Although its early days with election campaign polls, things are looking positive for the Libs to retain power:

Of course there's too much to claw back really, but assuming a uniform swing statewide would be foolhardy, especially in Queensland.

It also amazes me that those automated phone surveys do give such decent results for Labor considering it's pretty much only people over the age of 45 that even have landlines, let alone be bothered to respond to those sorts of calls.

lol people are still asking Credlin for her opinion, fmd.

-PB

Ironic considering peer reviewed research shows right wingers have lower average IQ than left wingers & the 2013 ABC Vote Compass showed right wingers had lower average education levels than left wingers

Although its early days with election campaign polls, things are looking positive for the Libs to retain power:

She's actually quite good. I got a lot of time for her.

You are so transparently bad as a troll :lol:

"Quite good"

:lol:

-PB

The Victorian Government has reignited its feud with Canberra over the controversial Safe Schools program, announcing it will publicly provide material about sexual diversity that had been deleted from the Federal Government's website.
It will launch its own web page today, to allow the resources that it says were watered down by the Federal Government.
The initiative is designed to teach children about sexual and gender diversity and stamp out homophobia.
Victoria's Education Minister James Merlino said the full program was vitally important because 75 per cent of same-sex attracted young people were bullied and they were six times more likely to attempt suicide.
"It's a program that saves lives," Mr Merlino said.
"We have never agreed with the watering down of this program.
"[Prime Minister] Malcolm Turnbull has caved into bigots and bullies in his party, we're not going to accept that and we're going to be putting all of the resources on the Education Department's website."
Mr Merlino said the State Government was providing an additional $300,000 a year to deliver the program in full.
The Victorian Government said in March it would not make any changes to the anti-bullying program despite a Federal Government decision to amend it after concerns from conservative MPs.
Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham said some lesson plans would change and the program would only be used in high schools after a review.
The review came after conservative Coalition MPs and senators said they were concerned about some of the material in the program.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-15/safe-schools-victoria-reignites-feud-with-canberra-over-program/7415452

Great news! :d

We can't afford a labor Government which would cause a Banking Collapse.

Negative Gearing will result in a property price collapse. Which means that everyone's property values will fall, leaving the Labor Heartland mortgage belts over exposed to the Banks. People will need to put huge sums of money on their mortgage or have their homes dispossessed because they will fall outside Loans to Value Ratios (LVR).

It would be a sub prime crisis, and some Banks might collapse necessitating a Bail Out.

Now your using loaded language. Our banking system is so heavily regulated so banks collapsing doesnt happen.you kee that though

Again watching Paul Murray on Sky just to see what a blatant megaphone the show is for the right wing with the stacked panels, but also a smug laugh at how poor conservative logic is (an oxymoron). Put them up against a academic and they would be made to look like intellectual children.
But nice to see them frothing at the mouth at the heretic Michael Kroger dictating that the Libs to preference The Greens in various Melbourne seats.

As opposed to left wing logic of bleeding everyone dry?

Again not in australia . Our banks are over regulated for them to collapse. The mortagees can lose everything but the banks dont and if they do collapse they will be forensically audited to see why they fail .

As opposed to left wing logic of bleeding everyone dry?

Yes, you are right in the sense that there is a bias to older people with phone polls to landlines, however I thought that these programs were updated to include mobiles. Maybe not all.
That said, the polling results would be subsequently weighted according to census demographic data, to match age percentages in the Australian population, so if there are too many old people responding they would be randomly discarded (or something like that)

How this rhetorical question is relevant to the quoted, I'll need some else to explain
But on the issue of 'bleeding dry', the right wing is doing a dandy job of it with the economy thanks to their denial of anthropogenic global warming. The economy is being set up to be an economic basket case in future with our pitiful response.
Germany, for example, are setting themselves up for the future once their renewable infrastructure is 'paid off' and energy production effectively becomes free. Concurrently, they will become experts in renewable technology that will lead to related exported products & services.
Innovation nation my arse....

Again not in australia . Our banks are over regulated for them to collapse. The mortagees can lose everything but the banks dont and if they do collapse they will be forensically audited to see why they fail .

Cutting taxes to balance the budget? You're having a Laffer

Interest rates, not tax, are the overriding forces driving investment and investor behaviour right now. Yet the ideas propounded by Arthur Laffer and others - that cutting taxes will ensure economic growth - persists. It's time we started to ask why, writes Ian Verrender.

Arthur Laffer is a jovial bloke despite all the critics, a ready smile on his lips, even when he's delivering a sarcastic crack at his enemies.

Almost 42 years after his now famous steak dinner with Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney at Washington's Two Continents restaurant - where he illustrated his economic theory on a cloth napkin - Laffer and his devotees have stuck to their guns.

The Laffer Curve, as it came to be known, formed an integral part of Reaganomics and Thatcherite thinking and Arthur became the poster boy.

As Laffer explained to his dinner companions all those years ago, government revenue would be zero if companies were taxed at 100 per cent because there would be no incentive to operate. Similarly, it would be zero if taxes were completely eliminated. Somewhere in the middle was an optimum.

Driven by Laffer's theory, the 80s were dominated by tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy, the idea being that lower taxes would provide an incentive for investment which in turn would create jobs, deliver economic growth and ultimately, raise more revenue.

Dismissed by many, including George Bush senior, as voodoo economics and disparaged by mainstream economists as the Trickle Down Effect, the theory didn't exactly deliver the goods, particularly for Reagan. By the end of his eight year administration, the government deficit had blown out and debt ballooned.

Even the Pope reckons it's a dud.

It relies on "a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralised workings of the prevailing economic system", he wrote three years ago.

It's a theory that hasn't lost all credibility, however. On a working tour of Australia last year, Arthur clearly touched a nerve within government circles, including Treasurer Scott Morrison, whose first budget - make that Economic Plan - borrows heavily from Arthur's supply side theories.

Hence the corporate tax cut, to make us a more attractive place for foreign corporations that specialise in evading taxes, and to high income earners.

In the rush to lower tax rates, so that revenue theoretically will rise at some undefined point down the track, it appears no-one ever really bothered to check what the optimum tax rate was. It's clear it is somewhere between all and nothing. But Laffer devotees continually want the rate pushed ever closer to zero...........
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-16/verrender-cutting-taxes-to-balance-the-budget/7416608

I think "the tax cuts definitely equals growth and jobs" argument has been well and truly debunked in the preceding pages but I just love this video :lol:

You do realize that this country will never become the socialist shit hole you want don't you mrags?

Where in the preceding pages was supply side economics debunked? Was it one of Murdochrags cut and paste jobs? :lol:

Anyone can cut and paste anything. Murdoch rags could cut and paste something that argues tax cuts don't work, and then I could cut and paste something that claims it does work, ad infinitum.

Cutting and pasting is for people like Murdochrags who are too lazy and intellectual incapacitated to make their own arguments, so they piggyback off smarter people and then claim because person A is smarter than person B, and murdochrags agrees with person A, he is therefore smarter than person B and all the people who agree with him.

your simplistic "leftards hurr hurr" arguments that have been a staple on here from those with notionally "right wing" views for years.