We need our coal and gas otherwise very soon we will be living without power for electricity cooking fans what the hell is happening in Australia

and that was with a full sunny day

Labour is stopping Australians from using coal and gas but will continue to mine/drill these, allow foreign owners to sell to other countries that are increasing the number of coal powered electricity plants. Very little money comes back to Australians from the sale...Criminal..

Is this including roof top solar panels?

Sounds like Steven Miles. Runs outta juice by about 1pm.

Under Labor new green policies QLD would be having blackouts. Get ready

Australia going back to the cave man time, well done labor, greens and teals

Cut power off from people who voted for the Greens first.

This peanut Chris Bowen must not only be removed but investigated for criminal involvement in failed policy. Seriously you couldn't be that stupid without being bankrolled to do it! Is treason a crime in Australia?

I would like to know the figures for 1 o'clock in the morning😂

There's nothing green, about going green !

And at 1pm today, I was running entirely on my solar panels. My battery was being charged as well. It's been over a month since I used any power from the grid. That means that Roberts bosses aren't getting any income from me. And that's the real reason why Roberts posts this sort of bullshit.

Iff its not broken and it still works wouldn't the government spend less money on cleaning up the coal power stations that are more beneficial and help Australia have cleaner oxygen with the Trees sucking in the CO2

Protect coal and gas. Reject these eco fools destroying our western world.

But I bet bowen and albosleazy will be telling everyone that their renewables crap is doing 70% of the work.

I use this one www.nem-watch.info/widgets/reneweconomy/ And pretty much every day in summer it's 2/3rds solar in Qld.

oh malcom you only need power for light. if you ain’t got wood. rest shit crap

The whole UN climate agenda to transfer the wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich. Nothing else. After the transfer. Oops that didn't work. Then further transfer in demolishing and rehabilitation. Get enough goons on board with the cult and bingo. Just imagine what could have been done for people with those trillions of dollars.

there is a terrorist leaning, united nations agenda to bring down the west

what is one nations proposal for those who don't have enough savings to live of at retirement age,re pension increases etc.

Not enough. Charge more tax on international companies. Reduce tax on local companies. Remove income tax completely. Use our own resources for ourselves first. Heavily reduce federal employees. You don’t need that many. Argentina has proven this and the USA is also about to

Tax is voluntary anyway educate your selves

Should be no tax on working Aussies Coal royalties Gas royalties Copper royalties Uranium royalties Ore royalties It's a absolute joke with how much government is getting

This should be for all pensioners better still pensioners working should not pay any tax .

Fill out a tax withholding form 3093 and stop paying personal income tax to criminals after all it is voluntary if you didn’t know !

General tax free threshold should go to about 40-50k. Inflation has made the current level look like peanuts; All whilst increased GST keeps rolling in. Solve the living costs issue (assisting the lower grades) with a stroke of a pen, instead of govt handouts. A lot of votes there.

Remove personal income tax and put the gst up Senator Malcolm Roberts more incentive to work overtime (or work!) and that includes us pensioners who don’t work now as the pension is added to taxable income and we get taxed on the total

Also working Australians should have tax feee threshold doubled as they have to spend money to go to work which none of these costs are deductible

Even if that doesnt pass, i would suggest opening a trust fund with the money earner being the trustee and the wife being a beneficiary, pay half the wage into trust fund and pay the benificiary (wife) the half out of the trust fund. Trustee only pays tax on his portion and beificiary pays tax on their portion. Both entitled to the $18,200.00 tax free threshold. And mabey teach stuff like that in schools instead of the diversity crap

You are only rewarding government employees. They are the only ones who can afford to sell fund, everyone else will need a part pension.

They are still tax payers through the goods and services they use and buy. This should be the threshold, in fact the threshold should be $70k for retirees on a pension (they’ve suffered enough tax indignity throughout their lives) so they can still work if they want and be producers not just consumers. Those self funded retirees should have a threshold of a $100k for being even less of a consumer and still being a producer.

