Posts Tagged ‘Politics’
Budget Rebukes
Posted by: Mick on: 15 May 2008
So, the budget came down on Tuesday. It was one hefty budget, with a crap load of initiatives, but it seems that the biggest deal is the means testing of welfare payments to restrict families who earn over $150,000 from the baby bonus ($5,000 for a new slug) and Family Tax Benefit Part B ($125 [...]
11 Years of Shame.
Posted by: Mick on: 13 February 2008
The 11 years of John Howard will be a time that I personally want to forget.
The fact that every living former Prime Minister plus the Governor General were present in parliament today to hear the sorry declarations except for one John Howard speaks volumes about the mean spirit and nastiness of the man that ran [...]
Sorry…
Posted by: Mick on: 13 February 2008
- In: News| Politics
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I’ve been thinking about what to write today.
Thinking a lot.
There will be so many responses to what Kevin Rudd will historically do today.
You’ll have your right-wingers saying that they didn’t do anything wrong so why should I apologise and that there go our tax cuts in compensation claims. Then you’ll have your left wing bleeding [...]
Gay and Wanna get Married? Move to Sunny Canberra!
Posted by: Mick on: 6 December 2007
- In: Politics| Rants
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The ACT Government, in particular Chief Minister Jon Stanhope and Attorney General Simon Corbell, are working hard to give homosexual Canberrans the opportunity to legally join together in a same-sex union. (ie. Marriage, without the actual term, Marriage)
In an effort to get it past the Federal Attorney General, Robert McClelland, they have been required to [...]
Election Campaign 2007 - Day 2
Posted by: Mick on: 16 October 2007
- In: Politics| Rants
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I’m already scared.
Channel 10 News last night were reporting that Rudd needs to secure a number of swinging seats in QLD to have any chance of winning the election. WTF?
I have to not get excited yet. I can’t let myself believe.
Can someone tell me? Is this election in the bag or not? Is Howard going [...]
Call it Tomorrow?
Posted by: Mick on: 10 October 2007
Hypocrite Howard.
Stanhope agrees with McClelland
I agree with McClelland’s comments.
A life is a life. No-one has the right to take someone else’s.
Be it an Australian’s or not.
Howard is an alien though isn’t he? That changes all the rules.
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