Opinion AUSTRALIAN Politics: Adelaide Board Discussion Part 5

[steve9798]

Exhibit B.

Lol, 18th?

You realise how many cities are currently at war with pleny of people dying.

Things are not great in Alice Springs, but watch some international news & get a grip!

Is Alice Springs anywhere near these murder rates? No it's 9.3 per 100K, compared to 77+ for the top 10 cities. Not even in the same ballpark.

Most dangerous cities in the world 2024 | Statista

The most dangerous cities in the world are found in Mexico. Colima tops the list.

www.statista.com

You and your loafers wouldn't last 5 minutes in Alice woke boy.

 

[steve9798]

Flip flop Dutton.

Immigration under the Libs will be at the same levels as it is now.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

You and your loafers wouldn't last 5 minutes there woke boy.

I have worked in Alice Springs.

Even met 1970crow & his wife for a meal.

Don't know as much about Alice Springs as 1970, but don't pretend like you know me because you have nfi... & about most things for that matter!

 

[steve9798]

You said and I quote “We never talked about their immigration! Geez, you just tell lies after lies. Bring me the quote.”

Care to retract that comment? You wouldn’t want to break site rules now, would you?

Also, I was right way back in 2017 (so was Trump) that Sweden was going to have huge problems down the track with their immigration policies.


Swedish PM says integration of immigrants has failed, fueled gang crime

Swedish politician regrets ‘refugees welcome’ policy: ‘We were fundamentally wrong on the immigration issue’

Louise Meijer, an MP for Sweden’s centrist Moderate party, apologised to voters for her previous position on open borders. She regrets “making mistakes” by “pleading for openness and refugees [being]…

brusselssignal.eu

Sweden faces a crisis because of flood of immigrants

Immigrants have transformed Sweden, creating a national crisis because many of the newcomers are integrating poorly into society.

www.gisreportsonline.com

Present-day Sweden carries the dubious distinction of having the highest rate of gangland killings in Europe. It boasts the lowest average age of serious offenders, with children in their low teens being arrested for murder. Increasing segments of suburbs are officially classified as “especially vulnerable areas,” where it is “hard, bordering on impossible” for the police to operate. In layman’s terms, these are no-go zones, where local clans rule and where first responders will not enter without flak jackets and police escort.

An early warning was provided in 2017 when United States President Donald Trump made a quip about rioting in Sweden: “You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this!” Who indeed? At the time, such comments were met with disdain and ridicule. Today, it is not so funny anymore.

Sweden has transitioned from being a model of inspiration to becoming a warning example. As gangland violence is spreading across borders, its Scandinavian neighbors experience growing fears of ending up in what is known in Denmark as the “Swedish condition.”

Defying an old taboo, the Swedish government has called on the military to assist the police

Stop deliberately trying to destroy Kane's argument with facts. Kane deals in feelings not facts.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Stop deliberately trying to destroy Kane's argument with facts. Kane deals in feelings not facts.

You seem to spend a lot of energy talking about me, so obviously living in your head.

Notice how you rarely actually post anything of insight, as spend time attacking others.

Sounds like someone who recently departed from here...

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Someone quick to delete their posts... which is just like another poster on here... before having a chance to reply.

Alias discovered hey Brett Cummings.

 

[steve9798]

You seem to spend a lot of energy talking about me, so obviously living in your head.

Notice how you rarely actually post anything of insight, as spend time attacking others.

Sounds like someone who recently departed from here...

Why would anyone bother. You can't reason/debate with someone with your flawed ideologies and quite disturbing opinions.

 

[steve9798]

Someone quick to delete their posts... which is just like another poster on here... before having a chance to reply.

Alias discovered hey Brett.

Whose Brett?

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Whose Brett?

Come again lol.

Gotchya!

 

[steve9798]

Come again lol.

Gotchya!

Yep. ya got me. Clever boy.

Did Brett own you to?

 

[steve9798]

You said and I quote “We never talked about their immigration! Geez, you just tell lies after lies. Bring me the quote.”

Care to retract that comment? You wouldn’t want to break site rules now, would you?

Also, I was right way back in 2017 (so was Trump) that Sweden was going to have huge problems down the track with their immigration policies.


