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Barnaby has been very restrained, he hasn't had any OS travel to study overseas agricultural practices like wine growing or caviar production.
Govt doing its bit to keep expenditure down:
http://www.finance.gov.au/sites/default/files/P39_JOYCE_Barnaby.pdf
Sculptor did a good job didn't she? Even better than the real thing!Can't wait to see Tony Abbott's bust in the Prime Ministers Avenue so I can use it as an avatar
Sculptor did a good job didn't she? Even better than the real thing!
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/kids-ne...k=e9bbac719df9f4e81c3347abd9650d30-1498549985
Barnaby has been very restrained, he hasn't had any OS travel to study overseas agricultural practices like wine growing or caviar production.
Malcolm is about to have a number done on him if he doesn't move decisively to cut Tony off.
How much support has Abbott actually got in the party ? He's making a lot of noise but I don't see a lot of Lib people publicly supporting him. He's another Rudd, but without Rudd's brains imo.
WHITESPOT - PLEASE HELP US OUT AND SHARE THIS POST
Attended a senate hearing today and was informed that as of 6 July the importation of raw prawns from whitespot infected countries were going to be allowed back into Australia to be sold to the public. Their plan to stop these prawns being used as bait in our waterways was education. These raw prawns will be able to be sold anywhere they have no zone that they need to stay in.
It is believed that this was how whitespot was introduced into Moreton Bay. Whitespot has destroyed our local businesses. Bloodwormers, prawners, crabbers have lost more than half of their normal trade by not being able to sell their products outside of the movement control zone, no compensation has been given to any of us, seven day working weeks are now down to two and people have lost their jobs out of it. It has been decided that as long as China or Vietnam's local government give a permit stating the prawns are whitespot free then that is good enough for them. It's great that the government care more about the people that live in other countries then they do about their own citizens.
We were told that the our bloodworm industry is small, which it may be, but we all have families, we all have to live too, we may be small but should that mean that we should not be heard, that no longer having an income doesn't really matter. The import trade from other countries may be big but this does not mean that they are more important then a single Australian citizen.
So please let our small industry be heard and share this post for us. Have your friends share this post. Let's show them how small the fishing industry really is. If we cannot move our live/raw product from a whitespot zone then there is no way that Australia should accept imported raw product from another country. This is why we are in this mess.
What the Turnbull government is afraid of telling us, and doesn't want to do anything about.
"From the head of the finance industry in Australia, you would say there are alarm bells. People just don't have enough discretionary income."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-29/rba-governor-philip-lowe-goes-marxist/8662228
It just shows how silly our generation was, by living within its means, we should have all bought on Sydney Harbour.
Buying a house fifty years ago was much easier then than it is now, on the east coast anyway.
Swiping away the home affordability with glib comments like "get a better job" just doesn't cut it. Home affordability is a real issue being fed by government policy; negative gearing, capital gains tax concessions and high immigration. It's an election issue that more than anything else could cause Turnbull's downfall and serves him right if he fails to address it.
It wasn't easier to buy a house 50 years ago, back then you couldn't get the money, unless you had 25% deposit. Then you had to go hat in hand to the bank.
My parents didn't get into their first house, until they were in their 40's.
I don't say, get a better job, I would say look to an area you can afford.
When you were young could you afford inner Sydney? I know I couldn't afford inner Perth, only the extreme outer suburbs.
Like I've said before, my first house was 'jinkered' and re stumped, then fixed up and re sold.
It's all good and well to say how hard it is for the younger generation, I really don't see them doing it too hard.
Maybe I'm out of touch.
Or maybe everyone else just wants to be benevolent, the problem with that is, someones got to pay for it.
The Reserve Bank is bemoaning low wages and descretionary spending because, everyone and his dog has jumped into property, no matter what the cost, to make a capital gain now those same people are pleading poverty.Anyway, if you have the head of the Reserve Bank bemoaning low wages and lack of discretionary spending ability then people should take notice, and not go on about how tough they had it 50 years ago.
My parents could afford a house on one income (just), in Sydney's Hills district, but it wasn't a palace and there weren't a load of foreign investors and rent seekers around then.
The population has grown,
And 50 years ago Australia had a population of 12 million, now the population is 24 million.
Saying my parents could afford a house in Sydney 50 years ago, why can't kids today afford to live there?
Is a bit like saying why can't kids afford to buy in the London, New York, Auckland, or any other capital City.
The population has grown, the area that the Cities covers has grown, and the prices have grown.
The only thing that has got cheaper has been consumables, like T.V's and cars, because we make them.
Land in inner Sydney isn't growing, just more people wanting it, same as every other City.
Even Perth, inner City is still super expensive, 60k's out has dropped a lot.
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