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Oct 19^th, 2014 at 10:56pm

The infrastructure PM.
He was supposed to deliver a report by now and yet not a squeak from him.
No dams poxing the landscape. No new white elephant coal ports. No nukes in everyone's back yard. I suspect he's not up to the job. Or maybe he over committed with the women's portfolio.
Anyhoo
the boom from the infrastructure pm is more a fizzle. Just like the rest of his pmship.

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Swagman Gold Member Offline Beware of cheap imitations...... Posts: 15095 Illawarra NSW Gender:	Re: Whatever Happened To ... Reply #1 - Oct 20^th, 2014 at 6:58am http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Sydney_Airport
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Ex Dame Pansi Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 24168	Re: Whatever Happened To ... Reply #2 - Oct 20^th, 2014 at 7:54am Whatever happened to...... the budget emergency That fizzled out too.
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cods Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 88048	Re: Whatever Happened To ... Reply #3 - Oct 20^th, 2014 at 8:02am Swagman wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 6:58am: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Sydney_Airport shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh dont tell him the greens have done their utmost to prevent anything worthwhile happening in this country
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King FriYAY II Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2109	Re: Whatever Happened To ... Reply #4 - Oct 20^th, 2014 at 8:13am Vote Green - and we'll get t-shirts banned......
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Swagman Gold Member Offline Beware of cheap imitations...... Posts: 15095 Illawarra NSW Gender:	Re: Whatever Happened To ... Reply #5 - Oct 20^th, 2014 at 8:14am Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 7:54am: Whatever happened to...... the budget emergency That fizzled out too. It's still there festering but it's justing getting worse after 5 months of political opportunism fiddling in the unrepresentative Senate whilst the economy burns.
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imcrookonit Ex Member	Re: Whatever Happened To ... Reply #6 - Oct 20^th, 2014 at 8:18am Thank heavens for the good people in the senate.
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Reply #7 - Oct 20^th, 2014 at 8:50am

Swagman wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 8:14am:

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 7:54am:

Whatever happened to......

the budget emergency

That fizzled out too.

It's still there festering but it's justing getting worse after 5 months of political opportunism fiddling in the unrepresentative Senate whilst the economy burns.

Dead wrong.

The Senate is doing precisely what it was designed to do - put the brake on bad
policy and the excesses of an incompetent, out-of-control 'government' such as
the shambles you've foisted onto us at present. This is why no government should
ever have control over both Houses.

It is currently about the only thing standing between us and Abbott & Co's 'vision'
of dictatorial Fascism by a single-party State.

It's a text-book example of democracy at work. Don't you like democracy?

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Swagman Gold Member Offline Beware of cheap imitations...... Posts: 15095 Illawarra NSW Gender:	Re: Whatever Happened To ... Reply #8 - Oct 20^th, 2014 at 9:58am Kat wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 8:50am: It's a text-book example of democracy at work. Don't you like democracy? It's text book Ochlocracy.
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Reply #9 - Oct 20^th, 2014 at 10:19am

Kat wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 8:50am:

It's a text-book example of democracy at work. Don't you like democracy?

Motor Enthusiast Party (Ricky Muir) -> 0.51% of the primary vote is elected a Senator for VIC

Liberal Party in VIC - 40.16% of the primary vote -> 78 times the primary vote of the Motor enthusiasts Party and it got one more senator??????? Shocked

You think that is text book democracy? Grin

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Reply #10 - Oct 20^th, 2014 at 10:25am

Swagman wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 10:19am:

Kat wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 8:50am:

It's a text-book example of democracy at work. Don't you like democracy?

Motor Enthusiast Party (Ricky Muir) -> 0.51% of the primary vote is elected a Senator for VIC

Liberal Party in VIC - 40.16% of the primary vote -> 78 times the primary vote of the Motor enthusiasts Party and it got one more senator??????? Shocked

You think that is text book democracy? Grin

We are in Australia .. Australia does not, nor has it ever, used a primary voting system ... if you want to learn more go here

http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/electoral_system.html

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Our esteemed leader:
I hope that bitch who was running their brothels for them gets raped with a cactus.

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Swagman Gold Member Offline Beware of cheap imitations...... Posts: 15095 Illawarra NSW Gender:	Re: Whatever Happened To ... Reply #11 - Oct 20^th, 2014 at 10:39am John Smith wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 10:25am: We are in Australia .. Australia does not, nor has it ever, used a primary voting system What's that got to do with it? Do you think that make it more democratic?
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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 75137 Gender:	Re: Whatever Happened To ... Reply #12 - Oct 20^th, 2014 at 10:40am Swagman wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 10:39am: John Smith wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 10:25am: We are in Australia .. Australia does not, nor has it ever, used a primary voting system What's that got to do with it? Do you think that make it more democratic? more than any alternative system you can name, yes.
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Reply #13 - Oct 20^th, 2014 at 11:39am

John Smith wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 10:40am:

Swagman wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 10:39am:

John Smith wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 10:25am:

We are in Australia .. Australia does not, nor has it ever, used a primary voting system

What's that got to do with it? Do you think that make it more democratic?

more than any alternative system you can name, yes.

How about "one vote, one value" ? Huh

Quote:

In Australia, one vote, one value is a democratic principle widely valued in Australia and applied in electoral laws governing redistributions of electoral divisions of the House of Representatives whereby the divisions have the same number of enrolled voters, within a specified percentage of variance. The electoral laws of the Commonwealth for the House of Representatives and all states follows the principle with some exceptions.

As opposed to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Senate
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Each state elects the same number of senators, meaning there is equal representation for each of the Australian states, regardless of population, so the Senate, like many upper houses, does not adhere to the principle of "one vote one value". Tasmania, with a population of around 500,000, elects the same number of senators as New South Wales, which has a population of over 7 million. Roll Eyes

Because of this imbalance, governments favoured by the more populous states are occasionally frustrated by the extra power the smaller states have in the Senate, to the degree that former Prime Minister Paul Keating famously referred to the Senate's members as "unrepresentative swill"

Listen to your God Smithy. The Grim Reaper has spoken.... Grin

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Reply #14 - Oct 20^th, 2014 at 11:52am

Swagman wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 9:58am:

Kat wrote on Oct 20^th, 2014 at 8:50am:

It's a text-book example of democracy at work. Don't you like democracy?

It's text book Ochlocracy.

Rubbish! What utter rot!

There is not even the slightest resemblance.

But we all know that, if Abbott & Co actually did have control of the Senate, you'd likely
refute everything you've claimed here and laud the Senate as the saviours of democracy.

Because that's the real issue, isn't it? You, and those who think (?) likewise want total
control over both Houses, and claim that anything else is undemocratic.

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