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“Netflix posted $1.47 billion in revenue in Australia in 2025, $1.35 billion of which was sent overseas as “distribution fees” to its parent entities. After its offshore fees, Netflix Australia had $119 million in revenue and $20 million in profit. It paid $16 million in income tax and paid a dividend of $41 million. This allows them to transfer vast amounts of money abroad, very little of which is taxable in Australia. Netflix had an effective local profit margin of 1.4 per cent of its total Australian revenue. “A distribution fee is paid by the company under this agreement, and the operating margin retained by the company is an arm’s length return in accordance with the Netflix Group’s transfer pricing policy,” the accounts say. There is no suggestion of wrongdoing by Netflix.” •••••••••••••• Globalists often talk about tariffs and how bad they are for free trade, but you rarely hear them complain about reverse tariffs whereby multinational companies can send profits offshore at tax rates much lower than onshore tax rates. Netflix has a local operating profit margin of 1.4% while their worldwide operating profit (see accounts in comments) was 28%. Multinationals get away with shifting so much money offshore because of our tax treaties allow them by setting withholding tax rates well below the onshore company tax rate. For example the withholding tax on royalties paid to the U.S. is just 5%. (See link below) Netflix can save 25% in every dollar it transfers offshore. So 25 cents on $1.35 billion transferred offshore is $338 million in lost company tax to Australia. To be fair to Netflix, some of the fees paid offshore should be offset by production costs but not at rate of 98.6% in the dollar. I.e 1.4% margin. is the only party that understands transfer pricing. We will apply a 25% withholding tax on all offshore payments that exceed the operating profit ratio of its worldwide entity.

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The closure of rail services in regional Queensland is just another sad indictment on the state of our nation. While countries in Asia are building high speed rail and nuclear power plants, our governments can’t even keep existing services going with aging rolling stock. There’s money for the Olympics of course, but nothing for the regions that generate our wealth. The closure of the Westlander is particularly harsh because as the Chareville mayor quite rightly points out, regional towns like Chinchilla, Chareville and Cunnamulla were built on the back of rail. It’s not like the government has put money into roads either, with the Bruce and Warrego highways being virtual death traps. This debacle can be traced back to the privatisation of the Queensland rail coal trains back in the early 2000’s under the Bligh government. (Fun fact - Murray Watt was her chief of staff.) These coal trains generated income that was used to fund passenger services. The solution for this is to start funding the construction of infrastructure such as rail to generate income to pay for essential services. is advocating for an Infrastructure bank to fund this construction through domestic bonds rather than foreign debt. We are also advocating to start a military apprenticeship scheme to ensure that our children have the skills to build infrastructure rather than rely on foreign contractors that is being used for Snowy 2. It’s not rocket science - If we want to get our country back on track we have to get back on the tools and start building. No ifs, no buts.

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The taxation regime of gas and oil exploration in this country is not understood which has led to an enormous amount of misinformation. Here are the facts: 1. Oil and gas companies pay 30 cents tax on their profits just like every other company in Australia. That means that Australians already have 30% ownership. 2. Oil and gas companies pay a super profit tax on their profits known as the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. The PRRT has collected very little revenue to date for two reasons a) there has been an enormous amount of capital invested in getting these projects up resulting in large depreciation offsets and b) the gas was foolishly sold forward at very cheap prices when the projects were given the go ahead. A lot of these contracts will roll off over the next decade resulting in larger profits and a larger tax for taxpayers. 3. 70-80% of gas and oil exploration in Australia is unsuccessful. Offshore gas exploration is not a multi million dollar business- it’s a multi billion dollar business. The idea that taxpayers should fund 30% of offshore oil and gas exploration is absurd. The last person to come up with that idea was Gough Whitlam. Needless to say no banks would lend against such a proposition. has always had a policy to abolish the PRRT and replace it with a 5-10% royalty on Sales. Combined with the 30% company tax that will guarantee that Australians share in over 40% of the profits of any offshore oil and gas project. That’s an excellent return given taxpayers incur no risk. I’ve done up a table in comments showing the share Australians will receive based on operating profit margin before tax. David Pocock, the Greens and One Nation are all wrong on this. The formers 25% export tax will wipe out most of the profits made eliminating the incentive to further explore for gas. One Nation offering to fund 30% of exploration costs for mostly foreign owned companies will expose taxpayers to billions of dollars in subsidies with no guarantee of return. Australia desperately needs sensible economic reform. Unfortunately none of the parties in Canberra have a clue how to make this happen.

