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Does Julia deserve to survive?

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*It was a time when the world economy was
enjoying a long speculative-driven boom. Good luck, but not
good management.*

Whoah, hang on there, Lexi. I remind you that in the year 2000,
iron ore prices were around 30 bucks a tonne. There was no mining
boom. America had its dotcom boom and dotcom crash.

What was driving Australia's economy was higher productivity,
small business investing as they had confidence in the Govt and
deregulation of the labour market.

Our present Govt has the benefit of a huge mining boom. What would
they do without it?
Posted by Yabby, Friday, 9 March 2012 8:43:39 PM
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Lexi,

The taxes from mining are nearly 4x what they were in Howard's time, and Labor has installed very little infrastructure, and what it has done has been very costly and seldom what was needed.

In spite of the huge mining bonanza labor has been lucky to get, it still has accumulated record debt in record time.

The reason you don't want to hear what we say is because the truth hurts.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Saturday, 10 March 2012 5:02:37 AM
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SM you know that it is not luck at all that the Govt resides over a mining boom, but in fact is driven by the worlds essential need for resource's.

You also know that miners are experiencing massive increases in their profit margins.

You also know that Australia did not share in those increasing profits of the multinational miners in the Howard years,(even though they are our resources).

You also know that the only beneficiaries of not having a resources rent tax or super profits tax are the international miners and our own greedy local types.

You also know that the LNP cannot simply sell our assets and abrogate our rights at the behest of their mates in big business this time because they trashed most of our rights and sold all our assets last time they were in Govt.

You also know that the Gov't must raise revenue somehow to keep the country afloat.

You also know that is the plan of the LNP this time is to take from the citizen to subsidize the bottom lines of the rich and powerful.

You also know that the NBN is a threat to corporate power.

I fail to understand how any political party could genuinely harbor such beliefs and still claim to represent Australia's best interests.

The only people that would actually support the LNP's berserk ideological platform this time are vested interests and the least cognizant amongst us, lathered up by the massive propaganda campaigns conducted against our Govt by News Ltd and their corporate partners in crime.

And you also know, that that the last thing Australia needs now is another PM that bows and scrapes before them.

The word treason comes too mind.
Posted by thinker 2, Saturday, 10 March 2012 10:48:24 AM
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Dear Thinker 2,

Well said.

A small number of elites increasingly feel they have the right
to bend the nation's future to satisfy their own self-interest.

As I stated earlier - we see this most obviously in the ferocious
campaign waged by the likes of Gina Rinehart, Clive Palmer and
Andrew Forrest against the Minerals Resource Rent Tax.

This has been supported by an Opposition that's all too willing
to kneel down at the feet of the vested interests than stand
up for the interests of Australian workers.

Thankfully, the interests of ordinary Australians have not yet
been drowned out by the desires of a well-funded, noisy handful.

Labor is implementing critical reforms like the MRRT that ensure
all Australians receive a fair return from the resources they own.
Posted by Lexi, Saturday, 10 March 2012 2:24:03 PM
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While it is touching that T2 and Lexi feel the need to prop each other up, the elephant in the room is that Swan was the idiot that after promising the miners extensive consultation on a proposed mining tax introduced a massive tax with zero consultation. He then kept his yap shut and let KRudd take all the heat, and happily stuck the knife in when it all turned to dung.

Now there is a back room agreement that favors the 3 big miners, he is picking a fight with the smaller miners who were not consulted at all, and whom are not surprisingly a little Pssed off and prepared to say so.

Whine Swan is now trying to claim the divine right to present his spin on the topic without criticism and is attacking the independent miners in a stoush to try and deflect attention from his own staggering incompetence and failed policies.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Monday, 12 March 2012 11:12:02 AM
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Dear SM,

There's a new thread that has just been started by
Anthonyve - "The Measure of a Nation - and a Party."
I would be interested to read your input into that
discussion. How about contributing?
Posted by Lexi, Monday, 12 March 2012 2:46:56 PM
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