Dear Paul,

This may lighten things up a bit:

Q: Why do men from Queensland call their beer XXXX?

A: Because they can't spell beer. ;)

rehctub it is indeed a poisoned chalice but if they run with Julia it will not limit the damage.They have to find someone to stop the rot.
I don't think Rudd will be leader this year or next.

The best solution is not to vote, receive a letter and maybe a small fine.

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Now, what the majority of Australia needs, (working class/pensioners/unemployed/underemployed/working poor) is a true left wing party.

Now, briefly, Belly this is where you go wrong at times i.m.o. as the ALP is a right wing centrist party, who like the far right seeks to create donating wealth hubs. You will never get any fundamental reform from either the red or the blue because of that primary driver as the people who donate do so on the basis of a maintaining the status quo, or otherwise only change which benefits their interests.

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You must want for medicine to be triaged, which is to say those who are sickest get treated first, not those with money get fast tracked best practice and those without get a long wait in an ever longer cue.

You must want to be equal before the law, and you cannot be unless you have equal access.

Bar research and those who have an internationally in demand product or service, you must put all of the medics on a fixed price, sustainable, means tested system. Same with the wig parasites.

According to one DRUM commentator, more than 2,800 public servants are on more than $AU200,000+ No, sorry, clip go the shears boys.

Wages cannot go up thus you must scale down, and most especially land prices in the states.

Insurance companies need to be nationalised with performance based incentive to service the increasing incidence of natural disaster, not their own interests as they currently do.

Nationalise the banks, again with performance based incentive, but so that they serve the people, not the other way around. Currently, the likes of NAB don't even want to employ Australians so they export your deposit and withdrawal business online to ...'ing India.

And we have the monkey judge running housing - ie you pay for 3 * $5000,000 = $1.5 million, then, one for you, 2 for me ...

Cull out the retailers. No subsidies for Ford or Holden, but online, factory direct, paperwork complete $AU20,000 Monaros delivered to your door. What costs the car makers $5,000 to make is sold at retail by dead wood, parasitic, do nothing dealers for $35,000+ and the guvment won't even buy Oz made.

The key to successful online business is culling out one part of the supply chain.

And who is/was paying for the mining boom? Of course, the working people as you can bet your left one if the majority of stores weren't full of a majority of chinese break sooner rather than later crap that they wouldn't be buying so much primary resource at the prices that they are paying.

I care about farmers, truckies and small business, not multinational/foreign parasitic share holder companies like woolworths. If we can't operate and own land in their countries then remove their right to do so here.

What a joke, we have more than 90% of the required resources, plenty of local capital, can create scram jets and HSV's but we can't cradle Australian owned and run businesses into the pre-eminent spots in the mining industry and blow 800 billion+ a year on poms and other maggots. Why even bother sending some of you to uni when there isn't enough jobs at the end of it?

As in most places, the problem with working class ozzies is that they are too stupid to know what is in their best interest.

DreamOn, DreamOn tell me you jest. Nationalise the Banks & the insurance industries, God help us.

I can imagine these idiots, K Rudd, Gillard & Swan, & their incompetent bureaucrats running the banks. It should fix unemployment at least, they would need about 10 times the staff.

Interest rates quadruple what we pay now, & you can bet they would loose billions every year to boot.

Then insurance as well. It would take months of your claim doing the rounds of hundreds of in boxes, before any one even looked it. Talk about a recipe for disaster, that would be it

Lexi>> Dear Paul,

This may lighten things up a bit:

Q: Why do men from Queensland call their beer XXXX?

A: Because they can't spell beer. ;)<<

Lexi my belle, I asked my teen son what he wanted for his birthday and he replied "something I can play with and something I can wear. So I bought him a pair of shorts and cut the pockets out.