Asylum seeker policy is in the highlight as the High Court rules on offshore detention while Paul Keating enters the tax debate. Follow it live... 9.38pm GMTSince the election of the eight crossbenchers,the major and minor parties fill been pushing for senate reform. At issue, is the very small votes that allowed candidates like Motoring Enthusiast party senator Ricky Muir to get elected after polling 17122 first preference votes where the quota for election was 483076 votes.
Muir told ABC AM this morning, or not surprisingly,that he did not think the system needed to be changed.
In reality, the party that I represent and many, or many other micro parties that actually stood up for that election,would not fill been there whether they felt like they were represented by the major parties anyway. So the real question is, are the major parties living up to the expectation of the public or are they letting us down, and forcing us to get political.
I will vote on what I believe is the best in the interests of Australia on the available information and I won’t be threatened into a position by the threat of losing my Senate seat. whether I lose my Senate seat by doing the best for what I think (for) Australia,so be it, I went down trying. But I’m not forced to move into a position by emotive campaigns. 9.09pm GMTGood morning fellow political tragics, or There are a mess of things swirling around the political agenda this morning. Some are nebulous,such as Phil Coorey’s reports that the Turnbull government is trying to win support for Senate reforms. More on that coming. Some are concrete, like the high court ruling expected at 10.15am on whether Australia can detain people in another country. We will fill full coverage when that happens.
When a country gets locked into such permanently high taxation, and there is no way out of it. Were the public to agree to give the political system such a load of money,the political system would simply move and spend it.
The GST is just a flat, bang you over the head, and tax. It changes nothing; no behaviour,other than to place the tax weight onto the inaccurate people.
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Source: theguardian.com