Paul,

Onya, mate. If you can't beat 'em, get nasty. It's called the Left Way.

JS Aus,

• $52.000 for what sort of job? We can't compete with current relatively high wages.
• 1/2 a mill for a house. Think about why.
• What criteria do you base the "need" for $200 a day on?
• Do you think that people should be paid a certain amount even if the job is not worth it?
• Fuel tax is a fact of life that will not go away.Pink batts was a stupid Left idea. The
current pickle is partly down to the Loony Left.
• Why put up the GST(harder on the poorest) or any other taxes. We have a spending
problem, not a revenue problem.

Gee, ttbn, that's gratitude for yeah, me points yeah in the right direction for yeah cheap as chips potting mix, at the union friendly K-Mart store, save you being ripped off with poor quality crap produced by non-union cheap labour in Bangladesh, that rip off anti union mob down there at the flower store sold yeah for 12 bucks a bag.
Also gave yeah free Don Burke quality advice on grown yeah 'geraniums'! Some people, I don't know!

Australia has its own currency, with a value determined by the market. This has two crucial implications:
1) When Australian businesses are uncompetitive, the market will devalue the Aussie dollar until they become competitive again.
2) The government has unlimited credit. Even if we had twice as much debt as Greece, we'd still borrow to fund our deficits just as easily as if we had no debt at all. That doesn't mean we should always run deficits —inflation and interest rate concerns sometimes make surpluses the better option. But this isn't one of those times.

BTW Paul, Australian quarantine regulations don't permit importation of potting mix from Bangladesh.

Thanks for that Aidan, so they must be bring that potting mix in illegally! Assuming it's from Bangladesh and not the genuine stuff from Swaziland. Just can't trust them there small business types can you. LOL

Where would be a good place to put the concentration camp, to lock up all these people on the dole. Bazz is always worried about not enough oil. If it is not in the main stream media don’t take any notice of it.

Conservatives infiltrated the Liberal party and Abbott had a front bench of them. That was his down-bringing. He forgot to talk to the Liberal ‘s on the back bench.

A front bench of over the top thinkers. What is the good of policies that are never going to get implemented, a waste of time. Hockey’s first budget is a perfect example of how not to be in govt; Now we are in an era of stability and rational, with Turnbull and Shorten calling the shots.

Butch always wants to cut wages, that will work only if commodities are also cut. That is the part that will never happen. The less the consumer has to spend the less that goes to small and big business. Austerity has never worked, and has never made sense.

Some businesses have outlived their time, you can’t expect the workers to take the hit for outdated business. Oversupply is another fact of less customers to go around

ttbn; Pink Batts was not a bad idea.
The problem was that the way it was implemented.
The improved efficiency of air conditioning is just one good reason
to install batts. The improved comfort in hot weather is very good.

The industry warned the government that they were asking for trouble
the way they set it up. I got that first hand from an industry leader
that had a meeting with the "Bald One" in Canberra.