Swedish PM says integration of immigrants has failed, fueled gang crime

Swedish politician regrets ‘refugees welcome’ policy: ‘We were fundamentally wrong on the immigration issue’

Louise Meijer, an MP for Sweden’s centrist Moderate party, apologised to voters for her previous position on open borders. She regrets “making mistakes” by “pleading for openness and refugees [being]…

brusselssignal.eu

Sweden faces a crisis because of flood of immigrants

Immigrants have transformed Sweden, creating a national crisis because many of the newcomers are integrating poorly into society.

www.gisreportsonline.com

Present-day Sweden carries the dubious distinction of having the highest rate of gangland killings in Europe. It boasts the lowest average age of serious offenders, with children in their low teens being arrested for murder. Increasing segments of suburbs are officially classified as “especially vulnerable areas,” where it is “hard, bordering on impossible” for the police to operate. In layman’s terms, these are no-go zones, where local clans rule and where first responders will not enter without flak jackets and police escort.

An early warning was provided in 2017 when United States President Donald Trump made a quip about rioting in Sweden: “You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this!” Who indeed? At the time, such comments were met with disdain and ridicule. Today, it is not so funny anymore.

Sweden has transitioned from being a model of inspiration to becoming a warning example. As gangland violence is spreading across borders, its Scandinavian neighbors experience growing fears of ending up in what is known in Denmark as the “Swedish condition.”

Defying an old taboo, the Swedish government has called on the military to assist the police

An apology isn't good enough from Louise Meijer and those who aggressively pushed a similar mass immigration agenda. Her and her kind should be in jail for treason for the damage they have done to their country. Damage that can never be fixed. Her, Merkel and those like them have adversely changed their countries future forever.

Of the 1.3 million Merkel brought into her country, more than 80% are still collecting welfare, having never worked from the time they arrived. They never intended to work nor integrate. Crime, including the sexual assault of women/girls, has skyrocketed to levels thought unimaginable in a country like Germany.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

It's happening more and more.
Check your statements.

My carwash today had .20 cents on $10. Aldi charges it. I am noticing it quite often . My medical appointment had 1% on my mastercard.

The ones that "don't" add a surcharge have already factored it in to the price they charge

 

[Eagleboy2011]

Why would you want to be Premier.
Premier Peter Malinauskas takes home about $418,000, but SA’s top-earning public servant is the chief of the Department of Premier and Cabinet, who in October secured a pay rise of more than $25,000 to $760,035 a year.

As head of Burnside, one of Adelaide’s wealthiest councils, the CEO will take home a salary package of up to $282,955 a year plus car, council documents show.

It’s a sizeable pay rise from Ms Grant’s salary at Onkaparinga, where the Director of Community had a negotiated package of $232,144. As acting CEO at Onkaparinga, she was on $304,500 a yea
Playford Council’s CEO earns up to $325,851 plus car, while the CEO of Walkerville – one of Adelaide’s smallest councils – has a total package of $300,869.

Burnside Council appoints new CEO to take the top job​

One of Adelaide’s wealthiest councils has appointed a new CEO, with a sizeable pay jump included in her top role.

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/burnside-council-appoints-new-ceo-to-take-the-top-job/news-story/100952fc01d7df1072bd645b8b2f1bf0?campaignType=external&campaignChannel=syndication&campaignName=ncacont&campaignContent=&campaignSource=the_advertiser_messenger&campaignPlacement=edm&utm_source=TheAdvertiser&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Editorial&utm_content=MSG_LATESTNEWS_CUR_011&net_sub_id=285893080&type=curated&position=1

 

[Mutineer]

ASIO sounding like the American FBI...

Disgusting treatment of a former highly respected ASIO officer and highly awarded Security specialist since leaving ASIO

MSN

Former intelligence officer Neil Fergus raided by ASIO and AFP after Four Corners appearance​

 

[arrowman]

Boom. Pesutto must go.

 

[Slippery Pete]

Boom. Pesutto must go.

Who?

 

[Mutineer]

Under Upgrade Albo and grim Jim Chalmers watch what else would you expect, Albo's useless and grim Jim is incompetent. not a greay partnership for Australia.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/economy/interest-rates/mark-bouris-warns-australia-now-on-the-verge-of-a-fullblown-recession/news-story/5a48192f86ce6a2c569373d3b664224b

Mark Bouris warns Australia now on the ‘verge of a full-blown recession’​

One of Australia’s top finance experts has issued a grim warning about the economy - and shared a telling clue about what’s to come.

