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  • Andrew JACKSON: Lets hope trhat the member for Dawson moves out of LNP fold and sits even closer to Member for Kennedy. Sitting with the enemy of AUstarlian Jobs must be very uncomfortable for any MP. (1 March 2014)
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  • Harry Makris: theacademyplanet ..The US model is not one to which we should aspire... ..your comparisons are absurd..and the thrust of your comment is simplistic and with respect inaccurate.. ..I... (28 February 2014)
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  • Harry Makris: theacademyplanet ...beautifully crafted motherhood reply... ..yes.. the heavy lifting...? ..I would really like to know what you may have in mind.... Strategic Deficit Spending.... ... (28 February 2014)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: Barnaby Joyce may have given the appearance of crossing the floor a few times in years gone past but those days are long gone. He now represents Cabinet not his electorate. Cabinet is his master... (27 February 2014)
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  • Dwight Walker: Error: should read: Budget deficit Australia -$12.9Bn (-0.8% GDP) (27 February 2014)
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  • Dwight Walker: GDP 2012 Equatorial Guinea $19.7Bn Uzbekistan $104.7Bn Australia $1.542T Public Debt 2012 Equatorial Guinea 9.3% GDP Uzbekistan 8.8% GDP Australia 29.3% GDP External Debt 2012... (27 February 2014)
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  • Dwight Walker: Apparently the mining industry was heading into a decline when the mining tax was introduced so there was little money raised. Also mining companies wrote off expenses as losses so they could pay... (27 February 2014)
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  • Peter Wesley-Smith: "Lieutenant General Campbell deserves far better than this. He deserves our respect. He deserves our admiration. The Australian public have given him that respect and that admiration through the... (27 February 2014)
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  • Peter Wesley-Smith: I don't think it is necessary to read Conroy's comment as a personal attack on Campbell or in any way traducing his reputation as a military officer. The fact is surely that employing Campbell in... (27 February 2014)
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  • Dwight Walker: Why not encourage more hitech work that can be done over the Internet not just traditional face-to-face work? Remote areas always suffer from lack of demand and low wages. Using the internet to... (26 February 2014)
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  • Dwight Walker: The story about Onoda was an interesting piece of history I did not know. Only in retrospect will people know who was the better government, may be 30 years from now. (26 February 2014)
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  • OWEN HANNAGAN: I WONDER WHAT AUSTRALIA WOULD BE LIKE WITHOUT THE GREEDY SHAREHOLDERS SCREAMING FOR MORE MORE MORE DRIVING PRICES HIGHER ALONG WITH ALL THE PARASITIC 650,000 KIWIS OVER HERE JUST WAITING FOR... (25 February 2014)
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  • Margaret Neal: It is utter insanity to relocate the Medicare office to the Centrelink location at Charlestown. I totally support everything Jill Hall has said in her address to the Parliament. I certainly... (25 February 2014)
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  • William Boeder: Perhaps now would be a good opportunity for Senator Eric Abetz to explain to his fellow Senators one of Tasmania's special case supportive statements that had allowed him to engage in his former... (17 February 2014)
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  • Charlie Schroeder: It's extremely sad, and for some of us frustrating, that the general public allow themselves to be convinced that kangaroo numbers are such that they can be harvested at all, much less in... (16 February 2014)
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  • Charlie Schroeder: Agriculture. [sigh] It's probably noted somewhere like Ambrose Bierce's dictionary that this stands for making food tasteless, destroying the landscape, impoverishing the soil and creating... (16 February 2014)
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  • Charlie Schroeder: The issues that Larissa Waters addresses are the issues which are important but often not seen so. The wildlife of this country has a greater right than white settlers to the territory.... (16 February 2014)
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  • Tim Watts: We may look alike, but I believe this speech was given by the Member for Rankin... (14 February 2014)
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  • Dwight Walker: This is a tragedy for Gove where my brother and his family lived in the 1980s. (14 February 2014)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: It is interesting to look at SEnator Water's SPeeches Topics include Climate Change *1 Coal Seam GAs *3 Great Barrier Reef *5 Bio Diversity *1 Environmental Conservation * 5 Wet Tropical... (14 February 2014)
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  • Andrew Bullen: Premier Napthine has said 3200 jobs would be created - where are the additional 300 coming from Prime Minister? Regardless of that, using jobs to justify backing a spurious business case does... (14 February 2014)
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  • Phil Ryan: Be nice if Abbott would answer the question you asked rather than the question he wanted you to ask! (14 February 2014)
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  • Phil Ryan: Abbott sidesteps a question again. Two figures, $1.40 from Vic Lib Govt, .80c from Infrastructure Australia. Who to believe? Abbott continues his arrogant rejection of all expert advice. (14 February 2014)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: SEnator Boyce is correct ALP GOvernment was a disaster for manufacturiung but it is the mega-disaster of Abbot that has destroyed the Car Industry. We need a return to Menzies era poliocies of: ... (13 February 2014)
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  • Andrew JACKSON: It is not very often that I agree with Liberals butr on this occasion Senator Back is spot on target. The Bush will burn anyway. It is not a choice between fire and serenity but between once a... (13 February 2014)
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