Australia’s most successful Labor Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, has called for a dramatic overhaul of the federation, proposing the abolition of the states and a shake-up of the Westminster system of government.
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Anonymous2015-12-29 2:23
Reform also means reducing waste and duplication. The forthcoming white paper on reforming Australia's federation provides a unique opportunity to reform the longstanding mismatch between having states deliver most of the services, but the federal government possesses the greater revenue raising capacity.
Without reform of our tax system, the burden of taxation will increasingly fall on personal incomes. Without action, the average income earner will be pushed into the second top marginal tax rate in 2017. Not only is this unfair, it's inefficient. Alternative sources of more efficient taxation must be found, be it through higher land taxes or consumption taxes like the GST.
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Anonymous2015-12-29 2:28
The first time since WW2 that the states are going to receive a share of Personal Income Tax, and we're already rushing to abolish the states..?
Turnbull himself said "Simply giving the states more money is Not the answer"... Does this somehow not apply to the Federal Nation-state?
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Anonymous2015-12-29 2:36
Lets just go back to having Western Australia and New South Wales then eh? WA is already fully optimized! running on 0 Income tax and barely 30% of our own GST...
You're complaints about border road-rule confusion likely only apply to people driving from Vic to NSW through the ACT anyway
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Anonymous2015-12-29 2:47
Of course a federally-based and funded(? lol) whitepaper on federal reform is going to do everything in its power to preserve itself...
Resisting when your numbers up only brings the inevitable faster ^^
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Anonymous2015-12-29 2:55
A quick meta-data enhanced-selective poll says 75% of people would go with abolishing the states... sounds like you managed to pick 75% of the people that would say such a thing ^^
where'd you find all these drop-kicks? canbeara?
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Anonymous2015-12-29 3:04
only a canbarean could think turning the whole country into the ACT would be a good thing...
How does sending everyone to uni at age 13 save money? Cheaper lecturers?
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Anonymous2015-12-29 3:20
Have you somehow confused uni for High-School?
I have no doubt Getting rid of the ACT would save at least twice as much money as abolishing All the other states... probably wouldn't even cost half as many jobs either.. Minimal interference with Actual services... It's a hard Sell!
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Anonymous2015-12-29 3:37
It won't work because the rest of the country can't afford to pay it's pensions...?
Sounds like an adjustment is in order.. rents were way too high anyway =)
Its a nice coincidence that ever since ww2, and by implication jews fleeing radicalized germany, we have not seen a dollar of Income Tax since!
Did we just inherit germany's worst jewim, and all the problems that come with such bad eggs?
Of course, there's no need to start building gas chambers and nuclear/biological/psychological weapons and what-not.. A jewish escort service, escorting jews back to israel, should be quite sufficient.
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Anonymous2015-12-30 1:31
When you are ready to let your pseudo-ethno-religio-culture go, Australia will still be here!
Game theory tells us it would be cheaper to simply not have jews and spies.
To be fair, we should probably escort all spies to next-door to israel aswell =)
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Anonymous2015-12-30 1:50
So if jews have made spies a necessity (which seems quite possible), do we get to blame your stupid god for this?
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Anonymous2015-12-30 2:00
It sure isn't the real god sabotaging your competitors!
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Anonymous2015-12-30 2:29
The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest. I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies. Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism
perhaps Terrorism is just The War on Spies..?
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Anonymous2015-12-30 2:31
Fits in fine with the history of terrorism in australia...
People used to blow up embassies & embassies used to house spies
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Anonymous2015-12-30 2:44
The funny thing is, I'd still tend to side with the terrorists They are actually the more responsible ones, when you're choosing between spies and terrorists
Sure, who knows what they're planning until it happens, but who knows what spies have even done, long after the fact..
Who would want the least responsible to win the terror wars