Senator Gerard Rennick

It’s not just a Government Bank we need in this country. We need a Government Insurance Office as well. Insurance companies, like big banks are well and truly ripping people off. I thought the privatisation of State Government Insurance offices was going to lead to greater competition. My latest insurance bill is up by 36%. How exactly is this reasonable? This is just gouging 101 and is more evidence that privatisation only leads to greater concentration of market power, not better services. One of the reasons for the large increase is that a large part of the cost of insurance, up to 40-50%, is the cost of reinsurance. All reinsurance providers are foreign owned and exploit Australia because of its relatively low population spread across a large land mass. If the Government offered its own Insurance, it could just reinsure itself. The Federal Government has already put aside $10 billion for a Reinsurance Pool and $4 billion for a National Emergency fund. Why not use this to underwrite a Government Insurance Office? I’d be keen to hear if other people have faced similar increases on their insurance? (Please go to Facebook to comment here: https://www.facebook.com/100057813140464/posts/886675043269592/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v )

It’s not just a Government Bank we need in this country. We need a Government Insurance Office as well. Insurance companies, like big banks are well and truly ripping people off. I thought the privatisation of State Government Insurance offices was going to lead to greater competition. My latest insurance bill is up by 36%. How exactly is this reasonable? This is just gouging 101 and is more evidence that privatisation only leads to greater concentration of market power, not better services. One of the reasons for the large increase is that a large part of the cost of insurance, up to 40-50%, is the cost of reinsurance. All reinsurance providers are foreign owned and exploit Australia because of its relatively low population spread across a large land mass. If the Government offered its own Insurance, it could just reinsure itself. The Federal Government has already put aside $10 billion for a Reinsurance Pool and $4 billion for a National Emergency fund. Why not use this to underwrite a Government Insurance Office? I’d be keen to hear if other people have faced similar increases on their insurance? (Please go to Facebook to comment here: https://www.facebook.com/100057813140464/posts/886675043269592/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v)

It’s not just a Government Bank we need in this country. We need a Government Insurance Office as well. Insurance companies, like big banks are well and truly ripping people off. I thought the privatisation of State Government Insurance offices was going to lead to greater competition. My latest insurance bill is up by 36%. How exactly is this reasonable? This is just gouging 101 and is more evidence that privatisation only leads to greater concentration of market power, not better services. One of the reasons for the large increase is that a large part of the cost of insurance, up to 40-50%, is the cost of reinsurance. All reinsurance providers are foreign owned and exploit Australia because of its relatively low population spread across a large land mass. If the Government offered its own Insurance, it could just reinsure itself. The Federal Government has already put aside $10 billion for a Reinsurance Pool and $4 billion for a National Emergency fund. Why not use this to underwrite a Government Insurance Office? I’d be keen to hear if other people have faced similar increases on their insurance? (Please go to Facebook to comment here: https://www.facebook.com/100057813140464/posts/886675043269592/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v)

“The Albanese government will struggle to meet its “aggressive” emissions reduction targets, while industry faces hurdles to delivering the energy transition because of delays in building transmission lines, flatlining uptake of electric vehicles, rising costs and a shift in community attitudes, senior business leaders warn.” and “Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has walked away from Labor’s target to have 89 per cent of new car sales electric by 2030, casting doubt on the government’s green agenda.” Sooner or later reality hits everyone in the face. The idea that we are moving to an economy powered by renewables is just a fantasy.

“The main stream media (MSM) in Europe and the US is deathly silent as a court determines the PCR test legally useless to test for Covid. The Landmark legal ruling finds that Covid tests are not fit for purpose. So what does the MSM do? They ignore it. Four German holidaymakers who were illegally quarantined in Portugal after one was judged to be positive for Covid-19 have won their case, in a verdict that condemns the widely-used PCR test as being up to 97-percent unreliable. Earlier this month, Portuguese judges upheld a decision from a lower court that found the forced quarantine of four holidaymakers to be unlawful. The case centered on the reliability (or lack thereof) of Covid-19 PCR tests. The conclusion of their 34-page ruling included the following: “In view of current scientific evidence, this test shows itself to be unable to determine beyond reasonable doubt that such positivity corresponds, in fact, to the infection of a person by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.” In the eyes of this court, then, a positive test does not correspond to a Covid case. The two most important reasons for this, said the judges, are that, “the test’s reliability depends on the number of cycles used’’ and that “the test’s reliability depends on the viral load present.’’ In other words, there are simply too many unknowns surrounding PCR testing. Earlier this year, data from three US states – New York, Nevada and Massachusetts – showed that when the amount of the virus found in a person was taken into account, up to 90 percent of people who tested positive could actually have been negative, as they may have been carrying only tiny amounts of the virus. The Portuguese judges cited a study conducted by “some of the leading European and world specialists,” which was published by Oxford Academic at the end of September. It showed that if someone tested positive for Covid at a cycle threshold of 35 or higher, the chances of that person actually being infected is less than three percent, and that “the probability of… receiving a false positive is 97% or higher.”” The cycle threshold used in Australia was 40. Obviously useless in terms of accuracy but very useful for locking people down. However that’s just the tip of the iceberg. I’ve asked the TGA on numerous occasions for the primers (the genetic sequence) used in the PCR tests and they claim it’s commercial in confidence. It beggars belief that people could have been quarantined on such a flimsy diagnostic tool, yet when it comes to enforcing government overreach, evidence is the last thing that matters. And let’s not forget the censorship about PCR tests throughout Covid. Anyone that dared question their accuracy was immediately banned from Facebook. I know because one of my posts questioning their accuracy was pulled down and I was banned from posting. https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/msm-silent-as-court-holds-pcr-covid-tests-97-inaccurate-unfit-for-purpose?s=09

“Albanese's $10bn affordable housing fund for low-income families paid more than $24m to external consultants and $6m in annual executive salaries last year, despite not having yet delivered a single completed house under the scheme. With Labor under pressure to deliver on its election pledge to build 40,000 social and affordable houses within five years, documents reveal that Housing Australia paid out more than $16m for legal, IT and “advisory" contracts last year. This was on top of more than $7m in the six months prior spent by Housing Australia which also pays its CEO a salary almost equal that of the Prime Minister at $560,000 a year. The documents reveal that 19 staff are employed by the agency on salaries of more than $300,000 a year including five whose remuneration is above $400,000 a year. The top paid executive, CEO Nathan Dal Bon is paid a total package of $557,000 a year. Mr Albanese's total package is $587,000a year.” Government in a nutshell. Too many chiefs, not enough Indians.

Pride month: Things I’m proud of Australia Australians The ADF Farmers Small Businesses Front line service workers People who try hard. Even if they don’t succeed People who fight hard for decency, fairness, integrity People who work hard at low level jobs, as a tool to get ahead My family

“Yoga instructors, martial artists and dog handlers have beaten some construction trades to a spot on the nation’s draft priority skills list for migrants, despite the dire need for workers to tackle the nation’s housing crisis.” This ☝️is why we have a productivity crisis. Walking the dog, martial arts and doing yoga are not jobs. They are recreational activities that should not be on any “working” visa list. Quote from: https://amp.smh.com.au/politics/federal/yoga-teachers-make-draft-core-skills-visa-list-but-not-tradies-20240531-p5jido.html #auspol