Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "9 News Australia" channel.

  1. It'll be great when Albo gets downgraded to ex-PM albo.
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  2. Stop airing ads as if they're news. These segments should have to have a disclaimer that there's a financial arrangement between 9 and coles that caused the piece to happen. Coles aren't putting prices down as a result of the ACCC case. They're doing their standard, annual, pretend easter sale that isn't a real sale.
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  3. It's just a thunderstorm. It did what cyclones do and lost all its energy when it hit the coastline. Who is going to pay for all the lost revenue and lost productivity?
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  4. What is Chalmers talking about. There was already a massive hole in the budget. He's trying to blame it on a typical storm that wasn't even a cyclone by the time it hit. The response to which was a complete joke. He's mismanaged the budget for 4 yesrs, that's what's happened. LNP won't do any better. They're both two sides of the same coin.
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  5. Neither of these blokes should be PM. They both represent the same outcomes. It's the illusion of choice without actually providing any.
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  6. On the contrary, it's doing exactly what it was designed to do. Push up prices to ever greater heights so the politicians, all of whom are massive real estate investors, can grow their personal networths.
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  7. FNQ represents ~$43Bn in annual revenues from a population of ~378K people collectively across the whole of FNQ. SEQ represents ~$570Bn in annual revenues from ~4.3M people combined. FNQ has building codes that require buildings to account for cyclones. SEQ does not. FNQ has cyclones regularly, SEQ does not. It's just a whole different scale. Complaining about the coverage of it, is like complaining about news coverage of a regional spike in crime because you getting broken into 6 months prior in an area with low crime wasn't covered. FNQ gets coverage, but small population zones with low economic output are obviously not going to be covered in the same way large population centres with high economic output will.
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  8. Chalmers is the worst treasurer in living memory, he is not a competent person. I wouldn't trust him with a weekly allowance let alone the national budget.
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  9. Right.
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  10. The move from the RBA setting interest rates to a political committee isn't about interest rates coming down. It's about removing fiscal independence of these policies and allowing the government of the day to control these things for political points. Everyone should be alarmed by this, but they're not because you failed to set the tone. All of those housing prices are outside the budget of most Australians. Presenting housing price increases as a good thing is dystopian.
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  11. 🫰 it doesn't get to cat 3
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  12. 3:58 This IGA guy has no clue. CPI Inflation coming down just SLOWS the increase of prices. Pdices going down is DEFLATION AKA negative CPI inflation, and we have zero chance of that. We're about to get a new hit of inflation in July in response to Ukraine cutting off Russian gas transits raising the global price, and thus our price here because we have no reserve. We literally buy our own resources back at market prices. The renewables junk is also making energy more expensive. When energy is more expensive, all consumer goods and services are more expensive because the costs go up. Energy policy is the heartbeat of economic outcomes. If we want cheaper prices we need to make energy cheaper. We could do that by returning to coal, implementing national reserves on resources to stabilise energy prices cheap, removing LPG bans and building on shore refineries which also increase our overall GDP through value added goods exports. But we won't do that because their donors would lose profits. AEMO literally recommended a national reserve in 2022 and Albo said no because Shell was angry at that idea. We're the ONLY country on the planet without a national reserve. We also should have royalties going into a sovereign wealth fund for our future.
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  13. There is nothing unusual about a cyclone this far south. It's part of our standard 10 year cycle of fire and flood. We're in the el nino part of the cycle now, so we get cyclones sometimes. It's expected for this part of the world during this part of the cycle. We should expect to another before 2028. This is standard fair and why storm season is advertised for preparedness the way it is. Try to pay attention Charles.
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  14. He left.
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  15. Why is this a news story? Who uses cash these days? 96% of Australians don't. The design of this note is completely and utterly irrelevant to the overwhelming majority of Australians. The current $5 note has the same artwork. They replaced our OLD monarch who is dead, with parliament house. Stop trying to stoke division.
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  16. Do you ever do videos that aren't ads? What happened to doing actual journalism? Why even call it 9news anymore, there's no news content. Just call it 9's wacky informercial hour or somesuch.
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  17. @Aaronwhatnow  False. They even told you in this news story that there have been 3 occasions in the last 30 years. This is a well established part of our weather system that's been around for centuries.
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  18. Alfred is a cat 0 because it isn't a cyclone and hasn't been since it reached the coastline.
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  19. They promised my power bill would go down by $250 if we elected them the first time. But it's only gone up, up, up, and so has everything else. No to Labor, they aren't competent.
