Let's also not forget about the line-up of taxes and levies they want to hit us with e.g. Carbon Tax, Waste Levy.

Once a Carbon Tax gets applied to fuel and air fares, I doubt if we will actually be going for a ride anywhere, unless it is to work as slaves for even less money.

Agree Lorikeet,
I wonder if people realise that with the increased cost due to the Carbon Tax......this will also bring extra revenue in for the govn in the form of increased GST. (Due to cost rises)
Basically we are going to be "hit twice" on most goods we buy, and services
that we use.

As regard the Inland rail .....what pathetic "lack of planning from Labor"
but then again...is there ever ..ANY !!
To state the coastal route is a priority...is a "cop out".
I moved to the Hunter region in the 70s.....and since then the rail link between Newcastle and Sydney has had continuous.. "maintenance, interuptions and upgrades"....nonstop work....pathetic.!!
The amount of money and time spent on this section....could have paid for a brand new line "twice over"...
I won't hold my breath for a new coastal rail link......nothing has changed in this region for the past 40yrs .!!

Well Tony Windsor is not stupid. He genuinely wanted to see NBN (not Tamworth) established in Armidale where the UNE is located. However, what a price those seven persons paid eh? The cut funding to the Cooperative Research Centre at the UNE, that researches farm animals at contributes to to
respect the University has Internationally for their work in Agriculture.
42 people will be effected including students. They have also cut down the hours some of the academics attached to the Humanities School. That's me
too one of my major research projects for 2012 looks as if it won't go ahead
because I won't be able to find a supervisor. I'm a post grad studying for my
GCA. Graduate Certificate in Arts.

Well I guess it will dismay many people to learn that Heinz is taking more work offshore and cutting 180 jobs in the process.

Queensland farmers who were reliant on Golden Circle (taken over by Heinz) to buy their beetroot now need to look for a new market, or switch to growing something else.

The operation is moving to New Zealand, which might not seem so bad if we weren't aware that they are probably going to sneak beetroot in from China and make more money off the backs of peasants.

Golden Circle will continue to process pineapple here, and also expand their drink business, while not retaining all of the existing staff.

The CEO of Heinz blamed the shift to NZ processing on competitive forces in the market, when he should have said he is empowering the third world to line his own pockets and send our own citizens into penury.

The real value of wages is going down, while corporate profits continue to rise.

Bush Bunny:

Sorry to hear your bad news.

No doubt the Labor government is cutting research into farm animals because before long we will all be living on a peasant diet comprising grain, fruits and vegetables, and little protein to sustain us.

The cut in spending on Humanities doesn't surprise me at all. Soon you will need to switch to studying Animalities including Animal Psychology, Housing and Fashion, since all animals are being humanised, while the rights of humans are being progressively sent to the dogs!