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Andrew Slack (58)
We don't need religion any more. We have the climate debate instead.
Can someone point me to the closest wood pile?
Federal Coalition Government 2013-?
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Can someone point me to the closest wood pile?
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Nev Cottrell (35)
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Mark Ella (57)
No modelling to prove Abbott's dole plan works
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/no-modelling-to-prove-abbotts-dole-plan-works-20140731-3cx9g.html#ixzz397Y4G7Nd
"A Department of Employment official has admitted the Abbott government has not done any modelling to estimate how many job seekers will find employment within three months after completing its multibillion-dollar work-for-the-dole program.
That is despite the government's own data showing work-for-the-dole programs are the least effective way to help people find jobs."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/no-modelling-to-prove-abbotts-dole-plan-works-20140731-3cx9g.html#ixzz397Y4G7Nd
"A Department of Employment official has admitted the Abbott government has not done any modelling to estimate how many job seekers will find employment within three months after completing its multibillion-dollar work-for-the-dole program.
That is despite the government's own data showing work-for-the-dole programs are the least effective way to help people find jobs."
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Alan Cameron (40)
Are the shock jocks and Murdoch on side. They are all the modelling required.
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Nev Cottrell (35)
Ask the senate. Power is not always in having the most but controlling a chock point. Not an obssesion but realism. If you don't think they ever have influence ask Gillard
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Nev Cottrell (35)
If it is not effective why did ALP use it?
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Mark Ella (57)
Tony Abbott's Coalition making same mistakes as Labor
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/tony-abbotts-coalition-making-same-mistakes-as-labor-20140801-zzhkf.html#ixzz39CLX4Mx9
"Members of the government are getting cranky with each other, but the problem is a collective one. Wherever individual fault might lie, it’s certainly true that the government as a whole has failed as a force for persuading, for implementing and for succeeding.
The government did no real work to prepare public opinion for some of its dramatic reforms, failed to mount a persuasive public argument, and, as a result, is watching the slow demise of some of its prized projects."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/tony-abbotts-coalition-making-same-mistakes-as-labor-20140801-zzhkf.html#ixzz39CLX4Mx9
"Members of the government are getting cranky with each other, but the problem is a collective one. Wherever individual fault might lie, it’s certainly true that the government as a whole has failed as a force for persuading, for implementing and for succeeding.
The government did no real work to prepare public opinion for some of its dramatic reforms, failed to mount a persuasive public argument, and, as a result, is watching the slow demise of some of its prized projects."
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Mark Ella (57)
Hockey Puck: Is Joe the Liberals' new trickster?
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/hockey-puck-is-joe-the-liberals-new-trickster-20140725-zwfdy.html#ixzz39CXef9AX
"Our federal treasurer is fast earning himself a new nickname - "Hockey Puck" - and not because he's being beaten with sticks by his Coalition colleagues over his authorised biography.
No, it seems there might be more than little of Shakespeare's mischievious trickster in Treasurer Hockey, whose flaunting of his leadership credentials only ten months into the life of the Abbott government has many observers puzzled and plenty of his colleagues fuming.
To see how well the biography Hockey: Not Your Average Joe has gone down with the Right, you need only read the front page of yesterday's Australian, where political editor Dennis Shanahan labelled the Treasurer "self-indulgent", suggesting even Hockey's senior colleagues now see him as "an aloof plutocrat, puffing on a cigar, well-off, politically distant from everyday life".
That's the Oz - not The Saturday Paper - taking a shot at Hockey, which suggests Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, who has a hotline to Holt Street, is also less than impressed with his burly bean counter."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/hockey-puck-is-joe-the-liberals-new-trickster-20140725-zwfdy.html#ixzz39CXef9AX
"Our federal treasurer is fast earning himself a new nickname - "Hockey Puck" - and not because he's being beaten with sticks by his Coalition colleagues over his authorised biography.
No, it seems there might be more than little of Shakespeare's mischievious trickster in Treasurer Hockey, whose flaunting of his leadership credentials only ten months into the life of the Abbott government has many observers puzzled and plenty of his colleagues fuming.
To see how well the biography Hockey: Not Your Average Joe has gone down with the Right, you need only read the front page of yesterday's Australian, where political editor Dennis Shanahan labelled the Treasurer "self-indulgent", suggesting even Hockey's senior colleagues now see him as "an aloof plutocrat, puffing on a cigar, well-off, politically distant from everyday life".
That's the Oz - not The Saturday Paper - taking a shot at Hockey, which suggests Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, who has a hotline to Holt Street, is also less than impressed with his burly bean counter."
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Andrew Slack (58)
Monday's interesting facts:
Seems like the Laborious party has been reading a bit.
Chris Bowen just used the words "feasibility study" and "cost benefit analysis" in the same breath.
Breaking new ground. A year ago he would have been fired from that party for demanding such terrible things.
Labor is really reinventing itself. Good to see.
Seems like the Laborious party has been reading a bit.
Chris Bowen just used the words "feasibility study" and "cost benefit analysis" in the same breath.
Breaking new ground. A year ago he would have been fired from that party for demanding such terrible things.
Labor is really reinventing itself. Good to see.
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Andrew Slack (58)
SMH has hit the lowest of the possible low this last week with running a despicable Antisemitic cartoon.
This rag really does not know where the bottom of the gutter is.
How can anything they print be taken seriously?
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Mark Ella (57)
We apologise: publishing cartoon in original form was wrong
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/we-apologise-publishing-cartoon-in-original-form-was-wrong-20140803-zzxab.html#ixzz39OYtVh9s
The SMH cartoon was racist.
I think the cartoon that The Australian published possibly on the same day was also entirely racist.
I think the cartoon that The Australian published possibly on the same day was also entirely racist.
boyo
Mark Ella (57)
Andrew Forrest is wrong: welfare spending is not out of control
Welfare’s share of total spending has fallen over the past decade and Australians are less welfare-dependent, not more
http://www.theguardian.com/business...-wrong-welfare-spending-is-not-out-of-control
"Australians are becoming less welfare dependent, and people on welfare do not get trapped. People go on welfare, and then overwhelmingly get off it."
Welfare’s share of total spending has fallen over the past decade and Australians are less welfare-dependent, not more
http://www.theguardian.com/business...-wrong-welfare-spending-is-not-out-of-control
"Australians are becoming less welfare dependent, and people on welfare do not get trapped. People go on welfare, and then overwhelmingly get off it."
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Andrew Slack (58)
The SMH cartoon was racist.
I think the cartoon that The Australian published possibly on the same day was also entirely racist.
One is satirical.
The other was antisemitic and a half hearted apology followed more than a week later.
There is no comparison here.
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Cyril Towers (30)
Can you explain to me how it was "anti-Semitic"? Or do you not know what that actually means.
It was pretty fair in my view - the images of Israelis seemingly watching the bombing of Gaza like it was some sort of snuff movie is nothing short of deplorable. I'm not fan of Hamas, but anyone who defends that is pretty messed up.
Also, the lowest point for print media in Australia was reached last year when this happened:
TahDan
Cyril Towers (30)
Agreed. The Australian are firmly with the Zionists and the Guardian seem right in the with Palestinians. Personally I can't understand people taking either side... There are religious psychopaths driving this on both sides.
boyo
Mark Ella (57)
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