By the way, the situation out there is worse than the economic figures out from the RBA and the Australian Bureau of Statistics suggest. Because the economy is being propped up by government policies.

First of all, record-high immigration is artificially inflating economic growth.

That’s hiding the full extent of the pain households and businesses are feeling at the moment.

The same goes for public sector spending.

The majority of new jobs being created at the moment are in the public sector.
The taxpayer is paying for all of that.

Meanwhile, the private sector is struggling.

Business investment is down.

New private sector jobs aren’t being created.

But the boom in the public sector is hiding this.

It’s making things look better than they really are in the economic data published by the ABS.
One of the core drivers of inflation at the moment is electricity bills.

But high interest rates won’t bring down power prices.

The only thing that will bring down power prices is building more baseload power stations and increasing domestic gas supply.

The same goes for grocery prices.

 

[Mutineer]

Lift ya game Upgrade Albo and grim Jim Chalmers...good start would be to piss off the little weasel Cwissy Bowen..

 

[kirky]

According to the RBA, surcharges for credit cards can range from 1% to 1.5% and above, although the exact surcharge amount will depend on the merchant and the type of card. Businesses can set their own surcharges, but they must be based on the cost of accepting a particular payment type, and they cannot be more than the cost. The RBA states that the average cost of different card payment types, including credit, debit and Eftpos, is as follows:

• Eftpos: less than 0.5%
• Visa and Mastercard debit: between 0.5% and 1%
• Visa and Mastercard credit: between 1% and 1.5%

No surcharges at supermarkets, petrol stations, hotels, the likes of BWS etc, department stores, most retailers etc from my experiences. Not even stores like my local fruit and veg, butcher, Bakers Delight etc levy a surcharge.

Not sure where you shop but I rarely if ever pay a surcharge (now I understand it is incorporated into the price of the goods but that is no different to all their other fixed costs ie rent etc).

By all means give me a list of businesses that impose the surcharge for Visa and Mastercard.

 

[arrowman]

By all means give me a list of businesses that impose the surcharge for Visa and Mastercard.

Aldi, I believe. Quite a few restaurants, our local butcher and fish & chips shop, but not other takeaways we use. You're right, it's rare with big businesses but quite a few SMEs have a surcharge.

The butcher is a friend - he introduced a surcharge about a year ago. He told me another butcher he knows introduced a surcharge, and within a week the cash part of his takings had more than doubled.

Personally I think they should just build it in to their prices along with every other expense.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

No surcharges at supermarkets, petrol stations, hotels, the likes of BWS etc, department stores, most retailers etc from my experiences. Not even stores like my local fruit and veg, butcher, Bakers Delight etc levy a surcharge.

Not sure where you shop but I rarely if ever pay a surcharge (now I understand it is incorporated into the price of the goods but that is no different to all their other fixed costs ie rent etc).

By all means give me a list of businesses that impose the surcharge for Visa and Mastercard.

Most smaller businesses have a surcharge. Eg 50 cents usually on a meal... or around 3.5% typically.

Many bigger businesses just build it into their overall cost.

 

[arrowman]

or around 3.5% typically.

Whoa - 3.5%?? I usually see 1, maybe 1.5%. I can't remember the last time I saw 3%.

Or are you an Amex user?

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Whoa - 3.5%?? I usually see 1, maybe 1.5%. I can't remember the last time I saw 3%.

Or are you an Amex user?

No, got rid of my Amex years ago for this reason.

 

[Eagleboy2011]

Whoa - 3.5%?? I usually see 1, maybe 1.5%. I can't remember the last time I saw 3%.

Or are you an Amex user?

I'm seeing 0.5-2%. Mainly 1%.

 

[kirky]

Most smaller businesses have a surcharge. Eg 50 cents usually on a meal... or around 3.5% typically.

Many bigger businesses just build it into their overall cost.

Really?

We that hasn’t been my experience at all.

I hardly call a fruit and veg shop or a Bakers Delight or Thomas Foods or even the local IGA a big business.

And for those that shop Aldi, obviously happy to give their money to an overseas corporation. Understand cheap but the quality is well I can’t express it.

Perhaps here in the western suburbs we are spoilt.