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This same LNP government happily gives those same taxation dollars to mining companies in the form of taxation deductions and billions of dollars in diesel fuel rebate. Is it any wonder that Australians of all political stripes continue to protest 5 weeks after this horrendous budget was brought down - on our heads.
Australians thought they were electing a government of “no cuts to health or education, the ABC or SBS”. What we deserve is a new budget, or the chance of a fresh election so we can truly be heard.
The recent HILDA survey conducted by the University of Melbourne puts pay to yet another LNP lie. The truth is less Australians are reliant upon welfare than were in the past. Hockey would have us believe the opposite, in an attempt to turn one Australian against another, to divide and conquer.
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When people say the LNP are unbelievable, they certainly don’t mean in a good way!
The Queensland LNP government seems to be attempting to make fracking on land leased by farmers a reality.
The LNP promotes in their discussion paper ‘opportunities for reform’ one of which is to ‘make it easier’ for coal seam gas companies to trespass on land leased by farmers. With farmers already under pressure to allow these companies to enter their land and with it the possibility of contaminated underground aquifers, I would think that rural Queensland would be up in arms over this matter.
Queenslanders are not mugs, the Bligh government was punished for selling assets, and the same fate likely awaits Newman and his cronies.
One need not be a Professor of Economics to understand that asset sales are the first step in a slippery slope which works against ordinary families. Firstly the government/s claims that they have to sell assets to reduce debt while realistically the only assets that they will sell are public enterprises that provide an income to the government/s. The private sector are not interested in buying loss making services. They want cheap assets, preferably monopolies, that allow them to hike prices and lower services. This in turn lowers government revenues. As more and more assets fall a domino effect continues to worsen the problem the sales were supposed to fix.
Although the Newman government will not release the results of their Strong Choices survey, it is clear people told the government that they wanted an increase in taxes to those who could well afford it; but we received the polar opposite of course. We were completely ignored.
Queenslanders understand the connotations’ for their children’s future in this reckless ideology and we just won’t cop it.
Of course LNP policy always targets the poorest in the community which may not of concern for most people until sickness or accident intervene. That is when those government services are worth their weight in gold for ordinary families, and it is precisely those government services that will disappear under LNP governments are allowed to rule.