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"So yes, when the government says that, it's just nonsense. And we have an inflation problem. It's almost, I think it's 3.5%, which was the latest figure, or 3.6 was the headline one. But when you take out the volatile items, which is always worth doing because there's always things coming in and out in terms of subsidies, it's almost 4%, which is the highest in the Western world actually."

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"And this is why there are now enough people who are willing to vote One Nation so that One Nation is now not only winning seats off the Liberal Party, but as we saw in WA, they're also winning seats off Labour."

"Well, look, I mean, Pauline Hanson has been speaking out about it, and so is Andrew Bragg, a liberal senator. Some politicians are starting to speak out about it. Look, do I think there's going to be any fundamental change? Unfortunately, probably not. But if there is a significant One Nation presence in the next federal parliament, who knows? Who knows? Because if there's any time to reform it, it's now, because people are hurting."

If you are raising a teenage boy in Australia right now, you could be forgiven for occasionally looking across the dinner table and wondering: is there something I should be worried about?

“Today’s housing approvals data show the federal government’s marquee housing policy, the National Housing Accord, is in disarray, with an approvals lag of at least 88,784 homes,” said Dr Kevin You, Senior Fellow, at the Institute of Public Affairs.

"Yeah. And certainly their confidence would be too. I mean, you'd be so depressed, wouldn't you, if you just borrowed 95% of the value of your home using the government scheme and now it's worth $100,000 less and you're stuck with this for the next 30 years."

Clearly, not much coral could have died in the last 10 years, but you can also go back almost 60 years that the Great Barrier Reef has supposedly only had a decade to live for the last 60 years.

"I just saw moments ago breaking in the Australian that the coalition has a similar policy on their hands. I haven't read the details of that yet, but what that says to me is if you've got the coalition and One Nation more or less having a similar policy towards superannuation, that means there is going to be some major change of superannuation."

"No, look, it certainly sounds like misuse of taxpayers' money to me and the double standard is just extraordinary. I think Bridget McKenzie had to resign over a similar situation over just $36,000. And to her great credit, she did resign. "