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10 Things i would like to see changed in Australia

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So e good points shadow minister. With regards to point 10, there was an incentive a few years back called tools for trade, and to obtain these tools, a special debit card was issued with a use by date, a use it or loose it. The same can be done for these types of welfare.

To simply hand out cash to any parent, Under the disguise of a school bonus was only ever a vote buying excersise, albeit a failed one.
Posted by rehctub, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 2:04:04 PM
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My list is short and concerns what people can do themselves to improve their lot, their community and eventually, Australia.

There I go, I have given away my first wish, that individuals take up the many opportunities that present daily to improve their own outlook, their own environment (in the broad) and their world. Instead of getting their dander up about what 'someone else' and 'government' ought do for them. You could put a short butt of hardwood on a pedestrian walkway and most would trip over it, scolding angrily, 'Someone really ought to fix that', while another reaches for the mob to complain to someone, somewhere. However, it is noticeable that most elderly would simply move it to the gutter. Times have changed.

My second wish is that freedom of speech be restored. People, individuals, should challenge and resist the dreadful political correctness that censors, disempowers and divides. This man who was addressing a graduating year of lawyers at Harvard put it well,

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/charltonhestonculturalwar.htm

Others for example Peter Hitchens, have observed that the cultural war was lost long ago.
http://catallaxyfiles.com/2013/11/05/peter-hitchens-on-qa/

Resist. Freedom is worth it.

Finally, I would wish that the dreadful envy that is now so common (or is it only hack reporters and the whingers who follow them?) should be identified for what it is and spurned. There are far too many people who mind their neighbours' back yards and constantly interfere in the lives of others around them. Australia recently rid itself of a federal government than specialised in interfering in ordinary citizens' lives and tried to make a virtue of it. Good riddance!

In closing, it would be useful if everyone contributed - tried to so some work to the level of their ability and that includes volunteering.
Posted by onthebeach, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 2:40:24 PM
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SM>>2 Tariffs and quotas on imports need to be removed, and the costs to the consumer reduced.<<

SM, you continue to extol the virtues of an unprotected global market when it is abundantly clear that it costs jobs in the first world. That was the documented plan of the free trade globalists and it has come to fruition. We are simply not self sufficient as a nation because of free trade, we make nothing in comparison to the Australia of the 1970’s and you see merit in that. Our kids aspire to be a McDonalds team member, a servant......and you applaud that idiocy.

You have for years defended the banks and the corporations and bleated about the lower costs....what lower costs? From the 18 most expensive cities to live in on the globe Australia has 4 placegetters. Your rhetoric is shallow, it has always been so.

Your mindset and rediculous ongoing theme of "the bludgers are bringing the nation down" and "you can live well in Australia if you are not a lefty bludger" means squat when you are a young couple living in an Aussie city with an average house price of three quarters of a million dollars.

SM, I am long over debating with the likes of you, but I will remind you of the rubbish logic you type out when enough spin is enough spin.
Posted by sonofgloin, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 5:41:36 PM
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SOG,

What is abundantly clear is that you have zero knowledge of economics. Tariffs push up the cost of living, and the cost of manufacturing. It only slows the closure of uncompetitive industries, it does not stop it, and in the process damages any new industries that might emerge. IT is a death spiral around the plug. The outcomes of countries with high tariffs is always worse than those without.

Britain before Thatcher was going bankrupt with the large protected industries crumbling. She sold off nationalised businesses, removed tariffs, and in a decade turned the economy around. You want to do the opposite.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 8:07:51 PM
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Shadow Minister

And now they just riot in the streets yea lets go that way shell we
Posted by Aussieboy, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 8:14:35 PM
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SM>>Tariffs push up the cost of living, and the cost of manufacturing.<<

SM you suggest I know nothing about economics. One salient point I do know is that everything moves in concert with the prevailing economy. The outcome of a totally unprotected and prevailing economy in the first world is a blow out in social benefits. You know the ones....the ones you have whinged about for years and years.

You can not have it both ways Mr Economist.

I would prefer a full workforce and pay a few more shekels for the niceties of our modern age. Might even have to save up for things like wee did in the 20th century.
Posted by sonofgloin, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 9:14:36 PM
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