Shockingly predictable.

Is the truth out? The BoJ 🇯🇵 just turned the world’s favourite funding currency into something resembling a real bond market again. Now that tugs on liquidity everywhere else and the broader implications are very real. Mortgages will come under pressure in Australia in 2026 and I’ll hazard to say we are near the top of our property pricing.

Our guns aren’t the problem in Australia. Cultural compatibility is ✝️🇦🇺🌱

Thank you Chris Picton MP It’s the right call. This is Australia 🇦🇺 and we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on December 25th ✝️ @AustralianLabor

Do we want to address hospital ramping in South Australia in 2026? Then vote LCSA Party in March. Even with conservative figures; Legalising and regulating adult-use cannabis in Australia would unlock around a billion dollars in annual tax revenue. This is currently going straight to organised crime. Fixing ambulance ramping in South Australia will cost about the same: around a billion dollars a year to expand hospital capacity, boost our clinical workforce and ensure that emergency care is fast, safe, available when in demand and humane. This is what government is meant to be about: balancing the needs of the community for the greatest good. If we make the mature choice to pursue a regulated cannabis market, we get the funds we need to fix emergency health care. If we choose prohibition, we keep paying for ramping with our health, our time and our lives. Whilst funding organisationed crime at the same time. Legal cannabis can fund real care 🪴

It’s nice to see South Australians finally laying ahold of what the labor party is, a front for communists and socialists.

“Australia has a significant illegal gun problem, with the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) conservatively estimating over 260,000 illicit firearms in circulation, though some experts believe the real number, based on global ratios, could reach 300,000 to 800,000, with stolen legal guns being a major source. These weapons are trafficked by organized crime, gangs, and terrorists, with theft of licensed firearms being the primary way they enter the black market, making access relatively easy for criminals” So a gun buy back, only affects legal and responsible owners! There’s little point. Credit: United Voice Australia 🇦🇺

Australia 🇦🇺 must absolutely take antisemitism seriously, especially in a moment where Jewish Australians are rightly fearful. But we make a grave mistake if we allow what is legitimate concern to morph and become the justification for broad, vague and easily expandable hate-speech powers. History shows that once governments are handed the legal tools to police expression, the scope of what counts as “prohibited speech” tends to widen, first slowly, then rapidly. My worry for Australia is simple: if these laws can be used to suppress antisemitism today, they can just as easily be turned on any other group, belief, political movement, or ideological minority tomorrow. A law powerful enough to silence bad ideas is powerful enough to silence good ones. We need only to look at horror show the UK 🇬🇧 has become. We can should not go down a similar road here.

What a hideously inappropriate and incompetent response. Quite typical sadly of these horrible @AustralianLabor government. The idea that a gun buyback will make Australians safer is childish wishful thinking dressed up as policy. Criminals and terrorists don’t line up to hand in weapons, so the only people disarmed are those already doing the right thing. We end up with a worse ratio: fewer firearms held by law-abiding citizens and no meaningful impact on those who intend harm. We’ve tried symbolic gestures before. They don’t make families safer, they just make nice sounding news headlines. Real safety requires confronting the hard issues: extremist networks, ideological violence, policing failures and our border integrity. Feel-good confiscation schemes are pointless. It’s immature politics to pretend otherwise. Australia deserves honesty and competence in public safety, not theatre. People’s lives matters too much 🇦🇺

I wrote to my council sharing my thoughts on having three flags instead of just the Australian 🇦🇺 one. This was their response.

Same gun. One is a murderer. One is hero. It’s not about the guns.

FYI everyone in light of announcements made today by Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese: Right-wing extremist movements in Australia On 7 December 2023, the Senate referred an inquiry into right-wing extremist movements in Australia to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report by 6 December 2024. The inquiry examined the nature and extent of right-wing extremist movements in Australia, including the threat they pose, links with international movements, how individuals radicalise, the role of the online environment, and measures to counter violent extremism, particularly among young people. For anyone interested, the full Committee report (December 2024) can be read here: 👉 Report - Right-wing extremist movements in Australia (Parliament of Australia) –

Right wing extremist movements in Australia

Report

Key recommendations of the Committee The report made several practical recommendations for reducing the threat of extremism: 1. Periodic evaluation of Australia’s deradicalisation and counter-violent extremism programs, involving experts, law enforcement and researchers. 2. Develop a national engagement framework for young people to help them identify and resist extremist ideologies and participate positively in their communities. 3. Fund research into extremist activity online, including on social media, gaming and gaming-adjacent platforms, to understand how these environments are used for recruitment and propaganda. 4. The eSafety Commissioner should work with stakeholders to create best practice guidelines ensuring transparent and independent monitoring of how social media platforms enforce policies to remove extremist content. 5. The government should consider legislation to allow law enforcement and intelligence to access encrypted communications with a warrant where national security threats exist. 6. Adopt a nationally consistent definition of hate crimes and consider establishing a national hate crimes database. Political & public debate • Some members - including Senator Mehreen Faruqi (Greens) - argued the report didn’t sufficiently address racism and white supremacy at the core of far-right extremism and recommended additional measures grounded in anti-racism and community engagement. Worthy of looking over.

Jerusalem in the late 1300’s ⛪️☪️✡️

It’s definitely the gun laws.

Our politicians are particularly stupid in Australia 🇦🇺 sadly.

When you inexplicably expand the currency by 80%, it’s no coincidence that the price of the thing most exposed to money creation; houses, rises by roughly the same amount 🏘️ #AssestInflation

The key driver in the market today is the yen carry trade unwinding, which is pushing USD/JPY and AUD/JPY lower, weakening AUD/USD, tightening liquidity conditions and feeding directly into bond volatility and Bitcoin’s extreme leverage washouts. This isn’t a central-bank-story, it’s a liquidity-plumbing day, where funding flows are dictating price action across bonds, FX and crypto. As yen-funded positions close, capital flees risk, Treasury demand rises, yields chop, spreads widen and the AUD takes heat. Bitcoin’s wild intraday swings were simply the liquidity pressure valve opening as positions liquidated on both sides. For Australia, the implications are very real and very serious: even if yields soften, mortgage rates and the cost-of-living pressures in 2026 are unlikely to improve because spreads and risk premia rise when liquidity tightens. The yen is setting the tone; tighter liquidity, lower risk appetite, higher refinancing strain and a much more fragile market structure across every asset class.

More “diversity decorations” for Christmas in Australia 🇦🇺 Sydney’s Xmas 🎄 markets are a terror target now that we’ve imported the two thousand year old Abrahamic blood fued to our shores.

What a lie. The cost of living is the biggest concern for people, other than being shot on the beach of course*

Her name was Matilda.