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thegasman said:
Good god ,I cant believe there is still a Kennet phycophant still around in these days. He was a disgrace as time came to show us.
Toll roads with profits going to French consortiums.
Selling off schools knowing the population was only going to swell immensely.
Giving the sale rights to his lib buddy Ballieu for massive commission profits.
Disgraceful treatment of nurses in our health systems but not his private hospitals in kew, Sth yarra.
Selling anything and everything that was not nailed down.(to more of his lib mates)
Handing out pokie licences to more millionaire buddys.(Zagames, Matheson.)
Casino licences to another lib millionaire buddy Lloyde Williams who fled like a scared dog when the libs lost the unlosable election.
Doubling registration costs ,massive fuel taxes.
I could go on forever ,he was a fake just like Costello.
Bring Back Kennett, get your blinkers off and open your eyes to these Lib old school tie arseholes.
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Kennett would destroy Victoria or Australia if he was Prime Minster. We would own Nothing
 
thegasman said:
Well said Jonbe, he was a treasurers a***hole .Libs made out that he was be all an end all of financial gurus. In truth he was a dud riding on a mining boom that no ordinary aussie benifited from. Then he sold off all our gold stocks and fooled the public into to thinking what a genius he was at getting a surplus.
Cant recall Costello making any big hard decisions at all.
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Agree gasser, but he is not by far the only fraud in the liberal party on fiscal policy.

Their only policy in the fiscal sphere has ever been to sell off publicly owned utilities and infrastructure - assets that every single working australian paid for with their taxes - to their corporate gods and point to the short term, unrepeatable profits created by such fire sales and proclaim themselves the only party able to deliver a surplus.

Tell you what I bet I could go through all their portfolios and sell off their assets, thereby delivering a surplus but they would scream blue murder and sue the living pants off me and my descendents unto the fourth generation.

True heroes of the middle class 'wanna-be' rich fools, their only concern is paving the way for corporate profit margins to soar by whatever means possible.

I've often asked 'aspirational' middle class acquaintences where such surpluses can be generated once all the public infrastructure portfolio is exhausted and recieved only diatrabe and bluster in return.

The blind leading the willfully blind imho.
 

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Manic Magpie said:
I think it still needs to be passed through parliament. It may not get approval in the senate.
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Didn’t they announce that it went Thru as they show what is Happening with it on the News?
 
TradeDraft said:
Didn’t they announce that it went Thru as they show what is Happening with it on the News?
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It is unlikely to be passed by the senate. From the SMH today:

A $20 cut in the rebates paid to doctors for consultations that are 10 minutes or less faces the axe, with three crossbench senators indicating they will vote to scrap the government's changes. If Labor joins the Greens in also opposing the rebate cut, just one more crossbencher would be needed to unwind the policy when the Senate resumes in February.

As part of its overhaul of the $7 GP co-payment late last year, former health minister Peter Dutton announced the government would cut the amount it subsidises bulk-billed doctors visits by $20.10 to combat the so-called practice of "six-minute medicine".

Doctors currently receive a Medicare rebate worth $37.05 whether they see a patient for six or 20 minutes. Critics argue this leads to doctors scheduling shorter appointments.

The Australian Medical Association says under the new "10 minute rule" the $20 difference in government subsidies is likely to be passed on – meaning some patients who have previously seen their GP for free will now pay.

The move comes into effect on January 19 but will require the Parliament's endorsement when it first meets in February. It is guaranteed to pass the lower house because the government commands a majority in the House of Representatives.
 
Manic Magpie said:
It is unlikely to be passed by the senate. From the SMH today:

A $20 cut in the rebates paid to doctors for consultations that are 10 minutes or less faces the axe, with three crossbench senators indicating they will vote to scrap the government's changes. If Labor joins the Greens in also opposing the rebate cut, just one more crossbencher would be needed to unwind the policy when the Senate resumes in February.

As part of its overhaul of the $7 GP co-payment late last year, former health minister Peter Dutton announced the government would cut the amount it subsidises bulk-billed doctors visits by $20.10 to combat the so-called practice of "six-minute medicine".

Doctors currently receive a Medicare rebate worth $37.05 whether they see a patient for six or 20 minutes. Critics argue this leads to doctors scheduling shorter appointments.

The Australian Medical Association says under the new "10 minute rule" the $20 difference in government subsidies is likely to be passed on – meaning some patients who have previously seen their GP for free will now pay.

The move comes into effect on January 19 but will require the Parliament's endorsement when it first meets in February. It is guaranteed to pass the lower house because the government commands a majority in the House of Representatives.
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Well that is good and hope it does not get thru.

This Government would rather you live on the Streets then Try and Help you:mad:
 
TradeDraft said:
Well that is good and hope it does not get thru.

