He was convicted and released years before he met her. I'm inclined to agree that it could be a headache for Opposition Leader or PM Plibersek in a way that it isn't for Deputy Plibersek, but let's at least get the story straight.
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Australia 2019 Federal Election |OT| Scott Morrison shat his pants at Engadine Maccas in 1997 after the Sharks lost the Grand Final
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A lot of blue chip suburbs are in his constituency, thus money and the political traps that go with it.
Edit: I should add the other half of suburbs in the electorate are small/medium sized business oriented.
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I think it was just the State swing and the resources the party threw into protecting Queensland. Dutton I think also has at least some semblance of how he's perceived; he voted Yes on the SSM plebiscite.
Contrast this with Abbott who had no clue wtf he was doing.
Jim Chalmers may be Labor Right, but he seems to be the most qualified to deal with the Queensland/economic anxiety problems that the ALP is facing
That's a pretty good point. It's like they're trying to sneak good economic policy past the electorate XD
Let's face it. We can kill two birds with one stone here. Let WA secede like we've always wanted to. That way Canberra won't keep bleeding them dry for the GST and enough Liberal seats will be taken out of the rest of the country that Labor will be a minority government.
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Apparently they're going to do it retrospectively, which makes it even more like the stimulus.
Apparently they're going to do it retrospectively, which makes it even more like the stimulus.
They kind of have to. FY 19/20 refund time is probably too late if they want to use it as such.
The Macquarie seat seems like it's really close (only 50 votes between the two parties). But yeah it seems like LNP will end up with 77 seats at the very least.
I don't know, if you can shit yourself in public and still be elected PM then anything is possible :p
I'm in the Macquarie area and noticed a massive amount of locals on Facebook push in the last few days for the Libs over the made up 'Death Tax' crap. I gave up setting them right as they just ignored it. People my age worried they'd lose 40% when their last surviving parent died, older people worried they'd not have as much to give their kids when they die. All made up and they fell for it. My area also has a lot of old people so was 60-70% Liberal, though I heard a lot of "They're all as bad as each other" from middle aged people. Fucking cretins.
Yeah, there was a whole lot of nasty social media lying going on, but Medicare. When I was in line the old couple infront of me were concerned about death taxes as well. The liberal person, a senator, did nothing to dissuade them.
Yeah, in the UK it's 40% of everything over Ā£325k. Means those with modest savings aren't effected but those with larger estates have to pay, unless you're really rich in which case you can find loopholes to pay sweet fuck all. Guessing here would have the threshold higher considering the silly house prices. Set it at a level that won't touch most people and it shouldn't get too much opposition.
no it isn't,
it's a regressive form of taxation that taxes the already paid taxes
taxes should only be paid once
Nah, someone is profiting from someone else's previous fortune. Just because it's from a relative doesn't mean it isn't income. Yes taxes were paid by someone at some point but the same could be said of any form of financial transfer, hell the money you spend in a shop was already taxed but the shop owner has to declare the profit and pay taxes on it again. Whilst I think certain concessions should be allowed for family homes and so forth I also think wealth that's transferred shouldn't be done so for free, it just encourages hoarding of wealth without penalty. I'd go much further and have a tiered system hitting much higher percentages for those who have tens of millions or more in the bank.
Not every hand me down is wealth, especially with increased cost of living
Hence why you have a tiered approach. People getting less will pay less or even nothing. In the UK people receiving under Ā£325k pay nothing, they pay 40% of anything amount over that. Australia would need different figures but it could still be weighted to have no impact on the average person. This isn't about taxing death, it's about bringing some of the Riches hoarded assets back into the system.
It is necessary if we want to maintain any kind of facade that we live in anything but a de facto aristocracy of capital. The existence inheritance-funded failchildren is incompatible with meritocracy, which is ostensibly the ideal of liberalism, as well as being grossly unjust.
Keneally, Wong, Burke, Fitzgibbon, Conroy, Butler and Giles are all supporting Albo, even though half of them are from the NSW right
Ā£325k is a ridiculously low threshold. It'd have to be at least $2m here if not significantly more.
The median wealth in Australia is about $190k, which is a lot higher than the UK, but still like, what, a quarter of Ā£325k?
Obviously that's not representative of median wealth at retirement or death though.
EDIT: Also, it seems that's US$190k, so actually $265k dollarydoos or Ā£144k.
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It's about $2.4m for the top quintile of retirees: https://theconversation.com/who-are-the-wealthy-retirees-targeted-in-labors-plans-94173
Still think there should be a progressive tax starting from closer to the median though, and the upper echelons should taxed out of existence: use it or lose it basically.
That article indicates the median wealth of retirees is $636k. You're gonna start riots if a flat rate estate tax starts at the median, but a progressive tax starting from near there is probably sound.
EDIT: Whoops, $636k for retired couples. Individuals will be lower.
Throwing in some kind of exemption or progressivity regarding the "family home" (that can be made up through tax on sale later) could in theory deal with the bulk of the issues coming from inflated estate values and the sentimental side of things. But given people were freaking out about an estate tax that doesn't exist...
THE SPREAD OF MALARIA IS DIRECTLY LINKED TO CLIMATE CHANGE
OVERPOPULATION IS GOING TO GET WORSE WHEN WE GET CLIMATE REFUGEES
HABITAT DESTRUCTION HAS ALREADY MOSTLY HAPPENED TO THE REEF DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATE CHANGE HAS AND WILL AFFECT OVER HALF THE THINGS YOU LISTED
YOU ABSOLUTE DUMBASS KENNY
Because the liberals are gonna solve all of those right? It's not like they have a vested interest in keeping these horrible things going hahahaha
Well, looks like my electorate, Chisholm is finally tilting to the Liberals with the postal votes... Sigh.
Liberalism and a true meritocracy are largely incompatible because merely being raised by wealthy parents confers a number of advantages. That said I'm for an inheritance tax and against children being raised by the state
How on Earth do you say all of that out loud and not immediately realise what an idiot you've been? People who don't give a shit voting Liberal because they've always voted Liberal is saddening but understandable - actually wanting change and caring about politics enough to have opinions that lean left and still voting Liberal though is just... why. How!
This is sadly incredibly common in my neck of country Australia. I know many people who lean much more towards the policies of the ALP and even the Greens over the Coalition but who recoil at the thought of voting for anybody but the Nat/Libs.