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FarmerEm retweeted
Activist: "Farmers pump their cows full of antibiotics. It's in every glass of milk."
Dairy farmer: "Do you know what happens if it is?"
Activist: "People drink it."
Dairy farmer: "The tanker gets tested at the gate. One cow's worth of antibiotic in 20,000 litres and the whole load goes down the drain. Every farm on the run that morning gets their milk tipped, and the farm that did it pays for all of it."
Activist: "So you're saying it never happens."
Dairy farmer: "I'm saying a treated cow on this farm gets red tape round her leg, goes to the back of the parlour, and her milk goes in a bucket for 6 days. I treat her like she's radioactive, because financially she is."
Activist: "You still use them."
Dairy farmer: "On a cow that's ill. Same as you. The vet writes it up, the date goes on the wall, and the wall's checked. Use on this farm is about half what it was 10 years ago, and that's every dairy I know."
Activist: "Routine use in feed, then."
Dairy farmer: "Illegal for years. Growth promoters went 20 years ago. You're describing a chicken shed in a country I don't farm in."
Activist: "You can't prove it's not in the milk."
Dairy farmer: "I can prove it 3 times a week, because they test it 3 times a week and send me the sheet. When did you last get a sheet on your oat drink?"
Activist: "That's different."
Dairy farmer: "It is. Nobody tests it. Mine's the most inspected liquid in your kitchen and it's the one you're scared of."
FarmerEm retweeted
Did You Know - We are Going Backwards Faster Than any Other Developed Nation on Earth
Not one of the worst. The worst.
Real per capita household disposable income in Australia fell 1.1% in 2024. Across the OECD the average rose 1.8%. Finland was the only other developed nation to record any decline at all and theirs was 0.4%.
Australia was last, alone at the bottom.
And it did not start in 2024. Since mid-2022 real per capita household disposable income has fallen by around 8%. Over the year to June 2023 it was down 5.1% while the OECD average rose 2.6%.
At the same time full-time Australian workers are now paying an average of 20.3% of their income in tax up from 18.1% the previous year. The highest effective tax rate in over two decades.
The government’s response to this? A tax cut of $268 a year from July 2026, less than $5 a week.
Meanwhile gross national debt is heading to $1.22 trillion by 2029. Government spending is at 28.5% of GDP. The NDIS alone costs $52 billion a year more than the entire defence budget and is still growing faster than inflation under the government’s own plan.
Australians are not imagining it. They are not being dramatic. The data confirms it.
We are going backwards faster than any other developed nation on earth and the Treasurer is calling $5 a week responsible economic management.
What are your thoughts…?
Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺
FarmerEm retweeted
We are dealing with one of the most horrific medical products in the history of the world which on the highest quality of evidence has almost certainly maimed or killed MILLIONS across the world and CONTINUES to do harm. Yet based on the poorest evidence (a modelling study) ‘it saved millions of lives’ is touted as fact by grossly incompetent, complicit and cowardly journalists. It’s time for everyone to grow some balls and face these cold hard uncomfortable truths. Let me repeat. Until we fix commercial ( and psychopathic ) distortions of the scientific evidence societal mental, physical and social well being will continue to decline.
FarmerEm retweeted
Someone explain this to me slowly, because I'm clearly the idiot here.
We plant a Mediterranean nut in a Californian desert. It doesn't rain there, so we drain a ten-thousand-year-old aquifer until the ground itself sinks a foot a year and whole towns get shorter. The trees can't fight off fungus, so we spray the lot. They can't pollinate themselves, so every February we truck thirty billion bees across a continent and let a fair share of them die in the crush. Then we chill the harvest and sail it six thousand miles to Britain, where it rains constantly and always has, to be blitzed with water and gums and sold to you at £2.40 a carton with a green leaf on the side.
That is the environmentally friendly option.
Twelve miles down the road there's a bloke with cattle in a field. Rain falls on the hill. Grass drinks it. Cow eats grass. Nothing pumped, sprayed, chilled or shipped. No bees died. Her entire supply chain is weather.
That is the planetary emergency.
And it'll be explained to you by someone holding a carton of desert water, wearing a fleece made of crude oil.
Asking for the cow. She's been very patient about it.
FarmerEm retweeted
A college economics professor stated that he had once failed an entire class. That class insisted that socialism is functional and that no one should be poor and no one rich, that everyone is equal...
The teacher told them, "OK, we will do an experiment on socialism in this group.
