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Any chance the Abbott Govt can cut funding to the various institutes that are in reality political arms of the various political parties?

How about getting rid of the huge "consulting" bill by sending the parasites back into the private sector where they can battle it out in a competitive work environment.

Finally how about the govt focus on engendering an entrepreneurial spirit and the good old Aussie have a go for broke attitude ... sound like New Zealand goddammit!

There's gotta be some savings and revenue in there somewhere.
 
Poor Larissa Waters getting branded a bigot by one who knows what a bigot is for asking how Tony Abbott will reconcile his master's encyclical about climate change. Enquiring minds need to know.:rolleyes:
 
Tisme said:
Poor Larissa Waters getting branded a bigot by one who knows what a bigot is for asking how Tony Abbott will reconcile his master's encyclical about climate change. Enquiring minds need to know.:rolleyes:
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Larrisa Waters is a Fabian and to the best of my knowledge all Fabians are atheists so why is she using the Pope to extend her Global Warming campaign?
It it for convenience?
 
noco said:
Larrisa Waters is a Fabian and to the best of my knowledge all Fabians are atheists so why is she using the Pope to extend her Global Warming campaign?
It it for convenience?
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Abbott is a Neanderthal so why would you ask him a question to do with science and expect a sensible answer?
 
IFocus said:
Abbott is a Neanderthal so why would you ask him a question to do with science and expect a sensible answer?
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Maybe you could enlighten us, on which politicians are qualified to give sensible answers, on science questions.:D

Maybe they are all Neanderthals since Barry Jones retired, but then again, no one was listening to him in the end.

Politics has become a soap opera.
 
sptrawler said:
Maybe you could enlighten us, on which politicians are qualified to give sensible answers, on science questions.:D

Maybe they are all Neanderthals since Barry Jones retired, but then again, no one was listening to him in the end.

Politics has become a soap opera.
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Talking soap Abbott sprouts its daily to the point of Ad Nauseam...seriously when has he said anything sensible in the last 12 months......anything.

As for science a minister would at least be able to present the case for funding and further the interests for the future of Australia instead we get a f$%king commissioner for wind turbines / advocate for further coal mining what bunch of dick heads.
 
IFocus said:
Talking soap Abbott sprouts its daily to the point of Ad Nauseam...seriously when has he said anything sensible in the last 12 months......anything.

As for science a minister would at least be able to present the case for funding and further the interests for the future of Australia instead we get a f$%king commissioner for wind turbines / advocate for further coal mining what bunch of dick heads.
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I don't disagree with you, but I'm yet to see anything more promising or enlightening, from any other party.
 
IFocus said:
Talking soap Abbott sprouts its daily to the point of Ad Nauseam...seriously when has he said anything sensible in the last 12 months......anything.

As for science a minister would at least be able to present the case for funding and further the interests for the future of Australia instead we get a f$%king commissioner for wind turbines / advocate for further coal mining what bunch of dick heads.
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I have to congratulate you on giving me a good laugh on that post ...thanks:D
 
One has to wonder how long the Govt will stand by it's forecasts

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-25/mathias-cormann-says-budget-negotiations-are/6571714

MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: The IMF is warning that the Government’s budget repair is in danger because of over-inflated revenue and spending expectations. It’s saying economic growth is likely to be closer to 2.5 per cent, well short of the forecast 3.5 per cent?

MATHIAS CORMANN: Well, we stand by our forecast. If you look at the growth figures in the first quarter of this calendar year, you will see that it is one of the strongest growth rates anywhere in the developed world, at 0.9 per cent, stronger growth rate than any of the G7 countries

What we have been able to observe is that our economic plan for stronger growth is working, economic growth is strengthening, employment growth is strengthening…
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The Govt CAPEX forecasts have already been crushed by the ABS - 18-24% decline compared to the fairy dust -7% forecast from Hockey.

We had another 11.4% fall in the ToT over the march quarter which will start filtering through to reduced national incomes. There's still a few more years worth of ToT falls to come, crimping income growth and tax revenues with it.

