Yes, what a joke, not that it makes any difference whether you do or you don't.....I would say 90% of people do it and have been doing it since they were born.
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Yes, what a joke, not that it makes any difference whether you do or you don't.....I would say 90% of people do it and have been doing it since they were born.
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Yes, what a joke, not that it makes any difference whether you do or you don't.....I would say 90% of people do it and have been doing it since they were born.
Senator Waters if probably attracted to the idea that in the shower she can tinkle standing up. This is a further step towards equality with men.
On the other hand;
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/aug/21/unthinkable-having-a-sit-down
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I was just looking at the Green's site and was rather amused at the selective pics on the home page.
http://greens.org.au/policy
and I took a random look at the plethora of policies and saw this :
"Landlords will be offered a package worth $500 per property to help them make upgrades and meet the new national standard"
Wow, I'm voting for them next time if they are going to splash huge sums around like that about
http://greens.org.au/policy
and I took a random look at the plethora of policies and saw this :
"Landlords will be offered a package worth $500 per property to help them make upgrades and meet the new national standard"
Wow, I'm voting for them next time if they are going to splash huge sums around like that about
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The new standard is that all properties be painted green.
Can I choose Lincoln Green, wear some crotch hugging tights and carry a bow and arrow?
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Rubbish noco, a large percentage of membership are defecting from the Liberals and the Country Party.
Anyway, explain your version of "Red"?
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The Greens have spoken in QLD and the red necks are on the run...Brilliant.
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The Greens increased their vote by just 0.9% to 8.4%.The Greens have spoken in QLD and the red necks are on the run...Brilliant.
The Green tail can't wag the Labor dog as they did with the Gillard government as the didn't win a seat let alone balance of power.
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Christine Milne resigns.
http://www.news.com.au/national/chr...as-greens-leader/story-fncynjr2-1227338254396
CHRISTINE Milne has resigned from her position as leader of the Greens party.
In a Twitter post she announced that she would not be contesting the 2016 election and would therefore resign as leader of the Australian Greens.
“Feeling optimistic, proud & sad to announce I’m not contesting 2016 election, and so I resign as Leader of Australian Greens,” she wrote.
A leadership ballot for the position will be held at 11.30am.
The shock announcement caught media and political veterans by surprise.
“I’ve just stepped out of a meeting with my Party Room colleagues to send you this note. They are 10 of the best politicians I have ever known. And so, it is with a mix of optimism, pride and sadness that I am letting you know that, at that meeting, I resigned my position as Leader of the Australian Greens,” Senator Milne said.
“After 3 years as leader, 10 years as a senator, and 25 years in politics, the time has come.”
http://www.news.com.au/national/chr...as-greens-leader/story-fncynjr2-1227338254396
CHRISTINE Milne has resigned from her position as leader of the Greens party.
In a Twitter post she announced that she would not be contesting the 2016 election and would therefore resign as leader of the Australian Greens.
“Feeling optimistic, proud & sad to announce I’m not contesting 2016 election, and so I resign as Leader of Australian Greens,” she wrote.
A leadership ballot for the position will be held at 11.30am.
The shock announcement caught media and political veterans by surprise.
“I’ve just stepped out of a meeting with my Party Room colleagues to send you this note. They are 10 of the best politicians I have ever known. And so, it is with a mix of optimism, pride and sadness that I am letting you know that, at that meeting, I resigned my position as Leader of the Australian Greens,” Senator Milne said.
“After 3 years as leader, 10 years as a senator, and 25 years in politics, the time has come.”
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And looks like Adam Bandt has been dropped too.
THE new Greens leader Richard Di Natale has pushed aside suggestions that Adam Bandt had been “shafted” during the ballot, as he signalled a new direction for the party.
Senator Di Natale was elected unopposed as leader today after the shock resignation of Christine Milne.
In a surprising move, senators Scott Ludlam of Western Australia and Larissa Waters of Queensland, were also elected unopposed as co-deputies in a party of just 11 members.
