Have you ordered a copy of Kim Carr’s book, about to be launched with a fan fare? It might fill in some of the gaps.
I saw him in Darwin not long before he died, his commitment then being to aborigines and the environment.
Kim Carr !
Imagine a spud like him was a tually a school teacher forming young minds, no wonder we are farked.
I didn’t think much of him, either as involved in Defence but especially Education.
Big A, you are very very old !!!
As the TWU praises Shorten, by coincidence the Hun runs with a story on disbandment of the Vic Branch due to ‘cultural issues’
That happened days ago didn’t it?
Saw it on the notice board at work a couple of days ago.
interesting, suing all of you now you’ll hear from my lawyer ivan
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As to the role of Chancellors, it has been noted that the current Chancellor at Canberra University is Lisa Paul, who would have been involved in the VC appointment.
Lisa had worked on NDIS with Shorten in the past
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Jobs for the Boyz then !!!
She came from the Commonwealth PS. IIRC appointed Head of Dept of Education under Howard Govt, survived as Head through changes in Govt until she retired.
So, Bill would have been her Minister at some stage.
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The biggest tragedy of Bill Shorten was that he was a lousy politician carry the best policies to an election.(or maybe an average one with aspirations of being grand)
Chloes a good sort whose claim to fame is her mum was a sensational woman. Trail blazer.
Reading between the lines maybe she escaped a lousy relationship to meet Bill.
Rather than an extra marital dalliance. Who knows, I certainly don’t.
The irony is that after years of Morrison and Liberals destroying our economy, and Albo and Labor seemingly too farking timid to boldly govern, Bill Shorten 2019 election policies including those on negative gearing and tax imputations are seen as a way to fix our current woes.
Probably if Bill had won in 2019, we all would have been in a better position, instead of the current clusterfark. At least we would have had actions and no Yankee submarines, and no Richard Marles leading us to war.
Bill Shorten was not a lousy politician and now years later, the pundits are lamenting what might have been.
For you to attack his Wife and marital status is just more that the Shorten haters got wrong.
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What attack?
Maybe a touch back handed that he started a relationship with a married woman.
The only attack I made was he lost what I thought should have been the unloseable election for Labor in 2019.
From memory at the tote the ALP were something like 1.15 and the LNP were 6 dollars.
With his terrible campaigning he dust binned some of the potentially important reforms this country desperately needs.
The ALP party room chose the wrong candidate to lead.
I mean the goose walked around with a shirt that said vote for Chloe Shorten’s husband.
What because Chloe is the only thing going for him?
What’s happening here is a reflection of what’s happening in Europe and North America and how the far right gets traction.
The left moves to the centre to attract votes from the right, while the centre right moves further right to attract votes from the far right. When the inequities in society and funding for the essentials like health are reduced because even modest tax reform is a bridge too far. The NHS in Britain stands out.
When in the US, judges are forced to make a legal ruling that Uber does not have to pay millions in payroll tax because it is not an employer of Uber drivers.
The ILO has recently released a study - World Employment and Social Outlook- revealing that the further decline in the comparative share of worker income puts upward pressure on inequalities in society.
Getting the NDIS up in the minority Gillard government would not have won votes, but it was the right thing to do.
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We are spending twice on the NDIS than what we spend on our Military.
Something like 3-3.5% of GDP compared to ~1.9% on military spending?
Its a shame the NDIS isnt helping more Australians with a disability. It seems to be pretty clear its a huge rort thats costing Australians billions without caring for our most vulnerable.
Speaking with a mate who gets all his work from it as a provider (and has a disability of his own and would have benefited from it when he needed it) it makes things much easier than having a multitude of private/state/church based organisations providing referrals and money for participants.
So 100% the right way of approaching it but there is some terrible implementation going on.
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Speaking of hard to implement but totally worth while spending.
The arts.
I was thinking this morning of an alternate way of helping artists. Maybe starting with musos.
Right now theres a crisis in the live music scene. Its affecting society who want to enjoy it(its too expensive) and the artists trying to make a living.
The government(state probably) should have some sort of grant to subsidise more events. Not make events free, but just subsidise concerts/gigs.
Maybe the criteria is artist driven. Like a musician just has to prove they are at a certain competence.
Then as long as they perform and sell tickets the state pays a certain proportion of the ticket price. (Capped for concerts say costing I don’t know 60 dollars a ticket).
The artist could sell their tickets to people for 30 dollars. Every ticket sold they could claim another 30 from the government.
The money direct to artists with the proviso they use licensed venues.(so it can reduce rorting)
Defence costs aren’t limited to expenditure on war toys.
Yes, a lot of waste too.
The Townsville situation for instance will be a drain on government coffers in the coming years