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James Sexton retweeted
Darcy Byrne the Mayor of inner West Council that owns the Marrickville golf club is a former Albanese staffer.
Could the corruption and rorts get any bigger than this government.
#auspol #NACC @NACCgovau
James Sexton retweeted
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush has assessed new evidence into Daniel and Catherine Andrews’ crash with a teenage cyclist and sent the file on to the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission > bit.ly/3WyMJnY
James Sexton retweeted
Still my favourite 2026 moment: Aussie swimming legend Dawn Fraser becomes emotional as she chronicles the horrors of hate that have been imported into Australia and slams the cowardice of the Albanese govt.
‘And when I see people with such disrespect burning our flag that I competed under. That soldiers fought under and many that lost their lives under.
You can be damn sure I will speak up because these people don’t deserve to live in this great country.’
We need to confront radical Islamic extremism now before it’s too late.
God bless you Dawn 🙌
James Sexton retweeted
FOR THE FIRST TIME, AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTS TOOK IN MORE THAN $1 TRILLION IN A YEAR. THEY STILL SPENT MORE THAN THEY COLLECTED.
We keep hearing there isn't enough money. So I went to the Bureau of Statistics' own tables for 2024-25, every level of government: federal, state and council.
The tax. $839.0 billion. That's 30.2% of the whole economy, the highest share since 2007-08. Federal took $675.2 billion, the states $140.7 billion and councils $24.6 billion.
Per person.
The Bureau puts it at $30,633 in tax for every man, woman and child in the country. About $589 a week.
Where it comes from.
Personal income tax $316.2 billion, plus $25.7 billion in Medicare levy. Company tax $143.7 billion. GST $94.8 billion. Stamp duty on homes $34.4 billion. Payroll taxes $41.7 billion. Council rates $25.1 billion. Gambling taxes $10.0 billion.
On top of tax.
Another $183.4 billion from fees and charges, royalties, interest, dividends and other revenue. Total: $1,022.4 billion. The Bureau says it's the first time revenue has passed a trillion dollars.
And they still came up short.
Spending was $1,030.5 billion. Interest costs alone were $47.4 billion, nearly double ten years ago.
Ten years ago the tax take was $463.7 billion. It's up 81%.
Same standard.
That decade covers Coalition and Labor governments in Canberra and both sides in every state. Nobody gets to blame the other lot for this.
In fairness, those are dollar figures, not adjusted for inflation, the population has grown, and part of the tax is paid by companies, not households. Spending grew a little slower than revenue over the decade.
But governments have never taken in more of your money. When they say there isn't enough, the problem isn't how much they collect. It's what they do with it.
Same standard, every side.
Cold Hard Facts. Corrected when wrong. No misinformation.
What's your thoughts…?
Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺
Sources:
ABS, Taxation Revenue, Australia, 2024-25, released 21 Apr 2026, Tables 1 and 10; ABS, Government Finance Statistics, Annual, 2024-25, released 21 Apr 2026, Table 939 (Table 1, operating statement, all levels of government); ABS, Insights into Government Finance Statistics, Annual, 2024-25; ABS taxation data via The Nightly, 21 Apr 2026. Ten-year changes and weekly figure: author's calculation.
James Sexton retweeted
10 years ago a premier resigned for accepting a wine bottle
Anika needs to understand ... we dislike thieves, but we dislike liars more
James Sexton retweeted
Breaking news: Victoria Chief Commissioner refers the Bike Boy crimes to IBAC.
The Herald Sun is reporting that Chief Commission Mike Bush has referred the evidence uncovered by the Bike Boy investigation to IBAC, Victoria’s anti corruption body.
The 500 page evidence brief was presented to current Chief Commissioner Mike Bush by former Chief Commissioner Kel Glare in July this year.
Mr Glare has publicly stated that the evidence indicates that Daniel and Catherine Andrews have committed the crimes of perjury and perverting the course of justice.
More to come….
ALT Victoria Chief Commissioner refers the Bike Boy crimes to IBAC.
James Sexton retweeted
ALBO & BOWEN’S $35 MILLION NO EXPENSES SPARED FIJI CLIMATE JUNKET BLOWOUT, WHILE YOU STRUGGLE TO PAY THE POWER BILL.
Labor just got caught rednhanded in Senate Estimates.
The Pre-COP31 Pacific climate summit they said cost $20 million actually has $34.6 million in contracted commitments, another Labor lie, and that’s only the “outer bounds.”
The real total is still hidden because they’re desperately trying to claw money back from other countries.
Here’s the rort:
$8.4 million on hotel rooms and venues across 13 properties, including a string of five star resorts on exclusive Denarau Island.
Another $682,000 splashed on the five star Sofitel Darling Harbour in Sydney for warm up events.
$2 million just for a host broadcaster so the world could watch the talking shop online.
At least $50,000 and counting flying their hand picked Youth Climate Champion, Sally Higgins, around the globe in business class, Germany, Kenya, UK, Denmark, Turkey, Korea, Fiji and more.
