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Knobby22 said:
Tim Smith is interested. Probably the only guy who could lose it. Will swing Liberal after latest state budget. Safe.
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Would not surprise me if they nominated him.
Would suit the current crop of liberals right down to the ground.
Very high opiinion of himsel and his talents, thinks of the good of the poliitcs rather than the policy outcome ,private school chum - ex scotch college and rugby school in UK, and his most notable acievement was that he has worked as a consultant with PWC. Would have fitted right in there with the crooks.
In short, a true blooded Liberal.
Mick
 
I have a mate currently in Melbourne that is riding with various groups on an EUC. He reckons the roads and bike paths are atrocious down there.

What the hell is Dan spending all the money on?
 
mullokintyre said:
Interest Payments.
mick
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I still can't get over him paying out $1billion compensation to stop a new road going in, that's really in your face, when you pay that sort of money just to flick the bird to the Feds.
They still keep voting him in, he must having something that Victorians like, probably a really big ego that would do it. :wheniwasaboy:
 
I just do not understand why Andrews goes out of his way to deliberately rub peoples noses in it.
Is it because of politics, or is he just a mean ornery bar$tard?
His latest trick is to announce the new Govenor for Victoria.
A woman, just like the last, who was until her resignation, the Vice Chancellor of Monash Uni.
I guess being VC is a good grounding for what is largely a ceremonial role.
Representing the Queen in Victoria is not really a vital role for state, but why appoint someone to represent the monarchy who immediately comes out and says they are a republican and wants to remove the monarchy from OZ?
And just to show elitist and nepotistic they are, she is married to the secretary of the Dept of prime minister and cabinet.
Mick
 
Looks like wasting money eventually catches up -

“If you are a large corporate employer, especially in these days when even people in senior positions perform remotely, the choice should be obvious. Why would you choose a high-tax, high-cost location like Victoria when you could come to a place like SA?”​

South Australia budget: state’s audacious bid to lure investment from Victoria

South Australia will launch an audacious campaign to lure investment away from Victoria using its low-taxing state budget to attract jaded Victorian businesses straining under the tax hikes of the Andrews government.

The Malinauskas government on Thursday honoured its promise of no new taxes and no tax increases with a state budget which also scrapped a hated housing tax for first homebuyers and axed another tax on remote outback residents.

On the downside, the budget failed to deliver a surplus, with spiralling health costs blowing a half-billion hole in state coffers over the past 12 months as a projected $233 million surplus became a $249 deficit thanks to a raft of measures aimed at honouring Peter Malinauskas’ key election promise to fix ambulance ramping.

The second budget brought down by Treasurer Stephen Mullighan completely removes stamp duty for first home buyers on new homes valued up to $650,000, while retaining the First Home Owners Grant in a bid to boost housing stock and make homes more affordable in the cost of living squeeze.

There are also no increases to payroll or land tax, in contrast to last month’s Victorian Budget which from July 1 hits 4000 businesses with payrolls of just $10 million with hefty tax hikes, and goes after mum and dad property investors with land tax increases by slashing the threshold for undeveloped properties from $300,000 to just $50,000.

Mr Mullighan told The Australian the best thing governments could do in a cost of living crisis was to avoid the temptation to increase taxes, especially on businesses which would have to pass on the costs to consumers.

He said the SA government “closely watched” last month’s Victorian budget and resolved then to launch an advertising campaign later this year in Victoria, headed up by Invest SA and the Department of Premier and Cabinet, urging Victorian businesses to head west and save.

“When the Victorian budget was released and they were going to make themselves even less competitive with SA in terms of their tax regime, we thought it was a perfect opportunity for us to get out there spruiking our credentials in Victoria,” Mr Mullighan told The Australian.

“If you are a large corporate employer, especially in these days when even people in senior positions perform remotely, the choice should be obvious. Why would you choose a high-tax, high-cost location like Victoria when you could come to a place like SA?”

“The tax settings in Victoria compared to the tax settings here are definitely an opportunity. Our government wants to welcome investment in SA. We know we have got very significant advantages in terms of the cost of doing business.

