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  1. @augustusbrown @hailey
    That’s not a broken promise? Mate, this was the gold standard of broken promises.

    “No cuts to education.”
    “No cuts to health.”
    “No cuts to the ABC or SBS.”
    “No changes to pensions.”

    Then came the budget chainsaw.

    Funny how Murdoch media suddenly discovers outrage over a tiny negative gearing tweak, but barely blinked when Tony Abbott torched half his 2013 promises. 🤔

    x.com/ChristyDanFan/status/205

    #auspol #abc #negativegearing #murdoch #LNPfail

  2. @augustusbrown @hailey
    That’s not a broken promise? Mate, this was the gold standard of broken promises.

    “No cuts to education.”
    “No cuts to health.”
    “No cuts to the ABC or SBS.”
    “No changes to pensions.”

    Then came the budget chainsaw.

    Funny how Murdoch media suddenly discovers outrage over a tiny negative gearing tweak, but barely blinked when Tony Abbott torched half his 2013 promises. 🤔

    x.com/ChristyDanFan/status/205

    #auspol #abc #negativegearing #murdoch #LNPfail

  3. @augustusbrown @hailey
    That’s not a broken promise? Mate, this was the gold standard of broken promises.

    “No cuts to education.”
    “No cuts to health.”
    “No cuts to the ABC or SBS.”
    “No changes to pensions.”

    Then came the budget chainsaw.

    Funny how Murdoch media suddenly discovers outrage over a tiny negative gearing tweak, but barely blinked when Tony Abbott torched half his 2013 promises. 🤔

    x.com/ChristyDanFan/status/205

    #auspol #abc #negativegearing #murdoch #LNPfail

  4. @augustusbrown @hailey
    That’s not a broken promise? Mate, this was the gold standard of broken promises.

    “No cuts to education.”
    “No cuts to health.”
    “No cuts to the ABC or SBS.”
    “No changes to pensions.”

    Then came the budget chainsaw.

    Funny how Murdoch media suddenly discovers outrage over a tiny negative gearing tweak, but barely blinked when Tony Abbott torched half his 2013 promises. 🤔

    x.com/ChristyDanFan/status/205

    #auspol #abc #negativegearing #murdoch #LNPfail

  5. @augustusbrown @hailey
    That’s not a broken promise? Mate, this was the gold standard of broken promises.

    “No cuts to education.”
    “No cuts to health.”
    “No cuts to the ABC or SBS.”
    “No changes to pensions.”

    Then came the budget chainsaw.

    Funny how Murdoch media suddenly discovers outrage over a tiny negative gearing tweak, but barely blinked when Tony Abbott torched half his 2013 promises. 🤔

    x.com/ChristyDanFan/status/205

    #auspol #abc #negativegearing #murdoch #LNPfail

  6. So apparently the Angus Taylor masterplan is to copy-paste Donald Trump and hope Australians don’t notice.
    ICE-style deportations, values tests, culture war nonsense… all imported straight from the US bargain bin.
    Even Paul Keating is calling it out as the Liberals defaulting to racism and ditching their own history.
    Imagine running a 2026 campaign based on recycled 2016 slogans… from another country.
    No ideas, no policy, just fear with an American accent.

    #FMD #australia #auspol #immigration #libleadership #politics #LNPfail

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  7. So apparently the Angus Taylor masterplan is to copy-paste Donald Trump and hope Australians don’t notice.
    ICE-style deportations, values tests, culture war nonsense… all imported straight from the US bargain bin.
    Even Paul Keating is calling it out as the Liberals defaulting to racism and ditching their own history.
    Imagine running a 2026 campaign based on recycled 2016 slogans… from another country.
    No ideas, no policy, just fear with an American accent.

    #FMD #australia #auspol #immigration #libleadership #politics #LNPfail

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  8. So apparently the Angus Taylor masterplan is to copy-paste Donald Trump and hope Australians don’t notice.
    ICE-style deportations, values tests, culture war nonsense… all imported straight from the US bargain bin.
    Even Paul Keating is calling it out as the Liberals defaulting to racism and ditching their own history.
    Imagine running a 2026 campaign based on recycled 2016 slogans… from another country.
    No ideas, no policy, just fear with an American accent.

    #FMD #australia #auspol #immigration #libleadership #politics #LNPfail

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  9. So apparently the Angus Taylor masterplan is to copy-paste Donald Trump and hope Australians don’t notice.
    ICE-style deportations, values tests, culture war nonsense… all imported straight from the US bargain bin.
    Even Paul Keating is calling it out as the Liberals defaulting to racism and ditching their own history.
    Imagine running a 2026 campaign based on recycled 2016 slogans… from another country.
    No ideas, no policy, just fear with an American accent.

