17/06/2026
The childcare industry, I.e. the unions are holding the taxpayers to ransom.
How many other workers get a $10,000 pay rise courtesy of the taxpayer? Especially an industry rife with child abusers.
Yes childcare workers are low paid but so are stay at home parents. Wouldn’t it be better to pay parents to raise their own children and reskill childcare workers into high value high paying roles?
This pay rise will increase taxes on workers so they will work longer which means they need more childcare. It’s a vicious cycle.
People First will pay childcare directly to parents rather than allow our country to be blackmailed by unions.
Childcare, like Superannuation is just another Labor sacred cow that is used to both push and fund their own agenda.
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August 2024
“Taxpayers will directly fund a 15 per cent wage rise for 200,000 childcare workers in a $3.6bn pre-election cash splash.
Daycare staff will pocket an extra $10,000 a year, on average.”
July 2026
“Anthony Albanese has committed a further $3.6bn to lock in a 15 per cent pay rise for more than 200,000 early childhood educators, averting threatened mass walk-offs at childcare centres.
The United Workers Union had threatened national stoppages unless the government committed to the funding, while the Australian Childcare Alliance, representing 2500 childcare operators, warned daycare fees would go up by 10 per cent before Christmas unless the government extended its two-year wage subsidy.”
V
“Alleged abuse by childcare worker Joshua Brown sparks $4.4m payout to 893 families.
This childcare worker’s arrest triggered testing for STIs in 2000 kids in a case that horrified the nation. There’s one disturbing detail the government kept secret.
893 parents received the Victorian government’s immediate needs payment of $5000 between July last year and February 2026, because their child attended a centre where Mr Brown was employed and required precautionary medical testing.
12/06/2026
“Not once, not twice, but thrice – that is how many times the former head of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union,Michael O’Conner allegedly told his union colleagues to inflate the cost of its promotional contract with the superannuation fund he also chaired.
First Super is a small $5.3 billion fund run for timber and joinery workers. O’Connor sat on the fund’s board as co-chairman from 2008 until 2024, after being nominated by the manufacturing division of the CFMEU, which was a shareholder in the fund.”
In October 2019, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority alleged that a conflict of loyalty had emerged for O'Connor.
APRA has claimed in court documents that rather than look after the best interests of First Super and its nearly 80,000 members, O'Connor told a union colleague that the renewal of a promotional deal between the fund and the CFMEU was instead an "opportunity to get some money out of the fund".
The contract was initially agreed in 2017 and involved First Super outsourcing member engagement work to the CFMEU, which charged a flat fee and also invoiced for contractors employed to do the work on behalf of the fund.”
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How typical is this. Unions using your super for their own gain.
Nor is it surprising that the union offical is the brother of Labor Minister Brendan O’Conner.
It’s so blatant it just beggars belief that people still try to defend superannuation.
It’s nothing more than a slush fund for rent seekers particularly the Labor party to clip $40 billion in fees and perks from every year.
It’s time to make superannuation voluntary and stop ripping workers off.
With household debt at record highs and interest rates rising people should be able to pay their mortgage off rather than risk it on dodgy paper assets.
If you want to keep your wages in your pocket and not theirs sign up today at Peoplefirstparty.au
10/06/2026
Putting aside the complexity of the proposed CGT changes, there is a simple illustration of why the minimum 30% tax rate just seems unfair in our system.
Someone on $190,000 of earned income a year has an effective tax rate of less than 30%.
Anyone under that (most Australians) will have a lower effective rate.
Yet, if they make a capital gain as part of their income, it has a minimum rate higher than their marginal tax rate. High income earners aren't affected because their rate is already higher.
So the proposed system only penalises lower income earners.
There are many flaws in this legislation, but the minimum tax rate seems to be the worst one in my view.
08/06/2026
“A contingent of fans may be boycotting this month’s World Cup over Donald Trump’s various policies and bombings, but these concerns haven’t extended to Canberra. Instead, it seems the delegation headed across the Pacific from Parliament House is so large the politicians could field their own team.
A delegation of about a dozen Australian politicians—including sports minister Anika Wells and MP Jerome Laxale-are attending the FIFA World Cup 2026 in North America. While the trip has faced public scrutiny due to taxpayer-funded expenses and budget pressures, the MPs are traveling to support the Socceroos as they play their group-stage matches against Türkiye, USA, and Paraguay.”
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There is absolutely no need for any Australian politician to attend the Soccer World Cup.
It shouldn’t be allowed under the rules. The fact that it is just demonstrates how corrupt travel entitlements are for MPs.
Stop the rorts.
07/06/2026
“Gold has overtaken US government bonds as the largest reserve asset held by central banks worldwide in a historic shift in global finance, according to the European Central Bank’s (ECB).
The report says that the precious metal accounted for approximately 27% of global official reserve assets at the end of 2025, compared with 22% for US Treasuries.
This marks an important change in the composition of international reserves and highlights evolving perceptions of risk, security, and monetary stability in an increasingly fragmented geopolitical environment.”
V
Washington's economic war on Iran and its 'shadow' banking network continues, as on Friday Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the US has seized $1 billion in Iranian cryptocurrency assets as part of the economic component of President Trump's Operation Epic Fury.
V
“Donald Trump has nominated Scott Bessent to lead the US Treasury Department, one of the most influential roles in government with wide oversight of tax policy, public debt, international finance and sanctions.
Bessent, a Wall Street financier who once worked for George Soros.”
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The world’s monetary system is in a state of flux that has the potential to cause some serious political and economic turmoil.
With U.S. debt approaching $40 trillion and a former Soros operative bragging about stealing the savings of individuals who had the misfortune of being born in the wrong country, it’s hardly surprising no one wants to touch U.S. Treasury bonds.
When the music stops playing there is going to be an economic fallout that is going to be very painful indeed.