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Post by ponto on Jan 5, 2021 14:59:13 GMT 10
Far from wrong...Howards franking credits scheme is what's wrong....your in denial and justify selfish greed by bagging Labor.
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Post by Gort on Jan 5, 2021 15:04:27 GMT 10
That'd be: you're. Ponts, you're just a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.
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Post by ponto on Jan 5, 2021 15:42:50 GMT 10
GoRupert your a robotic propaganda machine for the LNP...and you spend too much time bagging Labor finding no fault with the corrupt conservatives...wake up to yourself.
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Post by Gort on Jan 5, 2021 15:55:35 GMT 10
That'd be: you're.
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Post by ponto on Jan 6, 2021 11:31:51 GMT 10
Perhaps you're then either or ither its certain your perception is blinkered with FC's...
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Post by Gort on Jan 6, 2021 11:33:11 GMT 10
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Post by ponto on Jan 6, 2021 14:26:13 GMT 10
Was that a you'rn..?
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Post by Gort on Jan 6, 2021 15:07:46 GMT 10
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Post by Gort on Jan 27, 2021 23:08:52 GMT 10
Oh my ... what an interesting development: Obviously, Albo wants to go "Liberal Lite" ... an extraordinarily risky strategy. Just how long are the Labor Left going to put up with this? Albanese drops Butler from climate in reshuffle restart on emissionsBy David Crowe January 27, 2021 — 9.50pm Federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese will drop climate spokesman Mark Butler from the key portfolio in a shake-up that aims to bridge a gulf within the party on gas fields, coal mines and greenhouse emissions. Mr Butler, one of the party’s strongest advocates for ambitious carbon targets, will lose the portfolio of climate change and energy after months of dispute over whether Labor should make a new pledge to cut emissions by 2030 or 2035.Federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese is set to demote MP Mark Butler.CREDIT:ALEX ELLINGHAUSEN Mr Albanese is expected to announce the reshuffle within days to transfer health spokesman Chris Bowen into the climate portfolio. Mr Bowen, the party’s treasury spokesman at the last election, is said to be keen to take on climate and energy. Labor insiders dismissed talk of Mr Albanese’s leadership being in question in the reshuffle, pointing to support for him in the left faction, the NSW right and the Victorian right. Mr Butler takes on health and ageing at a key point in the pandemic, with the government facing questions over its vaccine rollout and its aged care policies ahead of the final report from the royal commission into the sector. Senior figures portrayed Mr Butler’s new position as a central portfolio given the pandemic and given his experience as aged care minister in the Gillard government. The change from Mr Butler to Mr Bowen will mark a shift in ownership of the climate portfolio from the left faction to the right of the party after a stand-off last year when the resources spokesman at the time, Joel Fitzgibbon, argued against setting an interim target for 2030 or 2035. While Mr Albanese has pledged to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 under a Labor government, some caucus members believe there is no need to set an interim goal that could make the party a bigger target at the next federal election. Labor’s pledge at the last election, to reduce emissions by 45 per cent by 2030 compared to the Morrison government’s target of 26 to 28 per cent, remains in limbo until a decision is made on whether to recommit to it or update it for 2035. Labor MP Mark Butler and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese during question time at Parliament House in Canberra in November.CREDIT:ALEX ELLINGHAUSEN Mr Fitzgibbon, who stood down from the resources portfolio after his clashes with Mr Butler at the end of last year, welcomed the news about the reshuffle but signalled he wanted a change on policy as well. “Obviously I welcome the change,” he said. “We have to send a clear signal to our traditional base that we are back, and this is a good start. “But changing the jockey will not be enough in the absence of a shift in policy emphasis, calibration and language.” Mr Albanese backed Mr Butler last November when some caucus members wanted him moved after the disputes with Mr Fitzgibbon. “Yes, Mark Butler will remain as our climate change and energy spokesperson. Mark Butler is doing a fantastic job in that role,” Mr Albanese told reporters on November 13. Mr Butler declared last year the party should go to the next election with an interim target to show how a Labor government would deliver net-zero emissions over the longer-term. “You can’t set a mid-century target and then check in 2049 whether you’re on track to meet it. No one thinks that,” Mr Butler said in September. Mr Fitzgibbon rejected that argument and the interim target remains to be decided. www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/albanese-drops-butler-from-climate-in-reshuffle-restart-on-emissions-20210127-p56xc4.html
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Post by Gort on Jan 29, 2021 9:30:50 GMT 10
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Post by Gort on Feb 10, 2021 8:09:17 GMT 10
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Post by Gort on Feb 21, 2021 22:57:30 GMT 10
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Post by ponto on Feb 22, 2021 8:28:43 GMT 10
LNP lies, sleaze and misinformation is so much more popular than Labor....oh the self minded civil ignorance of it all.