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Keep your hands off our gold “In the rush to hoard stuff for a rainy day, there’s been scant discussion about the future of our existing mineral stockpile; the 80 tonnes of gold the Reserve Bank of Australia has sitting in vaults. The rapid surge in gold prices means the value of the RBA’s gold has doubled in Australian dollar terms over the past two years and more than tripled over the past seven years. Which makes it a great time to sell those 80 tonnes of gold for just over $18 billion of cash. The analogy extends to physical capital; what’s the point of having a gold stockpile if you never sell it?” ••••••••••••••• The AFR (no doubt acting as a proxy for Treasury) is arguing that Australia should sell its gold. This is a very dangerous thing to do. Some time in the future the U.S. dollar will stop being the world’s reserve currency and there will be reset of the monetary system. It’s highly likely that when this happens the new currency will be backed by gold. Those countries with the largest gold reserves will in the strongest financial position after reset. Gold is an appreciating asset, unlike bonds which depreciate due to inflation. That’s why central banks manipulate the gold price by artificially shorting it via paper contracts on the Comex to prevent individuals from accumulating it. Let’s not forget the U.S. outlawed the possession of gold in 1932 to prop up the paper markets. Articles like this remind us that the world’s financial system is on very shaky ground. Western government debt levels are unsustainable and the bond markets are on very shaky ground. Gold has always been insurance against reckless government spending/borrowing. Rather than sell our gold, the Australian government should be accumulating it. Any attempt by central banks to take our gold needs to be stopped stone cold dead. That includes bringing our gold back home, away from the clutches of the Bank of England.

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The budget failed to deliver significant income tax cuts to offset bracket creep that is devasting family budgets as a result of high inflation. For someone on a wage of $80,000, 4% inflation reduces purchasing power by $3,200 each year. The best Chalmers can do to help hard working Australians, is to offer a measly $275 temporary tax offset. The minimum CGT tax rate of 30% is wrong. Capital gains like any income should be taxed at the marginal rate. Low income earners are going to be hit hard by this measure. I could live with removing the CGT discount provided the extra tax revenue from that measure had been used to offset income tax rather than remove negative gearing. Negative gearing is more effective when income tax rates are high. If tax rates were lowered, then negative gearing would be become a more much ineffective tax strategy. Personally I’ve never been a fan of negative gearing, because you have to spend a $1 to get 47 cents back which leaves you 53 cents worse off in today’s money. There is no substitute for cutting income tax if you want to maintain a strong economy. Immigration is forecast to be 2 million over the next two terms of Parliament which is still too high. Yet again if Labor wants to improve housing affordability, why won’t they lower immigration? Debt levels are forecast to continue to increase which reflects on Labor’s inability to control government spending. People First will cut spending, cut immigration and cut taxes. See how at:

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“Ben Roberts-Smith: John Howard says no one is above the law. ‘I urge every Australian to respect the rule of law, the criminal justice system, and the accused’s right to a presumption of innocence.’ •••••••••••••• John Howard saying this really grinds my gears. He was the politician who sent Australian soldiers off to Iraq and Afghanistan for reasons that essentially turned out to be a pack of lies. Where was Howard when politicians were turning a blind eye to people being injured by the vaccine. Why wasn’t he calling for them to be held to account for their lies. Why doesn’t he hand himself in for sending our troops off to wars that had nothing to do with Australia and causing the unnecessary deaths of Australian soldiers. I strongly urge you to watch the longer version of this clip from around the 18:30 minute mark. The link is attached in comments. Curt Weldon is a former Republican Congressman and Vice Chair of the Armed Services Committee. He had access to the workings of the Intelligence agencies. Needless to say when he called out their corruption he was framed and lost office. Essentially the CIA knew that Bin Laden was in Iran and had cut a deal to ensure they had plausible deniability of his whereabouts. Weldon alleges the CIA were cutting deals for their own profit. If you consider the Iran contra affair this is entirely plausible. The whole shtick about going into Afghanistan to get Bin Laden was a lie, as was the chemical weapons of mass destruction lie. Our soldiers were being used as pawns so that higher powers could protect their interests in the Middle East (oil, money, territory) It also lends weight to General Wesley Clarkes claim about a premeditated plan to overthrow seven countries in the Middle East. If anyone should be on trial it should be our intelligence agencies who are in my view the most dangerous bureaucrats of all, along with gullible politicians like Howard who just repeat deep state propaganda with no scrutiny whatsoever or consideration for the lives of people impacted by their decisions.

