tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10523312494654157942024-03-14T22:13:23.233+11:00The NetworkPolitical and social commentaryBrigidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862531789968068093noreply@blogger.comBlogger1934125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1052331249465415794.post-41701535787477883062016-03-30T11:16:00.000+11:002016-04-07T22:21:30.881+10:00LIB-NATS HAVE YET TO PRODUCE A REPUTABLE BUDGET : MEANWHILE THE RICH, POWERFUL & CORPORATE ARE REFINING THE ART OF TAX DODGING. READ MORE.<div align="right">
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Australia doesn’t have a spending problem, it has a revenue problem. Over 30% of corporations based in Australia in the last financial year <span style="color: red;"><b>paid NO </b><b>TAX</b></span>, while the majority of those that paid tax paid less than 5% tax. </div>
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It is obvious to everyone, except our Federal politicians, that Australia has a revenue problem. While on a daily basis the corporate owned media carries on about welfare fraud and the burden carried by the community because 33% of Australians rely on old age, disability, unemployment and single parents benefits to survive. How many Australians know that Murdoch owned News Corporation (which owns over 70% of Australia’s newspapers) received an 886 million dollar tax refund during the 2013/2014 financial year and paid NO TAX during the 2014/2015 financial year, while 21st Century Fox, Murdoch’s other media arm, paid less than 1% tax during the same period?</div>
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It seems, in Australia, there is one set of taxation laws for corporations and another set for the rest of the community. Unless Federal politicians, of all political hues, are willing to make corporate taxation revenue their number one priority during 2016, we can expect to be told, ad nauseam, there is not enough money for </div>
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As a logically minded person with a love for linguistics, I distinctly remember learning the true root of the proper word for brekky – BREAKFAST meant to literally BREAK the FAST that you just did while sleeping. 7 year old mind = blown. So now on this sunny Wednesday morning after a refreshing night storm in Sydney last night, I am reminded of that moment. Firstly because it is one of the first days that I haven’t had sweat dripping down my back by 11am in what seems like months and SECONDLY because there is finally a really big, important event to write about here at Born Free.</div>
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If you’re wondering if I’ve become lazy or joined the Liberal Party, you can rest easy. Lazy is debatable and well I’d join the LNP over my dead body. I’ve been really busy growing my business as a digital producer and moving house, and I’m really sorry that I haven’t been as active on this blog.</div>
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But after last week’s International Women’s Day march, my sign making skills are polished and I’m ready to march once again – with a nationwide rally happening this Sunday.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/525577767609448/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #d11415; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 350ms, 350ms; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out, ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Sydney:</a> 1pm at Belmore Park (by Central Station)</b></span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">JESSICA WALKER (Queensland Teachers Union, Yeronga High School & Save Mojgan campaign)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">JOEL SHAKESPEARE (former Save the Children worker on Nauru)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">REV JOHN BARR (President, NSW Ecumenical Council)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">MS WIES SCHUIRINGA (Religious Society of Friends – Quakers)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">REV MYUNG HWA PARK (Uniting Synod NSW/ACT) </li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">RABBI GAD KREBS (Kehillat Masada Synagogue)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">FR SHENOUDA MANSOUR (Coptic Orthodox Church)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">DR SUE WAREHAM (Medical Association for Prevention of War)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">SHOKUFA TAHIRI (Afghan refugee)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">IAN RINTOUL (Refugee Action Coalition)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">MC: DR DAVID ISAACS (Former Nauru paediatrician</li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1045381425492119/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #d11415; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 350ms, 350ms; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out, ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Melbourne</a>: 2pm State Library of Victoria, Swanston St</b></span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Daniel Webb – Human Rights Law Centre</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Nazir Yousafi – Refugee & President Victorian Afghan Associations Network</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Senator Sarah Hanson Young – Australian Greens</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Interfaith Panel: Rabbi Jonathan Keren-Black – The Leo Baeck Centre,</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"> Mohamed Mohideen – Islamic Council of Victoria</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Stuart McMillan, President Uniting Church,</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Lisa Fitzpatrick – State Secretary ANMF</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Shen Narayanasamy – GetUp!</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">Pamela Curr – Asylum Seeker Resource Centre</li>
