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They might be saving that for when Wayne Swan in replaced as treasurer in another orderly reshuffle.
They might be saving that for when Wayne Swan in replaced as treasurer in another orderly reshuffle.Terrible choice of music, 'another one bites the dust' would have been much more appropriate.
Terrible choice of music, 'another one bites the dust' would have been much more appropriate.
Workplace changes are right: Albanese
http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/br...hanges-are-right-albanese-20130211-2e7c2.html
"Federal cabinet minister Anthony Albanese says Labor's planned workplace relations changes must be right - because they have been criticised by both business and the Greens."
This is an excellent way to determine industrial relations policy. If the business sector criticises/does not like it then it must be good policy.
Idiots.
Wayne Swan talking to the kiddies about making the sums add up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4557gkKuN4&feature=player_embedded
According to Swan, Labor's fiscal woes are caused by an exceptionally low tax take. But that claim is difficult to accept. The government's latest published projections show 2012-13 revenue to be 24.0 per cent of GDP, which is above the historical average ratio of 23.6 percent. And even if revenue comes in at only 23.0 per cent of GDP, revenue as a share of GDP would still have grown since 2009-10, and grown in each of the past two years.
Rather, the government's fundamental problem lies on the spending side. And here, despite all the government's spin, the facts are simple. Under John Howard, real government spending per capita increased at 2.4 per cent a year; under Labor, it has increased more than twice as rapidly, at an annual average of 5.1 per cent. And to that must be added Labor's unfunded, but widely publicised, commitments to the Gonski reforms and the NDIS.
Labor's budget problem,
According to Swan, Labor's fiscal woes are caused by an exceptionally low tax take. But that claim is difficult to accept. The government's latest published projections show 2012-13 revenue to be 24.0 per cent of GDP, which is above the historical average ratio of 23.6 percent. And even if revenue comes in at only 23.0 per cent of GDP, revenue as a share of GDP would still have grown since 2009-10, and grown in each of the past two years.
Rather, the government's fundamental problem lies on the spending side. And here, despite all the government's spin, the facts are simple. Under John Howard, real government spending per capita increased at 2.4 per cent a year; under Labor, it has increased more than twice as rapidly, at an annual average of 5.1 per cent. And to that must be added Labor's unfunded, but widely publicised, commitments to the Gonski reforms and the NDIS.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...r-super-strategy/story-fn7078da-1226574891956
Labor is doomed and there's nothing it can do about it
Labor's standing in NSW is already abysmal and will certainly not improve as the ICAC hearings continue. The ALP can anticipate a landslide against it of catastrophic proportions in the federal election, writes Mungo MacCallum.
The government’s position on fiscal policy – already undermined by its concession that it will not reach a surplus this financial year – is increasingly open to question with the collapse in expectations that the mining tax will raise significant funds, and the likelihood that carbon tax revenues will also be lower than expected for years to come.
The Australian immigration budget has increased by $1.3 billion over four years, as the government prepares to expand the humanitarian visa program to 20,000 each year.
THE federal government's much-heralded "homestay" program for asylum seekers has collapsed, with just four people who have arrived on boats currently staying with Australian families.
The revelation, at a Senate budget estimates hearing, came as immigration officials admitted the children and ex-wife of alleged people smuggling kingpin Captain Emad remain in Australia on visas despite having deceived the government about the status of their father and husband.
Australian Homestay Network executive chairman David Bycroft said host families had been left "disappointed" after services providers for asylum seekers slowed placements to a trickle.
The hearing heard the program was on a "hiatus" until the Department of Immigration could place asylum seekers with hosts close to services. He said in some cases boat people wanted to be closer to their friends.
It also emerged the department had budgeted for 12,000 boat arrivals this financial year but the influx has already topped 12,800.
Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands.Indigenous Australians migrated from Africa to Asia around 70,000 years ago and arrived in Australia around 50,000 years ago.
That's just the icing.One more bungle to add to Labor's incompetance and to think the MRRT has cost us $50,000,000 to set up for a return of $126,000,000 over a period of 6 months. The three major miners must tbe laughing their heads off.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...f-her-own-making/story-e6frg74x-1226576514638
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