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To Begin Again

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  FROM GROK: The 2026 Federal Budget, handed down by Treasurer Jim Chalmers on May 12, continues to dominate Australian politics with intense and sustained backlash two weeks later. The centrepiece reforms — restricting negative gearing for new investors and slashing the capital gains tax discount — have sparked fury for breaking explicit Labor election promises not to touch these investor perks. Critics, including the Coalition, business groups, mum-and-dad investors, and commentators like Peta Credlin, describe it as a "war on aspiration," a betrayal that punishes those trying to get ahead and risks reducing housing supply and investment. Polls reflect the damage: a Newspoll showed 60% of voters viewing the changes as the "wrong direction" or ineffective, with Labor defending the measures as essential for intergenerational equity and first-home buyers while accusing opponents of protecting vested interests. In the last 24 hours, the controversy has simmered with o...

Deep in the Forest

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  The reaction to the Australian government's mid-term budget across the commentariat was vicious in the extreme.  The country as a whole had woken up to the virtues of socialist, that you will be taxed into oblivion; all  entrepreneurship  killed, everyone a wage slave. The sun is over the yardarm. The fortunes of the government were sinking. Faced with telling the truth or reaching for ever more authoritarian responses, they chose the authoritarian command and control response. It was a terrible mistake. Encouraging the citizen's natural productivity, the desire to get ahead and to prosper in their own lives, was not on the government's agenda. And the mood soured; and then soured again. And soon enough, everyone hated their guts.  And the much disparaged One Nation party, best known for its anti-immigration stance, rose to the fore. And the luvvies screamed and twittered and buried themselves deeper into their own echo chambers. While other forces rose up.

Jedai Mind Tricks

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  Crouching tiger. An alien fighter landing in a clearing, fighting on all fronts. Under attack from all fronts. And ready to kill his enemies, just like that, with alien weaponry. Kill the deceitful. Kill those who had dared to come near. He would work out his own aficionados. And they would stay clear, out of fear.   He would stab them through their third eyes with weapons he, as a human, did not even recognise; his eyes like crushed, crystalline flowers and theirs a dark, liquid fear.  Some believed in reincarnation; jumping from one body to another, returning each time to the cluster soul. But that is not where he came from. He came from a more ancient place, of dinosaurs and spectacular landscapes and the original formations of life on this planet. And Australia? All the news was bad. The sentiment bitter. The pundits frothing, pointlessly, for an arrogant government would continue to destroy the nation; and the perpetrators, just like Scott Morrison, would retr...

Tipping Point

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  The response to the Federal Budget, normally little more than the subject of a bit of to and fro from the various pundits in legacy media, has been vitriolic across the board, from the streets and cafes to the higher echelons. In turning everyone into slaves with their excessive taxation and excessive regulation, all to support corrupt and dysfunctional bureaucracies, many of them based on social justice lies and doing more harm than good, witness the climate change boondoggle, everyone has now had enough. It is impossible for anyone to get ahead, to build wealth, to establish themselves independent from government. A primary precursor to a totalitarian state; which Australia is rapidly becoming. Everything is controlled. No one can breathe free. The government is in everybody's pockets and everybody's lives. And almost universally hated as a result. The social contract is broken.  There is no reward for effort. There is no reward for independence of thought. There is no fre...

That Ancient Blogger

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  The ancient dragon appeared through the time rift into the fetid air, an open wound. And immediately began picking out the worms that surrounded him, smashing them against a wall. They would regret their actions, those who dared to attack. The trap was set.  All was at war. In Australia, a curdled place, a disengaged, dispirited, disillusioned population buried their heads and hoped for the best. And as for his own actions: you will just have to wait and see. MAINSTREAM NEWS https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/05/we-have-a-liar-in-the-lodge/ We have a liar in the Lodge The Prime Minister’s word is worthless  

Here In This Place

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  In a sadder, more innocent time. As we flew above the passing of time. The annual hump back whale migration was starting, and now moving up the coast. Restorative, hopeful, underwater, connected.

We Teetered On The Very Edge

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  There was something about this very point in history. Spend time with nature and the gods, the voices said.  His shoulders hurt.  Australia wasn't just a disillusioned country, it was abandoned. Nothing worked. One business after another was being shut down, despite the valiant efforts of their owners. A hideously corrupt, utterly indifferent government tortured its own citizens. And we flew, we flew above it all, into the cyclone of ascending time crystals. Australians had no idea, and felt it. They had no hope. Overwhelmed, invaded, derided. The country, or the country he and his generation had known, was gone. RANDOM NEWS There Is No Coming Back From This… Tucker on the dangers of AI and the dystopian future being forced on us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43m8Z_2nnd8

Roiled: Wars and the Rumours of War

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  The holy grail. We had to get back to work. The beginning of Empire. Not before time. He turned 74 the following month, and was suddenly old, well, older. Mistakes, abnegation, lack of character, or courage. Everything can be fixed my dear man.  The voices no longer rang: Blessed Art Thou. Instead: You Need To Be Rescued. After all the betrayal. After all their connivance. After those snivelling worms turned on each other, embarrassed by their own deceit. They had been eating him for months; and now the worm had turned. The time lords had been and gone and would be back again. And this country, this once great country, was being destroyed by the worst this country had to offer, the worst, indeed, that mankind had to offer. The grubs who had betrayed us all. https://asenseofplacemagazine.com/scathing-backlash-australian-labor-partys-disaster-budget/ Millions Of Aussies Are About To Be Hit With Hidden Taxes In 2027 Budget | They Tried to Bury this This Budget was packaged as r...

We Come Back Again

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  MAINSTREAM HEADLINES SKY NEWS https://www.skynews.com.au/ Police arrest 20 at pro-Palestine rally in Brisbane for outlawed chants in first major test of Queensland's new speech laws A Brisbane protest has become the first major test of Queensland’s new hate speech laws, with police arresting 20 people after banned slogans were chanted. GUARDIAN AUSTRALIA https://www.theguardian.com/au Did Harry and Meghan tour Australia to make money – or cosplay a return to royal life? In Aussie parlance, Meghan and Prince Harry’s whirlwind visit down under was the very definition of a “Claytons” tour. Claytons in Australia is primarily known as a cultural phrase for a substitute, fake or ersatz version of something, the saying evolving from a 1970s/80s non-alcoholic beverage marketed as “the drink you have when you’re not having a drink”. Yes, Harry and Meghan are royals. But this was not a royal tour. It was something very different. A $3,200 ‘girls’ weekend like no other’ where you got to mee...