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Good! Join me up.
We need you in New Zealand!
Oh dear, Barry E! Let’s hear his promise never to stand as a Liberal candidate or seek Liberal preselection again. (More of the gossip about Royals that he is so good at is always welcome. Keeps one away from the porn sites). But let him leave the subject of John Howard to Malcolm Fraser – the little man deserves a heavy hitter to scourge him regularly.
We need you in the UK we want our independence back too & get out of the EU!
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Would like to see some articles written by Peter Wicks addressing the alledged corruption in the AWU featuring Bruce Wilson and Ms Gillard. That would be interesting reading. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for existing and for supporting Peter Wicks in his work. We might have lost our Federal Government to a conspiracy without IA and Wixxy…
Thanks James, much appreciated.
DD
Tony Jones is not the right person for Q&A,I have written to the ABC about his antics,they need somebody that can call a halt to procedings when someone just rambles on, a case in point is Chris Pyne, also his jibes at our Prime Minister about knives in the back to one K Rudd..
Hello, I think this party is the real future for Australia, Monarchy is a real insult for human dignity and modern society where it is suposed everyone is equal before to law and country system and the simple figure of a king just destroy that sacred rule tipical from our modern and current society. By the other hand monarchy is always most expensive than a Republic, just because in a Republic the country faces economically only a single person and for a specific period of time, in a monarchy state holds a whole family giving all of them a king´s way of living, so all in their life full of luxury and pleasure…and an important money wasting for ciizens, and it is for a whole life!!!!!……And in other order of things in a Republic citizens can have the better candidate they select, and this simple fact improves a lot the democracy level in the country as well as earns a sensible developing of the mission of the country´s head cos it is obvious citizens only choose the person who they consider to be the better candidate to perform a country´s head work, a king due to he is not choosen by people but by mere casuality he might be a completly mistake for that work and so only ruin the country. And the last reason that suggest the most to choose republic instead of monarchy is that in a republic due to its president knows cityzens will judge the work and things he/she does, just he/she acts the best as posible, a king/queen kwons pretty well nobody can judge him/her and get him/her out from the country´s head status and so the king or queen doesn´t care at all in order to what people think really about him/her. I´m from Spain and know pretty well what it is that, to see how a king is laughing in citizen´s face all the time with his behaviour and his family´s general behaviour (notorious corruption, permanent abbusing acts, ridiculous developing of country´s needs etc etc).
So the best for Spain and Australia is becoming as sooner as possible a new Republic.
Monarchy is the past, Republic is the present and the future.
God save the Republic
God bless the Republic
Ed. Is there anywhere on the site a set of guidelines for commenting?
In the wake of the recent revelations:
“MILLIONS of emails and leaked records from offshore tax havens have exposed the identities of thousands of holders of offshore accounts, including the family of the president of Azerbaijan and French President Francois Hollande’s one-time campaign treasurer, the Guardian and Le Monde newspapers report”.
This article from the independent could be a good starting point for an investigation of Murdoch and other corporates antics to avoid paying their fair share of tax.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/paul-vallely-there-is-no-moral-case-for-tax-havens-2345096.html
extracts from above article:
“Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, with 152 subsidiaries in tax havens according to the US government, paid no net UK corporation tax between 1988 and 1999”.
“Half the world’s trade flows through tax havens. Every multinational uses them routinely”.
(Credit to comments of P Ormonde at The Conversation “Richest Australians to take super hit”)
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a hypothetical with serious intent.does anyone know if there is any part of the electoral act that given the obfuscation and misrepresentation of the msm and leader of the opposition that would allow a legal challenge to the outcome of any election with a view to either overturn and/or allow a new electionam very interestedin finding out and propose this as a discussion point at the very least. thank you for this opportunity patrick
Well reported JohnB. Keep up the good work!