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vicindymovement.bsky.social
Victoria is in the grip of an unprecedented crime wave!

Except Victoria isn't the worst performing state on any single measure of crime.
July 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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picketer.bsky.social
Nothing. Not a cent. Zip. Nada. Big fat zero. There's about 19 million people with super and this effects about 65 thousand people with balances of more than $3 mill (and even then it wouldn't require you to do anything unless you have an SMSF.)
June 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
you feel like a big man, shooting an unarmed woman from behind?

you fucking dickless cur. i hope you drown in your own piss.
June 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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australiainstitute.org.au
From the AFR's analysis, the Government's superannuation tax changes would result in someone who increased their super by $1,180,000, to a total sum of $3,180,000 would be paying an extra...$1,528 in tax.

The superannuation tax changes are a good idea and would make our tax system fairer. #auspol
grogsgamut.bsky.social Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · May 23
Hilariously, the AFR is showing just how absurd is the scare campaign against the super tax changes.

They give an eg where someone's super goes from $2m to $3.18m in a year!

Yep a $1.18m increase.

How much extra tax?

$1,528!

OMG!! THAT'S OUTRAG... err... oh actually that's bugger all
Assuming it is $3.1 million, with the $80,000 pension payment it becomes $3.18 million. If your balance on June 30, 2026, is greater than $3 million (say $3.1 million) then Division 296 tax will count a balance of $3.18 million in its calculations even if your balance at the start of the year was less than $3 million (in your case $2 million) One aspect of Division 296 tax where you have a greater than $3 million balance at the end of the year but a balance of less than $3 million at the start is that it will be calculated as if your year started with a $3 million balance. When determining your super earnings for Division 296 tax purposes you add together your year-end balance with pension payments and then deduct your balance at the start of the year from this. That’s $3.1 million plus $80,000 less $3 million. This will give you total super earnings for Division 296 purposes of $180,000. Despite the large increase in your fund from $2 million to $3.1 million, your Division 296 liability will be significantly less given it won’t include the increase in your total super below the $3 million threshold. The 15 per cent tax will only apply to the percentage that $180,000 represents of $3.18 million or 5.66 per cent. While 15 per cent of $180,000 is $27,000, 5.66 per cent of this results in a Division 296 tax liability of $1528. This assumes there is no change in the proposed tax when – and if – it finally becomes law.
May 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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pollytics.bsky.social
Well, this dirty lefty is quite enjoying his weekend
May 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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australia.theguardian.com
EXCLUSIVE: Trump campaign chief claims he visited Australia to advise Liberals at start of election campaign
Trump campaign chief claims he visited Australia to advise Liberals at start of election campaign
Exclusive: Chris LaCivita, Trump’s presidential campaign co-manager, tells undercover reporters he advised on ‘structural issues’ related to Peter Dutton; the Coalition denies LaCivita was involved in...
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
We should be helping academics and others leave the USA.

Start doing things we didn’t do enough of in the 1930s
April 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Everything Peter Dutton doesn’t like is a “Cruel Hoax”
vicindymovement.bsky.social Victorian Independence Movement @vicindymovement.bsky.social · Mar 31
Bye bye harbourside views Petet boy.

You just lost the Melbourne seats you need for any chance of winning.
March 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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amyremeikis.bsky.social
I just keep thinking of the heartlessness of going to an election promising to sack 41,000 people just because they’ve chosen public service. The LNP talks of small business owners going out of business as a tragedy. How is sending thousands of people into unemployment not?
March 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
The USA is not a friendly nation. It is run by kleptocrats. Any political party not currently looking at reshaping our defence and foreign affairs policies is negligent in the extreme.

AUKUS must go. The AUSFTA is dead. We have leverage. Time to use it.
March 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
AUKUS is Australia’s first defence deal with Russia.
February 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Don’t see @albomp.bsky.social
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Feb 28
In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.
February 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Some good news at last.
bnonews.com BNO News @bnonews.com · Feb 18
JUST IN: NASA says there's now a 3.1% chance an asteroid will hit Earth in 2032, up from 2.6% yesterday.

This is the highest risk assessment an asteroid has ever received, surpassing 2.7% in 2004
February 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM