Why is it Qld has the worst roads, worst healthcare,is it bcoz of our premier? or wat?
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The short answer is yes!  \n\nWith a high level of population movement to QLD, its \n\neconomy should be growing and tax revenue also growing.  \n\nWhile it is true that health care for retirees is draining,\n\nit is also true that these retirees are cashed up and \n\nbringing all their disposable income to QLD, and stimulating\n\nreal estate sales as well...which in turn stimulates the\n\nbuilding industry.\n\nThe upgrading of roads due to population increase or\n\nmaintainence is an infrastructure issue, and is the duty\n\nof any GVT, but particulary one that attracts retirees,\n\nlocal tourists, and international tourists and their money!\n\nAdd to this the fact that QLD is subsudised by THE NSW Gvt \n\nalmost a billion dollars per year due to the Federal GST \n\nlaws and you have every right to complain. \n\nGood Luck\n\nJimmy
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It is not the governments job to take care of people! This country was built on the rugged individual and not the nanny state. I would never want the government to think it knows what is best for me. There is nothing stopping people from seeing a doctor and making payments. \nMy father had no insurance for years with us 7 kids and that's how they made it work. We have it so much better in this country than anywhere else in the world. When you grow up you will realize this.
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Hey there, 29 in Melb. Aust.\nWhat's happening? What perspective are you after?\n\nCheers.
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I take the 57 south every other Wednesday, and it is fantabulous. It's always empty. On the other hand though, the northbound side is packed! Why is it so bad? Because people don't know how to drive... there's a specific race out there that are HORRIBLE at it.. and the 57 is swarmed by them.
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I think both sides really wanted what they thought was best for Terri.  It must have been absolutely horrible to experience this from all sides.  I would not want to live like Terri was living.  The important lesson is this:  we all need an Advanced Care Directive, so if this happens to us, our family will know our wishes.  You can download this simple form from websites, such as this:\n\nhttp://www.pamf.org/preventive/PAMF_AdvanceDirective.pdf#search='advance%20health%20directive'\n\nhttp://www.justice.qld.gov.au/guardian/forms/health.pdf#search='advance%20health%20directive'
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Actually, if it could be called anything, it would be the "outfront"...\n\nPerhaps this is because Australia has a ridge of mountains running along most of the aussie coast lines... Anything in front of the mountains would be "outfront" (ie: the coast) and anything on the other side of the mountains inland would be "outback" (the bush)?  Actually, I have no idea whether this is true or not... I'm just guessing! ;)\n\nI live in outback QLD and refer to the "outback" as anything west of the Great Dividing Range (east coast of Aus).  Most people don't want to live west of the Range because it's bloody dry and hot!
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nhs sucks.my dads been on a waiting list for years but people from other countries walk in and jump the que, he has worked all his life and paid all the taxes surely he deserves better
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Too many mouses here in Britain.\n\n£8 just to enter the city? Your having a fecking laugh.\n\nI suggest that everybody melts a congestion/speed camera today and send a clear message that we dont want these petty little men charging us for the right to use OUR cars on public roads.
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The person who answered 'DESCRIMINATION' has clear vision. If the idea that buses are only for the poor then the quality will stay poor and uncomfortable - since the poor don't really matter.\n\nPeople who have paid taxes all their lives are often physically incapable of driving in old age - yet this is the treatment they get.  Frequent and comfortable bus service is an excellent equalizer. When people are treated like the 'losers' of the earth they are NOT inclined to treat their neighbors with more respect. Dignity breeds dignity.\n\nThose who can be comfortable (and who have their health) take the easy road with nearly empty cars increasing pollution. That's just wrong.\n\nEven carpooling or picking somebody up is too inconvenient for most driving comfy cars - never thinking about those outside. Shame, shame, but this the world we live in.
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Let them be treated, because they are HUMAN too.\n\nIt's mostly not their fault they can't afford insurance.\n\nYou disgust me.\n\nGood idea Wildbill....if America had a NHS..maybe things would actually WORK....actually where i am from Australia..it DOES WORK.
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Are u kidding.  People in Canada hate their healthcare. Many Canadians come to the US for healthcare.  Soscialized medicine is NOT the answer.
