https://politicom.com.au/stealing-your-money-wasting-it-on-things-you-dont-want/Stealing your money & wasting it on things you don’t want
Posted on : 05/05/2026- by Paul Collits
As of April 29, 2026, Australian headline inflation rose to 4.6 per cent in the 12 months to March 2026, up from 3.7 per cent in February, driven by high housing (6.5%), transport (+8.9%) and fuel costs.
While headline inflation surged, the Reserve Bank’s preferred trimmed mean (underlying) inflation held steady at 3.3 per cent for March.
Stealing your money and then spending it on things that you don’t want or need, or that you believe to be morally reprehensible or economically vandalous (and scandalous), is especially abhorrent.
What about spending your money on things they said they wouldn’t spend it on? Or happened not to mention when we were voting last? What kind of a mandate is that?
And what about spending it on projects that the Government says will cost $2 b (Snowy 2.0, Malcolm?) but turn out to cost over $40b?
Then there is the high-speed rail scam, apparently coming in 2028 (the starting date for construction) – $90 billion on current estimates. We know the final cost will be many times this.
The NDIS, which everybody knows is a scam, is ticking over at $50b smackers this year.
Costs are expected to reach $58b by 2028 and potentially $100b by 2034–35 without reforms.
We won’t mention the trillion on net-zero and the renewables scam. Or the COVID trillion.
Can anyone name even one of these rorts that was subject to an election debate? Oh, and we won’t mention all the pork barrelling for “local communities”, none of whom ever had the chance of a local plebiscite to determine if they even wanted the mini white elephants duly provided to them.