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I think Bishop should be suspended from Q&A
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So, with an extra $100B on the Govt tab, it seems the budget emergency is just a distant memory of the pre election years.
No to any reform around superannuation taxation expenditures, even though the entire industry is calling for reform.
No to sorting out the tax distortions that surround housing, and to a lesser degree other areas of the economy.
Calling to be the infrastructure Govt but blocking clean energy investments.
Undermining local workers by providing the Chinese with expedited 457 visas, along with removing the need to prove workers are appropriately skilled when brought in on any decent sized project.
A budget which is forecasting a result based on hope, we now have talk of tax cuts. Sheesh. How will you fund them Joe, when you can't pay you bills at present?
Now, if the Govt was proposing to fund income taxes via better targeting super tax concessions, reigning in the NG and CGT tax distortions, helping the states migrate from inefficient SDs to raising revenue via broadly based land taxes and an broadening of the GST, we might be on a winner.
Without meaningful reform Joe, how will you pay for you latest thought buble? Isn't the problem of brackt creep and further over reliance on income and corporate taxes brought about by all of the reform blocking your Govt has done so far?
I suppose we'll just have to wait and see that superior economic management you supposedly have in your DNA from being a Liberal.
No to any reform around superannuation taxation expenditures, even though the entire industry is calling for reform.
No to sorting out the tax distortions that surround housing, and to a lesser degree other areas of the economy.
Calling to be the infrastructure Govt but blocking clean energy investments.
Undermining local workers by providing the Chinese with expedited 457 visas, along with removing the need to prove workers are appropriately skilled when brought in on any decent sized project.
A budget which is forecasting a result based on hope, we now have talk of tax cuts. Sheesh. How will you fund them Joe, when you can't pay you bills at present?
Now, if the Govt was proposing to fund income taxes via better targeting super tax concessions, reigning in the NG and CGT tax distortions, helping the states migrate from inefficient SDs to raising revenue via broadly based land taxes and an broadening of the GST, we might be on a winner.
Without meaningful reform Joe, how will you pay for you latest thought buble? Isn't the problem of brackt creep and further over reliance on income and corporate taxes brought about by all of the reform blocking your Govt has done so far?
I suppose we'll just have to wait and see that superior economic management you supposedly have in your DNA from being a Liberal.
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The post to which you refer was actually an underlying criticism of the government on two fronts which I didn't think was that subtle.
What the government needs to do now is somehow find a way to relieve their saddlebags of Speaker Queen Bish and her response over the weekend only reinforces that view.
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wayneL
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I don't know what you're all whinging about:
http://conservativefrontline.com/obama-family-vacations-surpass-100-million/
http://conservativefrontline.com/obama-family-vacations-surpass-100-million/
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Two wrong will make a right.
The right wingers also claim that Obama, whenever he goes overseas, costs $1 billion dollars.
The costs include not just Air Force One, but also a couple Hercules, secret service, emergency crew in case, and all the staff and senior diplomat etc. etc.
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So how much did other Presidents spend ?
It's basically a national event when the Pres goes anywhere, with all the security they insist on. He's probably entitled to a holiday sometime.
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Probably the same. But that wouldn't make your case if your case is Obama is wasteful.
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Peter Slipper Cabcharge =$900 - Disgraced and lost his job http://www.humanheadline.com.au/hinch-says/call-to-order
The Queen Bish Helicopter = $5227 - put on probation http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-20/pm-says-bishop-has-copped-a-justifiable-hiding/6632986
Comparison anyone? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-...nt-treatment-to-slipper-labor-mp-says/6630658
The Queen Bish Helicopter = $5227 - put on probation http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-20/pm-says-bishop-has-copped-a-justifiable-hiding/6632986
Comparison anyone? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-...nt-treatment-to-slipper-labor-mp-says/6630658
Knobby22
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Wow. How much of the money goes however to making sure some nutter doesn't murder his family?
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According to the Herald Sun front age headline "Oops I did it again" she repeated the exercise in NSW a week later.
http://www.pressreader.com/australia/herald-sun/20150720/281479275102592/TextView
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Anyone remember Riverside, kerosene and Bishop?
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Nope. Do tell.
All to well.
No small irony that the Jet-A those helicopters run on is Kero. Ahh queen queen kerosene.
And a spoon full of sugar helps the kerosene go down. Relax you're bathing in it.
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Well it looks as though the government, may have an answer, for the situation Indonesia have left the our cattle industry in.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/28929808/producers-cheer-china-cattle-deal/
If the government pulls it off, Indonesia may have shot itself in the foot.IMO
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/28929808/producers-cheer-china-cattle-deal/
If the government pulls it off, Indonesia may have shot itself in the foot.IMO
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Well it looks as though the government, may have an answer, for the situation Indonesia have left the our cattle industry in.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/28929808/producers-cheer-china-cattle-deal/
If the government pulls it off, Indonesia may have shot itself in the foot.IMO
Fingers crossed
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I don't know about you, trainspotter, but every time I try to jar my missus about spending, I end up getting b!tch slapped all over the house.
Just looking at Bronwyn scares me, she looks like she could slap a cage fighter.
Politicians from both sides should be brought into line with their expenses.
I have just read in the Courier Mail some interesting facts from Alan Jones, WHO, I BELIEVE WAS ON Q&A last might dishing out some facts of Labor Ministers and their speaker's expenses from 2008 to 2013 on junkets around the world.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/enter...ut-mine-proposal/story-fnihmoiz-1227450017726
“Now I know (Labor MP) Tony Burke was quite critical of this today. And I was looking at figures today and at Tony Burke’s charter expenditure.
“A total expenditure between 2008 and 2013 of $316,000. Now in many instances they weren’t accounted for. I think the public are really tired of (them) dipping into taxpayers’ money and saying we can all be treated like potentates. The notion for example of going from Tullamarine to Geelong in a helicopter is just bloody ridiculous.”
“The wider issue is a very simple one,” Jones told Q&A host Tony Jones. “How much does it cost to keep these people going? I am looking at figures here which are just staggering. One speaker went to Ethiopia and Switzerland for one month for $114,000. I mean this is the price of a house for many people in remote areas of Australia.
“But between July and December, (former Labor MP) Harry Jenkins, $120,363. I mean, this is a gravy train that is basically out of control.”
I have just read in the Courier Mail some interesting facts from Alan Jones, WHO, I BELIEVE WAS ON Q&A last might dishing out some facts of Labor Ministers and their speaker's expenses from 2008 to 2013 on junkets around the world.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/enter...ut-mine-proposal/story-fnihmoiz-1227450017726
“Now I know (Labor MP) Tony Burke was quite critical of this today. And I was looking at figures today and at Tony Burke’s charter expenditure.
“A total expenditure between 2008 and 2013 of $316,000. Now in many instances they weren’t accounted for. I think the public are really tired of (them) dipping into taxpayers’ money and saying we can all be treated like potentates. The notion for example of going from Tullamarine to Geelong in a helicopter is just bloody ridiculous.”
“The wider issue is a very simple one,” Jones told Q&A host Tony Jones. “How much does it cost to keep these people going? I am looking at figures here which are just staggering. One speaker went to Ethiopia and Switzerland for one month for $114,000. I mean this is the price of a house for many people in remote areas of Australia.
“But between July and December, (former Labor MP) Harry Jenkins, $120,363. I mean, this is a gravy train that is basically out of control.”
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