16/05/2026
BREAKING NEWS 🎺
Following another round of rising costs, Cookies By Qui can officially confirm Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers have acquired a significant shareholding in my royal icing cookie business. 🤝
While I designed the sets, baked the cookies, mixed the icing, answered enquiries at midnight, paid for ingredients, packaging, insurance, electricity, market fees, website costs, card fees, equipment, and somehow survived the price of butter, eggs AND vanilla…
…it appears Canberra now believes they deserve a sizeable slice of the cookie as well, for just.. well.. existing. 🍪
At this point I’m considering adding: “Proudly co-owned by the Australian Government” to the back of my cookie boxes... 🥴
Small business owners everywhere are asking the same question:
At what point does passion stop being rewarding and start becoming survival mode? Without small businesses… there are no custom cookies. No markets. No handmade gifts. No late-night creators making magic from scratch...
Anyway, here’s an AI Treasurer helping mix the royal icing while the PM supervises quality control with a piping bag... Because if we don't laugh.. we'll cry right?