Rostrum!

Tigers vs Saints. It’s a difficult choice in selection and a close game right now.

But given that we’re apparently “all misogynists now”, St Kilda have to be preferred on the criteria determined by the PM.
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Karmageddon: It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.

Funny and a daily event with some of the people I put up with.

Meanwhile, it’s great that Min & Scaper reminisce about old time here.

Scaper of course, is always welcome at the cafe because he provides a yardstick by which others are able to assess their own grip on reality, and intelligence.

He’s a very influential fucktard. He has the ears of the movers & shakers. He has trouble keeping up with the details of his elaborately woven, but poorly constructed fantasies. In short, he desperately craves recognition from strangers across the blogosphere; and is want to have little tantys when he works out that they’re not taking him seriously.

Where are all the people who condemned Howard for locking up asylum seekers??

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/get-children-and-families-off-manus-refugee-advocate-20130405-2hanq.html

“Mr Aristotle says these safeguards aren’t ”just for the hell of it”.

He’s particularly concerned about the arbitrary detention of asylum seekers, especially children, on Manus Island.”

Could it be that the Greens and ALP supporters were just using asylum seekers for political purposes when they condemned Howards policies??

Developing an ear for truth …. Caleb Grace in a guest post at WUWT,

‘I am always seizing upon things people tell me, parking the statements in my memory, and only years later learning they are untrue. It is not merely urban myths, (such as the myth about crocodiles living in the sewers of New York,) which I must discard, but all sorts of tidbits of history and quotes by famous people.

‘Of course, until I stand corrected, I am a purveyor of misinformation. I hate to admit it. After all, I love Truth, and do my best to be honest. However there is no filter you can clamp on your brain, as you wander through life, which automatically screens the false from the True.

‘If you are eager to learn and ask many questions, your openness and honesty can also make you naïve and gullible, and you ingest all sorts of balderdash. After you have ingested this crud, the best (and sometimes only) way to be rid of it is through embarrassment.

‘It is rough on the old ego, but, having something you honor as “fact” publically proven to be claptrap, and cringing in the consequential embarrassment, is a way to the beauty of Truth.’

This is fascinating!!

Gillard calls Abbott an “economic simpleton”, after Gillard used an analogy about debt, along the lines of “our debt is like someone who has $10,000 debt but an income of $100,000”

In this single comment Gillard provided proof to everyone that she is an economic ignoramus. She’s a complete dill, and a worthy colleague of Swan on matters relating to the economy.

JULIA Gillard has lashed out at the Opposition branding its positions on foreign investment and superannuation tax changes, crazy and dangerous and describing Tony Abbott as an “economic simpleton”.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/gillard-describes-abbott-as-an-economic-simpleton-20130406-2hdq0.html#ixzz2PjVt2KIp

Yes this statement is quite deceitful

http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/article/16553380/gillard-says-australians-still-not-used-to-female-pm/

“Ms Gillard also defended the level of government debt, saying it was the equivalent of someone earning $100,000 a year having a mortgage of $10,000.”

If I was on $100,000/year I could pay off a $10,000 mortgage in a few months. However the rusted ons will believe anything she says.

She has got to be the most deceitful PM in our nations history.

Gillard got completely confused about GDP/debt.

She used an income analogy, to establish the GDP/debt ratio. GDP is turnover, not income, and with the use of this analogy Gillard demonstrated that she is ignorant about economics.

There are several ALP barrackers who repeat the analogy, they also demonstrate their economic ignorance.

Neil we know Howard built the Darwin line and sold it for a song. Would you like to hazard a guess at what Abbott will do in terms of infrastructure?

I would join you at the cafe, but alas…

Don’t know but I hope he builds more dams. Not too sure however the role of the Commonwealth versus States. It was the State govts that built all those desalination plants. The Commonwealth had nothing to do with them. Most are now mothballed because it rained.

No it cannot be true. The ALP is going to get us to sell our kidneys to help balance the budget.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/organs-a-nice-earner-as-donors-to-get-wage/story-e6frg6n6-1226613961284

“AUSTRALIA will pay living organ donors a six-week wage of up to $3600 to donate a kidney in a bid to slash the waiting lists for surgery.”

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

TB – she said it during an interview on the 7.30 Report. It has been repeated several times, often by her equally economically illiterate supporters.

She is a true economic dill.

Ms Gillard also defended the level of government debt, saying it was the equivalent of someone earning $100,000 a year having a mortgage of $10,000.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-04/australians-still-not-used-to-a-female-pm-gillard-says/4609954

Probably TB, but I made the observation about Gillard today because she’d called Abbott and economic simpleton. Maybe he is, but Gillard is the last person who should question anyone’s economic credentials.

