Is our 2 party system just a con?

[Siso]

T least he took his gst to an election

[Marty_d]

So when circumstances change, you would rather the government of the day either stuck to their election promises or call an election every time they needed to pivot?

What the hell do we elect them for then?

When Howard and Costello brought in the CGT discount in 1999 (from which the wealthiest 10% get 80% of the benefit), did they take it to an election?

Edited 9 hours ago by Marty_d

[Siso]

There is a difference when things change. They were asked several times during the election and they said flat out NO. Not much has changed since the election. Housing has been an issue for a long time now. 

 

As far as the Howard and Costello thing, Like I said they are all the same and we should get and expect better.

[Marty_d]

It's not just housing. The ratio of working age people to retirees continues to drop. It's only fair that income from assets is taxed at the same rate as income from labour.

[facthunter]

As long as you deduct the amount equalling the rate of Inflation over the Period under consideration , it's fair. The rich can afford tax dodges.  Nev

[randomx]

When housing is 71/2 to 101/2 the average wage when it's meant to be 3 and 4x av wage and a couple of our cities the most expensive in the world and we're still 1mil houses short but meanwhile let in over 2mil immigration and we have more homeless than ever in history and talking whole generations missing out on owning their own home ever , well  !

 

Yeah there's other things too, like record by "double" in small business going under, 1000s of our brightest minds leaving the country yrly or 70,000 builders just in the last 12mths going under, but you know, you'd have to be one selfish self-centred zero sighted AH not to be v v v concerned about our housing and people.  

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by randomx

[facthunter]

We have some of the Biggest Houses in the world and they Produce Nothing. Factories Produce things. Abbot and Hockey Booted the  Auto Makers out quite unceremoniously, and the accessories Industry disappeared over night.. with it. Abbot said they should get 'DECENT' Jobs.  What a Twerp.   Nev

[randomx]

Median house price mean the average . But if you think your country and people having the security of their own home, and houses being built means and produces nothing,  well, wouldn't even know where to begin.

 

As for the rest, fully agree. All our Govs have been destroying it all for decades.

No idea why .

Edited 2 hours ago by randomx

[pmccarthy]

Mean is the average. Median is halfway down the list between the highest and the lowest.

[old man emu]

50 minutes ago, pmccarthy said:

Mean is the average. Median is halfway down the list between the highest and the lowest.

It's nice to know someone has a knowledge of the various terms used in Statistics. 

[randomx]

Yep, lets all get all technical on bullshit that doesn't even matter.

Out of everything said and going on in your country, you two are all caught up on some bullshit term that means much the same thing anyway.  🤣

 

Edited 59 minutes ago by randomx