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Labor would never accept a $7 GP co-payment especially as it wasn't mentioned before the election.
Here is just one way the Abbott/Turnbull government has stuffed up the Budget.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-28/fact-check-direct-action-vs-carbon-tax/6847234
It doesn't really matter what our investment was, if you have a lot of valuable stuff lying around in your backyard and you let other people take it away for little return to the owners, then you are a fool.
Absolutely no comparison Rumpy.......Somebody has to invest in the infrastructure to get the LNG out of the ground, convert it to liquid at something like -167 c and then transport out of the country.
You say it does not matter what our investment was!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......That is the point I am trying to get through to you Smurf, the Australian Government has not invested one cent into the infrastructure of the LNG industry.
You don't seem to understand how business works.
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The oil and gas industry still invests in Norway with a 78% oil and gas tax, and Norwegians are now one of the wealthiest people on earth per capita.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/business...as-tax-norway-pm/story-e6frg2r3-1226218409771
And I don't care what Julia Gillard said, she got thrown out.
“They can deduct 78 per cent of their costs, so you have to see both sides of the coin.”[/B]
Further more that article is dated back in 2011.
A. The principle still applies
B. If it's a good deal for everyone, where is the problem ?
The problem lays squarely at your feet because you have tried to make out Norway recoups a net figure of 78% on oil and that is not the case.
I know you do not like to be corrected so perhaps you should be honest and up front in the first place with the relevant information..
https://www2.deloitte.com/content/d...sources/gx-er-oil-and-gas-taxguide-norway.pdf
When I checked my PO box this arvo it had a calendar in an envelope from the local Liberal MP (David Spiers) which I proceeded to throw in the post office bin on top of about a dozen other calendars that were unopened.
Why the heck are we being "gifted" something we don't want at taxpayers expense, waste of money imo.
It's a ruse. They do a bulk deal with other members of the party, declare the value at small run high cost and pocket the rest of the allowance.
I made no claims about net return, I said the tax was 78 % which it is.
Norway has the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world and something like that would pay off our debt with money left over.
Why not ?
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ustralia-a-thing-or-two-about-managing-wealth
In a stunning capitulation to Nick Xenophon, the Coalition has agreed to reverse a long-held policy and give Australian businesses an advantage in competing for taxpayer-funded projects.
Key points:
Federal Government concedes to Nick Xenophon in order to get ABCC legislation through
New rules will help more Australian businesses get involved in Federal projects
Labor praises rule changes but not happy with likely passage of ABCC legislation
The Government made the surprise announcement in the Senate last night to overhaul rules about how it spends its annual $60 billion procurement bill to maximise local content.
The new rules, which do not need legislative approval, will take effect from March next year.
Bidders for government projects worth more than $4 million will need to show:
How much locally-produced material they will source
How they are contributing to local employment
How they are growing local skills
The whole-of-life cost of the project, not just the build cost
That the materials they use comply with Australian product standards
"This is a big deal," senator Xenophon told the Senate last night.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-...k-xenophon-federal-projects-abcc-laws/8077490
Poor Malcolm thinks he's on a winner by constantly parroting on about everything being Labor and Bill Shorten's fault. Of course he fails to admit that if his ideas were so good he wouldn't need the ALP's vote at all and the Labor pollies could all go home for three years.
It would be interesting to tally up the % bipartisan votes versus partisan in the Abbott/Turnbull reign as compared to the Rudd/Gillard. My guess is that Abbott set the obstructionist bar to new consequently unvisited highs as opposition leader, but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.
Tisme, I am sure you do not need to be reminded what happened 2007/2103.....Gillard/Rudd/Gillard...Rumpy came up with the same tired old rhetoric and I had to remind him of the details which you can go back and check for yourself...
Look, the sooner the Labor admit to the debacle they created in that era the better.
Gillard relied on the vote of a HSU criminal who finished up in jail....He should have been stood down..She also had a friendly left wing senate.
Abbott took over the reigns and had to deal with a hostile senate.
All I want to do is get a deal done, at some figure.
I didn't care if it was 10 or if it was 15, I originally voted for 19.
Barnaby Joyce and Turnbull in Question Time. A couple of moronic jackasses. Asked about his government's 'achievements' , all Turnbull could do was attack Shorten and the Labor Party. Joyce just rambled like an idiot.
And the country is being 'run' by these two ?
God help us.
The Nationals suspect Hinch adviser John Clements, who worked for Tony Windsor and the Palmer United Party, and has an awkward relationship with the Nationals.
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