This Government would rather you live on the Streets then Try and Help you:mad:
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I am no fan of the Liberals either TD. Hate Abbott with a passion. What a shame the Labour are not a more inspiring party. There is not a lot of genuine choice in Australian politics.
 
Manic Magpie said:
I am no fan of the Liberals either TD. Hate Abbott with a passion. What a shame the Labour are not a more inspiring party. There is not a lot of genuine choice in Australian politics.
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And that's just it. I'm a Liberal supporter, was good in the older Defence days, but like you and probably 90% of Australia, I struggle to support Abbott. I always just imagine how different this country would've been if Little Johnny stood down and Peter Costello was PM. Personally I think he would've been the best option over the last 15 years
 
NT.Thunder said:
What - because they tried to have ISP providers lower their prices to make Australia competitive with the rest of the worlds packages you hate them?
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Well - We still have s**t Internet - So Yeah
 
TradeDraft said:
Well - We still have s**t Internet - So Yeah
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We have a lot of s**t stuff in Australia Dave - but we also have a lot of really good stuff. Be thankful for what we have sometimes.

The fact that we are all paying top dollar for s**t internet doesn't automatically point to a Liberal or Government issue. There are a lot of big companies not pulling their weight in this Country Dave.
 

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TradeDraft said:
With raising the Price of going to the Doctors just showing how much we are getting Screwed over from the Bloody Libs:mad:
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Dave... You are a typical Labor supporter... All you do is complain about how you're being screwed over, yet you do nothing to help change the country. This country is not making any progress right now. People need to accept that some policies won't please everyone, but are needed. America is also like Australia, the Republicans control both houses and block all the Democrat bills and absolutely no progress is being made.

If you Labor supporters actually stop complaining and actually help the country progress, some good may come out of the government.
TradeDraft said:
https://torrentfreak.com/aussie-isps-rushing-ahead-with-anti-piracy-proposals-150113/

Another Reason to Hate at the Government
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The government is not to blame. It's the big entertainment companies who refuse to make content available here.
 
boxmatrix said:
Dave... You are a typical Labor supporter... All you do is complain about how you're being screwed over, yet you do nothing to help change the country. This country is not making any progress right now. People need to accept that some policies won't please everyone, but are needed. America is also like Australia, the Republicans control both houses and block all the Democrat bills and absolutely no progress is being made.

If you Labor supporters actually stop complaining and actually help the country progress, some good may come out of the government.


The government is not to blame. It's the big entertainment companies who refuse to make content available here.
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Just wondering exactly what you mean by "helping the country progress." Are you talking about paying $20 more to see the doctor? I dont get how that's progress
 
[QUOTE="boxmatrix, post: 36720906, member: 154792”]The government is not to blame. It's the big entertainment companies who refuse to make content available here.[/QUOTE]

and Then they Bribe the Government to do what they want and not what is best for the Public.

Dave... You are a typical Labor supporter... All you do is complain about how you're being screwed over, yet you do nothing to help change the country. This country is not making any progress right now. People need to accept that some policies won't please everyone, but are needed. America is also like Australia, the Republicans control both houses and block all the Democrat bills and absolutely no progress is being made.
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I could say you sound like a Lib Supporter
 
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ppoiter said:
Just wondering exactly what you mean by "helping the country progress." Are you talking about paying $20 more to see the doctor? I dont get how that's progress
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So the Richer get Richer and the Poorer for Poorer

Agree we don’t live in a Democracy. If you have money you have power and IF you don’t then get Stuffed
 
TradeDraft said:
So the Richer get Richer and the Poorer for Poorer

Agree we don’t live in a Democracy. If you have money you have power and IF you don’t then get Stuffed
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It always makes me laugh when people talk about minor crime and petty offences and use the word 'antisocial' but when it comes to people who have vast wealth and who use creative accounting to avoid paying their fair share of tax, that's not antisocial, it's something we should all admire and aspire to
 
ppoiter said:
It always makes me laugh when people talk about minor crime and petty offences and use the word 'antisocial' but when it comes to people who have vast wealth and who use creative accounting to avoid paying their fair share of tax, that's not antisocial, it's something we should all admire and aspire to
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Like James Packer,Gina Rinehart and Rupert Murdoch and Also they can do what ever they want and the Government does nothing about it:(
 
NT.Thunder said:
You've got a lot of built up anger there Dave - was your life that much better under a labour government?
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Well - Did not have to worry about prices going up and Pensions going down
 
CLUBMEDhurst said:
You forgot the Carbon Tax :rolleyes:
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That is was better tax then what Abbott is putting up.

Least the Rich was Taxed with that and not at all under Abbott
 
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