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Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Is Turnbull original movie Lex or Smallville Lex

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Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Oh yeah. That Lex.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Looks like a LNP Leadership spill is on in QLD.

Bye Cyborg.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
I think Malcolm Turnbull is Supply Side Jesus.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
This thread is a mess.

A big FAT mess.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Ey motherfuckers LNP Queensland Leadership spill is about to go down on May Day.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
CAAAAAAAAAAAARRP

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Roy Morgan - 51-49 to the ALP.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

Negligent posted:

The budget will come out and the polls will be restored to the proper order of things

Logically speaking, the proper order was when Tony was PM and Labor was ahead. Malcolm Turnbull is a disruption to the proper order.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Meanwhile in the ALP Party Room

"Hey what if we treated brown people as you know, basic loving human beings?"

"Shut the gently caress up"

*Union Laughter*

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

EvilElmo posted:

Who would you prefer in Government? ALP or LNP?

There is a third option and they are called The Greens who are like the ALP but have this one vital difference in that they don't pretend to be progressive to win working class votes. They actually are and will continue to gain ground so long as the other half of the ALP tries to be LNP Lite.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
The Greens will never be in Government because people don't vote Greens because they will never form government because

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

EeeeeUuuuuugh

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Hey ladies, want to go cut taxes?

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Treasurer Scott Morrison will unveil a suite of multinational tax avoidance measures, including a diverted profits tax - commonly known as a "Google tax" - designed to raise billions of dollars over four years and head off claims he is only cutting taxes for business and the wealthy.


A new unit within the Australian Tax Office will also be handed more resources and staff to crack down on multinational tax avoidance.

Stronger protections for whistleblowers who provide information about artificial tax structures are also in prospect.

The government will also adopt Labor's tobacco tax hike of 12.5 per cent per year for four years - as foreshadowed by Fairfax Media last month - which according to the Parliamentary Budget Office will raise $3.8 billion over four years, and $47.7 billion over 10 years.

But in a major blow to the opposition, Treasury modelling of the tobacco tax hike - which will be included in the budget papers - has called into question Labor's claim the increase will pay for its funding promises, finding that it will only raise $2.3 billion over four years, and $28.2 billion over 10 years.

That, in effect, blows a $19.5 billion hole in the opposition's policy costings on election eve and will put pressure on the opposition to find additional savings or raise extra revenue.

Late on Monday night, Labor treasury spokesman Chris Bowen accused the government of a "desperate attempt to cover for the fact the government will be adopting, in full, Labor's policy on tobacco excise".

He conceded the revenue assumptions would be updated and stressed it had never been tied to Labor's school funding plans.

The trio of new multinational tax avoidance measures build on the Coalition's first set ofmultinational anti-avoidance laws, which was passed last December and will raise an estimated $700 million in the first year through stopping companies artificially structuring themselves to move profits to low tax countries.

Taken together, government sources said they expected the two tranches to raise more money than Labor's competing tax avoidance laws, which are designed to raise $2 billion over four years.

The changes mean both major parties go into the election advocating a crackdown on multinational tax avoidance, but the similarities do not end there.

The Coalition's tightened superannuation concessions are unlikely to blunt an attack from Labor, which is gearing up for an assault on the pre-election budget as a boon for the well-off, while giving nothing to the majority of low and middle-income earners.

Fairfax Media revealed on Monday that acompany tax cut would be introduced in the budget, while changes to the second top tax bracket of 37¢ in the dollar are also expected, as is an end to the deficit repair levy imposed in 2014 on the highest income earners.

Other measures include an extra $1.2 billion for schools, $2.9 billion for health, additional funding for corporate regulator ASIC and a possible extension of the $20,000 instant asset write-off for small business is in prospect.

The government is expected to argue that between tightening super tax concessions for the wealthy and its multinational tax crackdown, its budget will meet Mr Turnbull's stated aim of promoting fairness, while also stimulating jobs and growth.

Also in the budget is a replacement scheme for Labor's Low Income Superannuation Contribution scheme, which pays up to $500 to the accounts of people earning under $37,000 a year. The government still intends to wind up that scheme but, in a change of heart, will now replace it with another benefit, which a source said would remove the cost-penalty to the low paid when they pay income into superannuation accounts. This is expected to be beneficial to low-paid workers, the majority of whom are women.

