WHO declares Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda a global health emergency https://pearlsandirritations.com/e/daily/2026-05-18/467908/ #auspol

“NSW Health advises all patients who were seen by Dr William Tam, who practised at Suite B, 2 Albert Road, Strathfield, that while the risk is low, they may have potentially been exposed [to bloodborne viruses] and should see their GP or healthcare provider.” www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/2...

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For Australians this sounds familiar.

From the UK but not much is different. Sad, isn’t it?

Alright off we go. This is called the Benwerrin Walk with the first section being part of the Great South West Walk. ‘Tis a nice walk. Catch you later!

Housing crisis ? Supply issue? Maybe if the politicians sold a couple houses might free up a few properties or are they hoarding property for the greater good 🙄 bit of negative gearing going on I’d guess. Figures from abc article 2024

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What we need right now is someone brave enough to look into wealth accumulation by politicians.

The WA premier campaigned hard against a 25% tax on gas exports. You'd think he'd look at his state's own Budget Papers and see how little gas royalties the WA govt gets and how fast it is dropping thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

These guys are Cooked

Bloody Hell !!!! Should loose his license! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

There is going to be a LOT of bullshit about trusts. So let's keep our eye on the ball. Bugger all people use them. But millionaires do and they get a LOT of income through them And they do that because they can avoid paying tax.

There are three certainties in Australian political life. Death, taxes and scare campaigns about death taxes #auspol

I don't mean to be alarmist but Labor Denies Death Tax is exactly how the last successful anti-death tax scare campaign started... Notwithstanding that neither policy was a death tax.

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I’ve had this exact conversation with people Onsite , it’s a false economy unless you plan to sell up an investment property because you have to live somewhere

Housing should be a human right, not a tax avoidance or wealth accumulation strategy. Let the investors disappear from the market. #auspol

There is big shift in mindset, after 30 years of “middle class welfare” fro little Jonnie. We need a top of the top marketing campaign to shift the mindset - a house is a home, a shelter, not an investment asset.

Exactly. If you sell and buy in the same 'market' the value is mostly meaningless.

The value of my house is of little consequence to me. I want to live in it, not sell it or buy another one. The increase in value only gives the council an excuse to charge more rates.

But think about real estate agents!!

The correction we had to have

I didn't expect it to happen so soon. I expect some may be due to the season and some might be hyperbole by the Billionaire Media.

A Kohler said Howard/Costello’s negative gearing & 50% CGT discount made a house an investment asset, not a home. Research shows those with 5-50 plus investment houses are ‘Professionals’, not “mums & dads.” The AFR has frothed for major tax reform, then has ALL of their journo‘s attacking it. Pfft

Good. It means the budget policies are working. Housing should serve people, not speculation

(Psst journalists - the register of interests is right here...) Some even have 2 trusts... eg www.aph.gov.au/senators_and...

Wow, press play and be either dismayed, shocked or I told you so…

ZIRP hangover.

I think you are on to something. I know for a fact in the building industry there are remote employees for admin and some use OS as a point of contact take a message etc. just more erosion of hard fought rights

We always had outsourcing and manufacturing overseas, but if everything is done online now and products can be made overseas, customer service done on phones and through AI agents, then essentially your forward facing people are just sales executives and customer service.

in the office too, and have just sought work from overseas individuals and companies willing to work for far less. That’s what I think is happening. It’s not AI.

I have a question. So companies are laying off workers, right? Sometimes they state it’s AI. But I actually wonder if this is related to the WFH phenomenon in the sense that everyone was made to come back into the office. But what if organisations and companies realised they don’t need employees

Deleting old pics from my phone found this one. Wonder how this guy is doing?

Classic

What a charmer

This is BlueSky and all One Nation votes are racism etc - this is the same electoral outcome happening without PHON being in the field. Majors down or down from where they should be, Greens failing to pick up pissed off voters (going backwards!) and the ultra-minors absorbing the major party exodus

It's naturally a 54/46 to the LNP seat about now, where the LNP should have primaries in the mid 40's, the ALP around 30 and the Greens in the high teens. Labor looks to have a primary swing of nearly 9% against it, the LNP picked up only 2 and a bit and the Greens went backwards 3!

Popped in to look at the Stafford by-election result in Qld. Surprised it's so close - it's been moving culturally to be more like Clayfield for the last 15 years. Labor held on previously because of campaign resources deployed, King Canute like holding back the tide /n

If you have to utilise s discretionary testamentary trust to manage your estate after death, one of 3 things happened 1. Wanting to evade tax, long term, for recipients 2. Raised shithead, untrustworthy children 3. Recipients legally owe other people large amounts of money. A Stiff Shit Tax

The funny thing about trusts and serious tax avoidance is that the proposed laws only bring the truly mediocre, half-baked dipshits into the tax system. Serious tax avoidance utilises debt vectors, shells and trusts. This is the moaning of the dumbest mofo's you'll ever step on.

I'm running some focus groups tomorrow to get under the noggins of what people are calling the One Nation surge, but like most political things is probably both way more complicated and way more simple. Should be fun.

Because I was reminded of this, now too shall you. A problem shared is a problem doubled etc.

Unbelievable that no one wanted to buy into a Russian gold operation that the state had recently seized. Meanwhile, the Fin Review and The Horsestralian call tax changes sovereign risk. Truly stupid editors