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Reply #30 - Mar 27th, 2017 at 9:27am
 
And the Greenie conned naysayers creep out without a clue as to how Australia should get is base load power supply and cheap. All wind and no substance except quoted lying hypocrite Greenie propaganda.

But Mal has agriculture exports going up and up.

The Brazilian beef scare boosts Australian clean beef exports

All while Shorty dozes in his coffin.


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With Mal in charge it is all up and up



Higher returns expected for Australian agriculture in 2016-17, but challenges remain for key industries
ABC Rural By Anna Vidot Posted 20 Sep 2016, 2:30pm

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Photo: National commodity forecaster ABARES releases its latest predictions for Australian agriculture in 2016-17. (ABC Rural: Anna Vidot)

The value of Australia's agricultural production is expected to increase again this year, but beneath strong headline numbers are declining returns for important commodities like beef and dairy.

The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) update predicted the gross value of Australian farm production to rise 3 per cent in 2016-17, to $58.4 billion.

That would be a 13 per cent increase on the five-year average.

Strong export returns for crops like sugar (predicted to increase by 21 per cent) and cotton (40 per cent) are driving much of that increase, on the expectation of high global prices and increased local production.

Deflated expectations for milk prices further revised

Good rain in southern cropping regions has contributed to a buoyant outlook for canola, with a prediction that the value of Australia's canola exports will jump by 43 per cent this financial year.

But ABARES revised down its already deflated expectations for farm-gate milk prices by another 2 per cent to 42 cents per litre in this update, its first since Murray Goulburn and Fonterra sparked a domestic dairy crisis by slashing prices.

The national commodity forecaster noted that the global dairy market had shown some early signs of recovery, but that significant challenges, including the Russian embargo on European dairy products, remained in place.

Growth in the value of Australia's livestock sector is expected to stall at around $29.2 billion this year, after a 7.7 per cent increase in 2015-16.

But short supply means it will be hard for graziers to take advantage of those higher prices for beef cattle and sheep, and the value of both beef and mutton exports is expected to decline by 12 per cent and 17 per cent respectively.

Losing market share in China to Brazilian beef

The total value of all Australian agricultural exports is expected to fall slightly to $44 billion this year.

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ABARES chief commodity analyst Trish Gleeson said the lack of beef cattle supply, together with weaker demand in some of Australia's most important beef export markets, is driving that.

    "The United States, for instance, has been rebuilding its herd for a couple of years now and some of that product is finding its way back on to the market," she said.

"Our exports into the United Stated have really benefitted in the last couple of years from the fact that their production was well down.

"In Japan, I think increased production from the United States and increased exports from the United States will be competing with our beef.

"And [regarding recent] very strong exports to China, we're losing market share in China to Brazilian beef."

Beef prices have hovered around the stratosphere all year, but the fall in export value raises questions about whether the peak has passed.

Ms Gleeson said ABARES expected beef prices to come back to the pack in coming years, but it was not anticipating a crash.

"While those prices will come back, they're still very strong and we don't really expect them to come back to where they were just a couple of years ago," she said.

"You've got to remember that the really low prices that we've come out of were because of that massive drought that affected basically all of Queensland and most of NSW, and the increase in turn-off that we had at that time."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-20/higher-returns-expected-for-australian-agr...
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Reply #31 - Mar 27th, 2017 at 9:29am
 
And even the politically correct Bammy is moved to poke the head around the smokescreen of political correctness and display a level of erudition rarely seen.

But ignoring trivialities Mal's financial genius is pulling Australia back from the brink of financial ruin that the economic imbeciles Labor dragged it down to.




   
Australia set for first current account surplus since 1970s
by Jacob Greber  Feb 28 2017 at 5:49 PM Updated Feb 28 2017 at 5:49 PM

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Commodity price gains may have helped improve the current account deficit. Rob Homer

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Mal's financial brilliance getting results

Australia looks set to generate its first current account surplus since the mid-1970s, after an income-boosting surge in resources exports and falling domestic investment resulted in the smallest deficit since the last quarter of 2001.

