@plot_twistttt Let's not diss Sydney Sweeney. That was uncalled for.
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@apprentice8980
Convert to Catholicism, conservatism and tradition. Seeker of truth, beauty and goodness.
Melbourne, Victoria Bergabung Temmuz 2023
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@GrayConnolly Haha, yes it will totally wedge the Chinese vote!
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Coalition should run at the next election on a constitutional amendment barring the Commonwealth & the States from imposing any form of death duties, death taxes, or estate taxes or imposts. Make Labor & the Greens oppose families esp migrant families keeping their wealth.
Clare O'Neil MP@ClareONeilMP
Australia should be a country where hard work, not what you inherit, gets you ahead in life.
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@IonaItalia It's worthwhile to conduct a statistical analysis of median real wage rates over the past 20 years and plot them alongside immigration numbers.
High immigration primarily benefits large employers.
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Not everyone concerned about immigration in Australia is a racist. A lot of people's main worries are lack of housing, abuse of the NDIS (a system meant to support the genuinely disabled), Islamic radicalisation and extreme antisemitism. Don't leave this discussion to Pauline.
Europa.com@europa
🇦🇺 A newly elected South Australian MP confirmed he is gay, broke down in tears, and called his Indonesian Muslim boyfriend the “love of his life” in his maiden speech to parliament. Jason Virgo represents the One Nation party, which is considered a populist conservative party. Before criticising current immigration levels into Australia, Virgo said his boyfriend of 11 years "is now a proud Australian," highlighted that most of their friends are non-Whites, and he said he "loves migrants." Follow: @europa
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@IonaItalia We need to see those with a concern for stagnating wages speak up about the effect of flooding the labour market with mid or low skilled workers. Why is our training and skills sector so incapable of delivery the skilled workers we need?
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Wait, what? I didn’t have the German LGBTQ community voting for the AfD on my bingo card.
What am I missing here?
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@MassivvC_ @NoelWhittaker If house prices only ever went up, banks would lend you 100% of the purchase price.
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@apprentice8980 @NoelWhittaker I dunno in my almost 40 years all I have seemed to have seen is house prices just going up and that scheme has only been around the last 5-6 years.
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Macquarie forecasts a 5% drop in Aussie house prices — and rates are still rising.
Spare a thought for the poor beggars lured into buying on a 5% deposit with no mortgage insurance. They could soon owe more than their home is worth.
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@MassivvC_ @NoelWhittaker Sure, asset prices go up and down. But the government has just facilitated a whole lot of people to enter the market by borrowing 95% of the asset's price.
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@apprentice8980 @NoelWhittaker I mean that's generally how the value on a lot of different assets works, what makes property so special that it can only go up ?
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@MassivvC_ @NoelWhittaker But you surely understand the point being made that we now are likely to have a significant number of homeowner that owe the bank more than their house is worth.
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@NoelWhittaker I didn't buy my house to be a speculative investor, I bought it to put a roof over mine and my families head.
If the price goes down I really don't care, it means more people will be able to do the same
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which philosopher sounds interesting but says nothing?
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@ConBiasTrap @Sauronlordking Oh, so there’s a better way to measure a country’s overall economic activity? Please tell me. (Every high school student understands that GDP has flaws, like most economic statistics, but you work with what you’ve got and acknowledge their limitations.)
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@apprentice8980 @Sauronlordking Actually, don’t. I don’t care what you do. You’re a low standards sheep.
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Why did Australia have to have a capital gains tax in the first place?
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Extremely wealthy man says we really can’t afford pensions and welfare support for ordinary people.
BBC Radio 4 Today@BBCr4today
"If we carry on like this... we're going to create a situation where economically we're not able to grow." Sir Tony Blair says the current welfare and pension triple-lock policies are 'not affordable', and argues for change in the NHS.
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@ConBiasTrap @Sauronlordking Australia’s government expenditure as a percentage of GDP is 39%. This makes it lower than two-thirds of OECD countries.
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@apprentice8980 @Sauronlordking 100%.
They're the same people.
The people earning salary already pay tax.
A lot of it.
Australian public expenditure is A$1.16 trillion per annum.
This place is a fkn joke.
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I’ve spent much of the past decade critiquing the sort of politics that Blair (and Clinton and Maggie and Schroeder and etc.) represented.
But there are bits of great wisdom in that Blair essay (mixed in with obviously “Blairite” obsessions like Iran).
I see too many smug, easy we-know-neoliberalism-failed dismissals that fail to reckon with what he’s saying about energy, grand strategy, Europe, and more generally HOW to do politics in a fractured age.
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Australia remains one of the wealthiest countries in the world, successfully navigating crises including the GFC and the pandemic. Across the board, quality of life indicators are among the highest in the world. We enjoy peace and relatively low rates of crime. There are problems in the country, to be sure, but refusing to acknowledge how high the standard of living in Australia is serves nobody, not even our enemies.
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@apprentice8980 @Sauronlordking What I do is none of your concern. You open your eyes. This place is being run into the ground by people with low standards, just like you.
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@roddreher Which might be the thing most likely to boost church attendance.
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I get it. But the Orban government (to its credit) privileged Christianity. Made no discernible difference in churchgoing. Now the new elected govt trying to erase official Christianity
James Baird@james_d_baird
“if gov promotes Christianity you have no idea how bad things will go” how things are currently going:
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@ConBiasTrap @Sauronlordking So you are happy with people who earn money via capital gains (housing speculators, share traders and the like) should pay less tax than those who earn an income via wages or salary?
Cool.
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@apprentice8980 @Sauronlordking Disagree with the concept.
Is commie sophistry, and cover for invite tax.
And is a key platform of Labor's policy, which is how you know its wrong.
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@Riley_Gaines_ Oh, but Jesus never talked about murder either.
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How about "thou shall not murder" ???
The Bible is crystal clear about the value of innocent human life. It’s also clear about wolves in sheep’s clothing who distort Scripture to fit a political agenda.
TheBlaze@theblaze
James Talarico: “I trust women to make decisions about their own bodies. I don’t think that’s a place for government. That’s a belief I hold not despite my faith, but because of my faith. Jesus never talks about abortion. The Bible is silent on abortion.”
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