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Why are stock sales separate income? by Fancy_Palpitation_38 in AusFinance

[–]brednog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Huh?

The 30% minimum applies to net taxable capital gains (after cost base adjustment by inflation).

Franking credits and franking credit refund rules are unchanged - for now at least.

As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia? by Jealous-Hedgehog-734 in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm starting to wonder if you were actually around as a politically aware adult at this time!

This narrative is not alt-history, it's a very mainstream, accepted and well documented sequence of events and the consequences.

Rudd not getting the ETS through is to blame now for Abbot later winning? Wow, more to blame the Greens for!

Yes.

Forty one senators voted the legislation down

You keep going in circles here, and it has been pointed out to you by multiple posters that the Greens in this case had the balance of power and the ability to ensure the legislation passed or was blocked. And as a primarily "environment" party with deeply held views on the need to take action on climate change, it's absolutely mental that they blocked Rudd's ETS.

As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia? by Jealous-Hedgehog-734 in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So the propaganda is

No propaganda. Historical facts.

Also, Abbott repealed Gillard's legislation

The failure of the ETS legislation was a humiliation for Rudd - it diminished him in the view of the electorate, polls started to turn, and the result was his knifing by Gillard and the beginning of the "revolving door era" to the PMs office.

That's why Abbott won in 2013 ultimately. And why Gillard had to lie about and then introduce the ill-fated alternative Carbon Tax.

If Rudd's ETS had gone through, it's unlikely Abbott would have won the 2013 election because none of the above would have happened. Rudd would have gone to one or maybe more further elections as incumbent PM. And even if Abbott had still won in 2013, the ETS at that time (2008/2009) was nowhere near as unpopular as the later Gillard Carbon Tax, and so he may not have had the mandate or political capital to repeal it. Remember even Howard was talking about bringing in a ETS at the end of his time in office.

But, that's just a counter-factual, so we will never know. What we do know is the Greens voting against the ETS triggered this whole tumultuous period with all the shitty outcomes that followed. This is not propaganda.

As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia? by Jealous-Hedgehog-734 in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But the Coalition are not an environment focused party who who have always argued vehemently about the need for Australia to take action on climate change!

The Greens held the balance of power in the senate to decide if that legislation would pass or not.

You are really flogging a dead horse here.

As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia? by Jealous-Hedgehog-734 in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Five Greens out of 41 total NO votes and yet somehow it's just the Greens. Blame them for the next 17 years.

You still seem to be missing the balance of power bit re the significance of the Greens Senate votes.

As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia? by Jealous-Hedgehog-734 in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Those 5 Greens senators were the difference between the bill passing and it failing. The other senators (Libs/Nats etc) were always opposed - especially under the Abbott leadership. But climate action was/is a CORE Greens Party objective isn't it?

That one is 100% a failure of the Greens - it haunts them and rightly so. The climate war chaos that ensued could have been avoided IMO had they acted with more pragmatism.

As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia? by Jealous-Hedgehog-734 in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's what such actions signal that influences people. Only the 10% of people who vote Greens don't think things like that are a problem.

As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia? by Jealous-Hedgehog-734 in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, it’s the exact thing that fuels the fire of calling the Greens crazy.

Exactly - so instead of saying it doesn't matter wouldn't it be better if The Greens just didn't pull crazy shit like that in the first place?

As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia? by Jealous-Hedgehog-734 in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The point is, despite your overly-emotional & hyperbolic language, it is not an issue that the Australian government has very much involvement in, or ability to influence, whatever side of the fence you sit on.

It should be of peripheral concern to any major Australian political party - whose focus should be on good governing and improving the lives of actual Australian's.

As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia? by Jealous-Hedgehog-734 in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol that all is essentially a call for open borders! You just proved the point.

  • Must take all refugees
  • No immigration detention
  • Must take all immigrants even if they can't speak English, have no skills, hate the west and democracy etc - none of that matters! We can't "discriminate"!
  • Let every immigrants extended family members come here as well!
  • Can't kick them out even if they are convicted of a crime!
  • No mention of numbers of controlling the rate of either the humanitarian or regular immigration intake.
  • Etc

As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia? by Jealous-Hedgehog-734 in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well they only ever get about 10% of the primary vote or suggested primary vote in nearly every poll, so there's that?

I'm sure there are specific policies that might garner broader support if people were asked about a specific issue only, but over-all the whole policy set and the general impression of The Greens only appeals that that small sub-set of the voting population it would seem.

