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Why would you compare Australian Taxation figures per capita in USD?
Seems rather meaningless.
Mick
Why would you compare Australian Taxation figures per capita in USD?Comparing as % to GDP/capita (in US$) year on year reveals some truths about personal income tax
Because US$ is the metric of value on a global economy. It's a measure of your ability to buy goods and services provided in that sphere. On the shares front your purchasing power of foreign equity is diminished by the domestic tax take.Why would you compare Australian Taxation figures per capita in USD?
Seems rather meaningless
That's the consequence of selecting leaders on personality rather than ability.Trouble is, what replaces him is no less depressing and comes with just as much baggage.
Quite true, but how do you judge their ability to do the job?That's the consequence of selecting leaders on personality rather than ability.
I mean seriously, I couldn't give a damn if the PM watches football, eats pies or whatever. What matters is ability to do the job and for that matter actually having a decent go at doing it.
On the personal side, well I really couldn't care less if they're anyone from a former accountant to a stripper if they're capable of leading and willing to do so.
Quite true, but how do you judge their ability to do the job?
Except in a very few failed cases, most applicants have never done the job, at best they have had the vice captain role, or led the other other team who really don't have be accountable to anything.
Indeed, most applicants have never worked outside the public sphere.
They have never had to cut down expenses when the business turns sour or economic conditions go against them.
They have never had to completely change direction of their business when technology, economics or politics demand they do so.
Because they rely on the patronage of whoever it was that tipped the most into their election coffers, their sense of what is important can be a little off.
But what is most damming of all, they live work and breathe in a strange remote place called canberra that bears little if any reality to the rest of Australia.
Been very people in politics I admired since Tim Fisher and John Button retired.
Mick
I should have added that Scomo's most likely replacement is also from NSW (ie. Sydney).The problem is that Morrison, like Turnbull, Abbott, Howard and Keating all came from NSW.
Rudd from Qld (nuff said).
Hawke, the best Labour PM came from Vic, Gillard, the second best, also came from Vic.
They just keep picking the wrong state.
Mick
Handy having a house in Sydney.....should be made to live in Canberra....in winterYes Mick, Western Australia can only lay claim to one Prime Minister, John Curtin.
I think you'll find WA lays claim to Leederville boy Bob Hawke tooYes Mick, Western Australia can only lay claim to one Minister John Curtin, by all accounts Australia's best PM.
I thought he was born in Bordertown, but grew up in W.A, where he probably had the Vic chip taken off his shoulder. ?I think you'll find WA lays claim to Leederville boy Bob Hawke too
Yeah his Uncle was a WA Premier too. But for all intents and purposes he was Wassie bred model.I thought he was born in Bordertown, but grew up in W.A, where he probably had the Vic chip taken off his shoulder. ?
Whilst near the border as the name implies, Bordertown is in SA.I thought he was born in Bordertown, but grew up in W.A, where he probably had the Vic chip taken off his shoulder. ?
If it were a regular employment situation then an employer would be looking for some sort of experience at leadership, getting things done and operating under pressure as key attributes for a job of this nature.Quite true, but how do you judge their ability to do the job?
The libs have read the tea leaves and they know they are going to be sitting on the other side soon enough.Well he's well and truly lost control of Peter Dutton... twice in one week.
I reckon Dutto has dropped himself right in it today
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