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Everyday Australians are being attacked from all sides, not only are multinational corporates restricting the amount of taxes they pay to our governments through tax evasion and government concessions and subsidies, but Crown land is being sold cheaply to those corporations who are cashed up, with plans to build upon their ever expanding empires. The ordinary Aussie is left with great personal costs as services are scaled back or disappear. The rest of us are being left behind as cashed up companies and corporations gobble up cheap assets, whilst avoiding their responsibility to contribute to the tax revenue which is used to run the country.
Without the kind of political leadership that demonstrates a willingness to shoulder some of the risk and burden that everyday life throws at us all, we are left to carry the blame. Essentially it is not bad governance but our fault for not being “able to manage money as well as I used to”. The truth is that as government does less, we all need to do more with the same, or in some cases less, money in our budgets. The real culprits are not us, but the corporations and (mostly conservative) governments who are shifting the burden from the big end of town to the small end.
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The Townsville LNP State members of parliament know that their days are numbered; their government has done very little for the Townsville area, except the Blakey’s Crossing project that their government had been promising to do since 1988.
Crime in Queensland overall has decreased by only 2% since they took office, schools have been closed down, and no progress has been made on a whole range of matters for Townsville, including commuter light rail and public transport generally. Queensland’s unemployment level is up to 6.8% and in Townsville the figure is 10.1% with twice that figure in youth unemployment. The Newman government has been the most South East Queensland orientated government in living memory, treating Townsville more like an outpost branch of a Brisbane based company than the unofficial capital of North Queensland.
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Federally the pressure is also on. It has been amusing to watch North Queensland federal MPs, Senator Ian McDonald and Ewen Jones go at each other in a disoriented display of party ill-discipline.
The federal conservative coalition government is in a shambles, they are continuing to fight among each other and blame each other for the rejection of their ultra-right wing policies by an angry Australian electorate.
The leadership of the LNP is at fault, the Senate won’t have a bar of their unfair policies, and the Australian public have had a gutful of being treated like second class citizens.
Perhaps the time has arrived for a Double Dissolution?