Queensland election Jan 31 2015

[Tisme]

Another perspective on the Qld economy, and if you don't like the author's views you can ask him questions in the link below

The enthusiasm that began in the mid eighties seems to have dried up and the city state is just coasting. The trail of destruction over that period is the loss of holiday habitat in favour of closed community apartments, the savage increase in taxation and imposts, the severe increase of bureaucracy and it's all seeing eye, major increase in policing of trivial pursuits, dearest parking in the world, metered water supplies, costly fuel, costly power, congested suburban blocks, poor arterial road capacities, loss of the country town feel, designs by committee, rise of National Rugby League code as the primary from of beer swilling entertainment instead of socialising and exercising.

The good stuff is major infrastructure like the airport link, the centenary highway extension, pending legacy way and high numbers of enthusiastic European backpackers who remind us of how staid, fat and boring we have become.

The figures are not surprising and can easily be observed by the reduction in luxury car and luxury boat indices observable in the affluent suburbs.

 

[sydboy007]

prob worth a read for anyone able to vote in the election.

The below graph is astonishing, especially when the same people supporting this expect cleaner energy sources to stand on their own 2 feet.

In the State of Queensland during the last three years’ budget papers there have emerged
significant direct concession payments to mining-related activity within the Concessions Statements. In Queensland’s 2014-15 Budget, $866.9 million is allocated as direct concession payments to reduce the private cost of port leases, electricity, and rail charges, and to directly provide the mining industry with training development programs (see Table A).

 

[drsmith]

Today: LNP $1.12, Labor $5.50.

Ashgrove hasn't changed from yesterday's odds.

Today: LNP $1.05, Labor $9.00.

Ashgrove (where the real interest lies) still ALP $1.70, LNP $2.05.

 

[banco]

Today: LNP $1.05, Labor $9.00.

Ashgrove (where the real interest lies) still ALP $1.70, LNP $2.05.

Well if nothing else we'll likely be rid of that scumbag. I find it immensely amusing that even with his big majority he couldn't stop himself from behaving like a complete thug. He's a dumber version of richard nixon.

 

[Calliope]

UPDATE: Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says Labor will “absolutely” make debt a priority.

She must have been talking to Swannie.

 

[Tisme]

Well if nothing else we'll likely be rid of that scumbag. I find it immensely amusing that even with his big majority he couldn't stop himself from behaving like a complete thug. He's a dumber version of richard nixon.

I think you'll find he's after the trifecta ....federal politics next and back to his home town. He doesn't want to win and never wanted a second term, thus the traditional labor seat IMO.

 

[banco]

I think you'll find he's after the trifecta ....federal politics next and back to his home town. He doesn't want to win and never wanted a second term, thus the traditional labor seat IMO.

I think Ashgrove was the only seat they could find that they could parachute him into last time.

 

[Calliope]

Well if nothing else we'll likely be rid of that scumbag. I find it immensely amusing that even with his big majority he couldn't stop himself from behaving like a complete thug. He's a dumber version of richard nixon.

You and Alan Jones have a lot in common.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...7185085354?sv=fed14d8b9b36d484ce4d840bc6095e1

 

[Smurf1976]

The below graph is astonishing, especially when the same people supporting this expect cleaner energy sources to stand on their own 2 feet.

Take a publicly owned power station, and a very large one at that, and sell it to a mining company. Then give them money to operate it in competition with others who receive nothing.

Meanwhile in the same national (Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas, SA) there's another publicly owned generation business that just paid a similar amount to its' government (Tas) owner as a dividend. And of course the other public and private generators who also have to stand on their own two feet.

Gotta love privatisation. Transfers wealth from taxpayers to big business.

 

[Tisme]

One of the papers ran with the story that the Health Rebate backdown by the Feds yesterday was to improve the chances of a majority state win for the LNP in Qld. I wonder what that would do to the odds.

 

[drsmith]

Not a lot. Still $1.05 to $9. Ashgrove still $1.75 to $2 in favour of Labor.

 

[banco]

You and Alan Jones have a lot in common.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...7185085354?sv=fed14d8b9b36d484ce4d840bc6095e1

Well broken clocks are right once a day. For that matter as a big as a buffoon as Palmer is I think he probably does have something on Newman.

I'm sure that piece of **** will get a cushy sinecure with one of the companies his Government has done favours for in any case.

 

[Ves]

No. I am saying that he has cherry picked them from the overall stats to paint a rosier picture (ie. there was a greater reduction in certain types of crimes, but not in all).

Read the QPS annual report for 2013-14. The overall reduction of crime is 2.1% (after adjusting for population growth). This is in line with the historical long-term trend.

You said there had been a significant reduction in crime, and implied that this may have been due to the bikie laws, whereas the official QPS annual reports, show that it has been fairly flat, and definitely not above the trend-line, since 2011.

Further more....

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...-on-bikie-laws-and-crime-20150120-12u1aj.html

 

[noco]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIEnfZmulh8&feature=share

 

[noco]

https://www.facebook.com/Supporting...6785829377185/769760709746362/?type=1&theater

 

[Julia]

noco, when you put up a video, could you consider a brief explanation as to what it's about?
I might be the only one, but I don't go clicking on videos unless I know it's something that would be of interest.

 

[noco]

noco, when you put up a video, could you consider a brief explanation as to what it's about?
I might be the only one, but I don't go clicking on videos unless I know it's something that would be of interest.

The interest is in the comparison between the two major political parties in Queensland.

I did not believe it needed any explanation..

 

[drsmith]

An explanation for a link or video, even if only very brief, always helps in my view.

Sportsbet odds don't appear to have changed much.

 

[banco]

Deranged LNP candidate (admittedly doesn't narrow it down much):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pkL3sIgz4I

 

[Julia]

The interest is in the comparison between the two major political parties in Queensland.

I did not believe it needed any explanation..

You've misunderstood what I was asking, noco.

See banco's post above where before giving the link he tells us what it's about. So if you don't want to look at a deranged LNP candidate you won't bother opening the link.