Speculation is growing that the current quarter will be the first since 1975 in which the value of investment flows and goods and services out of Australia will be larger than the value that entered the country, potentially delivering a major windfall for the government's tax collectors and marginally reducing reliance on offshore investors.

Official Australian Bureau of Statistics data showed the current account deficit narrowed to $3.85 billion from $10.2 billion in the September quarter, helped by a record-breaking 12 per cent surge in exports to $91.8 billion. Imports, by contrast, rose a modest 2 per cent to $87.2 billion.

The figures suggest that income from trade will elevate gross domestic product growth in the current quarter and beyond, after the economy unexpectedly shrank in the September quarter. Separate figures published by the bureau showed government spending was up 1.7 per cent last quarter, adding further support to overall growth.

Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News expect Wednesday's national accounts data to show GDP rose 0.8 per cent in the quarter and 2 per cent from a year earlier.

The trend towards a current account surplus - which also points to relative weakness in domestic investment as well as demand for offshore imports and capital - is set to have continued in the current quarter, given rocketing prices and shipments for iron ore, coal and liquefied natural gas.

Australia almost certainly posted a current account surplus in December, while the first three months of 2017 may also have been positive, said Deutsche Bank economist Adam Boyton.

A near constant feature of life in Australia since the First Fleet - and deeply embedded in official data dating back to 1901 – the current account deficit has long been symptomatic of an economy that has relied on offshore capital to fund domestic investment because of a lack of savings.

In the 1980s the current account was emphasised by then treasurer Paul Keating as symptomatic of a so-called twin deficit - alongside the budget deficit - that threatened to make Australia a "banana republic".

Mr Keating and Treasury used to maintain the idea of a current account "J-curve" - in which a fall in the Australian dollar (which had been floated only a few years earlier) would initially worsen the deficit before it improved.

Those concerns evaporated among economists in the 1990s - alongside the prospect of the current account ever moving into surplus.

It has been in deficit without interruption for every quarter since the June quarter of 1975, and last narrowed to less than $5 billion in the March quarter of 2001.

Predictions of a sustained shift to surpluses after more than two centuries of deficits have emerged repeatedly in recent years on hopes that China's economic growth will continue in years to come, maintaining demand for Australia's exports.

Those hopes were repeatedly dashed as the terms of trade declined from its peak in late 2012.

"The narrowing in the current account deficit - and its possible elimination - has been some time coming," said Mr Boyton. "With commodity prices having bounced over the past six to nine months that starkly narrower current account deficit is with us now.

"Whether this is a long lived or temporary development will depend in large part on the future path of Australia's export commodity prices."

Read more: http://www.afr.com/news/economy/australia-set-for-first-current-account-surplus-...

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Reply #32 - Mar 27th, 2017 at 11:44am
 
When will malcolm hold himself to the same standards he knifed the women basher over and stand down ?

He was blaming the woman basher over the last 55 45, who fault is it now rtards ?  Grin Grin Grin

sweet sweet 55  Grin 45  Cry
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Reply #33 - Mar 27th, 2017 at 5:09pm
 
LW is totally bamboozled by all these FACTS and so the paw soal retreats to the deliberately misleading rigged "Polls".

LW's intellectual power is awesome.


As usual Shorty's performance in Question Time is abysmal just banging on about penalty rates that he has cut in the past.




DAVID CROWE  2 HOURS AGO | 4.05PM Question Time: things we learned

A deflated government struggled to make its case in Question Time on Monday. From Malcolm Turnbull to the casual interjectors on the backbench, every member of the team performed his or her role but nobody brought any spirit to his or her task. The government plodded through through the session, unable to puncture Labor’s confidence or revive its own.

There were no surprises in Labor’s tactics. Bill Shorten challenged the Prime Minister to justify his tax cuts for big companies when workers are getting a cut to their penalty rates. Tanya Plibersek asked Scott Morrison about his lukewarm support for company tax cuts last week. Chris Bowen suggested the Treasurer stand down and “take a pay cut” over the tax cut. Yet the government had nothing better.

