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Re: Bill of Rights in Oz Who is and who isn't a 'douche' is a subjective judgment and probably couldn't be put into any document as you infer.

Re: Bill of Rights in Oz It's obiter matey and it's not based on any legal authority. It's just simply him moralising on political outcomes before he actually cuts in and tells us the legal reason why a Bill of rights is not so great. However it's often quoted for those who like it when judges...

Re: Bill of Rights in Oz Yes totally. Like Jonothan A with his single quote for Gibbs CJ. Totally and utterly destroys all arguments that can be made for a bill of rights. I'd hope you would know better than to actually think that all arguments for a bill of rights are useless. It's also a...

Typical sound budget. It would be better if the Liberals stopped talking about 1988 and 17 percent interests rates. The national and global economic context was very different then as to how it is now. As pointed out by Keating it is the same John Howard who was treasurer in the late 70s...

Hahaha. On many points he is very right. Federal Labor has been weak to counter and give explanations to counter Howards continual evocation of the ALP in government a 13 to 20 years ago.

Hahah Keating. Bloody Legend.

In terms of the best interests of the Liberal Party - he should stay as long as possible. For the ALP - Howard should go asap. Costello is percieved as smug. He is also very poor with the media. He is an anti intellectual (like the majority of Australia) Costello is an intellectual of the...

Frigid you do fed con? I have a very limited understanding of the commonwealth laws and the argument that the states are going to use. All I know is that Commonwealth is going to use s 51(xx) to support the laws and that various ALP ministers are banging on about the importance of state rights...

Very sad. I just hope he didn't suffer. Perhaps a good thing is that he died doing something he had dedicated himself to doing. Regardless of what frog said all people deserve a level of dignity in death. I would hope that the great majority of people should have their redeeming qualities...

IMO Not really. The only constitutional crisis we had was Whitlam. Despite having a majority in the lower house he was sacked by the governor general. The Speaker of the house sought intervention from the crown, they refused to intervene saying something along the lines of them having nothing to...

Dangerous. Makes the president just as legitimate as the parliament. Especially when the president or head of state is more popular than the parliament or the elected government within parliament. Power struggle between head of state and parliament not good. On reading the thread I notice I...

The family car is an auto. So it's auto for me. But I have driven a manual (Ford Econovan. Bagospanners gear box, inconsistent clutch take up point) so I wasn't anywhere near entertaining as I imagine a manual 325i would be, or any other manual passenger car.

Hence the 'correction' with the lowering of wages for certain unskilled workers. According to employers the new laws allow them to pay according to 'value' whereas collective bargaining makes them pay more than the actual value of the employee. Of course an employee is going to contest their...

Valuable according to black letter market principles. The employer won't pay extra for anyone unless they have to. The only reason they would pay more to an individual is because they are valuable (in that they increase output etc) and they want them to stay. Otherwise no employer is...

No one cares if the government lies or is corrupt. As long as they have a new car and a plasma. Sad but true.

This thread is hilarious. I just hope none of the people out there will cry foul when they end up on the wrong end of the market, complaining about how 'unfair' this and that is. It's nice for people like Malfoy to go bang on about the recognised benefits of the market. However it's myopic to...

You believe there is a problem with our level of unemployment? I hope you dont honestly believe that we can have full employment? A bit utopian? HK and Singapore have what is called 'asian values' whereby human rights and basic human dignity are considered western things. Human life is worth...

Under the current system, where unions actually exist, unemployment is hardly a problem. No one is really being priced out of the market by the min wage at the moment. The only people that would be priced out of the market by the current min wage or people who are disabled or have just left...

Nationalism and citizenship are a hinderance to the market.