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Make the most of every day Don't let hard times stand in your way Give a wham give a bam but don't give a damn Cos the benefit gang are gonna pay!

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@adorablegov Despite the boosting/doom posting of mainstream media ON have clearly concluded their political prospects in the VIC state election are so dim as to not warrant any major investment of funds.

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@iL1keTurtles @taipan168 You’re rewriting history. Howard took the GST to an elections. It didn’t flop over the line, Aussies voted for it.
Repealing the GST would bankrupt the states. I don’t see Aussies voting for that without an alternative state funding model which would be immediately contentious.

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@iL1keTurtles @taipan168 So make those arguments. Productive discourse doesn’t happen when you say “I have better solutions” but don’t offer or explain them.

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@SZamparutti @grantcohn Aye cobber

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@SZamparutti @grantcohn You know who I’m talking about:

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@SZamparutti @grantcohn nvm. Having dug deeper I can see you are engaging in sublime trolling. Well done sir, you got me. That doesn’t often happen. Only a true Australian could get one over on me like that.

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@MamaCranky @undefinedhandle Not sure. I was just sharing my personal experience. Makes sense that they would stage the rollout. (Not really though. I’m not convinced anyone ever read the nothing to declare declarations)

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@DrewPavlou Look up 103 & 143 class family reunification visas. The sponsoring child doesn’t even need to be an Australian citizen. Naturally the recipient can bring not only themself but their spouse and any other dependents. Automatic pathway to Medicare and citizenship!

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@undefinedhandle @MamaCranky I returned to Australia from Finland a month ago asa solo traveller and used the digital arrival declaration with no difficulty. Are families unable to use it?

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@iL1keTurtles @taipan168 If bipartisan support of a policy is wrong you’ll need to explain why both the major parties and their supporters got it wrong. So please go ahead and tell me, the ALP and the Coalition why we’re all wrong and you know better.

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@iL1keTurtles @taipan168 The electorate is rarely wrong. When wrong it’s mostly attributable to government control of the fourth estate. Control of the media and public discourse is de facto control of public opinion.

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@taipan168 @ChrisStephens84 That’s before the cost of healthcare and age care is accounted for. Both funded by income and corporate taxes which are mostly paid by working age Australians.

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@taipan168 @ChrisStephens84 Sounds about right. The aged pension is indexed at wage price inflation not CPI which is stupid as has contributed to the ever widening wealth transfer from income rich but asset poor young families to asset rich handout dependent elderly.

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@taipan168 @ChrisStephens84 NPV neutral means visa approval fees in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Given immigration policy over the last two decades that is a guaranteed path to electoral oblivion so we’ll never see it happen.

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@taipan168 @ChrisStephens84 Of course the logical extension of this reasoning is that parent visa grants should be NPV neutral to Australia given the likelihood most recipients will spend decades on the pension and only rarely become (bottom bracket) taxpayers for a few years before retirement.

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@ksyd2015 @fantoman79 AI ascendancy is a lie. We are in a repetitive long COVID cumulative cognitive decline. Perpetually masked COVID cautious types rule ascendant over us ambulatory germ incubators and the frontier AI lab models.

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@dowhatonemustdo @fantoman79 True. But dignity makes a beeline for the dunny and cleans up after itself.

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@fantoman79 Yes. This is “primary school maths.” Hardly a revelation. Australia’s self-described “most trusted doctor” (unregistered and non-practicing for decades heretofore) told me.
I doubt you have a better source. Follow the science next time.
Source attached because I am a scientist.

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@grantcohn @grantcohn if you enjoy it you’ll probably like this one even more: https://t.co/Cw2ZCfgV93

(I’ve gone to the trouble of finding a Californian retailer for you). They’ve also been kind enough to let it accrue some decent bottle age too.

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@grantcohn That is a delicious drop and one that can be enjoyed young. (A lot of Henschke’s great wines do benefit from bottle age. This is one I enjoy drinking young.)