Oh look, they tried to sneak the broadband issue in, no such luck, he's not that pissed.



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Jeeze, Labor really think they're on a winner with their BIG BROADBAND for a BIG AUSTRALIA don't they.

Will they ever shut up about it?

We'd rather have a BIGGER SURPLUS.

Look honestly, with the exception of the piss head and Dick Smith, they are all a pack of fat cat stuffy bureaucrats trying to promote themselves, and their sham-wow cloths (oops, I mean partys/selves).




Dicks right, at last we're talking about it now, they have 9 days to come up with a decent population policy.

I say we restrict immigration until we've figured out whether or not we are indeed capable of sustaining what we have.

This might be a good start.

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What I found profoundly disturbing and ethically untenable was that we do not provide the funding to train our own people, be they new or natural australians, to fill the skills shortages but are more than willing to take the best trained from poor and developing countries leaving those countries, who need the skills more than we, with skill shortages. 

It's a double insult. Australia couldn't be bothered with there own people's up skilling needs or the needs of the poorest nations.

Australia's population for its city to regional structure is too high already.
There are no incentives for people to move out of the cities, so increasing the population, without a massive change to planning to get people to other areas, is only going to make life increasingly unbearable in more Australian cities, as it is in Sydney now. If they can't plan, they shouldn't be taking in more people. Australia has enough people in that event.
It was absolutely great living in Australia when the population was a lot less than it is now, there was a real sense of community out in the real world, not just the mirage of one which is presented on the media, there was space, much less crime, full employment, the list goes on...it was brilliant. Now, you have to feel sympathy for young people being born into this mess now, and for people coming from other countries thinking that this is paradise.

Equitist wrote on Aug 12^th, 2010 at 10:47pm:


Yep. I agree.

Could it be that we need a BIG BROADBAND to sustain a BIG AUSTRALIA a Gillard government have planned as our information highways begin to congest even more than they have already?

As usual we have the resident communist equitist weighing in to blame everything on those nasty "rich" "conservatives". The school education system in Australia has been highly politicised with left wing labor influences and staff. These influences traditionally do not have a skill or background in science and numeracy, that movement, and the people in it come from a rhetorical, ideological, language-based milieu, and this flows through into the school system which is heavily leftist/Marxist leaning. It is why you are more likely to find a "Labor Lawyer" like the extreme leftist Gillard, rather than a "Labor Engineer", the latter which is almost a contradiction in terms. Labor people think that engineers and people who are good at maths must be quasi-criminal types grounded in that "evil capitalist world".
You see what the country is up against?  You end up having to try recruiting people from other countries because the problems are so entrenched here. (Other countries still require their school students to study maths and science, thank goodness.)

shampain socialist wrote on Aug 12^th, 2010 at 10:45pm:


Methinks that you are now suffering from the shattering of your previous state of ignorant bliss...

For starters, crime rates have been totally misrepresented in recent years - with most categories falling...

As for the loss of the sense of community, perhaps you should consider the impact of the shift in propaganda and marketing, from predominantly social issues to monetary and economic matters - all of which is designed to make us feel inadequate and insecure so that we will wantonly consume in pursuit of happiness...

Oh, and this could have something to do wth the facts that mothers are denigrated if they stay home to raise their own kids and the majority of kids are no longer raised by large extended families...

What kinds of kids are we currently churning out - now that they and are increasingly being farmed off into unnatural production-line child handling prisons from infancy...!?

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Misrepresented you're not wrong, like Rudd closing the gap figures, of which were very telling, and contrary to what his government had promised, not unlike their promised education revolution.

Labor restricted funding to ABS  www.abs.gov.au/ of which has lead to some rather interesting lack-of statistics.

Our crime figures have soared, though due to ABS cut-backs, we wont know how much until Liberal get in.

Don't kid yourself, our prisons are overfull.

Check this out... if you have the time or bother...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/09/2978079.htm?section=justin
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http://www.cla.asn.au/0805/index.php/articles/2009/indigenous-prison-rate-scars-...