Isn’t it also giving someone a ride on your bike?
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I expect its because they only won the seat by a small margin and don’t want a risky candidate that the opposition can run against
Commonwealth Bank is down a whole 4% profit on the back of having their bastardry exposed by the RC.
Poor buggers only made a measly $9.4 Billion Dollars profit this year.
Heartbreaking.
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Why/how did her announcement become a NEIN! Exclusive, rather than the usual / normal calling of a Press con ??
Cheque book journalism?? Job offer after Politics?
Did she cash in at the 1st opportunity?
Would seem to lend weight to the character/behaviour she’s been accused of.
Who cares.
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NAB got a bit flummoxed by a question from the Royal Commissioner whether a fee for no service could be considered theft.
He then got stuck into the NAB counsel for leading the witness.
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I’m with you on this.
It’s no longer the 19th century when internal food production was very important. It’s not like that anymore and hasn’t been like that for decades.
They’re business people in it for profit and are overwhelmingly on the conservative side of politics. Conservative on most things but highly socialist when it comes to taxpayer support for them if it doesn’t rain for a while. How are they supposed to pay the boarding costs at Geelong Grammar and update the Landcruiser this year if we don’t all chip in?
Please. They do it for money and not for any other reason so why should this sector get regular hand-outs when no one else does?
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Mate of mine calls them the National(s) Socialists.
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We have this romanticised image of farmers but they are business people just like everyone else. Even K Sheedy is helping to mythologise them with his country game promotion with Geelong.
How about Granos round to support all the good concretors out there who get stitched up by corporate scum builders who don’t pay but live in the leafiest of suburbs in houses that other people’s money has paid for? How about a $12k hand-out to all of the scaffolders who lost their jobs when the sh*t hit the fan and the economy went arseover? Just like farmers can’t control the weather, scaffolders can’t control the ecomony?
What’s the difference?
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Unions
i’m on the fence with this, but the guy who said “12 grand wouldn’t even buy grain for his cattle/sheep/whatever” almost tipped me to the fark em category.
What does that mean?
Well if it’s in the context of “this is a token attempt to buy my vote” then it’s a pretty fair statement I reckon.
It means we get a lot of food from places other than here.
I get my food from the supermarket.
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I thought that’s what you meant.
And I disagree very much.
I think a nation’s ability to feed itself is of absolute fundamental importance.
Good luck to a country like Australia feeding itself if it needs to import it’s food and another nation closes the sea routes we require open to get it here.
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True, but name one farmer and or farming corporation that is doing it for the nation, not for profit?
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