The Gillard Government

[chops_a_must]

Can't wait for this election to be over so then people can get something else to complain about.

 

[Bintang]

Can't wait for this election to be over so then people can get something else to complain about.

Don't think you will get much respite. Within 6 months of the election people will be complaining about the new government they have just elected.

 

[chops_a_must]

Don't think you will get much respite. Within 6 months of the election people will be complaining about the new government they have just elected.

I don't know.

I'm expecting all our country's problems to be solved in this time.

 

[IFocus]

Don't think you will get much respite. Within 6 months of the election people will be complaining about the new government they have just elected.

Yep higher tax's and less jobs really looking forward to Abbott.

 

[IFocus]

You're completely out of ammo aren't you, reduced to pathetic wimpering responses

Just admit it, your Labor party is the worst in Australian history, they make Whitlam look successful.

Not at all you just have to separate the Abbott groupies from the facts everyone is in work, low interest rates, low inflation, low debt levels in the middle of world chaos of the great recession.

Abbott will create mayhem stay tuned even the Essential poll says so.

 

[MrBurns]

Not at all you just have to separate the Abbott groupies from the facts everyone is in work, low interest rates, low inflation, low debt levels in the middle of world chaos of the great recession.

Abbott will create mayhem stay tuned even the Essential poll says so.

No Abbott will inherit mayhem, all carefully prepared by Gillard, Goofy and the team .

 

[chops_a_must]

I work with a Greek man who is new to the country.

He can't work it out. Doesn't understand the contempt we have for our government.

I dislike this ALP government and Gillard fervently, for completely different reasons to most here.

But this sense of mayhem is kind of strange.

Some people might not have visited other parts of the world recently.

 

[Calliope]

But this sense of mayhem is kind of strange.

Some people might not have visited other parts of the world recently.

It would indeed be strange if it happened here.

Mayhem:
a : willful and permanent deprivation of a bodily member resulting in the impairment of a person's fighting ability
b : willful and permanent crippling, mutilation, or disfigurement of any part of the body

 

[bunyip]

According to ABC’s 7.30 program tonight, five of Labor’s 10 most marginal seats are in NSW, and three of those five seats are in western Sydney.
Guess where Gillard is spending the next few days?.....campaigning in western Sydney in the interestingly named Rooty Hill area.
Nearly all of the half dozen or so people interviewed in that area said Gillard is a liar, with one bloke likening her to a car salesman.
JuLIAR is now starting to pay the price for her dishonesty and lack of integrity.
Clearly she's a desperate woman.

 

[sails]

Yep higher tax's and less jobs really looking forward to Abbott.

yeah right - higher taxes to pay off labor's debts and their on-going massive boat arrival expenses. And Virgin losing profits over carbon tax: Selling the story of the carbon tax impost: Virgin’s half-year results

Our own electricity bill is 50% higher than this time last year and the only significant thing that has changed is carbon tax.

Stop telling porkies, IF...


And less jobs? I thought Gillard is rapidly becoming the queen of people losing jobs? Read this: Long-term unemployment highest in two decades

Now, two decades ago would put the last unemployment as bad as this into labor's time. Looks like more porkies from you, IF? Are you paid to sprout this sort of propaganda?

 

[sptrawler]

I work with a Greek man who is new to the country.

He can't work it out. Doesn't understand the contempt we have for our government.

I dislike this ALP government and Gillard fervently, for completely different reasons to most here.

But this sense of mayhem is kind of strange.

Some people might not have visited other parts of the world recently.

Well if he is new to the country, he wouldn't be in step with the Australian mindset.
As you would know Australians don't shout, scream and burn effigies, unlike Greece.
Australians just wait untill it is their turn, then vote accordingly.

The sense of mayhem isn't strange at all, the Government has run the country the same way as a union is run.
They tell the members what they want to hear, then they do exactly as they like, which doesn't reflect what the membership voted on.
The problem for Labor is, the Australian public hasn't enjoyed been treated like this and as with union membership, the support is falling.
Pretty basic really, there is no turning it around, it will only get worse.IMO

 

[sails]

According to ABC’s 7.30 program tonight, five of Labor’s 10 most marginal seats are in NSW, and three of those five seats are in western Sydney.
Guess where Gillard is spending the next few days?.....campaigning in western Sydney in the interestingly named Rooty Hill area.
Nearly all of the half dozen or so people interviewed in that area said Gillard is a liar, with one bloke likening her to a car salesman.
JuLIAR is now starting to pay the price for her dishonesty and lack of integrity.
Clearly she's a desperate woman.

Even her surname has the letters of 'liar' in it. Just move the 'i' and you get Glliard...lol

And staying in a hotel at "Rooty" hill seems to fit her past profile...

 

[chops_a_must]

Well if he is new to the country, he wouldn't be in step with the Australian mindset.
As you would know Australians don't shout, scream and burn effigies, unlike Greece.
Australians just wait untill it is their turn, then vote accordingly.

The sense of mayhem isn't strange at all, the Government has run the country the same way as a union is run.
They tell the members what they want to hear, then they do exactly as they like, which doesn't reflect what the membership voted on.
The problem for Labor is, the Australian public hasn't enjoyed been treated like this and as with union membership, the support is falling.
Pretty basic really, there is no turning it around, it will only get worse.IMO

I agree the end can't come soon enough. And she's thrown her own supporters under the bus.