    #FMD #australia #auspol #immigration #libleadership #politics #LNPfail

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  10. So apparently the Angus Taylor masterplan is to copy-paste Donald Trump and hope Australians don’t notice.
    ICE-style deportations, values tests, culture war nonsense… all imported straight from the US bargain bin.
    Even Paul Keating is calling it out as the Liberals defaulting to racism and ditching their own history.
    Imagine running a 2026 campaign based on recycled 2016 slogans… from another country.
    No ideas, no policy, just fear with an American accent.

    #FMD #australia #auspol #immigration #libleadership #politics #LNPfail

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  11. Oh wow, Angus Taylor has cracked the case. Labor’s evil ‘emissions obsession’ is why Aussie refineries are shipping fuel overseas while we pay through the nose at the pump.
    Top detective work, mate. Almost like those tighter sulphur rules were brought in by the Coalition… when you were Energy Minister. With grants to upgrade the refineries themselves.
    But nah, blame Bowen. Classic opposition energy move: rewrite the history, then get mad at the twist you wrote.

    #auspol #lnpfail #angus

    thenewdaily.com.au/news/politi

  12. Oh wow, Angus Taylor has cracked the case. Labor’s evil ‘emissions obsession’ is why Aussie refineries are shipping fuel overseas while we pay through the nose at the pump.
    Top detective work, mate. Almost like those tighter sulphur rules were brought in by the Coalition… when you were Energy Minister. With grants to upgrade the refineries themselves.
    But nah, blame Bowen. Classic opposition energy move: rewrite the history, then get mad at the twist you wrote.

    #auspol #lnpfail #angus

    thenewdaily.com.au/news/politi

  13. Oh wow, Angus Taylor has cracked the case. Labor’s evil ‘emissions obsession’ is why Aussie refineries are shipping fuel overseas while we pay through the nose at the pump.
    Top detective work, mate. Almost like those tighter sulphur rules were brought in by the Coalition… when you were Energy Minister. With grants to upgrade the refineries themselves.
    But nah, blame Bowen. Classic opposition energy move: rewrite the history, then get mad at the twist you wrote.

    #auspol #lnpfail #angus

    thenewdaily.com.au/news/politi

  14. Oh wow, Angus Taylor has cracked the case. Labor’s evil ‘emissions obsession’ is why Aussie refineries are shipping fuel overseas while we pay through the nose at the pump.
    Top detective work, mate. Almost like those tighter sulphur rules were brought in by the Coalition… when you were Energy Minister. With grants to upgrade the refineries themselves.
    But nah, blame Bowen. Classic opposition energy move: rewrite the history, then get mad at the twist you wrote.

    #auspol #lnpfail #angus

    thenewdaily.com.au/news/politi

  15. @Old_IT_geek Looks like Australia is heading down the same path as the US. The Coalition's 'Trumpian' plan for social media vetting of visitors (even tourists) is straight out of that playbook. Already hearing talk of ramping up deportations and our own version of ICE-style enforcement through Home Affairs/Border Force. #auspol #fascism #LNPfail

  16. The greedy suits at SPC made one fatal choice that destroyed Victoria’s iconic fruit cannery and thousands of jobs.
    But the LNP government under Prime Minister Tony Abbott rejected SPC’s $25 million request to modernise and save local jobs — calling it “corporate welfare.”
    Yet they happily handed $16 million to Cadbury, a foreign-owned multinational.
    Classic LNP hypocrisy: no support for Australian workers and food sovereignty, but plenty of taxpayer cash for overseas bosses when it suits them.
    We need public ownership of strategic industries, not this selective corporate welfare that guts manufacturing while workers pay the price.

    #ClassWar #WorkersRights #AussieManufacturing #LNPFail #Auspol #madMonk #SPC

    youtube.com/watch?v=HbDwVXfnnkY

  17. Australia's Watergate: 7 yrs on, Barnaby Joyce & Angus Taylor's $80M Cayman Islands water scam still unpunished! Taxpayers fleeced for dodgy rights via secrecy & uni-party protection. Labor won't touch it. Smash the corruption!