All grades will be averaged, and everyone will get the same grade, so no one will fail and no one will get a 10."
After the first test, the grades were added up and divided by the number of students, and everyone got an 8.
The students who studied intensively were upset, but those who studied less were overjoyed.
As the second test approached, the students who had studied a little learned even less, and those who had studied more intensively told themselves that they also wanted a "handout", so they also studied less.
The average of the second test was 6.
When the third test was given, the average score was 4. To the great surprise of all the students, they all failed.
The teacher told them that socialism will eventually fail because when half the population sees that they cannot work, because the other half will take care of them, and when the half that worked realizes that there is no point in working anymore, because others are the beneficiaries of their labor, then that is the end of any nation
The story may be a fable not a fact but the moral is real
Get it?
FarmerEm retweeted
It’s preposterous. The average Australian citizen now needs a team of accountants and experts just to navigate the regulatory maze its Parliaments have created.
Multiply that across dozens of regulatory bodies and you get a system that will trap the unwary.
Decades of politicians have created an overly complex, overly regulated society where obeying the law feels almost impossible for normal people.
This isn’t freedom, it’s control.
FarmerEm retweeted
It makes you want to weep for Australia.
Here we have Tasmania’s largest farm — Rushy Lagoon, a massive 22,000-hectare of prime, productive, irrigated land that has been a powerhouse of beef and dairy production in northeast Tasmania for decades.
And now it’s being deliberately shut down for dodgy “carbon credits” — worthless pieces of paper peddled by grifters, spivs, and rent-seeking parasites in the name of Net Zero so they can profit while the nation suffers.
Just when you think it can’t get any worse — congratulations, Australia — our taxpayers are being forced to fund this insanity with $69 million.
That’s right. Chris Bowen’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation is pumping $69 million of our money into the deal to become a minor shareholder in the destruction of productive farmland.
Think about the level of this insanity. $69 million of Australian taxpayers money is being used to help a foreign company buy Australian farmland and shut it down.
It’s no different from Luddites buying a factory and smashing the productive machines with sledge hammers.
At this is happening the exact moment Australia’s productivity is collapsing and living standards are in freefall, Labor’s priority is closing down real, productive agriculture.
This is economic sabotage.
With this decision today, Australia is a poorer, weaker nation.
Productive land is taken out of commission, food production is hit - so we’ll pay higher prices at supermarket and taxpayers foot the bill so the carbon credit scam industry can flourish.
I weep for what Labor and Anthony Albanese are doing to Australia.
They are vandalising our productive economy, enriching their mates, and driving us into decline — all while lying that this is “progress.”
Enough.
Australia deserves better than this destructive, ideologically deranged government. If they are not voted out at the next election, the Australia we‘ve known and loved will be gone forever.
theaustralian.com.au/nation/…
FarmerEm retweeted
Clare O'Neil let the cat out of the bag today. She openly admitted that Labor planned to crash the housing market. She called it a "correction"
Voters would have liked to have known this before the election. They now owe more than their house is worth.
Albanese is grinning ear to ear. He sold at the top of the market, as did Clare.
FarmerEm retweeted
The problem isn’t seed oils or Red 40.
It’s the death of meaning. And until we face that, nothing else is going to fix our health or happiness.
The real question isnt what poisons we should remove in our food...it's how we became a culture that’s okay feeding people this garbage in the first place.
It’s because we live in a world that’s lost all sense of the sacred.
We don’t see humans as souls anymore...just machines to profit from.
Meaning is essential, but it's been gutted from our society, with everything central turned into a fake alternative...
Nature --> apartment buildings.
Community --> social media.
Sex --> porn
Marriage --> hookups
Real food --> packaged crap
Religion --> politics.
We’ve swapped the things that made life rich
for things that make us hollow
And now people are walking around with massive holes inside them, trying to fill it all with money, junk food, hookups, and empty pleasure.
So we get business execs chasing profit like it’s God,
doing whatever it takes to squeeze a little more margin out of human misery.
And consumers numbing themselves with whatever’s cheap and easy just to feel something.
If we actually want to make this country healthy again,
we need more than a ban on Red 40.
We need to re-enchant life.
We need to remember that our bodies are sacred.
That the earth is sacred.
That our work matters.
That we are all connected.
What you do to another, you do to yourself. Poisoning someone else always comes back around.
Health starts there. Not with better labels, but with meaning.
