Advance is surely one of the greatest non sequitur’s of all time. When you see Advance on rubbish such as this what you know for sure is it actually stands for “retreat” to a darker, uglier, more divided, less tolerant, less cohesive and less prosperous Australia!

I’m amused by all this post election analysis of what went wrong for the Liberals. What went wrong was that they elected a very cruel heartless man as their leader and then they backed up every cruel heartless thing he said. All of them. Including Ley.

To make room for replays of interviews with Austen Tayshus ?

If they want to run with this, please do. Unlikeable and unelectable.

This week's column was about a lot of things, including party discipline and topics not discussed enough and voices outside the parliament. But this is the bit I'd like more people to think about:

Pay is going up for 3mil workers and the floor rises for everyone. Wouldn’t happen without unions

As if “watching on” is not bad enough the ABC has now introduced “listening on”.What’s wrong with plain “listening” and “watching”?

It’s like they saw the May 3rd result, blacked out from shock, then woke up in a parallel universe where voters are begging for higher emissions and coal-fired nostalgia. The denial is almost spiritual at this point.

Happy #TACO Tuesday!

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So Matt Canavan says the Nats will “fight to the death” for wealthy people with $3mill+ in Super against Labor’s tax changes. If you’re going to put your life on the line, why not do it for poor people? 😒

Zero moral authority now

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Appalling Ferguson allowed Timmy Wilson to make his idiotic claims about how the economy will be “rooned” if super-rich pay tiny tax on vast super wealth. We heard it all before when same T Wilson undid Shorten’s essential changes needed to CGT & FCs. Also by unchallenged lies.

This is an example of how people are rorting our superannuation schemes and the taxpayers. Quote Matt Canavan this morning…. “We will fight to the death against this”. So he’s going to “fight to the death” for a bloke who’s shoved $1.6 BILLION in a superannuation account??

The Fair Work Commission’s decision to increase the minimum wage from $24.10 to $24.94 an hour could have the unintended consequence of providing workers with the necessary money to buy food and water, business leaders have cautioned. Full details: theshovel.com.au/2025/06/04/min…

Who is pressuring Labor to raise defence spending? Mr Watergate himself.

What an extraordinary thing for a senior ABC political journalist to say!

In three years since Labor came to government, the National Minimum Wage has increased by $4.62 an hour, more than $175 a week and $9,120 a year. That is a 22.7 per cent increase. Labor will always back our lowest paid workers.

“Those arguing for nuclear energy are the same people wanting to bring back Blockbuster Video chains when the world is watching Netflix” - The Hon. Matt Kean Chair of the Climate Change Authority and former NSW (Libera) Treasurer after delivering the 2025 Talbot Oration at Australian Museum