In doing so the party dumped Bandt, the only Green in the House of Representatives, as deputy. Mr Bandt took to Twitter to explain that he was handing over the position to focus on a new baby and winning further lower house seats.
But in a press conference after the vote Senator Milne refused to comment on questions from the media about whether she had tipped off some party members ahead of her resignation, in order to “shaft” Mr Bandt.
THE new Greens leader Richard Di Natale has pushed aside suggestions that Adam Bandt had been “shafted” during the ballot, as he signalled a new direction for the party.
Senator Di Natale was elected unopposed as leader today after the shock resignation of Christine Milne.
In a surprising move, senators Scott Ludlam of Western Australia and Larissa Waters of Queensland, were also elected unopposed as co-deputies in a party of just 11 members.
In doing so the party dumped Bandt, the only Green in the House of Representatives, as deputy. Mr Bandt took to Twitter to explain that he was handing over the position to focus on a new baby and winning further lower house seats.
But in a press conference after the vote Senator Milne refused to comment on questions from the media about whether she had tipped off some party members ahead of her resignation, in order to “shaft” Mr Bandt.
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Maybe the 'looney tune' foundation of their policies, has finally sunk in.
You just have to read about the absolute mess Broome W.A is in, to realise, the Greens opposition to development is crazy.
Onshore processing of LNG and 10,000 jobs stopped, now we have front page news of rampant criminal behaviour.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/27652499/teen-gang-on-rampage-in-broome/
Yes good old Bob Brown, was at the fore front of protesters, in his retirement.
Shame they can't spend as much time, fixing up the chaos they leave behind, on their blind crusades.
Milne may have realised, the senseless agenda, they are peddling.IMO
All these refugees trying to escape third world nations, while the Greens are trying to make us a third world nation.lol
Maybe the 'looney tune' foundation of their policies, has finally sunk in.
You just have to read about the absolute mess Broome W.A is in, to realise, the Greens opposition to development is crazy.
Onshore processing of LNG and 10,000 jobs stopped, now we have front page news of rampant criminal behaviour.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/27652499/teen-gang-on-rampage-in-broome/
Yes good old Bob Brown, was at the fore front of protesters, in his retirement.
Shame they can't spend as much time, fixing up the chaos they leave behind, on their blind crusades.
Milne may have realised, the senseless agenda, they are peddling.IMO
All these refugees trying to escape third world nations, while the Greens are trying to make us a third world nation.lol
The Greens all belong to the Fabian society (communism)...It is very clear....This GREEN charade is just a cover up....It the Greens contested an election as communists, they would not get within a bulls roar of being elected...Shame on them.
Well, I must say the Greens have had an arm chair ride during all the diversion and distraction by the Labor Party.
Same sex marriage....a new flag.....talk again of a republic.....the TURC.
But nobody really wants to talk about how the Green (Watermelon) Party are interfering with important developments like the Adani coal project......The Greens are holding up some 10,000 jobs through their stupidity and Bill Shorten is backing them...I mean what sort of a future Prime Minister would this Shorten make....I has no gutz to stand up to the Greens and the unions.
The link below is a letter written to the editor of the Townsville Daily Bulletin.
http://www.ewenjones.com.au/news2.php?newsid=357
I gave a speech in Parliament last week on the Government’s support for small business. I spoke about the challenges confronting small business and business confidence. In our first year as government we repealed over 50,000 pages of legislation; in excess of 75,000 rules and regulations; and a bottom line saving to the business community of over $2 billion. Yet, not one person noticed. That shows you how much work we have to do to get off the back of small business.
For Townsville, the Adani development is not about India or the Mining Sector. It is not about big business at all. It is not about how we look to the world as a trade and investment destination. It is all about the chance for our region’s small businesses to grow and prosper as part of the chain to develop and supply. It is about the roads and bridges which must be built. It is about the concreters, the truck drivers, the car and truck dealerships, the boiler makers, home and commercial builders, the quarry operators, the department and corner stores, all the way through to pie vans which would prosper as we develop our region from Townsville’s Port to the Carmichael Mine and to Abbot Point.
