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-The "budget black hole" is a smoke screen, a total non event.
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The gross Australian federal debt was A$58,284,000 as of 31 August 2007.
The gross Australian federal debt was A$244,325,881,000 as of 31 August 2012.
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-Why would we want to stop the boats, other than the safety of the refugees?
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To get control of our borders, instead of them being flooded by 46,241 under Labor, who ever from where ever. Know who we are letting in. The billions spent on this could have been spent on our own homeless, hospitals, etc. John Howard had this problem stopped and under control. Tony Burke interview with Ray Hadley. 753 boats carrying 46 241 people have arrived in Australian waters under Labor
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-How exactly does the resources tax cost millions?
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In having to implement it, funny how the 2 largest mining companies have not made near the profit they have made in the past since it came in, or that could be due the the deals they did with Julia Gillard, go figure. Large mining projects have stopped/stalled, mining investment stopped/stalled.
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- The carbon tax is good policy and the reports that it has driven prices up and average incomes down have proven not to be true.
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Mate really... Why have power prices gone through the roof? Why are manufacturing job going offshore, why is Ford closing their plant in Geelong in your state? Xstrata to close smelting, refining in Mount Isa and Townsville with loss of 500 jobs
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-The NBN was going to be one of the best things that ever happened to this country. Abbott's version is a fucking joke. Eastern Bloc countries have better fucking internet than this plan will provide.
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Hey, i do agree with you, in it would be good for Australia. If Labor had gone at this with a business plan from the start, instead of a blank check, its been the same as school halls they way it is being implemented.
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-School halls project was badly managed but it provided a lot of jobs and helped drive the economy.
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Pure waste, yes someone got a big drink out of it and it was no the tradies down the bottom. I have not got time to find the link, but a select few at the top, the few large companies that were awarded the contracts, then subcontracted them out to the next company that got a big drink, and so on till the people at the bottom that did the job got puck all, and some never got paid. And as one example of how it was we were over charged by these few pucken large comapnies to do this project, "Questions have been raised about the construction aspects of the Building the Education Revolution (BER) scheme, with a pre-fabricated library at Berridale Public School costing $908,000 under the stimulus spending, while a double brick, toilet block built before the scheme cost just $330,000."
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-The free insulation program was just about the worst managed thing I have seen in a long time, I will definitely not argue this one...
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Yes i do agree.
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- It has been well shown that the stimulus cheques were a good idea.
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Again pure wasted money. They were still sending out stimulus cheques this year, even tho the global financial meltdown ended 4 years ago.
" A STAGGERING 6000 people - including overseas backpackers - have received Labor's $900 "stimulus" payment since January 1- even though the global financial meltdown ended four years ago. "
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