RObert sorry no intention to offend I see you as a balanced well intentioned poster.
I have the same concerns as you we MUST not let politicians get hands on any fund.
70% vote would see it stalled forever in the current situation.
Maybe my favorite word accountability would do it, pass a law that a senate review committee looks in to every dollar spent AFTER the rebuild.
And [ my fears sympathy and concerns to all Queenslanders] it Must be a disaster fund given this night and tomorrows impending horror.
I do honestly fear for our country,fully aware Labor has been obstructionist in opposition, I see this Parliament as the worst.
Can both sides stop kicking the dog? feeding our need to blame some one?
Would any one expect my side not to do the same?
Well yes me! the ALP is a party of policy's and plans, even now, it is not coming up with the ones we live for, but gee it looks good in compassion to Abbott.
That however is no reason to freeze and come up with idiot ideas like cash for clunkers,we can do better.

Belly I doubt that they would struggle to get 70% agreement for genuine rebuilding paid from a fund set up for that purpose. They may struggle getting agreement for some aspects of the spending but it's pretty obvious that a lot needs doing.

Kev's big TV bonus, Julia's over priced school halls and Pete's dodgy ceiling insulation programs might have had some problems passing as valid responses to a natural disaster though.

The real struggle might come when one area keeps needing rebuilding (as Qld may do this year) and other area's get a break (no big bushfires in NSW and Victoria in wet years).

R0bert

RObert I see no reason to separate one state from the other.
We are one nation if some want not to give it is no reason not to tax us all.
March in NSW is doomed to be a disaster, for my party, they worked very hard/badly to bring that on.
It however needs no funding and will in the end be good for every one.
Tonight, gee hope I am wrong we live in Australia's worst ever natural disaster.
We need to give and give again ,draw no lines state against state its an Aussie in trouble.

Worst ever disaster?

As I recall nearly 180 people died in the Victorian fires, compared to about 20 in the floods.

While there has been much more damage with the floods, the government program is not to repair houses or replace lost possessions, it is almost exclusively to repair roads, ports and other infrastructure that is the property of the state.

This is not a whip around to help fellow Australians, it is a gouging to help Wayne Swan meet Julia's election promise.

I wish to say sorry, to those who are offended by the disagreement between my self and Shadow Minister.
I am very well aware it sometimes brings a crowd some times switches some off.
What is to be said for turning the other cheek, to say it does not matter?
This morning in another thread Shadow gave me both barrels, I except it, it is his right in my view to think as he wants.
I am no wimp, maybe the reverse, is a fault I admit to,
And we all know my education leaves much undone/unknown.
But I am not the idiot SM has called me.
ANYTHING I say, about Shadow Ministers last post here, will look to be insulting.
I however point only to it,if ANYONE can find it not an insult to the many, to the billions it will cost to fix, I then am the fool SM says I am.
We may well have not suffered as much last night I hope this is true.
BUT for a political party to want to use this, as little man Abbott Shadow Minister and the closed minds that surround both, this country is no longer the one I was born to.
Shadow Minister would you remove that post if you could?
I TRULY HOPE SO MATE.

Belly,

A bit hypocritical!

Considering that in just about every post you attack me personally, you certainly don't occupy the moral high ground. I said that certain actions such as your infantile personal attacks are idiotic, I did not call you an idiot.

If you wish to elevate your posts above school yard taunting, I am your man. A few facts or reasons for your opinions might help illuminate why you don't think Abbott can do a better job than Gillard or why what I am saying is wrong, but as yet I have seen nothing.