NO matter what happens fuel will go up if the government lower taxes and gst on fuel the demand will be so much higher and then the fuel companies will have no choice but to raise the price and the only way for it to go down is if countries like china and india calm down with their fuel consumpsion as they are the ones with the most demand. im not sticking up for anyone because i cant afford it but crying about it and feeling sorry for youself wont make it any worse the companies and PM rudd need to pull their fingers out and work out a way to help

If the American’s just shut.the.f**k.up and kept to themselves for once, we might all be okay. And you know what, they’ve asked the Middle Eastern businesses who have control over the oil fields to INCREASE PRODUCTION JUST FOR AMERICANS, because the fat morons are using all of theirs.

Getting rid of a small tax, isn’t going to change anything. Nobodies looking at the big picture here.

Maybe self proclaimed armchair critics such as you need to understand that politicians only manage taxpayers funding and no more. I dont want to see perks for all of them when there time is up, and I most certainly would expect you to understand that Mandrake Mandarin Dud Rudd should “not” comment the truth to China about Tibet as they are a massive population and control lots of relations with our economy – so for Rudd to comment is a slap towards that result and places a negative spin on it. Obviously you are oblivious to that!

A computer for every child in every class room WTF?

National Broadband FTTN plan to blow the proceeds of the Telstra sale and then some which will achieve very little in the way of speed for the majority of customers at an exorbitant cost.

20/20 summit that established that we need to be a Republic again and little else.

Lets bring another million in each year. That should ease the housing shortage and decongest our cities.

Why not make it an over crowded shithole like everywhere else?

Got it good but not for long!

Australia has the 4th lowest levels of tax on petrol in the OECD.

Taxes are your money that is spent on hospitals, schools (public and private), roads, rail, baby bonuses, farm subsidies (if these werent here food would be even more expensive), the military and police, subsidising the corporate sector and on and on and on.

Both Rudd and Nelson are taking this issue waaaaay out of the realms of reality. Now it is easy to sit on this forum and yell and whine it would be better if you actually had a go and got involved in the process. Dont like a governments policies? Join a political party and change it, if you could be bothered.

So get over it, we have it very good.

His answer is to convene a committee. His team hasn’t got a clue. Form a committee and implement the outcome and if we stuff up blame the committee. He is certainly sly even trying to get the Libs in on the committees for everything!