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Culprit 
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Let's spend billions on subs so we can win a State in the next election. Defence workers are all laughing as we have no one to man the Submarines and no one joining up to man them. No doubt we will outsource this to the Chinese 
The Submarine choice is the best, it's a pity SA cannot build a canoe but get a Sub contract.   |
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Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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David 
I dare you to try
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If extending some basic humanity to the innocents locked up indefinitely in our tropical paradise prison camps is 'blowing it', then so be it (of course, Labor are more than happy to play both sides on this issue, so I don't think anyone's under the illusion we're going to start following our treaties or anything).
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Dave The Man 
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Location: Someville, Victoria, Australia
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| Culprit wrote: | Let's spend billions on subs so we can win a State in the next election. Defence workers are all laughing as we have no one to man the Submarines and no one joining up to man them. No doubt we will outsource this to the Chinese
The Submarine choice is the best, it's a pity SA cannot build a canoe but get a Sub contract. |
Then the Shit On the Needy
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Wokko 
Come and take it.
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| David wrote: |
If extending some basic humanity to the innocents locked up indefinitely in our tropical paradise prison camps is 'blowing it', then so be it (of course, Labor are more than happy to play both sides on this issue, so I don't think anyone's under the illusion we're going to start following our treaties or anything). |
Whatever your personal views on the issue, it's election poison for the left since Tampa. Only Rudd managed to nullify it.
In a similar story, and I can't find the link apparently the carbon tax is being resurrected. Labor really going to the well to find election losing policies to bring back. Why stop there? Why not an Internet Filter and the Australia Card? |
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Culprit
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| The carbon tax ain't no killer this time around. Most people realise it cost them stuff all and no prices have dropped since its removal. I was all for it as it made people think about what they use. Unlike these current idiots who use our taxes to pay for advertising for the coal industry and try to tell us it's clean. The Chinese are heavily into our solar industry and that's the way they are heading as our current clowns refuse to accept clean energy and remember "wind farms are ugly". More people are employed in the solar industry in the USA than the coal industry but yet we still live in the past. |
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partypie
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| Opposition to the carbon tax helped Abbott win the last election, however his failure to get the spending cuts its abolition required has given the LNP a massive political and economic problem. |
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Wokko
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| partypie wrote: | | Opposition to the carbon tax helped Abbott win the last election, however his failure to get the spending cuts its abolition required has given the LNP a massive political and economic problem. |
Turnbull seems to have given up on spending cuts and shrinking Government and is looking to create new and imaginative taxes. I'm actually 50/50 on preferencing Labor over Liberal for the first time since Latham but Labor just doesn't seem to want the votes. |
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Dangles
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| Culprit wrote: | Let's spend billions on subs so we can win a State in the next election. Defence workers are all laughing as we have no one to man the Submarines and no one joining up to man them. No doubt we will outsource this to the Chinese
The Submarine choice is the best, it's a pity SA cannot build a canoe but get a Sub contract. |
Someone called it the most expensive work for the dole scheme of all time. |
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Wokko
Come and take it.
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
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| Culprit wrote: | Let's spend billions on subs so we can win a State in the next election. Defence workers are all laughing as we have no one to man the Submarines and no one joining up to man them. No doubt we will outsource this to the Chinese
The Submarine choice is the best, it's a pity SA cannot build a canoe but get a Sub contract. |
I'll be in my 40s by the time these Subs are delivered and wouldn't mind making a bit of cash, will the Navy take me |
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Culprit
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
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| Wokko wrote: | | Culprit wrote: | Let's spend billions on subs so we can win a State in the next election. Defence workers are all laughing as we have no one to man the Submarines and no one joining up to man them. No doubt we will outsource this to the Chinese
The Submarine choice is the best, it's a pity SA cannot build a canoe but get a Sub contract. |
I'll be in my 40s by the time these Subs are delivered and wouldn't mind making a bit of cash, will the Navy take me |
I am set to land some $$$ from the French.
Here's a look at the new Sub. |
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watt price tully
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Mungo Maccallum on Mirabella:
"It is fair to say that the revenant candidate for the seat of Indi, Sophie Mirabella, would never win a nation-wide popularity contest.
At the end of the 2013, the normally placid independent Tony Windsor bade her farewell from parliament with the salutation: She is the nastiest I reckon if you put it to a vote to all politicians, shed come up number one....
https://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/mungo-maccallum/2016/26/2016/1461624958/knees-and-elbows
Mungo is an astute political observer in many respects & very funny too.
He characterised the 1972 election between Gough Whitlam & Billy McMahon as a contest between a "big pr*ck & a little cnut".
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David
I dare you to try
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Pies4shaw 
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I enjoyed this entertaining little juxtaposition from that article:
"Revenue raising measures that the Coalition adopted after Labor proposed them were also popular, with reducing superannuation tax concessions for high earners winning 60% support with 22% opposed and increasing cigarette taxes favoured by 67% to 21%.
Corporate tax cuts were unpopular, with only 22% in favour and 57% opposed, but voters would still like to see their own personal income taxes cut, 63% to 19%." |
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Wokko
Come and take it.
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Not really, Turnbull has NO idea what he's doing and is as far from a true believer the Liberal party would have. The people who like him are Labor voters and when push comes to shove they're going to tick the same box they've ticked for decades.
As unpopular as Abbott was he was respected for being a man of principle; even if you disagreed with him you could see his sincerity. Turnbull has that Rudd slime dripping off him. Plenty on the Right want to see him gone and unlike popularity which doesn't sway many votes, conviction does. |
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