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WHY CAN’T BANKS WEAR THE COST OF CREDIT CARD FEES INSTEAD OF SMALL BUSINESSES OR THE TAXPAYER This whole credit card fee...
18/10/2026

WHY CAN’T BANKS WEAR THE COST OF CREDIT CARD FEES INSTEAD OF SMALL BUSINESSES OR THE TAXPAYER

This whole credit card fee schmoozle has just been a massive cost shifting exercise from the banks onto the taxpayer and small business.

Jim Chalmers needs to resign over this and if he doesn’t then Albanese should sack him.

Why should banks be getting a free pass in the middle of a cost of living crisis?

The return on equity of the banks is greater than 10% or in excess of $40 billion despite being backed by the taxpayer whenever things get shaky.

If anyone can absorb the costs of credit cards it’s the banks.

It’s bad enough that Labor is ideologically flawed, but to know the impacts of these costs on small business and do nothing about it is unforgivable.

It’s time to stop pandering to the big banks. Sign up to Peoplefirstparty.au to take a stand.

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“Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino has conceded the government knew the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) was considering banning credit card payments in July, months before the decision was made public.

The ATO's decision in late September to stop accepting credit card payments from December 1 sparked backlash from the business community, which eventually forced an intervention from the prime minister and the treasurer to underwrite the costs and allow credit cards to be accepted by the tax office until mid-2027.

Mr Mulino today said he and Treasurer Jim Chalmers were first made aware of the ATO's intentions months ago.”

MORE GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION COVERUPS. So the Victorian anti-corruption commission has unveiled corruption and of course a...
17/10/2026

MORE GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION COVERUPS.

So the Victorian anti-corruption commission has unveiled corruption and of course all we get is crickets. 👇

No charges, no names, no accountability.

Covid was rorted in so many ways - it’s time people were brought to justice.

To fight systemic government corruption sign up to Peoplefirstparty.au today.

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“More than $250 million in COVID-19 support was paid to 9,000 ineligible Victorian businesses, but senior public servants never reported the payments to the minister, an anti-corruption commission probe has found.

A special report by the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) found that in 2021-2022, public servants suspected that $285 million may have been paid to businesses that had backdated their GST to qualify for the payments.

Rather than report the design and application error, three public servants withheld information in briefings to the then-minister for industry support, Martin Pakula.”

16/10/2026

MORE BOM DATA FUDGING EXPOSED

The Bureau of Meteorology has been caught out transcribing raw written weather records incorrectly onto their databases.

For years I have tried to expose the data tampering by the Bureau of Meteorology in order to distort climate records.

I’ve been constantly ridiculed throughout my political career as being unqualified to comment on the issue because I’m not a “scientist”.

Yet this has never been about science. It’s about record keeping plain and simple, and the integrity of those records.

Something that I was qualified to speak about given my 25 years in managing financial records and studying statistics up to Masters level.

Whats particularly frustrating about this is that this isn’t the first time the BOM has exposed for fudging records and yet they are continually allowed to get away with it.

This includes the media continuing to report their records used to promote “climate change” as though they are the gospel.

If you want to fight this corruption then sign up to Peoplefirstparty.au today.

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“A forensic audit has uncovered false readings and widespread errors in the Bureau of Meteorology's raw climate data, including blocks of temperature readings copied and pasted across different years and seasons, raising questions about the integrity of records used for climate analysis.

Anomalies in the BOM's online temperature records ranged from whole months of duplicated data decades apart to statistically impossible whole weeks of identical temperatures to one decimal place.

The data errors are not just historical, with the audit, conducted with pattern-recognition software, finding more than 40 per cent of the flagged entries or events dated after 1990.

Mr Berger said none of the findings required any knowledge of climate science but were purely data-integrity failures that would disqualify any dataset in any other field of science.

Mr Berger undertook the audit with retired scientist Geoffrey Sherrington who said he lived by the motto "trust, but verify".

