Individual in your attitude I see why I will forever stand against true conservatives
This government while in the hands of true conservatives is named ,quite wrongly, Liberal
Once both side knew in part to run a country that values fairness some things have to remain in public hands
Socialism in action, even under your mob
I hope my gut feeling the the coming GFC will hurt so many it brings about a surge away from conservatism is to come true
If not, if profit rules over people, we will be a country manufacturing poor people so some can be rich

Belly,
I give up with you on this one because no matter how many times I tell you that I'm not a Liberal, you refer to me as one.. Here it is for all to read I'm a Conservative & I vote for the LNP & other Conservatives simply to keep the non-sensical Academic bureaucrats in the ALP away from the steering wheel for Australia. Why ? Because I care about this Nation & I have lived through what Labor has done. The only policy they got right was Superannuation but it shall never replace the old age Pension until the working class can afford to live on Super only! I think that Super should be voluntary ! The way things are now, those who pi$$ed their wages up against the wall get more support from this Govt than those who saved & practised resrtraint. No good telling us to do this'n that towards retirement when Govts change the goal posts at the last minute ! Govt MUST give people the opportunity if they expect them to pull their weight. Asking them to pull the weight of the whole of the Public service & the permanently by choice unemployed is just too much !
Just take a $ 1000 & buy fuel, pay rego, food & rent & tell me how much of it is Tax ?

Indy will you be happy in a world that has no health care unless you can pay
No public transport no subsidised education, power, no hospitals for those who can not pay
How about no pensions
Are you unconcerned at LNP ministers getting jobs on massive wages in the industries they once represented
Happy with massive pensions for them hunger for some of us
TAX well reformed well used is the only way to run a country

Foxy,

That you find sky news one sided yet the ABC balanced shows that your sense of values are far to the left. Does it not trouble you that the Q&A panels and audiences are always stacked with left whingers with perhaps a token conservative?

I readily admit that sky news bias is conservative, but no more than the bias of the ABC to the left. The main difference is that the ABC is paid with my taxes and fails miserably to maintain its mandate to eschew bias.

That the main political powers primarily struggle for power is an oxymoron, as a political party in opposition is largely irrelevant. That "doing stuff" is risky is also an oxymoron with the kicker that the risk is for the electorate not the pollies. However, risk can be mitigated by making change incrementally through evolution rather than revolution. Labor history of grand new policies have almost always come with a huge baggage of unintended consequences.

Labor's last offering of a tax and spend budget was actually harking back to the policies of the 70s which have been roundly rejected years ago.

Shadow Minister,

Again with the labelling. So tedious.
So predictable.

I don't find Q&A stacked at all. It gives the
percentages at the beginning of each show and
the number of conservatives in the audience
always outnumbers the progressives.

Commercial media organisations produce news and
current affairs to a very different criteria than
those laid down by the ABC's Charter.
Privately owned media are subject to commercial
imperatives that aren't present in the ABC.
Commercial organisations are not as committed
to public interest journalism - it is not their
sole purpose - their commercial interests come
first.

For me 12 cents a day is good value - given the quality
of the ABC's output overall and I think its a good
deal for the Australian taxpayer.

I'm not going to allow any private media proprietor,
to tell me otherwise.

Foxy Sky is an illness within the medea world
It more than anything is a propaganda factory for the rich and infamous [LNP, REPUBLICAN PARTY]
Still it is watched by the elderly, the uninformed intent on remaining uninformed
And a small group of bigots who need their hate recharged
QxA however is an attempt at telling the truth and set a high standard
Its crime, giving a platform for ordinary people to be heard, an unwanted thing on Fox Sky [unless they have been briefed and will say what is told to them]