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Post by pim on Mar 26, 2021 15:43:41 GMT 10
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Post by ponto on Mar 27, 2021 12:37:26 GMT 10
Hear hear....
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Post by pim on Mar 27, 2021 15:43:40 GMT 10
And in a new development, the Prime Minister Scott Morrison convened an urgent meeting with his wife Jenny with a view to gaining clarity on the issues raised in Mr Albanese's speech to Parliament
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Post by Gort on Jul 18, 2021 11:44:59 GMT 10
Speaking of Insiders ... Phil Coorey claimed today that Labor is going to let the "Stage Three" tax cuts go through. i.e. They don't want any issues about being a high taxing party hurting them at the next election. A final decision from the Labor Caucus is due very soon. These people will be happy with that! Very wealthy people that lot.
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Post by pim on Jul 18, 2021 18:10:17 GMT 10
Huh? Who dredged up this hoary old thread? Oh of course. Who else! So OK, what has Albo been up to? Read on, gentle reader ...
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Post by Gort on Jul 18, 2021 18:19:24 GMT 10
So, no comment about Labor going with the stage 3 tax cuts? Just more woke left propaganda. Why am I not surprised?
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Post by Gort on Jul 26, 2021 11:16:30 GMT 10
LOL Albo / Labor have wimped it. Federal Labor dumps negative gearing, backs tax cutsBy Rob Harris July 26, 2021 — 10.52am Federal Labor has formally dumped its contentious negative gearing policy and has officially dropped its opposition to the federal government’s stage three tax cuts for high income earners.Anthony Albanese’s shadow cabinet has agreed to the position which is likely to be controversial within the party’s membership base. Mr Albanese and his shadow ministers will ask Labor’s caucus to endorse the position on Monday morning. Federal Labor will dump several contentious economic policies at a meeting later on Monday.CREDIT:ALEX ELLINGHAUSEN Labor went to both the 2016 and 2019 elections promising to halve the 50 per cent capital gains tax deduction and limit negative gearing to new properties only.
Three shadow cabinet sources, who spoke on the condition on anonymity, told this masthead the opposition was clearing the decks ahead of a looming federal election, which must be held before the end of May next year.
The housing policy was among many highlighted in a review of the ALP election loss as one which exposed the opposition to a Coalition attack that would risk the budget, the economy and the jobs of economically insecure, low-income workers.Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers will also ask caucus to go to the next election promising not to repeal stage three income tax cuts if it forms government, heading off a likely Coalition campaign to portray it as high taxing and anti-aspirational.