Her own comments prove she is a complete dill.

Yes Neil, it’s interesting that the analogy has been made by Gillard on several occasions, and by others. But no journalist has picked her up on it, do they go easy on her?

The fact that Gillard has made that comment several times just demonstrates that she has no comprehension of economics.

Japan set to flood the world with yen…

‘The BoJ’s new team under governor Haruhiko Kuroda voted 8:1 for a double dose of “quantitative and qualitative monetary easing”, vowing to inject stimulus for “as long as it takes” to break the deflation psychology.

“This will be recorded in economic history books as a watershed in central bank action. Investors should be shocked and awed,” said Stephen Jen from SLJ Macro Partners.’

Ambrose Evans Pritchard

‘But the company has been waiting 26 years for high-speed rail to come to Australia. It opened its Sydney office in 1988. For now its main line of business is exporting Australian wine and snacks such as beef jerky to Japan to be sold on the shinkansen.

”That way we can keep open this office without any income from high-speed rail projects,” Mr Okajima said.

‘The biggest sticking point remained the huge cost of building it, but the government ”should not be afraid to borrow” as Japan did in the 1950s to its ultimate benefit. ”The first stage should be some short distance, like Sydney to Canberra,” Mr Okajima said. ”Then we will realise how it can play a role in building the nation.”

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/bite-the-bullet-japan-keen-to-introduce-its-train-20130407-2hepk.html#ixzz2PoSvpImL

‘TRANSPORT magnate Lindsay Fox believes Australia is at risk of becoming a “Third World country” because of a persistent lack of investment in infrastructure and long-term planning by state and federal governments.

‘Mr Fox, the executive chairman of Australia’s second-largest transport company, Linfox, said traffic congestion on major city roads and interstate highways was a growing impediment to business in Australia.’

Scott Murdoch in the Oz

I’m totally banned at the Cafe and AIMN, which is upsetting because I’m chaffing at the bit.

‘the residents riot every time a bulldozer goes near the place, I think they also belted the Govt in court’

That’s good news for the Abbott camp, High Speed Rail will be a major part of their platform.

“The beauty of the scheme is that international travellers could fly into Canberra at 2am and be in downtown Sydney in 57 minutes.”

Not having a go at you El Gordo but this 24 hour argument in relation to a Second Airport always gets a chuckle from me.

What is a foreign tourist going to do at 3am in the morning in Sydney. Will they join the queue at some Kings Cross Nightclub on a Tuesday morning ?

Because they sure as hell wont be able to check into their hotel room unless they have paid for the night before. It might suit a local coming back from OS but people forget that 24 hour airports work best as transit points for ongoing travel connections like London, Paris , New York etc.

Australia is at the “end of the line” for overseas travel

‘Have you found another coffee-shop to hassel?’

No.

“The odd thing is that Albo was in favour of fast rail, but for some inexplicable reason has turned his back on it.”

I suspect that there are not enough passengers to make a profit. I think a study showed this years ago. I think the politicians for political purposes say they are interested and then put it in the too hard basket.

‘I suspect that there are not enough passengers to make a profit.’

I disagree, but will do some further research to clarify.

At this early stage I can safely predict France, Germany and Japan will be the tenders … with Chinese construction teams the preferred option.

Yep, it will be viable.

‘The growing passenger numbers from Sydney’s overflow would make high-speed rail a viable solution for aviation capacity needs.

”It is only 15 years until KSA is at capacity according to the Joint Study on Aviation Capacity for the Sydney Region and if nothing is done the revenue forgone for NSW and Australia will be billions of dollars,” Mr Byron said.

‘The Canberra Airport study concludes that in 2030, the number of passengers overflowing from a capacity-constrained Sydney airport and using Canberra Airport and high-speed rail will be 2.5 million. This would boost the total number of high-speed rail passengers by 37 per cent to 9.3 million.

Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/sydneycanberra-flights-will-end-if-fast-rail-arrives-report-20121007-277p4.html#ixzz2PqEahnbC

730 just wants the NBN, regardless of the cost. Because it will be really, really good, and everything.

That we could connect every public hospital, school, university, public library…for about 1/10 of the cost doesn’t matter.

It also doesn’t matter that it is behind installation schedule, higher construction costs, lower take up rates…because NBN is really good.

#stoopidteabags never watched field_of _dreams, `build it, they will come`. size and cost not important if govt building public_good in national_interest, borrrowing for infrastructure no problem. #teabg_theory needs big enough demand for free_market to recognise need and build it, but only if `customer` likes price and `builder ` likes margin. #lalaland #teabagsdidntbuildsnowymountainscheme #don`tmentionthewww

#teapartydefenderoSYwantstoknowwhyanyonewoulddefendtheleft

#ironytransplant

Yeah…. well as I was sayin’

The Abbott team will keep quiet about fast rail until a couple of weeks out from the election.

