Reasons not to vote LABOR.

[IQS.RLOW]

Either QLD will accept any old hack because they are so out of step with the rest of Australia or our little legal fella(tio) here has no idea what MCDP is

[IQS.RLOW]

I doubt that Gillard would be bothered going cap in hand to the Victorian Institute of Law and sucking up to RENEW her Solicitor's Practising Certificate.

I doubt it could even be renewed and even if she did manage to sleaze her way through the mandatory requirements, would you trust this woman to do the conveyancing on your house? How about set up any critical legal affairs?

Who on earth could trust her now?

[Rorschach]

One of the biggest lies and without a doubt most hypocritical of Labor's claims has been about Abbott and his negativity...

Labor's obsessive personal attacks have been ridiculous to paraphrase Wayne Swan. They have been escalating since he was made Opposition leader, and scaled new heights of negativity.

Gillard takes the negativity cake
* by: Jared Owens
* From: The Australian
* November 17, 2012 12:00AM

JULIA Gillard's negative media campaign against Tony Abbott is among the most relentless in recent political history, targeting her opponent twice as frequently as John Howard did in his final years as prime minister.

Analysis of archived media transcripts by The Weekend Australian reveals the Prime Minister has named the Opposition Leader an average 2.1 times in each interview published on her website between November 2010 and this month.

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[Rorschach]

Another boat another policy failure and boy has this been a failure, self inflicted and an utter disaster.

Labor's Pacific Solution overwhelmed
November 21, 2012 - 3:01PM
Judith Ireland
Breaking News Reporter

Immigration Minister Chris Bowen has effectively conceded that Labor’s Pacific Solution Mark II has been overwhelmed, announcing that asylum seekers are arriving in such numbers that they will be allowed to live in the Australian community.

Mr Bowen said today that some asylum seekers who arrived in Australia after the Gillard government re-introduced offshore processing on August 13 would remain onshore, noting that asylum seekers could be waiting for up to five years for their claims to be processed.

He explained that people who arrive in Australia by boat would not be advantaged by receiving a permanent visa before those who were already waiting for a visa in Australia or in the region.

Under the new scheme, asylum seekers who are released into the community could still be called back to Nauru or Manus Island if room becomes available, Mr Bowen said.

Announcing a raft of new measures to deal with the large numbers of boat arrivals, Mr Bowen said that some of those who arrived after August 13 would be given bridging visas.

About 7,000 people have arrived since the reintroduction of offshore processing in August this year, while the detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island have a capacity of about 2,000.

“Accordingly, some of these people will be processed in the Australian community. They will not however be issued with a permanent protection visa if found to be a refugee, until such time that they would have been resettled in Australia after being processed in our region,” Mr Bowen said.

Mr Bowen said that given the ‘‘no advantage’’ principle, people who were released into the community on bridging visas would not be able to work and would only received ‘‘basic’’ accommodation assistance and ''limited'' financial support.

‘‘It’s not a generous allocation but it's an appropriate allocation,’’ Mr Bowen told reporters in Sydney today.

The ‘‘no advantage’’ principle was recommended by the Houston expert panel in August, “to ensure that no benefit is gained through circumventing regular migration arrangements.”

Mr Bowen said that to cope with demand, the government would also expand onshore detention facilities. The Pontville detention facility in Tasmania will be reopened and capacity at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation will grow by about 300 places.

The announcements come as the Immigration Department confirmed that the federal government had begun transferring asylum seekers, including women and children, to Manus Island.

Mr Bowen said the first group involved seven families, including 15 adults and four children from Sri Lanka and Iran.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott told reporters in Perth on Wednesday that the government had ‘‘totally lost control of our borders.’’

He said the 19 people who had been transferred to Manus Island today did not compare to the more than 30,000 people who had arrived since Labor won government in 2007.

The Opposition Leader said he was ‘‘all in favour’’ of rigorous offshore processing but that if it was going to work, it had to involve all the people ‘‘who are coming illegally’’.

Mr Bowen also told reporters that a group of 100 Sri Lankan men has been sent home to Sri Lanka today. It is the ninth removal this month and the largest removal of Sri Lankans to date.

Since August 13, 525 Sri Lankans have returned home, both voluntarily and involuntarily.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political ... z2CpcUQ6lF" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I guess the LW progs here and elsewhere are still in denial about asylum seekers being country shoppers or economic refugees... I guess that's why hundreds are going back.

[Jovial Monk]

The $A will soon be nominated an official reserve currency.

Pretty good, guess it comes from managing the economy well enough to get three AAA ratings. Costello never managed that.

[Rorschach]

Hasn't happened yet...
I wouldn't have thought it was powerful enough or our economy large enough.

But... the fact that the US is in the toilet and the Eurozone has been decimated by LW governments means that if it happens it is because everyone else is in a bad way, not that we are in such a good way. I guess understanding that is a bit beyond you.

[Neferti]

The $A will soon be nominated an official reserve currency.

Pretty good, guess it comes from managing the economy well enough to get three AAA ratings. Costello never managed that.

Have you got a link to that?

[Jovial Monk]

There you go Mo’m

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[Jovial Monk]

It will mean our dollar will be more stable, and the cost of borrowing for the government will be less.

Less efficient industries will need to stop waiting for the currency to go down and adapt and innovate the thrive. Lean manufacturing will be more widespread.

[Neferti]

There you go Mo’m

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Interesting .... I suppose ....

The International Monetary Fund is considering including Canadian and Australian dollars in its official currency-reserves report, inviting them into the exclusive club of the world's safest currencies and potentially boosting their appeal among international investors.

The IMF regularly reports its so-called Composition of Foreign Exchange Reserves, or Cofer, to gauge the currency stocks of central banks around the world. The overwhelming proportion of those reserves is held in just five currencies, deemed by many investors as ultra-safe: U.S. dollars, euros, British pounds, Japanese yen and Swiss francs.

But in an ...

I have no intention of subscribing to the Wall Street Journal to read the rest of it. Where does it say that Australia didn't have an AAA rating under Costello? Can you link that, please?