The official OZ bashing thread.

[shockshiok]

Re: Its Official:Australia is only for losers

You heard it here. You read it here. Let there be no doubt. This is fact, people.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10545562

4:00AM Saturday Nov 29, 2008
By Jarrod Booker

Kelvin Lawson left Auckland for Sydney about 10 years ago expecting to encounter the "land of milk and honey".

What he found was the opposite - long working hours, higher taxes, higher cost of living and intolerance and poor attitudes among the people.

He and fiancee Denise Laing moved back to Auckland a couple of months ago to be closer to their ageing parents and friends, and are relieved to be back home.

"I believe a lot of New Zealanders are going to get there and they are in for a shock," Mr Lawson said.

"Australia has been painted out to be the 'grass is greener'. It's not. Unless you are making a simple lifestyle choice as in, say, weather... then there's no other reason to go."

Although Mr Lawson, 48, might have earned more in Sydney "it's not a lot more". And he was hit with a 48 per cent tax rate on overtime he was expected to do working in installing and monitoring communications.

Then there was stamp duty for home ownership and higher costs of car ownership.

Back home, Mr Lawson and Ms Laing were amazed at how much cheaper they found basic food items.

Mr Lawson was also left with an impression of many Australians he encountered not being accepting of other cultures. Being from NZ was not so bad, but "if you're from other any part of the world, mate, they can make it really hard for them".

He was also unimpressed at the lack of sportsmanship shown by Australians, illustrated most recently by their reaction to the Rugby League World Cup loss. "If they win at ping pong, you are going to hear about it. If they lose, it's like it never happened. It's unbelievable."

still my favorite article.

hee hee

 

[shockshiok]

So Many Angry Shockshiok Threads. Thank You for the Attention.

i just wish to show my appreciation to the subprime singaporeans here with their numerous threads directed at me.

i am flattered by your response to my posts. thank you.

i am hoping for many more fruitful months of posting ahead, and unfortunately for the subprime singaporeans here, my favorite subject is how bad australia is - or more to the point - has become today.

lets face it, people, its not my fault australia has gone from a great migration destination to the worst migration destination in the last few years. i am simply not responsible for this mess. but i sure love to point it out to the rest of the world. hee hee.

and i understand your anger, rage, disgust, and all other negative typical singaporean behaviors to the reality australia is the worst country in the world. i know its painful for you, suffering in silence.

how to face the truth?

i understand your dilemma.

hee hee.

 

[Aussie Pete]

The 'Real Australia' - I HEART DIVERSITY (Ignore All The Other Spam and Lies Here)

17 December, 2008
http://www.aussiepete.com/2008/12/real-australia-i-heart-diversity.html

"Australia has one of the highest incidence of interethnic marriages and relationships in the world."

Postcard from Australia

I HEART DIVERSITY
by Ian Shying, Creative Director, Profero Sydney

An Italian pizzeria a few blocks from a mosque, around the corner from a Fijian community centre. Australia is a widely diverse nation. Geographically close to Asia yet politically and culturally aligned with the USA and UK. It is a nation unlike any other. About three quarters of Australians identify with an ancestry other than Australian. 22% of the population were born in another country and collectively, Australians speak over 200 languages.

Most Australians, from whatever background, ‘live and breathe’ cultural diversity. Contrary to some press coverage there is no evidence of ‘ethnic ghettos’, but instead a reasonable desire for cultural maintenance which is balanced by an equally high degree of cultural interaction between people from non-English speaking backgrounds and the broader community. In fact, older long-time Australians with lower levels of education live in a more culturally homogenous world and are much less engaged with cultural diversity than people from non English speaking backgrounds.

Food trends tell a similarly diverse story, the local pizza cafe was joined during the 60s & 70's by neighbourhood Chinese restaurants. In the 90's Thai restaurants appeared on every street corner and today it would be hard to find a national cuisine that isn't readily available. Your average suburban cafe is likely to include the likes of turkish bread, chi tea and sushi on it's menu.

Online mainstream Australia is dominated by US centric properties such as Google, Yahoo, MSN & MySpace, however niche sites cater to the unique needs of our diverse society. AsiaGroove is one such example; an online Asian community & friendship network based in Australia. AsiaGroove provides a social & cultural forum for Asians, Australians and their friends worldwide of all ages and backgrounds to meet, interact and make friends.

 

[shockshiok]

Re: Rich Australians Run Away from Massive Oz Taxes!

