Mr Austin, hi again.

Dont bother with questions for me.

I find you an embarassment for the left. I will leave it at that.

businesses and governments. Which means if they ever start selling dodgy data, they will soon go out of business.
Alan Austin,
How is it then that Government appointed private firms can be mismanaging to the point of projects collapsing with dozens of people losing jobs yet the same consultancy firm is getting 5 year contracts time after time without any questions being answered or asked.
Your above claim is not valid.

Which bureaucrats have lied? Which bureaucrats have stolen what?
Can we name people on OLO without persecution ?

“However, i wish you would lay off all academics.”
He referred to me . If he can get academics to stop making our lives a misery than I'll lay off them. Let's face it, there's no Government policy that doesn't have an academic input therefore all good/bad decicions which impact on our daily life are of their making.
Please don't confuse intelligent & practical scientists with everyday BA carrying half-wits. My gripes is with the latter.

Ok, but could you clarify please Individual. Are all BA graduates neither intelligent or practical?

And what about MAs, Tony Abbott has one.

Thanks, Indi,

I empathise with much of what you seem to be saying here, and in earlier posts on OLO. We may not be that far apart.

Perhaps our apparent differences arise from my uncertainty as to what you really want from a federal government.

Could you indicate whether any of these are important, Indi? And then add any other criteria important to you not on this list:

1. adequate wages
2. equitable distribution of wealth
3. adequate pension levels
4. reasonable personal taxation rate
5. reasonable company taxation rate
6. reasonable GST rate
7. economic growth
8. low unemployment rate
9. low youth unemployment
10. high employment participation
11. high level of women in the workforce
12. women in senior management positions
13. adequate heath care
14. ratio of doctors per 100,000 population
15. ratio of nurses per 100,000 population
16. low debt as a % of GDP
17. balance of trade
18. international credit rating
19. low interest rates
20. low inflation rates
21. low rate of bankruptcies
22. strong productivity
23. strong household savings
24. retail sales growth rate
25. adequate superannuation
26. high level of economic freedom
27. utilities held in public rather than private ownership
28. sound government 10 year bond rate
29. strong value of the currency relative to others
30. strong foreign exchange reserves
31. high level of home ownership
32. overall quality of life
33. ministerial integrity
34. ministers not breaking promises they should be able to keep
35. ministers not telling blatant lies
36. secure borders
37. treatment of asylum seekers
38. fair go for Indigenous people
39. adequate primary education
40. adequate secondary education
41. adequate tertiary education
42. ending wasteful government spending
43. ending money lost overseas gambling on foreign exchange markets
44. ending sell-off of valuable state-owned assets for a pittance
45. slowing the rate of pollution

There’s 45. Pick 5, 10, 15, 20 or more - however many you want - and we can then see which party in Australia has the better record of delivery in the areas important to you.

Okay?

Thanks, Indi.

Cheers, AA

AA,

Are you really as arrogant in real life as you with your cock sure confidence about knowing eveything?

Are you Labor's cheer squad leader? You certainly are not much more than that.

You have a go at Aust's media, but you ought to look at yourelf before making judgements about bias

Alan,

The problem is that if you "Pick 5, 10, 15, 20 or more we can then see which party in Australia has the better record of delivery in the areas important to you" and the answer is overwhelmingly not Labor.

The US economy is now starting to take off on the back of the low dollar, low energy costs, and a flexible job market. Australia with a high dollar soaring energy costs and a increasingly rigid job market is beginning to see falling productivity, increasing unemployment and falling profits leading to falling tax revenues.

The answer is to wind back the carbon tax, some of the more archaic labor laws w.r.t. individual contracts and dismisal to boost productivity, profitablity and tax revenue, and take the axe to Labor's bloated civil service.