No good abusing me toilet, water off a duck’s back after my time at the cafe.

What??!! You’re finding “t*a b*gs” a bit boring???!!!

I think the constant repetition of “t*a b*gs” etc is very subtle wit, erudite.

#brevity #repetition is the soul of wit #theregoesanothercharacter

John Lord’s climate change post has racked up 309 comments. Extraordinary.

WTF.? l`m not clear, but it`s somebody else`s fault.?

I think you mean – “t*ab*g t*ab*g t*ab*g t*ab*g t*ab*g t*ab*g t*ab*g t*ab*g t*ab*g t*ab*g t*ab*g t*ab*g t*ab*g t*ab*g t*ab*g t*ab*g t*ab*g… mrrabbit mrrabbit mrrabbit mrrabbit mrrabbit mrrabbit mrrabbit mrrabbit mrrabbit”

I can hardly understand what you’re on about when you use sentences.

‘And if Abbott wins in September the blogs focus will not change. It will be about Abbott and the Coalition.’

Indeed… when Abbott wins they will become a voice crying in the wilderness, we wuz robbed by hate media. Truly the cafe of no consequence.

What gets me about ALP supporting blogs is that the focus never changes.

Been to a Bolt or Ackerman blog lately? Listened to Hadley or Jones any time in the last decade?

“Conroy says, 90$billion nbn price peddled by Limited-News is bullshit.”

Yes it most probably will be more like $120B. Can you imagine the rorting that will be going on if it is built with the ALP in power.

A devine solution to solve the asylum seeker problem …. a large cruise ship drifting between Cocos and Christmas islands offering four star accommodation.

”We will never have unions, particularly Australian unions, on those vessels because your price would triple,” he said. ”And hence the reason why I would be utilising Pacific island staff on crews … that’s what keeps the cost down.”

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/devine-intervention-plan-to-use-cruise-ships-to-patrol-ocean-20130408-2hhd1.html#ixzz2PuFLruyX

The Coalition’s NBN strategy has finally convinced me that we don’t need hard wire to every door in the country.

‘It will also cost only $29 billion to build – $15 billion cheaper than the Gillard government’s projected rollout cost, or more than $60 billion cheaper than what the Coalition claims the government’s policy will actually end up costing.’

Simon Benson in the Daily Terror

I have even had to change my Surname.

On TV they say Thatcher has died and she was loved or loathed. Not much middle ground.

It seems to me that the workforce and poor seem to hate Tories for making the wealthy and rich even more richer, while making the poor even poorer and their lives so much harder. When the Torie-opposites get in, the rich then hate and envy any break the poor get from government to reduce poverty and make life better. Reagan did the identical thing as Thatcher in the usa and so did Howard in australia. The Tory types really seem to want extravagance for themselves and friends and poverty and injustice for the rest. I think the attitude toward Asbestos poisoned Bernie Banton really highlighted this for me. While the company was allowed to scarper offshore to avoid court rulings against them.

‘ Does anyone still think coal mining should be part of the English landscape? ‘
Australia has a big chunk of it’s landscape devoted to coal and mining, why should the brits miss out?

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‘Or that the over manning in public transport should have been preserved?’
Unmanned public transport has been a bit of a failure in Sydney and Melbourne because of bashings and muggings, so many people won’t use it, in some areas, after dark, or at all. Now their is rail-cops being created. The brits will have similar problems.

I’m not keen on the idea of the Coalition spending $30bn on broadband either.

‘ Joe, you must understand that standards need to be maintained to allow productive and rational discourse to flow. This means that the persistently rude and unrefined trash-talking trolls that infest the blogosphere need to be suspended from time to time.”
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Minipiglo, I agree fully with above, thanks for answering. I hope you turn up more often as I have always enjoyed your comments.
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‘ sad little nest of vipers this place has become. It is just tccbccgs and toerags talking past each other. Actually it is more like shouting insults at each other. ‘
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Minipiglo, I sort of disagree with this bit. WordPress is infested with leftie loons and weather wankers, but little in the way of conservative blogs that discuss the other stuff like tax and religion and government direction. reb should put more words in the spam filter to improve the discourse. I would suggest words that mock conservatives and religion a priority, such as, mrrabbit, noddy, mrtalksbull, skyfarey.

realise that “under the bonnet”
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yep, of course 🙂
https://thedailytrash.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/rostrum-9/#comment-20230

Nah, Jock Shock, its me. I thought I would give the `bags` something to chew on, but reb has undone that. Gordo hasn`t even shown up this morning. He`s 2/hours late from his usual start time.

