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Come now, Rees and Tebbutt are a lot more credible than Iemma and Costa. I'm cautiously optimistic, dependent on the cabinet reshuffle. There are SOME talented people in State Labor. Unfortunately Iemma's numbers lay with a number of incompotents, and so he had them in major ministries that...

It took me ages to figure out what the fuck was meant of those proportional statistics. That was a terribly worded post.

I dunno, Cheney does hunt quail.

It's also not really necessary in Australia. It seems to be the concensus that with our resources that renewable energies will suffice here.

Oh bullshit. Roosevelt kept capitalism afloat in America. Unemployment was well on the drop before America began preparing for the war.

I'm pretty sure the New Deal shows otherwise.

But in selling a business that makes money, are we not getting a short-term bump where, if kept, we could for a long time to come remain getting this money that can go into Sydney's infrastructure etc? Which we won't get if sold, because all that money'll be spent soon enough.

I agree the health system (and education system) need massive improvement. But you don't strengthen one essential service by weakening another. That's just dumb.

Cheers.

This forum's disproportionate support for economic rationalist principles (or however you want to term it) has never been more obvious than in this thread. Shouldn't the overwhelming majority be opposing privatisation? It seems to be the general concensus in the population - I find that...

Clearly it's politics, though I actually think it's a mistake in that sense. Opposing it is surely tolling the bell on Costa and Iemma - they'll both have to go into their corners and die. But, were it to pass, NSW Labor could've been terribly divided and be in a terrible situation. So I...

Re: Australian Politics Chatter Thread Well that'd explain its shittiness.

Re: 回复: Re: 回复: Re: America refuses to accept defeat in Olympic medal count I think you're wrong, but how much of that is just really poor grammar I'm unable to say.

That's pretty funny. Because I know when I think of the dimmest person in Australian political history, Beazley is who immediately springs to mind.

Awesome. Starve them into going to school. You'd be surprised at a child's ability to only think small picture. And what should the parents' ensuring their kids do get to school enfringe on them actually, you know, trying to find work? Oh, if it's what you'd rather I suppose it's for the...

This is pretty fucked.

Tom Uren had a magnificent wit. As far as party leaders go, Whitlam and Keating are the modern standouts. As far as current members of parliament go, it's Costello and Gillard. Turnbull? Wha?

But only if you can back up your insults with something that's not utter shit itself.

So you have the power to change that, if you are a union member? Either fix it with what power you've got or overhaul the system and replace it with something better. VSU isn't something better - it took the power and replaced it with nothing, letting uni services just go to shit because of lack...

I actually do think it's fair that, if you opt out of paying trade union membership fees, you should not be eligible for all of the benefits that come with that membership. But no, I do think student unions and trade unions are rather different beasts. There's some amount of comparison (such...