“We have got lower costs of living, much cheaper commercial space, an easier commute to work, we now boast the best events in the nation. Increasingly more and more people are choosing to come to SA to work and we want them to relocate to SA to invest.”

Mr Mullighan’s criticisms of Victoria’s tax regime were confirmed this week with independent data provided by Victoria’s Parliamentary Budget Office scotching claims by Treasurer Tim Pallas that his was the lowest-taxing state.

That data showed that each Victorian pays $5073 a year in state taxes compared to $4707 in NSW, $4115 in WA, $3667 in Queensland, $2970 in SA and $2900 in Tasmania.

“The fact that we are far and away the lowest taxing state on the mainland gives us a good story to tell,” Mr Mullighan said.

The SA budget will also play a party-starting role in transforming Adelaide’s reputation from dullsville to desirable destination, with a further $20 million being injected into the Major Events Fund which has already attracted the LIV Golf tournament and the AFL Gather Round to SA under four-year deals.

There is no transparency in the budget as to exactly how much taxpayer money was spent attracting those two events to SA, but the Treasurer said they had paid for themselves many times over in terms of their economic impact for business.

“There is no doubt about the sense that Adelaide has got its mojo back,” Mr Mullighan said. “This investment is important because it is making people reappraise their sense of the city and the state, and you now hear it all the time from people who had never even thought of coming here.

“The big opportunity os for us to get the message out more broadly that it’s such a desirable place to work and live.”

The key downside in the SA budget is the impact of health spending on the bottom line, with $470 million in unforeseen costs as the government grapples with the impact of the GP shortage and the higher than expected impact of Covid on the public hospital system.

The Government has also channelled some $200m into new measures to free up hospital beds on weekends and to provide virtual health care to get people out of emergency wards - all measures aimed at honouring Labor’s flagging 2022 election promise to return ambulance ramping figures to 2018 levels.

That promise has become a political headache for Labor with the highest ramping figures in SA history being recorded across several months now since Stephen Marshall’s Liberal government was defeated last year after just one term.

Opposition health spokeswoman Ashton Hurn questioned whether SA was doing a good enough job matching incentives being offered by other states to attract GPs to SA.

“There’s no genie in a bottle,” Ms Hurn said. “Peter Malinauskas and Labor can’t just wish to keep frontline

health workers here, we need a competitive plan with compelling incentives at the centre.”

“He needs to focus on meaningful incentives so SA can compete with other states to retain and attract crucial healthcare resources to our hospital system.”
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There are rumours circulating on Tw@tter that Mao Tse Dan is gonna head for the hills very soon. Sounds to good to be true.

I have gone long on Moët & Chandon just in case.
 
wayneL said:
There are rumours circulating on Tw@tter that Mao Tse Dan is gonna head for the hills very soon. Sounds to good to be true.

I have gone long on Moët & Chandon just in case.
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Further:

 
The thing about Victoria is that they have a useless alternative government, and a public service and union members that are currently insulated from any economic pain.

Who would like to argue with the article below?

There is a droll and politically incorrect joke doing the rounds in South Australian government circles which reassures us that the woke have not yet got the whip hand over every corner of the ALP.

In crafting a message as to why the state represents a better business destination than Dan Andrews’ Victoria, one slogan being tossed around is “SA: Pro-jobs. Victoria: Pro-nouns”.

To pinch a John Howard-ism and apply it to the ALP, the broadness of the Labor church is best told through the story of the nascent Malinauskas government and the entrenched Andrews government.

In South Australia, we have a Right faction-led Labor government that was elected with significant business support amid anger at the former Liberal government’s acquiescence to the health bureaucrats during Covid.

A government that is now annoying the Left by supporting Saudi-backed golf tournaments, throwing money at an AFL footy festival which the punters adore, and inviting the wrath of Amnesty International by suggesting that Extinction Rebellion halfwits should play a considerable bill the next time they bring the city to a halt.

