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Nathan Sharpe (72)
It's been announced - several times over the last, say, 60 years: announcing it's not the issue!
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It would also mean half of Sydney would need to double glaze their houses if they wanted any hope of sleeping at night.
A second airport is an essential piece of infrastructure for a city of Sydney's size.
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Mark Ella (57)
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Mark Ella (57)
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...rules-on-mps-entitlements-20131010-2vbm0.html
"Even a member of Mr Abbott’s party, Liberal MP (Moana Pasifika) Dennis Jensen, said the rules were too vague and needed to be clarified. Another Liberal colleague, Victorian MP (Moana Pasifika) Russell Broadbent, said he did not think attendance at weddings and sporting events passed the ''pub test'' for legitimate use of public funds."
"Even a member of Mr Abbott’s party, Liberal MP (Moana Pasifika) Dennis Jensen, said the rules were too vague and needed to be clarified. Another Liberal colleague, Victorian MP (Moana Pasifika) Russell Broadbent, said he did not think attendance at weddings and sporting events passed the ''pub test'' for legitimate use of public funds."
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Nev Cottrell (35)
First used as an airport in the 1920's. People have known it is there for a very long time and still choose to live there as the land was probably cheaper due to it's proximity to the airport.
I doubt anyone living in the area was there before or just after it commenced operations.
I doubt anyone living in the area was there before or just after it commenced operations.
Where do you live?
The flight path over Sydney is frequently cycled so that lots of areas share the noise.
The suburbs closest to the airport obviously cop noise all the time but most suburbs within say 30km of the airport experience aircraft noise at least one day a week.
It is ridiculous to suggest that it is acceptable to have aircraft noise over much of Sydney 24 hours a day rather than expand to a second airport.
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Mark Ella (57)
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Chilla Wilson (44)
How did those 747's go in the 20's?
Assuming that people live in proximity to the airport because it "was probably cheaper" implies they have a choice. Maybe some do, but can you say unequivocally that this is the case for everyone?
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Nev Cottrell (35)
So there are no houses at 2nd airport site for planes to fly over.
Yes they fly over my place.
Of course there are houses there.
Your answer was to just get planes to fly over the current airport 24 hours a day.
No one is suggesting that a second airport would be operating 24 hours a day.
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Mark Ella (57)
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/sorry-contrition-is-the-new-coalition-condition-20131011-2vdxq.html
"In what some have unkindly dubbed his ''international sorry tour'', the new Prime Minister has been bending over backwards in his first days, mending regional relationships and explaining to neighbouring leaders that his aggressive and uncompromising language, as used in opposition, might have been better left unsaid."
"In what some have unkindly dubbed his ''international sorry tour'', the new Prime Minister has been bending over backwards in his first days, mending regional relationships and explaining to neighbouring leaders that his aggressive and uncompromising language, as used in opposition, might have been better left unsaid."
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Mark Ella (57)
It just baffles me that the Pacific Highway has not been done.
But then it also baffles me that Australia had to wait until an economic downturn to introduce a disability insurance scheme.
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Mark Ella (57)
"Most people who participate in charity walks, swims or rides do so to encourage, assist or improve the income of that charity.
It is usually done selflessly and this personal cost of time and sometimes money is acknowledged and appreciated by society.
Those who are paid to attend charitable functions exclude themselves from the acclamation society affords the charitable. One either gives the time free or needs to declare attendance is for gain of whatever sort."
Allen Outlaw Petersham
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-letters/pollies-partners-give-taxpayers-two-for-the-price-of-one-20131013-2vgqk.html#ixzz2hh5dZZ8J
It is usually done selflessly and this personal cost of time and sometimes money is acknowledged and appreciated by society.
Those who are paid to attend charitable functions exclude themselves from the acclamation society affords the charitable. One either gives the time free or needs to declare attendance is for gain of whatever sort."
Allen Outlaw Petersham
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-letters/pollies-partners-give-taxpayers-two-for-the-price-of-one-20131013-2vgqk.html#ixzz2hh5dZZ8J
This one is pretty funny.
It makes George Brandis' spending on the taxpayer dime almost seem legitimate.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...claims-for-trip-to-cairns-20131016-2vlx1.html
Don Randall, take a bow. A WA MP (Moana Pasifika) taking a trip to Cairns with his wife at taxpayer expense for 'electoral business' in the same week he buys a rental property in Cairns.
It makes George Brandis' spending on the taxpayer dime almost seem legitimate.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...claims-for-trip-to-cairns-20131016-2vlx1.html
Don Randall, take a bow. A WA MP (Moana Pasifika) taking a trip to Cairns with his wife at taxpayer expense for 'electoral business' in the same week he buys a rental property in Cairns.
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Nicholas Shehadie (39)
Really puts the whole "budget emergency" line the Liberals tow into perspective. While the "worst government in history" was unfolding they didn't seem as worried about the country's finances as we were lead to believe.
It beats me why no one in the house who also opposes the systematic scare mongering of politicians brought this up earlier. Also, why did the journalists take this long?
It beats me why no one in the house who also opposes the systematic scare mongering of politicians brought this up earlier. Also, why did the journalists take this long?
I think a lot of it is trying to find a needle in a haystack.
Check this out:
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...gate-politicians-expenses-20131009-2v7i8.html
Help Fairfax Media investigate politicians' expenses
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With thousands of pages of MPs' travel records and expense claims available on the internet, readers are able to contribute to our coverage of this issue.
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