Katy's plan for a fair, just, and equitable society (via gift card reform)

Expand Human Rights legislation? Is that the legislation currently under the auspices of the HR Commission – who last week came out and said that due to being dudded in the budget they are shedding jobs and programs?

breda said :

Introduce unexplained wealth legislation into the Territory to ensure that people do not benefit from illegal and unlawful activities

Develop the ACT’s own privacy legislation, including examining the area of statutory cause of action for privacy

Hmm, aren’t these two mutually exclusive – how can I have privacy if I have to explain where I got my nice things from.

I promise to never vote for Labor, and I will keep my promise, “unlike others”

The Mother of all motherhood statements. Where are the policies to achieve world peace and universal happiness?

Beats me how they can make promises like those with a straight face, after more than a decade in power. Why don’t they just stand on their record and promise more of the same?

Micky_P said :

breda said :

Yep, poverty can be fixed by legislation. Isn’t it amazing that legislators in the world’s poorest countries haven’t cottoned on to this?

Mate, it sounds like you don’t think we should even try. I think we all have a responsibility to look after the needy and the most effective way to do this is through sensible policy. Good on ’em for thinking about those who are struggling when Liberals are just running around spreading nonsense.

My issue with this is that it’s all well and good to provide a safety net to keep people off the street, however that kind of tokenistic approach ignores the much greater number of people who could be considered ‘working poor’. You know, those who aren’t public servants – the people who work in retail, hospitality, security, in various private sector admin roles as well as in trades and whatnot.
The kind of people who’ve been gradually pushed out of the Canberra to Queanbeyan, Yass, Goulburn and even Cooma over the time that this government has been in office.

Lets not kid ourselves – they’ve had the reigns of power for over a decade. They’ve had control of planning, the public housing system, land releases, rates…. every tool in the box. The fact that Canberra has some of the highest rents in the country and prices comparable to cities 10 times its size has come about because ACT labor allowed it to come about (dare I say caused).
If it was seriously seen as an unacceptable state of affairs it would have been dealt with with real action as opposed to token rubbish like the land rent scheme and ‘affordable housing’ quotas that don’t actually address the supply/demand reality.

I think about the only thing Labor hasn’t promised ACT residents this year is an end to paper cuts – I mean, isn’t it a basic human right to be able to handle a ream of paper without worrying about cutting your fingers???

I wonder if all these election promises will go the same way that Labor’s promise of open government went?

breda said :

Yep, poverty can be fixed by legislation. Isn’t it amazing that legislators in the world’s poorest countries haven’t cottoned on to this?

Mate, it sounds like you don’t think we should even try. I think we all have a responsibility to look after the needy and the most effective way to do this is through sensible policy. Good on ’em for thinking about those who are struggling when Liberals are just running around spreading nonsense.

johnboy said :

Actually if you give everyone a house the cost to society goes down as they stop filling the hospitals.

The trick is to make it a not very nice house so they’ve got an incentive to aim for something better.

Don’t we already do this?? Guvvy housing?

The number of times I have read “if re-elected” is truly unprecedented. If re-elected you’ll get all this and more but if not you’ll get nothing and it’ll be all your fault – your choice. So there!!!

What a joke.

The public housing industry (read Marxists) will be over the moon to know Katy will give people a legal right, enforceable against the state, to get housing without working or paying for it. And every one else will have to pay higher taxes and higher house prices as a result.