I am in absolute lock step with the Attorney-General, George Brandis, when he says that we are seeing political arguments played out in the courts to stymie projects about which some hold political opposition. Instead of arguing the decision in Parliament, they take to the courts and use tenuous legal argument to delay vital projects. The recent attack on Adani is a case in point. The two endangered species were noted in all the outcomes and their welfare and protection were in the conditions outlined by the Minister for the Environment. But, because they were not specifically named in a briefing paper, that was reason enough to launch the challenge. This is especially annoying because this first happened when Labor’s Tony Burke was Environment Minister. We offered then to close this loophole but that was rejected by Labor in Government and now again in opposition.
Business confidence is low in our city and region. Employment opportunities are tight. When decisions like these are handed down, it hurts us all. It hurts even more when it could and should have been avoided. We are moving as quickly as we can to support this venture and give confidence to the community and small business sector. Let us hope that Labor will back these changes.
The use of public funds to finance these challenges must be addressed. I see people in my office with real problems who are unable to gain support from Legal Aid or other support areas. Imagine if we could free up the funds used in this kind of “Environmental Lawfare” and put them to use for people trying to get their families supported.
Everything we do impacts our environment, everything. How we manage those impacts is the most important thing.
Ewen Jones
Federal Member for Herbert
Same sex marriage....a new flag.....talk again of a republic.....the TURC.
But nobody really wants to talk about how the Green (Watermelon) Party are interfering with important developments like the Adani coal project......The Greens are holding up some 10,000 jobs through their stupidity and Bill Shorten is backing them...I mean what sort of a future Prime Minister would this Shorten make....I has no gutz to stand up to the Greens and the unions.
The link below is a letter written to the editor of the Townsville Daily Bulletin.
http://www.ewenjones.com.au/news2.php?newsid=357
I gave a speech in Parliament last week on the Government’s support for small business. I spoke about the challenges confronting small business and business confidence. In our first year as government we repealed over 50,000 pages of legislation; in excess of 75,000 rules and regulations; and a bottom line saving to the business community of over $2 billion. Yet, not one person noticed. That shows you how much work we have to do to get off the back of small business.
For Townsville, the Adani development is not about India or the Mining Sector. It is not about big business at all. It is not about how we look to the world as a trade and investment destination. It is all about the chance for our region’s small businesses to grow and prosper as part of the chain to develop and supply. It is about the roads and bridges which must be built. It is about the concreters, the truck drivers, the car and truck dealerships, the boiler makers, home and commercial builders, the quarry operators, the department and corner stores, all the way through to pie vans which would prosper as we develop our region from Townsville’s Port to the Carmichael Mine and to Abbot Point.
I am in absolute lock step with the Attorney-General, George Brandis, when he says that we are seeing political arguments played out in the courts to stymie projects about which some hold political opposition. Instead of arguing the decision in Parliament, they take to the courts and use tenuous legal argument to delay vital projects. The recent attack on Adani is a case in point. The two endangered species were noted in all the outcomes and their welfare and protection were in the conditions outlined by the Minister for the Environment. But, because they were not specifically named in a briefing paper, that was reason enough to launch the challenge. This is especially annoying because this first happened when Labor’s Tony Burke was Environment Minister. We offered then to close this loophole but that was rejected by Labor in Government and now again in opposition.
Business confidence is low in our city and region. Employment opportunities are tight. When decisions like these are handed down, it hurts us all. It hurts even more when it could and should have been avoided. We are moving as quickly as we can to support this venture and give confidence to the community and small business sector. Let us hope that Labor will back these changes.
The use of public funds to finance these challenges must be addressed. I see people in my office with real problems who are unable to gain support from Legal Aid or other support areas. Imagine if we could free up the funds used in this kind of “Environmental Lawfare” and put them to use for people trying to get their families supported.
