Fact check: Increased deficit by LNP.
Mr Eslake said " 'parameter variations' (for which you can't validly hold the Coalition responsible) and policy decisions (which you can),".

Ms Masters said Senator Wong's analysis was legitimate but the main issue was how much of the deficit change was policy-related and how much was due to the economic cycle.

nicknamenick,
Which Govt produced the first & nucleus deficit since Costello ?

As far as I know there are no clinical case studies involving a lesion limited to the red nucleus.. A contralateral motor deficit would also result from a lesion of the rubrospinal neurons, whose axons innervate the contralateral spinal cord gray. Thus it is difficult to know just what particular motor deficit(s) are associated with damage to the ruber versus damage to the cerebellothalamic fibers.

To Belly.

An observation to consider. And tell me if you've seen it too.

In the heat of an argument, a fight remains unresolved but instead also brings in several other unresolved issues that were previously not said. In the heat of anger one person says, "oh yeah well, _________" and proceed to nitpick or fight over an unrelated issue in order to bring the other person down a notch.

As much as anger and hate are bad, and cloud our being resonable, the truth often comes out when a person is angry and blurts out something else they hate in the course of the fight.

With this in mind one aspect to resolve hate might actually be to listen to those who are doing the hate. Do't listen to defend yourself, or to fight back. But just listen to see what the root causes and reasons are in their anger.

A second approach to resolving anger and hate is to expose the people who are hating to those who they hate. With restrictions on the people to not be able to do any harm, the hope is that by being around a kind homosexual, Muslim, person of different race, or the other sex, (or anything else); that that exposure to a kind person will reduce the urge to hate.

It won't solve the underlying issues. Disagreement with homosexuality and an oversexed society; fear of Islamic fanatics and women's rights issues; a history between two races where rights and privileges are artificially handed over to one, or active and bitter fighting have occurred between the two; or honestly any other reason that has sparked hatred might sill be there, but exposure to a kind person of the group that is hated will do a lot of good to remove the hatred and cause people to look for other solution to the issues outside of the extremist solutions.

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Last thought is on removing the burka and enforcing a dress code for Muslims. The potential good in it might be to change Muslim separation from western society and if so help reduce some of the hatred among them. The down side I think is that this action is likely to intensify hatred for forcing them to go against their religious and cultural practices. In order to force this will take a heavy hand and be part of a movement to strip their culture away from them. Much like many countries being colonized stripped the culture from the indigenous people there to have to conform to them.

That kind of act if done has to be done for the right reasons, and understand those reasons. It won't reduce hate, but will intensify it among the people it affects. What it can do though is remove a harmful culture from your environment by stripping it's cultural cues in our clothing. Reducing the population that stays in that population. This kind of action I think is good when trying to remove gang related influences or gang fights, by restricting in schools and work places clothing that shows an allegiance to a certain gang. Some schools in the US have actually banned wearing certain colors, because of the association with gangs. A decision that I think is worth while to strip the gang culture away and to protect the staff and students from gang fights.

Removing Islamic clothing I think will only intensify the hatred towards the west though. If you promote it be sure you know what you're getting into. Trying to remove Islamic oppression of women, or be a statement to remove Islam as a whole. It won't reduce hate. At lest not for the first generation that it affects. Possible you might help their kids, but that's because of an active push to remove that cultural element out from them. I'd advise a good amount of caution and thought before going this direction.

To David f.

Since you like to consider yourself as an educated person, I have some homework for you to look up. Reasurch current missionaries, and current missions. See if any of them (or the majority of them) are as you describe them. If they are not. Then understand my stance when you refer to missionaries. I consider it a compliment, one that I've done nothing to deserve. Mission trips are often the source of good will to others, active volunteering to help the community they are going to, or to help a specific hardship, which is the reason the church supported a missionary group to go there.

For me I've done none of these things, so if I am called a missionary, I will take it as a compliment, but won't believe I deserve it. To be a missionary in my opinion first requires you to pack everything up and move to a different land, or even a different place in your country.

If you see missionary movements as a horrible blight on the world, then do your homework to change my outlook on them. Not historical spin on missionaries, but current missionary causes and results.

As far as I've seen, missionaries are a good element to the world we live in.