"We are concerned that government policies like net zero are informed by data represented as raw and unadjusted when under investigation by our forensic pattern analysis programs, that is incorrect," Mr Sherrington said.”

16/10/2026

If Pauline Hanson wants One Nation to be seen as different from the major parties then she needs to stop playing the victim and engaging in stunts.

She’s has repeatedly claimed One Nation has been short changed on staff.

This is false.

One Nation doesn’t have extra staff for the simple reason they are neither the government, the official opposition nor are they chairs of any committees.

After ten years of being a Senator she is calling for an inquiry into something that she should understand as part of her job.

Ministers and Shadow Ministers get extra staff because they have to engage with the bureaucracy. This is an important job. Ministers are responsible for managing thousands of employees and billions of dollars worth of money.

You need staff to liaise with bureaucrats, analyse spending, strategise and engage with stakeholders.

It’s entails much more responsibility than just turning up to Parliament and whinging.

That fact that Pauline Hanson doesn’t understand this just shows she has no idea about how the machinery of government.

Taxpayers should not have to fund her ignorance.

The Greens get extra staff because their numbers in the senate give them Senate committees chair positions. This involves extra work attending committee hearings across the country and reading numerous submissions.

Not only is Hanson showing her ignorance, she is also hypocritical in whinging about this for the simple reason she rarely turns up to estimates or committees and has one of the lowest chamber attendance records.

Let’s not forget she went to Florida during two weeks of sitting last year to hang out with the Epste!n Billionaire class when she should have been in parliament.

She then pulled a similar stunt in the chamber with the burqa claiming she wasn’t allowed to speak when in fact, had she moved the motion in a proper time slot she could have spoke to it.

Again playing the victim when in fact it was her own ignorance that was the cause.

She does have a fair point in regard to Lambie and Pocock getting extra staff.

I want to get rid of Albanese as well but there is no point in replacing one snake with another one.

Australian needs solutions not stunts by politicians who deliberately mislead their own followers.

If you want a party that is focused on solutions sign up to Peoplefirstparty.au today.

15/10/2026

RISING UNEMPLOYMENT WILL BE THE STRAW THAT BREAKS THE ECONOMY’S BACK.

Last month, Australia lost 40,000 jobs which resulted in Australias highest unemployment rate in five years.

Unemployment is the most important economic indicator by far.

Once people lose their jobs they are unable to service their mortgage and put food on the table with many falling below the poverty line, causing the economy to cascade into a downward cycle that is very hard to turn around.

Taxes will decline and social services will increase pushing the budget further into deficit.

Successive governments have engaged in wasteful spending to prop up Australias economy over the last decade resulting in false and tepid economic growth that has masked productivity declines.

Politicians won’t be able to bluff their way out of higher unemployment driven by private sector losses by continued wasteful government spending.

They need to come up with real solutions that will drive private sector growth not the government sector.

To do that the government needs to:

1) cut taxes on Australian incomes and profits by increasing taxes on foreign profits sent offshore
2) cut red tape and punitive government fees
3) Build infrastructure to drive down the cost of doing business and living, such as energy, water and transport
4) transform our education sector to focus on trade skills instead of University degrees. This will growth the productive manufacturing sector rather than the inefficient managerial sector.

To many politicians are focused on driving a car that is no longer running, instead of fixing it.

People First is has the skills to fix the economy.

Sign up today to help us do it at PeopleFirstParty.au

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“Australia's unemployment rate remained at 4.7 per cent in September, after August's jobless rate was revised upwards.
It means the national unemployment rate remains at its highest level in the post-COVID era, in seasonally adjusted terms.

An estimated 39,300 fewer Australians were in work last month, and the number of officially unemployed people increased by 8,900.”

ANOTHER LABOR SHOCKER Today the Federal Court overturned a decision of the Albanese Government to block the development ...
14/10/2026

ANOTHER LABOR SHOCKER

Today the Federal Court overturned a decision of the Albanese Government to block the development of a gold mine on spurious “cultural” grounds.

