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Rudd playing catch up politics.

You know how to tell when Rudd is bereft of policies? Out come the attack ads. He has got nothing, so out come the attack ads. The sad thing about them is that those attack ads have no truth in them whatsoever!

longweekend58 wrote on Aug 15^th, 2013 at 5:55pm:


you mean like Abbott did with Gonski, NDIS, increase in the cigarettes levy & changes to FBT , that sort of grabbing?

John Smith wrote on Aug 15^th, 2013 at 6:57pm:


you mean the FBT changes that Abbott is opposing and is actively advertising against even on this very website??? 

damn you are a stupid person at times.

Labor pledges lower company tax in new Northern Territory economic zone

KEVIN Rudd has pledged to create a special economic zone in the Northern Territory, with a company tax rate up to a third lower than elsewhere in Australia.

Unveiling Labor's northern Australia policy in Darwin, the Prime Minister also pledged to build the third stage of the Ord River irrigation scheme in Western Australia, and develop special economic development plans for north Queensland centres.

Mr Rudd said the NT's special status under the constitution would allow the creation of a special taxation zone.

“My personal objective for the territory is it would be great to have a company tax rate here one-third lower than that of the rest of the country,” he said.

Mr Rudd failed to provide costings for the pledge, which would not be delivered until 2018.

A one-third cut would reduce the corporate tax rate to 20 per cent.

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/election-2013/labor-pledges-low...

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The government has attacked the Coalition's draft paper, which reportedly includes plans to divide the north into different tax zones and reallocate $800 million from the foreign aid budget to build a tropical health medical centre in far-north Queensland.

Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Thursday slammed the proposed cut to foreign aid, saying it would damage relations with countries such as Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.

Senator Carr said it would meant that causes such as polio, HIV and malaria would not get as much funding.

''This shows their recklessness on foreign policy,'' he told reporters in Canberra. ''It would damage Australia's standing in the world.''

He said that the draft Coalition plan was different from the government's plan to fund the cost of looking after refugees on Australian soil from the aid budget, at a cost of $375 million.

''What Tony Abbott's doing is radically different,'' he said.

Even more contentious in this election year are reports that western Sydney will lose some 20,000 public sector jobs to northern regions under the plan. With 10 western Sydney seats held by Labor within a margin of about 5 per cent, many say the election will be won or lost in that region.

Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury told Sky News the Coalition's northern plan would be ''hundreds of billions of dollars of white elephant infrastructure''.

Mr Bradbury, who represents Lindsay, a western Sydney seat Labor holds by only 1.1 per cent, said Mr Abbott's idea would result in ''gold plated footpaths in Karratha while people are stuck in traffic gridlock in Sydney''.

Greens leader Christine Milne also rejected the plan, saying it was a recycled idea from former Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen and mining magnate Gina Rinehart.

She said it was an ''old frontiersman'' plan that didn't fit in with what the Australian economy needed, which was a transition out of a ''dig it up, cut it down and ship it away'' mentality.

''This is just Tony Abbott doing what Joh Bjelke-Petersen and Gina Rinehart want,'' Ms Milne said.

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http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abbott-hoses-down-tropical...

longweekend58 wrote on Aug 15^th, 2013 at 6:58pm:


is he? I thought he was supporting the changes .. ( I generally don't pay attention to adds, on this website or not)

that doesn't make your comment any more correct. You are still an idiot who has no idea