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  20. FNQ represents ~$43Bn in economic output pa and has a combined population of ~378K people, most of whom have been through a Cat 2 cyclone in their cyclone construction housing. SEQ represents ~$570Bn in economic output with a combined population of ~4.02M people, where Cat 2 cyclones are rare and housing is not rated for them. Gee, I wonder why TC Alfred might be a significantly bigger deal than anything that hits FNQ. It isn't at all that FNQ doesn't matter, it's just a scale issue.
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  21. This is a political ad. The scheme is buying a house with the government as a co-owner. You never fully own the property. The scheme is just designed to create artificial demand and thus push prices up further. We need prices to go down to actually fix the system, but the politicians won't do that because they're all real estate investors. ALL of them. It's a rigged, corrupt system. We can fix it if we vote for independents at the next election.
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  22. Alfred hasn't existed since 6am. It's now just a normal thunderstorm.
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  23.  @AnimationNotEpic2  Not really. All that panic about nothing cost the state hundreds of millions in productivity.
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  24. Chalmers is the worst treasurer in living memory. He has absolutely no concept of how the economy works outside of what his team tell him to say. He isn't a competent human being let alone treasurer. I hope you will consider voting for an independent at this coming election. If we can get 38 independents into the house of reps out of 151 seats, we can force the crossbench to hold the balance of power, pulling power away from party HQs and back into the electorates where it belongs. 38 independents breaks the major party monopoly and scuttles foreign interference. We'll get Australia back if we achieve it.
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  25. This event has created complacency. Trying to save face by continuing to pretend it's bigger than it actually was is only furthering the degradation of your credibility. Senior heads need to roll for this empty panic that cost the state millions of tax revenues in preparations, hundreds of millioms in lost productivity, millions in lost wages, all that undue stress, all the people whose elective surgeries were cancelled, and BOM said at the conference with Albo this morning they knew on Wednesday, Wednesday! when it slowed down that it was going to turn into a tropical low before it hit any population centres. But instead they not only continued with the panic, but they hyped it further by claiming it might be a Cat 3 which they knew was never a possibility. The people at BOM and in government who made the decisions to not pull back the alert and downgrade everything need to go.
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  26. It's a red herring. Look at the birdie. Look at the birdie. Pay no attention to the fact they're attacking Yemen for controlling the passage of Israeli ships through YEMENI WATERS. Imagine if Russia went to war with Australia because we shadowed the Chinese vessel traversing our waters. Imagine if Columbia went to war with yankville because their coast guard turned away smugglers. Remember, Trump campaigned on no new wars and on peace. But instead he's started new wars and is talking about starting WW3 by going up against Iran, which has security packs with Russia, China and Turkey. These messages were on purpose. It's just a distraction.
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  27. You couldn't pay me to drive an EV. I'm not interested in driving an iPhone. EV sales are down, stop spreading misinformation. No one wants them they're junk.
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  28. What was the point of this video? It literally went nowhere.
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  29. Wake up Australia, all our politicians are corrupt. The laws serve them, their party donors and their mates. Not you. Remember, changes to election laws which come into effect after this election and you can read about from AEC, will make this election the last free and fair one in Australia. The major parties are rigging the game further. If you want to turn Australia around vote independent at the next election. If we can get just 38 seats to independents out of 151, that would change the balance of power. It would pull it out of the hands of the party elites and their donors, and put it back in the hands of us, the electorates where it belongs. Help keep these crooks honest. Vote for an independent candidate.
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  30. There isn't one, and isn't going to be one. As of 6am Alfred was downgraded by BOM to a tropical low. It's no longer a cyclone of any category. It's just a standard thunderstorm.
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  31. I've got a bridge to sell you. Great investment. Will triple your money, sure thing. You can't be mad if it doesn't though, because you'd have been mad if I didn't tell you about this bridge opportunity and it had made money...right? Of course no one wanted to get hurt. But no one wanted to lose our local economy hundreds of millions of dollars either, including hundreds of thousands of people with lost wages. No one wanted the stress or panic. No one wanted to be stuck inside for 3 days, queue for needless sandbags or make mad dashes to secure their yards or stockpile 7 days of tinned food for what turned out to be a bit of a drizzle, maybe a thunderstorm later today. Those people without power btw that couldn't have power restored because it's too dangerous, they suffered further material loss. How many people on life critical systems do you think were impacted out of 240K people, and have had a response to their electricity restoration delayed by a standard thunderstorm that energex work in safely every other week during QLD summers? This annoyance with the outcome is justified.
