With the minimg tax and to a lesser extent, the carbon tax being, revenue raisers, it's a real pity, courtesy of labor, that our very survival relies on them, as labor have simply wasted so much money, in such a short time , that I doubt we can survive without these taxes.

The mining tax in particular should at the very least be put aside as savings, not relied upon as a life line.

This posses a huge delema for TA, so it will be interesting to see where he goes with the next election.

My tip is he will run with the axe them line, then pull the old, things are worse than we thought line, once they win the election, which by the way is a given.

I am afraid it the old three strikes and your out, for labor, NSW, QLD, now the NT. All floggings of the labor brand.

yes toney should know
ya cant say no to everything...

im noting the femail bias line...against him..with threee sisters threee daughters and one wife..

if anyone deserves or has earned a right..to treat them COMPLETLY..not delicatly EQUAL*..its toney..how cheap the shots that he is sexist..direct from the joan kirner manuel of femail sis order/nanny state mate

of course toney cant fight sexism..no man can reply the question..ARE YOU STILL beating your wife...i never did....

its the smart arse summation from the shiela playing the delicate flower card..when toney knows from his life experience..they are more than equal..

i reserve my contempt for them TOO DElicate flowers
to deligate..wemust be gratefull they prefer not to breed[as a mans prime duty is to pick his childrens mother..

govt should be like a mother
treating all the peoople as special..NOT CASH COWS..or children needing policing and taxes..and others treats and bailouts

our jail is full of petty crime
major criminals dont go to jailsTHEY INVEST IN THEM*

reduce the public service
the vics are privatising public service,,two more points down for toney..

bah im so over the lawyers running a prison planet..for criminals owing prisons/jails public services..and our polititions

plus the parties..media security war machines
tonies dill lemmon@ is reducing the bloated public service running cash COWS*..to get to the nice free govt cash flows...or trust funds set up for free..

but the silence signifies glass houses
the game is filthy

Abbott is a dilemma, Back to the golden years of Howard, work choices. No ideas of his own, has to have a hero.
Dr no, Nauru, Blood pledges, Wind back time. Can't read ,drugs, no politics, no idea.

579, if what you say is right, you must be very dissapointed/ worried, cause unless you are from a different planet,you have to accept that Julia and labor are in for the thrashing of their life.

To think you support this lot defies logic.

Also, if you get the chance, please thank them for the mess they have made, that's from the rest of us.

I know I sound like a broken record, but if only they were accountable.

BTW, work choices rewarded good workers, and didn't really care much about the rest.

While I don't want to see WC make a comeback, we do need to find middle ground.

But then again, you're one who thinks we are powering.

The so-called "carbon" tax should obviously go (it barely pays for administrating it anyway), but the mining tax can stay.

The mining tax is in effect a federal form of royalties on the treasures we have underground. So long as the minerals under the ground belong to the state, there is nothing wrong with charging the rest of the world as much as we want for losing them. In fact, restraining mining has the benefit that Australians will not all go digging and lose their production and agriculture skills which will be required for a rainy day.

Ultimately, the right thing to do instead, which should make for the tax revenue and much more, is to sell land-owners (mainly farmers) the full rights to the minerals under their land, then it's up to the farmers to charge their own royalties (or refuse mining altogether).

As for the budget deficit, over half the government offices are redundant, so closing them will provide a surplus for generations (until Labor returns to waste it all over again).

Butch you haven't got a good track record when it comes to predictions.
Abbott is backing CN in QLD, that tells you something, or is that another golden years dilemma. Belching Joe won't be dead while CN is alive. Be careful of politicians with Hero's