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It is going to be interesting to see how the budget goes with interest rates down to approx 3-4%. Pensioners having to draw down a minimum 3% on their super, 4% after July next year.:eek:
It doesn't look good for the financial drain on the old age pension as pensioners savings are eroded and they qualify for more government pension.
Don't worry Labor and the union run industry funds will come up something. I bet we won't like it.:D

It is a laugh really, give away money on stupid schemes, in the name of saving jobs.
Then 3 years later introduce taxes, that cost jobs, to pay back the money you gave away earlier, in the name of saving jobs.
It rings of stupidity.:cry:
Whoever wins the next election has inherited a huge problem.LOL
Worlds Greatest Treasurer. LOL
 
It's all about 2 words right now, "Budget" and "Surplus".

Forget about people's health and wellbeing...

Federal Government criticised over delay of new heart and stroke drug Pradaxa

The outcome of that inquiry has still not been made public and there are growing concerns the Government is trying to delay subsidising the drug, at a cost of about $250 million a year, so it can balance its Budget.
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Link - http://tiny.cc/uk5znw
 
Polls this week have also showed that the government's recent cliimb in the polls has stalled at 53/47 2PP in favour of the Coalition.

That's despite Tony Abbott as opposition leader being less popular than ever.

Labor's race horse is still as dead as ever.

red123nz said:
Get the feeling that at all costs they will have a budget surplus - even if its just on paper?
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They will call an election before admitting to a headline deficit.
 
drsmith said:
Polls this week have also showed that the government's recent cliimb in the polls has stalled at 53/47 2PP in favour of the Coalition.

That's despite Tony Abbott as opposition leader being less popular than ever.

Labor's race horse is still as dead as ever.


They will call an election before admitting to a headline deficit.
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They keep giving the "dead horse" an injection, Julia's spray, call a royal commission.
But it is really not working, people have already decided a vote for Labor is a vote for the loonies.LOL
You make your bed, you lie in it.:D
 
Heard a news flash on one of the radio stations yesterday, someone is supposed to have a copy of the Gillard missing files.
We might find out soon what she had to hide!!!!!!!
 
THE federal independent MP Rob Oakeshott has declared the mining tax ''unsustainable'' and said unless federal and state governments sort out the dispute over royalties, the tax must be brought back to Parliament and amended.
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Dear Mr Oakshott,

Julia Gillard did a deal with the big three miners in order to secure a deal, any deal, for a snap election. The shattered peices of that deal don't need to be picked up. They need to be swept away, along with the government you are supporting to its political death.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...-must-be-fixed--oakeshott-20121120-29o2e.html
 
Irrespective of what Ralph Blewitt discloses, considering all the facts known to date, it is obvious that, Julia Gillard is not a fit person to be the Prime Minister of Australia.
 
It's not an easy life being a handbag.

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Tim should get Julia to make a state visit to France. Australia's First Boyfriend could get some tips from Frances's First Girlfriend.

SHE was banished from the French presidential website when her refusal to take a back-seat role after her partner, Francois Hollande, became head of state in May went down badly with the public.

Now Valerie Trierweiler is to return after a PR makeover designed to transform her into a traditional First Lady - all smiles, charity work and playing second fiddle to her man. The new Ms Trierweiler told French radio yesterday that it had been a great pleasure to answer the 170 letters she had received last month, and that she was planning to organise gala dinners for an association fighting poverty and to raise awareness about AIDS.

Her comments represented a notable change of tone for a woman who said in one of her first public statements: "I am discovering what is expected of the First Lady... she kisses sick children and looks after the dinner menus. And that revolts me."
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...nd-revamps-image/story-fnb64oi6-1226521939108

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drsmith said:
I think this is about to blow......................, big time.
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Doc, Miss Houdini can get out of anything including being in a straight jacket, tied to a block of concrete and droped into a swimming pool.

She will do in two minutes flat.
 
This Fitzroy apartment deal could bring her down. Stinking more and more.

Bank letter links PM to union mortgage

November 22, 2012 - 7:16PM
Mark Baker

The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, told her law firm partners she knew nothing about the mortgage on a Fitzroy property, bought partly with union money stolen by her former boyfriend, despite having been involved in the mortgage arrangements for the property two years earlier.

A 1993 bank letter confirms that Ms Gillard - then a salaried partner with law firm Slater & Gordon - received an insurance certificate of currency, which was required for approval of a $150,000 mortgage provided by the firm's loan department.

But Ms Gillard denied knowledge of the mortgage when challenged by the firm's managing partners in late 1995, after they first discovered her involvement in the work.

"I don't, I don't think I knew that at the time," she told senior partner Peter Gordon, according to new details of the interview obtained by The Age.

A West Australian fraud squad investigation in 1996 found the rest of the purchase money - more than $100,000 - had been siphoned from a union association by Bruce Wilson, Ms Gillard's then boyfriend and a senior Australian Workers Union official.

The unit in Kerr Street, Fitzroy, was bought in the name of Ralph Blewitt, a union crony of Mr Wilson who this week returned to Melbourne from his home in Malaysia to brief Victorian police, who are considering whether to reopen their investigation into the scandal.

In the newly-released details of her September 1995 meeting with Mr Gordon, Ms Gillard - after being questioned in detail about her work for Wilson and Blewitt - denies any knowledge of the Fitzroy mortgage.

Peter Gordon: "Were you aware at any time that the balance of the funds to make up the capital was to be provided by contributory mortgage of which Jonathan Rothfield (a Slater & Gordon partner) was trustee?"

Julia Gillard: "I don't, I don't think I knew that at the time, where the source of funds was. It's subsequently been raised with me that that was done through the Slater & Gordon mortgage register but I didn't have any recollection of that."
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Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/po...on-mortgage-20121122-29ssd.html#ixzz2CwFswFDn

Anyone have a summary of factual events around this?
 
kennas said:
This Fitzroy apartment deal could bring her down. Stinking more and more.



Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/po...on-mortgage-20121122-29ssd.html#ixzz2CwFswFDn

Anyone have a summary of factual events around this?
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Kennas, Michael Smith has a lot on his website - so much it is a little difficult to navigate now. Michael lost his job as a radio presenter when he was running on this story. It seems there was a phone call from the PM and he was out of a job. He has since been using his police detective abilities plus the time he has free to devote himself to getting to the bottom of this thing.

Michael's website: http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/
 

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