FEDERAL ELECTION

[Bite_me]

Throw this into the mix!

What an insult to ADF Servicemen, Army in particular, and their Families by the Gillard Government!
They are thinking of evicting current servicemen's families from 162 MQs in Berrimah to enable ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS to occupy these very same MQs!
Shows exactly what Gillard/Faulkner/Griffin/Combet think of our ADF members in 2010!
What are you doing about this proposed blatant discrimination and "Duty of Care" Defence Ministers all ?
Remember to give this due consideration come 21 AUG 10 Peoples!

[Ian Batton]

Again, great to see stuff that matters being posted.

find out from the business owners who they think is better for business?

My Dad voted Labor because he worked for the Council.

I voted Labour because of him and when i worked for Cole's.

Then i started to run my own business and found out that i had to look into it more. I was only 19.

So keep up with it a bit I say, it can help you keep your job and the company prosper,

[Jamie]

Another Labor promise that will affect our industry is the proposed 'no-take fishing exclusion areas'. Labor has done a deal with the Greens to introduce massive restrictions on fishing that will affect up to 3.5m recreational fishermen. I know of at least 2 helicopter operators that a large portion of their flights are taking fishermen to these proposed areas.

[Banjamin James]

I don't care about Mining etc but the bottom line is, when the Libs were in power the helicopter industry flourished and jobs were everywhere.
Since Labor got in, pilot jobs are like hen's teeth, helicopter prices have taken a nosedive, aerial work has reduced significantly, and if this carbon tax comes in I guess you can half the industry again.
I've always been a Labor voter but not now if I want to be a helicopter pilot.

This is a very very simplistic view on things.

[Jamie]

If it looks, swims and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck.

[FerrariFlyer]

The golden rule of elections is that governments do not get voted in, they get voted out!!! I don't really think Rudd was voted in, moreso people got tired of Howard for many good reasons and chose to vote the guy out (and now even the ICC don't even want poor Johny 'Eyebrows' Howard).

I think we are all smart enough to realise that contemporary politicians will say almost anything to get voted in. Once you're in, you're ok for the next 3 years and can seemingly act without fear of retribution nor consequence (unless your party really does not like you and choose to throw you out like yesterday's stinky rubbish if the polls are against you). A lot of people got frustrated with K-Rudd in the end due to the back flips and his apparent inaction after all the talk...lots of things tabled for change, little actually done. Then, look to the Howard year's and remember the core and non-core promises. In the end, they are all as bad as the other, regardless of which party they are from.

Then again, we are talking politics here and that is as contentious as that other touchy subject, religion.

[JT]

Anthony Albanese MP Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development has no idea about the needs
of aviation in Australia, have a look at this article to understand what I mean.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/busines ... 5868878824

Our company changed it's policy that stopped us from using the jump seat because of him and now that it's been overturned, it will hopefully return
to normal soon. I would positively say, from that one proposal he lost majority of the support from the airline industry!!

[Kulwin Park]

After reading all that political jargon, I'm still unsure who to vote for????

Liberal sounds the way to go for GA & Helicopter industry. Is this right????

Normally every year I just vote for best local seats, and not choose the big o-mighty-one - I hate voting for PM's when there is no suitable candidates I want representing Australia!!

[Pegs]

After reading all that political jargon, I'm still unsure who to vote for????

I hate voting for PM's when there is no suitable candidates I want representing Australia!!

Here Here.

[black duck]

Throw this into the mix!

What an insult to ADF Servicemen, Army in particular, and their Families by the Gillard Government!
They are thinking of evicting current servicemen's families from 162 MQs in Berrimah to enable ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS to occupy these very same MQs!
Shows exactly what Gillard/Faulkner/Griffin/Combet think of our ADF members in 2010!
What are you doing about this proposed blatant discrimination and "Duty of Care" Defence Ministers all ?
Remember to give this due consideration come 21 AUG 10 Peoples!

It's a great government tradition to treat serving and ex servicemen like s#%t, absolutely disgusting. It seems that LaboUr are better at it than most. By the way, I'm still waiting for the two medals you OWE! my father from WW2 you pricks and no I'm not going to pay for them!! Ah sorry the spleen vent doesn't have much to do with Feral Erections does it!?!

[Jamie]

I don't like Gillard, Abbott or Brown but you're not voting for a person your voting for policies. Rudd's gone but the policies remain including the anti-GA sentiment.
The whole idea of a democracy is to go the way of the populous and if we don't vote to voice our concerns, they don't see our issues.