Everything we do impacts our environment, everything. How we manage those impacts is the most important thing.
Ewen Jones
Federal Member for Herbert
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Propaganda noco
Read a few facts
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...governments-myths-busted-20150819-gj2u2o.html
Read a few facts
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...governments-myths-busted-20150819-gj2u2o.html
I have noted with interest your claim that Ewen Jone's letter to the Townsville Bulletin was just a piece of propaganda...
.So I decided to do a little sleuth work on Lisa Cox and checked dozens of articles she had written over the past couple of years and I came to the conclusion that her posts were very anti Abbott and she did on most occasions do her best to discredit Abbott in a very subtle way.....Never did she ever at any time mention the rotten corrupt unions or your fearless leader of the Labor Party who accepted $40,000 for his own personal use.
So I had no alternative but to come to the conclusion that Lisa Cox is a supporter of the left and to place credence on her postings would, in the average persons mind, leave much to be desired.
Thanks to Labors comrades in the Watermelon Party, who are intent in destroying jobs, this project looks like being delayed until 2017 in which time $20 billion could well be the true figure....There is now also a case of Aboriginal land rites which no doubt will be financed by the Greens who have their bank accounts well topped up by the unions.
Lisa Cox criticized the 10,000 jobs which will be lost to a figure of some 1600 but she has not taken into consideration the jobs which would be let out on contract to companies here in Townsville and Mackay as per the insert below.
For Townsville, the Adani development is not about India or the Mining Sector. It is not about big business at all. It is not about how we look to the world as a trade and investment destination. It is all about the chance for our region’s small businesses to grow and prosper as part of the chain to develop and supply. It is about the roads and bridges which must be built. It is about the concreters, the truck drivers, the car and truck dealerships, the boiler makers, home and commercial builders, the quarry operators, the department and corner stores, all the way through to pie vans which would prosper as we develop our region from Townsville’s Port to the Carmichael Mine and to Abbot Point.
There was also no mention of the rail line to be built which would be creating more jobs.
You know Bill Shorten and the Labor Party are always sprouting about creating jobs and you lefties carry on deranged school kids about where are the jobs coming from......If Shorten was fair dinkum about creating jobs why doesn't he stand up to the Greens and the unions and show some leadership....Shorten is destroying job opportunities...He even diddled the workers in the Chiquita and Clearvent companies....Shorten is not interested in Australian workers...Shorten is only interested in point scoring.
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Well, that makes us even. You don't believe anything I post, and I don't believe anything you post, so I really can't see any benefit in continuing any discussion with you at all on any subject.
Anyone who does not mindlessly echo the type of stuff you quote from extreme Right Wing people or organisations is a creature of the Left according to you and therefore to be disregarded, even when they supply facts or statistics to support their case.
Sorry matey, but you are a "rusted on" Right Winger, and therefore not capable of accepting viewpoints outside your preconceived views, and accordingly it's pointless trying to have a rational discussion with you, however I wish you all the best of health and good fortune in the future.
I guess we will have to agree to disagree but the fact is there are so many lies coming from the lefties to brainwash the naive just like the the adds that the ETU keep coming up with about the Chinese FTA will take away jobs from Australians....That is an absolute lie and you know it....The unions use 457 visas to bring in 41 overseas staff when I am sure those jobs could have been filled by Australians
What ever political persuasion I may have is irrelevant to the fact and I will always stand up for what I believe in
and socialism (communism) will never play a part of my political beliefs.....If you want to see socialism in this country then vote for the Green/Labor left wing socialist...That is your prerogative and God help the country then if it ever happens.
Perhaps you should be reminded that this Forum is about freedom of speech, opinions and facts as we see and observe and no one has the right to attempt to close down someone who does not agree with you.
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I have never tried to "close you down" , just saying that responding to your cherry picked Right Wing propaganda is pointless.