“Interesting that Joe can write complete sentences!”

Yes but you need to read them backwards to make any sense of them

I was wondering why Telstra’s share price rose strongly early yesterday. Clearly someone knew something was up.

I suspect today will be a rather beautiful day for any Telstra shareholders out there

Like moi

Looks like Talcum is going to buy its old copper network off them

Telstra will be naming its price on that one

So what happens……………..Telstra falls in price

…and it is entertaining, watching Min, Miglo etc trying to figure out how to condemn Abbott on asylum seekers while excusing Gillard for her inhumane policy.

It’s blame the High Court, or something… anything other than accepting responsibility for the low grade political appeal to the rednecks and racists.

Super fast Broadband is probably needed by hospitals etc, Universities and schools etc, and some businesses. The businesses can pay for their own. The institutions should get it funded. Homes, if they need it, should pay for their own.

I’m studying online and what I have is perfectly fine. I can’t imagine a domestic use that makes superfast BB a “necessity” such that it needs to be taxpayer funded.

Like all technology, those who “need” it will pay the higher costs for it and by the time the rest of us need it, the costs will have dropped.

When I built a small business at home and needed infrastructure, I paid for it, just like any person who puts his/her, (actually not “her”) nuts on the line does. That what you do when you set up a business. I prepared a budget and nominated my capital costs and ongoing expenses. When my savings were enough to meet my capital costs, and my projected revenues were enough to meet my expenses, I knew I was pretty close to being ready to start up.

At no point did I ask for or expect the Government to meet those expenses, although I think I got some sort of tax benefit for most of them.

Thanks for the “lesson”, James …

Are you of all people seriously objecting to the inferred paternalism in my contribution?

sorry folks,
When new areas are developed, buildERS must automatically get water, gas, phone sewer and electric connection points put on the `lot` or connected to the building, so the need is NOT to repeatedly dig up the road or bring in cranes.

but existing towns and suburbs should be repeatedly dug up or cranes called in.?

I understand that. The duct is located under the road, which will need to have hole chopped into it so the `techs` can do jointing. If the building being connected is on the `other` side of the street, then the road will be closed, traffic diverted away from your business, while trenching is cut across the road, the sub-section of FO installed, trench then backfilled, then road patched. In some areas FO will be over-head, crane called in for each connection.

It’s not about living in the 50s, it’s about what is reasonable for the taxpayer to fund in terms of infrastructure.

The possibilities for funding are infinite. The funding itself isn’t. And if it follows the line of cables under the footpath, there’s no digging up at all.

Wow a recent post took me to one of TB’s great predictions

https://thedailytrash.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/coalition-in-crisis-as-case-against-peter-slipper-crumbles/#comment-13709

“Read this yesterday evening … this is going to BLOW UP next year and rightly so …

There is surely evidence of conspiracy (a criminal offence) by most if not all the people mentioned … a serious enough crime … but then the breaches of Crimes Act, 1914, and Criminal Code, 1995, mentioned in the letter to the AFP will only compound the Liberal National Party’s, conspiracy to bring down a legitimate government of Australia … ”

I am not sure if your judgement is as good as it used to be.

Snacty, do you know `anything` about `any` type of technology or engineering.? You sound like you don`t. Do yourself a favor, so you won`t sound as silly, and go google carbonaro
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then google blue diamond

…..and could you link your quotes please? Otherwise I might wonder if you’re being selective.

‘ What is this sheath made of? ‘
poly vinyl ?
different kinds c,u _ basically a plastic, polymer

Conroys plan saddles future generations with an inbuilt astronomical high cost fixed line service and it assumes technology will not progress past fibre optics yet is also assumes applications will be developed to use the damn thing INTO HOMES not just businesses.

Currently the only thing I can see a home could use 100mps+ for is to download a 4K movie IF they have a 4K TV set ($25,000 pet set). Otherwise current movies to homes just need a bit more speed but not 100mps

Lord knows how much it will cost in the end as NBN Co seemingly have a blank cheque and it was never subjected to proper scrutiny

Turnbulls is lower cost and assumes technologies will continue to develop with demand

Neither plan is perfect but Turnbull’s is less potentially financially catastrophic by a mile

“It won’t, really, BUT it will go PAST every house … it still has to be connected ”

Are you sure about that.

Otherwise a lot of people are going to be without phones until they pick a provider and it gets connected.

