imagine the nth gold coast the traffic problems people/surfers at beaches carparks etc from Broadbeach to the Broadwater any height allowed for future development,i hope the person who told me has his wires crossed.Geez nth nsw looks good.

Northern nsw's is done boofy owns the joint

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62mac said..
Northern nsw's is done boofy owns the joint

hmmm oh well wait for Pup to buy further sth

Just wait until you have a Liberal Mayor, a Liberal State Govt and a Liberal Federal Govt.

All rules and common sense will be abandoned in the name of money..... They'll even change laws to allow it to repay their fat political donors....

^^^ haha so true, I heard a saying the other day that made me laugh...

if you vote liberal you know they are going to funck you and it's ok cause you expected it but if you vote labor it's like rape cause they promised they wouldn't **** you but they snuck in and ****ed you anyway...

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SP said..

^^^ haha so true, I heard a saying the other day that made me laugh...

if you vote liberal you know they are going to funck you and it's ok cause you expected it but if you vote labor it's like rape cause they promised they wouldn't **** you but they snuck in and ****ed you anyway...

Never a truer word spoken...

No offense taken on the red either from whoever gave me that. A an extremely successful, professor of accounting and practicing CPA said to me the other day.

"You know Chris, this election is interesting. The LNP has successfully gained support based on fear from uneducated people to prop up their vote numbers. The most interesting part is that these people will be hurt the hardest with the LNP policies".

LNP winning will actually benefit me more personally, doesn't mean I like the way they think though.

i hope the building industry will kick off after 5 years of recession after the election. something has got to happen

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"You know Chris, this election is interesting. The LNP has successfully gained support based on fear from uneducated people to prop up their vote numbers. The most interesting part is that these people will be hurt the hardest with the LNP policies".

LNP winning will actually benefit me more personally, doesn't mean I like the way they think though.

Yep, that's true but fear in the uneducated is sadly how elections are won these days. Easiest bunch of swinging voters to target, Howard loved the fear tactic too.

Just when I get to a place where I thought I could escape politics........

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SP said..

CMC said..


"You know Chris, this election is interesting. The LNP has successfully gained support based on fear from uneducated people to prop up their vote numbers. The most interesting part is that these people will be hurt the hardest with the LNP policies".

LNP winning will actually benefit me more personally, doesn't mean I like the way they think though.

Yep, that's true but fear in the uneducated is sadly how elections are won these days. Easiest bunch of swinging voters to target, Howard loved the fear tactic too.

You mean stopping the boats is not the biggest issue facing Australia in the next 5 years??? What?????

They even cause traffic jams....

This is from my current favourite website,

http://www.politifact.com.au/truth-o-meter/statements/


The claim
Asylum seekers were first blamed for jumping queues, now they are blamed for joining them.

The Liberal candidate in the western Sydney seat of Lindsay, Fiona Scott, infamously linked asylum seeker numbers and traffic overcrowding this week. She also said they played a role in the overcrowding of hospitals.

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It's worth reading her words on Four Corners in context.

Reporter: That's a pretty hot topic, isn't it, asylum seekers?
Fiona Scott: Well yeah, it is a hot topic, but it's a hot topic here because our traffic is overcrowded. I mean you guys have been here a few days now, and I mean how much fun is the M4 in peak hour? It's not fun at all. And you know, you imagine a mum, you know, it's a classic example, ah trying to be back for a six o'clock pick-up from day-care, and every minute you're late you're getting charged. Now you multiply that by a couple of kids, it means that when you think of overcrowding it becomes an issue for people, it really does.

Reporter: So you mention asylum seekers and overcrowding. I don't quite get the connection.
Fiona Scott: Well, my recommendation is go and sit in the Emergency Department of Nepean Hospital or go and sit on the M4 and people see 50,000 people come in by boat; that's more than twice the population of Glenmore Park where we just were.
She was subsequently accused of suggesting the nation's 50,000-odd asylum seekers were causing overcrowding and sought to clarify her comments in the Penrith Press.

"That is not what I was saying at all," she said. "When people hear those sorts of numbers they are concerned."
Scott says she does not agree with the concerns. Nor does PolitiFact. It has looked into them and found them absurd.

