A real fair dinkum election is being held in Western Australia this Saturday. The people of WA will be given the opportunity to be the first state in Australia to pass judgment on the incompetent Abbott government. The worse possible outcome for Australia will be if the voters of WA deliver unrestricted control of the Senate to the Tory this government. I am confident the voters will have the good sense to return The Greens SCOTT LUDLAM, who since 2008 has been one of the best senators representing the ordinary people of Australia. Scott is now working hard to resist the excesses of the Mad Monk and his band of Merry Men.
Given control of the Senate the Tory's will in rapid succession reintroduce Work Choices II. hike the GST, and generally introduce draconian legislation that will penalise ordinary Australian whilst pandering to the elite of society and standing ideally by while thousands of Australians lose their jobs.

WA votes again....Why thank you, Paul, don't mind if I do.

It's not often one has the chance to vote in an election having seen first hand what a bunch of liars the govt are...after only six months.

A joe Hockey face pulling exercise. A few loose words being left around to gauge reaction. This mob could do anything especially with Abbott's wacky ideas floating around. The RET scheme could get the chop, to slow the advancement of solar, putting pressure on power generators.

Pirot, labor themselves admitted that the policy was not fully funded and that what had been agreed upon was just the beginning, less than half if I recall correctly. This happened well be fore the 2013 election. So what's changed?

579, as we replace fossil fuel power generation with renewables, where do you propose we find the jobs that will most certainly be lost?

It's all well and good to have a wish list, but, to every action there is a reaction.

Paul, my tip is the highest number of vote will either be no shows, or invalid votes, because WA people are fed up with useless publicly funded departments.

Bring on electronic voting so we can remove these dinosaurs.

On 12 December 2012, the Queensland Government announced a funding commitment of $868 million over 6 years (2013–14 to 2018–19) to address the historic underfunding of disability services in Queensland. This represents the largest increase in disability funding in Queensland’s history.

In 2019–20 an extra $197 million will be allocated to Queensland as its share of the funds raised from the 0.5% increase in the Medicare Levy, to assist with the cost of the scheme in Queensland.

This additional funding will allow Queensland to meet its estimated share of the scheme’s costs of $2.03 billion in 2019–20.

The Commonwealth Government will meet the balance of the cost of the full scheme, contributing an estimated $2.14 billion to the scheme for Queensland residents. The Commonwealth will also cover the full cost of people who turn 65 and choose to remain in the scheme.

Prior to the commencement of the full scheme, the Productivity Commission will review costs to inform the Council of Australian Governments' agreement on final scheme funding arrangements.

As cold as it may be, at some point people must be accountable for their own actions, health and finacial security because as the government rightly says, the erra of entitlement has come to an end.

Now I have no problem with supporting a person with a disability that has been burdened upon them through no fault of their own, but, when I'm expected to support some drunken clown who decided to jump off a fence into a canal and sustain a life long disability, I get a bit snaky.

There are insurances available for almost anything today and, if one can't afford it, then choices have to be made, as simply expecting the working Joes of the world to support the result of ones stupidity is simply not sustainable, because our public revenues are headed south.