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Victorian State Election - November 2014

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opening up the RIP was a big mistake. it protects us, what we have built around the waters edges, & with climate change & rising Sea Levels expected many areas are under threat.

the Bay at present only ever half fills or half empties, its really not a BAY; but an estuary lake.

what happened to the EasternTP ?

Only joking! What trade were you in? We're you working for a contractor or for The Board?
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    Only joking! What trade were you in? We're you working for a contractor or for The Board?

    I was an apprentice carpenter on the site. an interesting site, with interesting characters. much trouble. an eye-opener into peoples differing ideas & values.

    but it was great to not be working in the middle of the traffic snarls & suburbia.

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    I'm not overly huge on state politics as ever since Kennett, it's been a place where the flakiest and least talented flotsam and jetsam of both parties go to serve time.
    That being said.... I like the idea of RobbieF and BenHur crying into their beers (or Grange Hermitage in their cases). Suffer in your jocks, you stooges.

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    The libs are gone. However just watched interviews with lib 2 members who cant accept this . One was this Bauer slag from bayside cant remember the other one. Arrogant clowns just don't get the fact that voters have the final say.

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    Two more years and then we can pizz off Mr. Rabbit as well.

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    The libs are gone. However just watched interviews with lib 2 members who cant accept this . One was this Bauer slag from bayside cant remember the other one. Arrogant clowns just don't get the fact that voters have the final say.

    they don't care about voters just their agenas... born to rule mentality. the age of entitlement is still strong between their tears

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    Two more years and then we can pizz off Mr. Rabbit as well.

    not before he does an enormous amount of damage

    he'll kill off the manufacturing sector before we can remove him & his party. he's going to run it into the dirt deliberately, to cause unemployment right thru the trades sector. trying to crash wages & conditions, because we can't compete with Asian wages & conditions.

    he doesn't want to de-float or use tariffs. but it will eventually happen. the globalisation is bullsh. it won't settle till we all earn nothing, across the world, as one lowers costs another will go further. the race to the bottom.

    It will end up with civil wars... cannot happen this way. faulty thinking by number crunchers.

    the answer is to elevate the working conditions of Asian workers, but they're governments won't go for that... so all we can do is look after our own domestic economy.

    Buy Australian.

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    he doesn't want to de-float or use tariffs. but it will eventually happen.

    Helllooo, is anyone home ?

    Its awfully quiet in this cave here... :cool:

    What did you expect? You're probably the only person in the country who wants to wind the clock back 30 years by re-regulating the dollar and re-introducing tariffs.

    Those days are over DL

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    What did you expect? You're probably the only person in the country who wants to wind the clock back 30 years by re-regulating the dollar and re-introducing tariffs.

    Those days are over DL

    No, I don't think so Gv. I think the current credit cycle styled economy has run its 50yr race & there is no where else to go, but back to predominant domestic economies with a little international trade.

    the only other alternative now, is all equal wages across the world for all workers, with the same conditions, but where is the leverage for investors when you take into account shippage?

    I think the recession is on the doorstep... russia, euro, the usa in trillion$ of bother, japan, etc

    the prophets do say we do away with money, & with greed. is it about to all fall down.

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    I'm not a big fan of Mr Andrews, but did he actually just do something he promised to do during the election campaign?

    http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/victoria-state-election-2014/ambulance-victoria-board-resigns-as-daniel-andrews-reaches-agreement-with-paramedics-on-conditions-20141205-120wox.html

    Someone pinch me.

    The irony being that Andrews had exactly the same problem with the ambos, their union, and a protracted pay dispute when he was Health Minister in the previous Labor Government.

    If I'd been the Libs, I would have painted the current mess as a continuation of the problems which began under Andrews.

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    What did you expect? You're probably the only person in the country who wants to wind the clock back 30 years by re-regulating the dollar and re-introducing tariffs.

    Those days are over DL

    not the only

    heres a start to sanity & fairplay - Tax breaks on housing, shares and super distort behaviour, benefit the rich: Murray

    The Murray inquiry recommends scrapping tax breaks for property.

    Tax breaks for housing, shares and superannuation could all be scrapped, and GST could apply more broadly if the Abbott government listens to the final recommendations of the financial systems inquiry.

    The report by former Commonwealth Bank chief executive David Murray suggests a raft of tax breaks distort borrowing, including negative gearing, capital gains tax concessions and dividend imputation.

    Mr Murray takes particular aim at tax breaks for housing, saying negative gearing and capital gains tax exemptions on the family home tends to encourage leveraged and speculative investment and is a potential source of systemic risk for the financial system and the economy.

    Mr Murray pointed out capital gains concessions were a tax subsidy for the wealthy and reducing them would lead to a more efficient allocation of funding in the economy.

    "All else being equal, the increase in the after-tax return is larger for individuals on higher marginal tax rates," he said.

    While Mr Murray does not suggest outright scrapping them, his report puts them forward as concessions that distort behaviour and create risk, which increases the chance they will be examined in the upcoming tax white paper.

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    What did you expect? You're probably the only person in the country who wants to wind the clock back 30 years by re-regulating the dollar and re-introducing tariffs.

    Those days are over DL

    thanks, china ?

    they play loose & free by their own rules.

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