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Bob de la Motte retweeted
We need their paychecks to reflect the amount of time they are at work, like the rest of us.
We've created an elite political class, high above the average Australian.
Once these people reach that peak, they never have to ever care again about Australia. They have it all made.
They could utterly destroy and decimate our country and be fully rewarded for it for the rest of their lives.
And having this system in place gives these kinds of people the ultimate incentive to run for public office in the first place.
If the pay and rewards were modest, reflecting what normal Australians receive, then disgusting communists and people who only care about enriching themselves would have far less interest in becoming politicians.
We do this to ourselves.
We have to change politicians wages to reflect our wages.
This is what I'm going to submit to One Nation's survey program.
Bob de la Motte retweeted
The Australian'a have caught on. She won't survive this. The internet is forever. Sydney University will regret this.
Bob de la Motte retweeted
She belongs in jail.
It makes you want to vomit.
Jacinda Ardern has been gifted a privileged position at Sydney University as a “professor of practice”.
The University released a statement:
“Her work will focus on empathetic leadership, social cohesion and civic trust; further developing new approaches to global and values-based leadership, as well as exploring new ways to address global health challenges centred on equity, inclusion and wellbeing.”
This has to be some type of sick joke.
“Empathetic leadership – equity and inclusion” – this from a woman that smirked about dividing society into two classes of people.
“Civic trust” – from a woman who destroyed civic trust and will be remembered by history as saying “we will be your single source of truth” – and then proceeded to tell lie after lie about the so-called vaccine.
The only university Ardern is fit to lecture at is one in North Korea or Cuba.
But her appointment only confirms what we already know – our universities are no longer places of education and learning – they are Marxist indoctrination camps, so Ardern will fit in well.
Just another reason to vote One Nation.
Bob de la Motte retweeted
It makes you want to vomit.
Jacinda Ardern has been gifted a privileged position at Sydney University as a “professor of practice”.
The University released a statement:
“Her work will focus on empathetic leadership, social cohesion and civic trust; further developing new approaches to global and values-based leadership, as well as exploring new ways to address global health challenges centred on equity, inclusion and wellbeing.”
This has to be some type of sick joke.
“Empathetic leadership – equity and inclusion” – this from a woman that smirked about dividing society into two classes of people.
“Civic trust” – from a woman who destroyed civic trust and will be remembered by history as saying “we will be your single source of truth” – and then proceeded to tell lie after lie about the so-called vaccine.
The only university Ardern is fit to lecture at is one in North Korea or Cuba.
But her appointment only confirms what we already know – our universities are no longer places of education and learning – they are Marxist indoctrination camps, so Ardern will fit in well.
Just another reason to vote One Nation.
Bob de la Motte retweeted
This is @AlboMP in 2020 commenting on then Coalition Minister Bridget McKenzie who admitted to breaching ministerial standards by failing to formally declare her membership at the Wangaratta Trap and Gun Club, which received $36,000 in federal funding through a Sports Funding program. She resigned.
Thanks to @rovingallround for the clip.
Bob de la Motte retweeted
BREAKING: Department of Infrastructure officials have just confirmed what many suspected: the $6 million federal grant to Marrickville Golf Club in Anthony Albanese’s electorate was not for fixing sewerage issues.
Albanese repeatedly told Parliament and the ABC that the money was to stop raw sewage flowing into the Cooks River during floods.
Officials at Senate estimates were clear: “It does not include sewerage works.”
The actual project, according to departmental briefs, FOI documents and council minutes:
$4.5m went to the clubhouse redevelopment (bar, toilets, pro shop, alfresco dining, dog station)
$1m stormwater harvesting.
$0.5m landscaping/native plantings
The septic/sewage connection was handled separately by a $269,500 NSW Government grant in 2025.
This is the same club where Albanese held an undisclosed honorary membership dating back years, something he says he didn’t know about and never used, despite being caught on camera at the club hundreds of times.
People have been forced to stand down over far less.
Barry O’Farrell resigned as NSW Premier in 2014 after ICAC evidence showed he received a bottle of Penfolds Grange (valued at around $3,000) that he failed to declare and initially denied receiving.
One bottle. One denial. Career over.
Here we have a Prime Minister whose department has contradicted his public statements about a $6 million grant to a club in his own seat, after an undeclared membership was revealed, and he remains in office.
