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McGowan promised 50,000 new jobs in the first year he took government, he said there would be a tourism and renewable energy boom that would lead to new jobs...

Well since then there are 100,000 more WA people out of work then when he took office, we have 6.8% unemployment which is the highest in the country and youth are at 17.5%.

The tourism thing has tanked, with less people coming here than ever before, and the renewables is a fantasy, the new wind-farm at Eneba will be up made from entirely imported equipment not a single windmill made here, so much for that.

That leaves the construction projects started by Barnett the only thing left driving any growth, namely the Airport raillink and finishing of EQ ..plus sneakers Metronet, if it ever get off the ground which looks like it will be full of ghost trains as people walk away from public transport in droves.





Sneakers better hope resources pull us out of the crap again.

Baz Gina's Roy Hill mine advertised for 100 traineeships. Fifo from Perth.They received over 16,000 applications.

Bazza wrote: McGowan promised 50,000 new jobs in the first year he took government, he said there would be a tourism and renewable energy boom that would lead to new jobs...

Well since then there are 100,000 more WA people out of work then when he took office, we have 6.8% unemployment which is the highest in the country and youth are at 17.5%.

The tourism thing has tanked, with less people coming here than ever before, and the renewables is a fantasy, the new wind-farm at Eneba will be up made from entirely imported equipment not a single windmill made here, so much for that.

That leaves the construction projects started by Barnett the only thing left driving any growth, namely the Airport raillink and finishing of EQ ..plus sneakers Metronet, if it ever get off the ground which looks like it will be full of ghost trains as people walk away from public transport in droves.





Sneakers better hope resources pull us out of the crap again.

Baz it's naive for any of us to think that any polly of any colour will ever tell the truth, the first victim of any war or any political campaign is the truth, and like so many before him he's dipped into the public purse to fund a trip to an ES labour party fund raiser, then justifies it by saying ... nyer nyer Barnett did similar as if that excuses him. I had some hopes for what appeared to be a more centrist Labour Govt but it seems they will disappoint us like most that have preceded them.

For me the biggest issue is that so many folk believe the promises of jobs being created and that they will last. The federal and state governments can create 500k jobs tomorrow but how long do they last!

One poster makes a comment abt barnetts construction but at what cost was it started, the money was borrowed and left for someone else to clean up. A hospital fiasco that someone else has to clean up, a tunnel that someone else gets the shit for and the list goes on!

A windfarm that will use equipment from somewhere else, we really need to come back to some sense of reality Australia and Australians do NOT produce the best of everything, other countries can do it better and cheaper, no car industry is the proof of that pudding (take away the wasted subsidies and guess what it fails).

If you want to judge the judge on realistic stuff like debt, like education, like health and like primary industry and resources management.

Oh and don't believe what is in the media, some of you folk reckon the ABC is biased mmmm and the worst and sundry times ain't!

This government has a few things going for them some of which have been good fortune whilst others good management. Sneakers has exploited the work of Barney by taking the credit for things like the new stadium, opening PCH when it was only a matter of time before it was commissioned anyway, a new GST deal which was pretty well all signed and sealed at the last state election, using federal money set aside for Roe 8 to put towards Metronet and so on. The good management side for mine is the unwaivering focus on reducing debt....Wyatt has done a pretty good job on the back of rising mining royalties, increased stamp duty and GST top ups. That said, sneakers needs to avoid making outrageous promises like the jobs pledge as the voting public can be unforgiving.

Theres two story's to the Australian Car industry Grump.It cost the AU Government about 100,000
.000 a year to keep 3 company's here.About 8.5 million a month.Overseas manufacturers came here tarrif free .And Holden tried to sell the Commodore in Brazil+Ford the Territory in Thailand.After a dozen different tarrifs both cars cost $75,000 to buy over there and 45 k here.
We now import 12,000 cars a month here.That we use to build here
12,000 cars by $35,000 per car =420,000,000 a month.
420,000,000 by 12 months =$5,040,000,000 .5 Billion to our balance of payments debt every year.
On Tony Abbots thinking we all be in horse+cart.Every country finances + protects there car industry apart from Australia.

gtrxuone wrote: Theres two story's to the Australian Car industry Grump.It cost the AU Government about 100,000
.000 a year to keep 3 company's here.About 8.5 million a month.Overseas manufacturers came here tarrif free .And Holden tried to sell the Commodore in Brazil+Ford the Territory in Thailand.After a dozen different tarrifs both cars cost $75,000 to buy over there and 45 k here.
We now import 12,000 cars a month here.That we use to build here
12,000 cars by $35,000 per car =420,000,000 a month.
420,000,000 by 12 months =$5,040,000,000 .5 Billion to our balance of payments debt every year.
On Tony Abbots thinking we all be in horse+cart.Every country finances + protects there car industry apart from Australia.

Mate...there has always been tariffs on motor vehicles imported into Australia and still is today. The general rate is 5% and some cop an additional $12,000 per vehicle depending on type and age. It's only in the last few years that cars coming from countries where we have a free trade agreement such as Japan have dropped to zero but that happened well after our car industry went bust.

BC wrote:

gtrxuone wrote: Theres two story's to the Australian Car industry Grump.It cost the AU Government about 100,000
.000 a year to keep 3 company's here.About 8.5 million a month.Overseas manufacturers came here tarrif free .And Holden tried to sell the Commodore in Brazil+Ford the Territory in Thailand.After a dozen different tarrifs both cars cost $75,000 to buy over there and 45 k here.
We now import 12,000 cars a month here.That we use to build here
12,000 cars by $35,000 per car =420,000,000 a month.
420,000,000 by 12 months =$5,040,000,000 .5 Billion to our balance of payments debt every year.
On Tony Abbots thinking we all be in horse+cart.Every country finances + protects there car industry apart from Australia.

Mate...there has always been tariffs on motor vehicles imported into Australia and still is today. The general rate is 5% and some cop an additional $12,000 per vehicle depending on type and age. It's only in the last few years that cars coming from countries where we have a free trade agreement such as Japan have dropped to zero but that happened well after our car industry went bust.[/quote
The Australian - Thailand FTA started in 2004.Thats why the Howard Government started the Green Car Innovation Fund.]
They had 5 years from that point to build an alternative fuel car.Ford went with LPI-LPG,Holden done an E-86 Ethanol car.Toyota done the Hybrid Camry.

Yes..but most of those FTA's had phasing rates bringing tariffs down to zero over a number of years. Cars from Japan only became import duty free on 1 January 2018, the US the same and Korea on 1 January 2016. Prior to that, they all had duties imposed in one form or another.

BC wrote: This government has a few things going for them some of which have been good fortune whilst others good management. Sneakers has exploited the work of Barney by taking the credit for things like the new stadium, opening PCH when it was only a matter of time before it was commissioned anyway, a new GST deal which was pretty well all signed and sealed at the last state election, using federal money set aside for Roe 8 to put towards Metronet and so on. The good management side for mine is the unwaivering focus on reducing debt....Wyatt has done a pretty good job on the back of rising mining royalties, increased stamp duty and GST top ups. That said, sneakers needs to avoid making outrageous promises like the jobs pledge as the voting public can be unforgiving.

Reducing debt is pretty easy when you aren't actually doing anything, BC stampy duty has floored because out property market is the worst performing in Australia, what he has done however is smash house holds and business , ie increased pay roll tax, now the higest in the country which as you know feed direct into unemployemt..