What about the GST?

Putting it out there to see..

The Productivity Commission is the Australian Government's principal review and advisory body on microeconomic policy, regulation and a range of other social and environmental issues. Its role, expressed simply, is to help governments make better policies in the long term interest of the Australian community

The Productivity commission is  monkeying around with tax talk again...although the former Treasurer head is now a private citizen, he does like to be in the limelight. Talk of the "inevitability"of GST (VAT, in the UK, TVA in Europe) increases was swiftly shot down by the government as well as the opposition...Let's see??





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DA..DAH!

Be afraid

The Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has agreed to join in the pressure to be put on Russia.

Loonies running the asylum

Tea and ?

The ABC reported today that the Department of Immigration has been ordered no longer to use the word "sympathise" in ministerial correspondence. Cute!

Cold War

Ice cold in fact....Gather Sarah Palin's been at it again. She suggests a bomb will settle the crisis in Ukraine. Tea parties are really more her thing.

Entitlement

Buzz words....the big chiefs are using this often.

Seems we are no longer "entitled" to things. The Australian Treasurer, Joe Hockey has confirmed we no longer live in the age of entitlement thereby putting to an end the long line of entitlement believers that probably started with captain Cook.
It's over, kaputski, finito! Just like that!
Do politicians feel entitled to their allowances and perks? I wonder .
Anyway it's the new "buzz" , the new corporate speak. Sounds good, too!
Understand Gina Rinehart has started using it. (For those of you unfamiliar with the Australian hierarchy, Gina is a magnate of considerable wealth and girth. Her companies dig up a lot of stuff. Fairly (?) influential she carries a lot of weight in various boardrooms and on bathroom scales).