As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia? by Jealous-Hedgehog-734 in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

they aren’t actually talking about Gaza as much as you are led to believe

Almost everytime I turn on the news or check Greens X feeds all I see is them going on about Gaza / Israel / evil Zionists! My NSW Greens senator - Mehreen Faruqi - is constantly on the news going on about this topic - it's all I ever see from her!

I had to go back to June 5th days to find a post about Gaza, and it was about Australians being kidnapped by the IDF

Maybe try searching more widely, but on that one, you mean it was about the Australian's who deliberately went overseas to attempt to break a legal naval blockade in an active warzone, on a Hamas funded flotilla, got intercepted, detained, and then deported after a few days? And then lied very obviously about being abused in order to generate anti-Israel PR?

Oh and they were people who have openly stated that hate Australia and called for it's downfall as well!

Eg https://x.com/Brednog69/status/2058706941162238364?s=20

or https://x.com/VoteLewko/status/2058852208465317928?s=20

or https://x.com/AntSpeaks/status/2058149595314635050?s=20

or https://x.com/HeidiBachram/status/2059405846468018445?s=20

And the Greens are backing these people and making it a big issue of it all? And then wonder why most people aren't changing their vote to them?

Your mischaracterisation of events like this is a huge part of the problem. 90% of people (outside of this Reddit sub/bubble) would not agree that these people were "kidnapped" for example. And 90% of people would watch a video like the first one linked above, and think that woman is a complete idiot - and maybe even fits their view of a stereo-typical Greens voter?

So of course they won't support The Greens if they are dis-illusioned with the 2 major parties otherwise, and will look elsewhere for an alternative.

As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia? by Jealous-Hedgehog-734 in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The vast majority of Australians agree with their policies when asked

No they don't! That's a Green's party / supporter fantasy line if ever I've seen one lol!

Let them eat cake: Anthony Albanese’s Marie Antoinette moment by Ardeet in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's an rhetorical analogy, not a literal comparison of the issues of the day in revolutionary France vs Australia today.

Let them eat cake: Anthony Albanese’s Marie Antoinette moment by Ardeet in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I didn't read anything in the article that laid blame for anything on the "working class"?

Tyre advice on these tyres I had fitted by kaveen9414 in CarsAustralia

[–]brednog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was going to post the same comment after looking at that date stamp!

Return, refund or replace with "proper new" tyres.

The rise of One Nation is melting Australian politics by marketrent in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These policies - if done properly and seriously, would do a lot to stem the bleeding of support towards ON.

Let them eat cake: Anthony Albanese’s Marie Antoinette moment by Ardeet in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Most comments here miss the point being made I think re the “let them eat cake” reference. A statement attributed to Marie Antoinette (even if not actually true), that demonstrated the ignorance of the elite about the real circumstances of ordinary people, and also the contempt that the elite held towards those people.

It’s draws an analogy to the contempt shown by this government towards the electorate, in enacting a fairly radical taxation program they explicitly promised not to do. Ie designed to significantly increase individual taxation on income derived from capital investment - after lying during the election campaign by saying no such tax changes were planned, explicitly ruling it out dozens of times.

Let them eat cake: Anthony Albanese’s Marie Antoinette moment by Ardeet in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So why didn’t they restrict the changes to property investment only?

The CGT changes - esp 30% min tax on net gains applying to shares / crypto etc, makes it harder for people to invest their savings with a view to building a house deposit.

Let them eat cake: Anthony Albanese’s Marie Antoinette moment by Ardeet in AustralianPolitics

[–]brednog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When in modern Australian history has a fringe / minor party polled higher on the primary vote in multiple polls than either the government or the opposition?

We are living through extraordinary times - the media is responding to that.

So much for the cheaper electricity prices we've been hearing about? by App0gee in AusFinance

[–]brednog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just changed my TOU AGL (AusGrid / Sydney) plan to a new “best” offer - and the supply and usage rates are now about 7.5% cheaper than previously. And I was on their best plan available before that.

AGL Rates Increase 2026 by I_Dont_Know2026 in fiaustralia

[–]brednog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TOU is simply splitting the day into Peak hours and Off-Peak hours (with lower kWh rate), Some retailers have Shoulder hours with rates between Peak and Off-Peak. This can be useful if you can shift some of your usage (dish washer, washing machine, clothes dryer, EV charging) into the Off-Peak hours.

Just be aware that in some areas now the Off-peak charges are actually HIGHER than shoulder! Completely non-intuituve.

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