Most desirable places to live have people who overstay their visas and the only way to fix that is to have huge bonds which would stop people coming here in the first place or close the country. When people arrive by plane then claim asylum they have all their documents when they land, and generally their cases are dealt with swiftly and their found to be economic migrants and turned around within 30 days.
“We are watching, in real time, the dystopian collision of a self-interested, lying, narcissistic leader of authoritarian instincts, with a spreading pandemic in a country with a failed-state health system and large parts of its media actively spreading conspiracy theories instead of news.“ From the Melbourne Age.
Australian home minister Peter Dutton tests positive for coronavirus. https://news.yahoo.com/australias-home-affairs-minister-tests-070446253.html Was he hanging with PM Trudeau's wife? tested + Inquiring minds want to know. Moi Australia FIRST! No Globalism required
Some good news amid the bad. The number of Africa's critically endangered black rhinos has risen by nearly 800 over a six-year period, according to a new report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN.
The irony, the irony! The ABC's medical expert Norman Swan was tested for coronavirus this morning, after developing symptoms. Dr Swan said he was now in self-isolation at home. Coronavirus update: Follow all the latest news in our daily wrap He said, to his knowledge, he had not come into contact with anyone with the virus. It is not clear under which criteria Dr Swan qualified for a test. "OK, so now I have to admit I'm at home because I do have symptoms and after I finish this I'm going to get tested," he told ABC Radio this morning. The results will take a day or so to come back. Dr Swan is the presenter of the Health Report on Radio National and is a multi-award-winning producer and broadcaster. Dr Swan's career has been highlighted by his desire to keep the Australian public informed of health developments as they happen. He is also a presenter on the ABC podcast, Coronacast, which helps answer questions about COVID-19.
I was watching the news tonight and that bloke who runs the hairdressing chain which claims to only cut hair was saying that the franchise needs to be put on the shut down list so that his stylists can claim govt assistance. my local branch of this hairdresser has a permanently “broken” Eftpos reader. I wonder just how much tax the franchises pay?
The cash only thing they ran with up until recently (when they were forced to provide other options) was bizarre. Can you imagine running such a business in the 21stC?
Jacinda is like one of those old hag neighbours with a cigarette hanging out of the corner of her mouth and curlers in her hair yelling abuse at you all day.... makes you want to move Jacinda Ardern hits out at Australia's 'time to go home' temporary visa advice https://www.sbs.com.au/news/jacinda...ralia-s-time-to-go-home-temporary-visa-advice
Both the OZ and NZ governments are basically arguing about money - ie, who is going to pay for what - of course. Pathetic. Sovereign currency -issuing governments can issue their own currency, and don't need "taxpayer money": but treasury/central bank officials who know this are determined to keep the truth from the general public (who think government budgets are like household budgets). Sad. http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=44572 “We need the state to bail out the entire nation” .....And suddenly, who would have thought – the nation state is apparently back, all powerful and being begged to intervene. It is wake up time. Now no-one can be unclear about the fiscal capacity of the state. They now know that politicians who claim they don’t have enough money to do things were lying all along. So... 1. where is Morrison's $300 billion coming from? 2. who is going to pay for it? Hint: the government doesn't need taxpayer money to fund the $300 billion recue package. Governments levy taxes in order to limit the spending of taxpayers if required to trim excess demand on (scarce) resources (ie control inflation) - not an issue during this pandemic, because consumption is reduced to the essentials, while the rest of the economy is placed in 'hibernation'. http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/mmt-overcoming-the-political-divide.569365/
[I like Christ's teachings, but I don't like the Old testament, nor the Trinity mythology]. Pell's case is a Shakespearian tragedy. Ranking just below the Pope, he (it is claimed), in earlier times, succumbed to illicit sexual feelings powerful enough to disengage his brain....
Cyril Ramaphosa " “The report that came out was that the EFF was an MI6 project" Scarlet, dear, I admit I had to look up 'EFF'......are you sure you don't need to look in the mirror, given your less than flattering description of the NZ PM? (I see a red witch on a broom, married to Alan Jones, maybe...) And you too, Sally?......
