Even the dumbest year 10 economic student would be able to understand the direct correlation that Australia’s mining/resources sector is driving Australia’s housing bubble and it entire service sector. Some people are just so stupid, they actually have no idea how many other businesses owe their livelihoods directly to the mining/resources industries. The majority of people in Australia are so dumb and backward, it just plain sad. These stupid people are not only allowing politicians to sell off every major public owned asset, but the same stupid people are facilitating the demise of their own employment and jobs in favour of refugees/illegal boaties and 457 applicants that are coming here. I saw one moron last night on Q&A whinge and whine about 457’s taking his job, but then advocate that Australia should have an open door policy on refugees and asylum seekers. LOL LOL These stupid Australians have absolutely NO IDEA how easy politicians made it, so a business could get a 457 worker, and under-cut the “Aussies” workers. Advertise for a couple of months. Have a few interviews, and then say no one was experienced enough, and then send off your application for a 457 worker. Even if an experienced Australian worker attended the interview, who is going know - its no as if the interviewee gets to write anything on the 457 application form. LOL LOL I personally know of five 457 visa workers who came out from Fiji as so-called professional aluminium welders on a 12 month assignment. It now been 3 years, and not one of them has went back home. In fact, two of them have had their wives join them in Australia… LOL LOL I am not against all 457 visa’s. In fact, Australia does have a shortage in specific professional labour, but Australia does NOT have a labour shortage in welders, mechanics and miners, and these trades could be easily filled by Australian living here Unfortunately, 457 visa workers are being brought into Australia under the disguise of doing professional specific labour like: welding, mining, mechanics and being general dogs-bodies. There is a reason why TAFE is always under funded and the first to have their funding cut, but dumbarse Australians just cannot see the bigger picture. Why put money into training Australians, when one day really soon, they can bring out foreign workers for half pay.
You call 30% of GDP " a tiny % ", it`s not tiny. In fiscal terms, 30% is massive, the mining boom is a massive gift that will be very unlikely to last much longer.
You obviously have no concept of how things work, which pust you on par with PM Gillard, and Treasurer Swan.
It is funny how brainless comments never provide any substance of reality! The same numbskulls believe rhineharts doing it tough due to nobody wanting to work for 2 bucks an hour.
What happens if you take mining out of the equation??????? I know. The IMF will be at our doorstep demanding we pay of the $395 BILLION dollar debt. How by implementing austerity measures like europe. What you think they will spare Australia??????
Speaking of "brainless comments", Gina Rhinehart never said that she wanted people to work for $2 an hour, & I`ve never seen anyone worrying about her doing it tough.
She said something along the lines that people in Africa are happy to work for such a low amount......... while they were being murdered by police while protesting being paid so low.
You still don`t get it, but I haven`t got the time, or the inclination to explain it again. Perhaps someone else could take over baby sitting?
Once again, you have completely missed the point. It`s not hard to see why an ALP PM doesn`t need nay brains to control the party faithful.
There has already been talk of Swan wanting to tax superannuation & should count as an austerity measure, maybe to head off the IMF? Many people here seem to confuse family spending were a home & maybe a car is purchased with a loan (debt) & pay it back over many years & then put aside money for retirement. However with government spending, when most world governments accumulate a debt the next government only adds to that debt & eventually debt gets so high that front line public servants have to be fired such as nurses, policemen & teachers because no more money can be borrowed to pay the interest on the money that was already borrowed. Australia is not at that point yet but if demand for our exports crashes it becomes not just a debt level problem but a bigger revenue problem as well.
I know that the ALP ,is imploding and will not be resurected as the working Class has had enough of the betryals ,lies and sellouts.everything lives and dies and after 130years the ALP ,is dying and the splits are the process of its death. One,half of the capitialist duopoly down ,Down with the ALP ,central prop of the ausstralian capitialist Class politically ,this militant worker says ,good riddence to bad rubbish ,pox on both the ALP and Libs ,and throw the greens on top . Forward to the Building of the Socialist equality Party in Australia,the only party of for and by the WORKING CLASS! Workers are a CLASS ,not a "community". BTW,my comments have the weight of 30years of political study ,and generations of experience of the australian WORKING CLASS,with the stinking corrupt ALP and ACTU! example ,tony abbot is a disciple of the democratic Labour party {DLP]and its ideological leader ,B A Santamaria,now if you don't know what the hell I am saying here ,then GO GET A EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL HISTORY ! If you do then ,draw the correct conclusion ,the ALP is imploding as a political formation !
Julia Gillllaaarrd,Industrial lawyer Liar for the AWU,remember the 'AWU Slush Fund Scandal' with julia's ex-boyfriend ? The idiot that is Gillllard forgot when she went to the AWU conference with her corrupt mate Paul Howes[we call Howes a SCAB ]we militant Workers. Simon Crean ,Martin Ferguson ,Doug [ICAC NSW mate of Obeid}Cameron ,and of course faceless man of the NSW right ALP ,BOB CARR! yes ,the blackleg SCABS ,of the ACTU Class traitors. One can be judged by the company of the "friends " one keeps ,CORRUPTION on CORRUPTION ,and the Working Class Knows it , PS,did any Australian Vote for BOB CARR to be in the government ????????? Oh thats right jobs for the Boys in the right-wing of the Eddy Obied NSW ALP! Julia at her best! Oh,and Afony Albanese,one minute a Rudd man next backstabbing Gillllarrrrd supporter! par for the course ,Afony .see you again at marrickville town hall next september ,we call this type a "Labour Grub',opurtunism personified . oh ,and DLP grouper Tony "Big ears" Abbott,the Fascist B.A Santamaria ,had the same type as Ears .. The crisis is one of capitialist rule as the Political Duopoly collapses the question is what replaces it ,Fascism or Socialism WW3 or Revolution ?
what is your substantiated reasoning for this belief.....got none I bet, just another cheap one line negative straight out of the rightest book of tricks
The crisis and complete debacle of the ALP governement is mere reflection thru the national political prism and distortion of the bankruptcy of bourgeois [Capitialist ] society ,its over good run 600years ,but all economic and historical gravy trains must come to an end ,proof ,watch the crisis depeen when the Lib\nats come to power and then when they go the same way ,what then as the ALP as a functional political party will be extinct or a pathetic rump . The ALP ,was formed by the Uninos and without them is well NOTHING Julia and good riddence to class comprimise rubbish of trying to reform australian capitialism .Scabs and blacklegs ALP\ACTU Class Traitors all. Down with the Capitilist ALP government ,forward to the Workers government .The liberals were a split in the 30's and 40's out of the ALP!nothing independent of the ALP ,we call this a Capitialist Political DUOPOLY! Oh and the Eddie Obied ALP NSW ,ICAC exposure of Bob Carr and the NSW Right well what can one say ,Greatest corruption since the Rum Corp ,no even more corrupt I say! Workers don't belong to a "community " its called CLASS,yes starts with a "C" but one is a Utopian Post-modernist construct ,andf the other a Economically and historically determined form of Slavery !? Down with Multi-Culturalist "community " of Utopian rubbish ,and forward to UNI-culture =Socialism .Human Species NOT Human Race!
Now you are obviously feeling better by getting that off your chest, would you like to focus on the actual debate or are you simply going to jump on every conceivable hook you imagine is being cast out for you to jump on....lol!! Once again fony abbott is a lying deceiving ego-centric nutjob! It is quite obvious if you don't wear extreme right wing blinkers!