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Who's to say we don't already have one? The question isn't will Australia have an atheist prime minister, it should be, will Australia have an openly atheist prime minister. As far as political strategy is concerned - not in the near future.

Manners.

No doubt about it and he'd come back in a stronger position. If that happened, I think I'd start lobbying for the Coalition with the Young Liberals.

Well we saw that coming. This is a government that doesn't really believe in its policies anyway, but desperately works to protect itself from a future election loss.

Aboriginal leader in 'snub' uproar THE Board of Reconciliation Australia has angered staff and stakeholders after snubbing a promising young indigenous leader as its next chief executive. The organisation announced on Monday that it had chosen Paul O'Callaghan, a former Australian high...

Though it's not the government's job to compensate people for loses in their own private capital.

Thank mulit-millionaire Kevin for that one.

We need to limit reckless spending and as I've said all along (a point which Trefoil concurred with), we need to spend more on long term projects such as infrastructure. In the end, I think government interference here should be kept minimal. Instead of trying to stimulate through...

Per capita, it's not actually that small a deficit. However we've also got to remember that this isn't going to be the only stimulus package. As Rudd and Swan have already indicated, there's going to be even more government spending, more deficit. And then there's the carbon emissions scheme...

No, that's not why at all. Yes, it would be great to receive $950. HOWEVER paying it off over the next 3 decades won't be pretty and especially not when we actually need the money! EDIT 1: Kevin Rudd admitted that people might spend it to pay their mortages off, and if so, there can always...

Or service redistribution, because subsidising is very different to handing people cash and allowing them to spend it how they wish. Let's get this straight. You and I both know, that wealth redistribution is socialistic. By definition, that's what it is, because this redistribution of wealth...

No Trefoil, it's not misleading at all. Medicare and Centrelink are welfare nets, which provide vital services to qualifying Australians. A cash handout is not a vital service, and does not result in any kind of useful legacy, such as educational/health infrastructure. More than this though...

No, a user above said that he/she would hit her in the face. I don't think that's quite covered under freedom of speech... though, feel free to correct me if you feel I'm wrong.

Rejoice now, but remember, every dollar given out to low and middle income earners today will have to be paid back later. Paid back by high-income earners through tax; with interest. And mark my words, it will be a Coalition government, which will cop the blame for making tough decisions when...

This. We live in a very liberal country, in that we enjoy many individual freedoms; one being, to a very large extent, freedom of speech. People who resort to violence, simply because of ideological disagreements, undermine the very foundations of this society. This relates back to the simple...

Argh crap. I didn't read the thread... just the stupid poll question. The thread asks: Do you think that a second stimulus package is needed to boost our economy? The poll asks: Do you think that a second stimulus package is Rudd's answer to recession? To the second question, I said yes...

Just read through the speech again before you replied. Yeah, he did mention Iraq... though no timetable (16 months). Admittedly though, it would have detracted from the speech. 16 months... I still think it should be conditions-based.

President Barack Obama... I thought his speech was alright. No mention of Iraq, which was interesting. I get sick and tired of the vague, over-used 'I'm going to fix education, healthcare' etc. spiel. Heard that before... (8 years ago actually) On the whole though, not bad. He's a step up from...

I think that most of the 'excellent' voters, myself included, don't actually feel that George W Bush Junior did an 'excellent' job, but get sick and tired of people complaining about him, as if he didn't make any good decisions. In relation to preventing HIV/AIDs in developing nations...

Nah, don't listen to Trefoil. Sometimes he's sensible, other times he goes off on his left-wing rants... just don't catch him in a bad mood. And Trefoil, I feel we've had this discussion. We ended up, last time, agreeing that Rudd need to stimulate the economy and that this would cost large...