It’s just another example of activists trying to destroy any progress in this country.

The gold mine had received environmental clearances from the NSW government.

Under our constitution the Federal Government was never given powers over mining, culture or the environment.

The Federal Government has been gained these powers via the backdoor of the Foreign Treaties Powers in the 1983 Tasmanian Dams decision.

This overreach is just another reason why the Native Title Act and our Treaties need a complete overhaul to stop unnecessary lawfare from destroying prosperity in Australia.

It’s time all Australians united with the common purpose of ensuring a better future for our children.

Sign up to Peoplefirstparty.au to make that happen.

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“Labor's controversial decision to block the construction of a $1.3bn gold mine due to a highly contested Indigenous Dreaming story has been knocked back in a scathing Federal Court judgment that could cost taxpayers millions.

In an embarrassing rebuke to Anthony Albanese and Tanya Plibersek, judge James Stellios on Wednesday said the former environment minister overstepped her authority.

While a senior Aboriginal leader welcomed the judgment, the fringe Indigenous campaigners central to the project's demise left the door open to further legal challenges.

The Wiradyuri corporation's claims of a blue-banded bee Dreaming story endemic to the Belubula River intersecting with the mine site were what ultimately persuaded Ms Plibersek to block the proposal.

An independent investigator and the Environment Department had both dismissed the heritage claim.

Ms Plibersek went against their advice and blocked the project.

NSW Premier Chris Minns, said Ms Plibersek and the federal government had got it wrong on banning the mine.

PEOPLE CANT FORGET THE CONSTRAINTS WHEN ITS REAL MONEY THAT HAS TO BE REPAID!So Josh Frydenberg and John Howard are brag...
13/10/2026

PEOPLE CANT FORGET THE CONSTRAINTS WHEN ITS REAL MONEY THAT HAS TO BE REPAID!

So Josh Frydenberg and John Howard are bragging about how they blew up close to half a trillion dollars on Covid.

Whilst I understand that politicians may not have understood biochemistry, paying people to stay at home and get brainwashed by the Premiers was never a good idea. You didn’t need to a scientist to understand that.

Furthermore the money that was spent was borrowed money - you can’t just forget it. It has to be repaid and its future generations that have to bear the burden.

And that burden is hitting home in the form of a cost of living crisis that was created from the reckless spending of the COVID era.

A few backbenchers like myself tried to curb the spending and calm the madness but of course we were shunned.

Both major parties supported the irresponsible economic spending throughout Covid which is why neither should be trusted with the purse strings.

The only party that can get Australia out of this mess is People First.

Sign up today at Peoplefirstparty.au for a fresh start.

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“Former prime minister John Howard has credited Josh Frydenberg with "keeping the economy going" during Covid, revealing he advised him to "forget the constraints" and push through massive government spending to weather the crisis.”

12/10/2026

SUPERANNUATION IS DESTROYING HOME OWNERSHIP.

These numbers prove it👇

“The number of home owners who are between 25-29 years-old dropped from 50 per cent in 1971, to 36 per cent in 2021.

For 30-34-year-olds, it fell from 64 per cent to 50 per cent in the same 30 year period.

It now takes nearly six years on average for a household to save enough for a 20 per cent deposit on a median-priced home, a figure that has nearly doubled over the past 30 years, according to the Commonwealth Bank's latest PropTrack report.”

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Here’s how it works.

Someone on a salary of $80,000 including superannuation will have their savings capacity cut by half because of superannuation.

Assuming a person needs $50,000 to live on, then after tax of $16,000 they can save $14,000 for a house deposit.

Because of superannuation, their taxable income will reduce to $70,400 and their after tax income to approximately $57,000 leaving only $7,000 to save for a house.

