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The age of entitlement is over. Apparently!

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Dear Rehctub,

<<But at the end of the day this is as much about the moral issue>>

Moral politicians? First teach sharks that it is not nice to eat surfers...
Posted by Yuyutsu, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 10:10:23 AM
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The only thing saving Abbott now is Bill Shorten. What goes on in Abbott's party room is the only thing saving Abbott. Bill Shorten is casually looking on, trying to guess Abbott's next blunder which are a frequent occurrence, since day one of the Abbott regime's cycle.

Abbott took the bate on the Vegemite scandal, just to prove a point of stupidity. A story that has gone right around the world, with Abbott all over it. It's must be a real laugh to see what Abbott's itinerary must look like. That has got to worthy of a VIP flight to get to the bottom of it, when all he had to do was pick up a phone, i am sure someone would have told him how stupid he was.

The DD trigers are on the parliamentary menu, unless they have been reconsidered for some reason.
Posted by doog, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 10:16:50 AM
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Poirot, as usual you are so one eyed it's not worth the effort trying to talk to you.

What you fail to acknowledge is that while Rudd inherited a wonderful set of numbers, he, along with the help of Gillard, left a basket case for anyone to deal with.

Not only did these two duds waste billions on failure after failure, but one opened the flood gates to illegals, and the other was too useless to achieve in the best part of five years what Abbotts government achieved in months. Even to the point whereby Bill himself admitted that labor got it wrong, and Abbott got it right.

While I accept the Abbott government has lost it's way, it's like comparing the result of a race between two people, where one has only one leg. The handicap they inherited was just too much to deal with and anyone who voted for Kevin 07's side show should take a bow as they have helped contribute to this mess with their unconditional support for him and his useless partner in crime. In fact, had Rudd been a company CEO, His actions would have been treated as criminal negligence.

I'm afraid that unless we see serious tax reform, reform that make EVERYONE pay their fair share of tax, nobody is capable of rescuing our basket case of a nation.

As for your bias, I note that Tony Burke didn't get a mention in your rant.

How very convenient of you. You're a dud!
Posted by rehctub, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 10:26:16 AM
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The media exposing politicians for legal, yet not moral behaviour gives anecdotal credibility to the separation between media and government. I believe, myself being told by Radio National in 1999, the often embarrassments media pay to politicians is a confidence trick, in order to create another confidence trick with RN listeners. All government can do to prove a democracy exists is to have a supposed independent organisation expose legal yet not moral behaviours. It is like politicians are being paid to be embarrassed. Politicians wouldn't be earning their salary unless they're being embarrassed.

Embarrassments, elections, plus parliament procedure, anecdotally proves democracy. Anecdotal meaning words alone with no other evidence.

If you can't see it, than listeners need to look through the fog for reasons to why new embarrassing stories continually keep coming out. The idea that many embarrassments keep coming out, should be questioned, shading elections and parliament procedure as other confidence tricks.
Posted by steve101, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 1:05:54 PM
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private philosophy certainly does effect public performance. For decades now the social engineers have told us that work performance is not related to private life. Nothing will change because character tests are not allowed when it comes to employement in Government circles. Certainly being anti family will help you get a job with abc/sbs. Its all about connnections, rubbing each others back and covering for each other. Everyone knows when the opposition leader speaks just like our previous pm they come with no authority. The best they can do is to resort to the pc chargon of the day (sexist, racist, equality etc). Its the only way they can take a 'moral' position. Time and time again we see people making the gw religion a 'moral' issue. How pathetic! The age of entitlement is not over because its a privately held philosophy.
Posted by runner, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 1:30:28 PM
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This term of govt; has an uncanny effort put into backflips and lies. Like our 150 $ from the Carbon tax, which the ACCC says it can not find. All Abbott done was give the power generators a six Billion $ rise. Since the carbon tax removal Co2 output has continually risen. Au is the worst polluters in the world per head of population.
How do you go into details on moral grounds. Morality becomes an opinion and not fact. There is why you will not see morality expressed in length.
Legal is much easier to report because you have a whole system behind you. The ABC is not in the habit of reporting morality because it could be seen as untruthful.
All of ABC reporting relies on stories actually being in existence to be reported, and not made up like the Australian continually does. That is why so much so called news can only be seen in the Australian, and nowhere else.
Posted by doog, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 2:03:22 PM
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