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It will be taken down just before they call the election. Not that it will be an issue. Here is the rollout map http://www.nbnco.com.au/sell-nbn-ser...llout-map.html
It shows that in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra the majority of the population still does not have NBN. I just wonder what would have happened to the NBN rollout if Labour had won the election? |
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I was just about to get it when it got cancelled. The fibre runs along the road about fifty meters from my place.
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Why the reasons for the loss of CSIRO jobs is a pack of lies.
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Check out the video on Jason Clare's Facebook. It is his speech in parliament today. Good stuff, pointing out Turnbulls almighty stuff up with Fraudband.
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The arch motor mouth Conservative is not happy with Sco Mo.
this one http://www.2gb.com/audioplayer/156306 |
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21st February 2016, 08:52 PM | #211 |
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The Senate reforms have been announced. I don't like that they're limiting the above line vote to a maximum of 6 preferences, that's clearly there to benefit the major parties so people don't ultimately "waste" their vote.
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I believe that is minimum of 6 preferences but if a voter lists fewer than 6 preferences then the vote will still be considered valid.
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I really hope that's the case.
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They should have done that when they brought in the original bill. But the stupid politicians wanted that power for themselves, not thinking it would cost some of them their jobs.
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This should not be rushed through parliament like the Liberals want. We need a long considered look and discussion on this change (have you heard that before?).
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But if they don't rush it through now, then how will it be in place for the next election?
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oh, the confusion and blunders with the Coalitions tax policy. Their scare campaign is hopeless.
I want Tones back, Tones for P.M., at least he could run a good scare campaign. It looks like that is all they have, so bring back Tones. Bring Back Tones, Bring back Tones |
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Just on the Drum's comments section. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-2...alcolm/7192170 Our old friend Alfie is calling for Tones to be bought back. He made the insightful statement that Tones was turning the polls around. I think he is confused with Cayman Mal, then again Cayman Mal is Tones Light at the moment.
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I wonder if he would get banned from the ABC website if you were to engage him.
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I think it is time to review the IPAs 75 point plan for the LNP to inflict upon us unfortunate plebs.
How did the LNP go in carrying out their extreme right wing agenda. 1. Done 2.3.6. tried but not entirely successful 4. tried but unsuccessful 11. fail 30. successful 43. succesful 49. succesful Well not a very good report card from the IPAs point of view. There were many other points that the LNP want or are trying in a watered down version. What do you all think? 1. Repeal the carbon tax, and don’t replace it. It will be one thing to remove the burden of the carbon tax from the Australian economy. But if it is just replaced by another costly scheme, most of the benefits will be undone. 2. Abolish the Department of Climate Change 3. Abolish the Clean Energy Fund 4. Repeal section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 5. Abandon Australia’s bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council 6. Repeal the renewable energy target 7. Return income taxing powers to the states 8. Abolish the Commonwealth Grants Commission 9. Abolish the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission 10. Withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol 11. Introduce fee competition to Australian universities 12. Repeal the National Curriculum 13. Introduce competing private secondary school curriculums 14. Abolish the Australian Communications and Media Authority 15. Eliminate laws that require radio and television broadcasters to be “balanced” 16. Abolish television spectrum licensing and devolve spectrum management to the common law 17. End local content requirements for Australian television stations 18. Eliminate family tax benefits 19. Abandon the paid parental leave scheme 20. Means-test Medicare 21. End all corporate welfare and subsidies by closing the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education 22. Introduce voluntary voting 23. End mandatory disclosures on political donations 24. End media blackout in final days of election campaigns 25. End public funding to political parties 26. Remove anti-dumping laws 27. Eliminate media ownership restrictions 28. Abolish the Foreign Investment Review Board 29. Eliminate the National Preventative Health Agency 30. Cease subsidising the car industry 31. Formalise a one-in, one-out approach to regulatory reduction 32. Rule out federal funding for the 2018 Commonwealth Games 33. Deregulate the parallel importation of books 34. End preferences for Industry Super Funds in workplace relations laws 35. Legislate a cap on government spending and tax as a percentage of GDP 36. Legislate a balanced budget amendment which strictly limits the size of budget deficits and the period the federal government can be in deficit 37. Force government agencies to put all of their spending online in a searchable database 38. Repeal plain packaging for cigarettes and rule it out for all other products, including alcohol and fast food 39. Reintroduce voluntary student unionism at universities 40. Introduce a voucher scheme for secondary schools 41. Repeal the alcopops tax 42. Introduce a special economic zone in the north of Australia including: a) Lower personal income tax for residents b) Significantly expanded 457 Visa programs for workers c) Encourage the construction of dams 43. Repeal the mining tax 44. Devolve environmental approvals for major projects to the states 45. Introduce a single rate of income tax with a generous tax-free threshold 46. Cut company tax to an internationally competitive rate of 25% 47. Cease funding the Australia Network 48. Privatise Australia Post 49. Privatise Medibank 50. Break up the ABC and put out to tender each individual function 51. Privatise SBS 52. Reduce the size of the public service from current levels of more than 260,000 to at least the 2001 low of 212,784 53. Repeal the Fair Work Act 54. Allow