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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by Thryleon -
This is why people get cheesed off about government spending.

A statue for 130k.
Painting the tunnel boring machine for 7k on one side, and then on the other, you get the sob story about not enough government funding being available for the public sector.

If you throw money away on luxury items, its a bit rich to have a go at people for complaining when they get a new tax.

When money gets tight at home, we start reducing our luxuries not borrow against our assets to make the place look pretty (about the only analogy I could come up with for the tunnel boring machine and the statue).  You cant complain that the ambos, cops, and teachers dont earn enough and raise taxes and then keep a straight face whilst building a statue.  I reckon had they canned the whole statue idea labelling it a relic that in the current climate is not required they would likely go a lot further to making people a bit happier with their governments. 
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 10 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
Last post by kruddler -
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Obviously we would have beat the Lions had Voss not coached that game.
Might have worked a bit harder in that first half rather than pressure rating of 140 to 150.

In 40 minutes, we scored 1 goal, opposition scored 3.3. Thankfully not kicking straight.

That was 1/3rd of the total game time.
Why were we so poor? What was our pressure rating then?

Can't blame Voss for that one.

Or doesn't it count this week??

If we played Sydney or Brisbane instead of an injury riddled out of form doggies, it would've been a lot worse.
Dogs last 5 games have included....
2x  10 goal losses
1x 12 point loss to freo (was 14 points for us)
1x2 point win against Port.
and a loss to us.

But it has nothing to do with their 'lack of' form, its all got to do with our interim coach.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by PaulP -
The policy is a wank, but you should blame the Hon Jeff Kennett, who introduced the policy in 1999, thinking he was a shoo-in for a 3rd term and an ugly statue.

I would be curious to know how many taxpayers there are in Victoria, and what the actual cost would be to each of them. Bugger all I suspect. If nothing else, Andrews certainly deserves credit for being able to live rent free in his enemies' heads.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Last post by Thryleon -
Also a good point prof.


Let's face it, they're all self serving.  We simply end up with politicians whos only motivation is to get elected, and once elected stay elected.

As a consequence they dont make changes that hurt their support base (financial or other) and generally work against the party in power more than for the public and end up implementing changes that are designed purely around winning votes and maintaining the status quo.

Weve had the weakest leaderships at government level since Howard finished up.  Everyone else has been more of a morale victor than anything else.