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“Women's Minister Katy Gallagher told The Australian this week that all available evidence showed "the sooner you get a child into early education or care, the better" doubling down on Monday to confirm this extended to children from zero to three. Labor is at odds with international experts over its stance on infants up to three years old being "better off" in childcare than with family members, while some parents have condemned the argument as "harmful" and “tone deaf". The criticism follows the government rejecting a proposal for childcare providers to be given more power to terminate staff thought to be posing a risk to those in their care, amid revelations of further abuse against children in the system last month.” ••••••••••••••••••••• Over the last few decades the major parties have undermined the rights of the individual in every aspect of their lives. There’s no greater example of this than childcare. Katy Gallagher is just one of many politicians who ridiculed me for trying to advocate for greater support for parents raising their children at an early age. The government’s insistence that children are “better off” in institutional settings from birth is a transparent attempt to subvert the family unit in favor of state-managed workforce participation. By prioritising economic output over the fundamental, bond between a mother and her child, this administration reveals its true goal: the further centralisation of power and the erosion of parental authority. This is the socialist playbook 101. Get children away from parents so the government can brainwash them to believe in the state over the family. If you want to fight to get your rights back sign up today at

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All tax evasion should be called out. Following up on yesterday’s post in regard to the taxation of offshore Oil and Gas companies it was pointed out that Oil and Gas companies can shift their profits offshore to avoid tax in Australia. That’s 100% correct, but it’s not isolated to just Oil and Gas companies. Offshore profit shifting is rampant amongst all multinationals. Why don’t the Greens or David Pocock have a 25% export tax on all profits sent offshore? Why can Pfizer, Meta etc send billions of dollars offshore to avoid paying tax here in Australia? Why can Australian companies especially banks, offshore jobs to India and the Philippines without paying any withholding tax. Why don’t renewable companies, 70% owned by foreigners have to pay a royalty on our sunlight and water? is the only party to have a policy on profit shifting and is the only party to have consistently raised these issues in estimates and the Senate. We will raise the withholding tax rate on profits transferred to treaty countries to 25% and on interest income paid to all countries to 30%. This will prevent capital from leaving Australia and ensure that profits generated domestically contribute to our economy, rather than being funnelled offshore. Additionally, an operating profit ratio test will be introduced to further strengthen transfer pricing rules and prevent the leakage of profits abroad. If you’re going to call out one industry for tax evasion then call out all companies. Otherwise you’re just demonising the industries you’re trying to destroy.

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“House prices across picturesque coastal and regional Australia could be trashed under an insurance crisis, the prudential regulator has warned. A stress test of Australia's insurers has sounded the alarm on homes exposed to natural catastrophes, with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority declaring banks are likely to stay away from houses that can no longer secure insurance. 40,000 households could lose insurance cover each year over the coming 25 years under a disaster pathway. It would likely leave nearly 1 in 4 Australian homes, or nearly 2.4 million households, with unaffordable insurance pricing, according to APRA. These homes will struggle to attract insurance, with APRA warning this would then result in a decline in banks lending on them and, as a result, a fall in prices. Banks typically require a homebuyer to secure insurance on a property when lending on it.” •••••••••••••••••• It’s bad enough the government has made housing expensive for Australians, but the cost of insurance is also a nightmare that needs to be resolved. The only way to solve this problem is to bring back a government insurance office that will eliminate the cost of reinsurance paid offshore. This will help lower the cost of insurance by up to 50%. People First Party is the only party that has restoring a National Government Insurance Office as a policy. If you would like to help us promote this policy please sign up today at

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