If a bottle of Grange ended a Premier, what standard are we applying now?
Bob de la Motte retweeted
THIS IS HOW ALBO SELLS OUT THE ARMY
The Albanese government is kicking Australian Army personnel out of Victoria Barracks, the spiritual home of the Army since the 1840s, fully owned by the Australian people, and dumping them into a CBD high rise in Pitt Street.
That building, Defence Plaza, is owned by Singaporean interests and mortgaged to the Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation.
Security is handled by Wilson Security, ultimately owned by a Hong Kong family.
Senator Jess Collins dragged this out at a Senate inquiry. Defence’s own acting deputy secretary admitted he didn’t even know about the Chinese bank mortgage.
Five floors. $231 million lease over 10 years. Tens of millions more on fit out. All taxpayer money flowing to a foreign owned tower with clear Chinese financial leverage.
Victoria Barracks is secure, operational, and Australian owned. The new digs are a commercial office block where the landlord and mortgage holder sit outside Australian control.
You don’t need to be a genius to see the risk: Chinese intelligence services have a long track record of embedding in buildings with financial or ownership leverage over them.
Once the Army is in there, assume it’s compromised.
This isn’t cost saving. It’s another deliberate step that puts critical Australian military functions under structures Beijing can influence.
Selling off historic, Commonwealth owned bases while parking headquarters staff in a Chinese mortgaged building is the pattern, soft on China, soft on borders, soft on national security.
The Army’s spiritual home is being fire sold despite opposition from veterans, former generals, both sides of politics, and the public.
And the replacement is a tower we don’t fully control.
One things for certain, Donald Trump would never place the US Military in a Chinese owned building.
Unfortunately, we cannot say the same.
Bob de la Motte retweeted
Labor has officially admitted to rorting the system.
Infrastructure Minister Catherine King has confirmed that Labor Party head office, not the department, ran the process behind the Albanese Government’s $560 million community grants scheme.
King’s own words: “Absolutely, it’s an election commitment process, of course that is done through party machinery, not through government machinery.”
The mask has completely slipped.
Out of $560 million in funding, a staggering $409 million went straight to Labor held electorates through a closed, completely non competitive process.
45 electorates weren't even invited to apply.
The blatant pork barrelling includes a $6 million taxpayer funded grant for the Marrickville Golf Club right in Anthony Albanese’s own electorate.
The department itself has confirmed they had zero role in selecting these projects, stating the government didn't even seek their advice. It was entirely dictated by party machinery.
Constitutional law expert Professor Anne Twomey has slammed the scheme as a farce and a form of “grey corruption”, stating: “If federal politicians want to win elections by making promises about swimming pools, golf clubs in their electorates, then they need lessons in integrity.”
This is a deep betrayal of Australian taxpayers.
Funding decisions must be based on merit and community need, not outside party bosses calling the shots to secure votes.
Bob de la Motte retweeted
$266 BILLION OF AUSTRALIA'S EXPORTS RUN ON DIESEL. WE IMPORT 87% OF IT AND HOLD 31 DAYS.
Ask any politician what pays the nation's bills and they'll say exports. Here's what pays for the exports.
Last financial year Australia exported $646.6 billion. Iron ore, coal, gold, alumina and beef were $266 billion of it, 41% of everything we sell to the world. Add gas and mined commodities are nearly half.
Every tonne of ore, coal and beef is dug, hauled or farmed on diesel. Mining and its trucking use 11.5 billion litres a year, 35% of all the diesel in the country. Our biggest export, iron ore, and coal account for more than 80% of mining's diesel.
Now look at where the diesel comes from.
87% is imported. South Korea alone sends 8.7 billion litres a year, then Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and India. We're the biggest diesel importer on earth, about 10% of all diesel shipped by sea.
We used to make our own.
In 2020 our refineries met about 42% of fuel demand. By 2025 it was 21%. BP closed Kwinana and ExxonMobil closed Altona in 2021 under the Coalition. Three more were closed between 2012 and 2015, under both sides. Western Australia, home of the Pilbara, hasn't refined a litre of its own fuel since 2021.
And the buffer?
31 days of diesel nationally, by the Minister's own figure, down from 33 in April. WA's emergency stockpile is 20 million litres. Rio Tinto gave up 8 million litres of its own delivery to help fill it.
