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I know what you mean, wayne. And before, anyone else gives me one of these, I’ll give myself one.
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kay henry
***Warning – Long Post***
Why should tertiary education be free? – please no tree hugging hippie ideals, a solid logical argument for it. I see no reason for it to be free, or for students not to pay some amount towards it.
>It’s NOT free, there is something called HECS and something like 97% of all students pay it off. What allot of anguish about is the fact that fees are going up, I for one feel concerned when I walk out of uni and I’ve got a $60K debt hanging over my head…. Current reforms will increase that. This has concerns about trying to keep our work force up to a high standard of education (which is quite important for 1st world economies).
ALP – beholden to unions which have a socialist mentality, which doesn’t gel with my own life philosophy, and propped up by leftie students with no life experience. Unreasonably against people earning over 50k a year, which would be many of their own faithful nowdays.
>Alot of the statement there is true, cacus still holds the power (with unions holding 50% of the vote, and have te power to defeat motions, even if they have been succesfully – just in case!), I wouldn’t say they are propped up by left wing students more like unions (whom finance their campaing – nothing wrong with that).
Democrat – what do they stand for? Very much a spent force politically with no relevance. Hating John Howard is not a political position.
>I would agree they are a spent force, but they do provide a resonable balance in the senate – which is required.
Green – Lunatic fringe who know they have no responsibility to anyone as they will never win power, so they can try to headline grab, with no thought to impact or effect. 40% of Tasmanian forest is protected from logging – 40%!!! Get over it.
>Have you seen the devestation of Tasmania forrest when Gunns goes into one of those places??? Do you know how poison 1080 kils animals??? Do you know why Gunns refuses to let skilled timber workers access to pickup ‘left-overs’?? Because they burn everything that is left over, thats why. Tasmania is a beautiful place I would hate it to become a Sydney or a New York. As Tourism is the future (rather than logging) due to the ability to add higher value (you can’t really add value to wood chips) this issue will dominate the political/enviromental debate further. The fact the the Tasmania Forrestry does not really regualte Gunns or even discloses how much they have sold the forrests to Gunns for, does add a certain fuel to the fire.
How it is, is how it is.
I jut hope we can get more posts focusing on the impact to investors (Gittens in the Syd. Mornign Herald – is a great source!).
Rgds.
Lucifer_auSorry, Wayne. You don’t listen to Ray Hadley by any chance do you?
Lucifer,
I am very passionate about Tasmania as I am from Launceston originally. It is easy to say “stop logging now” and “tourism is the future” but a lot of people are reliant on this industry for work from Gunns employees, logging contractors, truck drivers, sawmills, shipping workers, wharfies etc etc.
You cannot end an industry like logging/wood-chipping without massive ramifications in such a small economy, and the majority of these people will struggle for work in other industries – particularly tourism. Unemployment is and always has been higher in Tasmania, with some areas nudging 30%. The job ad section in the major newspapers is only a few pages long – not a liftout like in SMH or the Age.
I agree that Tasmania is a beautiful place but, as I said 40% of native forest is protected – and that is a very, very large area. Gunns replants cleared areas to fell at a later date.
I’m not anti-green, I just think they over simplify.
This received this morning from Housing Industry Association,
The ALP’s new leader, Mark Latham, has released its new (and still fairly sketchy) industrial relations platform. The platform contains a number of measures which would disadvantage the housing industry, including –
Rejection of all building industry reforms;
Extending the powers of industrial tribunals, including to “dependent and independent contractors;
Abolotion of Australian Workplace Agreements;
Requiring employers to bargain in good faith with a union for collective workplace agreements, whether unions are present in the workplace or not, and regardless of the wishes of employees;
Industry wide bargaining (and therefore legal industry wide industrial action);
Removal of the secondary boycott provisions from the Trade Practices Act 1975;
Enhancement of the powers of trade unions to “act on behalf of workers generally”;
Although compulsory unionism would remain unlawful, abolition of the Office of the Employment Advocate would ensure that the law was no longer enforced.
HIA will be seeking to influence the ALP, and any future Labour Government, to consider the effect such policies would have on housing affordability and small business.If I knew then what I know now……….you know how it goes
Back to the Future….again (its same IR policy for the last three elections for the ALP). They’re consistent that’s for sure
james
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