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  32. The budget hasn't been release and won't be until tonight. This video was a waste of time. The budget doesn't really matter because Chalmers won't be treasurer after the election and whoever is won't want to stick with his budget anyway because he's the worst treasurer in living memory. He took a surplus with a 10 year growth plan and turned it into 40 years of predicted economic decline.
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  33. Wtf does he mean most of the trade goes from here to there? What does Australia manufacture that China buys? What's that, nothing? Great, we sell them our minerals and resources. But they then turn around and sell them back to us. Almost everything here is made in China. China are trying to make a point, we shouldn't be trying to impose trade sanctions or tariffs. We should be responding with an acknowledgement of the point they're trying to make about the south China sea, but reassert to them that we do not recognise their claim over the 9 points, so it isn't the same thing. That we view our operations in the south china sea in the same light as if China had conducted these exercises in international waters off malayasia instead of in the tasman. We need a clear, strong leader to impress upon the chinese that we will never recognise the 9 points so long as the courts maintain that under international law that territory isn't china's and no amount of building fake islands will change that. Unfortunately our only options are Albo, Wong or weakest of them all Marles. Little chance of that changing with LNP, Dutton isn't exactly any stronger.
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  34. Are you a bot or a parrot?
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  35. No it isn't. Socialists are the worst
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  36. This is because of EU energy decisions back in February, get it right. This wouldn't be happening if we had national reserves on our resources
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  37. I guess nothing happened today if a lost dog is making the news and they have so much time to invest in it they can embed all these sad puns...
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  38. So they're complaining they have to pay the news outlets for the content they steal? Really? 😂 We could always just ban them from our market, that sounds a better solution for everyone.
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  39. Putin understands the game they're trying to play. They're trying to force an excuse to keep the war going now and blame it on him. What a joke. Guess there just won't be a Ukraine left by the end of this.
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  40. It's never coming. They're just pushing up energy costs
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  41. Just another empty headline grabber that won't come to pass. He hasn't even said he'd hold such a referendum, he's just said sure I'd consider it. Complete waste of time. This brain fart is only being covered by the media because they want a specific electoral outcome the uniparty has decided. Where has Australia gone, eaten up by yankville.
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  42. Yankville cannot compete. That's the long and short of it. We should be more worried about falling exports than any nonsense about tariffs. Tariffs don't matter if your exports are falling.
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  43. A once off $150 from your power bill will INCREASE future power bills. That's how this game is played, the more direcr relief the government provide the higher power bills will go. If the government ACTUALLY wanted to fix your power bill they would force Chris Bowen to tear up our resources contracts and renegotiate them with a national reserve in place. Like WA have. The minister can do this on his own authority, it does not require an act of parliament. This would provide an immediate and lasting relief to power bills, reducing them by at minimum 81% off east coast averages. Think about that. Labor could do that today. LNP could campaign on doing that if they won. Neither are doing that. Neither. Because neither of them want to bring down the cost of living. We need the increase the cross bench at this election. 38 is the magic number. If we can secure 38 independents into the cross bench then any minority government will require the independents to pass ANY legislation. That's how we get all the nonsense in recent years repealled. That's how we get proper reforms. That's how we get cost of living under control. This is our last opportunity for this Australia. AEC reforms passed by Labor and LNP which take effect after this elsction will lock out independents from future elections unless they have a corporate backer with deep pockets. If we vote in independents this election, those AEC reforms can be repealed too.
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  44. @cvk4488  We are not. The only false thing here is people claiming anything extraordinary is happening. The complacency is people thinking something lile this is unusual. It isn't, and you should always be ready for it coming into storm season in SEQ.
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  45. It's officially an ex tropical cyclone according to BOM, ie. no longer a cyclone, and hasn't been a cyclone for an hour now (since 6am). It's just a tropical low, so it's only going to rain a bit, maybe some thunder, slight winds. You know an ordinary SEQ thunderstorm. It was a massive nothing burger for SEQ. Shops are closed. Everyone lost income. Flights were cancelled. All the panic buying. All the hours people queued for unnecessary sandbags. And for what? An ordinary SEQ thunderstorm? You want to create complacency, this is how you create complacency. If this degrades into a flood risk, many people now won't listen to you. Great job. You called wolf, now some people are going to need to be held accountable for it. Not low level people with no power, the people in charge. The senior people who give the advice and make the decisions.
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