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by their party or should they be elected by voters should the most senior party officials decide who can represent the party in parliament should all candidates for parliaments state and federal be local people chosen by local party members free of interference from state and federal executive members would you like to have a say in what policies a party should pursue and implement should this be left to career politicians and party executives to determine should parties politicians or candidates be obliged to keep their promises should there be severe penalties like loss of seat for an elected parliamentarian who deliberately lies to mislead voters how should a candidate or an elected politician who deceives his or her party be dealt with is it reasonable that a party in government should favour one sector over another do you believe that balanced government is a necessity or that balance over time is a reasonable alternative what area of policy is most vital to australia s future do you believe the original australians the indigenous aboriginals should be treated equally without further delay and uplifted to the utmost of their abilities are you satisfied with the treatment and assistance provided to australian aboriginal communities to this point should australia continue to rely on the usa as a major defence partner can you outline an alternative approach switzerland has a long standing reputation as an independent unaligned nation can you see a role like that for australia in the pacific and near asian region do you think a centrally based political party favouring neither traditional labour nor traditional capital sectors could have a role in providing stable progressive and balanced governance in australia do you see issues such as those outlined above progressive forward thinking and balanced or populist do you think the term populist might used in the pejorative to denigrate popular or challenging ideas are you prepared to work for a new political party that would implement the basic philosophy outlined above would you like to participate in trouble shooting and fleshing out some of these ideas into actual policies what is the greatest threat facing the attempted formation of a new progressive political party today what is the first step in forming such a party rate this 8 comments february 20 2016 why religion i m an atheist a hard core non believer religion grew out of mankind s increasing self awareness and a feeling that somehow we were just too significant for our life to end with our death hard to say when it began but neanderthals showed reverence for their dead and ancient egyptians and not only the pharaohs went to extraordinary lengths to provide for their afterlife religions are now firmly rooted in almost every culture and all without a shred of evidence for an afterlife most are based on a magical mystical unexplainable appearance of rarely seen entities issuing orders on how to behave from now on in much the same way the conquering general rides into town climbs the town hall steps and tells you how it will be from now on i object to this nonsense because basically it relieves many from the need to think for themselves because of that i see religions as being anti human rather than humanist in my world i have no doubt about my afterlife worm fodder dust to dust and no soul or spirit to go to some nonexistent place i am not religious but i manage to behave in a moral way with constant concern for the well being of my fellows i wonder what we could achieve as humans if we all dumped these old fashioned unproven and very strange religious beliefs and began to think for ourselves rate this 3 comments august 31 2015 why turc is a farce the royal commission into trade union governance and corruption turc is a farce it is not hard to prove this proof hangs on a single item a royal commission has been established to do the job existing law enforcement agencies should be doing it is as simple as that for reasons not known to me the trade unions do not argue my case they have appeared before the royal commission for months only objecting recently when it was learnt that commissioner dyson heydon had accepted and deferred an invitation to be a guest speaker at a liberal party event whether or not the event was a liberal fund raiser is irrelevant commissioner heydon initially responded by saying he would attend only if the royal commission was no longer sitting at that point he was well aware of the possibility of a perception of apprehended bias he responded appropriately the royal commission has been set up to drag trade unions and labor through the mud there is no doubt about that some mud always sticks a well established principle in dirty politics the coalition government leader tony abbott announced his intention to establish a judicial inquiry into the australian workers union awu while he was opposition leader just before the 2013 federal election after gaining government he announced the inquiry into the awu would become a royal commission and would be extended if we go back to abbott s days as an economics and law student at sydney university we find a young man who aggressively attacked student unions across australia as a disciple of the extremely reactionary bob santamaria who hated the labor party trade unions and practically everything else we also find dyson heydon sitting on the rhodes scholarship selection panel and favouring abbott ahead of at least three honours students later in abbott s life as an employee of former liberal prime minister john howard we find dyson heydon sitting on the legal panel that advised abbott s no case at the republic convention heydon was later appointed to the high court by the howard liberal government i now return to my original premise speaking outside the royal commission australian council of trade unions actu secretary dave oliver said any offences committed by trade unions or their officers should be investigated and handled by the state police the australian federal police the australian crime commission the australian competition and consumer commission and the fair work commission he s right the really important question in all of this is why are these authorities not doing the job they were established to do why is it necessary to budget 80 million so far and to spend 60 million so far to investigate trade unions through a royal commission this superfluous spending is occurring when the nation is said to be suffering a budget emergency and a debt and deficit crisis brought on by the previous labor government according to treasurer joe hockey hockey used this imagined situation to introduce a shocker of a budget in 2014 which he described as fair he later told a new zealand audience the australian economy was not in trouble tony abbott used the imagined critical budget and deficit situation to carry out wholesale slaughter of the labor government s climate change environment and other programs along with a heap of welfare and funding for ngos considered by some to have a voice capable of criticising his government allied with that was an on going campaign against perceived bias in the abc again silencing his critics but there s more to it than that abbott admitted the 2014 budget had gone too far that his government had to learn how to be fair the 2015 budget was designed to recover some of his lost political capital but his personal popularity rating has not