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Peter Mazis retweeted
All time classic and perfectly true - unmissable clip:
#ClimateChange
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Rennick is exactly right here.
Anthony Albanese has cut off working holiday visas from the UK and EU, cultures very similar to our own, who GO HOME after their working holidays and are excellent visitors - and calls it reducing migrants (they’re not migrants)
All whilst ramping up student and parental visas from the subcontinent (who mostly visa hop till they get residency)
Albanese is a RACIST anti-Australian who hates western cultures.
TOURISTS ARE NOT MIGRANTS
Anthony Albanese has yet again shown why he is unfit to be Prime Minister.
In order to reduce immigration he is going after working holiday visas holders.
While these young people do work, they are actually tourists not immigrants.
Yes they do work but in jobs that help sustain two of our vital industries - Agriculture and Tourism.
While I would accept employment being restricted to rural areas there is no need to reduce tourists to Australia.
Australia also benefits from reciprocal agreements with other countries regarding backpacking.
As a former backpacker myself I can attest to the experience and personal development backpacking offers.
People First won’t cut back on working holiday visas.
Instead we will cut back on student, bridging and the Indian Migration and Mobility agreement.
If you want to support our tourist and agricultural sector then please sign up to Peoplefirstparty.au today
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“The Albanese government's planned cuts to backpacker visas risks damaging Australia's
"hard built" reputation as one of the world's great destinations for working holidaymakers, the chief executive of the nation's peak tourism and transport body says.
Tourism and Transport Forum chief executive Margy Osmond said the federal government's proposed cuts, which would cap second-year backpacker visas at 45,000 and slash the number of third-year places from 31,000 to just 5000, risked tarnishing Australia's appeal as a destination for working holidaymakers.
Struggling tourism organisations have warned the government's proposed cuts will starve them of workers and rip millions of dollars from regional economies. The changes also have prompted fierce criticism from West Australian Premier Roger Cook, who in a letter to Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said the new rules would hurt his state's regional tourism and hospitality sector.”
Peter Mazis retweeted
This was @JEChalmers when the Reserve Bank of Australia lifted rates once in 2022.
How well has this aged @jamesmassola @paulsakkal
#auspol
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Today’s RBA decision means interest rates have been jacked up a massive 125 basis points this year.
Labor is trying to blame the Middle East.
But no other advanced economy has raised rates by nearly as much.
The difference: Labor’s unchecked spending is fuelling inflation.
Peter Mazis retweeted
I note that a lot of people today are questioning Aboriginal history and culture.
So, here's some modern 'ancient' 'Truth-telling', some you may know, some not:
- Dot paintings were invented in 1971 by Geoffrey Bardon who then taught the style and technique to Aborigines.
- The Welcome to Country Ceremony was invented in 1976 by Ernie Dingo and Richard Walley to welcome Maori performers.
- There is no Aboriginal word or phrase for Welcome to Country, unlike the Maoris’ welcome/wardance, the ‘haka’. As such, it cannot have been invented prior to colonisation and the introduction of English. How, in ancient times, would they have asked “Who’s doing the Welcome to Country Ceremony?” if there were no words in Aboriginal languages for it?
- The Acknowledgement of Country was invented in the 1990s
- There is no film or video evidence of any of these ceremonies existing at important events such as Royal Tours, the 1956 Olympics, etc. prior to the 70s.
- The not mentioning the name of deceased Aboriginal people or showing an image or providing a warning in an article is also modern. As recently as 2011 when boxer Lionel Rose died, not even the ABC did this.
- ‘Walkabout’ is now considered an offensive term, since it implies someone is late or lazy, despite it being an integral part of initiation ceremonies.
- ‘The oldest living culture’ is not just factually incorrect, it defies logic. The branch of the tree cannot be older than the tree itself. Humans evolved in Africa. There are African tribes that live almost exactly as they did 100,000+ years ago, without welfare, 4WDs, mobile phones, etc. Aborigines are descended from these tribes as humans moved out of Africa and around the world. As such, Aboriginal culture cannot possibly be older than the cultures from which they are derived. (See: diagram)
- Aborigines were never categorized or classified in Australia under the Flora and Fauna Act, despite Linda Burney and many others claiming this. This has been fact-checked and verified by the ABC as a complete and utter myth.
- The term ‘First Nations’ has been culturally appropriated from North American natives.
- The term ‘totem’ is used now widely. Many Aboriginal people adopt or are given a totem. But if this is, as claimed, an ancient tradition, what are the Aboriginal words, in any of the many languages, for ‘totem’ or ‘totems? ‘Totem’ is word from the Ojibwa tribe of North American natives. It is not an ancient Aboriginal word. It, too, is appropriated or 'stolen', ironically.
- ‘Deadly’ is not an Aboriginal word. It was a popular term in the 60s: ‘deadly good’. It was often used to describe a bicycle: ‘a deadly treadly’.
- Uluru (Ayers Rock) is, according to the area’s most senior elder, Paddy Uluru, of no cultural significance and is not sacred. Only recently has this been claimed to stop people climbing it.
