The_Brown_Hornet
John Eales (66)
100% agree RH. Those are several of the reasons I'm against it.
Take Fairfax's vote-a-matic.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-election/vote-a-matic/index.html
I got Greens 56% / Labor 37% / Liberal 6%.
I think I might have voted for the Libs tax policy. Some good questions in there, actually.
Maybe I'm just naive, but if the government is going to offer me faster internet, then why is that a bad thing. All they are doing is increasing the standard of living.
My highschool economics teacher use to always say, "debt is how you get ahead in life, it can be your best friend, just as long as you can service it". It might be all well and good cutting services like the liberals are proposing in order to apear more "fiscally responsible", but to be honest, to me it comes off as one big publicity stunt. I mean, does it really affect you that much if it takes labor a year longer to get the budget back in the black. At least you'll be able to spend that year coming home everynight to superfast broadband. And please dont take this as me justifying poor management or waste in government, just purly from an ideological point of view I disagree with the far rights economic management.
Another issue for me is the paid parental leave plan. As i understand it, familys receive the mothers full wages for 6 months. Thats just the coalition saying that because the mother is richer, her child is somehow more deservent of the governments money. Thats just straight up bullshit, how can you put a price on a child that has'nt yet been born?
Here is a question:
Do people think that public sector unions (which are indirectly paid from our taxpayers money) should be able to have an influence on elections? They aren't as out there as some other unions but there is no doubt that they support Labor.
I can't see any motive whatsoever for the head of an organisation that is about to be dismantled to make unsubstantiated claims in the middle of an election.It was rather convenient for the head of the NBN to release a statement about the proposed speeds right in the middle of a debate about it in an election campaign. No politics in that at all. Hmmm. The claim that people will be able to get gigabit speeds sounds fishy to me. The only way I've seen that done in OZ has been with "dark fibre" and not through a normal telco's switched network. Most organisations don't even run gigabit out to their desktops!