Should abolish tax all together. GST is enough. Take a leaf out of Trumps book. Golden age of Australia should be where we go. Bring back home ownership affordability buy stopping foreign ownership of our natural resources. Dig up and process and build here. No taxes on things we own

Why tax self funded retirees at all,haven't they paid enough tax already,they were smart to put something away for retirement and the government still want to take take take. They got taxed while they worked paid fees as their super grew the taxed again in retirement. That's just fucked.🫡

One thing that would benifit the working class, to lower the pension age. We work all our lives to live a year or two.

Tax wage/salary splitting should be for any married couple, not just those with children, that would then be fair. Otherwise as it is Us without children pay for others children. We have raised 8 in the yrs where there wasn’t any real form of government support for children! We paid our share towards looking after our own kids..why do we now have to pay for everyone else’s, it was their choice. Not ours.

What about T&PI Veterans, will they also be included as SELF FUNDED retirees?

Taxation in just theft,with all the revenue collected this country shouldn't be in deficit.

True John Logic but the DFRDB payment is

The majority of retirees have their money in SMSF or industrial or commercial funds, which are tax-free in the retirement phase.

ON has a lot of Gonna Do but little achievement

The Bill has been dropped on $3 million super accounts. But do you benefit .The Bill to change the tax on Superfund who have >$3 million during the accumulation phase. The tax only applies to the amounts above $3 million. How many individuals on this page will retirement, and end up with a tax-free super account of > $3 million, which comfortably translates to a tax-free pension $240,000 a year and if they are smart $300,000 a year. Or if you have 10 million can give you a tax-free income of $1 million a year.

