So I called it right Tristan - you ARE a totalitarian.

That's a big reveal. You can't justify your greed for power and other people's money in a rational world, you need a fictional 'political economy' where bureaucrats and Party apparatchiki decide whether my family eat, get medical treatment, get admitted to university. And if I dont like that, the Power of the State will compel me to undergo psychiatric examination.

Australia's system of political correctness can't distinguish stupid fantasies underlying the guff progressives 'produce'.

People like you and your amoral politicians Rudd and Gillard will destroy our national economy, sell their own votes, and buy those of the poor with the people's taxes, while you posture and preen as self-evidently morally superior people.

May 'progressives' die ashamed, knowing their children impoverished to pay those astonishing debts their parents spent on a moment of moral superiority.

Yes Tristan, and many of those referred to, also have a difficulty in distinguishing between Buddhism and Communism and virtually all isms? Albeit, not necessarily, rationalism, activism or nudism?
One of the most recent discoveries, by marine biologists, is that some tropical reefs are there, because the oil seepage coming up from the ocean floor, provides nutrients and an extremely favorable environment!
Logical, given some algae survive by exclusively predating on more toxic varieties! And all oil was originally, algae!
And all coral has an equally symbiotic interdependence, with possibly cannibalistic algae!
Now I'm not saying that the whole Barrier Reef has this symbiotic interdependence, just say, half of it?
And that would support some of the rationalism coming from varied oil industry experts, who are on the public record as saying, to our immediate north we could have a larger hydrocarbon resources than all the known reserves of the entire Middle East!
We are a bit like the ragged arsed beggar, handcuffed to steel railing, and begging every foreigner that passes for some, (please Sir) borrowed foreign capital.
When one of the more wealthy, inquires, but you have a huge treasure chest, just over there, with your name on it!
Why are you asking for help?
Because I can't quite reach it, replies the handcuffed one.
Who handcuffed you?, inquires the wealthy stranger.
I did, you reply, with a mantra that goes, the government has no business in business!
Well what you put on you can just take off, replies the wealthy stranger, and use the the millions of trillions that is already yours, to change your seemingly impoverished circumstances!

We have plenty of money, (oil and gas) in a reserve big enough to be seen from the moon!?
All we need is permission from the owners to help ourselves to as much as we could possibly need, perhaps for a century or more!
Hang on, we are the owners!
Rhrosty.

ChrisPer cannot tell the difference between radical social democracy and totalitarianism. Apparently progressive tax and welfare mark one out as a totalitarian. I thought perhaps that had more to do with Stalin and Hitler killing tens of millions, Hitler committing genocide; throwing dissidents into concentration camps or off to Siberia. To throw all socialists in with Stalin does a disservice to the socialists who fought Stalin - and who were often imprisoned, executed, tortured, thrown in concentration camps.

I identify with the stand taken by left social democrats against Stalin, and indeed Leninism. Lenin specifically was similar to 'Left Jacobinism'; He's a bit like a Communist Robespierre. But Stalin took Terror to a whole new level. (so did Hitler) Read about Kautsky, Julius Martov, Otto Bauer and the Austro-Marxists, Rosa Luxemburg - and then get back to me with your accusations of 'Totalitarianism'.

Notice how Tristan and his Labor Party evade issues like Govt banks since they were the ones who initiated the sell off of our Govt Banks.Labor were bought out a long time ago by Corporate interests.

From 2008 with their stimulus money,prime OS contractors took the money which they borrowed as debt on our behalf back OS. How can a school Tuckshop reno of 3x3m be worth $600,000 and the movement of a school portable worth $800,000.Yoiu should be able to move a school portable for under $100,000.We were taken to the cleaners by Labor. The are all rotten to the core.

Tristan is looking like just another career politician who could not give a stuff about this country.

Labor won't even talk about a small turnover tax on our $135 trillion share/currency market. Labor and Liberal are gutless wonders who pretend to represent the people.

I did a job for a Prof of Taxation some yrs ago. He said they have intentionally made the tax law complicated so it can be rorted by an elite few. Nobody can understand it.

We do not need the GST. We need a small turnover tax that taxes everyone. If we had Govt banks there would be no Govt debt.

I am not a career politician. And for the record I support establishing another national public savings bank along the lines of the old CBA.

Tristan,

The problem is that radical social "democracy" has been tried and has failed spectacularly every time, as it did in the UK, and it needed someone like Thatcher to rescue the economy. The voters have wised up, and the only way to get this state is to abandon all pretense of democracy.