    #AusPol #Watergate #CaymanScam #LNPFail

    youtube.com/watch?v=IJY3BRDH9jo

  18. The Liberals are burying their 2025 election review like it's state secrets. Dutton's bloodbath loss promised transparency—Ley swore it'd be public—but Angus crew now says nah, moving on.
    Authors slam it as betrayal and cover-up. Classic Libs: lose big, hide the lessons, then wonder why voters ghost them. More of the same coming...
    If they can't own the wipeout, how do they fix it? Transparency for voters, not themselves eh? 😂
    #AusPol #LNPFail #Election2025 #LiberalCoverUp #DuttonDisaster

    sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episod

  19. Angus Taylor's latest: crank up security vetting & crack down on immigration because some migrants supposedly don't 'share our values'. Cites Bondi terror attack & IS brides repatriation as scare examples. Classic right-wing playbook—Number 1: whip up fear to unsettle the masses & justify hardline controls. Same tactics we're seeing from every populist conservative gov around the world. Australia deserves better than this fearmongering.

    #AusPol #Immigration #lnpfail

    sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episod

  20. Once again, we see the same playbook: when "fiscal responsibility" is needed, it's always education, healthcare, and social services on the chopping block. Never corporate subsidies. Never tax loopholes for the wealthy. Never the billions in concessions to mining companies.
    Liberals talk about "tough choices" while protecting the comfortable and squeezing the vulnerable. The pattern is crystal clear—austerity for the many, prosperity for the few.

    #Auspol #Austerity #ClassWarfare #EatTheRich #LnpFail

    au.finance.yahoo.com/news/pres

  21. Once again, we see the same playbook: when "fiscal responsibility" is needed, it's always education, healthcare, and social services on the chopping block. Never corporate subsidies. Never tax loopholes for the wealthy. Never the billions in concessions to mining companies.
    Liberals talk about "tough choices" while protecting the comfortable and squeezing the vulnerable. The pattern is crystal clear—austerity for the many, prosperity for the few.

    #Auspol #Austerity #ClassWarfare #EatTheRich #LnpFail

    au.finance.yahoo.com/news/pres

  22. Once again, we see the same playbook: when "fiscal responsibility" is needed, it's always education, healthcare, and social services on the chopping block. Never corporate subsidies. Never tax loopholes for the wealthy. Never the billions in concessions to mining companies.
    Liberals talk about "tough choices" while protecting the comfortable and squeezing the vulnerable. The pattern is crystal clear—austerity for the many, prosperity for the few.

    #Auspol #Austerity #ClassWarfare #EatTheRich #LnpFail

    au.finance.yahoo.com/news/pres

  23. The Coalition has collapsed for the second time in eight months and Sussan Ley’s leadership could follow at any moment. So who should lead the opposition through this tumultuous time? While former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has been there, he himself is not sure who is best placed to take on the challenge, adding ‘the pool of talent is not enormous at the moment’. Turnbull talks about what went wrong between the Liberals and Nationals and what he thinks it will take to resuscitate his party.

    #auspol #rightwing #lnpfail

    youtube.com/watch?v=_Q7gARReVWA

  24. @NickSchwanck @luciedigitalni @Old_IT_geek

    It is worth remembering how fiercely the Murdoch press lined up against Whitlam in the lead up to the dismissal and how reliably it has backed the fossil fuel aligned lnp ever since. The coverage was never neutral and it has shaped decades of public opinion.
    The small consolation is that Murdochs outlets now speak mainly to the older crowd. Younger Australians are tuning out entirely, choosing independent and digital sources instead. They are the one bright sign that a better future is still possible here.

    #australianpolitics #whitlam #australia #media #lnp #lnpfail #msm #auspol

  25. @NickSchwanck @luciedigitalni @Old_IT_geek

    It is worth remembering how fiercely the Murdoch press lined up against Whitlam in the lead up to the dismissal and how reliably it has backed the fossil fuel aligned lnp ever since. The coverage was never neutral and it has shaped decades of public opinion.
    The small consolation is that Murdochs outlets now speak mainly to the older crowd. Younger Australians are tuning out entirely, choosing independent and digital sources instead. They are the one bright sign that a better future is still possible here.

    #australianpolitics #whitlam #australia #media #lnp #lnpfail #msm #auspol

  26. @NickSchwanck @luciedigitalni @Old_IT_geek

    It is worth remembering how fiercely the Murdoch press lined up against Whitlam in the lead up to the dismissal and how reliably it has backed the fossil fuel aligned lnp ever since. The coverage was never neutral and it has shaped decades of public opinion.
    The small consolation is that Murdochs outlets now speak mainly to the older crowd. Younger Australians are tuning out entirely, choosing independent and digital sources instead. They are the one bright sign that a better future is still possible here.

