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...although I respect Australia's Quarantine Laws and whatever I can't help but laugh at this...


...this is somewhat how the world will be looking at this farce instigated by Barnaby Joyce... in my opinion he has made us look like a bunch of backward rednecks looking for justice at all costs...

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Minister for Agriculture and Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce comments on the Depp dogs Pistol and Boo court decision. Picture: Ray Strange.Source:News Corp Australia

...all of this hullaballoo and she recieves a $1000 fine and has to make an apology video?... how ridiculous... I hope that Barnaby is happy with himself... the video of their apology has gone viral big time and we are a laughing stock to the world... as with the video above goes to show... just a couple of examples more of how News shows overseas are viewing this...



...as Ricky Gervais says in the second video... "it looks like a hostage video"... hahaha!... that it does... Ricky was right on the mark there as far as I'm concerned... I swear that if you look at Johnny's blinking eyes that it is probably morse code for 'Barnaby Joyce is a fuckwit!'... the way that they are looking at a camera below them and not straight ahead makes them look like hostages for sure lol!... methinks that Johnny and Amber are taking the piss out of Barnaby and good luck to them... it should never have got to this ridiculous stage... anything to score Political points eh Barnaby?... instead you have made us look ridiculous on the World stage... well done Barnaby you simpleton...

...another report says that Johnny was smoking on the balcony of the Government building where the Court hearing was being held which is banned in all Government buildings...

http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...d/news-story/463a65e0931a59f0e6b3d1be56aba151

...what?... is he going to dragged out to the middle of a public square and be publicly flogged now?... what a completely embarrassing farce all of this has been from the outset just to serve a Politician's massive ego!... when you watch 'Border Patrol' on TV and people get caught trying to smuggle live animals through Customs they have been given cautions and small fines and that is it... but no... Barnaby couldn't be content with that... he wanted to make an 'example' of Johnny and Amber didn't he?... now we all look like idiots to the World... he was threatening to have the dogs put down and that Amber could face a 10 year prison sentence too making us look even more stupid... thanks Barnaby... thankyou very much!...

...also in that report above Barnaby Joyce says (rather gloatingly I imagine)...

Mr Joyce said yesterday he hoped the video would serve as a warning that biosecurity in Australia is no joke.

Asked if it should be shown to passengers on flights to Australia he said: “I would enjoy that. That would be something for Qantas and other airlines.”
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...I suppose that they will get a fee for every time it is shown then Barnaby?... you know... Copywrite Laws and everything Barnaby... after all... we don't want to break any Laws do we Barnaby?...

...as I say... that's my opinion on this ramshackle ridiculous shit storm in a teacup anyway... Barnaby Joyce... you are a complete wanker to the nth degree!... cheers.
 
...from this website below... so much for Politicians being in touch with reality eh?... they are just as bad as Judges being out of touch with reality in my books... arseholes!... cheers.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...-is-anything-but-average-20160501-goj9w7.html


Federal budget 2016: Tax cuts. $80,000 is anything but average
Date
May 1, 2016 - 11:39PM


Peter Martin
Economics Editor, The Age

Comment

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Treasurer Scott Morrison addresses the media during a doorstop interview ahead of Budget day. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

If Scott Morrison thinks that by offering tax cuts to Australians earning more than $80,000 he is helping average workers, he doesn't know what average workers earn.

Asked on Channel Nine about reports his budget will deliver election-eve tax cuts to Australians earning more than $80,000, he said he was going to clear the way for small and medium-sized businesses and "people out there earning average wages".

Relatively few people are at risk of earning more than $80,000 and relatively little of their income is above $80,000.

The average wage is $60,000. Most Australians don't get close to $80,000 and only around one quarter of them earn more than it. Put another way, the overwhelming majority of Australians, including those on average wages, won't be getting his reported tax cuts.

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Illustration: Matt Golding.

There's a logic to cutting tax for the highest-earning 25 per cent of Australians and not for the other 75 per cent. It's that $80,000 is where the second highest tax rate comes in. Morrison says over the next two years 300,000 Australians are going to move from just below $80,000 to just above it. While it won't make much difference to their total tax bill, because it will more highly tax only the few dollars they earn over $80,000, it will make them feel as if they are more highly taxed. And $80,000 is roughly the average wage for someone working full-time.

By misrepresenting a full-time figure as an average figure he spawned a myth: "that next year the average wage earner will be taxed up to 37 cents in the dollar on what they earn".

The upside, for him, is that the problem doesn't cost that much to fix; because it's nothing like the problem suggested. Relatively few people are at risk of earning more than $80,000 and relatively little of their income is above $80,000.

Lifting the second-highest threshold from $80,000 to $85,000 would cost just $600 million. Most of it would go to very high earners. Lifting the threshold further to $90,000 would cost $1.1 billion. The cost of lifting thresholds by that much at the lower end of the scale would be enormous, which is one of the reasons Morrison's predecessor Peter Costello rarely tried it.

Asked at Sunday's press conference whether ordinary Australians earning well below $80,000 would be getting tax cuts, Morrison said the answer would be revealed on budget night. It'll have to be no. There are too many of them.


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