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...,0,73840.story

Australian Beverly Hills mall mogul to testify before Senate subcommittee

By Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 19, 2008
A Beverly Hills shopping center magnate whose family investments have been routed through a bank in the tiny country of Liechtenstein is set to testify next week before a Senate subcommittee in Washington conducting a probe of overseas tax havens at the request of the Australian Tax Office (ATO).

The committee has called Peter Lowy to testify Friday as part of its investigation into how financial institutions in Switzerland and Liechtenstein may be engaging in banking practices that result in "tax evasion and other misconduct," according to the panel.



* Peter Lowy Westfield America malls
Peter Lowy Westfield America malls

Australian-born Lowy, 49, is an American citizen and head of the U.S. division of Westfield Group, one of the world's largest shopping center chains. Ranked as one of the wealthiest individuals in Los Angeles, he is a major political donor and philanthropist.

The Australian company has 24 regional malls in California, including centers in Century City, Arcadia and Woodland Hills.

Lowy has hired prominent Washington lawyer Robert S. Bennett, who said Friday that his client would testify voluntarily. He stressed that the committee was probing the role of the offshore banks and not his client or the Lowy relatives, the second-wealthiest family in Australia.

The U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held hearings this week into the use of tax havens that cost the country an estimated $100 billion a year in lost revenue, according to the Treasury. The panel heard from witnesses who banked funds in Liechtenstein. Lowy was to be among them but he was out of the country then and so will testify next week.


The Senate hearings have focused on the Swiss bank UBS and a private bank, LGT, owned by the royal family of Liechtenstein. Levin said that Frank Lowy, Peter's father, set up a foundation with LGT in 1998 after telling the bank that he did not want Australian tax authorities to know about the money involved.

LGT took measures to hide the Lowys' ownership, such as routing incoming funds through an offshore corporation and using a Delaware corporation headed by Peter Lowy to name the foundation's beneficiaries, Levin said. In 2001, he said, the Lowys dissolved the foundation in Liechtenstein and moved about $68 million to Switzerland.

"These were charitable contributions," Bennett said. "Not one penny went to Lowy or his sons."

Bennett, who represented President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky investigation, downplayed the significance of the $68 million banked by the Lowys. "For me, that's a lot. For the Lowys it's not."

The Los Angeles Business Journal recently estimated Peter Lowy's net worth at $880 million, down from $1 billion a year ago. He and his wife own a seven-bedroom house in Beverly Hills with an assessed value of almost $11 million.

Lowy's father was a Hungarian Jew who survived the Holocaust and fought as a commando for Israeli independence before moving to Australia. Peter Lowy has helped raise millions of dollars for Jewish causes and serves on the board of directors of American Jewish University and the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Lowy has been a major donor to California state and federal politicians. He and his company, Westfield, also funded a major ballot fight over shopping mall development in Arcadia, spending $6 million on two local measures in 2006 to protect its position at its Santa Anita shopping mall against a planned competing center.

Lowy donated $44,600 in 2005 and 2006 to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's reelection campaign. In addition, Westfield gave the governor $44,600, and $10,000 to the governor's Democratic foe, Phil Angelides.

The shopping mall mogul and his firm also give heavily to federal candidates.

In the last decade, Lowy has given $365,000 to federal candidates and political parties. His largest donations have gone to national Democratic Party organizations: $53,500 to the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee; $35,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee; and $25,000 to the Democratic National Committee.

He gave $4,600 to Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, and the Westfield political action committee gave her an additional $10,000.

funny how many australians run away from the ATO

hee hee

 

[shockshiok]

Re: NZ Cheaper, better than Australia!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4592585a19716.html
The grass isn't greener across the Ditch
Sunday Star Times | Sunday, 22 June 2008
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Sunday Star-Times

OZ BOUND: Thousands of Kiwis hop across the ditch every year in search of a better life in the Lucky Country - but don't expect the grass to always be greener, says recent Melbourne migrant Elinore Wellwood (with Loti, 3)

Australia lives up to its image in many ways.

Kiwi migrants to Melbourne, for example, can read the newspaper as though it's a novel, its fanciful descriptions of gang wars and restaurant assassinations, corrupt police passing names of police informers to gangland contacts, who call in the hitmen.

Even as you shrug off the language differences as background noise thongs for jandals, doona for duvet, a child's fluffy is a babycino, you will smile at the Italian grandmothers who stop polishing their iron railings to run a wrinkled hand under a three-year-old's chin and thrust a gold coin into the mother's hand. "She is beautiful. Buy her something with this."

