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To his credit Bill Shorten has backed away from his captain's call on company tax cuts and has vowed that his party will support the cuts for businesses with an annual turnover of up to $50 million. You could see from the worried and confused looks on his colleagues faces on TV that they were going to bring pressure on Bill to back off.  They did, and he listened and acted. It's not about the business world trusting Bill Shorten, it's about the business world trusting the Labor Party and Bill has to get this message across. May the Force be with we the great unwashed! GD

Bill Shorten, the leader of the Federal Opposition and the Labor Party has made a captain's call on opposing cuts to company tax for any business that earns more than $10 million. In fact he has said if elected to government at the next election he has vowed to repeal current cuts that are being used by small to medium businesses to plan ahead for growth and jobs.  Bill needs to consult with his colleagues before making such announcements. As a died in the wool Labor Party supporter I feel Bill has made the wrong call.  He struggles to win popularity even though he is a clever politician and I can't see him carrying Labor to an election win if he makes captain's calls of this nature. Bill, very silly not to be too smart by half. May the Force be with us the great unwashed! GD

The airwaves in Australian political circles are abuzz with the view that the current cohort of Australian politicians, especially at the Federal level, are more interested in preserving their jobs and with arguments about the personalities of their political peers than policy that is relevant to the great unwashed, the voters. I feel that our PM, the honourable Malcolm Turnbull, would rather be focussed on policy, but so much seems to get in the way of this, not the least of which is a group in his party that are ultra conservative and often tend to undermine what the PM is trying to achieve. Naturally the federal leader of the parliamentary opposition is trying to outsmart the PM as is his job description.  He is a consummate politician, but the great unwashed tend not to support him as the preferred PM.  He sometimes comes over as a bit tricky, maybe too smart by half.  However his Labor Party is ahead in the polls should an election be held today. A Federal elec...