the troubadour

You mean outside a female anatomy?

the troubadour

Or how about Bye Bye the Australia we thought we once knew?

the troubadour

The last thing Palmer deserves is respect.

the troubadour

Well that poster may have thought they detected a 'rattle' there, more in fantasy than in reality though I suspect.

Amazulu

He aided the defeat of the socialists - and that really does deserve respect

Every little but helps!

the troubadour

It certainly does. The plundering of recourse's sold cheaply to outside interests, the payment of workers purely optional but not a requirement, the further corporatizing of Australia , making people commodities and customers rather than citizens with a share in the common wealth. While Scomo gets behind his former employers within the property council in subsidising house prices at tax payers expense, not to say allow banks to increase risky loaning with the knowledge the tax payers will step in if they collapse.
What is laughable of course is the likes of the above post, who pretend to hate socialism but think nothing of socialising the repair damage when private enterprise fails and profit collapses to be picked up by the tax payer. Parasites.

the troubadour

To further my claim above shares in the mortgage industry went up for Mortgage Choice by 14.5% and Australian Financial Group by 6.7% and Yellow Brick Road by 7.8% after the election.
The broker wallahs consider themselves off the hook now to return to 'former activities' not always in the interest of the borrower now that the Lib's have been returned.

Amazulu

Too many assumptions (with no basis in fact) about my opinions on your part Champ

Palmer should pay his people if he is legally obliged to (even morally so) but absolutely nothing to do with him running a political campaign - if Getup can do it, so can he! If his advertising helped get the coalition reelected, then that's super cool. During the last election, Billy ran his Mediscare campaign - and it was highly effective. The coalition, learnt from the master of lies and did the same this time round - and it was even more effective. Guess what? Negative campaigning works! In this case the right outcome was achieved - and the country and the majority of its people will benefit

Here's to a righter, brighter future

Beoz

How dare President Morrison cheat in the election like that so his portfolio receives such a boost. He should be hit with insider trading for winning that election.

Beoz

Can show us where the tax payer is picking up the pieces of failed private enterprise in this country?

the troubadour

You'll only truly feel your on to a winner when the jackboots are marching past your Kalamunda abode. Still await for that I'm afraid, but no need for jackboots in order to create a lot of pain and division within society for absolutely no good reason, other than feed ideological purposes as we move into a corporate style semi dictatorship.

As I have mentioned many times, obviously over blown , but only in part as medical costs in Australia get ever more expensive and out of pocket. Yet you claim second best in the world after the declining UK NH system. Wrong in both instances as with so much else. You could endeavour to leave out the ideology and actually seek out the facts and then question why do want Australia to fail so badly?

the troubadour

I certainly can But please learn what neo liberal economic policy actually is if you want to debate something so basic with me. Abbott was ideologically standing within his party and neo means 'new'. Wow really?

Who pays NG? Who pays First Home Buyers Grant? Who bails out the banks due to reckless lending and poor brokerage? But I admit not much of that tax as a gross total is coming from any other than the wage earner. Meanwhile services get slashed.

the troubadour

You really need a basic understanding of the share market but yes he did attempt to run a Presidential campaign. Sans policy but obviously who needs such irritants as actually informing the public what you hope to do. Mustn't scare the horses. Well he already owns seven houses I believe, could be more now, but have no insight into his share portfolio but sure he and his are pretty comfortable in their dealings on the market.

the troubadour

Sad thing being the sound ALP plan to ban trailing commissions for mortgage brokers from July 1 2020 no longer on the agenda. It appears The Royal Commission into Banking and Financial Sector was by and large a waste of tax payers money, and the industry is just waiting to return to old corrupt practise. All very sad, For housing, for the longer term economy and the country.

Amazulu

Given that it is uber-easy to get a mortgage online, anyone who pays a trailing commission in 2019 is a f**kwit and a moron