I should not have responded to this (with my 'red witch on a broom' remark); it doesn't improve the situation in our broken world one iota. I will limit myself to policy and ideas. . eg did you hear Boris Johnson repudiating - a couple of days ago - Maggie's old dictum "there is no such thing as society"....
If you had to look up the EFF you are entirely unqualified to comment on the topic. they are the equivalent of the KKK on steroids....is that what you say I am... a KKK supporter who murders people, torture them for days, burn them alive and pour boiling water down their throats...babies in the oven.... you have no idea... if you're sour about the hag Jacinda yelling over the fence all the time maybe tell her to stop
So let's see if we can continue a debate by sticking to the issues, and avoid personal comment (as I suggested in my post above; eg, we cease exchanges where you say I am dumb, and I say you are an ideologue, etc, ….we both need to lift our game). Re the EFF - Economic Freedom Fighters. There is NO economic freedom in Africa. The West has been exploiting African resources, for its own benefit, for at least 2 centuries. eg Nigeria should be rich on the basis of its past oil exports alone. Disgraceful behaviour by Western companies, in collusion with western financiers*. No economic freedom means oppression, poverty and civil war...the very image of Africa for decades. Note: people do not CHOOSE to love in poverty, that's just common R/W mythology. Now, speaking of Australia (which this thread is about), prof Samantha Hepburn recently claimed (on a local Adelaide radio station) that Australia should be charging MUCH higher economic rent for its resources, such as gas: she notes that the OZ government will get close to NIL for OUR resources for the next decade, owing to generous provisions for extractive companies. (So much so it's now cheaper for Australians to buy back their own gas from Japan... a MASSIVE market-failure phenomenon). Needless to say, her chief concern is the huge post pandemic debt the Oz government will have to deal with, and would like to get more from our resources to help pay down this debt(.... *which ties in with prof Mitchell's statement: "We need the state to bail out the entire nation".....). Problem is: Hepburn's understanding of economics - no doubt like yours, unless you can demonstrate otherwise - is blighted by the lies that central bankers want to foist on the general public ie that currency issuing governments are not able to issue their own currency to fund specific programs, when in fact they can (with minor legislative changes re treasury and central bank). So the onus is on you to educate yourself, and learn how economies with monetary systems really work, and hence the expanded policy choices that are available to currency-issuing governments. http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/mmt-overcoming-the-political-divide.569365/
I want to know how heavily invested our superfunds are in Chinese investment products. China's Shadow banks are going belly up and some like Anxin sold high end investment products... how exposed are Australia? Coronavirus sends shiver through shadow banks in China https://www.ft.com/content/845df8a6-bd61-4e47-8966-1c8dab49516c This vvv was in 2013 ... how are we looking at this point in time? and in 2017
Ive had a thought for a long time that anyone in Australia aged about 40 or less wont see a cent of their super by the time they retire....but hay...that's just me....
If you don't lose your super through Chinese investments, inflation will chew through it...roll the dice
ok so day two for home online school apparently went great, the teacher was muted and the least ever learning took place in the history of schooling...while a great chat was had by all. Other teachers clearly were far more switched on than the muted teacher, kids were simply told to type their names in the note section for the roll then do the work in the link, after which they have free time. Method two was far more effective btw.
It's easy for me, my kids are teens. They are self sufficient and I just go ahead with my own schedule. Feel sorry for parents with younger children, that would be hard. I did homeschool my daughter for a year and a half a couple of years ago, it's only ghastly if you replicate a school environment and try to control the learning too much, it then turns into a battleground. At the time my goals were; 1. to foster a close bond with my daughter 2. to make sure she doesn't fall behind (so not so much to push ahead with learning) We spent two hours a day on work, went swimming and for lunch once a week, did a few excursions, learnt basic Spanish together and when she went back to school she was indeed ahead of her peers, basically you do more work in 2 hours of homeschooling than they do an entire day at school. I also found when they do a project on a topic based on their interest instead of a topic chosen for them, they research far more in depth and produce much higher standard of work... so I gave her free rein on History & Geography etc. It was a less than perfect curriculum but it suited us. I do feel peer socialising at school is important and this is why I never intended for her to remain a homeschooler. She is very happy at school now & I am closer to her now than I was before we did homeschooling together.... the best decision I ever made.