individuals and employers to negotiate directly terms of employment that suit them 55. Encourage independent contracting by overturning new regulations designed to punish contractors 56. Abolish the Baby Bonus 57. Abolish the First Home Owners’ Grant 58. Allow the Northern Territory to become a state 59. Halve the size of the Coalition front bench from 32 to 16 60. Remove all remaining tariff and non-tariff barriers to international trade 61. Slash top public servant salaries to much lower international standards, like in the United States 62. End all public subsidies to sport and the arts 63. Privatise the Australian Institute of Sport 64. End all hidden protectionist measures, such as preferences for local manufacturers in government tendering 65. Abolish the Office for Film and Literature Classification 66. Rule out any government-supported or mandated internet censorship 67. Means test tertiary student loans 68. Allow people to opt out of superannuation in exchange for promising to forgo any government income support in retirement 69. Immediately halt construction of the National Broadband Network and privatise any sections that have already been built 70. End all government funded Nanny State advertising 71. Reject proposals for compulsory food and alcohol labelling 72. Privatise the CSIRO 73. Defund Harmony Day 74. Close the Office for Youth 75. Privatise the Snowy-Hydro Scheme |
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They are lying to us. https://delimiter.com.au/2016/03/01/...e-lying-to-us/
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Dear Australians,
I'd like your opinion on an Australian MP. Here in Malaysia there isn't very much free to air English language programming, so I often find myself watching Australia 1 (particularly the politics). During your version of ministerial questions, there's a guy called Chris Bowen who seems very good in the Chamber. Is that backed up by substance? If so, why isn't he Labor leader? He seems a lot better than Shorten. Thanks in advance for your views. |
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The leadership of the Labor Party is very rarely based on ability or merit...
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He's certainly in the queue. If Labor were to win an election tomorrow and made no changes to the shadow positions, he would become Treasurer, which is one of the most important positions in the cabinet.
The problem he has versus Shorten is that Shorten as a more centrist (in terms of the parties centre, overall he's to the left of Bowen) member has a broad base of support from within the party in both Left and Right factions. Bowen doesn't have that same support from the Left faction, even if the Right might prefer him. |
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I think we're seeing that reflected in a few countries and a few parties around the world now.
Thanks - I'd guessed that the Treasurer position was prominent given the regular presence of Scott Morrison. I looked into the last leadership election and I saw Bowen was acting leader while the contest was decided, but confess I wasn't sure why he wouldn't have had a crack then. Your explanation helps. It does look a bit like people worldwide are moving away from the centre ground in politics; though maybe that should have resulted in Albanese winning (although he did get more grass roots votes, if I understand the process fully). Would you (or others) describe Bowen as being more of a Blair-type politician, by which I mean socially liberal but also broadly economically liberal? |
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Thank you.
That's how the UK Labour Party leadership elections used to work - the MPs votes counted for 1/3; trade unions for 1/3; members for 1/3. Ed Miliband beat his brother David because the unions supported him, despite coming (a reasonably close) second in the other two categories. As a result he instituted changes which meant all votes were equal. Corbin benefitted from that, though arguably he would have had some union support in addition to members'. All of the above is IIRC, though. I can see the arguments on both sides for the two systems. I guess the UK will find out in 2020, and Australia sooner, if it does result in a more electable party. |
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With the blowup in politics with Abbott probably via an intermediary leaking the defence paper and Morrison's implosion with his negative gearing and BIS study.
Do you think that Tones will challenge Turnbull? Rational thinking would tell me no. But Tones and rational are oxy morons. |
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I'm sure there are some, probably in the more right wing side of the party, that would vote for him. I just don't think he's got enough support for a successful challenge though.
Even with the latest newspoll the Poll Bludger is still showing a pretty solid win for the coalition. If the trend mentioned here holds true still, as long as Turnbull can keep a positive satisfaction rating we should be seeing a coalition win, and that's a pretty strong argument for not dumping the leader. |
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Yes it is. The weakness of that is that we have 4 more years of data that we could plonk in and see if the trend holds.
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Having got the Senate voting reforms passed, Malcolm Turnbull is now pressing ahead with forcing a double dissolution election with the aim of cleaning out the cross benchers from the Senate.
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It's happened before (how do you think we got work choices the first time?)
Ordinarily, my guess is that the Greens would still get the balance of power but after getting into bed with Turnbull simply in the hope that they will get more Senators, this isn't so assured any more. |
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They won't get control. I suspect they are in for a shock in the lower house too.
Despite Bill "Who?" Shorten holding the reins, I see Labor getting a JUST-made-it! win. The reason is, as usual, they would be the least worst choice. The LNP have split themselves into two bitterly warring camps - the Abbott clique and Malcolm's Rationals. The Abbot clique has blindly and determinedly pushed the party to the edge of the precipice of oblivion and are continuing to do so even now. However Malcolm has been trying to stop them toppling the charabanc over the edge to oblivion. This is admirable as a team contribution, but it is a real tough slog for him to have to battle the religion-fueled Neanderthals in his own party as well as the Labor opposition. And Labor have plenty of sizeable sticks to beat him with as well, NBN being the biggest. He isn't going to win this, more's the pity, and his party will refuse to unite to run a sensible campaign. That makes it a lay-down misere for Labor if they play their cards right. |
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