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Crowds are a sign of popularity, in our view.  An overcrowded place is obviously a very popular place. Efficiency requires the concentration of resources in one location.  If we had our political way, Australians would have only one public hospital emergency department, possibly in Marree or Pyrmont or South Morang. Central essential services save money even if they do not necessarily save lives. Building things is fun, particularly when spending public money. Saving lives in buildings, and outside them, is the job of experts.  We are not experts at anything except giving public money to big construction firms. Nation pride is in the national interest.  Overly expensive public buildings are symbols of success and therefore national pride, even if voters die in queues of ambulances outside them and thereby pay the national price. Our candidates love being around a hive of activity in high viz hard hats and high viz vests, especially for high viz media events. Ev...

Encouraging thousands of underemployed individuals on minimum wages to join a union is a great idea. A minimum wage sounds great in theory.  In reality, it is nowhere near a living wage, especially on a casual contract with inadequate hours of work and several debts to repay. Encouraging thousands of victims of wage theft to join a union is also a great idea, except for the possibility that quite a few may usually be paid in cash to dodge tax and work much longer hours than their visas allow. A unionised workforce of the lowest paid workers is a great idea for the associated lobbyists.  There is much money to be made from keeping wages low.  A unionised workforce of the lowest paid workers is also great from the point of view of a senior union official with an overly generous salary, access to a trade union credit card and political ambitions. The public knows that low paid jobs are usually boring jobs.  The work may even be detrimental to the mental health of the wo...

Australians don't want war king families.  They want wanking political staffers.  They want money for nothing.  They want the Insult of Pubic Affairs and Nude Corps in charge of the federal Treasury.  They want sport, and lots of it, fully paid from the public purse.  They want beer, wine and gin lanes.   Australians know what they want.  They want big houses for the rich and no houses for the poor.  They want beautiful, long lines of profitability for publicly-subsidised insurance scams in the name of private health.  They want ugly, big queues in agony in the public distress system, to act as a warning to the non-insured.   Australians want to pay big bucks to transport traumatised refugees to dangerous places far away.  They want American spellings in their political parties, the mass media and Aussie education.  They want women in the kitchen.  They want blokes in power.  They want the return of the She'...