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Australia is a great place to live. Our economy is strong, unemployment is low, companies are making good profits and real incomes are rising, as is our living standard.
The Fair Work Act is an important building block of that strength.
The facts show us that our workplace relations system is producing lower levels of industrial disputes, increasing profits and fostering agreement making while providing a workable safety net.
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The power of the Roman Empire can be traced back to one key factor: The Romans did not fear death. This was not so much a state of mind or philosophical outlook on life. It was, simply, the law.
This was a society in which making a good speech in the Senate, winning a major victory on the battlefield or even just being Emperor, were all grounds for a swift and unexpected execution.
If the leading men of Rome had permitted themselves to have even the slightest fear of dying no one would have gotten anything done, since the consequence of doing pretty much anything was to be stabbed in the neck by an old friend.
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oldtimer says:
Abbott accountable for what ? he’s NOT the PM…he can say and do whatever in Opposition. it’s the PM and her Party that need to be accountable….they are the ones in power arent they ??? or is it the Greens? (sarcasm) i dont know, im confused as to who or… Read more »
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Gubbaboy says:
I usually like your stuff Joe. But this is a bit wet and non sensical. You forget we have certain limitations in processing the queue jumpers. Gay marriage? Why not polygamy then? Why not incest? After all we are in the age of trashing traditions that have served us well.… Read more »
Hurrying along a Parliament House corridor this week, I was pulled aside by a Canberra insider with strong links to Labor.
“I want to let you in on a secret,” he said sotto voce, theatrically hamming up a non-existent threat of eavesdroppers.
“This government is just not very good.”
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Totally Switched Off says:
A simple explanation of the RuddGillard government time (5+years) in power EVERY 11 MINUTES THEY/HAVE BORROW/ED $1 MILLION . Read more »
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Kevin Hicks says:
It seems through your vehement attack on Liberal supporters you are guilty of the sin you accuse us of? Climate Change is now scientifically proven to be a fallacy and as there is a consensus in the scientific Community on this, it is factual. It is hard to develop policies… Read more »
When voters hit the polling booths in NSW on March 26, many will have no memory of a time before Labor. Such has been the party’s success in the Premier state, that it had come to regard government as its birthright. It’s a conceit that comes from ruling for the last 16 years straight and for all but 18 of the last 70 years.
But now the jig is up.
In fact, it has been up for quite a while but the state’s fixed four-year term has delayed the day of reckoning. Labor fell over the line in 2007, thanks mostly to a hopeless Opposition, but the diseases of hubris, of fatigue, of abuse of trust, had already begun.
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Edward James says:
@ acotrel. I intend to vote for change on March 26. I have worked hard toward inciting others to vote for change also since the last State election. My latest full page ad reads. Labor party members including Labor candidate Katie Smith (Gosford) and Premier Keneally (Heffron) have a dam… Read more »
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acotrel says:
Vote Liberal, and the boil will probably move to your brain! Read more »
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