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By Alan Austin, published 9/2/2015That stench of hypocrisy – worsening by the hour – is from Australia's mainstream media – newspapers and electronic media run by Fairfax, Murdoch and the ABC.
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@Onthebeach, no, taxes are good. They buy civilisation.
The GST in Australia is quite fair with its current offsets. Any tampering, however, would do more harm than good: extending it without offsets would be regressive; extending it with more offsets would render the system far too complicated and costly to administer.
Far better simply to get the wealthy to pay a fair cop by stopping the rorts and tweaking the income tax and corporate tax rates.
@Foxy, yes agree with that.
We may be witnessing a shift in the influence of Mr Murdoch's newspapers as we speak.
Recent election results in Victoria and Queensland suggest it may be in decline. Hard to prove, however.
Some of Mr Murdoch's corporate investor partners are now pressuring him to close all newspapers because most, if not all, make substantial losses.
@Runner: No, the opposite is true.
All the evidence confirms that Mr Murdoch has actively opposed all Labor governments and leaders since 1972.
Don’t be fooled by that sneaky ruse in 2007. It was not at all genuine.
@ Jardine K. Jardine, please calm down.
The opposite of what you say is true.
This piece simply matches the words of the mainstream press before the 2013 election with their words now. Nothing more.
There is no expression of “blind and ignorant hatred”, is there?
Cheers, AA