Congratulations Belly, and i must say that was a very good statement.
Butch with his 600 million debt may be somewhat light on. Are we allowed to know how much is off budget debt. Debt is debt.
Is there an election in the air!
If it was not for unions Australia would not have progressed past the the shearers strike.
We do need wage rise across the board and now, stuff the tin pot wingers lets lift the game, when you look around there are lots of business that is whipping dead horses. let them die and support the fair dinkum wage earning society to flourish. Or else the moaners are going to have us all in stih street.
Resurrect the union movement on mass., and get this country moving with prosperity.

It's about time the b/s about 10 years ago we had zero debt, that has caused two thirds of the problems we face now. We had a post office,banks, railways, a whole range of things that were money earners and good for all, until some drongo sold up everything they could find in public ownership, and where did that get that idiot nowhere but the back gate.
That drongo left more in forward estimates spending than the total of everything he sold.
The trouble with the Coalition mob is they think everything is better in private hands, better for who? That is the bit that is not explained.
Australia having a public lynching of that jerk Abbott. What do they teach these blokes at these pay for certificate schools.
Turnbull could be a fair and just man in another political party.
They have just woken up that we have a couple of weeks of petrol reserves, they must be going bad the price today is 1.56 / ltr. Private hands are roaming all over the place and our prime minister talks it up for them.

Belly,

No promises mind, but you are unlikely to post anything of interest to me; besides, I find 150 word sentences with just a few commas tossed in randomly, tiring to read. But, given that you are a Lefty, you are certain to say some outrageous things, and I might not be able to resist. I generally try to keep it civil.

Hasbeen,

Democracy might or might not be self-destructive, but there is a growing number of people who don't care about it.

1.4 million people eligible to vote did not vote in the 2016 federal election; that's more than the population of Adelaide (1.3 million). This is the highest number of no-shows since the introduction of compulsory voting in 1925, after 41% of voters failed to do so.

the country now has enough Government workers on the payroll to determine Government. The mantra more money for education, more money for health, more money for public service will has led to this debt. Enough people now breastfeeding on the Government payroll to ensure we remain racking up debt. One billion plus per year for the abc to sprout its marxist vomit. Unfortunately Liberals keep selling out to self interested senate.

Wonder how the Turnbull government will tax online purchases from Amazon? Well, Australians will be blocked from the American Amazon site and redirected to amazon.com.au, which has only a fraction of the goods available on the American site. Amazon will cease shipping to Australia.