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Waleed Aly shuts down Steve Price on The Project over 'greenies' - August 20, 2015
Sydney Morning Herald: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment...r-greenies-20150819-gj36bq.html#ixzz3jJPiH3jy
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..."Hang on Waleed ... you've got a job why shouldn't the people who are going to work on those mines have a job?," Price said to Aly who said he wasn't opposed to jobs. "Go and build a few windmills then."
After Price suggested that – presumably - Aly should tell foreign investors that there is no "sovereign risk" when "they come to this country to do things", Aly ended the interview with a brisk "I'm not going to tell them that Steve because that's not what I'm arguing. I've heard your argument, thank you very much for joining us tonight"...
But it’s fine if judges speak at Labor events, of course - 18 August 2015
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...ne_if_judges_speak_at_labor_events_of_course/
No problem if it's a Labor function. And as we know Gillian Triggs is utterly impartial.
Not that it's relevant, but do you call $80/head fund raising, it's cost recovery at best.Is that a Labor party fundraiser?
Instead of opening a discussion with the community on how the budget problem could be solved, the government doggedly pursued a single solution: cutting social programs. For these reasons, the 2014 budget was rightly rejected.
In 2015, the government’s tax reform process started well. Launching the process with ACOSS, the Treasurer assured us that “everything was on the table”. But within weeks the government ruled out one option after another…
As long as the tax debate is framed by simple slogans such as “lower taxes” we won’t progress tax reform. The reality is that, as the population ages – and our reasonable expectations of the healthcare system increase – governments will need more revenue to provide this and other essential services.
The alternative is that we pay for those services directly through user charges. If that’s what the government thinks should happen, let’s have that discussion…
Some believe the answer is to increase the GST. Yes, let’s have the debate. [But] raising the GST is not as simple as it seems…
ACOSS accepts that all options should be considered to strengthen our revenue base. But we should explore first more equitable ones than raising the GST, such as restoring the personal income tax system for people older than 65. Less than one in five older people pay any income tax, because of their higher tax-free threshold and the sheltering of income from tax through superannuation…
Rather than increasing tax rates, start by closing tax shelters. Start by replacing inefficient taxes like stamp duties with efficient ones like land taxes. Start by treating investment income consistently. In this way, governments can raise more revenue, and do so more fairly and efficiently…
I wonder if ABbott and Hockey could be bothered reading
http://www.acoss.org.au/media-releases/?media_release=acoss-puts-everything-on-table
Forget some of the captain's picks on blocking tax reform and start a genuine dialogue with the community. Either that or your flabby butts may not be on the treasury benches at the end of 2016
Are there any alternatives blocking what the Government want to do?
Oh yes and we all well aware where the problem lays.....we call it a bloody minded obstructive senate.
Heydon's record is spotless Tisme, .
No problem if it's a Labor function. And as we know Gillian Triggs is utterly impartial.
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I guess all you true blue Aussies will be out there rallying against the FTA: ?
You Perth guys can meet at Solidarity Park opposite Parliament House 11.30am 25th August
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More Fabian propaganda though the ACTU with their lies and deceit.
China is a communist country.....the ACTU should be proud to be working with their comrades.
I don't know if Tony Abbott's medication's been changed but the opposition was slaughtered in QT today which is a far cry from the government's present public image.
Its a far cry from their performance as a government.
Scathing critique from Waleed Aly today in the SMH, it really shows how completely lost this 'government' is.
Abbott's love of using schoolyard bully boy tactics in abusing what he sees as his opponents in the wider world will be his entire undoing. The sad thing is the damage he has done to the public perception of our political system with his wrecking ball approach - that will last long after he is gone.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/abbot...war-on-environmentalists-20150819-gj3a1p.html
The stupidity is he is alienating a lot of the conservative heartland with his gutter politics.
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