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Dave The Man 
Joined: 01 Apr 2005
Location: Someville, Victoria, Australia
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| Culprit wrote: | | If you missed Q&A last night. Watch it and get to see how really stupid Joe Hockey is. |
Is there anyone with any Brains in Government?
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Skids 
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
Location: Joined 3/6/02 . Member #175
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The question is, Is there anyone with any brains in Parliament 😨
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watt price tully
Joined: 15 May 2007
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| Skids wrote: | | The question is, Is there anyone with any brains in Parliament 😨 |
I think Barry Jones was the last one.
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Woods Of Ypres
Joined: 27 May 2003
Location: Yugoslavia
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| Dave The Man wrote: | | Jezza wrote: | | David wrote: | | If only the Greens could hurry up and become a major party. |
God help us if they do become a major party! 
That's not to say the major parties are any better but the Greens are not much better either. |
With the Greens. We would have No Power and Be Living off the Land
Also you can smoke as much Pot as you like  |
LOL sounds good to me  |
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ronrat
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: Thailand
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| Woods Of Ypres wrote: | | Dave The Man wrote: | | Jezza wrote: | | David wrote: | | If only the Greens could hurry up and become a major party. |
God help us if they do become a major party!
That's not to say the major parties are any better but the Greens are not much better either. |
With the Greens. We would have No Power and Be Living off the Land
Also you can smoke as much Pot as you like |
LOL sounds good to me |
With the Australia Sex Party you could still have power to watch porn but you pay less tax because the churches are paying tax and and you can afford to get a an escort to come over and blow you over a joint.
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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005
Location: In flagrante delicto
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| ronrat wrote: | | Woods Of Ypres wrote: | | Dave The Man wrote: | | Jezza wrote: | | David wrote: | | If only the Greens could hurry up and become a major party. |
God help us if they do become a major party!
That's not to say the major parties are any better but the Greens are not much better either. |
With the Greens. We would have No Power and Be Living off the Land
Also you can smoke as much Pot as you like |
LOL sounds good to me |
With the Australia Sex Party you could still have power to watch porn but you pay less tax because the churches are paying tax and and you can afford to get a an escort to come over and blow you over a joint. |
Vote 1 Sex party.
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pietillidie
Joined: 07 Jan 2005
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Now the UK has broken ranks with the US, Kaptain Kowtow finally seems to have decided to join the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank. Thank gawd the UK put its financial interests before crawling to the US.
The path will not be an easy one, but you either pursue these things and get them right before they blow up, or you let Whacko Gun Cult USA blow them up. It goes without saying it's in all our interests for China and Asia to succeed, even if the US would prefer to have them remain a vassal outpost for cheap labour.
Oh, and if this goes through without turning into another Abbott embarrassment, it will be the first tick I've given this batch of Neanderthal Glibsand even then Abbott will have spent a year trying to block it, only going with it on the coat tails of the UK
| The Aged wrote: | Cabinet's National Security Committee has cleared the way for Australia to invest as much as $3 billion to join the China-led $US100 billion Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank.
Fairfax Media can reveal the committee's green light is expected to lead to a formal decision to sign up to the precedent-setting Chinese initiative when the full cabinet meets on Monday, marking a milestone for China's influence in the region.
Leaked details of the high-level discussions this week follow six months of messy debate which has set cabinet ministers and US allies against each other.
The amount of money Australia will tip into the bank has not been finalised, but figures ranging from hundreds of millions to up to $3 billion are being discussed.
The committee did not discuss a final dollar figure.
Supporters of the potential $US100 billion bank say it could trigger a wave of infrastructure development throughout the Asia-Pacific region, driving economic development and thus benefiting Australia and other countries in the region.
The leak of details of discussions in the NSC which includes Tony Abbott, Julie Bishop, Warren Truss, Kevin Andrews, Peter Dutton and Joe Hockey held this week in part also reflects China's success in signing up nearly 30 other players before the end of March deadline set by Beijing.
Some sources in government have suggested Finance Minister Mathias Cormann could sign up when he attends the Boao forum in China late next week, subject to cabinet approval, but others suggest that deadline was too soon.
A proposal to join by Mr Hockey was knocked back by Ms Bishop and Mr Abbott in the same NSC forum last October, with reports at the time claiming Mr Abbott had succumbed to American pressure.
The expected cabinet decision will be to sign a "memorandum of understanding" to enter direct negotiations on the final structure of the bank. In theory, this will still provide room for Australia to pull back if China does not deliver on governance commitments.
As recently as last week the Obama Administration was reportedly angry and embarrassed when the United Kingdom broke ranks to join the bank, with minimal consultation, prompting other European nations including Germany, France and Italy to follow suit.
Regional allies of Australia including New Zealand, India, Singapore and Indonesia have also signed up.
Several sources with direct insight into the NSC say that internal and international conversations have been considerably more subtle than that.
One such source said he was "bemused" at prominent reports that Mr Obama had personally lobbied Mr Abbott against joining last year, when it was Mr Abbott who had actually raised his concerns with Mr Obama.