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Musical performances by Dan Sultan, Melbourne Mass Gospel Choir, South of the River, Little Foot and Shaking The Tree (Dan Sultan will be performing at the end of the march in Queen Vic Gardens, half the speakers will also be at the end of the march).</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1303365176356765/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #d11415; text-decoration: none; transition: color 350ms ease-in-out, background-color 350ms ease-in-out;">Toowoomba: </a>11:30am, St Patrick’s Cathedral, James Street</b></span></div>
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At 12.30 there will be speeches at Civic Square followed by Community Picnic. BYO food and love to share <span class="wp-smiley wp-emoji wp-emoji-smile" style="border: none; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1.2em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative !important; text-indent: 600px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; width: 1.35em;" title=":)">:)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/180905955614222/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #d11415; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 350ms, 350ms; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out, ease-in-out;">Armidale</a>: 11:30am, Judith Wright Grove, corner of Faulkner and Dumaresq Streets, across from the Farmer’s Market</b></span></div>
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Gather 11:15 for an 11:30 March to Rally in the Mall with Theatre, Speakers and Music</div>
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For further information call Bea Bleile on 0458 752 680</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NSW Liberal Premier Mike Baird has today exposed the Liberals’ agenda to privatise Medicare, with his plan to <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/nsw-government-pushes-for-private-insurance-to-cover-gp-visits-20160310-gnfkpi.html" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #81699b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">allow private insurers to move into general practice</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Liberal plan to allow private health insurers into GP practices would mark the end of Medicare as a universal health insurance scheme.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It will create a two-tier Americanised health system where those with private cover receive preferential access, and pensioners, benefit card holders and others who cannot afford private insurance are relegated to a safety net system. </span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This would be disastrous for patients, but also be disastrous for the health Budget, pushing up GP Fees. </span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The previous Minister for Health also toyed with this proposal, allowing a trial of private health insurance in general practice in QLD which saw an administration fee paid and guaranteed appointments within 24 hours for private health insurance customers. </span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the thin edge of the wedge when it comes to the destruction of our universal health care system and the government must immediately rule it out. </span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s no coincidence this latest Liberal attack on Medicare comes just weeks after Commonwealth Health department officials revealed at Senate Estimates the Turnbull Government has been working in secret for 18 months on plans to privatise the Medicare payments system.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In both cases, the Liberals have attempted to keep their privatisation agenda secret.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Liberal move to create a two tier system for general practice was only revealed because of a NSW Labor Freedom of Information request. None of the tenders for the plan to privatise the Medicare payments system were listed on the official government AusTender website.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Today’s revelations confirm that after spending their first two years in office trying to kill Medicare by slashing $60 billion out of health, the Liberals are now spending 2016 trying to sell it.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It confirms yet again, that the Liberals cannot be trusted with health, and cannot be trusted with Medicare.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Australians deserve better than a Government which is determined to wreck Medicare and introduce a two tier Americanised health system where access to care is determined by wealth, not need.</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.aegic.org.au/">AUSTRALIAN EXPORT GRAINS INNOVATION CENTRE</a></b></h3>
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This is impressive from the Australian export grains board and a lot of farmers will listen to them because it's not what they'd consider to be the usual lefties.</div>
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HOW IT FEELS WHEN SOME OF OUR BETTER VIDEO POSTS GO UNACKNOWLEDGED BY THE VAST MAJORITY, IF NOT ALL, OUR PAGE...<br />
Posted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChurchoftheWorkingClass/">Church of the Working Class</a> on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChurchoftheWorkingClass/posts/740962546038744">Thursday, 10 March 2016</a></blockquote>
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I had a most heart-warming experience on Facebook yesterday. The original post is heart-rending if you go to the link and listen to the testimony of this particular woman and what she faced as a girl in state care in NSW. She was imprisoned at Hay. As well as re-posting the original post in the hope that people would become more aware of what has happened to this nation's children in the past, I asked the question if the prison at Hay could be the same place that the <a href="http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibition/objectsthroughtime/dunera/">Dunera Boys</a> were sent to in 1940. </div>
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I often cite the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMT_Dunera">Dunera Boys</a> when speaking of the way refugees and asylum seekers have been treated by successive Australian Governments since the 1990s. Australian Governments and large sections of the Australian population have shown across decades that they dislike receiving people fleeing from all manner of hardship and life-threatening situations. </div>
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The Dunera Boys were people who had sought refuge in England from the vicissitudes of Hitler's Europe. They were a mixed bunch. Many of them were Jewish. Many of them were well educated. Australia finished up being well blessed by those who came on the HMT Dunera when eventually the evacuees were settled into the broad Australian society and made lives for themselves.</div>
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by <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/meet-erwin-fabian-the-100yearold-melbourne-sculptor-who-is-still-going-strong-20151106-gks3lc.html">Erwin Fabian.</a></div>
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I always cite <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Gruen">Fred Gruen</a>. Fred Gruen became a great and influential economist. His son<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Gruen"> Nicholas Gruen</a>, is one of Australia's leading health economists. The blessing continues.</div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">What an awful story!</span></div>
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FYI & Victorian networks.This will be a significant book launch and meeting, Consider attending & listening to both Yingiya Mark Guyula book contributor and (of the Yolŋu Nations Assembly , Arnhem land) and Terry Mason (of the the Awabakal language group and Institute of Koorie Education at Deakin University) on TREATY. If unable to attend Geelong, perhaps consider the,<br />Melbourne 12th forum the following day, to hear from Yingiya Mark Guyula, Adam Frogley (Taungerong man) an<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">d Jon Altman.</span></div>
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<br />See also,<br />1) Treaty, Yeah! The Undeniable Case For A National Settlement With Australia’s First Peoples. (5th March 2016)<a href="https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnewmatilda.com%2F2016%2F03%2F05%2Ftreaty-yeah-the-undeniable-case-for-a-national-settlement-with-our-first-peoples%2F&h=7AQELlkcVAQH6Ulid2mf4t5OA0FzZe5RUp9-AGqg5gie6eg&enc=AZM-4ydEvdrUVCo5PNwGKZsmwLA7QWVV2CGipCjIhztE_hH_y4AC5qF_qqUoK4MWzge4oBKZwYKVmubLdIojruRKYZ1xh89SpThyo_a_Gd59mtHg5axByoy1i_fNck2bOUqhiedMOpmIUHOuEuj4hCrHsPV8UiYgmXgD4CgsnVy21qCqbMa34IftbOw475w9ChTJXAh1YVhtEcAneAunwB8j&s=1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://newmatilda.com/…/treaty-yeah-the-undeniable-case-f…/</a></div>
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2) Indigenous leaders praise Victoria's commitment to talk about treaty, (3rd March 2015) <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Faustralia-news%2F2016%2Fmar%2F03%2Findigenous-leaders-praise-victorias-commitment-to-talk-about-treaty%3FCMP%3Dshare_btn_fb%23_%3D_&h=uAQFMIfyNAQE78hQOTi41Gc4rnNvT6l6PKQACugl52aMD3A&enc=AZM8LcUs7AgljIjiiPyJglG6SVQ_wp3uuXclW5dGfmzZZgRIIqIRJCckrooma0qWGmJvoarlNULnXtFLGieX8IX6t1PKgk3aO9_dn8yxV_Lj_xeP1DaBAlo-vtYnF2mlFJ3qVqiTji6w-U8LuYIX86SHM5pw9bAnr7xJ0PBJjvw9dNmPRLS5ZfJtpJeO4cpGBm0vN-flfFFPjqfLwbmanYYE&s=1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/…/indigenous-leaders-praise-vict…</a></div>
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3)The Yolngu people of Arnhem Land, NT, Australia, need a treaty asap. They need their law respected by governments and they need a space of their own that honours their way of life.</div>
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However, there are a few things to consider with regard to what is called "junk mail". Check this <a href="http://auspost.com.au/parcels-mail/letterbox-management.html">Australia Post </a>site for information - but this does not tell you everything you need to know. For instance, there are exemptions. This<a href="https://www.ehp.qld.gov.au/waste/advertising-material.html"> Queensland Government site</a> is helpful - but again there is a major omission. The major omission is electoral material - so come election time and you are getting unwanted material from the political parties and candidates, independent or otherwise, it is stiff cheddar. This material does not qualify as "junk mail".</div>
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In addition, you might find that your neighbours may stick something in the box telling you about their garage sale. It would be churlish to complain - unless there is another reason. </div>
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My complaint has been about catalogues - love numbers in one single delivery. Mine are delivered by Salmat. I live in Ballarat these days - but I used to live in Ringwood in Melbourne and I had dealings with Salmat there. So I am speaking from experience. </div>
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<li>I have noticed that in my neighbourhood the deliverers are of South Asian appearance so I think - mmm, these sort of people need every bob they can get; they may be discriminated against in employment; or perhaps a stay-at-home mum and the kids have to help out and this is the only way it can be managed.</li>
<li>However, I dismiss this because I live across the road from a number of flats and the big catalogue bundles are collected. Perhaps because a number of inhabitants seem to be workmen, the bundles are ignored until they are blown around the street - which was the cause of catalogue problems where I lived in Ringwood.</li>
<li>I have found, both at Ringwood and in Ballarat, that the "No Junk Mail" sign is ignored when it is first placed on the letter-box. Solution: Track down the catalogue supplier. In each case mine was Salmat. I then rang the national number for Salmat from the Business White Pages. In each case, Salmat sent the relevant local co-ordinator to call on me. THEN the problem was solved and I haven't had any more problems.</li>
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My firmness on this topic is encouraged because all the major retailers who put out promotional sales catalogues have websites. Most of the population have access to a computer even it is only at the Public Library. The major retailers place their catalogues on-line and they are easy to read. My view is that if more people took time to read the catalogues on-line, then the need for printed catalogues could be gradually phased out. As a fall-back position, the major food corporations have their catalogues in-store for you to read there. Reading them in-store adds a little extra time to the shopping trip, especially the impulse shopping trip, but it saves a lot of money in other ways especially in local government clean-ups.</div>
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Australia in the 21st Century needs to look back at its recent past - say from World War 2 forward - to what policies have succeeded, how they emerged, where are they now and </div>
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how we can re-introduce those fallen by the way, and re-fashion those that we have kept</div>
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Australia is a nation who likes to keep up with the Joneses - particularly the North American Joneses. <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/02/03/why-grumpy-bernie-sanders-is-like-sunny-justin-trudeau-walkom.html">Here is some of that flavour from Canada and star.com</a></div>
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The centerpiece of Bernie Sanders’ platform — a universal, publicly funded health-insurance system — wouldn’t raise an eyebrow in most countries. But it is contentious in the U.S. where, to many, socialized medicine is akin to communism. All of which makes it more striking that Sanders has done so well, writes Thomas Walkom.</div>
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On the face of it, <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/01/24/would-bernie-sanders-be-so-radical-in-canada.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0072bc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bernie Sanders</a> and Justin Trudeau have little in common.</div>
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Sanders is the self-styled democratic socialist who wants to become U.S. president. He is characterized as grumpy.</div>
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Trudeau is not grumpy. He smiles a lot. He likes to practise what he calls sunny ways.</div>
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At 44, the Canadian Liberal prime minister presents himself as hip and modern. At 74, Sanders, a Vermont Independent, is presented as a throwback to an earlier age.</div>
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But in the aftermath of Monday’s Iowa caucus votes, one singular similarity between the two men has emerged.</div>
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Both represent the <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/29/did-canadas-election-foreshadow-leftward-tilt-in-us-race-delacourt.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0072bc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">renaissance of a certain kind of centre-left politics</a> in North America — an activist politics that had fallen out of favour in both countries but is now back.</div>
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In Canada, Trudeau has defied those who dismissed him as a lightweight to become prime minister.</div>
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In the U.S., Sanders has defied those who dismissed him as a no-hoper by almost beating Hillary Clinton, The Democratic party’s heir-apparent, in the Iowa caucuses.</div>
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The Iowa caucuses represent the first stage of a drawn-out process that will determine who gets to run for the Democrats in November’s presidential election.</div>
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Sanders’ strong showing in Iowa Monday (he lost to Clinton by a whisker) doesn’t mean he will capture his party’s nomination. There are many more contests to come. Clinton is a formidable campaigner.</div>
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But it does suggest that his message to bring back the welfare state has gained significant traction since he first announced his candidacy last year.</div>
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That this has happened should surprise no one. The U.S. is in trouble. Inequality is up. Wages are only now starting to recover. The outlook for young people is bleak. The outlook for older, laid-off-workers is bleaker.</div>
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And Sanders, for all his talk of democratic socialism, is no pie-in-the-sky idealist. He is a practical politician who has been successful as mayor, congressman and senator, in large part because of his ability to get things done.</div>
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If anything, he is a New Deal Democrat in the mould of Franklin Roosevelt, the U.S. president who guided his country through the worst of the Depression.</div>