At the large neighbourhoods of those who still regard themselves as Italians and Greeks even though their grandparents left those cultures behind when they were barely out of their teens.

So, at Easter, the local baker sells specialties like melomakarona (walnut cookies drenched in syrup) and kourabiethes (moonshaped almond shortbreads covered in icing sugar). And all year round, locals go to the brilliant tapas bars in the alleys which produce their own top-selling cookbooks, and the farmers' markets sell beef you can trust the rural folk have known it since it was a calf.

These are reasons to move to Melbourne, to Australia. The food, the warmer weather, the broader multiculturalism.

Just don't expect it to be cheap.

Despite salaries reported to be 25 per cent higher on average, middle-income professionals won't earn that much more than in New Zealand in the same job, says Kiwi lawyer Jo Davidson. She's been Tasman-hopping moving to Melbourne, then back to Wellington, before returning last year to Australia to a dream job.

She loves the gourmet food in and around the city. And for her, the weather is a relief. The summer in Melbourne is warm, the seasons actually change, it's always dawning fine and even when it rains, it's gentle.

She didn't return for the money, though. "I felt significantly better off when I moved back from Melbourne to New Zealand. As a single woman [in Australia] I would never have contemplated buying a house. I went back to New Zealand and within six months bought my own home."

Food, she says, is also much more expensive in Australia. Everyday items such as milk and bread will cost you more. Woolworths' chief executive even admitted to a national inquiry that the company charges shoppers more in Australia than in New Zealand.

"And the quality at supermarkets is appalling. I used to be able to go to New World in Wellington and buy every single thing I wanted, and it was delicatessen standard."

Even if your pay packet is larger, the money quickly disappears. Teacher Mike Arthur, who recently moved from Wellington, says he earns about $4000 more than in New Zealand. "But the higher cost of living here eats that up."

Houses and cars are the big unaffordables. Advertised prices do not include tens of thousands of dollars in stamp duty when buying a house or vehicle. "Our car was far more expensive here, and then we had to pay stamp duty on it, plus about $700 to register it," says Arthur.

Some things cost less. Furniture because of superstores like Ikea and electricity (80 per cent generated from coal, the green-minded should note) are far cheaper, he says.

Presuming you don't earn less than $A25,000 ($31,100) taxes are not too different from New Zealand - about $2500 less in Australia on average but 9 per cent of wages is taken for compulsory superannuation, a figure hidden in the salary packages that lure unsuspecting Kiwis across the Tasman (salary "packaging" to cut your tax burden is big business). Tough if you wanted to pay off the mortgage first.

That's if you can afford to buy. To live within 4km of Melbourne's centre, expect to pay well over $600,000 for a house. The house will be semi-detached, unrenovated, have a tiny courtyard and probably be next to a big highway.

If you can't afford to buy, finding lower-end rental accommodation may be difficult, with an inner-city rental crisis in Melbourne. Chris and Carly, who just moved over from New Zealand, told the Age newspaper they had "been to four inspections in four days. The perception from home is that there are plenty of places to rent, but when you get to a place, 30 people turn up".

Renters are being forced to offer more rent to beat the competition, or pay eight weeks in advance instead of four.

If you are going to go, do it when you don't have kids. Mother-of-one Jocelyn Prasad, who moved to Sydney last year from Auckland, says life in Australia seems harder for families. "If you're single, there's a lot more opportunity. I think the higher cost of living really kicks in when you bring a family here."

She's also found that private schools are not just a luxury for the privileged. Kiwis who would never dream of using anything but the local high school at home, scrimp and save to avoid the Australian government school system and put their child through private education.

Education experts such as Richard James, director of Melbourne University's Centre for the Study of Higher Education, says the middle class here has lost confidence in government schools and moved its children to private schools, blaming funding cuts and closures under the previous state government.

In Victoria, last year, only 58 per cent of Year 12 students went to state government schools (which often lack sports fields and language options). Private school fees are often higher than in New Zealand.

It pays to go private. Seven out of 10 Melbourne University students were recruited from private or academically selective government schools, according to an Age survey of 2006 Year 12 students.

And the quality education quest starts early. In parts of Melbourne, even to get on a kindergarten waiting list you have to pay $A100 ($125). School waiting list fees can top $800. And forget picturing your kids growing up running under the sprinkler. Thanks to water restrictions, the grass definitely won't be greener for them.

very true. NZ makes a great migration choice over australia any day.

hee hee

 

[shockshiok]

Re: Drunk Australians Beat up Asians!

