As a youth the old shearer's yoused to tell me the tales of raddled sheep and the birth of the AWU.
Before the Union was born the farmers would raddle (a chalk mark across the back) to indicate that sheep had not been shorn well enough and so was deducted from the number for which he was paid.
Very fast sheares by habit shear each one the same to a clean standard due to long flat strokes. Many farmers increasingly raddled large proportions of all the sheers tallies to of coursr save money. One example up to half those shorn to the point there was a strike and the AWU was born. Like it or not there needs to be checks and ballances for a fair go.
It was from such farmers that we have the Country Party.
And lets not forget dear Joe ("don"t you worry about that") Bejockie Peterson (someone correct my spelling. After he went and during the the Fitzgerald enquiry a friend of mine was appointed the QLD Chief Police Commissiiner. So Ibknow a bit about the Country Party. Also worked on staff for SirWilliam Gunn, but he was a good bloke among them from my point then
Disposable income has dropped for two quarters in a row. Asked whether parts of the economy now appeared to be in recession, Mr Hockey said: “No.” “Fundamentally we are endeavouring to stabilise the rise in unemployment,” he said.
“Importantly, we are seeing strong export growth”…
“I have no doubt 2015 will be better and beyond will be better than that,” he said…
He also repeated his call for shoppers to spend big over Christmas.
“Not just for Santa Claus but for Australia,” he said.
The Government’s Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) is another con job that confirms Labor’s promises on the economy cannot be believed.
Labor is all talk and no action when it comes to delivering a Budget surplus. This year was meant to be the year of decision and delivery. Instead it’s been a year of economic confusion, wasteful spending and failure to deliver.
Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey has made an astonishing commitment for a future Coalition Government with his “absolute guarantee” that the Coalition tax take will be less than under Labor.
Interviewed on Sky TV, Mr Hockey said:
“we’ll deliver lower taxes than under Labor, I can give you that absolute guarantee.”
I suspect Mr Hockey does not know what he has just guaranteed to deliver.
By way of background: For the most recent year that we have final data for, that is, 2010-11, the tax to GDP ratio was 20.0%.
Whilst also ignoring the advice of both Martin Parkinson, Chris Richardson and other well qualified people about the worrying trajectory we are on.Yep, everyone is taking the pizz out of the government, trying to reduce spending.
Yep, everyone is taking the pizz out of the government, trying to reduce spending.
Next they will do the same, when the government tries to increase taxes.
Then Labor will get in and be able to do nothing, due to their refusal to pass the required changes.lol
Then everyone in Australia, gets a real drop in living standards, that won't be recoverable.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-...cretary-martin-parkinson-20141203-11yz63.html
Best to get your recession plan in place,IMO
Whilst also ignoring the advice of both Martin Parkinson, Chris Richardson and other well qualified people about the worrying trajectory we are on.
It's like little kids who put their hands over their eyes and say "I can't see you so you don't exist".
Seriously. What has the Government done to cut spending? Certainly none of their current proposals:
* were highlighted before the election
* help fix the broken tax system that leaks revenue by the billions.
Tony is still forcing his chaplaincy program on to schools, and his PPL is the anchor that keeps dragging him down.
Till they can come up with some adult policies that don't target the poor they deserve the current brickbats they're getting.
Considering the Govt has already come out to say there wont be any policy changes when the MYEFO is released, isn't that an apt analogy that the bad new doesn't exist. $5-10B is lower revenue is likely to be announced, but the Govt is saying there's no need to do anything about it.
This Govt has pretty much ignored all the advise any centrist economists have tried to provide them. Less tea party ideology in the policy and more centrist sharing the pain and making the tax system a lot more efficient is what's required.
Syd, you still seem to have a problem with the fact Governments spend money and raise taxes to pay for the expenditure.
Your whole focus seems to be on improving the tax base, without addressing any wastage in the welfare system.
Your whole arguement, seems to be based on the fact the welfare system, is effecient and just. Therefore all that is required, is more money to expand it.
I tend to think we are past that for W.A, next year will be very interesting, if commodity prices stay where they are.
Eastern States, especially Sydney, Melbourne are probably o.k, they really have a self generating service economy.
W.A is still very geared toward the resources sector, it goes down, we go down.
Syd, you still seem to have a problem with the fact Governments spend money and raise taxes to pay for the expenditure.
Your whole focus seems to be on improving the tax base, without addressing any wastage in the welfare system.
Your whole arguement, seems to be based on the fact the welfare system, is effecient and just. Therefore all that is required, is more money to expand it.
A troubling economic slowdown is forcing a reassessment of the PPL scheme, including the offer of 26 weeks of paid leave at a new mother’s full pay up to an annual salary cap of $100,000.
