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LNP ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
Paul Keating promised a 12 per cent super guarantee as far back as the 1990s, but it was first delayed by John Howard and then by Tony Abbott, meaning that Coalition governments have now delayed the rise by a quarter of a century. All indications are now that Scott Morrison is contemplating the same.
Every delay has been accompanied by vague and unfulfilled suggestions that foregone increases in super will be offset by wage rises. Some government backbenchers, all of whom receive superannuation contributions of 15.4 per cent, are now going further by attacking the system's fundamentals.
Yet, there has not been a chorus of government MPs clamouring to end these concessions for the wealthy or boost retirement outcomes for women. Their focus is to simply take the legislated super guarantee rise off everybody, punishing millions of people, and ignoring the real inequalities that should be addressed.
If the super rise is blocked, average families will have as much as $200,000 less at retirement
Greg Combet
Columnist
Westpac and its super arm BT gouge $8 billion from unsuspecting public
The super funds run by banks and financial institutions – many of them major Coalition donors – have been fleecing the public’s super on an industrial scale for at least a decade. This is the story Westpac and News Corp Australia didn’t want you to see in mid-2018 – even in the middle of a royal commission into banking illegality. Investigative reporter Anthony Klan reports.
Not only does the government want to make Super gouging easier for retail managers like the banks but they want to strip the Unions of management of the funds when they have proved to be the best, most effective, and least expensive.
China says coal imports failed standards amid stalled Australian shipments
When asked about Australian coal stalled at Chinese ports, foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said 'we found that many coal imports have failed to meet environmental standards'."In recent years Chinese customs have conducted risk monitoring assessments on the safety and quality of imported coal, and we found that many coal imports have failed to meet environmental standards," foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said when asked about the Australian coal at a regular briefing.
Despite the bans, Australia remains China's top seaborne coal supplier in 2020, as Mongolia was forced to trim exports in the first half of the year due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The Free Market isn't as free as the LNP make out
Coal is one of seven Australian imported products that have reportedly been targeted with bans by China amid rising tensions between the countries.
FAKE NEWS
CORONAVIRUS ENDS ALL ECONOMIC CARES. OR WE’RE SET UP FOR A FALL
Coronavirus has given us the most amazingly wonderful world. Debt is suddenly no longer a problem. Nor are other things we used to worry about: inflation, needing to save, big government. Either that, our governments are setting us up to be smacked in the face by reality.
Debt was always a problem for Bolt but only if it was Socialised but never if private like Payday lending. Debt slavery was quite Ok with Andrew Bolt as long as it wasn't shared with the likes of Indigenous Australians and single mothers. It's all he and the LNP could crow about pre 2013 was the ALP's debt. The sky was falling in back then when we had a debt of $19 B due to the GFC and were regarded as the second best world economy. As soon as Abbott got into power it doubled and Bolt had shut up. Health Education Housing and Jobs weren't to be paid for out of the common purse. Ours was a users pay world.
Generational status was rightly inherited and it was normal for children to start life in our social system where their parental cards landed. The systemic nature of that inequality was a positive driving and meritorious force. Without private debt and only socialised debt we'd be a society of freeloaders happily living on State Welfare paid for by the SHARED wealth of social climbers like Andrew Bolt. Never mind that he's a non essential worker a millionaire working for billionaires who is the last person to lean down and give a mate a hand up.
MEGAN MARKLE, CARRIE SYMONDS AND THE SEXIST POWER OF BEDTIME PARTNERS
Britain has a problem with young, inexperienced and unaccountable women wielding huge political influence just because they slept with a man at the top. Meghan Markle is the most obvious. But Carrie Symonds is the most powerful. How does a 32-year-old get such unearned power?
Amazing isn't it. Andrew Bolt's career path was supported by women who were higher up the social and occupational ladder than he was. He hid the fact that he was a male who socially bedded his way to the top. However, here he is bagging out women who for whatever reason were fortunate to do the same. Normal given the nature of our Capitalist System for them but not in the case of Andrew Bolt.
