I was thinking we just have a fleet of those Aquaducks they use on the Goldy.
Attach some weaponry to them, but if not used for national security, they are providing public transport. Two for one.
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I agree, one of the good ones, better than this dhead we have at the moment
All the best to him, deserves it
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Why donât they just buy everything off temu.
Oh, look at this SNOWEE HIGHDROUGH power plant, only $15,000,000 dollars.
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the front could fall off
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One further plus for Shorten. At the beginning of the NDIS, a friend with a severely disabled son was obstructed in navigating the system, ready to give up. Someone said, go to the top. Shortenâs office put her through to Shorten, who contacted her , got his staff to resolve it . It was never publicised.
Her adult son is now living nearby in supported living with other young adults, thriving on doing what other young adults do , leaving home and moving into a shared house. And his mother now has a life apart from being a full time carer 24/7.
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We rate Bills commitment to decent NDIS reforms highly in our household. Genuinely seemed to be on top of many of the issues.
Just like all of us that have to deal with the NDIS, itâs burned him out.
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Shorten is certainly a politician who can look back and if asked one thing they did to make peopleâs lives better, can point to the NDIS and unequivocal say âI did thatâ. Not too many other politicians can truthfully point to anything so significant.
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- Temporary increase to GST
(good luck) - Reduce migration to a level reflecting housing supply equilibrium
(meh) - fix energy policy so we are not paying more for gas than nations importing our gas on the other side of the globe
(not sure why we need to pay to use our own gas at all) - long term - construct public housing homes to reduce demand on private sector housing
(sounds good, will increase spending by gov though) - increase super contribution max for high earners
(this is one of the worst ideas ever, more money to feed the rich) - Reduce Government spending
(by spending on housing?) - target Government surpluses to allow money to exit the system and address deficits which contribute to inflation.
(biggest inflation factor is profiteering)
Abbott is a contradiction at times. Just when you want to not really like the bloke, he comes up with something quite classy like this.
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That is a bit unfair. Bill Shorten is actually a very nice bloke, even charismatic in person. The Media have never been kind to him.
He is not on my side of Labor politics but I do respect him.
Chloe Shorten is a beautiful person in every way, and all I have seen is a loving couple. She spoke at one of our Branch functions, not on politics but on her passions about eradicating family violence and conflict.
I hope they continue to be part of the Nations social fabric, we need them.
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And he still deserves credit for being an active member of his branch of the RFS where he volunteers to fight bushfires. A noble cause.
It can be an eye opener when public figures who have been engaged in the big moments in political history are asked what they regarded as their highest achievements in public office.
Nugget Coombs said it was the rationing system he set up in WW2 for the Australian population ( when Australia was also committed to feeding Britain).
Someone who was on the delegation to the Bretton Woods conferences remarked how the big boys looked to him for leadership - a man of short stature, with a quiet voice, from one of the smaller players on the world scene.
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Wow, Nugget Coombs ! Are you that old ?
Economic growth was 0.1% in the last reported month. If the government had spent any less or had fewer migrants we would have contracted and then a recession.
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I listened to Shortenâs speech about his retirement. He spoke about a change of lifeâs direction for blokes in their 50s but didnât actually say why he was leaving politics. As a Labor polly, Shorten is in the right-wing faction, but everything he says and does shows him to be way to the left of Albo, who supposedly represents Labor Left.
Given Billâs background running the AWU, the original trade union, I wondered when I heard of his upcoming resignation from politics whether he just could no longer stomach Alboâs anti-union ethos and his continuing campaign directed at making the unions subservient in the future to whatever political claque might happen to be in power in Canberra.
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Haha. Not me, but for the 50th anniversary of Australia signing on to the GATT, we got some of the old timers like Professor Arndt who had been on the Australian delegations and some old Mandarins, retired Ministers etc, to be speakers at a seminar at the ANU.
We sent the records to Nuggetâs son, who said it filled in gaps in his history. Nuggetâs biography is worth a read.
Your thoughts are valid. Though I would not look that far into it, as Bill is very reflective of his life and has some health issues, and is moving on. He will have regrets.
Reality for me, is that Bill Shorten has put so much of his energy into NDIS over the past 11 years that he is a bit spent.
I have always thought very highly of him, even when he was an apostle of Bill Landeryou in his early days. He did a great job at the AWU, and got little credit for it. If Bill had nominated for Leader again in 2019 after the election, he would have won; again on the support of Caucus. Many on here do not like him which I found hard to understand, as while he was not in my faction, everything I saw showed he was a true Labor man.
Sad day for Labor as a true believer has left the building.
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Yes it is, and I was a great fan of Hector Cole Coombs all posthumously as died the year before I got involved, but he was a remarkable man.
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