops $8,000 to $20,000 on solar and a battery. Taxpayers throw in a few thousand more.
But panels fade. Inverters die first. The battery is a 10 to 15 year product. Then you pay again to rip it off the roof and dump it as e-waste.
Capital that once sat in plant that ran for decades now sits in household devices that don't last. Mining, shipping, install, replacement and disposal all paid for directly by households.
EVs are the same. $10,000 to $20,000 over a petrol car from a few years ago, higher insurance. In year 8 the battery, parts and resale loss is yours.
Household savings and tax money just got diverted into stuff that does not last - yet you'll probably buy it again because you have to.
Insolvencies rose as inflation, high rates and energy costs squeezed thin-margin firms, especially in construction and hospitality. Aggressive ATO debt pursuit and heavy government spending, which crowded out private activity.
🤖 Made with AI
Albo and Chalmers
When will you clowns learn houses are the collateral Australian businesses actually run on.
You’ve wrecked it.
🤖 Made with AI
Jack Hunter retweeted
#Breaking
It’s happened! A crowd of 15,000 people boo Australian Prime Minister @AlboMP in the countries most left leaning state.
His seat was ‘a gift’.
The people have him a warm welcome.
His time is done.
#Auspol #CancelLabor @ausvstheagenda
Albanese & Chalmers delivering the worst housing & tax policies in our history
Under $1M: FHB demand now lower
Over $1M: Cooling prices hurting families
New builds: Investor demand up FHB down
Supply: Builders crashing - inflation & policy
Rents: Skyrocketing
Total failure
Jack Hunter retweeted
Jordan Peterson demolishes climate alarmist's claim that increased atmospheric CO₂ has led to "record temperatures" for the past five years—arguing that WEF and UN-backed climate policies are driving up energy costs and pushing millions into hunger.
More than half the voters are paid by government.
Public servants 2.6 m
Gov-funded agencies 1.65 m
Welfare 5.14 m
Total 9.39 m
They don’t vote for Australia.
They vote for the cheque.
Jack Hunter retweeted
Every day, the Albanese cabinet vies relentlessly to see who can be the worst at their portfolio.
Penny Wong, screeching with outrage that Israel could possibly have not launched a criminal investigation into how someone could possibly get killed in the middle of a war zone.
I don't know Penny, get Miss Marple onto it.