Supporting evidence
PolitiFact did not take up Scott's advice and sit on the M4, though we did take a peek at the Live Traffic NSW's camera feeds. It was not a pretty sight.
It also had a quick look at NSW Health's handy website showing the number of patients waiting in Nepean Hospital's emergency department. At 2.40pm, there were four people waiting, but only two or none at nearby hospitals.
The surge of boat people since Rudd took office in 2007 totals 50,000, but most are not in western Sydney and fewer still have bought cars.
The Refugee Council of Australia says that in the areas surrounding the Nepean Hospital - Blacktown, Hawkesbury, Penrith and Blue Mountains ??? there were 161 asylum seekers last year. The 2011 census shows the area has a population of 617,861.
Paul Power, the head of the Refugee Council, says very few asylum seekers can afford cars and that many can no longer afford public transport because they are no longer entitled to work or to public transport concessions. If anything, he says, the people of western Sydney might have noticed "a modest increase in footpath traffic".
"The number of asylum seekers are small in a city of 4 to 5 million people - we are talking about 10,000 people at most," he says.
Western Sydney does have a higher proportion of residents not born in Australia, though the seat of Lindsay does not. About 75 per cent of Lindsay's 150,000-odd residents were born in Australia, compared with 70 per cent nationally.
Power says Australia has been taking in about 200,000 legal migrants a year and very few of these are asylum seekers. But, he says, many people may notice an influx of migrants and conflate this with the issue of asylum seekers.


Read more: www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/fact-checker/are-asylum-seekers-really-clogging-our-roads-and-hospitals-20130904-2t4i3.html#ixzz2duaUOEj7

Holy essay Batman !!!

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NewScotty said..

Holy essay Batman !!!

Ok the Scotty version.

A poli, the one abbot said had sex appeal tried to link the M4 traffic jam to asylum seekers.
said they were the reason hospitals and road were overcrowded.

There are less than 200 asylum seekers in her electorate of about 700,000 people. And most asylum seekers don't own cars..

Outcome...she is dumb as dog Shizz. And still ugly...

Too long?

Funny thing , for a lot of Tasmanians living on the gold coast is their big dream , WHY

Besides the warm water , and the warm weather , and the sunshine , and the bikini girls

Last I heard population growth here is zero, probably all moving up there .

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Funny thing , for a lot of Tasmanians living on the gold coast is their big dream , WHY

Besides the warm water , and the warm weather , and the sunshine , and the bikini girls

Last I heard population growth here is zero, probably all moving up there .

yes but now have Billboard is he still around there were some words spoken in the 666 room a few weeks ago.

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SP said..

NewScotty said..

Holy essay Batman !!!

Ok the Scotty version.

A poli, the one abbot said had sex appeal tried to link the M4 traffic jam to asylum seekers.
said they were the reason hospitals and road were overcrowded.

There are less than 500 asylum seekers in her electorate out of about 700,000 people. And most asylum seekers don't own cars..

Outcome...she is dumb as dog Shizz

Too long?

Thanks for the summary SP.
Is she fair dinkum ?
The M4 has been a carpark even before the Tampa saga so WTF is she on about ?
Is she a good sort ?

Be glad when this election is over , can't remember an election campaign with so much negative campaigning and so few policy's .

Agree SP the boat people problem is completely overblown , easy fix give Christmas island to the indonesians , problem fixed .

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62mac said..

Tassiedevel said..

Funny thing , for a lot of Tasmanians living on the gold coast is their big dream , WHY

Besides the warm water , and the warm weather , and the sunshine , and the bikini girls

Last I heard population growth here is zero, probably all moving up there .

yes but now have Billboard is he still around there were some words spoken in the 666 room a few weeks ago.

Don't know Mac , he seems to have disappeared , maybe he missed you blokes and moved back up there

nah not up here mate

Geez that'd be right fark it up entirely and make it like WA hey BB hope ya froffing wherever you are buddy

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asea said..

imagine the nth gold coast the traffic problems people/surfers at beaches carparks etc from Broadbeach to the Broadwater any height allowed for future development,i hope the person who told me has his wires crossed.Geez nth nsw looks good.

?

While up in Yamba last week, got speaking to a local and got wind that they have the ****s with all the Goldies coming down to get away from the crowd. Only a quick 2 or so hours drive, we have the same problem with the Newcastle crowd coming north to have a go at a point break.

^^^^ That would be SP and Ted.

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asea said..

imagine the nth gold coast the traffic problems people/surfers at beaches carparks etc from Broadbeach to the Broadwater any height allowed for future development,i hope the person who told me has his wires crossed.Geez nth nsw looks good.

?

While up in Yamba last week, got speaking to a local and got wind that they have the ****s with all the Goldies coming down to get away from the crowd. Only a quick 2 or so hours drive, we have the same problem with the Newcastle crowd coming north to have a go at a point break.

That would be me. Not so much the crowd,just gets more swell than us at certain times......and the.crowds lol.
But really its like a mini surfari.

Yep north end is where all the action ishome to the cruise ship terminal,massive tall buildings, meter maids yep its all going down up north,cracking beachies

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thePup said..

hey BB hope ya froffing wherever you are buddy

Pup the devil got him mate

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thePup said..

hey BB hope ya froffing wherever you are buddy

Pup the devil got him mate

He is the devil

Burleigh to the Nth & Kirra to Dbah. Nothing in between worth seeing

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^^^^ That would be SP and Ted.

I always seek permission before I head up and make sure I do not drop in on any of the early starters

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chrispy said..

Just when I get to a place where I thought I could escape politics........

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