Friday 29th of March 2024

... and real work for the dole...

more rabbits

You could have been dazzled by this budget to end all budget since even Mr Morrison does not call it a budget but a way of life or such...

Impressive. So many rabbits, one does not know where to look. Even Leigh Sales was so impressed she asked ScotMo what was the point of the Liberals (CONservtives)' three years in government. I believe she thought the Libs could have released the rabbits earlier... Another economists tells us that this budget asks "for an act of faith"...

I suppose that the big earners that will be hit by the budget will find loopholes in the rabbit warrens as one would tunnel towards the Cayman Islands to deposit some cash. 

The clincher for me is "real work for the dole"... I am in tears....

phishing for voters here...

 

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These were questions Sales repeatedly levelled at Morrison, as she demanded to know why Australians should trust the Coalition to deliver on their budget promises when they had largely failed to do so thus far.

Sales brought up the Liberal party's accusation that they had inherited a budget emergency, but suggested in the face of such dire claims, they had not enacted sweeping economic reforms.

"When we look at the key economic data - inflation growth spending, the deficit - don't voters have to ask themselves, what has been the point of three years of this government?" Sales asked on 7.30 on Tuesday night.


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arts still a pauper...

 

Tonight’s federal Budget has again left the arts community and public broadcasting shortchanged with no extra funding for the arts and the prospect of further cuts to jobs and services at the ABC, says the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

While base funding of the ABC has been maintained, funding for specialist news services will be cut by cut by $18.6 million over the next three years, putting further pressure on already undermanned staff and raising the prospect of cuts to its regional news operations.

MEAA chief executive officer Paul Murphy said the new triennial funding agreement also announced tonight in the budget was a disappointment.

“The ABC’s base funding may be untouched, but of course the true damage to the corporation was done in 2014 and 2015, where about $250 million was cut,” he said.

“None of that money has been restored, while the special funding allocated to expand news gathering services – like the national reporting team, regional bureaus and the Fact Check unit – has been cut and news services will be placed under extreme pressure.”

Mr Murphy said ABC staff had delivered considerable improvements in productivity and efficiency in recent years.

“The cuts to the ABC have had a significant impact on its staff and operations.

“About 400 jobs have been lost, including many prominent journalists, the popular state-based 7.30 programs have been axed, television production in Adelaide has been terminated, offices in some regional centres have been closed, and most recently, there have been changes to regional radio programming.”

MEAA is disturbed that the new Prime Minister and Minister for the Arts have maintained the doomed course charted by their predecessors in the 2015-16 federal budget, which slashed $105 million from the Australia Council (since partly restored) and $40 million from Screen Australia.

“This is disappointing budget for our sector,” Mr Murphy said.

“The hopes that a new and more thoughtful approach to the arts would be embraced by the PM and Minister Fifield has all but evaporated.

“The $10 million from the new Catalyst fund in no way makes up for the cuts to the Australia Council.

“The arts community is the place where we know the adage, ‘from little things big things grow’, is absolutely true. The lack of funding and incentive for talented young people hoping for a break means the well of Australian talent will be far drier than it ought to be.

“We can now only hope that a federal election will act as a circuit breaker and that the open hostility demonstrated towards arts funding is reversed,” Mr Murphy said

https://www.meaa.org/mediaroom/budget-2016-arts-and-public-broadcasting-funding-crisis-continues-as-government-maintains-damaging-course/

 

I have an idea: Everyone who is on the dole should become an artist. See: "real work for the dole"... Er sorry... I know most artists are already on the dole... and being an artist is not real work, is it? I know... I have been one all my life... and I never got a cent from the government. I steal. 

 

And I have not seen anything good about the environment and global warming, so far. Still looking....

my parents are still trying to buy a house to live in...

 

On ABC radio on Wednesday, Jon Faine asked Turnbull whether his refusal to touch negative gearing was creating generational conflict, with young people resenting the difficulty of entering the housing market.

“They’re saying: ‘For goodness sake, you baby boomers want everything and you’re locking us out,’” Faine said. Turnbull asked if Faine’s children were locked out of the market, and he said they were.

“Well you should shell out for them – you should support them, a wealthy man like you,” Turnbull said.

Faine chuckled and said: “That’s what they say!”

“Well exactly. There you go – you’ve got the solution in your own hands,” Turnbull replied. “You can provide a bit of intergenerational equity in the Faine family.”

The comments made light of criticisms that negative gearing and capital gains tax arrangements disproportionately benefit wealthy people.

Last week Turnbull said it was “beside the point” that high-income earners tended toget the largest capital gains from property because “people on the highest incomes will make the highest gains, because they tend to have more property”.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/may/04/malcolm-turnbull-defends-his-personal-tax-record-and-negative-gearing-policy

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Yep, many people are happy still trying to buy their first house to place in their portfolio of negative gearing... Everyone is so wealthy that they are paid too much since they can also afford to a castle in Spain as well — though the competition for rabbit holes in Sydney is exciting. No one has debt to the eyeballs either. No-one is working except young people who are lazy bastards. Malcolm knows best: the Cayman islands are actually a sanctuary for the sanctity of cash when you are collecting all these rents. God made sure there were Chinese students coming to study at our over-funded universities, to pay such exorbitant lovely rents for living in the extra container you have placed on your negatively geared land. Their own parents are the one sending the money via Australia Post from China. You are still living in your first lovely container yourself.

And of course, ABC staff are overpaid for doing a disservice to the glory of the Turdball government.