The tax cuts have already been legislated to begin on July 1, 2024, and will cost an estimated $137 billion between then and the end of the decade. They will abolish the 37 per cent tax rate and apply a 30 per cent rate to all income between $45,000 and $200,000. Labor supported the legislation for the tax cuts after the last election but, it argued, only because they were tied to the stage two tax cuts for low- and middle-income earners which began on July 1 last year. www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/labor-dumps-negative-gearing-backs-tax-cuts-20210726-p58cxs.html
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Post by pim on Jul 27, 2021 16:37:23 GMT 10
Vaccines, Mediscare and rorts: Labor launches digital ad blitz at swing seatsThe ALP has gone in hard and gone in early, going all attack dog ravaging the Coalition's on-the-nose MPs and conducting its own scare campaign.Cam Wilson 27 July 2021 www.crikey.com.au/2021/07/27/vaccines-mediscare-rorts-labor-digital-ad-blitz-swing-seats/A snapshot of Labor’s digital advertising pushAttack messages focusing on the federal government’s most controversial figures — Barnaby Joyce, Peter Dutton and Bridget McKenzie — changes to Medicare and the lagging vaccine rollout are being targeted at key seats in a new digital advertising blitz launched by Labor earlier this month. Crikey analysis of the Australian Labor Party’s Facebook and Google digital advertising spend reveals that it has significantly ramped up the amount of money and number of campaigns against the government for the second half of this year. On Facebook, it has spent more than $70,000 in the past 28 days to July 28, far more than any other political party or candidate. It had only spent a total of $27,000 since Facebook began reporting expenditure in the 10 months before that. Similarly, two-thirds of Labor’s spend on Google search and YouTube advertisements since the number started being reported in November 2020 happened this month — more than $12,000. These ads, which can be viewed on the company’s advertising transparency databases, provide insight into the messages that Labor wants to reach voters in seats it hopes to pick up. Political parties tend to use social media in two ways. The first is their organic, normal posts on profiles such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. In a way that’s not dissimilar to ads on major television networks or widely read newspapers — they are viewed by many. The difference from that on traditional media is that on, say, Facebook the more engagement the ad gets the more people the platform tends to show it to. Parties tend to post messages that they hope will be red meat for their base (in this case, Labor voters) to share into their networks. The second way is through targeted advertising. Digital advertising allows political parties to narrowly target users based on details like their age, gender, location and interests while providing real-time feedback about how much people are engaging with them. This allows them to pay platforms to help them reach people who may never otherwise engage with their content. As such, political parties will often run different messages between their organic posts and their digital ads (and within their assortment of digital ads). In this case, Labor is running multiple campaigns. Its biggest remains about the government’s stunted vaccine rollout, comparing Prime Minister Scott Morrison in videos with US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Another major campaign focuses on Medicare, including both a positive pledge from Labor to “protect Medicare” and a negative “Mediscare” campaign about the government’s changes to the scheme. Other smaller campaigns focus on the controversial ministerial grant schemes and Labor’s policies of criminalising wage theft, funding the ABC, electric cars and renewable energy. These also show who Labor has identified as political targets among the government. Other than Morrison, Joyce’s reelection to the Nationals leadership features heavily as creating instability. McKenzie and Dutton and their roles in ministerial grant schemes are also named. While Facebook only reports geographical targeting down to a state level, Google’s transparency library shows it down to the suburb. From this, Labor’s target electorates can be surmised. For example, it displays that the Labor Party is running micro-targeted ads in the outer suburbs of Perth that overlap with the Pearce, Christian Porter’s seat. Other targeted seats include Brisbane (held by LNP) and Newcastle (held by Labor). With less than a year until the latest possible date for the election and with the Coalition’s support sliding, Labor has begun to step up its spend and sharpen its messages in areas it thinks the government is weakest.
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Post by Gort on Jul 28, 2021 16:59:45 GMT 10
Federal Labor set to dump multibillion-dollar cancer and dental pledgesBy Rob Harris July 28, 2021 — 5.00am Federal Labor is set to swing the axe on its multibillion-dollar pledges for free cancer treatment and dental care for pensioners in an effort to slimline its election spending promises.
