Joe,
Belly should agree with you but won't because he would then have to agree that Beattie and Bligh (both Labor Premiers) ran up the now perilous state of qld finances and the current state budget is borrowing more. Labor could not run a chook raffle without losing money.

Some weird things take place here, let me ask, am I free to have an opinion that is different than this sites rednecks
Labor lost the election[ yes it may profit if things go bad because this government gets all its tax bills passed]
But we have a duty to obey the voters mandat/wishes
Labor and Liberal, most assuredly the greens, have used others to block legislation in the chook pen
It was wrong
No country can overlook one nations policies are at best disliked by most
Foxy my answer can be found there, *had Labor won* my view remains the same, elected government has every right to pass the bills it won office with

The arrogant brutality of these standover parties is evident in today's news that Labor's Albanese is moving to kick a union man and party member out of the party because he assumed he had the right to exercise free speech and criticised the sainted Rosy Batty.

ttbn,

Reference?

Suppose indeed that the majority of Australian citizens oppose the proposed tax cuts, then this is how it should be!

If indeed the Senate rejects the tax cuts then it likely means that the majority of people, including those who voted for Labor and those who voted for certain smaller parties, oppose those cuts.

Far from perfect, still the Senate reflects the will of the people significantly more than the lower house that is based on the most unfair and draconic electoral system, designed to ensure that ordinary people will never be heard. If anything, then it is the lower house which must be abolished!

Then of course, nothing prevents the two dinosaurs from joining hands and voting together in the Senate... except that this would expose their true face and the fact that they never truly were separate parties, but just two flanks of the same ruling party, that just like the Chinese Communist party, enjoys an electoral system that ensures their eternal control over the good people of this continent and surrounding islands.

Dear Belly,

Your concerns would have been more legitimate had
the election produced different results. Had
the government been a minority government and
if they had to rely on minorities to pass legislation.

This is currently not the case. They are a majority
government. Of course that does not mean that everyone
in the Senate will agree with them.