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Why are white Australians even being asked to vote on the Voice?

The fast-approaching Voice referendum is a complete clusterf**k for all Australians. It stinks of failure at each and every...

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Traffic interruptions around Lismore Base Hospital – Sunday

Some streets will be blocked off and others reduced to one lane on Sunday 4 June around Lismore Base Hospital and Lismore Shopping Square.

Private partnership sought for bioenergy facility proposal

Byron Council have been forced to explore the possibility of a public private partnership to fund its planned  bioenergy facility in Byron Bay.

A deer in the headlights

The Tweed Shire, Byron Shire, and Kyogle councils have joined forces to find out just what is happening with feral deer in the region.

Burst main forces temporary water supply cut in Lennox Head

Ballina Shire Council’s crews are attending to a water main break that has occurred on Allens Parade in Lennox Head this morning.

Help kids fly…

Spaghetti Circus is calling for supporters for their Scholarship Program in 2024. Spaghetti’s passion is creating healthy, active, happy kids....

Local MP refutes Reflections Holiday Parks CEO claims over Bruns holiday park

Local MP, Tamara Smith is standing by her claim that NSW government run corporation, Reflections Holiday Parks, is a private enterprise, despite its new CEO claiming it is a ‘certified social enterprise’.

Take a bow Jim Chalmers and the Albanese Labor government, what an outstanding effort in delivering such a great budget under very difficult conditions. 

Hamstrung by a one trillion dollar debt and a staggering interest bill of $2.5 million an hour, thanks to an incompetent Coalition government that just cannot handle money, this highly efficient proactive Labor government has managed to deliver a budget surplus within 12 months of taking office – and the first one for 15 years. This is exactly what a government that is governing for all Australians looks like. 

Recent world events have sent shock waves through the economies of all OECD countries and sent interest rates soaring, putting immense financial pressure on all their budgets, and cost of living pressures on their citizens, including Australia. Above all this doom and gloom, Labor has delivered energy bill relief, cost of living relief, rental relief, affordable housing relief, JobSeeker boost, cheaper pharmaceuticals, strengthening Medicare, and reducing government debt. 

How good is it to see not only a government actually delivering on their election promises, but actually expanding on them in their first budget, unlike a devious coalition that lied profusely in order to get elected then unashamedly reneged, and the non-delivering, all p**s-and-wind Greens. 

Keith Duncan, Pimlico


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5 COMMENTS

    • Greg, you never fail to astound me with your grasp of the English language, but I see you are improving, Albo probably the best PM ever, but describing the opposition as just stupid is something of an massive understatement.

  1. How is the best PM and Treasurer ever handling the economy lately. Doing a mediocre job I would suggest. I wonder how many more accounting quirks they can dredge up from the depths of their policy cesspit. People are starting to see through this amateur government.

  2. KD & AV, as sad as it may be you both have a world of trouble accepting the truth. You are backing the wrong horse here. The truth is the wonderful labor government has lied on too many occasions and have made a total mess of managing money. Like it or not.

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