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Probably true, if you are organised and take the time to do it correctly.

John Howard Said and I quote "No GST never ever"

He is a liar, I didnt vote for the bastard and I dont like collecting his taxes that he said he would never introduce.

If you like doing his dirty work , good for you .I dont!

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Top Gear I read what youve said and we do live in a great country.

To pick up on some of the points youve made,

Interest rates were 18.5% when Malcom Fraser was in and John Howard was treasurer as I recall.

The unfair dismissal laws havnt always worked out fairly .

You mention Medicare ,that was brought in by a Labor government and is slowly being eroded by our current government.

As for trying to be a good employee, I will try to keep this in mind,lord knows I dont want to upset the boss.

There is a massive skills shortage in this country, but I dont think we can blame the teachers for telling kids to get an education for the lack of tradesmen.
Once apon a time in a simpler world big companies , Telecom , and the railways ,took on apprentices. now in an era of privatisation,cost cutting and out sourcing they dont train as many people because that costs money, they just get people that someone else trained but the problem is no one has been taking on apprentices so they are running out of skilled people to poach.

I think kids today are just as willing to get their hands dirty as ever, if there were more apprentiships available young guys would be doing them .I dont think they would rather be sipping lattes in cafes wearing suits.

Good on your mate mending sewers for a quarter of a mill a year, if I could get that job I would be there,what special skills do you need?

I dont know why its "funny" that they dont show people on TV who aren't demonstrating, maybe its the same reason they dont show people who arn't doing all sorts of things.

If people feel their wages and conditions are being threatened they have every right to demonstrate, and the TV stations have a right to report it, its a free country.

Life here isnt perfect, its bloody good,but that shouldnt stop us voicing our dissaproval at the things we see wrong around us.
Free speech is one of the things that has made this country such a great place to live.

This is very intresting, however i have no idea whats going on down there. Can any one gimme a short summry of why every one is so pissed off?

I think the Aussies are heavily unionised and the Govt is intent on passing laws that foster a greater degree of business confidence and therefore growth?

Yes Teretonga, us Aussies are unionised, just like in many countries, but we are not 'heavily' unoinised, & yes, we live in a wonderfull country, but who made it that way? It sure as hell wasn't those in Armani siuts with shiney arses.

The current Prime Minister is exatrordinarily astute politicly, but can't control his mouth. He swore to the Nation that there would be 'NO GST, [blood sucking tax] NEVER EVER" so he got himself elected. Next thing, we have a GST, but the taxes that it was to replace have, in so many instances, remaimed.
He now wants us to not retire when we are old enough, but to keep working. Till when? When we drop dead on the job? Meanwhile he will be enjoying his own retirement at taxpayers expense.

Just before an election we had some refugees turn up in a leaky old tub. This boat eventually sank & the occupants were forced into the water, but before it went down, some were jumping off to try to get to the Australian warship that was close by.
What does our PM cry to the press.
They are throwing babys overboard. We don't want this kind of people in our country, & the lap dog press went with it, repeated the bullshit propaganda, whiped up public ferver & he was elected yet again.
It was all proven to be untrue of course & he blamed the 'chain of command' for his being misinformed. The captain of the [Australian political] ship is ultimately responsible.

Ask any law abiding firearm owner if his life is better now, since John Howard imposed himself in an area where he had NO constitutional right to be when he bludgeoned the states into submission using Australian taxpayers money. Gun crime is going down on the same graph slope that it had been following for the decade prior to his interference, so no actual benefit was realised, but many thousands of citizens now are made to feel like criminals by those members of the public that believed his propaganda on the subject.

I would dearly love to assasinate this man's political career at the ballot box with my vote, but by itself, it lacks the firepower & I guess that if one is getting screwed slowly enough, & is being sweet talked often enough, many dont notice. The 'Unfair Dismissal' legislation seems to be attempt to make it compulsory, not better.
The new 'Fair Pay' Commission reminds me of Wells' book "1984" Fair pay indead. We had an Industrial Relations court that did this job successfully for over a hundred years, but it could not be directly controlled by the government, so he is abolishing it.

If life is so bad in the US, then isn't it time that the people took a good look at us & realised that there is a better way, then stand up & claim it as their right, before John Howard turns us into a nation of frightened serfs. I'm sure that this is his aim.

In the end, it won't be him thats wondering where his next feed is coming from, nor if his kids will have a career, or will just bounce from job to job all their lives always frightened that thieir employer will dismiss then at a whim.

At least we have free speech, for now, but the new sedition laws look like changing that too.

We live in a wonderfull country, so enjoy it while it lasts.

we live in a wonderful country.. but its all about to change

howards new laws will allow my boss to:

-cut my hourly rate by less than half
-allow me to only have 2 weeks annual leave per year (and pay out the other 2)
-sack me just because his neighbours kid needs a job

just to name a couple
and thats the reality of it

thanks johnny..... thanks

I have read what sidedraught and Topgear have written.

I own a company and have been involved in business for decades. Let me tell you a few basics.

Labour- gives the workers what they want...

Liberal- looks after small business so there are workers

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if all employers were like you.... howards new laws wouldnt be a problem...

but the reality of it is that 99% of us recieve the wages and conditions that we do today.. becuase our employers have to give them to us.... not becuase they want to

Interesting, you Aussies have also discovered the convenience of scapegoating teachers.


Phunk for President

Hahaa classic

Like my old boss used to say in his broken English
"Whadda can ya do? No much"

Here is a pic taken by Mat of his wild party the night before bunkering down to work on my political campaign.