Flights alone topped $28k on one multi
country jaunt.
Bowen told reporters it was $20 million.
Officials confirmed that was only part of the bill. They refuse to give a final figure.
Questions about which world leaders actually showed up were fobbed off.
When pressed, Environment Minister Murray Watt defended the spend by pointing to Abbott’s G20 and Howard’s APEC, as if that makes this any less outrageous.
All of this comes out of the $147.8 million Labor set aside for Bowen’s COP31 “presidency” role.
While families are getting crushed by power prices, housing costs and grocery bills, Albanese and Bowen are treating taxpayer money like a personal Pacific holiday fund for bureaucrats and climate activists.
This isn’t “leadership.”
It’s a five star rort dressed up as saving the planet.
And they still won’t tell you the full cost.
James Sexton retweeted
Albo, you can't lecture Australians about "turning the temperature down" when your office is running dirt sheets against those who criticised your dodgy Marrickville Golf Club grant.
James Sexton retweeted
Albanese didn’t like Haines criticizing him about giving his local golf course, $6m,so he decided to put together a dirt file on her & shopped it around to media, now he’s lecturing us all about taking the heat out of the political debate, when he is the main instigator!
#auspol
James Sexton retweeted
You do good work. I am sorry I missed your post. You broke this 23 hours ago. Big lead.
James Sexton retweeted
BREAKING: Albanese has been plotting against Helen Haines for the last five weeks because she criticised a $6 million grant to Albanese’s Marrickville Golf Club as “pork-barrelling by design”
Since then, Albanese has been on the attack. The day after her comments his staff gave a dirt sheet on Haines to journalists with a list of requests including:
-A list of Haines’ advocacy for projects in Indi of $1.8 billion then raising questions about the value for money and due diligence of those projects
***Asking journalists to check for personal or professional connections, donations, or undeclared benefits that might create conflicts*** framed as potential avenues to examine, not proven allegations…
Specific examples given included:
-Whether Haines had received undeclared wine or food from local businesses, held business interests, received political donations, or had personal associations with businesses that could benefit from tourism funding?
-For an $8 million Benalla Art Gallery redevelopment request, Albanese asked whether Haines had visited, been a member, donated, or had any personal professional connection with employees or the board?
-For a local recreation centre upgrade Albanese asked if Haines had played or trained with local clubs, watched games, or received jerseys/equipment?
-Made reference to her, and her spouse’s receipt of Mount Buller ski lift passes, alongside later requests for resort infrastructure funding
The document supplied no proof of undisclosed wrongdoing but Haines told the Daily Mail she had not seen it previously, and described the approach as “pretty desperate”
See how Albanese and Labor operate? See how the media play their part?
James Sexton retweeted
On this day in 1942, a 15 year old Dutch Jewish girl arrived at Auschwitz with her mother, sister (11) and brother (14) where they were murdered on arrival. Her father perished in the camp on the 19 Oct 1942. Her name was Hendeliena ten Brink
Support @AuschwitzMuseum
James Sexton retweeted
MIDDLE STUMP: Andrew Clennell tells to Labor minister Tim Ayres face that he has no idea how to run a business. Watch
James Sexton retweeted
I went to witness the riots in Paris.
I’m going to tell you the truth: it was only young people from African immigrant backgrounds who came to attack our police officers and firefighters, loot our shops, and destroy everything.
An elderly French couple in their 80s was robbed and left in their underwear in the street.
The steeple of a 150-year-old church was completely burned down.
This is not a social revolt for better education.
It’s a taste of an ethnic war that took place today.
James Sexton retweeted
You don’t actually want change.
You want the comfort of talking about change while keeping everything exactly the same.
I write a weekly letter about the truths people avoid seeing.
Read it here.
James Sexton retweeted
Here is a classic case of very poor reporting on Aboriginal matters and completely made-up 'songlines' fooling government Ministers.
"Plibersek’s intervention came after an 11th-hour campaign by some members of the Wiradjuri/Wiradyuri Indigenous community, who argued that the river’s headwaters were significant because they were described in culturally significant songlines about a mythical blue-banded bee."
The two tribes' different spelling is the key here.
The Wiradjuri, with a 'j', are the traditional people around Orange. They number around 30,000. They have not opposed the mine.
The Wiradyuri, with a 'y', is a recent breakaway group. It registered itself as the Wiradyuri Traditional Owners Central West Aboriginal Corporation (WTOCWAC) with three members a few years ago. It lobbied Plibersek to stop the gold mine due to the 'blue-banded bee songlines' associated with the area.
The most senior elders of the dominant Wiradjuri said they have never heard of a blue-banded bee prior to a mural being commissioned in 2022 by the local council and WTOCWAC of artist Birrunga Wiradyuri who painted a 17-metre-tall blue-banded bee mural on the Bathurst post office.
Prior to 2022, there is neither oral nor written history of a blue-banded bee dreaming or songline. It appears to have been made up by the artist.
So, in short, Plibersek was conned by the same meddlesome minority mob that put in a claim on Mt. Panorama. @pgker
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