Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

[tigerpie]

How many people retire on 150k a year?
Jean should give the 12k back!

[Q.]

How many people retire on 150k a year?
Jean should give the 12k back!

If you do the sums, Jean is a multi millionare #prayforjean

[Mr Beefy]

How many people retire on 150k a year?
Jean should give the 12k back!

If you do the sums, Jean is a multi millionare #prayforjean

Is Jean single?

[tigerpie]

How many people retire on 150k a year?
Jean should give the 12k back!

If you do the sums, Jean is a multi millionare #prayforjean

Is Jean single?

Jean is a man man.

[Mr Beefy]

How many people retire on 150k a year?
Jean should give the 12k back!

If you do the sums, Jean is a multi millionare #prayforjean

Is Jean single?

Jean is a man man.

Jean can afford a sex change

[Jimmy_041]

It’s not before the election we have to worry about.
It’s the $200bn in new and increased taxes afterwards
Bowen thinks he’s a reincarnation of Keating - he wants the second “recession we had to have”

What new taxes might these be?

You sound like a Murdoch hack with the recession fear mongering

Keep the personal abuse out of it thanks Q

As far as I know, the Financial Review is not owned by Murdoch

https://www.afr.com/news/economy/chris- ... 122-h1abj4

[Booney]

ALP
"We should have a RC into the banks"

Morrison
No
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RC into the banks hands down it's findings - Morrison
"We called the RC"

Seriously, does this bloke even believe his own bullshit? He should stop praying for rain and start praying for another job.

[Q.]

It’s not before the election we have to worry about.
It’s the $200bn in new and increased taxes afterwards
Bowen thinks he’s a reincarnation of Keating - he wants the second “recession we had to have”

What new taxes might these be?

You sound like a Murdoch hack with the recession fear mongering

Keep the personal abuse out of it thanks Q

As far as I know, the Financial Review is not owned by Murdoch

https://www.afr.com/news/economy/chris- ... 122-h1abj4

Its behind a paywall. But I've read others like it where they include removing negative gearing, removing franking credit tax refunds etc. as "new taxes" in the 200bn - which is shoddy journalism

The last Labor govt saved us from a recession, so it's just pure fear mongering to suggest that electing them will lead to one

[tigerpie]

ALP
"We should have a RC into the banks"

Morrison
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
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No

RC into the banks hands down it's findings - Morrison
"We called the RC"

Seriously, does this bloke even believe his own bullshit? He should stop praying for rain and start praying for another job.

And to compound their decision not to, Ms Cash has spent $600 000 on lawyers trying to avoid court.
These asses are finished.

[Jimmy_041]

It’s not before the election we have to worry about.
It’s the $200bn in new and increased taxes afterwards
Bowen thinks he’s a reincarnation of Keating - he wants the second “recession we had to have”

What new taxes might these be?

You sound like a Murdoch hack with the recession fear mongering

Keep the personal abuse out of it thanks Q

As far as I know, the Financial Review is not owned by Murdoch

https://www.afr.com/news/economy/chris- ... 122-h1abj4

Its behind a paywall. But I've read others like it where they include removing negative gearing, removing franking credit tax refunds etc. as "new taxes" in the 200bn - which is shoddy journalism

The last Labor govt saved us from a recession, so it's just pure fear mongering to suggest that electing them will lead to one

It was a direct interview with him. Taxes are taxes and as I said: “new or increased”

[Q.]

[quote="Jimmy_041"]It’s not before the election we have to worry about.
It’s the $200bn in new and increased taxes afterwards
Bowen thinks he’s a reincarnation of Keating - he wants the second “recession we had to have”

What new taxes might these be?

You sound like a Murdoch hack with the recession fear mongering

Keep the personal abuse out of it thanks Q

As far as I know, the Financial Review is not owned by Murdoch

https://www.afr.com/news/economy/chris- ... 122-h1abj4

Its behind a paywall. But I've read others like it where they include removing negative gearing, removing franking credit tax refunds etc. as "new taxes" in the 200bn - which is shoddy journalism

The last Labor govt saved us from a recession, so it's just pure fear mongering to suggest that electing them will lead to one

It was a direct interview with him. Taxes are taxes and as I said: “new or increased”[/quote]Except they're not new or increased taxes and, quite frankly, I don't think anyone living in the real world gives a shit that rich people are getting franking credit refunds taken away

[DOC]

Some rare good news for Peter Dutton: Obviously the submitted manuscript had plenty of allegations but not enough factual evidence.


A former Australian Border Force commissioner sacked by the Coalition government under controversial circumstances is Melbourne University Publishing’s first author to publicly tear up a book contract, citing concerns over the publisher's willingness to back him.

Roman Quaedvlieg was removed as Border Force chief last March facing allegations from Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton of using his position inappropriately. Mr Quaedvlieg refutes the claims.

MUP was due to next month publish Tour de Force, Mr Quaedvlieg’s book on his career.

The publisher promoted the manuscript as a "raw political expose" that would shine a light on Australia’s "corridors of power". MUP said the book would dissect "whose interests were served by his spectacular sacking".

But on Tuesday Mr Quaedvlieg told The Age and Sydney Morning Herald he had asked MUP to cancel his contract. The publisher has agreed to let him go.

