im outraged by the fact the government wants to fine any business that puts up a 'say no to carbon tax' poster. the proposed fine is one million dollars.
this is fucking disgusting and an insult to any one who is interested in freedom of expression, weather you agree to the tax or not, this law is bad news and for me indicates why this government is the worst i have ever seen. 
if this don't outrage you, then here's another reason.
i work with people who are on the fringe. they are people who have severe mental health issues, and to be honest, they don't get that much, maybe they get a meal, a little money to spend each day, $5-$7 and occasionally they get to have an outing, a drive up the coast but the rest of their lives they are stuck in sheltered workshops or at home where they watch tv and try to keep calm, as the world is just far to complex and fearful for them. 
i get a reasonable wage, it's not a job i do for the money, i do it because i'm good at it and i like it.
i received a memo yesterday from the government saying that they were giving increased funding to the area i work in, $650 million extra.
my client has a birthday and requested he have an outing where he has one on one supervision, he does not get on with the other clients in the house and often they send him into an increased level of anxiety and paranoia. he wants to have a train ride into the city and wander around town hall with me. i was told that the service can't afford it.
this is typical of the way 'labour' works, spending money on services at a management level, creating a big government while announcing their incentives and generosity yet that cash never gets to the clients, it's spent of fucking idiots behind desks who generate paperwork ad nausium.
yeah the liberals had their bad points, i hated howard and downer and abbot but fuck me, at least they had a little spark of integrity whereas what we have now is a terrible display of arrogance and waste. yeah you may be getting a $900 bonus for your new born baby but as we slide into massive debt that very child will be paying for that bonus times a hundred. stupidity rules at the moment here in australia, maybe we have globalised governments, the rest of the planets representatives are equally as ridiculous.
the other main topic is the boats peoples who are arriving, while i personally don't mind people entering australia, it's a big place, i do think the process worked better and was safer under howards government. i didn't at the time, but given what's happened now with the hundreds who drown, i have changed my mind. if gillard had any sense she would concede that the libs got that part off the border protection immigration policy correct. it wasn't perfect but it did save life. 
what's amazing in the heat of all this they blame abbot for it. unbelievable, he's not the fucking government, if anyones to blame it's the greens who continually refuse to accept the reality of the complex situation and hold out for a utopian solution that will not arrive.
i even heard one person in government suggest abbot enjoyed the fact that people are drowning. i mean come on, that's a fucking outrageous thing to say, but do the mighty moral left demonstrate the way they did with howard, do they march in the streets and make demand's, nope, instead they want to ban people demonstrating if it's against them, control the media if it's against them and generally carry on as if they represent the public. the public are furious, businesses are closing down faster than they are opening, states are going bust, taxes up, prices up, there is no more manufacturing, our resources are being sold to china and bought back, and now people are being fined for having a poster in their window.
election now!
not fucking happy julia