Porn at 4k resolution though

LOL

Once real time video is available pay TV is toast.
Murdock for example can see the writting on the wall and has got out of pay TV in NZ. Everyone watches downloaded TV and TV ratings are dropping cause everones on the net. Turnbull’s plan to go the cheap option seems odd cause he’s well versed in the internet and media.
Wireless solutions aren’t gonna be much cop for real time video.
Yeh, 4G is quick but once it’s conjested or you’ve got poor signal it sucks.
This means pay TVs model is a little way off being broken.
Hooray! says Kim Williams that gives us a few extra years to milk Foxtel, thanks for that Malcolm, you’ve saved our ass.

Things called dream boxes or alien boxes (plus others), have loads of content and a simple user interface. They can stream TV from all over the place. Content providers have little control over web TV. Have you never downloaded a movie? These will put pressure on the likes of pay TV. The main problem for them is the internet it slow and clunky. There maybe some content that will be tightly controlled and not easily available. Most top end TV’s have web TV/USB standard now, there isn’t much good (legal) content yet but it’s coming. Why do you think pay TV is forced to “fast track” content, everyones on the net, it’s not cause they are nice people.
Once S/D H/D real time video is available pay TV as we know it is toast.

” A DOG toy called “Droolia Julia” with red hair and oversized breasts being sold in Adelaide shows we still can’t deal with female leaders, feminist and author Leslie Cannold says.

The toy, a caricature of Prime Minister Julia Gillard, is being sold by Stepney store P & K Pets as a “momento” (sic) of Australia’s first female PM. “
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/pets-doll-droolia-julia-being-sold-in-adelaide/story-fncz7kyc-1226616272712
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coffee shops all over the place will go into meltdown

The big talking point now is the very fast train and the greens want to raid super…hmmm.

The cost to build the VFT Canberra/Sydney is supposedly $20 billion, but I reckon the Chinese engineers could do it for half that.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/thatcher-never-hid-in-gillards-haven/story-fnahw9xv-1226617688471

Gillard’s answer revealed she considered the reasons for her unpopularity, and knew exactly where to pin the blame: not on herself, but on us.
She has concluded her standing has nothing to do with competence or trust or devotion to principles or character and everything to do with her sex.
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India, Sri Lanka, Israel, The Philippines, Pakistan and Malta, to name but a few, have also been led by women, and you can’t say their societies were more egalitarian than ours, or more progressive than ours.
None of them complained they were the victims of sexism and misogyny, even if they might have been justified given the nature of some of the societies over which they presided.
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Gillard likes to talk tough, and there the similarity with Thatcher ends, because when it gets really tough, Gillard ends up hiding behind her own petticoat.

That seems a pretty fair assessment of Gillard. She never accepts responsibility for her actions and deception, there is always an excuse, blame and spin.

Finally, she blames the public for her lack of support. She’s no leader, just a hack.

http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/why-the-coalitions-nbn-plan-makes-sense-20130410-2hkx2.html

Building a fibre-to-the-premises network to 12 million discrete locations in a country the size of Australia is a really difficult, expensive and slow undertaking.

The hardest part of building such a network is the last mile.

The beauty of Malcolm Turnbull’s solution is that it pushes fibre out closer to the customer, within hundreds of metres in some cases, helping delivering higher speeds but at a much lower labour and cost requirement because it uses the existing copper in the street.

It seems not all experts are wedded to the hugely expensive ALP version of NBN.

No, they just aren’t running cable along every street in the country, which was always a mammoth exercise.

The ALP version of NBN is behind schedule, over budget, low take up. They’ve structured the rollout so that the work strongly ramps up after Sept. All the problems will get worse, not better.

This is what we get from the barrackers about NBN-
*We really need it
*Don’t talk about cost because we really need it

There is now no doubt that NBN is over budget, behind schedule.

Is it still ‘really needed’ at $60br, or $70bn…?

Infrastructure isn’t worthy any price without restriction.

BWAHAHAHAHA………..

33 years in media apparently at the coal face but can’t distinguish between copywrite and copyright. Hint: You “write” copy(verb) and you have a “copyright” (noun).

Is your name Adrian?

Isn’t the Libs policy quite a lot like the one first proposed by the ALP in 2007?

So why is it being criticised now, given that it was so vociferously supported then?

Nothing wrong with your spelling. It’s the distinction between two quite separate words that has me wondering.

Outlander is James Packer.

high speed rail
l`ve heard so much crap over the years on the `rail` and public transport theme that l reckon neither side of the duopoly can be believed. In years gone by, the two major parties would negotiate to a middle ground that would give commitment to the `project` no matter how many times the governments changed. Nowadays, all the pollies are interested in is one-up-manship and other political games, which makes big, long-term projects near impossible to get under-way. Look at the stupid games being run by the LibNits and Limited-News over the nbn, and how willing the foolish are to believe them.