The two signature health policies, announced under former leader Bill Shorten ahead of the last election, are likely to be formally scrapped in the coming months following the federal opposition’s decision to cut off the key sources of revenue that would have funded them.Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing Mark Butler and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese.CREDIT:ALEX ELLINGHAUSEN Labor went to the 2019 poll with a $2.3 billion package to tackle out-of-pocket costs and waiting lists for cancer patients. It included $600 million to improve access to and affordability of diagnostic imaging, with up to six million free cancer scans funded through Medicare and $433m to fund three million free consultations with oncologists and surgeons for cancer patients. In the final weeks of the election campaign Labor followed up with a $2.4 billion plan that would have given up to three million older Australians access to free essential dental care, covered by Medicare, every two years. The opposition has faced fierce criticism from its progressive flank for its decision on Monday morning to reverse its position on the third stage of the Morrison government’s legislated tax cuts, which are likely to cost the budget more than $17 billion annually. Australian Council of Social Service chief executive Cassandra Goldie said it was “unbelievable” that in the middle of a third round of lockdowns, with more than a million people on social security payments excluded from disaster payments, Labor had paused to discuss whether high-income earners should get a tax cut of $180 a week. “We’ve been here before – years of unaffordable tax cuts set us up for the savage cuts to social security, health and other essential services in the 2014 budget,” she said. Several members of Labor’s shadow cabinet told this masthead that both of Labor’s key health policies of 2019 were unlikely to proceed to Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese’s election platform. They said it was simply because the party was dumping its major sources of revenue-raising, including scrapping franking credits, rolling back high-end tax cuts and winding back negative gearing. “There is just no way we are going to be able to pay for them this time,” a member of Labor’s shadow cabinet said on the condition of anonymity. “It is the reality of the decisions we have taken.” A spokeswoman for health spokesman Mark Butler said all policies from the last election were under review. The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald revealed last May that Mr Albanese had told his shadow cabinet to prepare for a “full reappraisal” of the party’s policies in the wake of the coronavirus induced economic crisis, warning the ALP would face major budget constraints if it wins the next federal election. He said Labor’s policies must be developed “through a clear-eyed lens of winning the next election’, not how the party would like to address all current issues given that it was not in government. “At a time when the Morrison government is racking up more than $1 trillion of debt and hundreds of billions of dollars of new spending, every dollar must be spent wisely, carefully and in the interests of the Australian community,” Mr Albanese told reporters while in Brisbane on Monday. “We’ll have much more to say about our policies going forward. But our policies for the next election will be the ones that we announced during this term. “Will a Labor government do more than a Coalition government on education and health? You bet we will.” Both Mr Albanese and shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers have said Labor would likely crack down on multinational corporations if it won the next election to help repair the federal budget. But several sources with knowledge of policies discussion said those measures would be unlikely to net more than $3 billion over the forward estimates. www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/federal-labor-set-to-dump-multibillion-dollar-cancer-and-dental-pledges-20210727-p58den.html
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Post by ponto on Jul 28, 2021 18:48:07 GMT 10
While I see more and more homeless.give a shit, just ask Jerry Harvey or Gina Rik...none with the swags you on TV that are meant to be shelter for the homeless...obviously poverty is increasing, and the rich don't give shit just ask Jerry Harvey and Gina Rineharts or that sheila heading Aussie Post et el for Labor to win it it has to sway to the parochial attitudes of the haves who want wealth first trickle down to the fuck em poor people and change with the times....no point flogging a dead horse.
It remains Labor has the better polices on the environment and climate change...that stands in their favour.
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Post by Gort on Jul 28, 2021 22:51:07 GMT 10
Albo cashes investment property as negative gearing reform scrappedBy Unconventional Economist in Australian Politics, Australian Property at 11:00 am on July 28, 2021 This may seem like a cheap shot. But optics is everything in politics. Only a day after Labor dumped the negative gearing and capital gains tax reforms taken to the past two elections, leader Anthony Albanese sold his Marrickville investment house for $2.35 million, banking a $1.2 million gross profit:[Albanese] and former NSW deputy premier Carmel Tebbutt sold their Marrickville investment property for $2.35 million. The bullish sale price more than doubles the former couple’s purchase price of $1.115 million nine years ago and comes less than five days before it was scheduled to go to auction. To be fair, Australian federal politicians have always had a high degree of investment property ownership. Liberal or Labor, it doesn’t matter. After Labor was punished at the ballot box last election for actually trying to improve housing affordability, it stands to reason that it would pull the policy this time around. Who can blame them? It is far more popular to bribe home buyers with subsidies than to take tax concessions away. We get the leaders we deserve. www.macrobusiness.com.au/2021/07/albo-cashes-in-on-investment-property-as-he-scraps-negative-gearing-reform/
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Post by Gort on Jul 29, 2021 12:13:29 GMT 10
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