July 29, 2008
Four men beat up M'sian student in Melbourne

MELBOURNE - A MALAYSIAN student who was walking to his cousin's house was badly beaten up by four men here last Friday.

Mr Kevinra Joseph, 19, son of Binary University College vice-chancellor Prof Joseph Adaikalam has emerged from a coma and is recovering from severe head injuries at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Police said that Kevinra, who arrived here just a month ago for his studies, was walking alone in Little Lonsdale Street at 2.50am on Friday when four men assaulted him.

Kevinra suffered head injuries and was found by passers-by lying unconscious on the footpath in nearby Russell Street.

The RMIT engineering student was walking to his cousin's house when he was attacked.

'Surgeons have found bleeding in Kevinra's brain. He has memory loss and is confused and traumatised,' said Prof Adaikalam, who arrived here on Sunday with his wife and daughter.

He said that his son, who was new to this city, had lost his way.

'He was talking to his cousin on the handphone when the attack took place. His cousin was still on the phone and could hear the screams and the whole attack,' added the father.

Police have CCTV footage of the assault and hope to catch the attackers soon.

Vicious attacks are becoming common after dark in the central business district here, and local police have repeatedly reminded the public to move in groups at night.

Most of the attacks are drug or alcohol-induced.
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why are australians so violent?

why?

 

[shockshiok]

Re: Australians abandon Australia!

More leaving Australia than ever before

9:59AM Tuesday Oct 07, 2008



Not such a paradise after all?

Related NZHerald links:

* Migration loss to Aussie highest in nearly 20 years

CANBERRA - New Zealand is the biggest beneficiary after Australia experienced its biggest annual exodus on record.

Almost 77,000 people left the Australia permanently in 2007-08, a new report shows.

The main countries of intended residence for all permanent departures were New Zealand (18.4 per cent), the United Kingdom (17.8 per cent), the United States (9.3 per cent), Hong Kong (7.2 per cent) and Singapore (6.4 per cent).

The migration from Australia will go only some way to redressing the balance on this side of the Tasman as official figures showed the annual loss of people from New Zealand to Australia hit a 19-1/2-year high in August.

Almost two thirds of those who left the country permanently were aged between 25 and 54.

A further 102,066 Australian residents left the country for a year or more with more than 55 per cent in professional occupations or trades, the Emigration 2007-2008 report shows.

The report showed almost half of those who left Australia permanently were in skilled jobs.

Australian Immigration Minister Chris Evans said the figures showed that emigration played a significant role in Australia's current skills shortage.
"Historically high numbers of our young, highly skilled people are moving overseas to live and work," Senator Evans said.

The exodus in 2007-08 represents a 6.7 per cent increase on the previous year and a 325 per cent increase on the low of 18,100 people who left permanently in 1985-86.

"These latest figures also reflect the current global demand for skills and the internationalisation of the labour market as part of the broader process of globalisation," Senator Evans said.

Those leaving are almost equally divided between Australian born and overseas born.

Residents of NSW led the exodus with 31,390 people, followed by Victoria (16,408), Queensland (15,289), Western Australia (8,388) and South Australia (3,140).

Of the permanent departures, 39,467 or 51 per cent were men compared to 37,456 women (49 per cent).

Although there were 149,635 permanent arrivals in 2007-08, the net gain - arrivals minus permanent departures - was the 10th highest recorded.

this is exactly what my migration agent tells me.

hee hee

 

[shockshiok]

Re: New Good places for emmigration

Hahaha.. Australia ripped me off by giving me $400/mth for child upkeep..

OR is it SG a rip off ?

hee hee

must be your tax dollars at work - all 30-40+% at work

 

[shockshiok]

Re: Australia begging Tourists to Visit!

n 2006, due to the massive drop in foreigners visiting Australia, the following ad campaign was launched:

"Where the Bloody Hell are You"

Self Explanatory.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/tra...icle734231.ece

Australia's bonzer. So why the bloody hell aren't you guys here?


TOURISM chiefs in Australia have ditched the country’s highbrow sales pitch to attract foreign visitors in exchange for a more rustic approach: swearing. “So where the bloody hell are you?” is the new slogan, which was announced yesterday as part of a £76 million campaign that will appeal to people in Britain, Europe, the United States and Asia.