FarmerEm retweeted
The problem with the welfare state and its confiscatory taxation system is that there are ZERO repercussions if politicians steal your money "legally" and squander it accordingly. Any system that decouples the natural link between causes and effects will lead to disaster. This is why what starts off as a small temporary levying of taxes more than 100 years ago becomes the tax code that we see today. Politicians do not view an individual's hard-earned money as theirs to keep. Rather they view your money as something that they allow you to keep a small portion of. Accordingly, you should be "thankful" that the government allows you to keep any of your money. This "proves" that they are kind and empathetic. It is a complete moral inversion of personal agency, liberty, and freedom. No system should take so much taxes from you that it forces you to work 10 extra years to make up for what was taken from you.
FarmerEm retweeted
Every Aussie needs to watch this podcast!
Just watched the full podcast, I keep up to date with the rules but even this caught me off guard. This is absolutely shocking for everyone especially young people!
FarmerEm retweeted
One of Australia’s greatest financial success stories has been the rise of ordinary people becoming investors. Over the last 30 years, millions of Australians have gradually moved from relying purely on wages and property to owning shares, ETFs and diversified portfolios. Not just wealthy people, but teachers, nurses, tradies, students and young families trying to build financial security over time.
That’s why the government’s proposed CGT changes feel like such a profound mistake.
This piece in today’s The Australian is my attempt to explain why I think that matters.
theaustralian.com.au/wealth/…
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A farmer dies in April 2026.
His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.
The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.
On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.
In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.
The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.
The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.
A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.
The Treasury collects £140,000.
The land never produces British food again.
FarmerEm retweeted
An Australian family in Perth just sat down and did the maths the government hoped you’d never do.
Cost to buy & own a home over 34 years: $2,016,850
Taxes paid to the government over the same period: $2,717,865
You paid more in tax than for your own house. Let that sink in.
Breakdown:
• $2.2M in income taxes, GST, duties & excises
• $105k in council rates
• $94k in vehicle taxes across 7 cars
• $300k in tax on your super (the money meant for retirement)
And what’s the big relief in the 2025 Budget? A $268 tax cut.
That’s $5.15 a week — less than a pie and a beer.
You’re not bad with money. You’re being taxed into the ground.
I love this country, but I’m bloody tired of everyday Aussies working their whole lives just to hand over more to the government than they spend on their home — while those collecting it face zero consequences.
The numbers don’t lie.
Time to prepare, protect and future-proof your family. The fighting spirit is needed now more than ever.
(Martene Wallace on Instagram)
What do you think? 🇦🇺
FarmerEm retweeted
“Filings show that of the $1.74bn Facebook, led by Mark Zuckerberg, generated from Australian businesses in 2025, $1.51bn was immediately paid out to a related company in the Meta group overseas.
This massive transfer of cash, revealed in new financial filings, came as the company also paid a $120m dividend to its American owners and completely drained its local bank account.
It comes as the Albanese government is this week set to release its long-awaited draft legislation for its proposed crackdown on digital platforms that fail to compensate news publishers for the use of their content.”
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In all the teeth gnashing over the budget, I didn’t see the elephant in the room mentioned once.
Multinational profit shifting is bleeding this country dry.
Yet rather than do something about it Albanese is doing the media’s bidding by arguing the media should be paid, when in fact it’s Australian taxpayers that should be compensated by Facebook etc for the use of our telecommunications infrastructure and databases. Ie the people
The ATO needs to stop attacking small businesses and start going after the big corporations who are literally stealing billions of dollars from Australia.
Facebook derives its income from advertising in Australia. If both the advertisers and customers are here in Australia then the source of the income should be deemed to be derived in Australia and taxed here not offshore.
You can tell Meta are screwing us by looking at their worldwide accounts. In 2024 their worldwide operating profit ratio was 42% yet in Australia it was less the 14%, one third of their worldwide income.
Why isn’t the ATO using our transfer pricing laws to stop over inflated payments to related entities.
People First is the only political party to have a policy to stop profit shifting.
We will lift the withholding tax rate on profits sent offshore to retain our profits here in Australia.
Read our policies at Peoplefirstparty.au
FarmerEm retweeted
Tax his land, tax his wage,
Tax his bed in which he lays.
Tax his tractor, tax his mule,
Teach him taxes is the rule.
Tax his cow, tax his goat,
Tax his pants, tax his coat.
Tax his ties, tax his shirt,
Tax his work, tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco, tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his cigars, tax his beers,
If he cries, tax his tears.