Only when Shorten goaded Turnbull over his “handout” for big business did the government lift its game – more than one hour into Question Time. Turnbull was ready for the mention of big business. In the most energetic answer of the day, he reminded parliament of Shorten’s time at the Australian Workers’ Union and its deals with big employers – including suspect payments from Thiess John Holland, Chiquita Mushrooms and ACI Operations. For good measure he mentioned Unibuilt, which donated $32,000 to Shorten’s election campaign in 2007 when it was dealing with his union.

The government benches enjoyed the moment but Shorten looked unworried. There was nothing in Question Time yesterday for him to worry about.


3 HOURS AGO | 3.19PM   Turnbull questions Shorten on secret payments

Bill Shorten asks Malcolm Turnbull:

“The Prime Minister is giving a $50 billion handout to big business and a tax cut for millionaires on 1 July, whilst supporting pay cuts for nearly 700,000 Australians. Why does the Prime Minister have a plan for big business but always has an excuse to do nothing for Australian workers and their penalty rates?”

Turnbull begins, “The plan for big business that the Opposition Leader has is taking secret payments to the AWU” but is stopped by manager of opposition business Tony Burke, who calls a point of order as the PM has reflected on a member of parliament, which he isn’t supposed to do.

Speaker Tony Smith reminds Turnbull of this rule.

And Turnbull continues:

“We are not going to take lectures from the Labor Party about dealings with big business. They say they are proud of the Leader of the Opposition’s record as a union leader - one secret payment after another. If he was so proud of those payments, why doesn’t he tell the world? Why doesn’t he tell us? Why doesn’t he tell us what they were really for? We know they weren’t for the real matters set out on the invoices. Let him tell us the story. He has a great barrister there, the member for Isaacs. He says he’s especially proud of the Leader of the Opposition, he could get him to make a case, powerful advocate that he is, he could sell anything. We don’t care who presents the fact, but it is time Labor told the truth about these secret payments.”


3 HOURS AGO | 3.02PM A tax cut for millionaires?

Opposition finance spokesman Jim Chalmers takes to the dispatch box:

“Can the Prime Minister confirm that scrapping the deficit levy in the budget will deliver a tax cut of more than $16,000 a year for millionaires? Why does the Prime Minister believe millionaires deserve a tax cut but retail workers should cop a pay cut of up to $77 every week?”

Scott Morrison answers this one.

“The deficit levy, which he knows comes in for an income of 180,000, that’s the top marginal tax rate. On 3AW on the 21st of April 2016, Neil Mitchell asked the Leader of the Opposition a question, he says ‘is $180,000 a year rich?’ The Leader of the Opposition Leader said ‘No it is not’, but it doesn’t stop there. The hypocrisy of those opposite is amazing. If they look at ABC’s Insiders, the shadow treasurer said, ‘We don’t like the this increase in the tax’, talking about the deficit levy, ‘therefore we wouldn’t being support it. We don’t like it and we don’t support it.’ He said Paul Keating started the process of reducing those marginal tax rates to make us more competitive as a nation in a globalised world, that’s the direction we should be heading in. The direction the shadow minister wants to head is in completely the other direction.”
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Reply #34 - Mar 27th, 2017 at 5:11pm
 
4 HOURS AGO | 2.39PM   Think of power workers, says PM

Labor has hairdressers and beauticians in its sights. Opposition employment spokesman Brendan O’Connor asks: “On Friday, Labor made a submission to the Fair Work Commission including opposing any view to remove and cut the penalty rates of workers in the hair dressing and beauty industry. Why won’t the Prime Minister admit to the House and to the Australian people that he did absolutely nothing to protect the penalty rates of hairdressers and beauticians?”

Turnbull says Labor should turn its focus to the 450 workers at the Hazelwood power station who are about to lose their jobs.


4 HOURS AGO | 2.29PM   PM on the attack

Shorten wants to know if the government took any action in its submission to the FWC to “stop workers from having their pay cut”. Turnbull ramps up his attack here, defending the commission.