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Like Roosevelt, Sanders would reform the banking system. Like Roosevelt, he would build public works and pay for that, in part, by taxing the rich.</div>
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Like Roosevelt, he would support the creation of labour unions in order to boost wages, as well as use the power of the federal government to put the unemployed back to work.</div>
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He would return his country to a time, not that long ago, when public university tuition was free.</div>
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And yet he has. Like Barack Obama in 2008, he has scored with young people. Unlike Obama, he has done so by focusing on substantive policy issues rather than rhetorical generalities.</div>
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And yet, there are notable similarities between Trudeau’s and Sanders’ approach to politics.</div>
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Like Sanders, Trudeau is harkening back to a time — before Stephen Harper and even before Paul Martin and Jean Chrétien — when state action was seen as useful and necessary.</div>
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The prime minister likes to present himself as 21st century. But his actual policies are tried and true measures from the 20th century welfare state: making the income tax system more progressive; directing child benefits to the neediest; expanding employment insurance; running fiscal deficits to build public works; boosting old age security.</div>
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In Canada, popular dissatisfaction with Stephen Harper’s Conservative government conspired with strategic mistakes by Tom Mulcair’s New Democrats to create winning conditions for the Trudeau Liberals. That was part of the story.</div>
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But Trudeau also took advantage of a new mood, the same mood that in the U.S. is swelling the fortunes of another unlikely candidate for high office.</div>
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The odds are against Bernie Sanders becoming U.S. president. But then the odds were also against Justin Trudeau.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bolder;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thursday 18 February, 6.30 pm – 8 pm: Market Forces Campaign Launch.</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Market Forces believes that the banks, superannuation funds and governments that have custody of our money should use it <i>to protect not damage</i> our environment. We're planning to make this year massive. Massive campaigns, resulting in massive change. We have climate change commitments from banks that need to be turned into concrete action that moves finance out of fossil fuels. We want to turn divestment from coal, oil and gas from a steady stream to an unstoppable torrent. And of course, we have new dirty coal proposals here in Australia and overseas that need to be stopped in their tracks. Venue: Treasury Room, Imperial Hotel, 2 Bourke St, Melbourne (corner Spring Street). Food provided, drinks at bar prices. Free entry but bookings are essential as places are limited. <a href="http://action.marketforces.org.au/page/m/4470b76f/106d1946/3d7eae98/40df8025/4078187389/VEsF/" rel="noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #954f72;" target="_blank" title="http://www.marketforces.org.au/mel-launch"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: blue;">RSVP here</span></a>. Market Forces is proud to be an affiliate project of Friends of the Earth Australia and a member of the BankTrack international network, connecting us with passionate campaigners, environmental issue experts and advocates of environmentally sustainable behaviour from the finance sector. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div>
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Labor is deeply alarmed at the Turnbull Liberals’ plan to sell off Medicare services which could jeopardise the patient data of every Australian and the jobs of 1400 staff at centres all around the country.</div>
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“First the Liberals tried to kill Medicare, now they’re trying to sell it,” said Shadow Health Minister Catherine King.</div>
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“This idea, from the failed Commission of Audit Report, would mean that these important functions would be being delivered for profit, not with the best interests of patients in mind.”</div>
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Shadow Minister for Human Services Doug Cameron said its critical private health details stay in Australia.</div>
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“This is a disgrace. This is lazy policy from the Liberals. Nowhere else in the world are these services privatised.</div>
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“We have seen the results of government incompetence on call wait times and its lax approach to Medicare fraud.”</div>
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“Once again the government see the services most important to Australians are just a source for savings.</div>
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“Human Services Minister Stuart Robert has been too busy looking after himself and his mates.</div>
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“We need a new Minister for Human Services who’s focused on his day job, not looking after Liberal Party donors, to clean up this mess.”</div>
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So far, the Abbott-Turnbull Government has failed to ensure that the Department of Human Services <a href="http://www.anao.gov.au/~/media/Files/Audit%20Reports/2013%202014/Audit%20Report%2027/AuditReport%20_2013-2014_27.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #005696; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">recommendations of the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) report into the integrity of Medicare Customer Data</a>. If the Medicare payments processing arm of DHS is sold off to multinational corporations, the integrity of patient data and personal records is under further threat.</div>