recovered since early in 2013 the free trade agreements ftas abbott s government is signing will create great disparity between the wages and conditions of imported workers and those of trade union members if the trade unions are silenced discredited or wiped out they will not be able to highlight and campaign against these discrepancies the big unions are also the main financiers of labor party election campaigns abbott s actions are also part of the liberals long term campaign for lower taxes replaced in part by a bigger and broader gst and smaller government the one depending on the other the long term implications of this are not being dealt with by the news media or anyone else as far as i can tell the government s implementation of a harsh reconstruction of australian society and culture is allied to the terms of its ftas as well as for ideological reasons it was necessary to digress above to point out what the abbott government has been doing why are the established authorities not dealing with crime and corruption in the trade unions they are ferreting out and dealing with crime and corruption in corporations companies and political parties it has been put to me by a union member and by a queens counsel that the royal commission into trade unions is necessary because the various police and other authorities have not been able to gather evidence of crime and corruption in trade unions or are incapable of prosecuting it but clearly this is a nonsense proof of the nonsense lies in the evidence that has been uncovered and recorded by the royal commission the royal commission is an authority with authority to investigate just like the authorities mentioned above the royal commission s investigators have this information in their possession before they put their questions to those who appear before them they are not relying on their imagination or speculation if the royal commission investigators can do it so can all the other authorities that are charged with doing it and paid to do it but are not doing it abbott has an almost life long hatred of trade unions a severe warning from one trade union official caused abbott to walk from his first paid job in a cement products factory his government slashes funding left right and centre to reduce the accumulated deficit but provides 80 million for his war on trade unions the labor party s shadow ministers mps and some trade union officials have said they support the cleaning up of trade unions no further proof is needed of abbott s ideological witch hunt against unions and the labor party the real need is for a royal commission to discover why those charged with fighting crime and corruption are doing only half the job rate this august 20 2015 tony abbott leader or destroyer a small heading in today s sydney morning herald said tony abbott is not a bad leader but how do you judge if you judge him by his party s 2pp polling he would fail the test if you judged him by his personal popularity polling he would fail the test if you judged him on party loyalty based on continuing cabinet leaks he would fail the test if you judged him by his ability to deliver balance in government and policies for all citizens he would fail the test is there any test that tony abbott would pass as a national leader it s often said that he was a very successful opposition leader by this it is meant that he successfully destroyed a labor government he is and always has been a successful destroyer he does pass that test barry tucker twitter btckr rate this july 16 2015 the white trash of asia australia s federal treasurer joe hockey could retire today and he d live comfortably on his parliamentary pension apart from his accumulated wealth and income from property investments but he s still working because he wants to ensure millions of australians have a smaller pension to live on he refers to this as making the pension sustainable into the future joe hockey also wants to ensure poor people are paying more for their hea lth care and education because the age of entitlement is over meanwhile joe ensures that his entitlements and those of other wealthy australians go absolutely untouched the liberal party of australia directed by the policy makers of the institute of public affairs ipa rather than its membership wants government spending reduced less welfare states paying more for health and education through increased gst revenue and smaller government fewer departments fewer public servants this is designed to lead to lower fairer taxes because the age of entitlement is not over for the wealthy who already reduce their taxes to the bare minimum they can afford to buy taxation minimization advice and set up trust funds poor people don t have access to these things australians rights freedoms jobs welfare and democracy are all being simultaneously trashed by the liberal party of australia while our once great australian labor party and trade union movement sits on their backsides and say and do nothing about it critics in ngos the public service and the news media have been silenced some under threat of jail for speaking out the abc s independent voice has been questioned its departments producers presenters and panelists are stacked with liberal party operatives and moves are under way to censor and silence the abc even further a former labor prime minister paul keating warned australia was in danger of becoming a banana republic an unstable country whose economy is dictated by a single export say coal or iron ore owned by foreigners singapore s first prime minister lee kuan yew warned that australia could become the poor white trash of asia both men were right they just didn t predict that the liberal party of australia and a complacent and compliant australian labor party would combine to make these predictions a reality rate this july 6 2015 the injustice of non recognition the failure of white australia to recognise indigenous inhabitants in the constitution from the very beginning has been an on going disaster reports to the english government and instructions to governor phillip make it clear the land was occupied and the original inhabitants were to be treated with respect pretty weird when you think about it we re going to invade them and steal their land for settlement but be nice about it by the time a constitution was knocked up and the states and territories formed into a federation the indigenous people had been decimated one way or another forced into isolated corners and were generally disregarded it was thought they would die out a convenient solution but then wwi happened and some indigenous people signed up but what was their status when they were uniformed trained and armed did they swear allegiance to the king as what paid mercenaries after the war these men were not recognised for their efforts later still some bright spark thought it would be a good idea to kidnap the children of some indigenous and put them in christian institutions or good christian homes so they could grow up to be good christian people another presumption a travesty and a tragedy for many imagine the effect on their parents if these indigenous children were not recognised in the constitution who or what were they what presumption to take them from their parents it s little different to sneaking into a neighbouring country kidnapping children and taking them away to be given to christian families for their own good the long fight for recognition of aboriginal title over land...