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David Archibald's Suggested Cuts to Get Out of Debt.

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ABC – Australian Broadcasting Corporation; Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency ;
Australia Council for the Arts; Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; Australian Civil-Military Centre; Australian Egg Corporation Limited; Australian Film Television and Radio School; Australian Human Rights Commission; Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Studies; Australian Institute of Family Studies; Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; Australian Institute of Marine Science; Australian Pork Ltd; Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency; Australian Research Council (ARC); Australian Sports Commission; Australian Strategic Policy Institute; Australian Wool Innovation; Cancer Council; Commonwealth Grants Commission; CSIRO; Family Court of Australia; Grains Research and Development Corporation; Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, and Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

Big list. Big money to be saved for Australia. Archibald's reason why these parasitic government departments, employing the terminally unemployable, should be scrapped can be read in his no – pay wall article in Quadant Online 11/12/17.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 8:23:19 AM
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A 5-member appointed NSW Legislative Council began meeting on 24 August 1824 . Victoria's first governor appointed a committee of two bankers and the auditor-general . NSW cut the Council to 1 member , the Governor's son in law. Vic sacked the lot and Mrs Governor did the typing.
Posted by nicknamenick, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 2:37:49 PM
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It's aright, ttbn. I've got it.

http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2017/12/please-santa-axe-christmas
Posted by AJ Philips, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 2:53:25 PM
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So a rightwing moron suggests abolishing anything that he can't see the point of or that challenges his narrative. Is this really worth discussing?
Posted by Aidan, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 3:59:22 PM
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Aidan,

What evidence do you have that David Archibald is a moron?
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 6:19:13 PM
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ttbn,
Isn't it obvious?
I read his Quadrant article!
Posted by Aidan, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 8:42:06 PM
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Aidan,

David Archibald has written 10 books that I am aware of. I haven't read any of yours, lately. You seem to know everything, but you haven't manage one, it seems.

Before you call other people 'moron's, you really need to give some thought to what people could call you, a person who asks: “ Is this really worth discussing?”. We are talking about money wasted, and money that could be saved; and you don't think that's worth talking about! Your mental capacity is the one on question, Aidan, not that of a scholarly person who actually does know what he is talking about. That is certainly 'obvious'.
Posted by ttbn, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 7:52:52 AM
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ttbn,
His being an obscure book author does not change my opinion. Not only does he rely on false assumptions, but he also lacks the reasoning ability that a "scholarly person who actually does know what he is talking about" would have.

Consider his position on the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, for example: a single alleged error in a letter, plus an acknowledgement of the problem of climate change and its link to greenhouse gases - and in his mind that makes the entire organization worthless!

Similarly he wants to abolish the CSIRO, which has a long track record of helping industry to innovate (as well as doing basic research and inventing wifi) because they dare to do the (actually very valuable) job of modelling the effects of climate change.

With interest rates at record lows, investing in our future makes more sense than ever. But Archibald thinks it would be better to instead to chase a budgetary outcome that any objective analysis would show is harmful.

Where there's genuine waste, of course it should be addressed so that resources can be redeployed where they will do more good. But this thread is not about money wasted; it's about money that one ignoramus wrongly assumes to be wasted because he's blind to the value of knowledge.
Posted by Aidan, Saturday, 16 December 2017 10:17:39 PM
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