2013 Federal election (9 Viewers)

[Rafy]

Rudd to reduce carbon price by $24 a tonne. The source that gave me this information was Alan Jones from the radio station 2GB.
The Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd has announced that the Australian Labor Party will reduce the carbon price from Julia Gillard's fixed price of $30 per tonne of pollution by 2015 to a market price of $6.20 per tonne of pollution by 2014. Working families and industry will be better off under the Rudd government than compared to the Gillard government. In 2012 the carbon price raised $4 billion in government revenue. Under the Rudd government the government will raise $0.8 billion in government revenue in 2014.

So given you think a lower price is a good thing, you'd support Abbott's policy of reducing it to $0 a tonne yes?

 

[Sathius005]

I do not support Abbott's failed climate change policy of Direct Action. What direct action really is, a form of Big Business welfare, which every major economist in Australia disputes. Abbott will not reduce pollution levels by 5 per cent. Under Labor pollution levels have decreased by 8 per cent when compared to July 2012.

 

[Rafy]

Under Labor pollution levels have decreased by 8 per cent when compared to July 2012.

Economists will also tell you that most of that reduction is not due to the carbon tax or government climate change policy.

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http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...-for-taking-oath-on-koran-20130702-2p8l2.html

The Prime Minister's new parliamentary secretary, Ed Husic, has been subjected to a torrent of racial abuse online for being sworn in to his position with a Koran.

Mr Husic became Australia's first Muslim frontbencher on Monday when he was appointed to Kevin Rudd's new-look ministry as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Broadband.

 

[Sathius005]

I love Kevin Rudd; he is doing a strong job for the Australian Labor Party. Labor will most likely pick up Swan and Hasluck and retain all of its three Western Australian seats from the 2010 federal election.

 

[Sathius005]

The latest aggregate polling from the major polling companies show that if an election was held now Kevin Rudd would be returned as PM in a hung parliament situation, with the support of Labor Independent Andrew Wilkie, Greens MP Adam Bandt and Katter's Australian Party MP Bob Katter. Moreover, Labor is picking up a net gain of two seats when compared to the 2010 federal election. Furthermore, Labor is picking up Craig Thomson's seat of Dobell. The source of this information is Poll Bludger.

 

[Lolsmith]

Economists will also tell you that most of that reduction is not due to the carbon tax or government climate change policy.

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http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...-for-taking-oath-on-koran-20130702-2p8l2.html

The Prime Minister's new parliamentary secretary, Ed Husic, has been subjected to a torrent of racial abuse online for being sworn in to his position with a Koran.

Mr Husic became Australia's first Muslim frontbencher on Monday when he was appointed to Kevin Rudd's new-look ministry as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Broadband.

creeping shariah

 

[Lolsmith]

 

[Kiraken]

iirc he said he is non practising

i don't get how non practising Muslim is a thing tbh, isn't the point of belonging to a religion practising it?

 

[Lolsmith]

iirc he said he is non practising

i don't get how non practising Muslim is a thing tbh, isn't the point of belonging to a religion practising it?

probably in the same vein that Obama is a non practising Muslim

On a serious note, it's probably more than likely he actually is practicing to some point but would prefer to keep his religious/private life out of the public sphere, which I can hardly blame him for especially in his case.

 

[Emily Howard]

fuckin sharia

 

[Kiraken]

probably in the same vein that Obama is a non practising Muslim

On a serious note, it's probably more than likely he actually is practicing to some point but would prefer to keep his religious/private life out of the public sphere, which I can hardly blame him for especially in his case.

that's probably true and fair enough

 

[OMGITzJustin]

tbh I can't wait to see abc's QandA in jakarta on thursday

 

[Sathius005]

Rudd's populist policy fix written by Australian Financial Review and Sathius005.
The Rudd government is moving to combat its political weaknesses by cracking down on asylum seekers and examining changes to the policies on climate change, welfare and higher education that combined, could cost more than $7 billion. Mr Rudd scheduled to meet with the Business Council of Australia yesterday as part of his pledge to rebuild federal Labor's relationship with the business community.

