It's Just Greed
Look at the top paying jobs its all about greed
who really needs 4 houses = greed
now look at the lower jobs not greedy people, mostly honest and hard working
Greed is killing our nation and the world
Stop the Greed
Respect other peoples jobs (if everyone was a high paid lawyer that tells lies for a living then we would all be in big trouble)
Pay doesn't = output
Greed = Big Pay
Some of the lowest Paid people work a damned lot harder and longer then Some C.E.O that only claim to fame is sacking more people.
The big issues atm are
Youth unemployment no.1 priority
Housing
Utilities
Food security
Regional infrastructure

Things that are NOT a priority
Gay marriage
Bad politicians wroughting system ( just sack them plenty more around)
Green power ( once its feasible it will be sold and we will all pay )
Immigration (stop it all until we cleanup our own house)

Hi o sung wu,

I see little kids from dysfunctional families all the time and I have to ask how true is; "we're more or less, master's of our own destiny". These are often cute little mischievous boys and girls in the streets of inner Sydney, sometimes 7 or 8 years old roaming the streets at night getting up to mischief. I don't know when they will get that choice to take control of their destiny or are they already programmed for a crap life ahead.
What you say requires an ability to make good choices and to have the opportunity to act on those good decisions, with the support from others, particularly family, to rationally understand the consequences of making bad choice in life. Some kid just don't get any of that.

Nathan, it is my view that we need a better producing, fairer tax system, ome that only taxes us once and one that also taxes everyone, from the smallest to the largest, even the mega rich people/companies and trusts.

While there is talk again about raising and broadening the GST, the reality is that the GST is very inefficient and extremely unfair.

It's inefficient because there is too much cost involved in crediting ABN holders and it's unfair because those who pay the tax, the mums and dads consumers, have in the majority of cases already paid income tax, so they are effectively being taxed on already taxed money and, those who can most afford this have also paid most of the income tax. What is needed is a finical transaction tax, one that taxes money not people or effort.

A TT would see All but 2% of our weekly income taxes deposited back into the bank accounts which would in turn stimulate the economy on a weekly basis, as opposed to a 'one off' which has been the case for previous stimulus packages.

So until governments take a bipartisan approach to taxes, big business will continue to run rough shot and call the shots, which may have worked for the past but this tax system has exceeded it's use by date.

O sung, I have sent a late reply to you in the online shopping thread which you may wish to have a look at.

Aussie boy, you make out the poorest are the hardest workers which simply is nit true. The problem is people have this expectation that they should be able to work a 38hr Mon-Fri job on un/low skilled wages and buy a house. It just can't happen.

As for lawyers, one, they worked very hard in their youth while many others partied and two, their high figure salaries come with extreme pressure because unlike your poor, these people risk their house every day they go to work because they are accountable for their actions.

As for your priorities, you have my vote there.

Hi there PAUL1405...

Yep, some folk are clearly not 'the masters of their own destiny' ? These little kiddies roaming the streets of inner Sydney and Melbourne, apparently without any parental controls clearly illustrates this anomaly. And who ultimately suffers, the little kiddies themselves of course ? It's the delinquent parents who should be called to account in such cases, to explain why they've allowed their children to roam around in hours of darkness in or near a public street or place, clearly unsupervised ?

In my experience Paul, we tend to live in a time where the 'excuse industry' prevails. Instead of the law making the parents accept responsibility for their dereliction in bringing up their children. As you quite correctly opine, a young 8 or 9 year old child, can hardly make an informed choice at such a young age ?