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IFocus said:
Your grand kids will have less for education and health care as a result.
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I suppose the spending cuts that Labor took to the last election but are now combining with the Greens to defeat in Senate are the Abbott Government's fault too.

Labor's fiscal irresponsibility knows no bounds.
 
This government is really taking us forward with the correct priorities, How goes that song .................hands on hearts Rule Britannia...........


Knights and dames reinstated in change to Australia's honours system

Tony Abbott reveals the outgoing governor general, Quentin Bryce, and her successor, Peter Cosgrove, will be the first to receive the titles


http://www.theguardian.com/politics...o-australias-honours-system#start-of-comments
 
IFocus said:
Abbott help create the issues backed the spending (populous opposition) and opposed the mining tax as Gina didn't have enough zillions and Rudd botched the implementation.

Your grand kids will have less for education and health care as a result.
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And whose fault is that?.......you whistle and I will point

My grand kids and my great grand kids will still be paying off Labor economic miss management
 
Tug my forelock and call me 'queeny'.
And bend me over and roger my ramjets if it's not 'sir John Winston for his services to warmongering and lickspittle'dom.......

Come on you Tory Tub Thumpers sing the highs, of how now we all have to stoop so low, as some.

Bryce has cut a deal on this... Any guesses?
 
IFocus said:
This government is really taking us forward with the correct priorities, How goes that song .................hands on hearts Rule Britannia...........


Knights and dames reinstated in change to Australia's honours system

Tony Abbott reveals the outgoing governor general, Quentin Bryce, and her successor, Peter Cosgrove, will be the first to receive the titles


http://www.theguardian.com/politics...o-australias-honours-system#start-of-comments
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I would have thought Abbott would have better things to do with his time.

Lets create another class in Australia. No doubt it will cost tax payers more money to keep them.

Next thing he will introduce Lordships for politicians.

Knights and Dames, humbug and totally unnecessary.
 
IFocus said:
This government is really taking us forward with the correct priorities, How goes that song .................hands on hearts Rule Britannia...........


Knights and dames reinstated in change to Australia's honours system

Tony Abbott reveals the outgoing governor general, Quentin Bryce, and her successor, Peter Cosgrove, will be the first to receive the titles


http://www.theguardian.com/politics...o-australias-honours-system#start-of-comments
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Every day the goes by under the Abbott government we move a step closer to the 1950's

Next thing Tony will get up in Parliament and say of the Queen "I did but see her passing by, and yet I'll love her till I die".
 
rumpole said:
Every day the goes by under the Abbott government we move a step closer to the 1950's

Next thing Tony will get up in Parliament and say of the Queen "I did but see her passing by, and yet I'll love her till I die".
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Good to see you are a Royalist.

Don't you mean a step closer to 2050.....1950 has long gone so we can't possibly take a step closer.

You most likely were not even born then.
 
noco said:
Good to see you are a Royalist.

Don't you mean a step closer to 2050.....1950 has long gone so we can't possibly take a step closer.

You most likely were not even born then.
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I was born in the 1950's and I meant a step closer to the 1950's in style. You know, women at home doing the ironing, God Save the Queen played in schools every morning, and Knighthoods dished out by politicians to their mates.
 
Quentin, an avowed Republican accepted the honour.
The ruling class have a lot of difficulty resisting the lure of titles.

She has provided a good win for Abbott as any resistance now just looks forlorn.
Personally, I don't mind their return.
 
*Looks at his own avatar name*

Meh! What's the big deal about bringing back the Sir moniker? Isn't it just a way of the country (or whoever is in power politically) to celebrate an individuals achievements?

Isn't that how we ended up with Sir Donald Bradman..Dare we hope for a Sir Shane Keith Warne?

Cheers

Sir O
 
George Brandis says everyone has the right to be bigoted.

Cambridge Dictionary:

BIGOT: a person who has strong, unreasonable beliefs and who thinks that anyone who does not have the same beliefs is wrong.
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I guess that covers most people on this thread.:)
 
Joe Hockey is becoming the strength behind this government,

Knobby22 said:
JOE Hockey’s warning on the budget blowout is aimed at his leader’s office as much as at Labor and the public at large.

With just seven weeks left before he stands up in the House of Representatives to deliver his critical first budget, now is the time for Coalition leadership to confront the politically unpalatable savings decisions that are needed to bring the government’s finances back under control. It must not defer decisions until next year or, worse, after the next election to avoid short-term political pain.

The government has been in possession of the Commission of Audit’s first report for six weeks. It will have made recommendations affecting age pensions, Medicare, family and disability benefits along with industry and defence programs. Anything less would fail to deliver the budget surplus equivalent to 1 per cent of GDP by 2023, which was at the heart of its terms of reference.

Hockey is saying the government must bite the bullet now, because finances are not going to get any better. On the contrary, they will get much worse as unbudgeted defence, health and education commitments kick in from 2017-18 onwards.

It is striking that the government is also wanting to introduce new spending of its own, including roads and its extravagant paid parental leave scheme, further confusing its budget message.

Hockey will receive the commission’s second report by the end of this week. It will make recommendations on budget governance, including new fiscal rules.

Labor’s Chris Bowen says if only the government had not jettisoned Labor’s fiscal rules while adding some fresh spending, it could be back in surplus within five years. However, if only Labor had kept to its own fiscal rules, the deficit would be a fraction of its current size.

The problem, as the Parliamentary Budget Office has detailed, is that the cost of pensions, health, education and defence is rising more rapidly than inflation.

The government must not only agree to tough savings, but also to new rules imposing greater discipline on its spending than Labor was able to achieve.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...lear-pm-act-now/story-e6frg9qo-1226864761688#
 
drsmith said:
Joe Hockey is becoming the strength behind this government,
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+1.
On the Knighthood thing, I don't care one way or the other. Just think it's irrelevant and unnecessary, and handing to the Left a reason for the mockery about reverting to the 50's.
 
drsmith said:
Joe Hockey is becoming the strength behind this government,



http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...lear-pm-act-now/story-e6frg9qo-1226864761688#
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It's pertinent to look at expenditure, but it's also pertinent to look at revenue, but sadly "the strength" seems totally unable to do this, apart from giving away revenue like the carbon and mining taxes. The expenditure associated with the mining tax could be abolished, but the tax itself kept and strengthened which would put our income on a sounder footing and enable the paying off of debt, which "the strength" still has no idea of how to achieve.
 
SirRumpole said:
It's pertinent to look at expenditure, but it's also pertinent to look at revenue, but sadly "the strength" seems totally unable to do this, apart from giving away revenue like the carbon and mining taxes. The expenditure associated with the mining tax could be abolished, but the tax itself kept and strengthened which would put our income on a sounder footing and enable the paying off of debt, which "the strength" still has no idea of how to achieve.
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I thought the carbon tax wasn't about revenue but about saving the planet. :rolleyes:

The mining tax definitely wasn't about revenue. It was about getting JG over the line in the 2010 election.
 
Julia said:
+1.
On the Knighthood thing, I don't care one way or the other. Just think it's irrelevant and unnecessary, and handing to the Left a reason for the mockery about reverting to the 50's.
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I don't get it either. Hopefully it will be TA's only Julia Gillard style captains pick.
 
SirRumpole said:
I was born in the 1950's and I meant a step closer to the 1950's in style. You know, women at home doing the ironing, God Save the Queen played in schools every morning, and Knighthoods dished out by politicians to their mates.
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And you turned out alright one would assume? :rolleyes:
 
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