- The Lake Bolac ‘eel’ rock arrangement required a machine to move the rocks. Which is more likely: that Aborigines arranged the 100+kg rocks 1,500 years ago or it was created more recently in the 20th Century to promote the Annual Eel Festival?
- Neologisms: ‘On country’; ‘Blak’; ‘First Nations’, ‘Blakfullah’, ‘Blak’, ‘First People’, ‘Welcome to Country Ceremony’, ‘Smoking Ceremony’, ‘Rainbow Serpent’ and ‘Dreamtime’ – all English-language-derived, not Aboriginal, such as ‘gangurru’ (kangaroo).
- Things that have fallen out of fashion: ‘Pointing the bone’; curses; photography stealing the soul.
- In almost every instance, the occurrence of a ‘massacre’ was settlers’ retribution for Aborigines stealing sheep, killing workers and/or raping wives and daughters. The notion that settlers or troops went out riding to kill Aborigines for ‘sport’ is a myth.
- The notion of a government-mandated, sanctioned or planned ‘genocide’ isn’t supported and the scale of Aboriginal deaths is widely disputed. Estimates vary so wildly that they cannot be replied upon: from over 1,000,000 to around 200,000 to 100,000 to just 10,000.
- Rainbow Serpent is not translated from any Aboriginal language. Similarly, ‘Dreamtime’ is not translated from any Aboriginal language. (See: diags)
So, what hasn't been made up in the past 50 years?
You tell me.
Peter Mazis retweeted
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The Albo-rithm: Please Explain
The Albanese Government wants to control the internet. They'll call it safety. It's censorship.
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In this post, Peter explains how much of a scam Australian Government’s are. Follow Peter’s account. Everyone. He is not pushing an agenda. We must change the way Australia is governed.
MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS, AND NOBODY HAS TO SAY WHERE IT WENT
I've spent months documenting that Australia's political money laws never require anyone to disclose where a dollar was spent. I thought that was an electoral law problem. It isn't. It's the whole system.
Put the discretionary streams in one column.
Major and Local Community Infrastructure, $560.9 million, one-off. Invitation-only. Forty-five divisions got nothing. 73.2 per cent went to divisions notionally held by Labor.
Criteria never published.
Supporting Multicultural Communities, $171.3 million over three years. The department's own page says closed non-competitive and one-off ad hoc rounds.
How you get invited is not published.
The Journalism Assistance Fund, $67.6 million over three years at $13,000 per full-time-equivalent journalist a year. Plus $33 million to AAP, a mandated minimum $3 million a year of advertising carved out for regional newspapers, and $204.1 million of campaign advertising in 2024-25 alone.
The News Bargaining Incentive.
Two government members told Parliament it should deliver $225 to $275 million a year to news businesses. Treasury has published no costing of its own.
The Department of Finance, $55.8 million on the electoral register over its history, including $12.7 million to the major parties' research centres, filed as Other Receipt rather than public funding.
And from January, election funding rises to $5 per formal first preference vote, indexed every six months, alongside a new quarterly payment to registered parties with a sitting member, and to independents.
My finding on the electoral register was that you can see who receives and never who pays out. This is the same gap at the other end of the pipe. On the grants register the payments are itemised. You can see every dollar and every recipient. What's invisible is the decision. Who was asked. Who approved it. On what basis.
So there are three points in one circuit.
Money coming in, where six dollars in ten arrive with no payer named. Money going out, where no section of the Act requires itemisation. And government money going out, where the payment is published but the selection is secret.
At no point in the whole circuit can you trace a decision back to a person.
Now the part where I have to be fair, because I had this wrong when I first drafted it. Recipients are not unaccountable. The journalism fund requires expenditure reports and can demand an audit. The payments scheme carries penalties for failing to report. What none of it requires is disclosure to you. Treasury looked at this in November 2022 and decided against going further, saying it did not consider there was a persuasive case for regulating how news businesses use funding. That is their reasoning to defend, not a gap they missed.
The rest of the steelman holds too.
Every one of these streams has a defensible purpose. Communities need infrastructure. Journalism is collapsing. Parties need resourcing or they end up owned by donors. None of this requires anyone to have acted badly.
That's what unsettles me. Nobody had to.
Cold Hard Facts. Corrected when wrong. No misinformation.
What's your thoughts…?
Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺
Sources:
Are in the comments below
Peter Mazis retweeted
There's a shift taking place, it's slow, but I think people are fed up with being lied to.
Peter Mazis retweeted
The Soviet red army (60%+ Russian) destroyed the Nazis John. The British contrubution, while noble and costly was minor, but of course is routinely rolled out (innacurately) as critical if not central
Educate yourself and stop acting like a character from one of your Scetches
Peter Mazis retweeted
Just in case you don’t know:
If you want to see a global crisis, let Australia run out of fuel…
Did you know that Australia is the 22nd largest exporter on earth.
15th largest country by measure of GDP.
As far as minerals go, we are the 3rd largest exporter of minerals on earth but per capita, we are by far the largest.
