Dear Paul,

Yep. I like Shadow as well. I think he knows it.
He may be conservative, but he's a sweetie deep
down.

There you go.

Paul,

"a begging bowl approach" and "a partnership approach" are just weasel words, especially coming from the Greens who are violently against any big business.

The reality is that big companies can pick and chose where to invest, and when they do, they generate high-paying jobs that provide the government with a stream of p.a.y.e. tax revenue generally well over the company tax that they pay. A "partnership approach" is that Smart governments will give companies sweeteners to invest and will reap vastly more in taxes.

Governments that have a "take it or leave it" approach generally find that the companies take it elsewhere.

P.S. I might snore, but you steal the blankets!

"coming from the Greens who are violently against any big business."
Shadow; Can you substantiate that ridiculous claim.

In August 2013 the Greens launched their 'Australia's Food Future Policy' an initiative supported by the Australian farm sector. The key points of Greens agri policy is to;

Keeping control of our prime agricultural land and resources, which is critical to maximize our own resilience and provide exports to the global market.

Our national interest is first and foremost. We should embrace foreign investment, not fear it. However Australia should not allow itself simply to be a target for foreign buyers to secure their nation’s food security.

Then you go on in your post to reinforce your support for little else than the begging bowl approach to foreign investment. Something the Conservatives and Labor have both very much endorsed as their post war foreign investment policy. open door, given what they want policy

Paul,

Even your pathetic wish list policy is rabidly anti-foreign investment even with a token "we must embrace foreign investment"

Every new mine, industry, road, power network etc has a bunch of prehensile green Oompa loompas trying to stop it. The greens stopped the Franklin dam and its super green hydro power, the super clean Tamar pulp mill that would have created hundreds of well-paid jobs etc.

Which is why Tasmania is a Greenie's haven, with a real begging bowl out to the rest of Australia.

Only ONE To Go, MALCOLM.

The July 10th 'Newspoll' has Labor leading the 'Motley Crew' by 53/47 two party preferred. In technical terms that is called a BLOODY DISASTER!

it is estimated if an election was held now, Labor would gain 13 seats, giving them a comfortable majority.

Shadow, there would be plenty of unemployed Liberals on the streets of Canberra with their begging bowls in hand.

Is the Mad Monk sharpening the knife?

Shadow, just on that score of "development at all cost" you so favor. You must have been most disappointed recently when even the NSW Liberals led by Gladys Higglypiggly, opposed the aptly named Dial-A-Dump's, worlds largest backyard garbage burner for the center of metropolitan Sydney.
I believe the dumpster gang wanted to pile up household and other toxic garbage until it was the size of Mt Everest, and then put a match to it. But not on the days the wind was blowing towards Vaucluse, or the leafy North Shore.

Paul,

Thanks for your Prozac free rant and yet another example of the Greens "no development at any price" policies. The Greens should rename their party the NIMBY party, as I see your faithful Oompa Loompas are out in force displaying their ignorance with pride.

Funny how the Greens are all about generating energy from waste until someone actually tries to do it, which shows that the Greens are all about building massive landfills rather than generating nearly 200MW of clean energy with scrubbed clean emissions and 1.3M tons less of waste to pollute the countryside with.