In Parliament on Monday, the opposition attacked the government over what it said were plans to cut taxes for multinationals and for the top 1 per cent of earners while leaving workers earning less than $80,000 a year out in the cold.

"Data from the Australian Tax Office shows that four out of five Tasmania workers earn less than $80,000 a year. So why is the Prime Minister giving large multinationals a tax cut at the same time as leaving four out of five Tasmanian workers with absolutely nothing?" shadow treasurer Chris Bowen asked.

But Mr Turnbull fired back that the budget would be "responsible, fair and prudent" and would outline changes to the tax system, to make it "more sustainable, fairer and set us up for the 21st century for those great economic opportunities that await us".

Mr Morrison hammered home the point about fiscal rectitude and that "this is not a time to be throwing money around: you have to spend money wisely, you have to target it and the ultimate test is will it drive jobs and growth. We'll afford the things that need to be afforded in health and education and we have made our commitments plain there."

On Sunday, Mr Morrison had said the budget would offer tax relief for "people out there earning average wages"; he clarified on Monday that "the average full-time earnings in Australia is $80,000".

Tax stats from 2013-14 show there were 9,712,293 Australians with taxable income and 7,187,104 of them earned less than $80,000.

The multinational tax avoidance measures have been developed over the course of the last year after Australian Treasury officials went to Britain to work with their counterparts and understand how that country implemented the so-called Google tax.

Mr Morrison was handed a report by his officials in February that set out options for tackling multinational tax avoidance.

In Britain, the Google tax targets multinational companies that avoid paying tax by shifting thier profits to lower taxing countries, in that case Ireland. In Australia, numerous companies have been identified as using so-called "marketing hubs" such as Singapore to reduce their taxable profits in Australia.

And for the first time, the budget will put actual dollar figures on how much will be raised via the first and second tranche of tax avoidance measures.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Bill Shorten will be the next Prime Minister

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
You can post that gif all you like. shorten has improved considerably in public speaking since then.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Essential Research: 52-48 to the ALP

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
If Newspoll reports 53 or 54 to the ALP then Turdball is heading into this election as a near underdog.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

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lol Shorten's budget reply speech only has to be about people under 80K and the election is his for the taking.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

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Literally

"Ask yourselves this; Australians under 80k per annum. Are you invisible to Mr Turnbull"

And he'll win the public debate.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

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See poor people can negatively gear!

*points to some middle class Sydney assbag who inherited grandfather's house*

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
I wonder if all those PUP voters will evaporate back to the ALP. PUP vote seems like people hated the ALP due to leadership scandals but hated Abbott too. ALP has fixed itself up and now the Coalition is stuck with Tone Era policy skeletons.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL7M5RIXjY8

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJMdCbT0mE4

First Online Ad of the election

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

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And it's not even cropped properly.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
I wonder when political parties will actually spend decent money on online advertising outside of banner ads on News.com.au?

...and Astroturfing

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again


:haw:

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
How long until the budget speech
Will it be on ABC24?

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

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Haha, Scomo's got a new proposal for JOBSEEKERS

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

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Haha what

decrease to a 9bn deficit by 2019...BY CUTTING TAXES?

TELL ME MORE VOODOO ECONOMIST?

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
From the Government that brought you Border Force comes...

TAX FORCE :911: :911:

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

He mentioned some plan to couple Newstart applicants with REAL EMPLOYERS.

Newstart internships?

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

tithin posted:

[7:38:51 PM] sweeroy: from buzzfeed
[7:38:52 PM] sweeroy: From 1 April 2017 if you don’t have a job and apply for any kind of dole payment, you can opt in to a three-stage program that involves working for as little as $4 per hour.

Is this real?

:|

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Oh my god, Teenage Slave Labour.

Isn't this what Japan is doing to International Students?

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

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QUICK MALCOLM, HOW DO WE ATTRACT YOUNGER VOTERS!

PAY THEM FOUR DOLLARS

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

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OH WAIT IT'S MANDATORY HAHAH

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

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*Business collects 10k young employee subsidy*
*fires young employee 2 months later*
*rinse, repeat*


I WONDER HOW MUCH OF THIS BULLSHIT WILL BE CORRUPTED BY JSAs?

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
*doesn't touch negative gearing*
*puts young people into literal slave labour*

The ultimate gently caress you, Got Mine.

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Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

He said in his speech. Stage 1 is putting you into some resume writing and computer literacy class, stage 2 is putting you in an intern ship for 100 dollars a week.

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