mellie wrote on Jun 29^th, 2010 at 10:56am:

Well seeing as though I was in the workforce during the 70s 80s and 90s I dont need proof, I know you're wrong.
Unemployment is about 5% a figure that Menzies used to call full employment. During the 70s 80s and 90s it was much higher.

Third party for me. I have voted independant (fruitlessly) for years. I may vote for the Shooters Party down the track but will control, as always, where my preferences fall...Libs last and Labor 2nd last as usual..Greens and Democrats down near the bottom as well.

I do miss Keating but not all of his policies.

A clever well read man who I warmed to immediately when I heard him refer to the Libs as a bunch of Tallyrakes...Oh I miss the way he just pood all over the Libs...they were like deer caught in the headlights. Glorious.

mellie wrote on Jun 29^th, 2010 at 11:08am:


Wrong. The largest intake of immigration occurred during 1999 and 2005. Admittedly Rudd didn't do much to stem the flow, but the coalition opened the floodgates with their "dual citizenship" and no capital gains tax for foreigners under the pretense of bringing in skilled workers for the multinationals.

I'd query those employment figures too if I could be bothered. Labor hasn't managed too badly with employment considering the rest of the world has practically collapsed.

My primary vote will go to a third party.

skippy. wrote on Jun 29^th, 2010 at 12:22pm:


Hi, glad you left this space here for me, or else I might have missed your response when I got back.  Now, where were we...ah yes,  re- unemployment figures.

My apologies, I omitted the word.."youth" there and have now corrected this.

Also I raised this topic on Yahoo about seven months ago when the topic was pulled quite abruptly, (re- youth unemployment).
It's a topic Labor would prefer we didn't discuss at all.


See, immigrants and our Australian youth have something in common, of which is they will work for peanuts.

I have even heard of Australians with degrees working at McDonalds these days, in fact, my sons computer studies teacher is working there now as a manager.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PAO/is_1_22/ai_106223002/?tag=content;col1




Does this look familiar?

http://australianpolitics.com/elections/1972/72-11-13_it's-time.shtml

The "Big Australia" party.

Funny how some things never change.

...Labor for the blue collar working class you say?


Garbage!i

skippy. wrote on Jun 29^th, 2010 at 3:37pm:


Not back peddled at all, I genuinely omitted a word, yes, even I do this from time to time, though unlike your Gillard, I will take responsibility for my own mistakes, this opposed to lumbering them off onto a colleague.

btw, you must congratulate Labor on that big Telstra broadband deal Krudd secured shortly before being knifed in the back by Gillard.... has she mentioned anything about this deal yet?

Or will she wait for Kevs corpse to cool first?



It only stands to reason that with so many immigrants arriving on temp-student visas snapping up unskilled work there would be shortages.

http://wheresmyjob.net.au/

The rate we're going, kids will be still in school and living at home when they're in their 30...

Charity begins at home!

Ok, you claim I'm lying, how about you bring something  to the table to validate your statement?



I made a statement, that youth unemployment hasn't been this atrocious since the 1960's , possibly even 50's , 40's  (I recall having read this in an article earlier this year which made news)  ... and just assumed it was common knowledge that young Australians are missing out on jobs to assist them with funding themselves through uni, school, LIFE, which may help explain  why youth crime and suicide is up also....how ironic  

Read the following....

Must I do all your research for you?

Increase In Youth Suicide Rate Following Decade Long Decline May Reflect Emerging Health Crisis
04 Sep 2008 - 1:00 PST

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/120151.php

But the kids have a few smart-boards and demountable buildings ..oh and lest we forget the free microscopic lap-tops designed for midgets fingers, so this is ok.

Nice to see our Labor party have their priorities in order eh?

It's clear, Gillard isn't overly youth-orientated.

skippy. wrote on Jun 29^th, 2010 at 4:23pm:


You have accused me of being a liar, so it's now up to you to demonstrate where I have lied.

Can you do this?

If not, then you are just your typical neurotic forum troll who just likes to distract people from the discussion at hand.

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Skip is just asking you to back up the claims you made with evidence. Nothing wrong with that.