Treasury confirms 83% of all new jobs growth in the last year are Non-Market Jobs, in other words, TAXPAYER funded jobs. All to hide a recession Vote one nation to save the nation 🇦🇺🇦🇺🧡

The test for any regulatory change is this: do the long-term productivity gains outweigh the short-term adjustment costs?   The card surcharge ban fails that test.   Change comes at a direct cost - businesses pay for advice, compliance and new systems.   Reacting to change also takes focus away from building the business - uncertainty can be paralysing.   Do I also want simpler pricing? Absolutely.   Could businesses with stable costs, productivity growth and strong profits absorb the fees? Yes.   But we don’t have that economy at all - so this is shocking timing for this.   The challenges we face demand deregulation - and if we can’t do that, we should just constrain spending.   Because more rules without the productivity payoff just leads to more inflation - and that’s the last thing we need right now.

Another Labor stuff up.. Small businesses was given eight hours of notice before ATO advised them of a credit card change. Following the removal of credit and debit surcharges from today the ATO has now announced it will no longer accept credit card payments from SME’s. The move by the ATO follows the @AlboMP govt earlier this year announcing credit card surcharges would be banned in an effort to take pressure of consumers paying the $1.6bn in additional fees annually. But the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry slammed the ATO for “utter hypocrisy” in refusing to absorb the costs of extending payment options to credit cards, yet “expects small businesses across the country to absorb them because of a ban the government is implementing today”. In damning revelations, ACCI also confirmed the ATO only informed the sector about the change due to come into effect from November at 4pm on Wednesday, just hours before the planned media release at 12am. “When decisions like this are deliberately hidden until the last moment, it is little wonder so many small businesses are angry at the government,” ACCI chief executive Andrew McKellar said. “Surcharging was never a revenue tool for small businesses, it was just a way to transparently recover merchant service fees. This ban is causing dread across small businesses who are bracing for increased costs at the terminal, reprinting menus and putting up prices today.” And in case you are wondering why small business would pay via credit car the to ACCI’s latest small business report, shows that a significant share of small businesses are continuing to use credit cards as a short-term tool to manage liquidity and meet liabilities, with nearly 49% of operators reporting that maintaining profitability and cash flow was one of their biggest business challenges. A further 54% identified cash flow and financial pressure as a major source of stress, with Mr McKellar warning the removal of credit card payment options may therefore have a greater impact on those businesses already facing cash flow constraints than the ATO’s headline numbers suggest. theaustralian.com.au/nation/… via @australian

Identical purchase at my local bakery last week versus today. Last week: $9.50 plus a 13c surcharge. Today: $9.80 with no surcharge. The surcharge is gone but my total’s up 1.7%. The big winner.... inflation.

Albo’s latest “win for consumers” is already a joke. From midnight last night, card surcharges are banned. Albanese posted like he’d personally slashed the price of your coffee: “Your coffee shouldn’t cost extra just because you’ve paid by card, saving you money every time you tap” Hospitality operators are reprinting menus and putting prices UP. Not down. Peter Papas, Sydney venue owner: “they didn’t kill the fee, they hid it in the price of the food” Cafes with 3% margins now eat 0.8-1% merchant fees or pass them on. That’s half their profit. Same week the RBA hiked rates to 4.6%. Ban the surcharge, then watch prices and council rates rise. The cost didn’t disappear, it’s just moved onto your bill. Don’t thank Albo. Blame him.

Albo says your coffee’s cheaper today. The surcharge doesn’t vanish. It goes into the sticker price. People who tap stop seeing the extra 30 cents. People who always paid cash now cop a higher menu for a fee they never used. That’s not cost of living relief. That’s hiding the fee and calling it a win. #AusPol

Absolutely stoked to get a full tank of petrol for $60.00 this morning... It was for my lawnmower but I'm trying to stay positive.

The war in the Middle East has caused Inflation. It’s got nothing to do with our policies or spending !!! #Inflation

It’s dishonest for our treasurer not to even mention the impacts of high immigration, public spending and stagnant productivity in this three paragraph commentary on our inflation challenge. All of which are key drivers and entirely within his government’s control.

"Came down a bit"? Jim really means tax take went up. The $6b deficit reduction is driven largely by a $4.6b jump in tax recepts. Nothing responsible about it at all.

So, I’ve been on a road trip through country Victoria for the last 5 days. The skills I have acquired in the subtle art of pothole avoidance will probably put me in the top 5% of rally drivers in the world right now. Coming for your job Sebastien Ogier 😜 Thanks @BenCarrollMP

Albo goes full big brother and lies to us bare faced about it . He’s enabling the govt to use AI government agents to observe and interact with us . You couldn’t make this up . I don’t care what party you have supported in the past the PM and this government has gone rogue on Australian citizens . If I write this once passed I’ll have give AI agents all over me and probably agents at my door like in the UK . This is the most alarming direction of any government since federation . He’s spent the last barefaced saying he would not do this after telling the UN he would . The Greens are in on this , Shoebridge clearly referred to it in his recent interviews . They are trying to end free speech in Australia . It’s not a conspiracy it’s what they are doing .

The agents escaped the sandbox again Meanwhile the agents' owners:

If the Australian government moves forward with a law that lets it create sock puppet accounts that can influence online debate among its own voters, it would basically be operationalizing the plan proposed years ago by the husband of our last USAID chief.

Calder Highway 6km from Berriwillock, between Culgoa and Sea Lake. No warning. This guy was travelling at 80kms an hour. Broke his axle and lost his tyres. Victorian Labor Government fail. @JessWilsonMP @SESMilduraUnit facebook.com/share/v/1DFdorD…

You can think whatever you think about Meta and Zuk, but this is going to change so many lives. A lot of people I know don’t want to wear hearing aids. But they all wear glasses.

The Digital Duty of Care. A “99% of women abused” report, funded by billionaire Twiggy Forrest’s Minderoo, written by the UK’s “Nudge Unit” (paid $5.8M in government contracts) conveniently dropped the morning submissions closed. Then the Trump Administration intervened.

Australia's Digital Duty of Care Censorship Bill hits a huge snag with the US Government au.usembassy.gov/u-s-governm… @cb_doge @elonmusk

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Australia’s 2025 “skilled migrant” intake by most common skill. About 10,000 places granted to people working as cooks, chefs or restaurant managers. 180% increase for chefs, 130% increase for cooks, 80% increase for restaurant managers. Then, once accepted, they are allowed to bring family and dependents. These are not Michelin starred chefs. These are people doing TAFE courses in food production as a back door way to get citizenship.