Remember when Bolt claimed he was a "minder to a belly dancer" when in fact he was a kept unemployed man supported by the charity of his fiance at the time. His work mates remembered Bolt to be an aloof young man totally unexceptional but for the fact he was dating a woman in the office who was his occupational senior. Bolt married above his social station and then years later wrote how he was the unfortunate only breadwinner the heavy lifter in a house full of dependents who relied on him. Dependants that prevented him living his real dreams If you followed Bolt's career path it could hardly be called a meritorious one. Yet here he is bagging out women who in many ways mirror his path to greater heights normal for women in Capitalism. However not so Andrew Bolt who self-imagines his as "man-made"but not really so.
Bolt was little more than a hand bag in the lives of the women he "used" or did they "use" him in our sexist society? The probability given the systemic nature of sex in Capitalism Bolt the male used women far more than he was ever used. As much as he never really had a relationship with any exceptionally powerful women his history does suggests he dreamed of women as a path up the social ladder from where he was.
MARADONA: GREAT PLAYER, TERRIBLE CHEAT
Diego Maradona has died. Many call him the greatest player of all. His second-most-famous goal is probably the best I've seen. But his most famous goal of all damns him forever as a cheat. And his private life tells us this was not an aberration but his character.
Be fair Bolt you have a history of bullshit but no great achievements so what does it say about your "character"? You have a very holier than thou approach to boosting yourself by pointing out the mistakes of others. Schadenfreude is very much a central characteristic of your personality.
Argentinians, no the world celebrated the man's humanness with all his flaws unlike yours that is the most priggish bigoted and publicly self promoting.
THE AGE HAILS BRUCE PASCOE AS A NSW ABORIGINE. HE WAS BORN IN VICTORIA
Bruce Pascoe's claims to Aboriginal ancestry seem bogus, yet to journalists of the Left it is a matter of moral principle to believe the unbelievable. The latest effort, from Miki Perkins of The Age: "Two years ago, Pascoe, an Aboriginal man of Yuin heritage..." But wait: Pascoe used to trace his heritage from another tribe from another state.
Bolt reveals himself yet again to be less than any other man rather than more in his never ending nit picking of Bruce Pascoe who has admitted he has limited proof of his indigineity. Bolt never really mentions that but suggests the reverse is the case when being so selective about what it is Bruce Pascoe has actually said.
For 35years Bolt claims he never felt Australian but somehow now does. Many of us don't believe him and for good reason even though he has a birth certificate that says he is. He claims to have felt Dutch he's never asked if the Dutch accept his claim even though he holds dual citizenship. He dreams of retiring there. At least we have that in common. We wish he did.
SUZANNE MOORE; WHY I QUIT THE GUTLESS GUARDIAN
What 338 Guardian "colleagues" did to Suzanne Moore shames them, disgraces the newspaper and defines the new Left. Moore tells why she's quit: "In 30 years of journalism I have often disagreed with people... but no one has ever done something so underhand as to try and get someone fired because of one column."Bolt hold the Guardian up to be judged on the basis of a single journalist who resigned and wasn't fired. There have been far more than one that have done that in the Murdoch media. When governments have shown their criminality Ruperts was known to have struck deals not to be prosecuted himself. He's been happy to see staff jailed, executives fired and papers closed. We watched Rupert Murdoch do and Alan Bond when questioned for criminal practices in the UK. Rupert's own son James has left the organization for claiming its gutlessness to speak the truth. Bolt has no shame when he's trying to impress showing his loyalty to News Corp.
Guess it's because there is no other organization would have him and the branches that do here in Australia are sinking and sinking faster since Kevin has set his sights on making the Murdoch pay down under. Trump is intent on making them pay in the USA as well so the heat is on and the temperature is rising.
Moore resigned but Bolt doesn't seem to think she did. The Guardian didn't fire her she left of her own accord. Bolt on the other-hand has aided and abetted in the firing of countless journalists in the industry for speaking their minds. If he wasn't the reason for them being fired or leaving he often made out he was and done so falsely loudly and proudly .
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