“The LNP believe that the overwhelming majority of Queenslanders want their children brought up with a Judeo-Christian grounding in religious education,”

So this is if Can do becomes premier? Yeah I thought he looked like the type to go to church and a diddle a kid.
Definitely going for Kate Jones now. Everything about can do is a thumbs down.

I vote in ashgrove motherfuckers, your fate is in my hands.

Toll: My prediction is that the Greens will surge in power in the coming years.

^ or once some of their plans are implemented causing horrible and irreparable damage then people will see their complete and utter divorce from the realms of reason and pragmatism.

What have the Greens done, aside from helping getting the Carbon Tax passed?

I basically agree with Toll; I want a third party to come along that isn't as extremist as the Greens and some of the other ones and find it weird that all the other parties are just variations of that (ie, basically one-policy parties).

The Australian Greens will:
end the exploration for, and the mining and export of, uranium.

People saw bringing in the Greens as their voice of being more environmentally friendly decisions. Instead they've done nothing to help in that area except introduce an unpopular carbon tax.

Taxation

reduce inequities in the current personal tax system by:
reducing tax breaks for high income earners;
removing Fringe Benefits Tax concessions which promote increased use of motor vehicles;
removing the concessional arrangements for Capital Gains Tax;
only allowing losses from an investment to be offset against income from the same investment;
abolishing the 30% Private Health Insurance Rebate in order to increase funding for public hospitals;
taxing family trusts in the same way as companies;
eliminating high rates of effective marginal taxation for those on welfare benefits; and
introduce a new top marginal tax rate of 50 per cent on incomes of $1 million or over.
introduce an estate tax with full provisions to protect the family farm, the family home and small business with a threshold of $5 million as indexed from the year 2010.
conduct an inquiry with a view to implementing changes to the tax system that address the negative impacts of the GST on:
income distribution;
environmental sustainability; and
business administration costs.
oppose any increase or extension to the GST.
implement a gradual and long term shift in the tax system from work based taxes to taxes on natural resources and pollution including:
a carbon tax levied on generators of mains-supplied electricity or gas
a national carbon trading scheme; and
other ecological taxes and charges at a level sufficient enough that their prices reflect the full environmental cost of their production, use or disposal.
introduce a system of minimum personal and corporate tax legislation to reduce the opportunities for individuals and companies to use loopholes to minimise their tax obligations.
conduct a full review of the superannuation system with the aim of reducing its complexity and establishing progressive rates of superannuation taxation.
return the company tax rate to 33% and broaden the company tax base by reducing tax concessions.
limit tax deductibility for salaries & salary-related expenses for any individual employee to $1million per year.
end subsidies and tax concessions to environmentally harmful industries.

But why would you want to vote for something worse just because it's different?

i have to disagree.

this current parliament has been the most dysfunctional and ineffective of any i have lived under. if that is the disruption you were looking for i'll take the old status quo back thanks.

because there's all different levels of 'happy if someone did that to you' from person to person - it's not an adequate or consistent measure of whether or not to do something

I don't like a lot of their policies though and I probably won't vote for them again. I am just saying, regardless of what you think about the Carbon Tax and what effect it might have or not have, the Greens getting in has been disruptive to the status quo and I think that has been a good thing.

What? I did answer the question.

Somehow with a single seat they were able to implement the biggest change to tax policy since the GST, all without having to ask those pesky voters what they think about it.

I don't like a lot of their policies though and I probably won't vote for them again. I am just saying, regardless of what you think about the Carbon Tax and what effect it might have or not have, the Greens getting in has been disruptive to the status quo and I think that has been a good thing.

A lot of what is in that article about their tax policy that you have quoted there Hog seems to be fairly reasonable to me. My mum has some communist leanings though, and this has undoubtedly coloured my view on politics. haha

I believe it has the potential to reduce green house gas emissions.

"benevolent father figure"

How does taxing a relatively inelastic commodity save the environment again?



I believe it has the potential to reduce green house gas emissions.

how did they put that through your community?

You mean how are they responsible? At a federal level maybe not at all

I think it's irresponsible to blindly vote for any party.

"If I was running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008, and pray, as many times as possible, for a victory not only for Obama, but also for the Democrats."

1 - Strongly Disagree. This issue is very important in my choice of candidate.
2 - Disagree: This issue is important to me.
3 - Ambivalent: Do not care enough for the issue to have impact on my decision.
4 - Agree: This issue is important to me.
5 - Strongly Agree: This issue is very important in my choice of candidate.

this current parliament has been the most dysfunctional and ineffective of any i have lived under.

Unfortunately the damage is usually done by Greens policies in regional areas they don't vote Greens anyway. Meanwhile in inner city suburbs we still have a large number of fuckwits that think a vote for the Greens is a vote for the environment.

No one in any party is out to destroy Australia and destroy the way we live.

Schools are not teaching Critical Thinking they are Preaching Political views disguised as Science.

Theres a 9yrold girl a few doors up from me that doesnt believe in God, Santa, The Easter Bunny, but is convinced Climate Change is wreaking havoc on the Planet caused by Man.

Hogfather- The carbon tax is virtually identical to what was proposed earlier by labor but the amendments allow for a lot more flexibility in the upper targets of pollution reduction and increased support for research. This was the same policy that almost 50% of the liberal party supported if you take the vote of how Abbott came to power. Not exactly economy destroying stuff.

Had to laugh at Obama talking about "Climate Change" his plan is almost identical to Tony Abbotts Direct Action.

As long as you laughed when you realized, that the Carbon Tax is what Tony Abbott wanted 3 years ago ? ... It's a little hard to tell what Tony actually believes in.

When was the last time you voted for the coalition federally?

I voted for Rudd's Government, and Keating a couple of times

So if you vote for any one other then the coalition you are a labor voter ?

Sure you did (it sounds a bit like when a racist uses some of my friends have dark skin as a defence) ... but beyond that Relavence ?

Oh and get rid of 1 of our 3 tiers of government (I'd pick state, but constituionally that's difficult).

I too am in favour of getting rid of State Governments or Councils.