And how good is Albo! He’s grabbed headlines by saying he’s had a BRAINFART

Apparently he’s thinking about something to do with rail, and if he gets started right now, it will be finished a decade or 2 after he’ll have died of old age.

Yes, the same fuck-knuckle country that wanted pay TV, and fax machine.
High speed rail, is just another example of how far behind the rest of the world we are. Having travelled through europe on most of the high speed railway networks, it’s quite something, much better than planes and airports. They take you to the centre of the city, no more cabbing it from the airport.
Ahhh first class travel on ICE/Thalis/TGV/Eurostar sipping champagne at 300Kms/hour…..I could do it full time, and second class isn’t bad either. I’m not James Packer but I have spoilt myself once or twice.

High-speed rail is a nice way of getting around Europe, with all the benefits mentioned above. We should always say a silent thank you to the European taxpayer when travelling this way. After all, it is she who is paying most of the cost o our ticket. High-speed rail is not commercially viable and the Australian government should not be building one just so the latte leftists who spend their winters in rural France can have a more ‘civilised’ way of getting to Canberra.

“$114,000,000,000 is quite a lot of money.”

It is also a shame that some consultancy firm got paid $20M to produce the report. How do i get into the consultancy business??

Anyway it doesn’t matter. This $20M taxpayer funded report will stimulate the economy and we will just borrow more money if we need more stimulus.

Pay Tv was privately funded but a bank (from memory)picked up the massive debt left by the cockhead who started galaxy. Fax machines were a regulatory issue that was finally approved after years, that didn’t cost much.
However NBN is public money, and as all investments go, with any luck it will be worth shitloads one day, and then some future government will sell it off. That’s what investments are taking a chance, with the hope that things will work in your favour.
Haven’t you ever taken fiance on a car/house/holiday.

And you can stream video of your bottom being splatted by that 12 guage you could call it Madhouse TV.

Oh well, lets not do anything, lets not stay on top of the game.
It’s obviously out of touch with reality to have aspirations.
When I was nineteen and wanted a radio station, I tore through all the bullshit and nay sayers and just did it. I took me five years, they all said I was an idiot.

Oh well, lets not do anything, lets not stay on top of the game.
It’s obviously out of touch with reality to have aspirations.
When I was nineteen and wanted a radio station, I tore through all the bullshit and nay sayers and just did it. I took me five years, they all said I was an idiot.

Good for you. You obviously identified a need and a customer base willing to pay for it to be fulfilled. Isn’t private enterprise great. Now if we could just ease the tax and industrial relations burden on our private industry we might get some more stuff built around here.

‘you lot don’t pay any tax now ‘

I pay more in tax than I ever thought I’d earn. It’s annoying to watch the government spend it on installing, then removing ceiling insulation.

Upto 90% of SMH readers have voted for a VFT, its going to be a political reality. Albo said we should have a public debate and for once I agree with him.

There will be due diligence on this project and it would be in the government’s interest if they called for expressions of interest to bukd Sydney/Canberra. It could be done for less than $23 billion with the right consortium.

“But don’t try to convince me that ANY politician or political party is better than the other”

But you try and convince us that Labor is better than the Coalition.

Nobody is going to convince paid shills or morons that `anything` is better than the Tories Neil. The only way you folks would learn or understand our experiences is to have Mr-Rabbit in power, in an unstoppable position, where he could strip all opportunity off your family and give it to the billionaires. Until then, you Tories will have to remain stupid.

“Albo said we should have a public debate and for once I agree with him.”

Oh dear ………………Poor Eg

I think he’s become a victim of Stockholm Syndrome

Sure Does

‘But tories only see people – cannon and factory fodder – not familes and laughter and enjoying life … they see that some people are born to suffer and serve … ‘

Hey, guess which ideology is responsible for the most of the misery in the world in the last hundred years? Here’s a hint, its not one the Tories subscribe to.

” Joe pines for a bigger welfare state to look after him”
Hey dopey, you do realize that `workchoice` type employment guarantees a future pension need. As 40% of the workforce is now `under-employed`, and the vast majority of those want and need full-time employment, also means they are not getting full `superannuation`, therefore, they MUST become pensioners. Workchoice and Joolya`s barely different system, is keeping so many of the workforce `out` of full-earning-potential. do a cost benefit on that Tories

I prefer the term wingnuts to tories or t**bags, but that’s just me.

Tb I started to read your post and then fell asleep half way down. Should make them shorter.