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In what way are we doomed?\n\nSocial program overspending? passing Medicare responsibilty onto the provinces? political corruption? higher taxes? not paying down the deficit? lost departmental money (in the billions)? cronyism in appointments? increase in quebec separatism or western Canadian alientation? rediculous language laws? unfair equalization program? federal business corruption in Quebec? no repealing GST and other middle income taxes? regional favouritism?\n\nThis is Cretien's legacy.\n\nSorry but your question is melodramadic and no we are not doomed.
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very bad. in fact, it is the worst country for healthcare access out of all industrialized nations. many working poor dont go to doctors because they are too expensive and will only go to emergency rooms in hospitals when a symptom gets very bad.  This is both dangerous and more costly.
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Having it is the worst!\nThis web site should answer any questions you have
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In your dreams QLD are gonna win.  NSW are gonna flog piss out of them!!!
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made me emigrate!\n\nsomeone answered that the nhs improved - how?? theres more jobs for managers and paper shufflers, and less money for equipment and doctors and nurses, and increasing infection rates.. so how is that improved. as for education improving.. again - how?? massive amounts of political correctness and huge class sizes and schools being closed and exams being dumbed down, labour politicicans wanting to shut down selective schools (that they all went to) on the grounds that they are 'unfair' to those who dont get in (does this mean that driving tests will get easier so that kids arent disappointed when they fail? i dont think so!), and kids leaving school who cant read or write, and having to pay for university.. this is an improvement???\nalso the welfare state is huge and unwieldy and costs so much its not true, with tax credits for this and pensions credits for that, all not enough of course - not for those who are in need.. those who can milk the system get as much as they want and more and fraud is out of control (i used to work in this field so trust me, i know) and costs millions. \nillegal immigration is way out of control and beaurocracy and crazy political correctness means people are just being let in and if caught, not sent home... oh unless you ahev been here for years paying your taxes and working legally and bringing up your kids in which case you are an easy target and you get sent back.. or if you have been living in zimbabwe and need to return due to fear for your life but your uk passport has expired, you cant come back then... this is better??\n\nat least maggie had some balls, more than tony blair. labour governments, well this one at least, benefit those people who cant look after themselves. the nanny state is ridiculous now, its like we cant be trusted to think for ourselves. under conservative governments the people who prosper are those who are capable or those who want to improve themselves.\n\n if you want increasing paperwork, small businesses closing down, an accountant instead of a surgeon at your local hospital, nurses getting more money being unemployed with a couple of kids than doing a job they love, police unable to arrest unless they think you are a suicide bomber, criminals not being locked up as theres not enough prison spaces for them, or getting away with it and sueing the person they burgled or who hit them back when they were being mugged, kids unable to speak or write english, no housing for those who need it but plenty for illegal immigrants, oh and the prime ministers wife with a taxpaid hair do (or rather 'hair-dont') who whilst going around drumming up support during the election is also busy fighting the cases of illegal immigrants appealing against being sent back and therefore fighting her own government (her matrix chambers, where she is a qc).... then sure! vote labour!! and watch more skilled people leave the country for other countries. those left will all vote labour as they will be those incapable of working and thus will need labour to stay in to keep signing their benefit books.. sweeping statement?? too right!!
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its a very tough race to get worst minister spot.\n i feel all ministers (except manmohan,antony,and few others) are corrupt\nalthough bihar is commonly considered the worst state in india(and in many ways rightly so) i want to shed some light on the pathetic condition of our north east states such as manipur and nagaland.\nterrorism from maoists is a major problem and it gets funding from china.\nthere are many tribal wars where there are incidents of stopping buses separating the people of the enemy tribe.they are then they are made to do gruesome things such as cut out their own flesh and eat it and salt is applied on the raw skin\nthere are head hunters there this means tribal leaders that attack other villages,kill the people and collect their heads\nblack magic is commonly practiced\nnagas staying in manipur have a direct 25%cut in their salaries (this money goes to the terrorists) just because they stay in a state which is not 'theirs'\nthe many army men of our country who are stationed in these states are no friend of the locals (even though their duty is to protect the people) because they commonly commit crimes such as rape on the locals even innocent children\nand to make things worse there is no hope of justice because the courts themselves are filled with very corrupt wrong doers\nthe tourism board has given north east the label 'paradise unexplored' and this incredibly beautiful place will remain unexplored with its many problems showing no hope of a brighter future