Seperate issue mate.
So much this. And this is also my concern about selling land to foreign corporations/foreign government. Imagine a future where we actually make food here but it gets imported to other countries despite shortages in Australia. Times are good now but they wonât stay that way foreverâŚ
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Federal Court slams ABCC for wasting taxpayers money - it called in the AFP when two CFMEU officials were seen having a social cup of tea on site with a worker.
Another nail in Cashâs coffin. The former ABCC chief was forced to resign after giving wrongful advice about Union activities.
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Where to from here for the Coalition?
August 9, 2018 Kaye Lee
It is hard to imagine what the Coalitionâs strategy will be for the next election.
Their corporate tax cuts for big business are on the nose. Suggesting that someone on $200,000 should pay the same tax rate as someone on $40,000 will also be a hard sell.
How can they possibly pursue Bill Shorten for an old donation by the union to Getup after Malcolmâs Reefgate? Kill Bill has not resonated outside the rusted-ons.
The dual citizenship debacle appears to be over without punishment from the public.
Emma Husar has fallen on her sword and it will be hard to make mileage out of that considering unresolved allegations of sexual harassment still linger over Barnaby Joyce even if they didnât pursue him for rooting a staff member and spending way too much time in Canberra.
They canât trot out the debt and deficit disaster again as gross debt is now over $529 billion and they have run five deficit budgets.
Power prices will no doubt be a big issue but, even with âaxing the taxâ, electricity bills have continued to rise significantly over the last few years and most people believe, unlike the government, that renewables will make them cheaper.
The reef bleaching and the drought have focused attention on climate change again and here, the Coalition have got nothing. The very vocal group of climate change deniers in the government have hamstrung them from taking any meaningful action.
There is a stoush going on about funding deals for private schools. I have to say I donât like the special deals the Labor Party are proposing but they are winning the support of the Catholics at the moment.
The public are screaming for a federal corruption watchdog but the Coalition remain implacable. Shorten is at least speaking about the possibility of some sort of integrity body.
No-one trusts the Coalition on health despite the bits and pieces funding announcements from Hunt for niche concerns. Hospital waiting times have blown out and many health services no longer bulk bill.
Ignoring calls from everyone, the Coalition refuses to consider increasing Newstart payments and have actively tried to reduce them along with benefits paid to pensioners. This is a promise Labor must commit to.
With every expert saying stagnant wages are a drag on the economy, the government chose to enact the recommendation to cut penalty rates for our lowest paid workers. You will also hear calls from some of them to abolish the minimum wage. Wages will always be viewed by the Liberal party as a drain on employers rather than a fair distribution of the wealth created by labour.
Superannuation is another area where the Coalition have angered many. First they scrapped the planned increase in the Superannuation Guarantee and then they changed the rules retrospectively about charging tax on super incomes over $100,000.
Even with housing prices coming down fractionally (or not rising as quickly), housing affordability remains a problem that the Coalition seem to have no plan to tackle. Cutting down on interest only loans has helped a bit but Laborâs plan to rein in excessively generous property tax concessions on existing properties will do more to address inequality and boost construction.
The Coalition tried to stir the leadership speculation pot suggesting Albanese was about to stage a coup, but that is a gutsy play considering every day, their own members are publicly questioning Turnbullâs leadership whilst Labor has presented a very united front (aside from some backroom factional stuff which they really must stop).
After peremptorily rejecting the Uluru Statement from the Heart, making no progress on constitutional recognition and very little on closing the gap, and slashing half a billion from promised funding, any pretence at concern for Indigenous Affairs is out.
Pretty much all the government is left with is Peter Dutton wandering around trying to scare us all by vilifying certain groups in our society.
What a sorry prospect that is.
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Alex Bathal standing down as the Greens memeber for Cooper (Batman) sheâs been campaigning for 10 years, citing continued racial and physical violence threats towards her and her family.
While I feel like new blood in that area was probably due itâs a damn disgrace that those are the reasons that forced her to stop campaigning.
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If it wasnât for the fact that labor finally decided to run a candidate who repesent proper core labor values she probably would have been in parliament.
That is just what is happening now with our gas.
We are just about giving it away overseas, driving down the global price, while we have to pay record amounts domestically. And when Little Johnny was PM, he effectively said âFUâ to Australians wanting to reserve an amount for the domestic market.
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How many terrorists/boats/race riots/white people privalge being encroached upon?
Not just our gas. I like visiting markets while overseas and itâs embarrassing when you can buy Australian produce cheaper overseas than at home.
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I thought the gas issue was not one of supply, but the Australian consumer is paying for the infrastructure costs through high prices. I donât understand how the NEG is supposed to fix that.
^I canât see how in the world that could possibly be true. Our capital cities have had the infrastructure for gas supply for the better part of a century. And we have also had the infrastucture to move gas between states, at least since the 1960s.
The infrastructure that was needed to be built was to ship it offshore from the NW. So of course taxpayers would have had to pay for - or at least subsidise - the costs of that, just so our gas could be given away overseas.
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So, the sensible thing was done by Victoria and weâre now waiting to see if the LNP can agree with itself on having energy policy in the first place before getting everyone to agree to what theyâre going to do about it. This should result in everyone quietly watching them implode in a puff of ideology. What we will get is all of News Corpseâs media appendages flailing wildly about Victoriaâs Labor government rooooning everything.
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With all the BS hype rhetoric about âaFriCAn gAngSâ from Turdball & FarkDutton, ⌠who would have thought the Vic Gov would be in any way uncooperative on this??
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NEG has passed the LNP party room. The order in the senate for the details in the policy happened this morning. It was a regurgitation of last weekâs couple of sheets of baseless claims. Thereâs not even any modelling in this, our finally most important of energy policies after all this time.
Thereâs nobody at the wheel Australia.
Thereâs people at the wheel. Theyâre just too busy squabbling over who gets to wear the little white hat with a picture of an anchor on it rather than actually looking out the window to see where they are going. But itâs not that big a deal, because the icebergs are all melting, so they wonât sink us.
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Classy.
He even calls it the final solution.
Why canât they just go to Europe since they love their values?
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Personally I liked; âWhile all Muslims are not terrorists, certainly all terrorists these days are Muslimsâ
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If we are lucky with all these nut bags around, theyâll dilute their own votes and hopefully a few will disappear.