Surplus to requirements - What are we to make of Labor’s $4 billion surplus, during a cost-of-living crisis?

r1nce · 2023-05-07T23:30:08+00:00

Put the lid down!

r1nce · 2023-05-06T00:30:27+00:00

This is a wonderful listing.

The photos actually show what it looks and feels like, instead of some wide-angle BS.

3D tour is also brilliant. Gives you the floor plan, and a fair feeling of each room.

My favourite part of the tour is the first step into the bathroom; toilet lid up. Second step; toilet lid down.

Keep your toilet lids down, people!

r1nce · 2023-05-04T14:23:08+00:00

Give Karma East a browse, and as many others have suggested, op shops in the more well to do suburbs can be treasure trove. And is Sportscraft still a thing? Quality always seemed high.

r1nce · 2023-05-03T07:17:04+00:00

Seriously though... what the actual fuck?

r1nce · 2023-05-01T13:08:34+00:00

The last minority government WAS a decade of Liberals... And Nationals, and Liberal-Nationals, and Country Liberals.

r1nce · 2023-04-29T22:17:12+00:00

Whatever you decide, you can NEVER get your time back.

Your kids won't be this age again.

What's worth more to you? Time spent with your loved ones, or time spent working for a company you describe as not meeting your ethical standards?

r1nce · 2023-04-22T22:50:28+00:00

Quite enjoy how you've moved from "Privatisation was the mantra of Howard not Keating." to "I agreed with the decision to privatise, so those examples don't count."

The delectable hand-waving at the impact and consequences of the Hilmer Report and the effect it had on Liberal and Labor state governments as they variously privatised a slew of public services and infrastructure is just the cherry on top.

You can disagree ideologically with the concept of government ownership of services and industry, and many do, but to suggest Keating wasn't responsible for, directly and indirectly, the large scale privatisation of services and industries is to deny reality.

r1nce · 2023-04-22T12:13:51+00:00

Privatisation was the mantra of Howard not Keating.

It might have been the mantra of Howard, but Keating laid all the groundwork and certainly made it a hell of a lot easier with the 'reforms' enacted during his tenure as Treasurer and then Prime Minister.

Commonwealth Bank - Privatised under Keating.

QANTAS - Privatised under Keating.

Commonwealth Serum Laboratories - Privatised under Keating.

Telecom - Corporatised under Keating into Telstra; privatised under Howard.

Australian Postal Corporation - Corporatised under Keating (Hawke) into Australia Post; one of the few remaining GBEs.

You might want to investigate the far reaching nature of the Hilmer Report, which laid all that groundwork I mentioned before and, after it received the wholehearted endorsement of the Keating government in 1995, encouraged wide-spread privatisation of industries by state governments across the country throughout the 90s and 00s.

Might want to check your facts as I lived through it.

Maybe you lived through it, but it doesn't seem like you were paying much attention.

r1nce · 2023-04-20T13:21:18+00:00

I sure you mean to the right of Trotsky. I'd be interested to see anyone in the modern public arena, in Australia or elsewhere, that positioned themselves to the left of Trotsky.

I'd also be interested to know where you'd place the Greens, Labor, and the LNP on a scale from 1-9, with 1 being far left, 5 being the "centre", and 9 being far right.

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For simplicity's sake, give them a whole number.

r1nce · 2023-04-20T09:16:14+00:00

You may need to read her pieces on the Coalition if that's your take away from this piece.

r1nce · 2023-04-13T21:07:46+00:00

Don't leave Turnbull off that list.

r1nce · 2023-04-13T05:57:14+00:00

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