How about some honesty from the Govt instead of pretending everything is sunshine and lollipops, which makes voterland squeamish about the changes we need to make to regain our international competitiveness.
 
sydboy007 said:
How about some honesty from the Govt instead of pretending everything is sunshine and lollipops, which makes voterland squeamish about the changes we need to make to regain our international competitiveness.
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Not being funny, but they tried that and no one liked hearing it, so it was all back to the warm fuzzy feel good $hit.
That's what everyone today wants to hear, no one wants to hear tighten the belt.
They want to hear lower the credit card interest rate, so we can fit more on it. lol,lol,lol

When we have squeezed the savers onto welfare, then we have to find the next easy target, must keep the spenders afloat at all cost.lol
 
sptrawler said:
Not being funny, but they tried that and no one liked hearing it, so it was all back to the warm fuzzy feel good $hit.
That's what everyone today wants to hear, no one wants to hear tighten the belt.
They want to hear lower the credit card interest rate, so we can fit more on it. lol,lol,lol

When we have squeezed the savers onto welfare, then we have to find the next easy target, must keep the spenders afloat at all cost.lol
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Last years budget that attacked the poor and young. it in no way tried to repair the structural deficinicies of the budget.

At least this year we've seen the winding back of the howard Costello pension tapering largesse, though the ruling out of any changes to the super and NG / CGT means the shovelling of capital into unproductive housing will continue to prop the bubble up.

me thinks Abbott is taking Torror Australis a bit too far and his time would be better spent getting on with meaningful reforms rather than tryign to filter the internet where 8.8.8.8 will likely see it made ineffective.

I supose we shoudl eb thankful that Abbott is taking action to ensure wind farms wont harm more people /sarc
 
So an early election next, now they have defamed the ABC, compromised the Greens', stopped the boats (being reported) and neutered Bill Shorten, Julie Bishop and Malcolm.
 
SirRumpole said:
It's no problem in Norway.
A 78% tax on North Sea oil profits and every Norwegian is a notional millionaire.
As for us, well...

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ustralia-a-thing-or-two-about-managing-wealth
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If we're going to be like Norway, let's go all the way and build more dams to enable most of our electricity generation by hydro-electric generation, and while we're at it, let's license a series of trial nuclear plants.

Actually, all is not rosy in the Norwegian Wood, as the oil price slumps.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-oil-losses-have-government-exploring-options

..A 56 percent plunge in the price of Brent crude since a June high has undermined Norway’s currency and beaten back its stock market. The krone has lost 20 percent against the dollar over the period.

Norway’s benchmark equity index is down 9 percent. Oil producers including the country’s biggest, Statoil ASA, and service companies have already cut thousands of jobs to adjust and unions are calling for government measures to protect the industry...


...“Right now, there’s somewhat of a state of emergency in the oil industry -- some would call it a panic,” Walter Qvam, CEO of Kongsberg Gruppen ASA, a Norwegian defense and oil services company, said in an interview.

“Norway needs this reminder, and it’s very good that we’re getting it now. We’re going to stay an oil nation, but we now need to create the next version of Norway, because the version we’ve been living in for the past 35 years is on the wan.”...
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Tisme said:
So an early election next, now they have defamed the ABC, compromised the Greens', stopped the boats (being reported) and neutered Bill Shorten, Julie Bishop and Malcolm.
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This post is very similar to another in the ABC thread as is my response.

Talk of an early election is nothing more than wishful thinking by some.
 
“Norway needs this reminder, and it’s very good that we’re getting it now. We’re going to stay an oil nation, but we now need to create the next version of Norway, because the version we’ve been living in for the past 35 years is on the wane.”...
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At least they have the money to build something new...
 
SirRumpole said:
Does that come from Party HQ , or is it just your opinion ?
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I understand that Abbott cannot call the next half-senate election until 1 July 2016 (the next earliest date).

But considering Abbott already has the confidence of the house of reps (ie. control), which he can call an election for, there is probably no point.

Besides, do you think having a separate house of reps election, then probably another senate election next year, would really make the public show their delight?

There's the double dissolution route... but, that too is frought with problems. The first being, which current bill before parliament gives enough precedence for the G-G to accept a DD? I can't think of any.

Edit: Oh, and there is also the current state of the Senate vote distribution system, and the major party line of thinking that it needs to be fixed. The logistics of fixing it.... well, they wouldn't be done in time for an early election in Winter or Spring this year IMO.
 
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