The “bloody hell” advertisement replaces the “Australia — a different light” campaign of 2004, which featured Australian artists and British celebrities such as Michael Parkinson. It was artistically acclaimed but was a marketing flop.

The latest advertisement marks a return to the use of rustic Australian idioms made famous by the actor Paul Hogan’s “Throw another shrimp on the barbie” campaign of the 1980s. It begins in an Outback pub with a man saying, “We’ve poured you a beer”. Then follows a sequence of idyllic images including a boy at the seaside saying, “We’ve got the sharks out of the pool”, and partygoers watching Sydney harbour fireworks saying, “We turned on the lights”. A traditional Aboriginal dancer says, “And we’ve been rehearsing for more than 40,000 years”. The advert ends with a bikini-clad young woman stepping out of the sea asking: “So where the bloody hell are you?”

But, if the initial reaction in Australia is any guide, the adverts could prompt a spell of national navel-gazing akin to that which followed the Paul Hogan campaign. That campaign provoked criticism for portraying Australia as a nation of happy simpletons.

The new advertisement has already provoked controversy, drawing in John Howard, the Prime Minister, who said that the word “bloody” should not be considered offensive. Fran Bailey, the Tourism Minister, welcomed the emphasis on the word bloody. “It’s the great Australian adjective. We all say it — it’s part of our language.

We’re presenting ourselves to the world in a very friendly ‘as we are’ people,” she said

maybe someone should let australia know the truth, that you are the worst country in the world.

 

[shockshiok]

Re: Australia's Persisten Racism

The truth for all to see:

http://norighturn.blogspot.com/2008/...australia.html

Appalling racism in Australia

A group of women and children were kicked out of a hotel in Alice Springs because of their race:

"When we booked in, the manager, she gave us the keys to the rooms and we went and put our stuff in the rooms.

"We all went outside and the manager came out and told me that we weren't suitable to stay there," Ms Langod told ABC Radio today.

"They said (it was) because of our race. Other customers were making complaints that they were scared of us.

"I felt like I wanted to cry because it made me feel like I wasn't an Australian, like I wasn't wanted there."

It's appalling to see that this sort of thing is still going on in a supposedly civilised democratic country like Australia. And it shows that despite having made a historic apology, they have a long, long way to go.

In case you want to avoid it, the hotel in question is the Alice Haven Backpackers Resort. And if you'd like to let them know what you think of racists, you can email them at [email protected].

how do you spell misery? being asian in australia.

hee hee

 

[shockshiok]

Re: Australia Property Prices to Crash 40%, Axe168 Run Road

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/markets/ne...ectid=10545839

Gloomy forecast could end in long hike
4:00AM Monday Dec 01, 2008
Wall St meltdown

* Govt takes over RBS
* Falling kiwi means more action for film

An Australian academic who expects the country's interest rates to hit zero within two years and a 40 per cent drop in house prices has promised to walk from Canberra to the top of Australia's highest mountain if he's wrong.

And he'll wear a T-shirt saying: "I was hopelessly wrong on home prices! Ask me how."

University of Western Sydney associate professor of economics and finance Steve Keen made the bet with Macquarie Group interest rate strategist Rory Robertson.

Keen expects Australian house prices to plunge by 40 per cent within five years, double the drop in the troubled US market.

The academic who sold his inner-city house earlier this year also says the Reserve Bank of Australia will cut official interest rates to zero per cent by 2010 as spiralling debt levels push the economy into a depression.

His challenger, Robertson, said Keen's gloomy predictions of an Australian housing market plunge had a 1 per cent chance of being right.

"Never say never, but a 40 per cent drop in Australian home prices is a highly unlikely event, effectively requiring a meltdown of our financial system despite the combined efforts of the RBA and Canberra," Robertson said.

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On the chance Keen is right, Robertson said he would make the 200km trek from Canberra to Mt Kosciuszko, in the Snowy Mountains of NSW.

A confident Robertson says a shortage of housing in Australia, unlike in the US, and the prospect of lower interest rates would ensure Keen became a mountain walker.

"We now have a bet, and I expect eventually to win," he said.

"That's because falls in Australia-wide home prices will be limited by our lack of overbuilding, our much more disciplined mortgage market and, especially, by the RBA's ability to drive mortgage rates lower."

Australian house prices fell by 1.8 per cent in the September quarter, the sharpest quarterly fall since 1978.

For the record, Robertson expects a 100 basis point interest rate cut from the RBA tomorrow, which would take the cash rate to 4.25 per cent for the first time since May 2002.

