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Australian democracy is based on the British Westminster system of Government. Hardly surprising really, considering that Australia was founded as a British convict settlement. Although my family history was one of ‘free settlers’ which meant they had enormous privileges in the beginnings of this country even though life was hard. My family pioneered the New England region of New South Wales.
For the past 70 years of electoral history, Australia has not had a hung election result. The last time it happened was in the 1940’s so today we are literally breaking new democratic ground for most Australians.
All political parties accept campaign contributions. In my opinion, this is dangerous to real democracy. Over time, these contributions have lead to a system of capitalist democracy because no political party can afford to run a high profile election campaign without adequate funding for all the advertising costs involved. This in turn has led to a system of dependency on those funds being paid in return for political, usually financial, favours. Every party, of course, denies this to be the case, but it is unrealistically against human nature for it not to be so. There is no politician of any ilk who does not have a big ego and a need of funds to promote themselves or their party.
Independents campaigning though do largely pay their own way via the running of a multitude of campaign fund raisers by a proportion of their community supporters. The major political parties do this as well as receiving donations from large national and multinational companies.
This funding arrangement in conjunction with our Westminster system of Government has led to an adversarial system of lawmaking. This has rarely been to the benefit of a large proportion of Australian citizens and that is why we have so many “little Aussie Battlers”. These are people who tend to live pay day to pay day.
2010 History:
Four months ago, when we had Prime Minister Kevin Rudd from the ALP as our Prime Minister; who was elected in 2007 by an overwhelming majority; he brought in a Resource Super Profits Rent Tax on the Mining Industry.
The big multinational mining companies didn’t like this and so they began a 21million dollar advertising campaign against the ALP and the Super Profits Rent Tax. PM Kevin Rudd was sticking to his guns and wouldn’t negotiate past certain non-negotiable aspects of this tax.
During the recent Global Financial Meltdown, Australia’s fiscal policy saved Australia from going into recession and many thousands of Australians losing their jobs. During this time, it was the mining of our natural resources in conjunction with immediate stimulus packages being made available which put us into debt but saved us from a recession.
It was our finite natural resources which saved Australia. The multinational mining companies would have some Australians believe it was them that saved Australia rather than our resources. Even while the multinational mining companies were profiteering from our resources during this time to the tune of Billions of dollars, they still took the opportunity to lay-off 17% of their workforce.
Because PM Kevin Rudd would not give-in to the demands of the multinationals and accept what the Mining companies negotiated, they advertised extensively against this tax and the ALP.
Because this is an election year (Australia’s parliament only sits for 3 year terms) so Kevin Rudd was quickly ‘removed’ by the ALP as Prime Minister and Australia was given our first ever female Prime Minister in Julia Gillard. At the time, PM Gillard was Kevin Rudds deputy prime minister.
This was very unfortunate for PM Gillard because it caused a lot of ill-feeling in the Australian community. Most saw this drastic and swift removal as an unexpected execution. This decision was made by the ALP back room ‘powers-that-be’ and carried out within 24 hours; without any hint or consultation with the Australian media or people. It shocked Australia and this has continued to resonate strongly and affect last Saturdays election outcome.
2010 Has turned out to be a very important year one way or another for Australia’s political landscape. It represents an important change in our democracy and we can all really benefit from it if those we have so far elected have Australia and the Australian people’s best interests at the heart of all their decisions. How we move forward into the next decade of this new century now depends on all of us.
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Posted in Politics · August 27th, 2010 · Comments (0)
Have you ever seen a person who can combine the features of a psychologist and a businessman? Have you ever met a person who can react different life situations and get out of them in the best way? Have you ever been acquainted with a person that can put his or her property at risk leaving it at the discretion of other people? Have you ever let any strange people to live in your apartment without knowing even the names of these people? I guess no. I am speaking about a special category of people that are called landlords.
On the one hand these are people who want to get as much money as they can. Sometimes they are criticized for being greedy and impudent. However those, who know the rental industry in details and have already experienced world in it can understand and agree that this is a very risky kind of business and people who work in it have to be very special.
A good landlord has to be a real psychologist. A landlord has to understand what kind of people he is meeting from the first sight. The first impression is extremely important as it can give landlords the first impression of a tenant. Sometimes the first impression can be deceitful; however in the rental industry is more likely to be real. Sometimes potential tenants can ask strange irrelevant question, or they can look in a suspicious way, or it seems there were no reasons for the rejection, but inside a landlord feels that there is something wrong with the potential tenants, and in order to ensure yourself landlords take a negative decision and find the reason not to take these tenants to the house.
A good landlord has also to be quite good at legal issues. Legal aspect is the one that can help a tenant when the psychological skills were not enough. A good competent agreement can help you to stand all the stages of the trial in case the deal comes to the trial. All specialists on property recommend including as many details into the contract as you can. Those tenants who have experienced a long way of putting their property on lease are really experienced in that. If you have a look at their provisions of a lease you will see how careful they are about concluding the contract. They try to foresee every small detail starting from the noise at night up to the legal and financial problems much as tenant eviction.
So we recommend you to be really careful about doing property rent business as nowadays it is the sphere that is greatly connected with the criminals and frauds. That is why try to take as many means of precautions as you can.
Today many people who own additional appartment try to earn money with that. But quite often tenants refuse to pay their rent payments, and New York is not an exception here. Those landlords who are coming across this kind of problem might be interested in New York tenant landlord law. Cases may be different, and one is able to overcome some of them just being aware of the proper landlord attorney New York information.
Also bear in mind that we are living in the digital world of high technologies. If you are looking for any details regarding New York state eviction, take advantage of the Internet network. Search engines, forums, social networks and blogs – they all give you a really unique chance to find anything at the best price on the market.
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Posted in Current Affairs · July 24th, 2010 · Comments (0)