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@johcaschro wrote:"It would appear you and most other contributors to this thread are very strong Labor supporters, ( please correct me and tell me you are LNP supporters if I,m wrong ) and as such, you see nothing wrong with the way the ABC presents biased news and current affairs programming. Looking through your rose ( or red ) coloured glasses, this is just facts about the " dirty, stinking Liberal party " to borrow a line from another popular thread here."
Well I'm definitely not a supporter of or voter for the conservative right wing parties.
You'll have to judge for yourself on this.
I believe in free, govt funded education at all levels. I don't believe public money should be gifted to support private enterprise eduation of any description. If a person wants to send their kids to private or religious schools, then they should be prepared to pay for it themselves.
I believe students in private schools should recieve the same $ funding per student as kids in public schools with any extra paid by the parents of the private school. This seems fairer than your proposal.
I believe in free, govt funded medicine at all levels and believe that all private medical practice should be nationalised. There is something horrible about for-profit private enterprise medicine making money from the suffering of the sick. There is something noble about a society which has both the ability and the desire to care for all of its people.
I believe that good quality medical care should be readily available and free for all Australians rich or poor. If people want to pay for extra sevices thats their right and who are you or I to tell them they cant.
I believe in free or maximally subsidised housing for the poor.
Largely agree with you on this one. I just think it is unfortunate that the current system is too often exploited by people who are quite capable of looking after themselves but are too lazy to do so. This places an unneccesary burden on the system meaning that many genuinely poor or disabled people cant access affordable housing. And yes I have public housing at the rear of my home and so see first hand genuine people in need and also people abusing our public housing system.
I believe that the supply of essential utilities like electricity, gas and water should be nationalised and run by the govt. We were told that privatising our electricity supply would lead to lower prices as free-market competitive forces came into play. But it didn't and never ever was going to. We were lied to.
Couldnt agree more with you on this one. No ifs buts or maybes.
I believe that prisons should be owned and operated by the govt. To make private profits from incarcerating those who offend against society is, in my view abhorrent. It's the govt's responsibility to enforce the law and to administer penalties.
Again 100% agreement......
I believe that all of our mineral resources belong to the Australian people and should not be leased out to be exploited by private companies which in my view steal the profits which rightfully belong to all of us.
WOW three in a row......100% Agreement
I believe that the govt has no role to play in the subsidising, by public moneys, of any religious belief and their various institutions. I understand the complex power interplay between rulers and religions and they both use each other in order to exert a degree of influence and control over people who know no better than to be ensnared in their patently ludicrous and societally damaging mythologies.
Make that four in a row !!!
So, you call it. What am I ?
Fairly similar to me by the sounds of it............
.....Seems we have more in common than things we disagree on.
@marwi_3023 wrote:
I worked for nearly a year planting blue gums on tree farms and don't know the exact numbers but it would be thousands if not ten plus thousand
Blue gums are grown for commercial harvesting when they get big enough and 100's of farmers have been left
with a "resource" that's worthless to them,(the original people like Elders that got them to plant them have pulled
out and the farmers are left with the trees which are to costly to cut down).
They also extract all the nutrients from the ground so the land isn't as "rich".
One of the cheap option might be to bulldoze them and then burn them,(so in the end there will be no trees
left standing,which makes for a lot of wasted energy by all the people that planted them),
Others have had "accidental" bush fires go through them which also seems to work.
Like you, I have little faith in trickle down economics and believe the tax system needs to be tightened to ensure major businesses contribute to a just society, rather than simply feathering the nests of an elite few..