On this bet, financial markets agree with him.

hee hee. i feel sorry for everyone with property in australia.

down....down.....down...... you can thank swan!

hee hee hee

 

[Aussie Pete]

Re: The 'Real Australia' - I HEART DIVERSITY (Ignore All The Other Spam and Lies Here

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LEFT TO SAY - SEE IT FOR YOURSELF!!

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Leave you speechless?

 

[shockshiok]

Re: New Racist Party Formed in Australia-Asians Banned

once again you read it here, you saw it here, people.

so australian whites are not contented with beating and killing asians, now this Neil Smith wants to ban all non-white colored people for 100 years.

and dont forget pauline hanson ran in 2007 trying to ban muslims from australia because she gets letters from whites saying they are afraid of foreigners.

yet another reason why australia is the worst country in the world.

http://monash.yourguide.com.au/news/...n/1368090.aspx

Ousted candidate eyes 'next election'
24/11/2008 4:09:00 PM
A MULGRAVE Ward council election candidate, who was expelled by One Nation, has vowed to form his own political party with a platform slammed as "immoral and impossible".

Last month, Neil Henry Smith, who ran as a self-proclaimed "racist" in recent state and federal elections,

said he would form his own political party Pauline's One Nation White Australia Party.

His party's main platform is a "100 years moratorium on coloured immigration" to ease problems caused by

overpopulation. Monash University's Centre for Population and Urban Research director, Bob Birrell, said a slowdown in migration movement would help ease demand for water and other resources, but to link it to a 'white Australia' policy was "immoral and impossible". "The point about migration is legitimate but not based on colour. It's a real pity that this kind of advocacy gets wrapped up in an extraneous issue."

Mr Smith said he formed the party to get him "some billing in the next election".

One Nation state secretary Pat Loy said the party would fight against Mr Smith registering the proposed party name. "He is still bringing us into disrepute. We will have to take legal action if he doesn't stop. It's harmful to us and it's harmful to Pauline [Hanson]."

A spokesman for the Australian Electoral Commission said its jurisdiction came into play once a party attempted to register.

One Nation founder Pauline Hanson did not respond to the Journal before publication.

Kirsten Leiminger

i still dont understand why white australians are so violent - especially when drunk.

 

[Aussie Pete]

Re: The 'Real Australia' - I HEART DIVERSITY (Ignore All The Other Spam and Lies Here

We are one but we are many - and from all the lands on earth we come...

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[OzSucks]

Australia Petrol Excise 38% !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_Australia
Fuel taxes in Australia
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The fuel tax system in Australia is very similar to Canada in terms of its double-dipping tax rates, but varies in the case of exemptions including and certain excise free fuel sources. Fuel taxes are handled by both the Federal and State Governments, including both an Excise Tax and a Goods and Services Tax or "GST". The tax collected is generally used to help fund national road infrastructure projects and repair roads, as well as provide extra revenue for other services.

The Goods and Services Tax of 10% is charged and included in the price of all fuel purchases in Australia.

The excise tax on commonly used fuels in Australia as of June 2006 are as follows:[citation needed]

* A$0.38143 per litre on Unleaded Petrol fuel (Includes standard, blended (E10) and premium grades)
* A$0.38143/0.40143 per litre on Diesel fuel (Ultra-low sulphur/Conventional)

 

[theblackhole]

Re: New Good places for emmigration

singapore is the best city under heaven. it's a paradise and a haven for everybody.best food.best makan.best people.best governance.best leaders. best transport. best healthcare.best doctors.best lawyers.best honest leaders.best incorruptible civil servants.

what else you want? where got place BEST in everything? you leave singapore at your own peril. only quitters regret for life. singapore is the best place under heaven. thank you our great leaders.thank you our mm ,sm and pm. where in the world do you have so many great leaders running the country? singaporeans are indeed blessed.

singapore is the best!

 

[redbull313]

Re: Subprime Singaporeans in Oz Thirsty, no water to drink!

This must be why water is such a ripp off in Australia

 

[redbull313]

Re: Only in OZ! Mortgage Rates Down-but Bank Impose Penalty for 43K Losers!

Buyers need to be aware of pre-payment penalties

 

[redbull313]

Re: Australian Job Market "Falls off a Cliff!"

This must be true of all western countries right now

 

[redbull313]

Re: Forbes Magazine:Melbourne/Perth 8th/10th Most Expensive City

Just take a taxi or stay in a hotel in Australia and prepare for a heart attack