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If you were working as an adviser to the government about possible public policy reforms what would you suggest?

If you could be a Labor PM for 3 years, just like Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd and Gough Whitlam what would you do if you were a reformist PM?

Labor divides Coalition on New Start Allowance. The Coalition has made promises that it will abolish Labor's increase of the New Start Allowance, regarded by many as a top up payment. The increase of the New Start Allowance which was provided by Labor in the 2012 federal budget is set to be...

Solo what are the traditional values that Labor should return to? Julia Gillard is an economic conservative you can't get any more traditional than that. Solo what university did you go to and what did you study?

I believe Julia Gillard is the best person to be PM because she works in a consensus, collegial and consultative style of leadership.

Who is the best person to be PM in 2013 and why? A) Julia Gillard B) Tony Abbott C) Kevin Rudd

Please read the North Sri Lankan refugees article which I wrote and respond to the question: Should North Sri Lankan refugees be welcomed into Australian society?

Budgets are about choices, and you need to appreciate the choice we had in this Budget when we saw the huge whack to our revenue base coming through. To have stuck to that objective, it would hit jobs and growth way too harshly – and I wasn’t going to ask Australia to cop that. A more gradual...

We're in very good nick compared to the rest of the world. We're got very low unemployment, record low interest rates, solid growth, contained inflation. Plus, despite what you read in some papers, we also have very low net debt levels - esp compared to the US. Our net debt is expected to peak...

Azure mate are you voting for the Labor party now that I have persuaded you of the merits of the Labor Australian conservative tradition. Stop Work Choices we must. Stop Work Choices we will. Vote Labor!

I think Tony Abbott can't afford to keep the carbon tax compensation should the carbon tax be removed because it is too costly. Abbott is not an economic conservative because his election promises are turning the Australian federal election into a giant auction. Good riddance to Tony Abbott.

Would a Tony Abbott government be able to afford to scrap the carbon tax but keep its associated assistance packages? Please state yes or no, with facts to back up your case. Tony Abbott has promised to keep Labor's tax cuts and pension increases provided as compensation for the carbon tax.

Solo are you voting Labor at the next federal election because you hate Tony Abbott's Work Choices Mark 2 policy considerations?

When I said renewable energy is unsustainable I meant that the massive hit to budget bottom line was unsustainable. Also renewable energy is all pain no gain. Many Green renewable energy companies in Europe, China and America have gone bankrupt. The economics of renewable energy shows that it is...

I trust that it is time to increase the top marginal tax rate, it's time to ask the high income earners to pay a little more in tax. As Obama has done in the US. This will help pay for the NDIS, Gonski educational reforms, NBN and subsidies to child care workers. We need a stronger and fairer...

I want to thank you for the outstanding work that the Labor government is are doing for pensioners. Pensioners are better off under the Rudd and Gillard governments than compared to the Howard government. The Liberals are planning to cut the pension and the New Start Allowance if they win...

Our Labor government understands the difficulties living on a pension which is why we have made significant changes for the benefit for pensioners. Single aged pensioners are $5,300 a year better off since Labor came to government. It is extremely concerning to think of the policies that could...

Swan persuades Hockey to support govt cutbacks. Joe Hockey has warned his frontbench colleagues the Coalition must consider passing the savings and tax increases in Tuesdays federal budget, including the abolition of the Howard governments baby bonus. Hockey advised his front bench colleagues...

knxd is a Sri Lankan Holocaust denier and is a neo-Nazi. Bored of Studies has no place for idiots like you.

I am not a communist although I am authoritarian. I humbly ask you to read my maiden speech. Margaret Thatcher, John Howard and Kevin Rudd employed an authoritarian style of leadership.