We are the 3rd largest overall energy exporter on the planet, largest of the OECD countries.
We are the Largest exporter of iron ore #1
$87,700,000,000
87.7 billion dollars or 55.9% of the global total.
Largest lithium producer #1
61,000 tons
46.9% of global supply.
Largest exporter of zinc #1
$2,2100,000,000
2.21 billion dollars
Largest exporter for barley #1
$2,370,000,000
2.37 billion dollars
Largest exporter for Bauxite #1
110 million tonnes
Largest exporters of Liquid Natural Gas #1 in volume
#3 in revenue.
$27,400,000,000
27.4 billion dollars
Largest wheat exporter #1
$10,200,000,000
Largest exporter of sheep #1
49% of global supply
$1,500,000,000
Largest exporter of opals #1
90% of global supply.
Largest exporter of manganese #1
$1,390,000,000
2nd Largest beef exporter after Brazil. 12 billion dollars.
$12,200,000,000
2nd Largest gold exporter #2
310 tons annually
34.2 billion dollars
3rd Largest grain exporter #3
14% of global supply.
Large exporter of copper #3
$64,200,000,000 - 7.1%
2nd largest exporter of uranium. #2
4.1 billion tonnes
We have 30% of the known global uranium reserves.
5th Largest exporter of silver #5
Number 8 exporter of aluminium #8
$4.1 billion dollars
4.5% of global supply
26th Largest exporter of oil #26
$7,540,000,000
$7.54 billion dollars
Australia is the 4th Largest coal producer of coal on earth.
We are the Largest coal exporter on earth. 50% of worlds sea born coal comes from Australia.
150 million coming from the mighty Hunter which is the largest single coal export port on earth.
It is completely irresponsible to allow a country that feeds and powers the world to get into a situation where we may need to pull up trucks because we have a fuel shortage…
And you still have to work and get only 50% of your earnings?
You kidding me!
Where’s the money?
Peter Mazis retweeted
Clay Travis absolutely nails Australia's 'Welcome to Country' ceremonies.
"They are apologising because they brought the Aboriginal people out of the Stone Ages."
"The idea of apologising for Western Civilisation should end immediately."
As an Aussie, I can you, many of us are against this divisive nonsense.
Plenty of Australians turn their backs, boo, or use this time as a toilet break or to get a drink when we have to endure it at sports games and entertainment events.
Australia was better when it was more united and less woke.
Australia has lost its mind with all the woke land acknowledgement absurdity. Yesterday the NFL audience saw what happens when a country lets woke insanity take over the country. During Covid as @BuckSexton says Australia was East Berlin with koalas.
Peter Mazis retweeted
Whoa!
Andrew Bridgen says impeccable inside intelligence has warned him that the UK Govt. is planning a horrendous false flag attack to shift public sentiment on a war with Russia!!
He’s been right before.
This time he hopes he is not .
Forewarned is forearmed.
Peter Mazis retweeted
The nuclear ban in Australia must be overturned as fast as humanely possible. We’re being left in the dust when it comes to energy production.
An Australian engineer built a micro nuclear reactor that can be mass-produced in months, fits on the back of a ute, with a 5 year refuel cycle - as simple as a swap-and-go gas bottle to replace. The fastest and lowest cost reactor build in American history. Trump called Australian Bobby Gallagher "one of the greatest in the world".
This is banned in Australia.
Peter Mazis retweeted
Yes… Josie and I did a show together this weekend. It was great. She is a wonderful human.
I understand the full show comes out later this week!
TRHL for the win
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🚨Colonel Douglas Macgregor explains why the globalists are hell bent on destroying Russia and replacing Putin:
🚨"Their agenda is to destroy Russia. Why? They would like to replace Putin because Putin presides over the last major power in Europe that has a national identity, a national language, a national culture that rests on the foundation of orthodox Christianity. That makes Russia the enemy of the globalists. What have the globalists done to us?
🚨They flooded our countries with non Europeans with a specific goal of diluting us, destroying our national identity, eliminating our culture. Expunging any remaining power that Christianity may wield culturally inside the west and they want to do that to Russia.
🚨They want to do that to Russia because Russia has enormous resources, mineral, agricultural, oil, gas and rare metals. If you can remove Putin, you can strip of its resources and enrich yourselves. That's why Russia has to go. Russia is holding out."
Peter Mazis retweeted
The Bolshevik Revolution was the greatest human slaughter of all time. Through starvation, torture, executions and gulags, the Bolsheviks persecuted and exterminated nearly 66 million Christians. And who were the Bolsheviks?
Peter Mazis retweeted
“Viruses have never been seen in nature. They are created in laboratories…”
It’s hard to get your head around this.
But a must listen.
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Hey Fauci worshippers - this one’s for you.
BREAKING: Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul releasing the first batch of texts from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s government iPhone.
In one January 2021 exchange, Fauci, then-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy discussed COVID vaccination and pregnant women.
Fauci flagged a potential concern following the second dose of the vaccine, writing that many experience a “significant cytokine storm and fever” and that it could “theoretically be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester.”
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