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  • Brett Hilder: A very good welcoming speech. More of this in the wider public arena would reduce the cynicism amongst voters. (19 November 2014)
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  • Mark Duffett: Milne twists what the Chinese have committed to do. Contrary to her clear implication that it's all about renewables, the '1,000 gigawatts of energy by 2030' is, directly from the text of the... (18 November 2014)
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  • William Boeder: Day by day, week by week on and on it goes, Senator Eric Abetz uses his assumed position of someone who knows what is in the best interests of Australia. (Notwithstanding his callous... (18 November 2014)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: It is very seldom that I agree with a single utterance by the Greens but on this case they are spot on. Senator Lambie was not elected to hijack every debate. The Senate President or Chairman... (18 November 2014)
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  • Brett Hilder: Why did your government NOT hold ASQA, the national training (VET) regulator to account for repeated breaches of the NVR Act, 2011.............and repeated failures at the Administrative Appeals... (18 November 2014)
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  • Brett Hilder: The previous government put in place a poor regulatory framework and encouraged it to take a hostile approach to private training providers. Many quality training organisations have been... (18 November 2014)
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  • Brett Hilder: Thank you Minister. The national VET regulator has been making public statements denigrating the work of the majority of RTOs. Fact is, their figures are based on hopelessly nebulous... (18 November 2014)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: Senator Madigan should know better than to call the dictator in Beijing "President of China". The last legally elected President of China is in Taipei not Beijing. Even ex DLP Senators should... (18 November 2014)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: Repealed a Carbon Tax which the LNP went to 2007 election advocating. Allowed the closure of the Car Industry, Food Processing Plants, Shut down Live Cattle Exports, closed Caterpillar, In... (6 November 2014)
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  • Kay Spurr: And for this we pay Mr Hogan $195,130 pa plus electoral allowance plus nearly $29,000 transport allowance? Oh yes, he did support the Budget because it was 'fair' and has asked a few Dorothy... (30 October 2014)
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  • Mark Duffett: "our communities, our farmland and our environment devastated by coal seam gas extraction" Really? Where and how, exactly, have they been "devastated"? (devastate (v.). destroy, ruin,... (30 October 2014)
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  • Anthony McIntyre: You cannot have sustainable growth. We live in a finite world so one day growth must stop. We keep being told the old furphy that we must have continuous economic growth. Even the government's... (30 October 2014)
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  • Brett Sanderson: Why was the Chief Minister of the Norfolk Island Government not acknowledged by the Speaker? Was the motion to the Speaker from the Norfolk Island Parliament read by the... (29 October 2014)
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  • Peter Rogers: Can you clarify what impact 'noting' this report will have. It may be on the record but this doesn't seem to leverage any commitment from the government to enforce the taxation laws equitably...... (22 October 2014)
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  • Tom Peace: Unfortunately this happens in all big companies, it is profit driven and they will devise a scheme to manipulate the market as best they can. Not only Coles but instead too you have the big... (21 October 2014)
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  • William Boeder: One could suggest that Abetz is pandering to the corporate gorgons that generally run with this Abetz pack as a means to further sate their lusts for higher profit margins. Tossing the guessed at... (9 October 2014)
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  • William Boeder: After having read the entirety of this matter of ACMA acting in a manner that they are currently obliged to do, I am left to wonder what it is that Senator Abetz is pursuing in his usually smarmy... (25 September 2014)
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  • William Boeder: An interesting and very valid depiction of the evils that can be wrought by persons cruel bullying and hostile-bent belligerent. Does the Senator not recall his bully-like tirade that he hurled... (24 September 2014)
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  • William Boeder: The entirety of the causes supported by Senator Eric Abetz seem designed to throttle the unfortunate individuals in our society, that most often, (due to no cause of themselves) will be harshly... (14 September 2014)
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  • William Boeder: Why is it there are no regulators or authorities that can haul in the likes of Self elected champion of the Senate House platform the disagreeably smug Senator Eric Abetz? One only has to watch... (7 September 2014)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: Yesterday I was critical of Senator Abetz pathetic reply to a Green's political party Question. Today I congratulate him on his compassionate response. John Madigan has had a difficult decision... (5 September 2014)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: Why would one expect the Green's to take a bip-partisan approach. IF we are involved in a war it is safe to assume that the Greens Political Party will be on the side of the enemy. Will... (4 September 2014)
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  • mark roskell: Hi Jill as a supporter of the Labor Party since my first day at work i find it disturbing that you endorse the wife of a former Labor Party representative who is extremely disliked by the local... (3 September 2014)
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  • Mark Duffett: Has Ludlam misled the parliament? There appears to be no evidence that any radiation was released in the March 1993 incident at NAPS that he mentions, let that anyone copped a 'huge' (whatever... (3 September 2014)
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  • Tony Zegenhagen: Alan Joyce used his 10 percent stake in Qantas to award himself a pay rise of $2 million in 2011. Its pathetic that Warren Truss should be complementing a man who earns 5 million a year for... (3 September 2014)
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