Tax his car, tax his gas,
Find other ways to tax his ass.
Tax him good and let him know,
After his taxes he has no dough.
If he hollers, tax him more,
Tax him ‘til he’s good and sore.
Tax his coffin, tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he lays.
Put these words upon his tomb,
“Taxes drove me to my doom!”
And when he’s gone, we won’t relax,
We’ll still be after the inheritance tax.
FarmerEm retweeted
Grok does a decent job of tracking Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Lies… Did it miss any?
Here we go:
Broken promises, backflips and lies by Anthony Albanese since 2022:
• Promised household power bills would be $275 cheaper a year by 2025. Prices rose instead.
• Promised second stage power price cuts after 2025. Pulled the plug on rebates at end of 2025 with no further cuts delivered.
• Promised to keep Coalition’s stage three tax cuts exactly as planned with no changes. Changed and restructured them.
• Promised no changes to superannuation. Introduced new tax on balances over $3 million.
• Promised real wages would grow and rise above pre-election levels. Failed to deliver.
• Promised 450 gigalitres of environmental water under Murray-Darling Basin Plan. Delivered only 27.5 gigalitres.
• Promised 50 urgent care clinics by his own deadline. Missed the deadline.
• Promised new Pacific Engagement Visa by his own deadline. Missed the deadline.
• Promised Makarrata Commission for truth-telling and treaty. Abandoned it after Voice referendum failed.
• Promised no changes to negative gearing. Now pushing or allowing changes.
• Promised long-term immigration planning locked in. Walked away from it.
• Promised 42.5% Commonwealth funding of hospital costs by 2030 with no caps. Walked back and added funding caps.
• Promised to deliver on every single election commitment. Broke multiple as listed.
• Backflipped on removing sexuality, gender identity and sexual variation questions from 2026 census.
• Initially refused royal commission into Bondi terror attack and rising antisemitism. Backflipped and announced one.
• Backflipped on hate speech legislation by splitting the bill to get it through Parliament.
• Lied about falling off the stage during 2025 campaign event. Video showed he tumbled off; he repeatedly denied it and claimed he just stepped back one step and was fine.
• Removed the RMIT ABC election promise tracker amid scrutiny over broken pledges.
• Promised to buy back Darwin Port from Chinese ownership before 2025 election. Still in Chinese hands, promise not delivered.
• Promised a royal commission into the COVID-19 response. Delivered a watered-down inquiry instead and blocked calls for a full royal commission.
• Promised a new era of transparency and open government plus FOI reform so laws couldn’t be flouted. FOI refusal rates nearly doubled to 23 per cent and full disclosures hit historic lows.
FarmerEm retweeted
Message to Jim Chalmers:
Stealing from people's home-ownership profit, investment portfolios, superannuation, and income tax does not 'solve intergenerational wealth gaps'.
It means parents have nothing left to give their kids - because the government took it all.
It means young people have no reason to buy a house or invest in shares - because they know the government will take it all.
And it means the retirement plan forced upon them by the unions will be gone before they die - because the government wants to take it all.
Labor is CREATING INTER-GENERATIONAL POVERTY.
FarmerEm retweeted
A wool jumper, made in 1985, washed in cold water once a month, worn through three decades of British winters, would currently be sitting in someone's wardrobe doing fine.
A polyester fleece, made in 2026, machine-washed weekly, will start to lose its structural integrity within three to five years, shed an estimated 700,000 microfibres per wash into the water system, and end its life in landfill where it will persist for approximately 200 years.
The wool jumper:
- Came from a sheep
- Required grass and rain
- Will biodegrade entirely within three years of being buried
- Will keep you warm when wet
- Will not melt if exposed to a flame
- Will probably outlive you
- Cost £80 in 1985, which is £230 today, and represents the entire jumper budget for the next forty years
The polyester fleece:
- Came from an oil refinery in Texas
- Required hexane extraction, polymerisation and dyeing in three different factories on three different continents
- Will not biodegrade in any human timeframe
- Will get cold and clammy when wet
- Will melt against your skin if exposed to a flame
- Will be in landfill within five years
- Cost £40 in 2026, which means you'll buy ten of them across the next forty years for a total of £400, and the planet will still be eating the residue in the year 2226
But yes. The sheep is the problem.
The sheep, standing in a field in mid-Wales, growing a renewable fibre from grass and rain.
The sheep is the problem.
