Labor
The current NBN will cost $60+ Billion, and increase speeds from about 8-12Mbps to up to 100Mbps (at even more cost to us if we want it) .
Liberal
The NBN will have a new business plan to ensure that every household gains five times … Read the rest
Labor says:
Tony Abbott will cut Schoolkids Bonus – a family with two kids would get $15,000 less over the kids’ schooling period.
Liberal says:
We won’t continue the school kids’ bonus (a cash payment introduced by Labor last year) because it’s a cash splash with borrowed money … Read the rest
Kevin Rudd (ALP) says that a Coalition government would sack nurses and teachers, and sell schools and hospitals !!
Tony Abbott (Liberal) says that the Federal government doesn’t employ any nurses and teachers, and doesn’t own any schools and hospitals.
Is Kevin Rudd running the … Read the rest
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the Coalition’s paid parental leave scheme would cost more than childcare payments to families.
Paid Parental Leave
The Coalition’s paid parental leave scheme will pay a parent 26 weeks’ leave at full replacement salary. The payment is capped at $75,000.
Expected Costs
$9.8 billion. Two … Read the rest
Australian households would be about $3,800 a year better off in 2020 with super-fast broadband like Labor’s National Broadband Network (NBN), according to new research commissioned by the Labor Government.
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BUT.. which NBN plans are they referring to?
Telstra NBN plans start at 12Mbps, about HALF the ADSL2+ maximum … Read the rest
Three years and three days after Julia Gillard knifed Kevin Rudd in the back, and it all goes around again.
Julia Gillard who called the snap leadership vote, stated the conditions of the vote:
Julia Gillard is now retiring from Politics.
With the vote … Read the rest
The 2013 Western Australian state election was held on Saturday 9 March 2013.
This was a win by the Liberal Party, led by Colin Barnett.
The 2015 Queensland state election was held on Saturday 24 March 2012.
This was a win by the Liberal National (LNP), led by Campbell Newman.
Prominent climate change denier Lord Christopher Monckton, is stirring up trouble again.
Lord Monckton is attending a conference in Perth, and will be be speaking on Day three. This conference is being opened by Tony Abbott.
Due to this event, the ALP are attacking Tony Abbott for his link with … Read the rest
What are peoples thoughts about a Brisbane Lord Mayor standing for State Parliament ?
ALP State premier Anna Bligh has her opinion on this, as shown in this newspaper report www.theaustralian.com.au/…/premier-attacks-lord-mayors-bid-for-state-seat:
ANNA Bligh has attacked Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman’s bid for state politics as a betrayal of the … Read the rest