In fairness, both parties let the refineries go, importing is usually cheaper, and the government has announced a $3.2 billion reserve and higher minimum stocks.
But the reserve has no date, the refineries aren't coming back, and $266 billion a year of exports depends on a fuel we barely make and hold about a month of. That isn't a fuel problem. It's a national security problem.
Same standard, every side.
Cold Hard Facts. Corrected when wrong. No misinformation.
What's your thoughts…?
Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺
Sources:
DFAT, Australia's top 25 exports 2024-25; IEEFA, Digging mining out of diesel dependence, Oct 2026 and Managing Australia's diesel squeeze, Apr 2026 (citing DCCEEW Australian Energy and Petroleum Statistics); Australian Petroleum Statistics, via NRMA, Mar 2026; ABC News, 24 Sep 2026; Argus Media, 10 Feb and 10 Mar 2021; NAB, 10 Apr 2026; Chris Bowen, LinkedIn, 24 Oct 2026; WA Government, 6 May 2026; Australian Mining, Apr 2026. Export totals and shares: author's calculation.
Bob de la Motte retweeted
This video has been deleted from every platform (including Google) years ago. It took me a long time to find it.
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The video splices two separate sections from Obama's March 2014 Brussels speech, misrepresenting his description of an opposed "alternative vision" of authoritarian power as his own view. The full unedited speech remains available.
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Bob de la Motte retweeted
Quebec, Canada has finally had enough of Muslims blocking traffic and praying in front of their historical churches and BANNED public Islamic prayers
- No group prayer on any public road, park, or public space
- Muslim full-face coverings are restricted for staff and students in daycares, public colleges and universities
- Designated prayer rooms in universities and public community colleges are now banned
- Daycare workers at subsidized centers are now prohibited from wearing religious symbols, particularly the hijab
- Public institutions cannot offer exclusively religion-based diets like only halal
Every western nation needs to implement this. It should be mandatory in America
Bob de la Motte retweeted
To PM Albanese: You can’t lecture Australians on “turning down the temperature” of political debate when you were caught on the floor of Parliament in 2015 urging colleagues to “smash her!” as Sussan Ley rose to speak.
That wasn’t robust debate, it was a crude, aggressive sledge at a female frontbencher, made while your side was focused on domestic violence.
If an ordinary Australian posted the equivalent on social media today, they’d likely face a ban until it was removed. Your comment was never retracted, and your party never held you to account.
Parliamentary privilege is not a free pass for hypocrisy. The PM who demands civility from everyone else has a documented history of the opposite.
Bob de la Motte retweeted
Anne-Marie Waters, former Director of the National Secular Society, speaks at Oxford and describes the horrors of Islam
“We were told that we are demonizing Islam, whipping up fear of Islam — let me tell you what actually whips up fears of Islam:
- 9/11
- The London Underground bombings
- Madrid train bombings
-Mumbai attacks
- Bali bombings
- Northern Nigeria killed 40,000+
- Sudan killed thousands
- Mali killed thousands
- Afghanistan Muslims have killed over 100,000
- Pakistan killed 10s of thousands
Saudi Arabia, Iran and Yemen all have Ongoing executions for apostasy, blasphemy, adultery, sodomy
Islamic countries have:
- Death for apostasy
- Death for blasphemy
- Death for adultery
- Death for homosexuality
- Gender segregation
- Gender discrimination
- Unequal testimony between men and women in legal proceedings
- Child marriage
- Amputations
- Beheadings
- Imprisonment for being raped
- Anti-Semitism
- Burqas
- Execution”
- Polygamous marriages
- Marriage not requiring the consent of the bride”
“The slaughter of Theo van Gogh on the streets of Amsterdam. Death threats on the streets of London, butcher those who insult Islam, Muslim patrols in East London telling people they are entering Sharia-controlled zones”
“This is what causes fear of Islam. It is not me, it is not my colleagues on this side.”
“Why don't I see it as peaceful? Because of the evidence. If I look around the world and I see the countries where Islam calls the shots, all I see is brutality and violence imposed by the state”
Here is the death count from some of the attacks from Muslims she named:
- 9/11 attacks (2001): 2,977
- London Underground / 7/7 bombings (2005): 52
- Madrid train bombings (2004): 193
- Mumbai attacks (2008): 166
1 Bali bombings (2002): 202
We need mass deportations of Muslims from western nations