[DOC]

Australia's federal sports minister spent $20,000 of taxpayers' money taking a private jet to an ice hockey game - a month after splurging $14,000 on another chartered flight to meet Prince Charles.

Nationals deputy leader Bridget McKenzie's penchant for RAAF flights took another turn in May last year, when she ran up a huge bill on the public purse to fly from an ultra-marginal electorate in central Queensland to Melbourne.

Senator McKenzie, who also holds the sports portfolio, had been in Rockhampton for Beef Week when she decided to fly to Melbourne to watch a game of ice hockey, which only has a small following in Australia.

Her 1,700km direct flight to the Victorian capital, so she could watch the Melbourne Mustangs ice hockey team, cost taxpayers $19,942, Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority data showed.

An equivalent commercial flight with Virgin Australia or Qantas from Rockhampton to Melbourne, with a stop-over in Brisbane, would have cost just $614 - or 32 times less than a chartered RAAF military jet.

Senator McKenzie even tweeted about her attendance at O'Brien Group Arena in Melbourne's Docklands area with 92-year-old former Australian ice hockey player and Australian Olympic Committee official Geoff Henke.

'At the Henke Rink with the man himself Geoff Henke watching local Melbourne derby match,' she announced on May 11, 2018.

In addition to the $19,942 flight, taxpayers also stumped up another $500 in Commonwealth car bills to get her from Melbourne's Essendon airport for special flights, taking the cost of her chartered transport from Rockhampton to Melbourne to $20,442.

Senator McKenzie's one-day travel bill cost taxpayers the equivalent of three months' wages for an Australian worker on an average full-time salary of $82,400.

It occurred after she had been in Rockhampton, in the ultra-marginal Nationals seat of Capricornia, for Beef Week events with the local member Michelle Landry.

The minister's spokesman said a charter flight was chosen because no commercial flights were available for an urgent meeting in Melbourne.

'As the minister had an urgent meeting with the Australian Sports Commission Board and others in Melbourne on 11 May, 2018, a charter was required as there was no commercial flights available to support these official commitments,' he told Daily Mail Australia on Wednesday.

Despite the expense of the Rockhampton to Melbourne flight, the minister's spokesman insisted 'multiple quotes' were obtained to 'find the most cost and time efficient use of travel'.

'The minister respects the importance of keeping all travelling costs to a minimum while allowing her to fully and properly undertake her responsibilities,' he said.

The minister's office claimed the Melbourne venue for Australian Sports Commission's urgent meeting was designed to save money.

'The meeting time also allowed the majority of meeting participants from Canberra to return to Canberra on the last flight and not require overnight accommodation and the associated extra travel costs,' her spokesman said.

Senator McKenzie's May flight from Rockhampton to Melbourne wasn't the first time she had billed the Australian people tens of thousands of dollars.

In April, Senator McKenzie (left) charged taxpayers $14,000 for a charter flight from the Gold Coast to Cairns to watch a basketball game with Prince Charles

A month earlier, she charged taxpayers $14,000 for a charter flight from the Gold Coast to Cairns to watch a basketball game with Prince Charles.

Daily Mail Australia revealed in September the Victorian senator had taken this 'unscheduled' flight in April 2018 from south-east to far north Queensland so she could sit in the front row, two spots away from the prince at the Commonwealth Games.

A similar, non-stop, two-and-a-half hour Jetstar flight would have cost just $221, or 63 times less than the $13,955 she charged taxpayers.

Last year, Senator McKenzie's office said she took this 'unscheduled' flight was so she could represent then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull in Cairns as Prince Charles visited far north Queensland.

'The minister was asked to represent the Government in Cairns and host His Royal Highness,' a spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia.

[Kahuna]

Australia's federal sports minister spent $20,000 of taxpayers' money ..........

Pig, meet trough.

[tipper]

waiting for the quotes "its within the rules" "they havent done anything wrong" "everyone else does it too" "its part of their job"......

[Q.]

Tim Wilson in hot water for potential illegal activity.

Dutton makes false accusations about Shorten that he quickly retracts.

Wheels. Off.

[tigerpie]

Now we go into self preservation Polly mode.

Instead of governing and policy thought, they go into looking for another high paid job.

[Booney]

The next 3 months of Liberal train wrecks and attacks on the ALP are going to be the lowest gutter rat version of politics we'll have seen for a while, if not ever. They are dead men (no women) walking and they know it, they will be trying any dirty trick they can to make the opposition look somewhere near as incompetent as they are.

It's going to be enthralling viewing.

[Grenville]

The next 3 months of Liberal train wrecks and attacks on the ALP are going to be the lowest gutter rat version of politics we'll have seen for a while, if not ever. They are dead men (no women) walking and they know it, they will be trying any dirty trick they can to make the opposition look somewhere near as incompetent as they are.

It's going to be enthralling viewing.

No-one wins with one mob being completely shitful. Scotty and his cronies are banging their heads against a self built wall and Bill and Chris B are smug turds. Albo and Julie must just be shaking their heads in disillusionment at the cretins spouting bullshit they cringe at.

[Brodlach]

Heard more about Border Security in the past 12 hours than I have in the past 12 months