A government that on Thursday did a hell of a lot by doing nothing – nothing, that is involving the raising of taxes, or the introduction of any new ones. There is something quaintly refreshing about all this, the simple honouring of a promise not to jack up costs for business and families.

Especially when you look over the border at the Socialist Left-led Victoria, where a government that subjected the private sector to the most onerous lockdown of all is now making them pay for it twice with a raft of tax increases.

Andrews might have found a recipe for sustained electoral success, with his army of Pyongyang-style acolytes on Twitter, and a somewhat exhausted public voting for him in no small part due to sustained Liberal ineptitude.

In South Australia, Labor so far is finding there is a less rancorous path to majority support, and it’s called governing from the centre.

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Knobby22 said:
This contract definitely smells.
It is time the anti corruption commission got involved if no one from the government acts.

www.abc.net.au

'Mistakes have clearly been made': Second letter from failed bidder urges review of Victoria's myki overhaul contract

Another company which lost the contract to provide Victoria's public transport ticketing system has called for an urgent review of the tender process, saying it lacked rigour and transparency.
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The problem with that is that the anti-corruption commission is under the control by parts of the government & their cronies.
 
Here in
Beautiful Victoria, we are lucky we have the EPA to look after our interests.
Cleanaway has been fined 18k for dumping two trucklods of hand sanitizer into a landfill.
From The standard
Two truck loads of hand sanitiser illegally dumped at a Melbourne landfill site has resulted in a fine.
The Environmental Protection Authority fined Landfill Operations Pty Ltd, Cleanaway's Ravenhall landfill, for twice accepting the hand sanitiser which is a reportable priority waste and a dangerous good, without proper checks.
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At least now i know that hand Sanitizer is classed as a dangerous good.
Who would have thought that all those ubiquitous bottles of hand sanitizer that appeared form nowhere after the Covid outbreak, were so dangerous,
Mikc
 
mullokintyre said:
Here in
Beautiful Victoria, we are lucky we have the EPA to look after our interests.
Cleanaway has been fined 18k for dumping two trucklods of hand sanitizer into a landfill.
From The standard

At least now i know that hand Sanitizer is classed as a dangerous good.
Who would have thought that all those ubiquitous bottles of hand sanitizer that appeared form nowhere after the Covid outbreak, were so dangerous,
Mikc
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Too true, yet we see checkout operators having to use it after each customer.

So I am guessing 30 customers an hour, 7.5 hour shift, 225 applications per day of a product classified as dangerous goods.

No on knows what that will do to them long term, I know that I get light headed after two shops so now I don't use it at all
 
mullokintyre said:
Here in
Beautiful Victoria, we are lucky we have the EPA to look after our interests.
Cleanaway has been fined 18k for dumping two trucklods of hand sanitizer into a landfill.
From The standard

At least now i know that hand Sanitizer is classed as a dangerous good.
Who would have thought that all those ubiquitous bottles of hand sanitizer that appeared form nowhere after the Covid outbreak, were so dangerous,
Mikc
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I worked in the public service for a short time and it wouldn't surprise me if 90% of the Nazis were public servants.
 
Welcome to Danistan. The Orwellian capital of Australia.

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Victorian taxpayers have been left with an $82,000 bill for Daniel Andrews’ secret trade mission to China.

Details of the trip were published on Thursday in accordance with government guidelines that require official reports to be published 60 working days after any ministerial travel.

It brings to $517,000 the amount Mr Andrews has spent on seven trips to China since 2015.

He has also visited the US, India, Israel and Greece, bringing his total overseas travel spend to $885,000.

Mr Andrews said the purpose of the most recent trip was to promote closer education, trade, and tourism ties, and to strengthen Victoria’s relationship with Jiangsu and Sichuan Provinces.

“My travel aligns with government priorities to promote Victoria’s interests and capabilities with the state’s largest trading partner, and largest pre-pandemic source of international visitors and international students, noting Victoria’s sister-states of Jiangsu and Sichuan Provinces are home to more than 160 million people,” he said in his report.

Just two staff accompanied him on the six day trip, director Ben Foster and senior adviser Marty Mei.
 

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