Ot- qantas

[blacktip-reefy]

Wow, now those are some awards worth going fter Spider.
Well done to the little Irish Militant. Onwards & upwards.

 

[Mr Angry]

8th to 15th with front rower and lock of the year...
yah for the weasel.

Backwards is backwards.

 

[Quigs]

It's indicative of the demographic voting angryman

It's a public vote so are they polling the obese, the lower IQ, the tree huggers or those that play the banjo?

Seems Qantas know how to look after some -


Qantas Airways - World's Best Premium Economy Class

Qantas Airways - Best First Class Airline Lounge

Qantas Airways - Best Premium Economy Onboard Catering

Gee awards are great.....

Especially international awards

Like these maybe

Three AAA Ratings.... one of only 7 countries on the planet

The Fab Four -
Unemployment 5.2%,
GDP 4.3% -
Inflation 2.1% -
Interest 3.5%

> Life satisfaction score: 7.4
> Employment rate: 72% (9th highest)
> Self-reported good health: 85% (5th highest)
> Disposable income: $26,927 (9th highest)
> Educational attainment: 71% (tied-12th lowest)

> Life expectancy: 81.8 years (5th highest)

I could get the full list but that might be seen as a bit of bragging by some.

 

[spider]

Hey quigs, how has unemployment been tracking over the last quarter?

Interest rates so good that the average median price is down $40k, the real estate market is flatter than ever, iconic giants like Darrell Lea is folding, Meyers cutting jobs - spending is going crazy.....

I wish the next election was further away - we want to enjoy the slide for as long as possible.

They are going to over heat the economy but those leftist sites won't discuss that.

To simplify their figures you posted - one view is that It's good to keep your opponent to 4 points a game, but the game will eventually fold if you're only scoring 5 points.

As for the AAA rating, well that's akin to the boy spruiking he had the biggest dick in all of grade 5 - his downfall was that he was 16 years old.

The only given on the up is the amount of boats hitting our borders.

 

[Quigs]

Sorry Spoidarhh.

Me thought youse was going on about a couple of encouragement awards for the failing Kangaroo.

I just thought I'd put me hand up about our envious to the rest of the world economy to lift your spirits.

I left so munch out of that list.

Pssst the unemployment rate is great considering how some state governments on the eastern seaboard are slashing thousands of jobs and breaking promises.

How are the good folk of Grafton today. Bloody Gillard Guv'ment.

Ohhh and the unemployment .... Sloppy Joe is going to take out another 20,000 CanJoh is taking out another 12,000... ohhh and Teds taking out another 5,000 to 10,000. ........... Bloody Gillard Guv'ment and unemployment.

Yeah... Tripple A's are nothing, Bloody Gillard should have at least 4AAAA's.

Pssssts have you been following Ashby? It is going to be interesting Hmmmmm

 

[blacktip-reefy]

geezus that unemployment rate is high. The other factor in unemployment is it is factored across all industries, not areas. Where WA has .001% un-employment, QLD is up around 18% in in places. Gold Coast, Geelong, Woolongong are all in the teens for unemployment.
Never been worse.

 

[Quigs]

ohhh is that right Reefy. IPA stats no doubt.

I'll just point to the scoreboard.

5.2% will do me.

Can you source me those figures..

I can assume all those unemployment figures / stats from bygone eras were all done with those areas / stats are factored in.

Maybe it was over all those years and maybe it wasn't. We can't go moving goalpost can we.

 

[blacktip-reefy]

There has never been higher unemployment on the gold coast than there is now. LAst governemtn to close was ........labor!!!

 

[Quigs]

..... hmmmmmm

got some hard stats to back that up?

Luckily for us here in Qld we now have CanJoh. I reckon he will solve the Gold Coast unemployment problems.

How many jobs has he created down there for the first 100 days.

 

[blacktip-reefy]

never been worse

 

[Quigs]

Never been worse?

Howard as PM
* The biggest-taxing government in Australia’s history
* The biggest trade deficit ever recorded
* The longest run of successive monthly trade deficits ever recorded
* Biggest foreign debt in Australia’s history (number 4 in the world in dollar terms)
* Highest levels of household and business debt ever recorded
* The lowest value of the AU$ (2001)
* 94% of the mining boom tax windfall frittered away in just 2.5 years
* Interest rates consistently above the OECD average
* Highest inflation in 16 years
* In mortgage rates, the highest interest component-to-average income level ever
recorded (worst interest rate-mortgage stress on record)
* Housing affordability the lowest ever
* Personal bankruptcies the highest in two decades
* Government investment in Tertiary Education in reverse

 

[blacktip-reefy]

Never been worse. Shove ya lefty rhetoric where it belongs.
This is close to home for me.
If it wasnt for right wing entrepreneurs like Gina clive nathan & rupert etc, unemployment would be 40% on the gold coast.
The people who have relocated are no longer registered as unemployed.
Where were all your pharken heroes quigs 40 years ago? Were they trowelling the deserts , the outback trying to make good?No, the lazy cuties were probably on strike somehwere demanding more money & less hours.
3 in 5 people in the construction industry on the gold coast have moved away. They do not factor into unemployment rates on the coast, akthough they still "live " there.

