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Shakespeares Hamlet.

gillrudd is showing the same .................... inconsideration , and treachery

Gee, Mellie. The immigrants on working visas have got a better chance of getting work here than in Europe or America. The unemployment rate's pretty low right now.

I know housing prices are going through the roof, but other than that, this is the most prosperous time in Australia's history.

You're right about Gillard's phoney assylum-seeker policies - she's lost me with that one, but if someone's going to leave a country with almost full employment in a global recession because a few boats are coming in...

Let them.

The ABS stats are rather deceiving, for when we say employed, we forget to take into consideration those who are under-employed, many struggle to get a 30 hour week in, this or it's only seasonal work...it's far from reliable, secure, ....  which is why so many come here on student visas, live in 3 bedroom houses occupied by 15 people this and cant find work when they get here.

We need to start getting real about our under-employment stats, because it's these which are not being addressed.

Tanlou76, I understand your concern with "work-choices", but I think you will find he's intending on giving work choices a make-over.

Also, do you know who exploited work-choices policies to their advantage more so than the company directors themselves?

The Labor union thugs  themselves!

Labor unions cashed in on work-choices, believe you me.

So they definitely need an overhaul, noone , not even Tony is denying this fact.

Honestly, are wages, conditions any better now under a Labor government, with Australians competing with immigrants for a minimal rate of pay?

The way it is now, Australian workers, even lower ranking skilled professionals, ie teachers, nurses  lack bargaining power in their workplaces, for if they refuse to work for a given rate of pay, there is always a keen immigrant on a temp-visa willing to work for the minimum wage, with a view to being granted permanent residency at the end of it..(It's their carrot)...but where's ours?

It's a double edged sword being driven through our skilled and unskilled work force, cant you see this?

Youth unemployment has reached an all time high, the highest it's been in decades, of which coincides with our rate of immigration, which hasn't been this high for decades also.

......... by a long nose 

muso wrote on Jul 17^th, 2010 at 9:07pm:



She'll win by a mile then;)

mellie wrote on Jul 17^th, 2010 at 9:13pm:


Lol,  I would not like to see people obsess about her appearance, as it is her brain, not her body, we need to be relying on, but even so, I think they are missing some obvious chances to take the piss, and after all, she is a pollie, and they all deserve to cop a bit of stick.

I am waiting for a cartoonist to do a tortoise and hare theme for the election, with abbots triathlon fetish, and julia's lack of chin/neck definition, I would have thought it an obvious visual joke they would make use of.

I expect the election would throw up a similar result, as Abbott has effectively asleep as far as developing new policies, or creating a vision for the future too sell to the public, and just going negative, and promising a return to Howard's policies will not win him any fresh support, and without it he is doomed to fail.

By all means millie, vote for the guy who thinks that a woman's only value is in the home.

Whoever gets in, let us hope that neither lib/nat or labour hold the balance of power in the senate.