:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Try and tell the entire of my FB news feed that :lol:

I've never seen the word "assassinate" appear so much in my news feed before :lol:

:-k

That is of course the way the coalition wanted it but the marketing branch from KRudd.Inc was determined to focus on Abbott thinking he was unelectable

#HistoryWillProveOtherwise

Newcastle has been in one under a Labour government for months now.

I'm ready for mining companies to make money, so they can spend more money.

What makes you think it can get any worse.
We are already there from my observations, particularly the last 18 months with the unprecedented number of manufacturing job losses
It's not affecting me but so many others are under extreme financial stress

My apologise, when I'm bored and tired I develop the vernacular of a Garbo from Brooklyn.


Well it was a case of the unelectable leader against the unelectable party wasn't it?
Not necessarily my opinion, but that's the way most Australian saw it IMO.

It's a very hard concept for many to understand.Newcastle is such an important part of the equation in our economy's health and we need to see things pick up

I just love when people vote above the line and then complain about preferences :lol:

;)
If you extrapolate the logic of certain folk then Turnbull would have caused an absolute rout

I guess we'll never know...

Was talking with a mate about it last night (who's actually qualified in the financial fields). Basically he hypothesised Liberal government continues to financially protect Baby Boomers, resulting in continued increase in land prices and higher mortgages (including for baby boomers) who pass on that cost in rent, pushing up commercial property costs and thus product costs, thus continually devaluing the dollar and driving recession.

I don't understand this. If prices are higher, and people can't afford it, the land won't sell. You should see how many homes in Muswellbrook (Hunter Valley) are for sale or lease atm, and they can't move them. The value is going down considerably to attempt to make them move.

Mining is one of the most exposed parts of our economy to external influence but I'll be watching on keenly as it sounds like you will be.

What nonsense. How does your mate hypothesize the liberal government continue (they haven't even been sworn in yet) to protect Baby Boomers? Do you mean their land and property? Isn't this the responsibility of every government, to protect peoples property and rights? Does he advocate raiding peoples superannuation funds so they can't buy property anymore? Like what the fuck?

Prices are driven up because there's a general undersupply of land. Low supply = higher prices. Therefore higher rent. Therefore costs passed down the chain.

:-S No, the government frees up and sells more land for residential development, thus increasing the housing supply, lowering housing prices, rent costs and the cost of living.

But they'll never do that because the Baby Boomers' nest eggs are all tied up in property investment and they'd lose the value in their investment.

The other solution would be to increase asylum intake (which you'll never see under a Liberal government) so that Baby Boomers don't make up such a large portion of the populace and therefore their investments aren't such a large portion of the gross national wealth.

I'm sympathetic to what you are saying but the fact is we have protect Baby Boomers' nest eggs as much as possible otherwise the burden on us when they retire on mass (it's already starting to happen btw) is going to ruin us even more.

The Libs certainly did fuck us over by doing nothing to cool down the property boom (rather they gave us young people an extra $7-14k to help drive up prices) but it's a problem we're stuck with.

At best we need house prices to remain stable. Immigration growth is going to be required to increase demand as they all start selling off their assets to pay for their retirement. It's going to be challenging for a generally xenophobic (in rhetoric) party like the Libs to increase immigration over the time as is ultimately going to be required but they managed to pull the wool over people's eyes during the Howard years.

Asylum seekers is a different issue as you can argue skilled migration is more valuable for this type of thing. Btw I think asylum seeker policies of both Labor and Liberal are way off the mark and we shouldn't be punishing the victims.

It doesn't matter how you decrease the Baby Boomers as a percentage of the population but it has to happen or we're all going to end up screwed. As things are most of Gen Y will never own a home and a government has to step up, acknowledge this and proactively do something about it.

Both Parties' asylum seeker policies are turning us into global assholes, but that's not the point here. The point is that they're the solution to one of our nation's biggest long-term problems (inb4 people spout off about Global Warming, that's a pan-global problem).

Can you consider the boats stopped if they're never reported?

Schrodinger's Asylum Seeker.

How the previous Liberal government dealt with the issue.

Pretty much. Watch it be turned into a military operation and completely kept out of the public eye and voila, boats stopped.

Listened to that David Leyonhjelm on the radio this morning. Guy is a fucking nutcase. He's convinced the streets of Western Sydney would be safer if people were allowed to carry guns legally :lol:

Lack of blue font is disturbing...

I don't think increasing population will help housing prices (will probably do the opposite). Your investment distribution argument may hold and I don't agree that asylum seekers are the only solution to our problems with our aging population putting strain on younger people.

It makes me sound like I'm anti-immigration but I'm not. Just think the rationale isn't spot on in your argument.

The author of the article clearly went for each ones more controversial stances to scare people but regardless it is a worry.

i am not devoted the coalition....just vehemently opposed to KRUDD

all those years at Roy Morgan research taught him how to manipulate data to your own advantage...LOL

and you are quite right, he is bitter and twisted ABBOTT romped it in......LOL

the construction and housing industry has been in recession for 4 years

Once again, RMR called this election with the highest degree of accuracy over any other polling company. If you're going to try and denigrate my posts because of the pedigree of my former employers, I'm afraid you're going to have to try much harder than that.

The fact remains, the election result is not because of a major swing towards the LNP. There aren't many reasons for LNP supporters to be gloating.

The swinging voters (including myself) of Australia sent a very clear message - they're not fans of either major parties.