“Abbott will do well if he makes a serious attempt to get business going” well I can’t see him lowering business tax, Interest rates are super low, he can’t make them lower, I don’t recall any policy statements about getting business going, Aussie dollar is super high so everythings cheap, what else does business need. Manufacturing is fucked, exports are harder, our mineral exports I’m sad to say is the immediate future. If he lets the mining companys have their way he will be selling us all short.
Make my teabag Tobys Estate Earl Grey.

“but our economy is doing nicely”

Then why is Swan running $40B budget deficits during the biggest mining boom in history and the best terms of trade for 100 years??

“The national debt is not an issue”

Why not?? People in Europe got into problems because they said things like you said. And it is low because Costello spent 11 years paying off the debt Labor created last time in power. I don’t think i have ever seen a Labor govt either State or Federal pay off any debt.

And we are a Federation. Britain is not. For a fair comparison you would have to compare our State and Federal debt with British govt debt. I believe our Federal and State debt is 25% of GDP.

Speaking of China (and digging) …

‘BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP), the world’s biggest mining company, sees China growth “trending down” toward 6 percent after about 7 percent to 8 percent in the next couple of years, Chief Financial Officer Graham Kerr said today at the Bloomberg Economic Summit in Sydney, indicating prospects in its largest customer present its main risk.’

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-10/china-export-gains-miss-forecasts-for-first-time-in-four-months.html

TB – ” … Australia will be a laughing stock if he (gorilla) walks the world stage!”

Equally, imagine dining at one of London’s top restaurants with some English friends, Tim & Julia walk in with a few of their hangers on.

My reactions would be-
• I hope they don’t hear me and introduce themselves
• How embarrassing to have them representing us.
• I’ll have to go to better restaurants
• I’m not telling my friends that bogan is Our Prime Minister

Gillard is an embarrassment.

“[The Button plan] in turn would theoretically expose the local industry to increased competition from imported products, fostering improvement in local vehicles and creating the basis for a competitive export industry.”

Oops. 😯

Hehe. I’m sure the USA wouldn’t mind if Japan invaded Hawaii.

Oh, wait …

By the way Joe.

Ever heard of volunteering for work ?

When unemployed Some call it slave labouring.

I call it networking for paid work.

Oh……………of course that would interfere with reruns of ” I Love Lucy” downloaded at the speed of light via the NBN

Does anyone see a problem in the level of outrage by the Lefties about Bob Carr’s comments about a recently deceased Maggie Thatcher being a rascist ( the outrage did not exist) and that of a Sydney Radio Shock Jock making comment about a recently deceased person dying of shame?

Oh the hypocrisy !

” while the unsuspecting reader barely even noticed it.”

Yes, it was remarkable subtlety. It’s always a pleasure to read something well written, that gets the point across without labouring it.

Speaking of which…did you know that Gillard is an exceptionally dishonest politician?

Because of the popularity of the VFT they should call for tenders now and let the people decide if its worth it.

When the incoming government abandons the tax on CO2 and begins the dismantling of the green machine and klimatariat, it should give us an opportunity to see our way clear to get a start on the VFT.

You could own enough aircraft to have about 10x Qantas (ie 1200x737s) for the price of the line from Melb to Bris.

At $114,000,000,000 even the ALP isn’t profligate enough to propose building it.

ToM I’m confident O’Farrell and Abbott will make fast rail part of their platforms.

Hi el gordo. The advantage air travel has over rail or any other land-based transportation is, besides airports at departure and destination, no infrastructure needs to be built. On economic grounds VFT fails dismally.

When businessmen break the law, as opposed to being simply incompetent, they go to jail.

When Union leaders do the same, they are punished with a seat in Parliament. If the crime’s a really good one, they’ll get a Ministry. The best get to be PM.

IPA there is general agreement that Australia is going to double its population by mid century.

Our capital cities on the east coast are under tremendous strain and decentralisation is the only answer. Can you imagine watermelons voting for the Abbott team? This is how they will do it, along with his green army.

Our greatly reverred former leader Gough Whitlam chose a spot half way between Bathurst and Orange for a major city. Its a white elephant now, but the land remains in federal government hands and would make a perfect satellite town if connected by fast rail.

Have confidence in Abbott, ignore the propaganda, he has the potential to be a populist and remain in power for a decade or more.

The O’Farrell government is going to lease a couple of ports for 99 years and rake in $4 billion for infrastructure in NSW.

And the Chinese government is emcouraging its people to buy property in foreign lands.

IPA doesn’t like it when people mock religion, either, TB.

But he left that off his list.

#theyheartmarksteyn

“Abbott will return to the slash and burn of services and fire-sale of assets that occurred under Howard.”

Well if we can’t afford it we can’t afford it.

Actually it was Hawke/Keating who started asset sales. They flogged off Commonwealth Bank. Qantas, CSL. However unlike Costello, Keating used the money obtained from the sales for recurrent spending.