Brilliant

Nick Minchin on the Tony Jones ABC TV Program Q & A 11/09/2008 stated quite clearly that funds were not, have not and are not collected and held in a bank account waiting for the government to pay it out in the form of the Old Age Pension, or words that meant, “exactly that.” As an ex Australian Federal Government finance Minister, now shadow defence minister, this man knows that his statement on that television program, was a blatant lie (and he said it with a look of such sincerity on his face). Well, it certainly was collected and it amassed such huge amounts that this government and those preceding couldn’t help themselves. Without any right, they plundered it and spent billions of it over the years. This was money earned by the people themselves through hard work and often deprivation (as a legislated obligation, part thereof was collected by the Tax Department for this very purpose). To this day this money is collected as a tax which originally, specifically, and intentionally was to fund, “the Aged Pension.” To dispel misinformation from Party Politicians and their spin doctors, here are some historical facts that every Australian (especially the young who are under the miss-guided belief and/or assumption that they are funding the Aged Pension from their current hard work) should know. The young are in fact funding their own Pension Fund and to add insult to injury they are forced to pay into a super fund. 1939 - 1945 World War II 1942 - 1943 As a Wartime measure, the Federal Government gained sole control over Australian Income Tax. Labor Prime minister (Ben Chifley) introduced three bills to establish the National Welfare Fund, to be financed by a Compulsory Contribution (levy) of one and sixpence in the Pound (20/-) on all personal income. Opposition Leader (Robert Menzies) stated that the Compulsory Contribution (levy) should be kept completely separate from other government income streams, that it should be shown separately on the Taxation Assessment and paid straight into a “TRUST” account, and not mixed with the General Revenue. Menzies said “The stigma of charity should be removed from the Age Pension.” and that “It should be an entitlement earned by the person’s personal contribution to the fund.” 1946 Prime Minister Chifley agreed and established The National Welfare fund as at 1/1/1946. A “Trust” Fund with the Parliament as “Trustee.” The Compulsory Contributions (levy) commenced as at 1st January 1946. It was shown separately on the personal Tax Assessments for 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1950 and the compulsory levy was properly paid straight into the Special “Trust” fund and Welfare claims were paid out of the fund. The balance in the fund in 1950 was almost 100 million pounds. 1949 Robert Menzies became Prime Minister and he introduced Bills to amend the acts governing the National Welfare Funds. The Compulsory Contributions (levy) was then grouped with the Taxation Assessment and appeared as one amount on the Taxation assessments and was paid as one amount straight into the Consolidated Revenue Account. The sabotageof the National Welfare Fund had commenced. The Opposition Labor Party had collaborated in this sabotage by remaining silent instead of opposing Menzies’ action. 1951 - 1985 The compulsory levy of 7.5% now included in the tax continued to be collected and placed in the Consolidated Revenue Account treated as General Revenue and spent, until 1985. 1974 – 1975 Labor Prime Minister (Gough Whitlam) abolished income test for all persons 70 years of age and over and paid pensions to all people over that age. 1975 Liberal Prime Minister (Malcolm Fraser) cancelled the Whitlam legislation. 1977 Liberal Prime Minister (Malcolm Fraser with Treasurer Philip Lynch) transferred the balance in the Welfare Fund Account (approximately $470,000,000) to Consolidated Revenue Account. 1985 Australian Labor Government repealed acts No. 39, 40 and 41 of 1945 (The National Welfare Fund Acts). Thus the funds finally ceased to exist yet the 7.5% levy continued to be collected as a proportion of the Income Tax revenue. It also introduced the (much maligned) Income and Asset Tests, thereby excluding millions of levy and tax paying Australians from receiving Social Services Pensions. This money these self funded contributions paid as a percentage of the total income tax collections are today worth far more than the amount of means tested pensions paid out. Actuaries have calculated the non-means tested entitlement due to each retiree, today is in excess of $500 per week. This surely debunks the politician’s claim that the generation are paying a proportion of their current taxes to cover the payments made to pensioners. The obvious short fall has been swallowed by the Government’s Taxation black hole. The historical summary above highlights the fact that politicians of opposing political parties each contributed to the agenda to destroy the entitlement as it was intended. Why? They had no mandate to do so, it clearly was not and is not the will of the people. While Party Politicians on both sides are controlled by a few people who are hidden from public view yet are open to manipulation and outright corruption, there can be no certainty of the payment of pensions. Only a majority of truly Independent representatives can bring about a change from Government under corporate control, to Government for the People, of the People, by the People. Just because a cabal of political miscreants become so greedy that they change the way a tax looks in the Ledgers, IN NO WAY REMOVES THE FACT THAT THIS TAX IS STILL COLLECTED TO THIS DAY TO PROVIDE FOR THE SUPPLY AND CONTINUATION OF THE OLD AGE PENSION - A STIPEND TO THE ELDERLY CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY WHO HAVE WORKED FOR DECADES OF THEIR LIVES TO BUILD A NATION AND HAVE FROM WORKING DAY ONE OF THEIR LIVES, BEEN PAYING 7% PLUS OF THEIR TAXES DIRECTLY TOWARDS THIS PENSION. The old age pension is not a privilege: Is not a right. Is not a gift. Is not even welfare. The Old Age Pension is an asset owned and accrued by each Australian Citizen who has funded this asset from their very own purse. The governments of the day were employed to amass, secure, invest and manage a fund that in its first 5 years bulged to almost £100,000,000, an amount that today would be worth approximately $240 million. They did amass, secure, invest and manage - and the figures were colossal and frightening to them and hence they conspired to hide them back into the consolidated Revenue bucket and to this day, that bucket has been brimming with a 7.5% tax collected specifically and only, for the Old Age Pension. No, young Australians, you are not paying for the welfare of Baby boomers, you are paying for yourselves, new immigrants, the needy in society requiring social services and welfare, dole recipients and the bludgers, BUT YOU ARE NOT PAYING FOR THE OLD AGE PENSION OF ELDERLY AUSTRALIANS WHO HAVE WORKED ALL THEIR LIVES IN THIS COUNTRY AND PAID THEIR FAIR SHARE OF TAXES

Why discriminate? There are self funded retirees who are younger than 67 who are not eligible for Centrelink who still struggle with the cost of living. Raise the threshold for everyone like Senator Gerard Rennick Raising the threshold for low income earners means they can spend more of their money and generate more gst Self funded 67 year olds most likely already have arrangements in place to reduce their tax and have little need to spend money so they reinvest it which takes it out of the economy. So this is really a non policy which may only benefit a handful of people.