 

[Quigs]

Never been worse. Shove ya lefty rhetoric where it belongs.
This is close to home for me.
If it wasnt for right wing entrepreneurs like Gina clive nathan & rupert etc, unemployment would be 40% on the gold coast.
The people who have relocated are no longer registered as unemployed.
Where were all your pharken heroes quigs 40 years ago? Were they trowelling the deserts , the outback trying to make good?No, the lazy cuties were probably on strike somehwere demanding more money & less hours.
3 in 5 people in the construction industry on the gold coast have moved away. They do not factor into unemployment rates on the coast, akthough they still "live " there.

I'd give Bindi a call if I were you

"Tony Abbott is right on one count"

"Tony Abbott is a right ...what?"

 

[spider]

Never been worse?

Howard as PM
* The biggest-taxing government in Australia?s history
* The biggest trade deficit ever recorded
* The longest run of successive monthly trade deficits ever recorded
* Biggest foreign debt in Australia?s history (number 4 in the world in dollar terms)
* Highest levels of household and business debt ever recorded
* The lowest value of the AU$ (2001)
* 94% of the mining boom tax windfall frittered away in just 2.5 years
* Interest rates consistently above the OECD average
* Highest inflation in 16 years
* In mortgage rates, the highest interest component-to-average income level ever
recorded (worst interest rate-mortgage stress on record)
* Housing affordability the lowest ever
* Personal bankruptcies the highest in two decades
* Government investment in Tertiary Education in reverse

No unemployment, building, or retail spending stats in that lot quigs?

Why is that?

Actually, Rather than type out a spiel ala swanny, can you crop the link for those bullet points.

 

[Quigs]

No unemployment, building, or retail spending stats in that lot quigs?

Why is that?

Actually, Rather than type out a spiel ala swanny, can you crop the link for those bullet points.

Got'em straight from the same place Reefy gets his... its a wealth of data.

but if you are not sure then

I'd give Bindi a call

 

[spider]

Come on quigs, are you embarrassed to paste the lefty link?

I paste mine when you ask.

 

[Surely]

Looks like it was lifted off an alp website :lol:

 

[Quigs]

Narhhh its off an article published on july 2011 ............ only joking.

Who'd honestly try and produce something that old and make out it was current.

 

[spider]

I can't see the link quigs?

Did you post it?

 

[Quigs]

Oh alright if you want me to post something for you..

12th June ...2012

We're not just a lucky country - in the past week, there has been a growing understanding among Australians that our economy really is among the best in the world. Independent commentators, international ratings agencies, the International Monetary Fund, OECD, World Bank and the governor of the Reserve Bank are now all talking about how strong our economy is - perhaps stronger than many realise. Of course, there are still some doomsayers. But as the saying goes, you can choose your own opinion, but you can't choose your own facts. So these are the facts. Our economy has grown by 4.3 per cent in the past year and created 39,000 jobs in the past month. In just over four years the euro area economy has shrunk 1.7 per cent. Japan's economy has shrunk 1.7 per cent. The US economy has grown - just - by 1.2%. And the Australian economy has grown 10.3 per cent. Here's another fact: Australians have created more than 800 000 new jobs in five years. And another: tax as a percentage of gross domestic product is at long-term lows.

Source

You know the trick how to crack the firewall

http://www.couriermail.com.au/busin...-the-high-dollar/story-fn7kjcme-1226393943119

http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/we-should-be-applauding-not-donning-a-hair-shirt/

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Michele Grattan - THE sparkling national account numbers have come at the best possible time for Julia Gillard, as she faces some of the most testing weeks of her perennially difficult prime ministership. The unexpectedly strong growth buttresses Australia in a dangerous international climate and may give the government a degree of fireproofing against the singeing effect of the coming carbon price. It certainly provides Labor with a good broad story to tell, when it is tossing out targeted money to try to improve the mood of highly sceptical voters (who are also getting a fall in interest rates, although there is still uncertainty over how much will flow through). Also important for Labor, yesterday's dramatically good numbers have discombobulated the opposition. Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey was left open-mouthed. He had to welcome the ''extraordinary figure of the March quarter''. But how to score a political point? The best he could come up with was: ''Imagine how well our country could do if we had a good government

Source

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This is a blockbuster set of economic growth figures. The economy grew 1.3 per cent in the first three months of the year, giving an annual growth rate of 4.3 per cent. Let's put that in context. The "trend" rate of growth for the Australian economy - its average for the past decade or so - is about 3 or 3.25 per cent. So we have an economy already travelling well above trend growth. Looking forward, if the pace of economic growth in the first three months of this year were to be sustained for the rest of the year, the Australian economy would expand around 5 per cent this year. That's fast. Reserve Bank governor, Glenn Stevens, in his statement accompanying yesterday's interest rate cut decision, described the pace of economic growth as "modest". He'd be blushing now. Growth is anything but modest. It's robust. But it's all just mining, isn't it? Well, no. That's the surprising thing. Households were in fact the strongest contributor to growth this quarter, adding 0.9 percentage points to the quarterly growth rate. Business investment is the other major driver, and that's where the mining boom comes in. On the downside, net exports (exports minus imports) remain a drag on growth ... Source

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