    #australianpolitics #whitlam #australia #media #lnp #lnpfail #msm #auspol

  27. @NickSchwanck @luciedigitalni @Old_IT_geek

    It is worth remembering how fiercely the Murdoch press lined up against Whitlam in the lead up to the dismissal and how reliably it has backed the fossil fuel aligned lnp ever since. The coverage was never neutral and it has shaped decades of public opinion.
    The small consolation is that Murdochs outlets now speak mainly to the older crowd. Younger Australians are tuning out entirely, choosing independent and digital sources instead. They are the one bright sign that a better future is still possible here.

    #australianpolitics #whitlam #australia #media #lnp #lnpfail #msm #auspol

  28. @NickSchwanck @luciedigitalni @Old_IT_geek

    It is worth remembering how fiercely the Murdoch press lined up against Whitlam in the lead up to the dismissal and how reliably it has backed the fossil fuel aligned lnp ever since. The coverage was never neutral and it has shaped decades of public opinion.
    The small consolation is that Murdochs outlets now speak mainly to the older crowd. Younger Australians are tuning out entirely, choosing independent and digital sources instead. They are the one bright sign that a better future is still possible here.

    #australianpolitics #whitlam #australia #media #lnp #lnpfail #msm #auspol

  29. The deliberate theft of free education by successive governments is one of the greatest acts of intergenerational theft in our history. I know, because I was one of the lucky ones who benefited from Whitlam's vision. We must restore it.

    #FreeEducation #Whitlam #AusPol #LNPFail #EducationForAll #dumbingdown

    theconversation.com/how-did-au

  30. The deliberate theft of free education by successive governments is one of the greatest acts of intergenerational theft in our history. I know, because I was one of the lucky ones who benefited from Whitlam's vision. We must restore it.

    #FreeEducation #Whitlam #AusPol #LNPFail #EducationForAll #dumbingdown

    theconversation.com/how-did-au

  31. The deliberate theft of free education by successive governments is one of the greatest acts of intergenerational theft in our history. I know, because I was one of the lucky ones who benefited from Whitlam's vision. We must restore it.

    #FreeEducation #Whitlam #AusPol #LNPFail #EducationForAll #dumbingdown

    theconversation.com/how-did-au

  32. The deliberate theft of free education by successive governments is one of the greatest acts of intergenerational theft in our history. I know, because I was one of the lucky ones who benefited from Whitlam's vision. We must restore it.

    #FreeEducation #Whitlam #AusPol #LNPFail #EducationForAll #dumbingdown

    theconversation.com/how-did-au

  33. The deliberate theft of free education by successive governments is one of the greatest acts of intergenerational theft in our history. I know, because I was one of the lucky ones who benefited from Whitlam's vision. We must restore it.

    #FreeEducation #Whitlam #AusPol #LNPFail #EducationForAll #dumbingdown

    theconversation.com/how-did-au

  34. @rood That's a brutal but accurate example of the logic at work. When healthcare is treated as a commodity, not a right, the math becomes coldly utilitarian.
    You're right, the system starts to see people as having a "used by date." A complex, expensive dental procedure to save a tooth isn't "cost-effective" for a low-income person—so the cheaper extraction is the only "choice." This is the same logic that sees a retired person or a chronically ill individual as a "burden" rather than a person.
    The previous government's decade long medicare rebate freeze was a policy that deliberately starved bulk billing. The goal was to make public healthcare unviable and push people towards private, for-profit systems. They absolutely would not have a problem with workers collapsing; in that worldview, you're only valuable as a unit of production. When you can't produce, you're a cost to be managed.

    This intervention is a small but vital attempt to push back against that exact ideology, to say that health is a public good, not a private luxury.

    #AusPol #Health #Capitalism #LNPfail #medicare #freehealthcare

  35. Coalition MPs weighing up whether to abandon net zero have been briefed on research that argued “heat deaths aren’t a thing”, played down the prospect of substantial sea level rises and claimed “no one has ever made low-cost energy” from wind and solar.

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #LNPFail #AUSPol #News #ClimateChange #Environment #HumanRights

  36. Once upon a time you could buy a Mini, Merc or Citroën made in Australia.
    Not just sold here — actually assembled in local factories.
    It didn’t last, but it happened. And it says a lot about what we once thought was possible.

