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  • Tibor Majlath: The member claims the $490 million GST in the May 3 budget is being allocated to the brand new railway line to High Wycombe, the Forrestfield link line. Do the feds. really hand out GST for... (10 May 2016)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Just what is 'the right amount of tax' when a company can reduce its tax obligations legally? What and where is the Coalition's modeling? Instead the minister as usual launches into an attack... (9 May 2016)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Yes, the funding does go up each and every year, it is what is not said that is so annoying. Using the Senator's figures we have the following increases :- 2014 $13.7b 2015 $14.9b +$1.2b... (9 May 2016)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Just speechless. (8 May 2016)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Correction: The last table should have had GST rate of 33/242 applied instead of 17/121 so that table should be 2015 $181.82 = $2000/11 = 10% GST in 2015 2016 $272.73 = $2000 x 33 / 242 =... (6 May 2016)
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  • Tibor Majlath: The Coalition rails against the carbon tax which "is ultimately paid by families and small businesses" yet is silent on its own Goods and Services Tax which is also the bigger electricity tax. ... (6 May 2016)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: Bob Katter is right about Brisbane tunnels. But what can you expect when you elect a Lord Mayor as Premier. Lord Mayors deal with sewage tunnels. Newman just treated us like sewage. Lets hope... (6 May 2016)
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  • Tibor Majlath: The responsible Minister repeats nonsense without qualification in question time. Firstly, electricity prices did increase during Labor's term in office. That is, we are meant to infer that... (6 May 2016)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Hope that Plan 9 from Parliament House is more than empty rhetoric when there is such high personal debt compounded by low interest rates and high mortgage debt - a recipe for future disaster. ... (5 May 2016)
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  • Mark Duffett: Apparently Di Natale does not realise that wind turbines, solar panels and battery storage will all require much more mining: http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v6/n11/full/ngeo1993.html "If... (5 May 2016)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: Mr. Schroeder has to hope that the electorate never have a say on flying foxes because if they do they will be shot out of the sky wherever they land. One needs to see the destruction they... (5 May 2016)
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  • Tony Zegenhagen: The Sale of the Kidman properties being stopped was more to do with a pending election rather than any ideology the liberals hold. They would sell and lease back the Harbour bridge if that had... (4 May 2016)
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  • Tony Zegenhagen: So true Andrew no duopoly of power should exist whether it is Coles/Woolworths or Liberal/Labor they must be broken up and beaten. This DD has give Australians that opportunity (4 May 2016)
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  • Tony Zegenhagen: Yes it is very sad that this government has failed to head the warnings of our forefathers. Our largest Dairy and our most strategic Military Port now in the hands of the fascist/Communist... (4 May 2016)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: Senator Brandi's seems to think it OK to extradite someone to a totalitarian dictatorship as evil as Adolf Hitler's Germany was. NO one should be extradited to Red China. WE should pass... (4 May 2016)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: Senator Ryan is correct the Greens are only interested in empty rhetoric but he is wrong that "they give no consideration for what actually drives ... investment". In fact the Greens spend a lot... (4 May 2016)
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  • Tibor Majlath: You have to ask how is it that the Minister ignored her own department's report entitled "Third Review of the Dental Benefits Act 2008" dated 17 December 2015 which states :- "In particular,... (4 May 2016)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: Bob Katter is right the Woolworths Coles duopoly needs to be broken up into a dozen competing firms. If this is not voluntary State Governments can implement by "nationalization without... (3 May 2016)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Couldn't agree more, Senator. We don't need a big new electricity tax. We already have a big tax on electricity. It's call the GST - thanks to the Coalition. It is applied to the whole... (3 May 2016)
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  • Tibor Majlath: This is nothing new. Minister Hunt's giant leap in logic tied the "high price" 2013 model with Labor policy back in 2015 as well. These are the same rehashed projections raised previously... (3 May 2016)
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  • Mark Duffett: Gobsmacking idiocy from the Greens to be looking to exclude nuclear projects literally in the same breath as invoking climate emergency, which their restricted prescriptions are singularly... (3 May 2016)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: The decision of the Government to block the sale of Kidman properties to Agents of Red China is to be congratulated but does any one really think that this had anything to do with their ideology... (1 May 2016)
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  • Tibor Majlath: The senator said "I have realised something that has been a crystal clear awakening for me, and that is that the term 'fairness' when used by those on the other side of the chamber is just... (22 April 2016)
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  • Tibor Majlath: The senator says "I am one of those who acknowledge climate change. I have always been unpersuaded-I do not get into this argument, because I have no scientific background-that it is man's... (21 April 2016)
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  • Tibor Majlath: Yes, there was a moment of clarity when the PM invited the states to consider taking responsibility for raising taxes themselves to pay for public hospitals and schools. Some of us remembered how... (21 April 2016)
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