Chalmers does comedy… ‘Premier investment destination’… 😂😂😂 Australia has the second highest company tax rate in the OECD.

😂😂😂 Most are Australian registered and domiciled companies that hold shareholding’s of Australian companies in trust & managed for Australian Superannuation funds or Managed funds on behalf of the Australian policyholders. The Australian Institute produces utter bullshit!

FIGHT INFLATION FIRST – THEN SPRINT ON PRODUCTIVITY Although we talk lots about our cost-of-living problems, they’re just a symptom: it’s inflation that’s the cause: - Our wages aren’t buying as much because prices outsprinted them. - Our tax burden is nudging record rates because inflation acts as a tax. - And our mortgage rates are up because the Reserve Bank needs them there to fight inflation. So if we want to start to get on top of our cost-of-living problems, then TINA – There Is No Alternative but to fight inflation first. And whether that happens via the RBA playing a lone hand or if some other spending is also cut to help them along the way doesn’t matter as much as ensuring that the job actually gets done ASAP. But wait, there’s more ... Fixing inflation is vital, but it isn’t enough. There’s a deeper problem. Australia keeps getting spurts of inflation because the productivity engine of our economy is completely clapped out. We start to generate more inflation every time this nation gets more than five minutes of economic sunshine. The solution is a faster economic speed limit. Once this nation does get inflation down, we need to turn absolutely all our energies towards getting productivity up. A decade of being stuck in the slow lane is eviscerating our politics. We’re getting better and better at hating each other, but worse and worse at solving our problems. The most read book in policy circles in recent years is Abundance. It argues that nations need to cut through the thicket of well-meaning regulations that have crippled the ability to advance in everything from housing to health care. But Australia has spent decades becoming the anti-Abundance nation. We’ve stalled our living standards. And unless and until we create a growing pie-per-person, our politics will keep scrapping viciously over stagnant slices of the pie. It’s long past time to get serious on productivity.

Federal Labor Digital Minister Andrew Charlton was a Kevin Rudd staffer back in his PM days. When KRudd imploded, Andrew started a consultancy helping business ‘Connect with Government’, he sold it to Accenture for 35 million in 2020. Over 32 million of that was ‘goodwill’. Andrew then worked for Accenture for a while. He bought a 2 million dollar house in Parramatta to get that safe Labor seat in 2022 election, while mainly still living in an Eastern Suburbs mansion. Accenture get massive Federal Government contracts to improve things like the BOM website, 80 million went to Accenture for that. The website got worse, not better. After that flop, Accenture got even more taxpayer funded contracts, around a billion dollars worth, funded by the ATO sending small businesses broke and taxpayer debt. Apparently Andrew has nothing to do with Accenture getting contracts. Andrew is what Labor is now. He may be their next leader.

The illicit tobacco industry is a policing and health issue, not a tax one. 66 Australians die every day from tobacco smoking. If the excise is cut and cigarettes are cheaper, people will smoke more. We should deal with illicit tobacco as we do with illegal alcohol, drugs and firearms - by strong border controls and effective policing. abc.net.au/news/2026-09-03/c…

Who had the continued surge in residential building approvals on their bingo card today?