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Question Time Live: 24/05/2010

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by Tory Maguire

24 May 01:45pm

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Since the last House of Reps Question Time both Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott went MIA in 7.30 Reportland. The Miners have also stepped up their war on the Super Resources Tax, and the Prime Minister has suffered some more poll pain.

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    • Yolanda says:

      02:58pm | 24/05/10

      The Labor frontbench are so smug and arrogant I could puke.

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    • John A Neve says:

      03:39pm | 24/05/10

      Yolanda,
      “Smug and arrogant” that might have been, but they were alo correct weren’t they?

      The opposition today were weak.

    • Rob r Charteris says:

      03:48pm | 24/05/10

      Yolanda says:02:58pm; At least that would be a better policy than the current opposition can come up with.

    • luke09 says:

      03:53pm | 24/05/10

      They are smug and arrogant. Fancy Julia Gillard telling us that miners(based on a student essay) only pay a tax rate of 17%. When company records forward to the ASX show a rate of 43%. The government are not telling Australians the truth. Julia Gillard looks more incompetent than Rudd.

      Distorting the truths/facts and class war fare(socialist ideals) is the DNA of true labor.

    • preciouspress says:

      04:10pm | 24/05/10

      You may believe ‘smug and arrogant. Others might say competent and confident and why wouldn’t they be, sitting opposite an idea and policy free zone.

    • acotrel says:

      04:33pm | 24/05/10

      ‘The Labor frontbench are so smug and arrogant I could puke. ‘

      Was that - ‘a great big new lie about everything’?

    • shane says:

      04:09pm | 24/05/10

      Yolanda.

      Funny, the Libs do the same thing for me. In fact, every politican in the place makes me sick.

      Reply

    • preciouspress says:

      04:24pm | 24/05/10

      The government clearly should not have used the academic report in support of their debate/row with the resources industry - the Opposition had a win here.
      The Government has introduced or proposed many policy initiatives particularly in health, education, infrastructure and in its response to the GEC. The Opposition have opposed the vast majority without any alternative policy proposal. Without the problems concerned with the necessarily speedy implementation of the Economic Stimulus Package, methinks they would have run out of questions. This Opposition is incompetent.

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    • Rob r Charteris says:

      04:46pm | 24/05/10

      I tell what is really sick, is the deputy of the oppositions accusations in regards to the Israeli’s faking passports currently on PM Agenda. That the PM is trying to buy votes from Arabs countries for a seat on the UN. That the PM would treaten relations with Israel, how low can you go. It seems to me that the opposition thinks foriegn agencies faking Aussie passports and then traveling to a foriegn country to commit murder is ok and nothing should be done about it. Julie Bishop your a sham!!!! how un-Australian can you get.

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    • luke09 says:

      05:14pm | 24/05/10

      She said she thought Rudd was vote buying because at this time the incident is still being investigated in Dubai and there is no concrete proof of evidence to confirm guilt, only assumptions have been made so far against Israel. Not once did she state ‘a foriegn country to commit murder is ok and nothing should be done about it.’

      We all know little Kevvie wants a seat on the UN.

    • Rob r Charteris says:

      05:40pm | 24/05/10

      I dispute that she never made any mention to the investigation in Dubai.
      You have incorrectly quoted her as of PM Agenda today. However she may of dug herself into a hole on another channel. She only referred to no proof, even disputing the report findings of the Federal Police, ASIO and the minster department.

    • Dan says:

      06:37am | 25/05/10

      luke09, and the Coalition doesn’t want UN seat? If the Coalition were offered a UN seat, would they turn it down? Of course no, which goes to show how hypocritical they and their supporters are!

    • Dave says:

      05:26pm | 24/05/10

      Funny to read people saying that the research report demonstrating how undertaxed the mining industry is was a “student paper”, when the paper was co-authored by a professor of economics and it was written for the National Bureau of Economic Research, the largest and one of the most prestigious economic institutions in the United States.

      The only times that the opposition has a win are when people blindly accept whatever knee-jerk soundbite they come up with in a vain attempt to discredit sound policy advice supported by two of the most knowledgeable economists in the country (that’s Ken Henry and Ross Garnaut). The only ones with egg on their faces are the voters who don’t bother to investigate what the parties are saying, in an election year where truth (even in the political sense of the word) is often jettisoned for whatever negative soundbite will catch the electorate’s attention with the hope that they will have moved on by the time their false claim has been disproven.

      Amazing how half the country would rather allow a couple of CEOs from multinationals to determine how our country is run rather than our elected officials.

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    • Rob r Charteris says:

      05:51pm | 24/05/10

      Yeah lol, that is a well paid student. They really are wally’s.

    • JR says:

      09:31am | 25/05/10

      Actually the paper is also outdated. The revised version removes the figure of 17% quoted by Swan. And the paper has not even been peer reviewed. And it was only a draft. Swan is the wally.

 
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