The new childcare policy will alter $7 billion in annual spending in response to a Productivity Commission inquiry that recommends simpler payments to families but tighter controls to scale back benefits to the wealthy. The policy will also incorporate an adjusted PPL scheme aimed at improving conditions for women and lifting their participation in the workforce.
Mr Abbott is determined to introduce a more generous scheme but he is facing renewed pressure to amend the proposal because of its gross cost of $4.1bn in its first year and increasing costs after that…
Nope.
I'd like to see middle class welfare hacked into, and one way to do this is by making the tax system more efficient. Lower income taxes and it makes cutting welfare easier because you're not actually reducing lowering the incomes of those at the bottom of the income ladder.
You do remember this is the Govt that has gotten rid f a number of taxes that broadened the tax base. They've narrowed it to rely more heavily on income and corporate taxes than Labor did.
Just for interest can you say
* What expenditure cuts you support in the budget
* What revenue raising measure you support in the budget.
The Australian has reported today
So against the advise of the productivity commission, the Govt is still trying to force their platinum plated PPL onto the voters and may now do so by cutting funding to childcare that has actually helped increase workforce participation.
Yep, we have a Government full of economic wunderkids all right /sarc
SUDDENLY, one of the root causes of the Abbott government’s problems and Australia’s falling growth rate is becoming apparent.
While the Senate quagmire is a clear obstacle, it is also in part a symptom of a much deeper problem ”” too many government ministers have become puppets for parts of the public service that have lost touch with the nation.
As a result, ministers who are not doing enough of their own research and policy formation are in terrible trouble.
Returning to the budget, had the government stuck to its original agenda, the problems would not have been nearly so serious. For example, by December 2014, the savings to be achieved by eliminating duplication in health and education should have been in prospect for the budget bottom line.
Education Minister Christopher Pyne and Health Minister Peter Dutton plus Hockey once again became puppets for a public service that had a different agenda. The duplication will stay for a long time, thereby putting pressure on other areas of the budget.
Meanwhile Pyne mixed up budget savings with necessary reforms in the university system and the result has been a shocking mess
Isn't the tax reform white paper due in the next couple of days?Nope.
I'd like to see middle class welfare hacked into, and one way to do this is by making the tax system more efficient. Lower income taxes and it makes cutting welfare easier because you're not actually reducing lowering the incomes of those at the bottom of the income ladder.
You do remember this is the Govt that has gotten rid f a number of taxes that broadened the tax base. They've narrowed it to rely more heavily on income and corporate taxes than Labor did.
Just for interest can you say
* What expenditure cuts you support in the budget
* What revenue raising measure you support in the budget.
The Australian has reported today
So against the advise of the productivity commission, the Govt is still trying to force their platinum plated PPL onto the voters and may now do so by cutting funding to childcare that has actually helped increase workforce participation.
Yep, we have a Government full of economic wunderkids all right /sarc
Syd has given more time, research and intellectual thought to this stuff than the rest of us put together.
He is the political equivalent of a downramper and I often wonder if he isn't one of the labor script kiddies they employ to attack the government (yes its a real job). If he isn't he should apply for a job
Are you saying Noco is that high of qualityAs opposed to all the Liberal scriptwriters in here ?
See Bananas Abbott is in trouble with his deputy for sending Robb the Minder along to Lima, to keep her from trying to steal the PM's sceptre by stealth.
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-po...t-could-spark-a-bushfire-20141204-11zzq8.html
See Bananas Abbott is in trouble with his deputy for sending Robb the Minder along to Lima, to keep her from trying to steal the PM's sceptre by stealth.
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-po...t-could-spark-a-bushfire-20141204-11zzq8.html
Universities degrees that have a relevance should be subsidised, degrees for personal fullfillment should recieve less funding.
Isn't the tax reform white paper due in the next couple of days?
Abbott has already flagged concern that major tax reform is needed.
Hockey has already bought the issue of big company tax avoidance to discussion multiple times.
No he has regurgitated script and is often so far off base with comments its questionable. He ignores any research that is liberal friendly, only pushing the government is bad message without even checking any facts.
He is the political equivalent of a downramper and I often wonder if he isn't one of the labor script kiddies they employ to attack the government (yes its a real job). If he isn't he should apply for a job
[Housing minister, Nick Smith] talked in particularly direct terms about changing the expectations of land bankers this week.
“If they see land prices continue to appreciate at 15-25% per year, then they will have the incentive to sit on their land and not to develop it, and that’s why a critical part of the Accord is making plain that the Metropolitan Urban Limit is dead,” Smith said.
“The Government and the Council are determined to release sufficient land supply and we’re not going to allow land price inflation of the sort we’ve seen over the last decade,” he said.
“I want the land owning development community to realise that the Government is serious with Council about freeing up land supply, and they cannot bank on ongoing high land price appreciation that has encouraged land banking over the last decade.”
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