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Who is going to be the first to try and knife Airbus next year?

  • Marles

    Votes: 1 8.3%
  • Chalmers

    Votes: 3 25.0%
  • Wong

    Votes: 1 8.3%
  • Plibersek

    Votes: 3 25.0%
  • Shorten

    Votes: 2 16.7%
  • Burney

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 2 16.7%

  • Total voters
    12
You're right. We've come a long way since "Ditch the Witch" :cool:

🤪 someone made a pretty penny from that https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...e-witch-sign-up-for-sale-20150210-13al4r.html

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“How can we conceive of a position where the Prime Minister of our country is not aware of a planned mass terrorist attack that could have resulted in a 40-metre blast zone and hundreds of people losing their lives?” Mr Dutton asked.

Intelligence agencies 'must explain' delay in briefing PM on mass attack plot: Libs

Peter Dutton, when asked whether he had evidence to suggest his claim that intelligence agencies feared Anthony Albanese or his office could “leak information”, the Opposition Leader said he would not comment on “discussions I’ve had with individuals out of agencies”.

Mr Dutton said there was “nothing else that adds up” as to why the Prime Minister would not have been briefed for over a week, as Mr Dutton has previously alleged.

“Do you actually have any evidence that the agencies were worried about leaks? Is that just something you are suggesting?” Mr Dutton was asked.

“I’m not going to comment on discussions I’ve had with individuals out of agencies and people can draw their own conclusions based on their own experiences, but there’s nothing else that adds up as to why the Prime Minister would be kept in the dark for nine days when the authorities saw fit to brief the Premier,” he said.
“And he was open and honest about the fact he had been briefed on 20 January.”
Mr Dutton said he did not think there had been a “breakdown in the process” when asked whether law enforcement and intelligence agencies were responsible for briefing the PM on the apparent anti-Semitic caravan explosives plot.
The Opposition Leader said it was not their responsibility to answer why – as he alleges – the Prime Minister was not briefed, but rather Mr Albanese’s responsibility.
“How can we conceive of a position where the Prime Minister of our country is not aware of a planned mass terrorist attack that could have resulted in a 40-metre blast zone and hundreds of people losing their lives?” Mr Dutton asked.
“I think they’re reasonable questions, not politically based.
“This is a matter of national security and it can’t be repeated and I’m not aware of any precedent for it before.”
When asked whether he thought the buck stopped with the Australian Federal Police or the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation, Mr Dutton said the “Prime Minister has the questions to answer here”.
“I don’t think there’s any breakdown in the process,” he said.
“The New South Wales Police have either made a deliberate decision not to advise the commonwealth so that the Prime Minister wasn’t advised because they were worried he was going to leak the information.
“Beyond that, there’s no other reasonable explanation.”
 
I would never have thought Labor would actually come out and say this, it shows how times have changed.
I tend to think the large companies will be waiting and watching how the energy transition goes, extended blackouts don't work well for large businesses like shopping centres, entertainment venues and large processing plants.
Interesting times, it doesn't sound as though public owned ventures are high on the agenda.


"We know that the best kind of strong and sustainable economic growth means growth led by the private sector," Mr Chalmers told a closed function at parliament in Canberra on Wednesday, hosted by the Business Council of Australia.

"Our economy is at its best when it's private companies powering growth and propelling us forward."

The treasurer's remarks continue his corporate charm offensive, even as the government ridiculed Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's proposed tax deduction for small business lunches as "taxpayer-funded barramundi for bosses".

Both underscore a major difference between the two sides under Anthony Albanese and Mr Dutton: Labor likes to position itself as an ally of big business, while the opposition leader prefers to back grassroots small and medium-sized ventures.
 
I would never have thought Labor would actually come out and say this, it shows how times have changed.
I tend to think the large companies will be waiting and watching how the energy transition goes, extended blackouts don't work well for large businesses like shopping centres, entertainment venues and large processing plants.
Interesting times, it doesn't sound as though public owned ventures are high on the agenda.


"We know that the best kind of strong and sustainable economic growth means growth led by the private sector," Mr Chalmers told a closed function at parliament in Canberra on Wednesday, hosted by the Business Council of Australia.

"Our economy is at its best when it's private companies powering growth and propelling us forward."

