What a load of bollocks. The putting *food* production under severe strain argument used by #PHON and anti-environmental river flows to stop flooding of eenvironmental easements is absolute BS. And News outlets are promotong the lie.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-16/fury-over-easements-for-inundation-bill/106682636?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
“Australia has always exported more agricultural products than it imports, with over 70 per cent of its total value of agricultural production sent overseas.”

If you want figures for our exports of agricultural products you can find them here:
https://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/organisations/wto/agricultural-trade

#TruthInPoliticalAdvertising #PHON #FarleyMP #AgricultueExports #DFAT #WTO

#BudgetReply
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"...[In] the policy Taylor announced. He announced a blanket exclusion of permanent residents from the major welfare programs of the Commonwealth. He did it on national television. He did it with the explicit framing that non-citizens are a fiscal problem to be solved. And he did it in a country where roughly one in six residents is a non-citizen, and a much larger share than that lives in a household with at least one non-citizen sitting at the dinner table."

The #LNP Leadership has fallen into the eroneous idea that voters and their votes can be reckoned as 'tokens', accounting numbers to be debated about and used to come up with targeted policies that will stop the #BleedinoOfVoters to #PHON. This is good analysis, worth the read:

https://redbridgeintel.substack.com/p/the-second-last-budget-reply-delivered

#AusPol

JFC.

#OneNation #PHON

This gives me hope that Australians, by and large, aren’t what #PHON is all about:

“Australian voters are sorting not on left-right economic axes but on openness-versus-authoritarian trait dimensions, and the sort is accelerating. Right-wing cultural populism, the One Nation product, mobilises the authoritarian end of that distribution. It is effective in cohorts where authoritarian traits are over-represented: older voters, voters with low formal education, voters in racially and culturally homogeneous areas, voters whose lived experience does not include being on the receiving end of the politics of race.”

In the context of a growing #MultiCultural Australia and the aging #WASPish voters, there is hope for a future without a threat from PHON and its current voters.

Read more (Long read) - I know it’s #substack but the article is well worth reading if you despair at PHON’s recent electoral gains.

https://open.substack.com/pub/redbridgeintel/p/the-wall-between-parramatta-and-bundaberg

#Authoritarianism #AusPol #LNP #Racism #Otherism #Anger #Frustration #Antifa #TaxTheRich #Politics #ElectoralAnalysis

“The Essential poll and other published polls have continued to show rising support for One Nation since at least October, despite mounting controversies – including the party’s decision to employ convicted rapist Sean Black until this month, Hanson’s inflammatory comments about Muslims, her stunt of wearing a burqa in the Senate, and scrutiny about transparency and her relationship with billionaire Gina Rinehart.” (Source: The Guardian)

Gowwd help us all, especially those twits who responded to that poll. We either all wake up soon and stop this foolhardy fling with the #PHON. All those twits need to do is open their eyes and look at #MAGA #USA. Or we’ll plunge into the chaos that is a#Tyrranical regime sooner or later. Is that what they want for #AUS ? Am I being a tad hysterical here? Please tell me there is hope we’ll stay with #SocialDemocratic ideals.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/28/pauline-hanson-one-nation-leadership-guardian-essential-poll-ntwnfb
#AusPol #EssentialPoll

So, #Pauline is not only over the moon about her very own flying bribe (Courtesy #Gina), but she is positively boyed by the prospect of further lower House seats in the coming years and dreams of wearing an Australian Crown (As all #RWNJs do).

Now, #Farrer has #Farley going to the #House. Notably, Mr Farley, of questionable political loyalty, alledgedly knows a lot about water and is said to be concerned by #ClimateChange, two important although competing topics of conversations in his electorate. But don’t be fooled. If Farley has shown us anything it is that he worked bloody hard to get a nomination to stand for office. He was on a mission and sought whatever means would get him there. While I may be out on a limb here, my guess is that Mr Farley knows exactly what the electore needs and has no need to seek its opinion. As the headline reveals:

“The former Nationals member has admitted to flirting with the idea of joining Labor or running as an independent as he mulled how to best translate his policy ambitions into political success.” He is itching to get HIS policies on the floor of the House, and by hook or by crook he’s gonna do it with the same energy he shopped around to get there. I think the punters are correct here, Farley wont be with #PHON very long…

Read more
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/03/farrer-byelection-one-nation-mp-dave-farley-ntwnfb

#AusPol