Bob Carr for Leader?

even tho I'm a Liberal voter....I'd be happy to have him as a leader of the Labor Party.

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Bob Carr for Leader?

i will be laughing once Abbott becomes known to the public.  that will be the test 🙂

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Bob Carr for Leader?

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lol @ Bo Bo


 


nope, his eyes are too close together. I don't trust him.

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Bob Carr for Leader?


i will be laughing once Abbott becomes known to the public.  that will be the test 🙂



 


Tone's mates vision for Australia.


 



  • Repeal the carbon tax, and don't replace it. It will be one thing to remove the burden of the carbon tax from the Australian economy. But if it is just replaced by another costly scheme, most of the benefits will be undone.

  • Abolish the Department of Climate Change

  • Abolish the Clean Energy Fund

  • Repeal Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act

  • Abandon Australia's bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council

  • Repeal the renewable energy target

  • Return income taxing powers to the states

  • Abolish the Commonwealth Grants Commission

  • Abolish the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

  • Withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol

  • Introduce fee competition to Australian universities

  • Repeal the National Curriculum

  • Introduce competing private secondary school curriculums

  • Abolish the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)

  • Eliminate laws that require radio and television broadcasters to be 'balanced'

  • Abolish television spectrum licensing and devolve spectrum management to the common law

  • End local content requirements for Australian television stations

  • Eliminate family tax benefits

  • Abandon the paid parental leave scheme

  • Means-test Medicare

  • End all corporate welfare and subsidies by closing the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education

  • Introduce voluntary voting

  • End mandatory disclosures on political donations

  • End media blackout in final days of election campaigns

  • End public funding to political parties

  • Remove anti-dumping laws

  • Eliminate media ownership restrictions

  • Abolish the Foreign Investment Review Board

  • Eliminate the National Preventative Health Agency

  • Cease subsidising the car industry

  • Formalise a one-in, one-out approach to regulatory reduction

  • Rule out federal funding for 2018 Commonwealth Games

  • Deregulate the parallel importation of books

  • End preferences for Industry Super Funds in workplace relations laws

  • Legislate a cap on government spending and tax as a percentage of GDP

  • Legislate a balanced budget amendment which strictly limits the size of budget deficits and the period the federal government can be in deficit

  • Force government agencies to put all of their spending online in a searchable database

  • Repeal plain packaging for cigarettes and rule it out for all other products, including alcohol and fast food

  • Reintroduce voluntary student unionism at universities

  • Introduce a voucher scheme for secondary schools

  • Repeal the alcopops tax

  • Introduce a special economic zone in the north of Australia including:

  • a) Lower personal income tax for residents

  • b) Significantly expanded 457 Visa programs for workers

  • c) Encourage the construction of dams

  • Repeal the mining tax

  • Devolve environmental approvals for major projects to the states

  • Introduce a single rate of income tax with a generous tax-free threshold

  • Cut company tax to an internationally competitive rate of 25 per cent

  • Cease funding the Australia Network

  • Privatise Australia Post

  • Privatise Medibank

  • Break up the ABC and put out to tender each individual function

  • Privatise SBS

  • Reduce the size of the public service from current levels of more than 260,000 to at least the 2001 low of 212,784

  • Repeal the Fair Work Act

  • Allow individuals and employers to negotiate directly terms of employment that suit them

  • Encourage independent contracting by overturning new regulations designed to punish contractors

  • Abolish the Baby Bonus

  • Abolish the First Home Owners' Grant

  • Allow the Northern Territory to become a state

  • Halve the size of the Coalition front bench from 32 to 16

  • Remove all remaining tariff and non-tariff barriers to international trade

  • Slash top public servant salaries to much lower international standards, like in the United States

  • End all public subsidies to sport and the arts

  • Privatise the Australian Institute of Sport

  • End all hidden protectionist measures, such as preferences for local manufacturers in government tendering

  • Abolish the Office for Film and Literature Classification

  • Rule out any government-supported or mandated internet censorship

  • Means test tertiary student loans

  • Allow people to opt out of superannuation in exchange for promising to forgo any government income support in retirement

  • Immediately halt construction of the National Broadband Network and privatise any sections that have already been built

  • End all government funded Nanny State advertising

  • Reject proposals for compulsory food and alcohol labelling

  • Privatise the CSIRO

  • Defund Harmony Day

  • Close the Office for Youth

  • Privatise the Snowy-Hydro Scheme

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Bob Carr for Leader?

Quite a long list there Spot.


 


I'll start crossing off after the 14 th:)


 

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
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