Hi Poirot, of course I dislike the far-right nutters as much as any intelligent Australian does....especially the religious nutters.
However, I have no choice but to choose the Coalition by proxy when I vote, given I like to choose the National Party representative. I realise they aren't the same nationally as federally, but I haven't always voted for them federally.

It does depend on the policies every election, and I have to say that the coalition policies, this election, are more suited to my current situation than Labor's are. We are a middle income working couple living in the country who have a negatively geared unit we rent out and another mortgage. It is obvious who we should vote for.

As a nurse, of course I am concerned with the state of the current health system, but I am not convinced it would be any different under labor. I also can't imagine how changing everything over by changing government after only one term will improve matters at all.

Yes I admit I do look at PM personalities and ideologies, especially after enduring the worst PM ever in Abbott! I never once voted for Abbott...despite any policies he may have had. I was just too horrified by the supreme madness of the man......

Suse,

"....We are a middle income working couple living in the country who have a negatively geared unit we rent out and another mortgage. It is obvious who we should vote for."

And you can still negatively gear that property under Labor's proposal...it's grandfathered. And if you wish to take on the neagative gearing option in the future under Labor's proposal, you can do it on a new build.

"...I also can't imagine how changing everything over by changing government after only one term will improve matters at all"

One term...and they've done nothing constructive. They cut to the bone and done nothing for the economy except increase the debt. Turnbull keeps touting policy - and tosses his ideas aside like used crisp packets.

He's turfed the backpacker tax today...recently he deferred the pathology hanky-panky (until after the election)....he's fairly hopeless when all is said and done.

Hi Poirot,

You may wish to get your teeth into scrotal hair, but the topic of this thread concerns Duncan Storrar, the worker's hero, not that " .... Who would have thought we'd see a govt blatantly attacking and underfunding education and hospitals...who are denuding the CSIRO, while looking after the fat cats..... "

Duncan has rarely worked actually, so perhaps not so much your 'hero', nor has he paid any tax recently, so one dilemma is how to give him a tax cut on top of his no-tax. Now, there's something to get your teeth into.

In the meantime, I think I'll start a Twit account
#@IlldrivewithyoutothepubDuncan@yourshout!#@#@

In the early days here in SA, the Protector of Aborigines gave out rations to all Aboriginal people who came into the ration depot. Even then, Aboriginal people had the right to hunt, fish and gather food, camp, etc. on government land and leases (as they still have), but able-bodied people preferred to stay near the ration depot. Governor Grey scrapped the issuing of rations to both Black and white able-bodied people and told them to get out and either work or hunt and gather.

Over time, as the policy developed, the Protector provided able-bodied Aboriginal people with fishing gear, guns and boats to enable them to hunt, fish and gather food. Orders for netting twine worked out at about a tonne each year. Boats and guns were repaired for half-cost for able-bodied people, and at no cost to older Aboriginal people beyond working age. It was always legal for Aboriginal people to have guns in SA.

Oh, but Duncan has what ? 'Depression' ? Gosh, wow, so unique. Come off it - he's a bludger and (to the dismay of so many wonderfully intelligent and compassionate people on the pseudo-Left) a con-artist. If he could be persuaded to work every day like other people, it might be therapeutic in overcoming his 'depression'.

Mind you, sixty thousand could buy him some pretty good TAFE or even university courses.

Nah - it's down to the TAB with $ 60,000. Suckers !

Cheers,

Joe

I agree Loudmouth.
I just read an ABC news story on Storrer and he apparently stated he would spend the $60,000 on education for his daughters, and for 'charities'.
Yeah right....I would like to hear from those charities re when and if that happens.

I just can't believe the idiots that contribute to these 'crowd-funding' sites when there are many reports on how so many of the so-called poor subjects have just lied about their true circumstances.

Hi Suse,

"I just can't believe the idiots that contribute to these 'crowd-funding' sites when there are many reports on how so many of the so-called poor subjects have just lied about their true circumstances."

Yeah, that's puzzled me for a long time, and maybe one reason is that, compared to, say the 1960s, the intelligentsia has lost touch with actual people in hard circumstances, both with those who struggle and grab any work then can, in order to get a house deposit and some comforts - i.e. the contemptible 'bogans', in their eyes - and the lifelong unemployed, the poverty-stricken underclass over which decent people shed copious, helpless tears.

It's a bit like the relation between the compassionistas and Aboriginal people - back in the sixties and seventies, people knocked around with each other a lot more, but now our intelligentsial betters have move ever further away, to the point where some who presume to be committed to, say, a Treaty, now don't actually know any Aboriginal people, or just one or two, people in their same superior class.

So they reach over the contemptible working bogans in order to help up the most down-trodden victims of the vile capitalist system - and believe every yarn they spin to explain why and how they can never get out of their victimhood. What, never ? No, never. Well, hardly ever.

Fruit-picking ? If backpackers can easily find work, why not our very own lifelong bludgers ? Duncan, I'd like to see that :)

Cheers,

Joe

Suse,

"I agree Loudmouth.
I just read an ABC news story on Storrer and he apparently stated he would spend the $60,000 on education for his daughters, and for 'charities'.
Yeah right....I would like to hear from those charities re when and if that happens."

As I mentioned earlier - you're all class...(not)

You're fitting in beautifully here these days representing the loathsome under-belly of neo-lib commentary.

The guy asked a question.

Murdoch was inflamed because air-headed O'Dwyer made a fool of herself trying to answer it.

So he flayed Storrar alive.

Nice to see you approve.....Suseonline.