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• Abbott revisits superannuation at your expense

  
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  THEN House of Representatives Hansard STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS 25 September 1995: Superannuation Mr ABBOTT   —Compulsory superannuation is one of the biggest con jobs ever foisted by government on the Australian people. If the Prime Minister (Mr Keating) was a private ...
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• Apparently one publisher has determined that Australian voters need not cast their ballots on 14 September 2013

  
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  Forty-four days before the Australian electorate goes to the polls Allen & Unwin and Kerry-Anne Walsh  seem to ‘know’ with certainty the federal election results - the political demise of the Prime Minister.   PRE-ORDER NOW! RELEASED ON 01/08/13 Published 1st August 2013. Typically ...
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• IRS Nonprofit Division: Dysfunction Rules

  
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  (photo courtesy of NY Times) How the IRS’s Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional by Kim Barker and Justin Elliott, ProPublica The IRS division responsible for flagging Tea Party groups has long been an agency afterthought, beset by mismanagement, financial constraints and an unwillingness to spell out just what it ...
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• What the plebs are thinking

  
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  Letters to the editor, The Weekend Australia, 18-19 May 2013:It was worth watching Tony Abbotts speech in reply to Labors budget just to see the look on Julia Gillards face. Ted Bolton, Boat Harbour Beach, Tas Cost of 30 minutes electricity to watch Tony Abbotts budget reply -- 2 cents. Cost of my time -- 30 ...
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• How much is that doggie on the ballot paper?

  
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  CLIVE Palmer’s bid to create a new political party is today mired in confusion, amid the short-lived recruitment of former speaker Peter Slipper and a renewed push for registration under a new name. The mining entrepreneur today announced his United Australia Party, formed just three weeks ago, will now be known ...
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• Amateurish Farce: Peter Slipper Joins -- And Leaves -- Palmer Party

  
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  Reblogged from The Red And The Blue: CLIVE PALMERS United Australia Party was today shown up as the amateurish, unprofessional outfit it is, with news that parliamentary grub Peter Slipper had applied to join, was accepted, and then kicked out -- in five hours. The episode destroys any credibility the UAP might ...
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• This is a Liberal Party official political advertisement in an election year

  
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  http://youtu.be/_3HtNCv3xvM Not one policy statement or position in this advertisement. Not one promise or undertaking of any sort. Just 1.01 minutes of juvenile attack. Australian voters deserve a lot better than this from the Federal Liberal Party in 2013. Im not the only person thinking this way ...
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• Seat of the week: Aston

  
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  The outer eastern Melbourne electorate of Aston was created with the expansion of parliament in 1984 and held by Labor in the early years of its existence, since which time it has steadily strengthened for the Liberals. It covers the Liberal-leaning suburbs of Wantirna in the north and Rowville in the south, along ...
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• Medicare Levy increase helps pay for NDIS

  
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  The National Disability Insurance Scheme is going to become a reality with a guaranteed financial contribution sourced directly from taxpayers, and promised contributions from the states of Australia. Bravo to the federal government, state governments and to the individuals and organisations who helped make this ...
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• Thursday News Roundup

  
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  Lobbying “ Lobbyists Snag Top Staff Positions on Capitol Hill ” by Lee Fang in The Nation . Tennessee: “ Tom Ingram faces possible fine for failing to register as lobbyist ” by Tom Humphrey in the Knoxville News . Texas: “ Lobbyist transparency bill sent to Perry ” by The Associated Press in the ...
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• The state of the Australian economy confuses the average voter?

  
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  It rather beggars belief that so many political commentators have been talking down the Australian economy for the last five years, when overall that same economy has been the envy of the developed world during that same period. It seems that hardly a week has gone by when somewhere in the national media there ...
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• Albo asks for my help

  
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  Regular readers will recall that I am on the hotline from our government members and they are always seeking my support for the important changes that they wish to make for the betterment of our country: Dear Iain, Labor people have always been champions for local community services. Roads and footpaths. Parks ...
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• How fast will your Gillard Government NBN fibre to the premises connection be when compared with the Abbott-Turnbull fibre to the street scheme? Find our here

  
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  Go to  http://howfastisthenbn.com.au/  and run the test yourself.  Labors NBN uploads and downloads can happen in seconds. Coalitions NBN is going to be excruciatingly slow in comparison.
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• Tony Abbott And Women Of Calibre: What Did He Actually Say?

  
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  In the increasingly bizarre world online, there was a minor flurry yesterday over comments by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott on paid parental leave. I came to it late in the day, some hours after the comments were made. My initial impression was that Abbott must have said something highly offensive. For example, the ...
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• The illusory promise of bacon

  
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  Another day and another Labor promise collapses into the ever widening maw of economic reality: click for source Perhaps we need to add a very simple perception filter for anything that Labor promises when they are standing at the pork barrel, namely unless the bacon is being handed out immediately don’t buy ...
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• Epic?!

  
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  Sooooo, is the September federal election set to be EPIC?Not a routine routing. A super-duper EPIC FAIL for Labor?  iCaz thinks so. (Wonder if Tom Waterhouse has time to take my bet?)
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• What mining billionaire and presumptive United Australia Party leader Clive Palmer is not mentioning to voters in the Page electorate

  
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  Clive Palmer , former Liberal National Party member and presumptive leader of the inchoate United Australia Party , is happy to tell us he is an oppressed billionaire , but he doesn’t mention his Galilee Coal Project (China First Coal) which will develop an integrated coal project including a coal mine, ...
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• The truth about Grafton Hospital funding

  
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  From The Daily Examiner letters to the editor pages in April-May 2013. HE SAID: Truth about hospital I take deep umbrage to the statement by Shirley Adams that Janelle Saffin is the only one to do anything for Grafton and the Valley. Shirley has never been backward in blowing ...
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• Seat of the week: Wakefield

  
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  UPDATE: Essential Research has the Coalition lead up from 55-45 to 56-44, from primary votes of 48% for the Coalition (steady), 33% for Labor (down one) and 9% for the Greens (steady). There are also numerous questions on national debt, led off by the finding that 48% are aware that Australia’s is relatively low ...
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• Abbott outed as class warrior intent on taking from the poor and giving to the rich

  
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  Excerpt from Nicholas Reece writing in The Age 29 April 2013: As Age columnist Tim Soutphommasane presciently observed in these pages, class warfare has become the catchcry of a new conservative political correctness. The truth of this assessment is made clear by an analysis of the competing ...
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