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Glenn Connley

@glennconnley.bsky.social

Senior Media Advisor at The Australia Institute

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Glenn Connley@glennconnley.bsky.social · last mo.

News Corpse has failed in its attempt to beat this into a story. Pity. Aussie soccer fans in Seattle chanting ... "Aussies on a bender ... Trump's a sex offender". Truth, as they say, is a defence.

Glenn Connley@glennconnley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've never really been into Dave Hughes' whiny style of comedy. But each to their own. However, his whining about tax is just bullshit. This 'man of the people' is a rich property investor. His social media bleating has more factual errors than a One Nation 'policy'. Spare me.

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Glenn Connley@glennconnley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

$368 billion is more than $13,000 for every Australian ... from newborn babies to 90-year-olds. But where does that figure even come from? What we do know about AUKUS makes it look like a dreadful deal. I can't help think what we don't know is even worse.

The Australia Institute@australiainstitute.org.au · 2mo ago

"A $368 billion program based on an unexplained one-line table, that is next level." - Research Director Rod Campbell appearing at the AUKUS Public Inquiry @rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol

Glenn Connley@glennconnley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The more the Herald Sun and Australian attack Jacinta Allan, the more likely she is to win in November. Any reasonable reader can see through the vitriol, misogyny and lies. Murdoch's gross tactics have backfired for years.

Glenn Connley@glennconnley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Not sure what kind of hockey Susan McDonald watches, but the budget papers say PRRT revenue is going backwards. Surely she isn't just parroting the gas lobby's lies again. Who needs Treasury data when you can just make sh*t up?

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This headline is a disgusting lie Special Disability Trusts are not affected *AT ALL* The article even makes it clear the concerns of the bloke (a solicitor with expertise in wills and estates) in this story are not about his disabled son but his other children being able to minimize their tax!

Headlined from The Australian Families of disabled children forced to overhaul finances under new Labor tax reformstext of story: The first trust is a special disability trust, which will be largely unaffected by tax reforms in Labor’s controversial federal budget. While it has some “limitations” as to how it can be spent, this trust will allow a few trusted people to access enough funds to see Henry properly cared for. The second is a discretionary testamentary trust, which would be taxed at Labor’s new 30 per cent minimum if it was being established in the future. Mr Latham told The Australian the initial appeal of a testamentary trust was its flexibility. “What that (trust) was intended to do was provide a pool of funds as a contingency for my son with a disability. But there’s also a broader range of beneficiaries, which includes my other children, so if Henry’s needs were met, there would be flexibility for the trustees to apply the funds more broadly to other beneficiaries,” he said.
Glenn Connley@glennconnley.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Think about this. The Prime Minister of Australia is now openly quoting inaccurate talking points from the gas lobby. Not ATO data. Not his own government's budget papers - talking points from a bunch of foreign-owned companies taking an entire nation for a ride.

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Glenn Connley@glennconnley.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hume, Duniam and Wilson whining that changes to CGT and neg gearing will deny young Australians the chance to buy investment properties. Do they even know, thanks to Howard, there's a generation for whom a home, let alone a bloody investment property, is an impossible dream? Irrelevant clowns.

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sorry ABC - 8m are not on "income support". My fact check for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

Factcheck: The ABC’s claim that "8 million rely on income support" conflated paid sick leave with income support

The problem is, that the ABC article was not based on data from the Department of Social Services. Rather, it was based on research compiled for a life insurers lobby group, whose board are all CEOs o...

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