[Coriolis]

JT, you are 110% correct!
Albanese is against everything GA and has no knowledge of his portfolio nor any interest in it! Anyone who has ever seen him speak realises very quickly that all his stuff is scripted and he has no interest in the issues at all! On top of that, he runs a corrupt Ministry as was recently witnessed by airport users around the greater Sydney area. His inspectors were caught drumming up business for a contractor with whom they had a working relationship and 1 guy in particular was very upfront about either hand over money to this company or we will close you down! A complaint lead to the guy being sacked and the company being put on-notice!
CORRUPTION in the ALP continues to go unchecked and is rife! You only need to look at the scams being run with the insulation debacle - one installer told of thousands of houses never having anything installed at all with the householders conned into signing for work that was never done - signed for what was supposedly a quote but was indeed a completion certificate!
As for airports and integral national transport infrastructure - Albanese want's as many airports sold off as possible because he sees them as non-essential in most cases and the playthings of the wealthy!
Remember too ladies and gentlemen - a vote for the GREENS is essentially a vote for the ALP! Don't get scammed by these conniving low lifes!

[Jabberwocky]

[An extraterrestrial robot and spaceship has just landed on earth. The robot steps out of the spaceship...]

"I come in peace," it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard."

Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with Arthur and watched the nonstop frenetic news reports on television, none of which had anything to say other than to record that the thing had done this amount of damage which was valued at that amount of billions of pounds and had killed this totally other number of people, and then say it again, because the robot was doing nothing more than standing there, swaying very slightly, and emitting short incomprehensible error messages.

"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."

"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"

"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."

"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."

"I did," said ford. "It is."

"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"

"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."

"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"

"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."

"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"

"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"

"What?"

"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"

"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."

Ford shrugged again.

"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."

[Trailing edge]

Jabberwocky,

Best 4 book trilogy I ever read. But fiction, just like most government promises.

TE

[black duck]

Jabberwocky,

Best 4 book trilogy I ever read.

Subtle!

[CYHeli]

A new bumper sticker.

[Robinsondog]

Love the bumper sticker.

Do you actually understand the new tax Robinsdog?

Yes BJ I’ve tried, I notice on Sunday Insiders that a “Small Mining” spokesperson said that there is not enough security for venture capital, which means no finance for exploration I.E. no helicopters out there stream sampling. Now I notice Twiggy and others really picking up their bat and pummelling Gillard over the new RRPT or whatever many headed monster it is.
There are some silly vegemites like the Rudd Govt who thought we should have taxed the miners via the super profits tax, i.e. we own it therefore we should get more of it. Rudd was even silly enough to say that the govt would back up losses when they came along. A few weeks ago one of the big three miners on the Insiders program put the lie to that, saying that they cannot budget for losses as they wouldn’t get finance and anyway the country couldn’t afford to pay for a loss year because at that time surely the whole country would be in such a parlous state and be unable pay for anything other than white goods from china.

Those vegemites that want a bigger share of it fill your boots, buy a pick and miners license and show us all how it’s done.

It’s a funny thing about tight years, both sides of politics in OZ in years past has turned to Infrastructure projects to go into debt building, which of course builds for the future GDP capacity. The Great Ocean road is a shining example. The Rudd-Gillard-Tanner-Swan Govt gave our surplus to white goods manufacturers, and car makers.

Cars like the new hybrid Camry a far less efficient machine than many others available, (in this greatest moral challenge of all time) and each of the 3000 so far sold has cost the OZ taxpayer a neat $100,000.00.

They also put our banking system back thirty years, not just because of the GFC, go try raise money now an a new helicopter and see how hard it is, what sort of margins you pay.

The NT News Sat July 24 has a feature on the seat of Solomon. Asylum seekers get a fair bit of attention. Other gossip around the place says that not only are the service families being turfed out of the MQ accommodation but they are going back to the same “sub standard housing” that it was deemed that the asylum seekers shouldn’t have to put up with in the first place. I ask you, is that kosher?


"My Dad voted Labor because he worked for the Council.

I voted Labour because of him and when i worked for Cole's."

Yes IB, it seems a cult thing, almost a pathos, but I don’t know where that brotherhood fuzzy feeling fits with the ethos of being stabbed in the back by your mate, mate.

[Capt Hollywood]

Bit off topic but.....

Best 4 book trilogy I ever read.

There are actually five books in the "increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy"

CH

[Robinsondog]

go try raise money now an a new helicopter and see how hard it is, what sort of margins you pay

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No sooner said than done. After I posted this I was tied up on the phone for an hour or two and the missus said that the Insiders Business program with Alan Kohler featured an interview with a National Australia Bank guru talking about this very subject, the topic, hard to get loans for small business.

Check it for yourself.

Interviewee was Joseph Healy, Group Execuitive business Banking NAB.
RD

[Schweizerlovin]

I am just afraid of the proposition of internet censorship. It shouldn't happen, not to mention Conroy wants ISP's to log every website you visit and have it linked to your passport. I did'nt come here to have big brother see my horse-lady prons