“(Mr Shorten) is denouncing it now. They defended the independent umpire and the grounds of the independent umpire were absolutely sound. They heard the evidence. They listened to the submissions. They concluded there’d be more jobs, more businesses open on Sunday if they brought Sunday rates closer to Saturday rates. That was the decision.

“You would have to ask what was the Leader of the Opposition thinking when he started the inquiry? Did he think the Fair Work Commission was going to increase Sunday penalty rates? I don’t think so. He knew exactly what he was doing, he can’t be trusted. One backflip after another. No integrity, no consistency from that Leader of the Opposition.”


4 HOURS AGO | 2.26PM   Bill’s straight back into penalty rates

And we’re into question time. Bill Shorten has the first question. “Why is the Prime Minister looking after big business with nearly a $50 billion tax handout while doing nothing to stop nearly 700,000 workers having their pay cut?”

Malcolm Turnbull says the Opposition Leader has been visiting businesses in recent days that “desperately need a tax cut”. The PM is calling out Mr Shorten and opposition treasury spokesman Chris Bowen, who once supported company tax cuts.

“What has the Fair Work Commission done? Established by the Labor Party, the personnel chosen by the Labor Party, the reference written by the Labor Party, it has considered all of the evidence that it’s had and it’s concluded that bringing Sunday penalty rates closer to Saturday rates will result in more businesses offering more employment to more Australians. It’s the Fair Work Commission (that’s) decided to back small business, it is the Labor Party that is abandoning small business.”
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Reply #35 - Mar 27th, 2017 at 5:14pm
 
55 45 sweet sweet sweet numbers , soon to be 60 40 in favour of Labor
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Reply #36 - Mar 27th, 2017 at 6:20pm
 
juliar wrote on Mar 27th, 2017 at 5:09pm:
LW is totally bamboozled by all these FACTS and so the paw soal retreats to the deliberately misleading rigged "Polls".



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Reply #37 - Mar 27th, 2017 at 6:53pm
 
Bill will be Labor PM next election , a shoe in certainty  Smiley
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Reply #38 - Mar 27th, 2017 at 7:09pm
 
Mr Smith is getting cranky and is getting crude and rude and trying to change the subject by trying to have a go at the very annoying poster who keeps on posting the TRUTH.

Fairfax is propping up a dud with comatose Shorty who is Malcolm's best election winning asset.


Could this be the way to breath life back into the decaying Shorten cadaver ?

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Reply #39 - Mar 27th, 2017 at 8:02pm
 
LW,

at least Shorty might SMELL like a well worn shoe.
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Reply #40 - Mar 27th, 2017 at 8:51pm
 
juliar wrote on Mar 27th, 2017 at 7:09pm:
Mr Smith is getting cranky and is getting crude and rude and trying to change the subject by trying to have a go at the very annoying poster who keeps on posting the TRUTH.

Fairfax is propping up a dud with comatose Shorty who is Malcolm's best election winning asset.


Could this be the way to breath life back into the decaying Shorten cadaver ?

http://i67.tinypic.com/iqbi47.jpg


Juliar is getting cranky and is getting crude and rude and trying to change the subject by trying to have a go at the very annoying poster who keeps on posting the TRUTH.

Annoying i have to fix Juliar's post.  That's ok - the things we do for truth.
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Reply #41 - Mar 28th, 2017 at 6:18am
 
Oh my Goodness!

My STATUS SYMBOL troll Paw Stunned has ILLEGALLY misquoted another poster!!!!

Don't you Lefties wish YOU had a STATUS SYMBOL troll who admires and envies you so much the Paw Soal follows you around like a lost puppy ?  Good Boy pat pat!!!
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Reply #42 - Mar 28th, 2017 at 6:40am
 
And now there is another Lefty Fairfax "Poll" that is supporting Triggsy style 18c.

Of course the naive gullible Lefties are sucked right in by this Socialist Propaganda.





