yeah, ya know like, but,n,that!
robots
I fully realise that you and nc are just trying to annoy julia , but try "would have" occasionally
robots
I fully realise that you and nc are just trying to annoy julia , but try "would have" occasionally
Now you're really taking the p!ss... ludicrous.actually, i am not complaining about interest rates as they arent really a concern to anyone
thaankyou
robots
hello,
another great day for melbourne, increased PTC fares, any improvements in service? no way
shows the direction of labor govs, least JH & costello give tax cuts, nothings gets cut in Melbourne
thankyou
robots
fair enuf too lolI am just getting into the hang of "being in opposition" and "keeping the bastards honest"!!
Andrew - gr8 sentiments m8 lolUnbelievable.... 3 days after election, nothing done as yet ...AND still blamed for PTC rises....... Still at least he made it rain in SE Qld to ease the drought.
well lets just see where things end in 5 or so years, not of to good start with petrol prices hitting 1.45/l, costello would of been knocking them down, havent heard much from swann!
Stopped here now..... but my water tank is full. Thanks Kev
Now if only he will get AUD/USD heading north again..
Is it fair to say if Turnbull becomes leader of the opposition, then the Libs are the new left? While Labor having a conservative fiscal leader who campaigned on 'me-tooism' the new Right? Deciding the cabinet and not the Caucus takes the cake...wonder how many of the old guard are mumbling under their breath
Labor gives fair undertaking for social initiatives
WHAT a difference an election makes. "Howard went too far, say employers", read the headline in The Australian yesterday. It reported that the chief complaint of business groups about the Howard government's industrial relations changes was that it had removed the no-disadvantage test and left it too late to replace it with an inadequate fairness test.
Among the critics are employers who waxed lyrical about the original Work Choices legislation and then objected strongly to the new fairness test taking away the workplace flexibility so essential to economic growth and efficiency.
Some of them also funded an advertising campaign that suggested the economy would grind to a halt if Labor went ahead with its plans to abolish Australian Workplace Agreements. Both of the remaining candidates for today's leadership ballot in the Liberal Party acknowledge that Work Choices was one of the factors in the election loss and offer varying degrees of support for Labor's policy to overturn it.
That just shows how quickly the political debate can turn. The biggest shift is the realisation, to misquote Bill Clinton, that it's not just the economy, stupid. Polling before the election showed that voters acknowledged the Coalition's superior credentials on economic management. It is just that the election demonstrated they were looking for something more. Such as fairness.
On Tuesday, new head teacher Kevin Rudd set a second assignment for his pupils. After asking Labor MPs to visit a public and private school and report back on the availability of computers, he wants them to go to a homeless shelter and find out how many people are being turned away. When he visited shelters during the campaign, he told the ABC's The 7.30 Report, he had been horrified to discover that 80 to 90 per cent of people could not get in.
"Now this is just wrong in a country as wealthy as ours," he said.
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The 2001 census counted 99,900 homeless people in Australia. Contrary to the stereotype about alcoholic men on park benches, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare found that there were 56,800 children, almost all aged 12 or younger, in families that made use of homeless services during 2004-05.
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All this suggests a focus on this area is long overdue. But what matters is what happens next. This is one of the issues governments deal with that can quickly go out of sight and out of mind. Labor has at least made a commitment to spend $150 million over five years for crisis accommodation for 2000 people, with the aim of halving the numbers turned away. This should become one of the benchmarks of progress for the Rudd government.
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The same applies to other areas that slid under the radar during the election campaign. How many voters are aware that Julia Gillard, as well as being responsible for industrial relations, was also the spokeswoman for social inclusion? An indication of the priority Labor gave it during the campaign is that the policy was released only two days before the election. However, assuming it is not mere rhetoric, we should hear much more about it in future.
Labor is borrowing from overseas, particularly Britain, in moving beyond traditional welfare to a social investment approach, involving a combination of government, private investment and non-government organisations. The aim is to tackle the cycle of poverty typically caused by multiple factors, including leaving school early and intergenerational unemployment. Britain has 55,000 so-called social enterprises, with a combined turnover of $61 billion a year, that provide employment for the disadvantaged while still operating on business principles.
Labor policy is to appoint a social inclusion board, bringing together welfare advocates, economists and other policy specialists. A social inclusion unit to implement the policies will be set up in the prime minister's department.
Of course, the test will not be in the new bureaucracies but the results at the other end. The Howard government's answer to many of the issues involving disadvantage was economic growth and jobs. That should remain the first priority, and failure to deliver them will see a short life for the Rudd government. But, as former British prime minister Tony Blair said, prosperity "masks a tale of under-achievers: the socially excluded. The rising tide does not lift their ships".
Acknowledging that could be part of the political rehabilitation of the Liberals and Nationals.
Before everyone gets too carried away about Mr Rudd's concern for the disadvantaged of our society, I'd point out that he - like Liberal - has ruled out increasing the rate of the Single Aged Pension. This is below the poverty line. Many of these people have no savings so will not benefit from any tax cuts. We should not be perpetuating middle class welfare with non-means-tested rebates in various areas while our elderly are struggling.
Thanks, 2020, for supporting my plea. I don't really think any of those who constantly say "of" instead of "have" are setting out to annoy me (well I hope not!)
I think they have just been saying this probably all their lives and it's simply a habit. They are not alone. I noticed at least one of our esteemed political leaders during the campaign say "If only he would of" instead of "If only he would have.....".
Sigh!
And Peter Beattie throughout his interminable reign said "anythink" rather than "anything".
Double sigh!
:topicIf you analyse the saying, ...."should've" sounds like "should of"
hello,
well lets just see where things end in 5 or so years, not of to good start with petrol prices hitting 1.45/l, costello would of been knocking them down, havent heard much from swann!
Appointing a petrol price commissioner to monitor big oil companies will be one of the incoming Labor government's first acts, Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd says.
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