That is why Costello removed the revenue he received from Telstra from the budget as revenue.

“Let`s stop the 4.5_billion$ welfare to the auto-makers, and wasting billions$ on persecuting boat-people.”

You would have to get rid of the ALP to do that.

Simon says joolya has a tin ear.

…’damage to people and planet.’

I’ll let that go through to the keeper.

Well this is interesting for a Party that claims to be for education. Taking money from Tertiary education and giving it to Secondary

http://www.smh.com.au/national/university-sector-to-be-hit-in-gonski-reforms-20130413-2hry2.html

The federal government has announced more than $2.5 billion worth of cuts to the university sector in order to free up funds for its Gonski school reforms.

This followed an announcement from Treasurer Wayne Swan on Saturday that the government would save a further $520 million by cracking down on tax deductions for self-education expenses.“

“contributors here”

“Four stars from me.”

That’s nice. Here’s my favourite Walken performance …

Why is it that leftie commie bolshevik socialists are always so grumpy?

The admirable-sounding goal of more “kids” going to university is hard to disagree with. But are these “kids” getting value for money? Many of today’s uni courses, which incur HECS debts all the same, give no real advantage in the employment market.

The tertiary education paradox

If you are going to Gold Class TB just remember you will be eating your snacks in the dark. Enjoy the nacos that you will end up wearinv and the bega cheese they charge $25 for.

Personally I’d smuggle sandwiches and a better bottle of wine into the joint than the crap they serve up.

I agree with IPA @ 9:05 pm

Pell to become advisor to the top catlick… dog’s man on earth.

Barnaby chosen to win New England.

Can’t understand why Labor is cutting University Education. Traditionally Labor parties all around the world do not care about debt. They put spending on the credit card.

We are sovereign in our own currency and if we need more money we can just print more or so leftoids keep telling me.

“successive federal governments have squandered the lot – and then some – in tax cuts, handouts and stimulus spending.”

I knew before I hit the link that this article was written by economic ignoramus Jessica Irvine. Although I agree with her that stimulus spending was money squandered, for her to say the same about tax cuts – which, in effect, allow people to keep more of their own money – money they earned – to spend on their own prorities – is a product of the kind of leftist groupthink she imbibed during her time at Fairfax. Why the powers that be at News Ltd went after her beats the hell out of me.

You know it would really help if people could tell the truth. Someone is telling falsehoods

http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/homepage-speeches-articles/budget-in-reply-speech-labor-wasting-the-boom/

“According to the Treasury’s central case the resources boom delivered a revenue windfall of about $25 billion over the last three budgets delivered by Peter Costello. Those three budgets were in surplus by $53 billion so all of the income from the boom and more was banked, although Treasury’s central case estimate suggests the budget was in a small structural deficit in 2007-08. So much for claims that the Howard government blew the boom! While its last term could have been more disciplined, as my colleague Joe Hockey acknowledged on 18 May, there was nothing like the thoughtless orgy of frenzied spending and borrowing that we have seen under Labor”

I think this was a speech delivered to the House when Turnbull was Opposition leader. People would say he mislead the House if what he was saying is wrong.

Well Turnbull says this “so all of the income from the boom and more was banked,”

You know I think it is possible to support one side of politics but not tell lies about the other side.

Obviously for a lot of people this is not possible.

I believe what Turnbull says and not the people in the article you posted.

Get your choctops and pop corn now because we are watching a political disaster

LOL

Neil you seem suicicidal even if its good news for your side.

Sorry I voted for Rudd in 07 and I was wrong.

And you were right.

Just watching Agenda on Skynews and Tony Sheldon cant be bothered to even shave before he goes to air.

Obviously he has not shaved for quite a few days

He just looks untidy

Bizarre!

That’s the bounce that Gillard has enjoyed snce getting the leadership settled. People now know they’re stuck with her as PM and they’ve turned further away from the ALP.

Why is the Fairfax stable going to the dogs?

It prints propaganda on CC is one reason.

http://catallaxyfiles.com/2013/04/17/budget-in-a-parallel-universe/

The other day I mentioned that four workmen in Agribusiness will be staying ay my place for three months early next year…. its now clear to see why.

‘Mr Pratt will say that feeding “a hungry world” will be Australia’s “greatest responsibility and opportunity in the 21st century”.

“We can quadruple our exports to feed 200 million people,” he will tell today’s forum. “We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors and risk-taking farming and manufacturing entrepreneurs.”

‘Mr Pratt will argue that transitioning from a “mining boom” to a “dining boom” will require changes in competition laws to allow consolidation among rural companies….’

Damon Kitney in the Oz