 

[Sathius005]

RBA boss Glenn Stevens pushes need for surplus amid NDIS, Gonski

This article was written by The Australian
POLITICAL commitment to return the federal budget to surplus will be even more important as costly education and disability initiatives begin to take their toll on public finances, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens has warned.
In a speech in Brisbane today, Mr Stevens emphasised the importance of a “principled and consistent” approach to policymaking across the political divide and of maintaining a commitment to “fiscal responsibility”.
“The importance of that commitment will, if anything, be heightened in the future, given the significant challenges exist over the medium term in funding government initiatives that the community appears to want” the central bank governor said.
Since the global financial crisis the Labor Government has presided over five large budget deficits, variously blaming weak revenues and the high exchange rate for its failure to meet repeated commitments to return the budget to surplus. Most recently, at the budget in May, then-Treasurer Wayne Swan forecast that the country would be back in the black in 2015-16 with an $800 million surplus.
“There remains a strong commitment to fiscal responsibility in Australia across both side of politics even if there are different views about how to achieve it” Mr Stevens said today.
He hinted that the central bank would cut interest rates further if necessary to support the economy as it transitioned from the mining investment boom.
"We will be able to continue to do our part, consistent with our mandate, to assist the transition in sources of demand that is needed," Mr Stevens said. "We will do what can reasonably be done."
He qualified the comments by saying they weren't intended as a steer on future interest rate moves. Still, the Australian dollar slumped as traders bet that more rate cuts were in the pipeline.
The remarks came a day after the central bank resisted cutting interest rates beyond their current record low after a weakening currency has in recent weeks helped spur weaker parts of the economy such as manufacturing whose competitiveness had been dented.
The central bank left its benchmark cash-rate target at 2.75 per cent for the second month in a row after the Australian dollar slumped more than 10 per cent against the US dollar since May, falling to a nearly four-year low.
The Australian dollar declined nearly half a US cent following Mr Stevens' remarks today, falling to US91.08 cents, its lowest point since September 2010.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has cut rates seven times since late 2011, hoping that lower borrowing costs will help stimulate weaker parts of the economy by boosting consumer spending on activities such as shopping and home building.
Boosting confidence among businesses outside the mining industry, and encouraging them to invest, will be an important part of the rebalancing the resource-rich economy needs, Mr Stevens said Wednesday.
"We are talking here about confidence that the future will be characterised by growth, that there will be customers for products, that innovations are worth a try, and so on," Mr Stevens said. "That confidence seems pretty subdued right now."
Mr Stevens said he was surprised the exchange rate hadn't corrected sooner after a steep fall in commodity prices in recent times, and said the currency will likely continue to weaken if the economy slows further.
"If the economy 'needs' a lower exchange rate, it will probably get it," he said.

 

[saysesame]

Honestly don't think we'll be any better off under Abbot's Liberal than under Rudd's Labor... I don't even know anymore.

 

[Lolsmith]

Sathius what do you have against hyperlinks

Did they take your job

 

[lochnessmonsta]

I actually cant wait for monday's q and a, both albanese and turnbull will be there. Turnbull will put on a nice jacket, there'll be some questions about each party's NBN and hopefully some real policy discussion rather than the retorts we hear in parliament and the media.

 

[flashyGoldFish]

Honestly don't think we'll be any better off under Abbot's Liberal than under Rudd's Labor... I don't even know anymore.

We wont be that much better or that much worse off despite the people that say 'ill immigrate if Abbot is PM etc etc'. Sometimes we should just be happy we dont have a Mugabe, Morsi etc

 

[Lolsmith]

I actually cant wait for monday's q and a, both albanese and turnbull will be there. Turnbull will put on a nice jacket, there'll be some questions about each party's NBN and hopefully some real policy discussion rather than the retorts we hear in parliament and the media.

Nah it will be about boats, juliar getting fucked off, 15 minutes about people being gay for Turnbull, 20 minutes of "Albo" talking about how "we dun dere cabinet of thinking and careful considaration now pls dun vote for Tone" and him and Turnbull towing the party lines like the good drones they are. You know these are the same fucking dudes who are doing the "retorts" and aren't discussing anything in parliament right?

 

[Okashi]

Not sure how some idiots still think there's a possibility of a hung parliament. The Coalition automatically picks two seats in New England and Lyne. With likely gains in Corangmite and La Trobe. Possible gains with Banks and Lindsay. Any idiot who thinks hung parliament is deluded.