    #carhistory #australia #manufacturing #mini #mercedesbenz #citroen #madeinaustralia #auspol #lnpfail #MurdochRoyalCommission

    abc.net.au/news/2025-07-26/mer

  37. Once upon a time you could buy a Mini, Merc or Citroën made in Australia.
    Not just sold here — actually assembled in local factories.
    It didn’t last, but it happened. And it says a lot about what we once thought was possible.

    #carhistory #australia #manufacturing #mini #mercedesbenz #citroen #madeinaustralia #auspol #lnpfail #MurdochRoyalCommission

    abc.net.au/news/2025-07-26/mer

  38. Once upon a time you could buy a Mini, Merc or Citroën made in Australia.
    Not just sold here — actually assembled in local factories.
    It didn’t last, but it happened. And it says a lot about what we once thought was possible.

    #carhistory #australia #manufacturing #mini #mercedesbenz #citroen #madeinaustralia #auspol #lnpfail #MurdochRoyalCommission

    abc.net.au/news/2025-07-26/mer

  39. Once upon a time you could buy a Mini, Merc or Citroën made in Australia.
    Not just sold here — actually assembled in local factories.
    It didn’t last, but it happened. And it says a lot about what we once thought was possible.

    #carhistory #australia #manufacturing #mini #mercedesbenz #citroen #madeinaustralia #auspol #lnpfail #MurdochRoyalCommission

    abc.net.au/news/2025-07-26/mer

  40. Once upon a time you could buy a Mini, Merc or Citroën made in Australia.
    Not just sold here — actually assembled in local factories.
    It didn’t last, but it happened. And it says a lot about what we once thought was possible.

    #carhistory #australia #manufacturing #mini #mercedesbenz #citroen #madeinaustralia #auspol #lnpfail #MurdochRoyalCommission

    abc.net.au/news/2025-07-26/mer

  41. @Alpha1Nine #Dutton caves to gas giants instead of making them pay their fair share! Instead of taxing gas companies properly and ensuring they contribute via a resource tax, Peter Dutton is fast-tracking Woodside’s North West Shelf expansion—a project that would:

    - Lock in decades of free gas for Woodside (worth hundreds of billions!)
    - Drive up WA gas & electricity prices (already tripled since exports began)
    - Risk draining WA’s domestic gas reserves
    - Destroy sacred Murujuga rock art
    - Blow out Australia’s emissions (equal to 12 coal power stations every year!)

    A National Interest Test? This project would fail miserably. But Dutton’s priority isn’t Australians—it’s propping up foreign-owned gas corporations raking in record profits while we pay the price.
    #Auspol #LNPFail #PRRT
    #MakeThemPay #GasTaxNow #DuttonFailsTheTest #Gas

  42. When the #lnp government went about drafting new tax avoidance laws in 2014, it turned to the big consulting firm #PwC. Naturally PwC would use the highly confidential information it obtained to try to help its own #multinational clients avoid the new tax. #simples #auspol #lnpfail

    abc.net.au/radio/programs/abc-

  43. "The New South Wales government needs to take back control of tolls." (#pigsfly)

    The report forecast that drivers would pay $195 billion in tolls between now and 2060.

    The biggest toll burden is due to #WestConnex, which the report found drivers will pay for "three times over".

    #mostTolledCityOnEarth #boganstate #nsw #lnpfail

    abc.net.au/news/2024-03-11/nsw

  44. Nuclear power ran in Germany from the 1960s until April 2023, when it was completely phased out . But hey, geniuses from Australia are just now thinking about building nuclear reactors, seven of them across the country. Great timing #strayia mate #nuclearpower #auspol #boganNation #lnpfail #LNPfailAgain #renewables #renewableenergy

    smh.com.au/politics/federal/du

  45. @Lats
    You probably won’t read this in the Murdoch-controlled Aussie media…
    So here’s a British tabloid doing the job: exposing the LNP’s staggering hypocrisy on immigration.
    They scream “stop the boats” for votes — then quietly push for a surge in migration to prop up their donors.

    #auspol #murdochmedia #lnphypocrisy #lnpfail

    dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1

  46. @willie1foot @InsurgoFormica
    Classic #lnpfail logic: cut taxes by… raising taxes. Shift the burden from the wealthy to everyone else and call it reform #fuckoff

  47. The Saturday Paper dissects the Coalition’s latest fantasy: a "path to electability."
    Spoiler: It’s the same austerity, culture wars, and Murdoch lifelines. But sure, let’s pretend they’ve changed.
    #AusPol #LNPFail #Progressives
    thesaturdaypaper.com.au/commen