But I disagree with the doom and gloom and mayhem calls. It only makes sense from a point of perception that has been the Australian life for 20-30 years.

As to the taxes and jobs debate:

We will lose jobs regardless IMO. But more with a conservative government. As displayed by the lnp nationwide. However, this would be at odds with Abbott's own rhetoric which necessitates a big rhetoric for his policies.

Our taxes will increase over the next 20 years. That's nothing to do with government, debt or policy. That's demographics.

But as a low to middle income earner, personally I'm concerned about winding back breaks I've received recently.

 

[chops_a_must]

Our own electricity bill is 50% higher than this time last year and the only significant thing that has changed is carbon tax.

Could be worse. You could live in the terrortory.

Increases in electricity of betweent 30 and 50% on top of the existing, most expensive electricity rate in the country.

Is absolutely massacring business up here.

 

[sptrawler]

I agree the end can't come soon enough. And she's thrown her own supporters under the bus.

But I disagree with the doom and gloom and mayhem calls. It only makes sense from a point of perception that has been the Australian life for 20-30 years.

As to the taxes and jobs debate:

We will lose jobs regardless IMO. But more with a conservative government. As displayed by the lnp nationwide. However, this would be at odds with Abbott's own rhetoric which necessitates a big rhetoric for his policies.

Our taxes will increase over the next 20 years. That's nothing to do with government, debt or policy. That's demographics.

But as a low to middle income earner, personally I'm concerned about winding back breaks I've received recently.

There is no doom and gloom for Australia, untill the resources run out, which won't be in your lifetime.
There will be recessions we have to have, to bring back balance.
I'm not so sure demographics are going to be as big an issue as is being portayed.
We defininitely need to spend more money and force mining companies to spend more money, on developing northern Australia.
As it is at the moment it is a security risk, if we don't take steps to develop it, why wouldn't an Asian country move in on it?

 

[chops_a_must]

There is no doom and gloom for Australia, untill the resources run out, which won't be in your lifetime.
There will be recessions we have to have, to bring back balance.
I'm not so sure demographics are going to be as big an issue as is being portayed.
We defininitely need to spend more money and force mining companies to spend more money, on developing northern Australia.
As it is at the moment it is a security risk, if we don't take steps to develop it, why wouldn't an Asian country move in on it?

At the moment they don't have to.

They've bought the premier cattle stations in the NT, are funding the next ord expansion, have invested in the Daly and are behind a ramp up of sandalwood in the NT.

 

[sptrawler]

At the moment they don't have to.

They've bought the premier cattle stations in the NT, are funding the next ord expansion, have invested in the Daly and are behind a ramp up of sandalwood in the NT.

Exactly, the Chinese are buying it up, Australians refuse to move there. The Labor Government is actively ridiculing it.
Therefore the Chinese will have every justification to bring in their own workforce.
This in turn will cause all monies from the development to flow overseas.LOL

Really dumb, just too stupid for words.

Guess which government has relaxed all overseas ownership rules, this is the dumbest government I have ever seen.
At least Gough had the country at heart, this election is going to be a massive event.IMO

 

[chops_a_must]

Exactly, the Chinese are buying it up, Australians refuse to move there. The Labor Government is actively ridiculing it.
Therefore the Chinese will have every justification to bring in their own workforce.
This in turn will cause all monies from the development to flow overseas.LOL

Really dumb, just too stupid for words.

Guess which government has relaxed all overseas ownership rules, this is the dumbest government I have ever seen.
At least Gough had the country at heart, this election is going to be a massive event.IMO

The ord was a Barnett decision.

 

[Julia]

I work with a Greek man who is new to the country.

He can't work it out. Doesn't understand the contempt we have for our government.

That's a somewhat disingenuous comparison. Pretty much anywhere would be better than Greece!!!
(Italy might be a contender if indeed they re-elect the crook Berlusconi.)

Could be worse. You could live in the terrortory.

Increases in electricity of betweent 30 and 50% on top of the existing, most expensive electricity rate in the country.

Is absolutely massacring business up here.

You might be unaware that an electricity price rise has just been announced for Queensland of almost 22% as from the new financial year. This is on top of the increases Sails has already described.

Yes, business is and will be suffering. I'm possibly most concerned with the thousands of low income earners who have already had their electricity disconnected because they cannot pay the bill. What happens to them, and all the small businesses struggling already, with such a massive increase?
There's something very much askew with a society where such a basic need as electricity seems to be becoming beyond the reach of many.

 

[chops_a_must]

That's a somewhat disingenuous comparison. Pretty much anywhere would be better than Greece!!!
(Italy might be a contender if indeed they re-elect the crook Berlusconi.)


You might be unaware that an electricity price rise has just been announced for Queensland of almost 22% as from the new financial year. This is on top of the increases Sails has already described.

Yes, business is and will be suffering. I'm possibly most concerned with the thousands of low income earners who have already had their electricity disconnected because they cannot pay the bill. What happens to them, and all the small businesses struggling already, with such a massive increase?
There's something very much askew with a society where such a basic need as electricity seems to be becoming beyond the reach of many.

Well, I know what's happening here at least. Most people who can, are leaving or about to. Including myself.

At least in Qld your average rent isn't 600pw average.