Great advice from a wise elder everald! But is anybody listening?
As we all know by now, nobody learns the lessons of history?

Otherwise why did we follow the Great depression with the Great recession?

I think the real task in tax reform for Malcolm is to get the multinationals to pay a fair share from locally earned profits, instead of like a good tax lawyer/ex merchant banker, getting into bed with them to facilitate another tax avoidance outcome!

The 1953 double tax act needs to be rewritten rather than allow it to continue to be a tax avoiding instrument.

The only tax they can't avoid, I believe, is either a transaction tax or better yet, an unavoidable and small expenditure tax levied against all expenditure, and taken in lieu of the company tax no multinational now pays!

Simply put, it may take more intestinal fortitude than anybody currently in politics has, to bring in, particularly when they can tinker at the edges, creating even greater layers of complexity along with a new loophole with every new page of convoluted complexity.

A real leader will make his mark by finally and fairly addressing this problem even in the face of bitter internal revolt!

Rather than loading the remaining few taxpayers currently paying all our tax, with even greater burdens and literally hundreds of carefully concealed fees and charges, inclusive of regressive taxes like the ubiquitous cascading GST and in a nation all but crippled economically by the tyranny of distance, fuel excise!

The problem with (I'm alright Jack) politicians is they just don't genuinely care? And as such, regularly replaced by the froth and bubble of manifested indignation. For mine the jury is still out on Malcolm, who holds great promise given his background and enormous intellect and therefore ought to be given a fair go.

And will need unflinching resolve in order to to clean the dross out of the front bench, the cabinet and the party room, before embarking on genuine progressive reform?

Such is the self evident internal opposition to genuine long overdue real reform!
Rhrosty

Yep well I suppose someone who is sleazy and undermines and stabs a sitting pm is born to rule the regressives. They are more comfortable with like minded people. That is why the abc luv him so much.

So Everald Compton's remedy for the coalition's ills is to turn it into the Labor Party, but with Turnbull as PM. Why would we want another Labor Party when the present one has been such a union-bought-and-paid-for disaster?

Everald's "policy" suggestions amount to "somebody should do something".

Introduce an emissions trading scheme? Last time Turnbull tried that he demonstrated how little he knew about both "climate change" and leadership. He was dumped as Liberal leader.

Move toward a surplus by raising taxes? Swan tried that. Annually. And went further into debt. Annually. He spent more than he raised.

"Create jobs in every area of the economy..."? You mean create unproductive "government" jobs, don't you, Everald? Like the pink batts scheme? Jobs that cost money, but which have no benefit. I've never met a public servant who had a clue about making a profit, so I'd leave that to private enterprise.

"Solve the housing crisis" and "reduce homelessness and poverty" Everald says, based on a raft of assumptions, including that new house building is carried out by negative gearers. Yes, a lot of people want "affordable housing", but they usually mean affordable to them and paid for by somebody else.

Begin a "massive investment...in railways": At what cost?

Then there are Everald's purely utopian dreams:

"calculate the age pension correctly"; "tough legislation for domestic violence, elder abuse and coward punching", as though legislation stops drunken, drugged thugs; move towards "drought-proofing Australia"; "create a sustainable mining industry"; "accept more refugees" and close off-shore detention centres, because, apparently, Everald hasn't been paying attention to the consequences of the Islamist invasion of Europe. Again, no mention of cost.

Everald suggests somebody should "advance philanthropy and volunteering" and "promote religious tolerance and understanding", but without identifying just which groups need to be more tolerant, so I guess it's us. Again, no mention of how this would be achieved or at what cost.

If that's the best "progressive" politics has to offer, thanks, but no thanks.

Everald (who is Chairman of Tenement to Terminal Ltd which was originally founded to build a coal export terminal at the Port of Gladstone in Queensland, and in one of his many past incarnations was Chairman and Chief Executive of Everald Compton International, a fund raising consultancy), before seducing oldies into Fantasy Land ruled by Miracle King Turnbull, should establish whether any Australian government can control commodity prices, interest rates, the Money Market, value of Aust dollar etc.

Turnbull's totally unnecessary back-stabbing of Abbott makes clear that HE thinks that he was born to rule. While that sort of treachery occurs, it is up to Australians to vote against such an arrogant smirker, even if it means back to Labor while the Liberal party sorts itself out.

It is my belief, whether Mr TURNBULL was born to rule is not the issue. Ever since he was born, he's used treachery as a strategy to subvert the actions of anyone who he determines might inhibit or obstruct him in whatever enterprise he seeks to pursue.