The treasurer's remarks continue his corporate charm offensive, even as the government ridiculed Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's proposed tax deduction for small business lunches as "taxpayer-funded barramundi for bosses".

Both underscore a major difference between the two sides under Anthony Albanese and Mr Dutton: Labor likes to position itself as an ally of big business, while the opposition leader prefers to back grassroots small and medium-sized ventures.
Being surprised? seriously?
Of course labour 2025 is behind big business, democrats and Soros allies are the fangs, not a worker social club etc
Wef is not a friend of your corner store, blue collar or man and ute carpenter but big businesses, deals, bribes and BS golden jobs when thrown of politics
Remember Rudd and BHP/Unions campaign..the real ALP members were quickly sidestepped and the union/money moved in a Gilliard puppet.
Under the name of socialism.
That is why the left hates populism so much.
 
I would never have thought Labor would actually come out and say this, it shows how times have changed.
I tend to think the large companies will be waiting and watching how the energy transition goes, extended blackouts don't work well for large businesses like shopping centres, entertainment venues and large processing plants.
Interesting times, it doesn't sound as though public owned ventures are high on the agenda.


"We know that the best kind of strong and sustainable economic growth means growth led by the private sector," Mr Chalmers told a closed function at parliament in Canberra on Wednesday, hosted by the Business Council of Australia.

"Our economy is at its best when it's private companies powering growth and propelling us forward."

The treasurer's remarks continue his corporate charm offensive, even as the government ridiculed Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's proposed tax deduction for small business lunches as "taxpayer-funded barramundi for bosses".

Both underscore a major difference between the two sides under Anthony Albanese and Mr Dutton: Labor likes to position itself as an ally of big business, while the opposition leader prefers to back grassroots small and medium-sized ventures.
Well, the government can't do everything, but they have to realise that the private sector can't either and there have been market failures that haven't properly been addressed, like in energy and housing.
 
Well, the government can't do everything, but they have to realise that the private sector can't either and there have been market failures that haven't properly been addressed, like in energy and housing.
It's the energy sector that is worrying the private sector and the Government isn't doing a lot about it.
As we've said in a different thread, they need to actually lay out how this is all going to happen, setting and legislating targets and then expecting everyone else to do the heavy lifting to meet them isn't policy it's a prayer. :2twocents
 
I would never have thought Labor would actually come out and say this, it shows how times have changed.
All the parties have essentially reversed position compared to that of a generation ago.

Labor wants business.

The Greens want heavy industry.

Liberal proposes a minimal growth economy as per its energy plan.

The Left in general argues that genders and races aren't of equal ability hence a need for handicaps.

The Right advocates equal opportunity.

All the exact opposite of their historic positions. :2twocents
 
All the parties have essentially reversed position compared to that of a generation ago.

Labor wants business.

The Greens want heavy industry.

Liberal proposes a minimal growth economy as per its energy plan.

The Left in general argues that genders and races aren't of equal ability hence a need for handicaps.

The Right advocates equal opportunity.

All the exact opposite of their historic positions. :2twocents
Meanwhile the primary vote of the major parties continues to fall.

They are desperately trying to claw into the space that Independents have created, while failing to realise that the public is moving on.

One of the major parties will get back into government, but it's unlikely that either of them will have a majority in the House, certainly not in the Senate for quite a while.

Another 3 years of paralysis is coming.
 
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All the parties have essentially reversed position compared to that of a generation ago.

Labor wants business.

The Greens want heavy industry.

Liberal proposes a minimal growth economy as per its energy plan.

The Left in general argues that genders and races aren't of equal ability hence a need for handicaps.

The Right advocates equal opportunity.

All the exact opposite of their historic positions. :2twocents

That’s not entirely correct.

Labor is the union’s, they don’t want small businesses because there’s no membership opportunities and harder to control with financial disincentives.

The Greens are anti development, they don’t want heavy industries. What they want is the human race to have a smaller footprint, which means less industrialisation and mechanisation, with more family oriented jobs which use less resources in a barter economy.

The Liberal Party was a small business party, they ended up as the big business party and got stung by the woke business world at the last election. Now the Liberals have drifted back to small and medium businesses, to the horror of the big company CEO’s.
 
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