Farmer, father, husband, rural/regional political irritant. Dabbling on bluesky but it's hard to leave a place with the energy of a harvester smash up derby.
Rupanyup, Victoria
Joined May 2012
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So who is this bearded upstart?
3 kids, dryland sheep and grain farmer just south of Rupanyup, former Mayor behind Silo Art Trail.
Deeply frustrated by parties and #Mallee being ignored for too long! #wecandobetter
Proud to be doing all this with Whitney in a place I love.
In an ugly world, it's hard to think of anything uglier than targeting a fellow human for their ethnicity or religion.
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I still can't believe that Honda asked Matthew Broderick to do a car commercial. It's like hiring Bill Cosby to advertise sedatives.
So if when the US sneezes the world catches a cold, what happens if they smear themselves in their own excrement and set fire to themselves?
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Anyone thinking about voting for the ALP/LNP duopoly really should read this accounting of where our national wealth has gone. Vast profits for foreign corporations while we’ve been impoverished. We’ve let traitors quietly sell our nation out. #auspol macrobusiness.com.au/2025/03…
Fair bit going on here.
Australia’s largest private arms supplier, Robert Nioa, has become a regular of Donald Trump’s inner circle – and a confidant of Peter Dutton. He is also Bob Katter’s son-in-law. satpa.pe/2h4Znfl
I'm not going to pretend for a second that international diplomacy is straightforward at the moment, but this would absolutely need to be a line in the sand for us. By all means couch it in diplomatic language, but 100% bail.
White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group on.ft.com/4i8ib2B
This is unAustralian.
Labor has gone into damage control after Premier Roger Cook called the US Vice-President a ‘knob’.
buff.ly/1wYDfE4
When you put it like that...
Let me get this right —
Australia’s Defence priorities:
▪️We are considering sending peacekeeping troops to the Russian border
▪️But we’re not a member of NATO, some of whom will not be contributing peacekeepers.
▪️We are looking to spend an additional $28 billion on weapons each year because US tells us to
▪️But we will need to reduce expenditure on health, education, welfare.
▪️We are watching America abandon Ukraine and threaten Panama, Greenland, Mexico, Canada, China
▪️But we are letting US build numerous military bases across Australia.
▪️America now says it’s unlikely we’ll get the #AUKUS submarines
▪️But we are making regular $800 million payments to the US to build their submarine factories.
▪️Pine Gap is prioritising US demands like targeting Gaza for USA and Israel
▪️But Pine Gap missed the China ship live firing warning in the Tasman Sea.
▪️PM doesn’t know ANZUS is not a defence guarantee
▪️And US President doesn’t know what AUKUS is.
▪️We say we want peace in the Pacific, but prepare for an American offensive war.
Sounds coherent.
A backflip seems unlikely, (because apparently the worst thing you can do in #auspol is change your mind when presented with new information,) but it'll be interesting to see if Dutton goes quiet on this now.
On the Coalition’s pledge to buy more F-35 jets, @graham_euan tells the @FinancialReview: “It’s not filling the most pressing gaps in other areas such as the surface capability of the navy, the hardening of northern bases and air and missile defence.”
🔖👇afr.com/politics/federal/dut…
"Werribee" gets a mention in an international politics podcast!
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As opposition leader it's a bit hypocritical but hardly out of the ordinary. As member for Dickson.........
If I lived there I'd be pissed.
Be funny if this bloke got done for insider trading.
I built a bot which buys stocks that are being bought by politicians.
It has been beating the market.
Some of the trades it mimics are very suspicious.
Here are a few of them:
LOCKHEED MARTIN, $LMT
On October 17th of 2022, the strategy entered a position in Lockheed Martin.
This came after purchases of up to $115K of Lockheed stock by Representative Scott Franklin.
The day after the strategy entered this position, Lockheed announced better-than-expected quarterly revenue due to increased demand for its F-35 fighter jets.
Representative Scott Franklin sits on the House Committee on Appropriations, which oversees government expenditures.
Lockheed rose over 18% in the following two months.
ARTIVION, $AORT
On November 27th, the strategy entered a position in Artivion.
This came after purchases of up to $200K of Artivion stock by Senator Tina Smith.
Artivion is a small medical device company. Smith sits on the Senate Committee on Health.
The stock rose 25% within two weeks of the trade.
It has now risen 87% since the trade was made.
NGL ENERGY, $NGL
On April 10th, the strategy entered a position in NGL Energy.
This move was made as a result of Representative Mark Green’s March 24th purchase of up to $250K of NGL stock, which was disclosed on April 1st.
NGL rose 75% over the next 6 months.
We estimate that Representative Green made more money off of his NGL trading than he did from his congressional salary in 2023.
FINAL THOUGHTS
It’s worth noting that despite the performance of the Congress Buys Strategy, it may still be held back by weak disclosure regulations.
Members of Congress are given 45 days to disclose transactions, but the penalty for late disclosures is a mere $200.
Until Congress does manage to do a better job regulating itself, you can check out Quiver to see their most recent trades and track the strategy.
MalleeRay retweeted
I built a bot which buys stocks that are being bought by politicians.
It has been beating the market.
Some of the trades it mimics are very suspicious.
Here are a few of them:
LOCKHEED MARTIN, $LMT
On October 17th of 2022, the strategy entered a position in Lockheed Martin.
This came after purchases of up to $115K of Lockheed stock by Representative Scott Franklin.
The day after the strategy entered this position, Lockheed announced better-than-expected quarterly revenue due to increased demand for its F-35 fighter jets.
Representative Scott Franklin sits on the House Committee on Appropriations, which oversees government expenditures.
Lockheed rose over 18% in the following two months.
ARTIVION, $AORT
On November 27th, the strategy entered a position in Artivion.
This came after purchases of up to $200K of Artivion stock by Senator Tina Smith.
Artivion is a small medical device company. Smith sits on the Senate Committee on Health.
The stock rose 25% within two weeks of the trade.
It has now risen 87% since the trade was made.
NGL ENERGY, $NGL
On April 10th, the strategy entered a position in NGL Energy.
This move was made as a result of Representative Mark Green’s March 24th purchase of up to $250K of NGL stock, which was disclosed on April 1st.
NGL rose 75% over the next 6 months.
We estimate that Representative Green made more money off of his NGL trading than he did from his congressional salary in 2023.
FINAL THOUGHTS
It’s worth noting that despite the performance of the Congress Buys Strategy, it may still be held back by weak disclosure regulations.
Members of Congress are given 45 days to disclose transactions, but the penalty for late disclosures is a mere $200.
Until Congress does manage to do a better job regulating itself, you can check out Quiver to see their most recent trades and track the strategy.
