I believe the senate should block supply to the Government,all that gets in the way is the Independents ! They may worry that another election may cause them to loose what seats they already have,not because the public is against a double dissolution but because the public may very well go for a very decisive vote with no shades of grey to get their message through, loud and clear, because of the amount of anger they now feel ! So I can imagine there is a lot of bartering going on behind the scenes at the moment ! To me the independents are only going to prolong their certain demise until the next election anyway, and it would better serve them and the Australian people to end the misery now and save Australians any further suffering under this government At least they can walk away with their ethics intact and with a clear conscience ! Something that this present Government lacks completely !

Producer the only decent electoral system is first past the post. That gets rid of all the rubbish & riff raff fluttering around the edge of politics, with their ideas of grandeur. It would get rid of the fat fool from QLD hopefully.

Drive cars fast, I leave that to the hoons, & despise the fools. If they want to show how good they are, try racing at Bathurst. I still hold a Bathurst lap record I set in 1967. I have nothing to prove. Incidentally my daily driver is 34 years old, has less power than a Corolla/ Mazda 3, & is the best car on the road in my eyes.

Misogynist! I once had a girlfriend, [true I did have one], drive up the back of my new car, in my old car, on the way home from picking it up, & I still kissed her good night. How gentlemanly do you want? Oh & I loved Maggi, she left Churchill for dead. She actually did save the UK.

Fundamentalist Muslim! As a new chum here you have not heard about the Leb thugs who attacked my son as he walked home from the train fracturing his skull in 4 places. I'd kick every one of the garbage out of the country.

Narcissistic! What for, I leave it to the ladies to love me.

Religious franchise! You've got to be kidding. I find it hard to believe there are people foolish enough to believe in some God. Not for me thanks.

Why wouldn't I believe you would want to get rid of the senate. I don't think you're stupid, just a bit misguided, & a little brainwashed perhaps. Nothing a good term of peacekeeping in the middle east couldn't knock out of you.

Now your turn. What religion do you report to, & where did you go to be brainwashed. Were you one of those arts students we were engineering students were throwing eggs at during the moratorium marches by any chance, or are you just a kid?

It's difficult to find words to adequately describe the spectacle of the Abbott Government setting about hiking income taxes and fuel excise in its first budget, writes Senator Penny Wong.

"Beyond belief," as one of the Prime Minister's colleagues quipped, comes close.

From the man who promised no new taxes, and argued that "no country has ever taxed its way to prosperity," here come the new taxes.

But this reveals more than a Prime Ministerial hypocrisy.

It also makes clear the lie that is the "Budget Emergency."

If the Budget were replete with wasteful Labor spending that could be cut, as Tony Abbott kept telling Australians before the election, there would be no need for tax hikes.

The Coalition appeared to believe their political lines actually constituted fiscal policy.

But they didn't and they won't.

Mr Abbott's addiction to scare campaigns is well known. From claiming whole cities would be wiped off the map to the Budget Emergency, facts are sacrificed in pursuit of a political objective.

But not one of the Prime Minister's claims about the Budget stacks up against a simple fact check.

Hasbeen – You can win with 2% of the vote with FPP if there are 99 candidates. This is not representation. I reckon FPP would cement Clive in.

I agree (got to stop saying that) speed should be restricted to the track. I did a bit of speedway work in a past life, mainly TQs and stock.

As far as the sheilas go you do spruke some very hard to take it any other way statements from time to time. I will continue to point them out. Maggie didn’t save the poms, she sold the country. There is a bit of that happening here.

A thug is a thug whether they are Irish catholic or Lebanese Muslim. They should be condemned for their thuggery.

My god is the one true god, Little Wooden.

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I have been elected to public office as an independent beating the red and blue teams. A thankless job and didn’t stand for a second term.

Served in the RAAF but was fortunate not to see active service. Just too young for Nam and didn’t hang around long enough to get involved in what followed.

I’m a lot younger than most my age.

Apparently when Tony Abbott used to box when he studied at Oxford University he used to go into the ring swinging away as hard as he could with his eyes tightly closed ! Good to see nothing has changed !

trapdiocan,
Social justice is a myth.
No individual is entitled to anything, especially other peoples earnings, unless they themselves earn it.
My parents paid in excess of $100,000 for each of my siblings uni degrees but only after exhaustive learning curves in our respective high schools.which happened to be private in nature but public in competitiveness.
We competed head to head against other students for our matriculation levels, in subjects that are today considered too hard for the contemporary student culture and won access to the best unis of the day.
Today entry is unearned and paid for by the public purse and it all comes back to bite the hand that feeds it.
Most of them will never repay their debt which I believe now is well over the ten billion dollar mark.
If something is unearned then it is not respected.