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Recent revelations that <a href="http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/manila-calling-public-services-philippines-frolic-revealed-20160119-gm8y3r.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #005696; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the Australian Tax Office has been sending work to The Philippines</a> has also rung alarms that private data is at risk.</div>
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The video has gone viral and the speech is being compared to<br />
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For those who have never heard this oft-quoted landmark speech<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><b>From http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-24/stan-grant's-racism-is-killing-the-australia-dream-speech-viral/7110506<br />A powerful speech by Indigenous journalist Stan Grant in which he says the "Australian dream is rooted in racism" has gone viral.</b></span></div>
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<li style="background: none; line-height: 1.1667; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; word-wrap: break-word;">Grant spoke about the impact of colonisation and discrimination in Sydney</li>
<li style="background: none; line-height: 1.1667; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; word-wrap: break-word;">He said when <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-28/swans-give-goodes-time-off-amid-booing-furore/6654284" style="color: #310099; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_self" title="">Adam Goodes was booed</a> "it said to us again, you're not welcome"</li>
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Grant addressed an audience in Sydney on the impact of colonisation and discrimination as part of the IQ2 debate series held by The Ethics Centre.</div>
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The speech was made last year but was published online just a week before Australia Day. It has resonated with Australians, having been viewed more than 736,000 times on Facebook and 15,000 times on YouTube.</div>
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In his address Grant was asked to argue for or against the topic "Racism is destroying the Australian Dream", and said racism was at its heart.</div>
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Grant opened his speech acknowledging when AFL player <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-28/swans-give-goodes-time-off-amid-booing-furore/6654284" style="color: #310099; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_self" title="">Adam Goodes was "hounded" and booed</a>, and told "he was not Australian".</div>
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"When we heard those boos, we heard a sound that was very familiar to us ... we heard a howl of humiliation that echoes across two centuries of dispossession, injustice, suffering and survival," Grant said.</div>
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"We heard the howl of the Australian dream, and it said to us again, you're not welcome."</div>
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He said we sung of the Australian dream, "Australians all let us rejoice for we are young and free".</div>
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"My people die young in this country," Grant said.</div>
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"We die 10 years younger than the average Australian, and we are far from free. We are fewer than 3 per cent of the Australian population and yet we are 25 per cent — a quarter of those Australians locked up in our prisons.</div>
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"And if you're a juvenile it is worse, it is 50 per cent. An Indigenous child is more likely to be locked up in prison than they are to finish high school."</div>
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He referenced a famous poem from Dorothea Mackellar, saying his people's rights "were extinguished because we were not here according to British law".</div>
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"I love a sunburned country, a land of sweeping plains, of rugged mountain ranges," Grant quoted from the poem My Country.</div>
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"It reminds me that my people were killed on those plains. We were shot on those plains, diseases ravaged us on those plains."</div>
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Grant has received praise online, including from journalists Hugh Riminton and Fran Kelly, as well as Mike Carlton who described it as a "Martin Luther King moment" on Twitter.</div>
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He said he had succeeded in life not because of, but in spite of, the Australian dream.</div>
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"My grandfather on my mother's side, who married a white woman, who reached out to Australia, lived on the fringes of town until the police came, put a gun to his head, bulldozed his tin humpy, and ran over the graves of the three children he buried there. That's the Australian dream," Grant said.</div>
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"And if the white blood in me was here tonight, my grandmother, she would tell you of how she was turned away from a hospital giving birth to her first child because she was giving birth to the child of a black person.</div>
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"The Australian dream. We are better than this."</div>
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