Queensland State Election
March 12, 2010 - 4:18 pm
My submission to Project Next with the ABC.
The parties in question:
Australian Labor Party:
http://www.alp.org.au/
And their leader in Queensland, Anna Bligh:
http://www.thepremier.qld.gov.au/
(this link might need to change should the LNP win the election)
Liberal National Party:
http://www.lnp.org.au/index.php
And their leader Lawrence Springborg:
http://www.springborg.com/
For the benefit of the Americans (and anyone else who’s confused) I should clarify: ‘Liberal’ in Australia actually means right-wing, so the Liberal Party here is kind-of-sort-of similar to your Republican Party.
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March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
The tone is sharp, …
The tone is sharp, but I’d not consider it teribly aggressive. But then, people who listen to Steely Dan all the time probably think Nickelback is heavy metal.
You’re a friendly guy in an earnest and patient kind of way. I simply wouldn’t train needlessly acidic tones in your direction.
Peace.
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
True, but your …
True, but your original message WAS eight months ago. I generally ignore people who comment on things that late no matter what they say. I’m just commenting on the aggressive undertone of your comments. Like the last sentence of the one I’m replying to now, for instance.
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
To say I’ve been at …
To say I’ve been at it for 8 months suggests a consistent effort.
I didn’t reply to me randomly out of the blue.
It had totally vacated my radar until another, messaged moi.
And if this is your idea of inflammatory, it’s amazing you have the stomach for Youtube,
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Hey I know this …
Hey I know this issue is important to you and everything but can you please stop leaving such inflammatory comments on my video? You’ve been at it for eight months now and I think it’s time you let it go. Thanks.
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Especially since …
Especially since they don’t pay tax, in the first place. One slice, two bites. Gold Jerry!
Let’s subsidize businesses that don’t pay tax. Awesome! And what a model to imprint for further national development.
Er, no.
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Oh, and those …
Oh, and those private schools they’re propping up. Ideally and constitutionally ought to be secular schools. The chuch is so eager to provide an education? Let’s see them subsidize with their bulging wallets.
Hey, Hillsong pays all to charity, let’s see the Hillsong express spring into giving. A religious education is between the parents and the religion. Not between the religion and my tax. They aren’t allowed to recognize a religious position.
Constiution 116.
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
The few that are …
The few that are taking out loans, are not the majority. The majority languish. And like I said- It’s a shit, or get off the pot situation. Most of those PAYING the funds, do not get them. If they’re so bent on this incentivization, phase out public schools altogether, and lower the cost of private even further. What we have no is the potty purgatory. They still can’t afford where their money is directed.
Stop wasting their money on crap, commit to an accessible structure, or stop wroughting.
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
No, you’re right. A …
No, you’re right. A government that spends millions a year, to inject a substance that is banned in european countries, imposed upon our will, that incurs more cost to remove, to 100% of the drinking supply, when only 7% of the supply is consumed.
Nothing stupid here. A government that spent, what was it? 7 million dollars to renovate the city square in to a barren, treeless furnace.
“They take out loans”
Like I said, they can’t afford. Stop stealing their wages to spend on crap.
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
You cannot distil a …
You cannot distil a lateral point. Though many have tried pointlessly. No, not complain about the condition. Complain about the distribution vs the condition vs the tax structure.
No, of course the government isn’t stupid. They just just spend 200 million a year breaching the constitution to prosletyze in unkempt schools, while they send aid to foreign nations in the same week our farmers who are undercut by a defective import tax structure are bulldozing the crops.
Nothing stupid here.
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
the majority of …
the majority of people in the private system are not silver spooners – they are merely the children of parents who sacrifice and take out loans so they can give their child a better education. you just sound incredibly bitter.
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
you complain about …
you complain about the condition of the public schools yet if you had your way and the government just funded public schools the thousands of students leaving the private system because they would be unable to afford it would result in government funds being even more stretched. each student in a private school costs the government half what it normally has to pay. that is a fact. the government is not stupid
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
PS- religions are …
PS- religions are already tax exempt business as it is. If they want to send their kids ot a “religious” school, and the religion is so exaltedly holy, let THEM subsidize. Let’s see the holy establishments put their money where their mouth is. It’s nauseating aneough that these pious drive swank cars into swank houses, from business that don’t CONTIRBUTE to the tax that goes to their schools. I call bullshit. Let them fund their flock. Not me.
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Or… would that be …
Or… would that be as sheep?
Hmmm, get the metaphore right and it works on two levels.
Cool.
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
*** to DRESS …
*** to DRESS counsellors, as wolves.
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
One could easily …
One could easily argue that they’re trying to incentivize the private school sector by rendering it so far superior. That is disconnected with the reality of attainability for those that provide the funds.
Either give the public sector the money they contribute, or give them back their taxes. Then maybe they can afford private, eh?
Shit or get off the pot.
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Is palmed off in …
Is palmed off in large disproportion to the private sector, a realm where they cannot reap the benifits of the tax they contribute. And while we have sweltering classrooms without air-conditioning, a woefully b-grade supply of learning resources, and paint peeling off the walls, what do we have? The same silver spooners using hundreds of millions per year to “counsellors” as wolves, and disseminate their faith. (Don’t give me “that’s not their job”. They BRAG about it in their own circles.
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Distribution of …
Distribution of funds, yes? What you say, is true to an extent. It doesn’t nut out the conflicating factors at work, however. It’s a shit, or get off the pot scenario. The majority of people, as it stands under the present climate of wage and taxation, can’t afford to send their children to a private school. Obviously though, the finances of the majority, provide the majority of the tax that acts to subsidize.
Their money is deducted from them, and in the homogenizing mill of distribution-
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
actually …
actually governments subsidise private schools for two reasons – so that parents have the choice of sending a child to a school of their religious choosing. and secondly and most importantly of all – it SAVES THE GOVERNMENT MONEY. every privately schooled student costs the government half what it would pay if they were in the public system. if the government stopped funding private schools they’d have to pay billions more because thousands would go back to state schools.
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
its a little …
its a little difficult to be understood with an aussie accent (or so it seems when i talk to canadian’s,americans and english)
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
some one is raiting …
some one is raiting in bad
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
i wish i had an …
i wish i had an Australian accent
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Hope to see more of …
Hope to see more of your videos again soooooon!!
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Miss you terribly! …
Miss you terribly! Hope all is well?
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
your quite cute :] …
your quite cute :]
just incase youve never been told before .
March 12th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
But anyway, this …
But anyway, this isn’t about the position of the religious. It’s about their position in TAX PAYER funded schools. If you want religion in your school, go to a religious school. If you can afford. If you can’t, just beg them to be christian. Like THEY beg the government to do (Private AND funded? Wow). Money from the government, and stiff fees, for your own flock? Ouch. If you can’t afford religious school, choose another school. Or another religion.