Assuming someone needs $50,000 for a house deposit, because of compulsory superannuation it will take twice the time to save for a house. Given the median house price is approximately $1 million, the extra 4 years required to save for a home will mean that house prices have risen.

Assuming the average gain is $200,000, then the person will be required to borrow more money and pay more interest on the extra loan. Assuming 6% interest, this works out at an extra $12,000 per year AFTER tax which will INCREASE your cost of living even more.

This will offset any gains from superannuation. In short, the taxpayer subsidies superannuation through higher taxes on their wages, so that banks can charge more interest.

It’s a con that only helps the banks and superannuation at the expense of hard working Australians.

The only party wants to stop it is Peoplefirstparty.au

Sign up to today to own your home sooner.

WE CAN’T EVEN KEEP OUR SHIPS IN THE WATER. Here’s another reason why Tony “Sancho Panza” Abbot needs to be ignored in hi...
12/10/2026

WE CAN’T EVEN KEEP OUR SHIPS IN THE WATER.

Here’s another reason why Tony “Sancho Panza” Abbot needs to be ignored in his pleas to get involved in wars.

Our Navy doesn’t have enough specialised staff to fix or maintain our ships

Yet again People First stands alone as the only party that actually has a solution for this by proposing to expand the Military Apprenticeship Scheme.

The scheme will be funded by increasing the cost of visas for foreign students.

For too long, our education system has focused on the managerial class not the manufacturing class.

If we want to restore our military, manufacturing and Infrastructure it all starts with the trades.

To build a better, more secure and self sufficient Australia sign up to PeopleFirstParty.au today.

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“The navy's two largest ships are out of action as maintenance shortfalls undercut the government's strategy to create a force modelled on the US Marine Corps that would defend the nation's northern approaches.

HMAS Canberra and HMAS Adelaide have been tied up at Fleet Base East in Sydney for more than two weeks, according to Defence sources, due to issues with their engine propulsion units.

Defence would not confirm how long the ships had been out of action, but the department did not dispute it had been at least two weeks, and potentially months.

It is not the first time the LHDs have been out of action since they were acquired just over a decade ago, with power failures leaving both ships unavailable for Pacific disaster relief missions in 2022 and 2023.

Despite recent warnings about the lack of funding for sustainment, issues with the ships have been caused in part by a lack of specialised staff who can fix the "azipod" units.”

11/10/2026

EVERY AUSTRALIAN PAYS HIGHER INCOME TAXES SO LABOR CAN CONTROL YOUR SAVINGS.

Not surprisingly people are putting more money in superannuation as as a result of the CGT changes. 👇

Superannuation tax concessions already cost the budget $60 billion dollars.

This means every worker has to pay $4,000 more income tax to subsidise Superannuation tax concessions.

This figure is going to get worse now that the minimum rate on capital gains is 30 cents whilst in super the maximum rate is 15 cents.

This is the false economy of superannuation. To fund the massive superannuation tax concessions Australians pay more income tax on their wages and reducing disposal income to meet the cost of living

Of course this is all by design as Labor keeps funnelling funds into super so their industry fund mates can clean up on fees and control our corporations and industry in order to drive left wing narratives.

It’s time people were able to keep their wages and income taxes were cut. People First has the solutions to make that happen.

Sign up today at Peoplefirstparty.au

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“Labor's capital gains tax crackdown has triggered a stampede into superannuation, with two of the nation's biggest super funds reporting a 35 per cent surge in voluntary contributions as investors - many over 50 - rush to shelter their wealth from the new tax regime.

Voluntary contributions at the nation's biggest superannuation fund, AustralianSuper, spiked 35 per cent in June compared to the previous June, and continued climbing in July and August, largely from members aged 50-66.

Retail super giant MLC experienced a 35 per cent spike in extra super contributions between May and August compared with the same period last year.

Other retail industry super funds have also seen big increases, and financial planners say more people are considering selling investment properties and funnelling that money into tax-friendly superannuation, an investment pool now worth $4.8 trillion.”

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