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Queensland 70's/80's style. Democracy by design. Joe for premier.

Could Moderators please change the misleading thread title to "Abbott makes mockery of democratic process and rule of law while Howard murders children." please?

That was not done in prejudgement. It was a political stunt born from Labor strategy to show up Abbott for foolishly committing to not accepting Thomson's vote. It is no more prejudgment than you suggesting that Gillard should have told him "Until the allegations are tested in a court of law and...

What prejudgements?

An Another one of the "born to rule" brigade that dominate SA politics. Parliament House needs fumigating. I'm an advocate for a "None of the above" option on our ballot papers. It may be the only way to rid SA politics of the vermin running both sides of politics.

I certainly hope he can break through the Liberal Party boys club. The State deserves better than an option between 2 cartels.

That's why he is vulnerable.

Given the record of SA Liberal's I wouldn't confident that he will still be leader at the upcoming election.

Paying them to do nothing would be progress.

Reducing an over bloated, over regulating Public disService would be a good start. We have a too huge parasite to host ratio.

QED.

The ABC won't be privatised. Sections will be scaled back, eg. online content and SBS. The Board and managerial positions will be discretely replaced with more conservative bias to counter their current Left bias. This won't be a bad thing for left wing politics as the ABC has become shrill with...

Unfortunately they breed.

BP would have done it better. And finished with a self implosion for effect.

Oh ok then. I'll disregard my own first hand experiences and accept your unsupported assertion.

Yes I do. I worked in construction estimation and all of the above variables are considered. Someone has stuffed up. I guess to a lovie fanboi any questioning of Labor management would be seen as pro Liberal. Get your tinted glasses off matey and see incompetence for what it is. We aren't...

That is bullshit. A budget blowout is a budget blowout whether the project is short term or long term. Someone stuffed up the estimates. It was either incompetence or a deliberate ploy to counter the opposition's plan, which may well have been underestimated for the same reasons. The state...

Hey, it's only an extra half a billion dollars in interest payments a year. The resource tax would have covered that.;)

We should quietly cut the cord and give them a gentle nudge toward NZ.

They repealed Howard's workplace reforms born of the Cole RC so I can't see this RC bullet proofing any resulting legislation.

The fact that you qualify your question with "arguably" can be put down directly to Rudd's refusal to run a cost/benefit analysis on their proposal. Economic madness for a business to do this so how is this an example of good economic management for Gillard/Rudd? The only way they could make...

Pandora's box. This will go longer than the Cole RC into the building and construction industry 11 years ago and cost plenty. Unlikely to flush out the rats. As Power Raid suggested Abbott would be much smarter if he saved the expense and brought in stricter regulation rules. We already know...

Anyone can spend money. Rudd/Gillard, like Howard before them, blew the opportunity for well targeted infrastructure expenditure that could have taken the edge off the ongoing disadvantages we have with things like transport and drought to name just 2. We desperately need to broaden our income...

Council operations tend to fly under the radar when it comes to corruption. The irony of it is that you tend to hear a lot more innuendo at local government levels than any other level of government but it's rare for anyone to get caught.

Cheers. What a wonderful democracy we live in that a person can be jailed for publicising voting information.

About 5 or 6 Federal elections ago this was the case. You could bypass the preferences by posting a 1 2 2 2 2 vote. At the time a character, whose name eludes me, ran a campaign out of his own pocket under the catchcry of "1 2 3 3 Tweedle dumb and Tweedle dee" which publicised the means of...

What you are saying is right Jane but irrigation allocation should never have been treated as a property right in the first place. There needed to be flexibility for a reduction in allocations through drier periods other than running out of water progressively down stream or allocation buyback...

My point was not a reference to the Murray river "problem". It was a commentary of the way State and Federal Governments have, for years, used it as a political issue without ever "fixing" the "problem". If I could be f'd I could post you links to front page pictures of various politicians from...

It is also an issue that was "solved" by every elected NSW, Qld, SA, Vic and Federal Government over the last 20 years. Just ask them. The affected people are suffering from "solve" fatigue.

So everyone advocating, or indifferent to, the idea of Gay marriage should be presumed to be against a harder line on boat immigration? Care to explain the logic to this?