Rorschach wrote:You could do us all a favour and put a sock in it mel.
You now have your topic for your conspiranut theories.
...As well as collect personal information.
The NBN would allow too much competition to the tired old Foxtel rubbish. #Fraudband would just wire up everyone, theoretically, to be able to instal FoxTel.“He’d like to give us the old heave ho and get his mate Mr Abbott in but it’s a free country. He can do that if that’s what he wishes … the bottom line is, it’s for others to ask the question why Mr Murdoch really doesn’t want the National Broadband Network to be connected to everyone’s home and everyone’s small business.
“Does he sense it represents a commercial challenge to Foxtel, the major cash cow for his company or not? But I’d rather hear from him on those questions.”
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Another Monk free policy zone announcement...Tony Abbott commits to business tax cuts
* by: By Malcolm Farr National Political Editor
* From: news.com.au
* August 07, 2013 8:03AM
A TONY Abbott government would give 750,000 companies a tax cut worth $5 billion over four years - and would then take it away from the biggest corporations.
Labor today said the bonus for business - expected to be the biggest single offer this election campaign - would have to be covered by tax increases in other areas and add to the cost of living for families.
"There aren't any easy savings out there. There's a number of ways Tony Abbott can fund this and none of them are good for Australian households," said Finance Minister Penny Wong on ABC radio.
Opposition Leader Abbott will today in Adelaide announce the 1.5 per cent company tax relief from July, 2015 which business groups have been demanding to help them through a period of slowing growth.
But Mr Abbott would also increase company tax on Australia's biggest 3200 businesses by 1.5 per cent to pay for his "signature" paid parental leave scheme which would allow women on as much as $150,000 a year six months off to look after a newborn child.
It's understood there has been significant debate within the Opposition recently on the order in which the cuts and increase could be implemented.
Senator Wong said the PPL proposal was "a Rolls Royce scheme" and questioned whether it was affordable. Really penny... you mean like the NBN. How ironic.
"It's a Rolls Royce scheme not even supported by members of his own party and the coalition," she said.
Senator Wong said Labor's cheaper alternative - which pays the minimum wage to all women who take it up - had already helped 300,000 families.
Tony Abbott concentrated on the major tax cut which he said would increase employment.
"Lowering the company tax rate is part of our plan to build a strong, prosperous economy with more investment and more jobs," Mr Abbott said today.
Mr Abbott pledged the cuts would "boost jobs and strengthen the economy" and pointed at Labor's failure to carry out its promise of a two per cent reduction.
"Labor has talked and talked about cutting the company tax rate. We will actually do it," he said.
And he quoted former Treasury chief Ken Henry as saying in 2011, " ... if the company income tax were to be cut, the principal beneficiaries would be workers."
The Henry review of the tax system said previous cuts to the company tax rate had been "an important element of policy reforms that have led to strong growth" while further cuts "would underpin further growth."
http://www.international.to/index.php?o ... r-waste-..The final word
Having established at the beginning that Labor has spent a bucket of taxpayers’ money on a project to research graffiti in women’s toilets it’s perhaps worthy of note that estimates week was also the week when it was revealed that Julia Gillard has banned Ministers from taking pens and paper into Caucus meetings.
Maybe if she’d taken the pens and paper off them before she told them she was banning their use then someone wouldn’t have used a pen and paper to write it down and leak the story.
Meanwhile over at the Department of the Senate there’s more news on pens and paper. They are conducting a risk assessment for stationery items used by its officers. Senator Ryan wanted to know what the risk assessment was for using a pen.
Finally we learned that the Department of Families, Housing Community Services and Indigenous Affairs is spending $55,000 to teach staff how to write to the Minister. Given that the Minister herself has been banned from using a pen and paper, perhaps this is prudent.
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