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Maybe Costello snubbed him Richard, it didn't take much to find his Big Conspiracy to be Pure Imagination, and the "secret deals" will be more rubbish from the extreme laft.

Relax Riley, Marty has been scoring off me for months.

............and that brings up the question of why you haven't been successful selling your beer. Perhaps if you hadn't based the main ingredient on one of the byproducts of the dairying industry.

You're not really the best one to be giving us economic philosophy Marty, you stuffed your apple industry, stuffed your timber industry, couldn't even sell onions, and now us mainlanders have to subsidise the way of life you are boasting about.

No, but as has been pointed out to you, it's the dodgy ones who are scamming taxpayers money we are all concerned about.

Have a look at what you posted - it says INCOME TAX. If Hockey was talking about income tax then the ABC is correct, but I wasn't.

And on top of that tax is the GST on almost everything he buys, and payroll tax, land tax excise tax, licences etc that businesses have to charge you for to cover their costs- I haven't done the exercise lately, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was half your income or more.

And not every Disability Pensioner is disabled, which is why the government is combing through them to flick out any imposters.When that process is finished, apart from reducing cost blowouts, there will be more money available for the genuine cases which may need additional assistance.

Just some information about the "historic" turnaround in Queensland, some of the comments, and the apparent panic within some Federal government ranks These figures show first preferences - the first choice of the voter. After first preferences are counted the preference of the lowest scoring candidate are allocated, then the preferences from the lowest candidate of that count are preferenced upwards until there is a final result, and the preferences represent voters' second choice and the preferencing strategies and deals of the parties, which the voters may know nothing about. So we are not looking here at the final preferenced results, and also votes are still being recounted. However, it does produce an interesting picture. [ATTACH]47544._xfImport[/ATTACH] This shows Queenslanders first choice over the past five elections. It's the nature of elections that if candidates get the electorate fired up there can be some big vote swings, but usually, like water, the votes drop back to their own level. You can see this on the "Others" line, where there may be variable numbers of candidates election by election, but they don't have the momentum to galvanise the election, so numbers stay roughly the same. You can see that the ALP polled very consistently but took a big hit in 2012. In 2015, it settled back close to its water level. The LNP also has its water level, probably rose with the excitement created by Campell Newman in 2012, but has settled back to slightly above its water level The spectacular implosion of One Nation can be seen as a different pattern, while Family First just rumbles along at its level If we look at the ALP gain in 2015 it is 289,975 votes, or 44%, compared with the LNP loss of 176,256 or 14.5% Numerically the LNP didn't lose these votes to the ALP, and if you go down the chart it becomes clear that the fall off in Katters results provided many of the votes. Under those circumstances I'm scratching my head as to why there would be panic in the Liberal ranks right now. Maybe someone forgot to do their homework.

Your explanation is more down to earth and accurate than some of the others I've been reading Yenn.

That was the problem in Victoria Marty, plus the student was not always settled into a chosen career. I've done two TAFE night courses and found the system at cross purposes with what is needed, but fixing it also is not simple as our two most recent governments have found in Victoria.

What a load of rubbish! I'm here on the streets of Indi, and it certainly doesn't need any turning around or help from Qeenslanders.

I'm in Indi today FT and was able to read the full story. The invitation was a personal letter, not LP. The Nationals hold Indi so CN would be nuts to even think about it. CN didn't respond to the story. Just a bit of fun to suck in the FTs . Given today's news that there may not be a government in Queensland until April and LNP may still form governent is this thread heading accurate any more

The "real economic expert" works on published/current figures. Treasury works on what has to be done to produce the next result.....but you knew that

For the life of me I don't know why successive Treasurers haven't come to this forum and spoken to Australia's own experts on macro-economics - it seems to be so easy.

You made an allegation against Peter Costello, then told us to check it out for ourselves. When I checked it out and found your allegation was BS, you give me an "Optimistic" That and your recent description of Tony Abbott as "Turdy"say a lot about your bitter and twisted view of politics.