Mr Abbott said last weekend a decision by government was due in a week or so and that "we are looking very carefully at it" though he emphasised it would have to be a "genuinely multilateral institution" and not simply controlled by China, in the same way the US does not directly control the World Bank or Japan the Asia Development Bank.
Mr Abbott and Ms Bishop had been concerned that a lack of transparency and proper governance would create a risk that the bank could be used as a tool of Chinese foreign policy.
Concerns have also been raised about the potential for corruption and undermining of environmental, governance and community-liaison standards.
Mr Hockey, in contrast, has emphasised the bank's role as a source of much-needed infrastructure capital in Asia and in providing an internationally-transparent way for China to shoulder increased regional responsibility. Trade Minister Andrew Robb has backed those arguments and the decision is a win for both men.
Senior ministers and regional nations have differed over whether nations have more leverage while China is trying to convince them to join or after they are "inside the tent".
The process is being seen as a pivotal test of how Australia and close friends and allies can persuade China to play within the open, rules-based international system as it grows its political, military and economic power.
The move to join also represents a compromise after China made improvements to its proposed governance rules. So far, however, it has fallen short of having a World Bank-style "resident board" that could provide head-office scrutiny over investment decisions, according to sources.
The decision is not due to be announced until proper consultation with like-minded nations, most notably South Korea, Japan and the US.
Reports out of Seoul suggest a South Korean decision to join is also imminent, which would round out China's year-long blitz to secure international backing. |
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-ready-to-join-us100-billion-china-bank-20150319-1m33pa.html
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droversdog65
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Lol at the right wingers - couldn't wait to stick the knife in to their favourite targets.
It's always Education / Public hospitals / School System / Apprenticeship system / Public infrastructure.
Their view is its such a waste of money providing security and value to the unwashed masses because they lack to intelligence to appreciate it lol.
Tony Abbott is first, last, and always a private school bully.
Priveleged and accustomed to attacking those who have no defense and addicted to attacking others from behind the safety of parliamentary privelege he's nothing more or less than a jumped up would be fascist and a coward of the highest water to boot.
It seems that poncing around in budgie smugglers and pretending to be an honest athlete only worked for a little while and the sheep saw through the charade a lot quicker than normal - can't say I'm surprised - he is after all just a jumped up little bully with pretensions of worth. |
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David 
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003
Location: Andromeda
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regan is true fullback
Joined: 27 Dec 2002
Location: Granville. nsw
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when i missed my bus to Avalon airport, i was told that a taxi ride to the airport was $70...
Naturally I recoiled at this large amount of money and caught a train to Lara and then caught a cab ($19)
Now given that the city of Geelong is about twelve miles further down the highway, plus taxi to the golf club, then we are looking at a $100 taxi ride, plus $100 coming back. Given time served by a Commonwealth driver to the golf club and hanging around watching Young Liberals poncing, then we are looking at about $500 to $600 for a Liberal Party fundraiser...
So...Madame Speaker has spent 100% more for a private function, and has therefore blown taxpayers money sky high, not to mention millions in untoward publicity.
In 1983 a Liberal Party candidate was discovered running an escort agency with his wife. All the conservative hacks said it would blow over quickly, that it didn't matter, except the astute, and sleazy, Ian Sinclair...
People, said Ian, remember this stuff... |
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Tannin 
Can't remember
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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| regan is true fullback wrote: | | So...Madame Speaker has spent 100% more for a private function, and has therefore blown taxpayers money sky high |
Having a bad sums day are we? $500 for a chauffeured limousine, $5000 for a helicopter, that is not 100% extra, it is 900% extra. The performances of the worst Speaker in living memory just keep getting worse and worse the longer she's allowed to keep the job.
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003
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I still don't understand how Slipper could be dragged through the courts for this stuff but government ministers just pay the money back when discovered and all is well.
Seriously, can anyone explain how this stuff works?
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Culprit
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Port Melbourne
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| David wrote: | I still don't understand how Slipper could be dragged through the courts for this stuff but government ministers just pay the money back when discovered and all is well.
Seriously, can anyone explain how this stuff works? |
It's called Power and the LNP have it. |
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Lazza
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
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| Culprit wrote: | | David wrote: | I still don't understand how Slipper could be dragged through the courts for this stuff but government ministers just pay the money back when discovered and all is well.
Seriously, can anyone explain how this stuff works? |
It's called Power and the LNP have it. |
Its actually a truism that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Tannin
Can't remember
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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Yes Lazza, but this mob was as corrupt as a carcass full of maggots before they came to power. Look at the Mal Brough conspiracies and disgraces; look at Abbott's shameless milking of the taxpayer for his book promotion and his fun runs; look at Hockey's $200,000 a year living in Canberra scam and his $21,000 talk-to-me fees; look at Sinodinos trying to scam the NSW taxpayer for 20 million dollars and actually walking away with "only" $200,000 worth of public money, look at the Liberal scumbag from WA who claimed taxpayer-funded first class return trips to Queensland just to inspect his dodgy negatively geared investment property .... and so on and on and on.
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