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sptrawler said:
Doc, IMO this government has been nothing more than economic vandals, whose main driver has been personal.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/bu...389/goyder-says-global-carbon-pricing-needed/

How long ago were you, smurph and others saying exactly what Goyden is saying.
Also before the goons jump in and say Goyden has a vested interest, yes he actually cares.
Westfarmers are Australian are building on Australia and I wished I had shares in them.:cry:
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I don't know why Goyden doesn't just agree with the coalition and demand that the carbon tax be dumped. Obviously setting the carbon price to what Europe is paying would not put Australia at a disadvantage relative to Europe and at under $4/tonne would have little impact compared to the current $23, but remember the $23 was just a stepping stone to a much higher figure. I think the Greens, not that I would put much credence in what they say, estimated that the price would have to be $50+ before it would have a measurable effect on emissions and that was with most high polluting countries participating. So why not stop the pretence and just send it to the scrap heap. It is just one more Labor party policy implementation failure.
 
Does anyone think we need a Keating moment "A recession we have to have" Dumbo and the goons won't call it.

But can we keep maintaining, climbing house prices, low interest rates supporting the house prices and the high Aussie$.

Somethings got to give.IMO
 
Emily’s List would never have chosen Thatcher - Miranda Devine - Sunday, April 14, 2013

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailyteleg...dailytelegraph/comments/a_woman_of_substance/

Once she [Gillard] made it into parliament in 1998, EMILY’S List continued to do Gillard’s dirty work.

For instance, in 2004 leaked EMILY’s List polling found fault with then deputy Labor leader Jenny Macklin, claiming she was “failing to cut through”.

Surprise, surprise, it rated Gillard as parliament’s top performer. Soon enough, Gillard had Macklin’s job.
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Sound familiar, I bet it does to Kevin Rudd.
 
Paul Kelly insights on the nature of the current relationship between Labor and the unions,

Gillard is more dependent on trade union support to sustain her leadership than any Labor prime minister in the past 60 years. It is extraordinary that this power nexus is flaunted and advertised to the public. None of this helps Gillard.

While the ACTU leadership backed Hawke against Bill Hayden in the 1983 leadership contest, Hawke's authority in the caucus was far less union-dependent than that of Gillard.

The problem is not trade union influence as such. That is essential in any Labor government. Union influence can be mobilised for good or bad results. The problem under Gillard Labor is that government and unions have failed to strike a constructive partnership that delivers a stronger ALP government.

On the contrary, they are devouring each other.

The unions, with Tony Abbott's likely victory in their sights, seek to lock in future gains. Gillard, as her support in the nation falls, clings to unions as a survival strategy. That weakens the government and party.

As union coverage in the workplace declines (to 14 per cent in the private sector), union influence only grows within the Labor Party.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...a-gillard-weaker/story-e6frg74x-1226624747248
 
drsmith said:
Budget updates from Wayne Swan are never good.



That puts it deep in the red.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-21/swan-blames-high-aussie-dollar-for-revenue-write-down/4641826
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Just absolute goons.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...ake-75b-hit-swan/story-e6freuz0-1226625237875

No, lets just throw more money at everything.lol

Jeez it would be funny if it wasn't so serious.:eek:

Blind freddy could see the problem we have, a high dollar that the RBA can't control, because if they drop the interest rates, house prices keep climbing.

The Government just stands back and like a bunch of eunuchs and does nothing, absolute FW's
 
Geeze all those calls that labor would send the country broke back in 2007 are looking closer to the mark then what the labor goon squad was squawking. Budget looks like a steaming pile.
 
moXJO said:
Geeze all those calls that labor would send the country broke back in 2007 are looking closer to the mark then what the labor goon squad was squawking. Budget looks like a steaming pile.
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During the election 2010 campaign, someone put up a Youtube video of what Australia would be like in 2020.

It highlighted a series of predictions in the context was one generation apologising to the next for voting Labor in 2010. Some of its predictions were a relationship between Labor and the Greens, a carbon tax and $1 trillion government debt.

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The latest Essential Media poll maintains 2PP support as 55/45 in favour of the Coalition.

http://essentialvision.com.au/federal-politics-–-voting-intention-160

The response to Labor's school funding package has also been a net negative despite strong support continuing for the Gonski recommendations.
 
drsmith said:
The response to Labor's school funding package has also been a net negative despite strong support continuing for the Gonski recommendations.
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People are starting to ask where all the money has gone. It's been like looking at a slow moving train wreck since 2009. Labor has attempted death by a thousand cuts to the economy, that we now have urgently bought forward the need for IR and tax reforms.
Tell you what, you invite labor to the party and the manage to pi$$ off all the guests, drink and eat all the food then $hit in the bed for good measure. Talk about the ability to ruin a good thing.
 
db94 said:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...e-to-cut-deficit/story-fn59nsif-1226628243372
bad news for the Gillard government. Of course this is only a warning, if S&P take the AAA rating away, expect an even larger landslide this election
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Labor started 5 years ago with a surplus of $20Bill, now the AAA rating may be threatened. What have we got to show for it. Against the wall most of it.

A coup d'etat, looting of the treasury, the preaching of hatred and division, these things are the stuff of SBS documentaries, not possible in the Lucky Country, surely?
 
moXJO said:
People are starting to ask where all the money has gone. It's been like looking at a slow moving train wreck since 2009. Labor has attempted death by a thousand cuts to the economy, that we now have urgently bought forward the need for IR and tax reforms.
Tell you what, you invite labor to the party and the manage to pi$$ off all the guests, drink and eat all the food then $hit in the bed for good measure. Talk about the ability to ruin a good thing.
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Like all bad tenants they are deliberately trashing the joint before they are kicked out. They know they are finished. On their way out they will leave a trail of destruction, like economic vandals.
 
Miranda does it again. Re-read this before you head to the polls in Sept.

Miranda Devine -Tuesday, April 23, 2013
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailyteleg...aph/comments/timely_warning_of_danger_within/

..A new ruling class of university-educated “progressives”, “sophisticates”, “elites” and “latte-sippers” have emerged as an un-Australian clique trying to lord it over everyone else. Controlling media, law, education and the political class..

..The unintended consequence was the creation of an “intelligentsia with a narrower, more homogenous” outlook, marked by a “progressive world view, snobbery and self righteousness”.

The intellectual class has for almost half a century “misrepresented Australia’s history, misread its present, misjudged its people and projected a miserable vision of the future”, while maligning “patriotism as akin to racism”.

Australia is not a race or an ethnicity or a constitution. It is an idea, and thus exquisitely vulnerable to the narrative that is drawn for it..
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Why does this government keep spending money it does not have?

The only reason I can see is that it wants to leave a "scorched earth" scenario to hamper the forthcoming Coalition Government.

This might be good for Labor in the future but is not good for Australia's future.

They just don't care.
 
drsmith said:
Budget updates from Wayne Swan are never good.

Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has revealed the budget has taken a $7.5 billion hit since the end of October.
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That puts it deep in the red.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-21/swan-blames-high-aussie-dollar-for-revenue-write-down/4641826
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**UPDATE**

Oopsies. OMG says make that -$AU 12 Billion - and counting.... :cry::cry:http://www.news.com.au/national-new...after-fiscal-gap/story-fncynjr2-1226631143925

Awwww. Doncha feel sorry for 'em? :banghead::banghead:
 

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