Yes REALLY Here's a link to the official lists from the Parliament going backwards from the 44th to the 43rd and so on: http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Lists

It's a different mix this time so harder for the major party. LNP have 90 to 55 in the House of Representatives so a massive mandate for change, but made the mistake of going to hard and too fast trying to rein in costs. Both the previous Labor Government and this one have successfully produced a steady stream of necessary but non-controversial legislation, and Julia was given credit for being very good at negotiations.

I checked on your claims about Peter Costello's alleged conflict by his 1/3 ownership of ECG lobbying group and his position as head of the Commission of Audit. There was a full disclosure as required by the Queensland Government legislation, and a query by the Federal Government which was satisfied, and no contraventions by the Commission of Audit.

The paid parental leave scheme would have gone through the system and maybe the honours but he seems to have picked Prince Phillip, which by the way carries no weight compared to the real business of the day.

Not a problem Marty if we both evolved from the same ancestor we all will share the same mitochondria.

The stunning admission is that you now appear to be suggesting that man appeared well down the chain from the earliest single cells of life, rather than evolving from them, which is what we were trying to tell you from the beginning. I only used the word amoeba as a quick example so disregard that - I meant the earliest form of life. The benefit of mitochondrial DNA is that the mitochondria are only inherited from the mother, and they don't recombine. So the mitochondria of your mother will be the same as yours, and the same for your grandmother and all the matriarchical line back to the beginning, which as we both now appear to be saying was well after the days of the simple cell. Hominoids and monkeys may well "Look" like humans, but unless they had that mitochondria, we did not evolve from them.

Yes Keith, a bit like two ambulance officers trying to apply their own shade of eye shadow to a patient with arterial bleeding. We've just gone through the Labor era where they were unable to get their agenda up due to the close Senate result, allowing independents to rule and frustrate, then the last election was also so close that this government can't get it's agenda up, so we've finished up with half a decade of nothing. While this continues, we'll continue to get bad results. Historically, with the two party dominance, protocols were agreed, so that even if the governing Party didn't have control of the Senate, most of its agenda would be passed for the sake of the country. Currently we have individuals making up their minds on matters they barely understand. I've been in Canberra today, and even though Parliament is not sitting, there were 2,000 people working in the Parliament House precinct. When Parliament sits on Monday that will swell o 4,000, and they all have a job to do. I sat in on two Committee Meetings today, one discussing Grain Transport costs in WA where the State Government some time back sold rail lines to a private company which now appears to make more money than the growers or the company which buys the grain and tries to et it to ports using ts own rolling stock. It was under the griller by several Senators. The other Committee Meeting was discussing health, and receiving evidence from GPs on the blow out in medicare costs, and the implications of any action the government might take to rein these costs in. The GPs gave evidence that the blow out is not a blow out of more people attending GPs, but a blow out in costs, which has reached the point where it is very difficult to break even on running a medical clinic, to the point where one doctor gave evidence that he would be better off closing his clinic and getting a job with the local hospital, where he could treat his patients. The Senators were quick to recognise this could shift costs to the State governments who don't have the budgets to handle that type of system. It ended with everyone very happy that key points had been made and understood. These Committees are multi-Party, today's being represented by Liberalo, National, Labor and Greens Senators. The Committee may hear more evidence for several weeks/months then report to the Parliament. o anyone who thinks "Joe" or "Tony" dreams things up over the weekend, really doesn't understand the process. Sure they take the lead and put the material up in Parliament, but many bills are bipartisan, and the better for it.

That's a stunning admission for an evolutionist, and my bet is the ancestor is Homo Erectus Erectus

I should have waited and presented the results of my research. A recent publication mentioned a monkey which had DNA " very similar to a human". Without the mitochondrial it isn't part of the human species. If the sea slugs and the algae share that critical DNA then one evolved from the other. If nor, they are not related. Today we are able to move on from "looking for similarities" to digitally removing all doubt. Octave, those schools are out of date and I'd question your assertions about those Universities, however O know some people take a couple of decades to catch up because I was going to post post some good visual Egyptian photos but there were the old myths of civilisation being 6000 years old, Great Pyramid being built 4000 years ago bu Khafre etc