Fairfax-Ipsos poll: Eight in 10 voters oppose Turnbull government's 18C race hate law changes
Matthew Knott MARCH 27 201 - 11:45PM

An overwhelming majority of Australians oppose legalising speech that "offends, insults or humiliates" on the basis of race, according to a new Fairfax-Ipsos poll that underscores the political danger the Turnbull government faces in softening the nation's race-hate laws.

As the Senate prepares to vote on amendments to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act later this week, the poll of 1400 voters shows 78 per cent of Australians believe it should be unlawful to offend, insult or humiliate someone on the basis of their race or ethnicity.

VIDEO: 18C changes lack support

A Fairfax-Ipsos poll reveals a vast majority of voters, including coalition voters, support the existing wording of race-hate laws. Matthew Knott explains.

The government has proposed removing these words from the act and instead making it unlawful to intimidate or harass someone on the basis of race.

The poll shows support for amending section 18C has increased by 10 percentage points since 2014, suggesting the high-profile Queensland University of Technology and Bill Leak cases have undermined support for the law.


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Unconvinced of the need for change: Deng Adut has criticised the government over its plan to amend race hate laws. Photo: James Brickwood

When the same question was asked in 2014 - just weeks after Attorney-General George Brandis said people have a "right to be bigots" - 88 per cent of respondents said it should be unlawful to offend, insult or humiliate someone on the basis of race.

But the vast bulk of voters - including Coalition supporters - remain unconvinced of the need for change.

Seventy-six per cent of respondents who intend to vote for the Coalition said they support retaining the words "offend, insult and humiliate". This compares to 84 per cent of Labor votes and 85 per cent of Greens voters.

The findings appear to confirm Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce's contention that the issue ignites the passion of a small number of Coalition loyalists but does not resonate with mainstream voters.

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Attorney General George Brandis believes people have a "right to be bigots". Photo: AFR

During last week's party room debate several marginal seat Coalition MPs said watering down the act was a risky move that could damage the Coalition's chances at the next election.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has argued that the act has lost credibility and that the proposal to add the word "harass" would strengthen protections against racist hate speech.


The government's bid to change the wording looks doomed in the Senate however, with the Nick Xenophon Team's three senators saying they do not support the changes.

Australian of the Year finalist Deng Adut, a former South Sudanese child soldier who arrived in Australia as a refugee, said he was deeply concerned by the government's proposals.
"It's outrageous the Senate is thinking about doing this," Mr Adut told Fairfax Media.
"This will be giving a free ticket to racism and telling the whole world we don't care about minorities."

Mr Adut, a partner in a law firm in western Sydney, said he and his friends had been called "f----g' lazy black people" and told to get jobs by an older white man on Bondi Beach.

He said he did not believe Coalition MPs understood how damaging racist speech could be.
"In Australia politicians live very comfortable lives - they aren't the ones on the receiving end [of racism].
"Racism reduces you to a lesser being and that's what this legislation is about.
"It's psychological pain, pyschological injury - it holds people down."

Advocates of change argue the current wording of the act restricts free speech and that "offend" and "insult" are too low a bar for speech to be deemed illegal.

The poll, taken between last Wednesday and Saturday when debate about the government's proposals was raging, showed 22 per cent of male respondents said it should be lawful to offend, insult or humiliate on the basis of race compared to just 12 per cent of women. There was little difference in responses based on age or whether voters live in a capital city or not.


http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/fairfaxipsos-poll-eight-in...


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Reply #43 - Mar 28th, 2017 at 1:21pm
 
Essential poll, 54:46 to Labor. Probably means 55:45 with changes to decimal part of support.
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Reply #44 - Mar 28th, 2017 at 3:22pm
 
Jovial Monk wrote on Mar 28th, 2017 at 1:21pm:
Essential poll, 54:46 to Labor. Probably means 55:45 with changes to decimal part of support.

It's pretty bad for the Federal Liberals right now when a 52-48 Newspoll that would still point to a decisive Labor victory is seen as an outlier against a swag of 54-46 and 55-45 polls.
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