Typical Australian politician. They either fucken lie, or try to baffle us with bullshit. They all have their snouts in the troff. Fuck all of em..Labor, Liberal and the independants.
Just saw an advert on channel 7 for a new Willessee show that mentioned this interview. The current number of views is 27,088 on the 29th of Jan. Will be back to check how many it has in 2 weeks because I'm relatively sure a lot of young Australians have no idea what this is.
Makes perfect sense to me. Whilst he may look stupid trying to explain this, our current leader is levying a tax to stop us igniting those candles on the cake!
It is a shame to see true journalism thrown out the door in Australia, however listening to Hewson's response, he answered the question truthfully. The tax system was such a shamble that there were random tax amounts, where you would pay 21% tax on candles and possibly 8% tax on sponge cake. The GST was implemented to make it easier for Australians to know how much tax was going to the Govt. There is no way off the top of his head with the previous system he could say the truthful answer.
It is a shame to see true journalism thrown out the door in Australia, however listening to Hewson's response, he answered the question truthfully. The tax system was such a shamble that there were random tax amounts, where you would pay 21% tax on candles and possibly 8% tax on sponge cake. The GST was implemented to make it easier for Australians to know how much tax was going to the Govt. There is no way off the top of his head with the previous system he could say the truthful answer.
Typical stupid politicians answer; a simple 'yes' or 'no' type of answer would do. Hewson's reply was the reason why they lost the election at that time. The 'Fightback' policy was great in theory, but they just couldn't sell it at the time -aren't politicians dumb-arses. Go on Willesse for getting it up him; Mike needs to come back, we need journos like him, no BS.
Just imagine if they really asked Julia Gillard some tough questions like how come you cant get one single scientist to stand by your side to back up your claims of man made global warming. Question: how is it that in Sydney harbour they have a place called Fort Denison that has been using and stores records of tides since it was built and guess what folks ...no eveidence what so ever of sea rise. NONE.
@brisisnice just because you don't understand it, it does not mean its not happening, I'm sure you have no idea how life exists on Earth but it happens anyway, strange analogy I know but the point stays the same
@brisisnice I suggest you wiki "Global Warming" up and read up then check out the ~200 references below. Every real scientist will tell you it is happening, we're damaging the ozone layer, more ultra-violet radiation is staying due to the CFC gases, ice is melting down to water, water rises sea levels, simple.
@brisisnice a lot of scientists back up global warming. the scientists that don't back up global warming are equivalent to the people that deny the holocaust.
yesorgasm yourself with workchoices the madmonk abbott the number one enemy of the workers rights the anti union propaganda that went overboard for nothing unions been around for over 150 yrs and not workchoices or other brainwashed libs like yourself are never going to take workers rights again orgasm in tony madmonk abbott budgies and wipe your face
yourorgasm yourself have a look under workchoices on google after 25 yrs in the construction industry I know what workchoices done to our industry more money crap in 1989 I was on $850 a week 10 wks on 1 off in 2007 under workchoices laws in the pilbara I was on $1500 a week 4 wks on 1 off don't tell me about higher wages I know today im earning more than under workchoices thanks to union eba'S that the libs tried to destroy
@yourgasm workchoices AWA'S casual flat rate unemployment lazarus created a division amongst the workforce dog eat dog lies deceit to help out big wealthy business prosper at the expense of the aussie battler he was the most right wing conservative this nation as seen and the madmonk is not far behind as a liberal supporter you must be proud of what frogmouth lazarus done to his own people yeah feel proud of anti worker laws brainwashed conservatives like you are plentiful thanks to frogmouth
@luneco100 The only reason there was division was the fact that he allowed the unions dominate the whole campaign when really the results clearly showed the workers were better off. High wages,low unemployment. Let's face if the battlers benefitted more under Howard than it was under the Labor govts of the 90s. Typical brainwashed sheeps like yourselves who don't actually go & do research & just believe what the TV ads tell you. Why am I not surprised?
@alphamone I disagree - I think that he was trying to give an intelligent answer to a rather silly hypothetical question and got manipulated into coming out the fool.
While I am not a small-L liberal, I do respect Hewson quite a lot. He may very well be the last major party leader to almost always avoid spin when he talked.
Well I guess we can't complain now about politicians being dishonest or negative. The last time we had an opposition which honestly focused on their own policy rather than negatively attack the other side...they lose!!! Despite the government being in power for a decade resulting in 10%+ unemployment and astronomical interest rates.
@andysensei1 LOL at your stupidity. Unemployment rate under the howard government never dropped bellow 4.5%, other than the time when he took over from keating.
@Rafdaganga How much effect this interview had is not known, because then again he did have a few problems with his wife and that was a scandal as well. So maybe the voters did not like him.
Funny thing about Dr Hewson and leadership, he said if he lost he would resign as leader and he got challenged by John Howard but retained, however Peter Costello and Malcom Fraser suggested Alexander Downer nominate himself on the party ballot and Downer won the job.
At least he answered correctly and honestly. He was the last intelligent, honest man in the liberal party. Who understood the policies he was proposing and was happy to put them up to scrutiny.. Howard, abbott etc are all about pouring dirt on the opposition; distracting the public with non-issues like "boat people" in the meantime keeping their policies as secret/ambiguous as possible then passing whatever they want once they get in.
@antonc81 i hate to break it to you but being intelligent and honest is what loses politicians elections. the only way either parties get elected is by sticking to their message and keeping it simple. its utter bullshit to say just howard and abbott do it because its been going on for decades
@AussiePolitics But Johnny and Abbott make an art of it. They don't keep their message simple.. they have no message (other than scaring ppl with immigration/ public spending) - focus on criticising the gov for anything they can (eg pink batts) no vision on education, medicine, tax reform etc then accuse labor of running negative campaigns and not showing any vision.. and they get away with it. It's brilliant. Bring back Malcolm Fraser, at least he had the balls to run on Liberal party values.
@antonc81 and yet keating ran the 1993 election against keating not on vision but as a scare campaign against gst. he was not different to the liberals going on about a big new tax. all through the howard years the labor opposition were no different, criticising them for everything they could too.
oh and that is really one eyed to act as tho only one party ever does any reformes. both labor and liberal governments for the past 20 years have reformed the economy
@antonc81 furthermore the liberals SUPPORTED labor during their economic reforms in the 80s so no, the were not attacking them on everything. they could very easily have created a huge scare campaign about the removal of tariffs and labor would have lost a lot of its core base of support. why do you talk about parties not having vision and yet you want fraser back? the man had a massive majority and control of the senate and still he did shit all.
@AussiePolitics I have no principled problem with the Liberal party or Liberal party values. I probably would have voted for Hewson If I was of voting age at the time. My problem is with Howard/ Abbott/ Hockey - they either do not stand for anything or they know that what they stand for would be so unpopular that they have to keep it under wraps until they get into office.
@antonc81 yet the reason you hate them you say is because they oppose for the sake of opposing with no message is exactly what keating did in the 1993 election and what all successful politicians have done all over the world for decades. just this year we saw labor run a massive negative campaign against the liberals talking about how they were going to destroy health care and bring back workchoices. now that is a fear campaign and no different to the libs style.
@antonc81 Just because someone is smart does not mean they will win the election Howard defeated Keating in 1996 in a landslide and was in for 11 years. Dr Hewson was not that experienced as a politician as he was only there for a fews years.
look at the GST we ended up getting thanks to the Democrats , a complex split system where some things are taxed and others are exempt. Under Hewson GST there was going to be much lower personal tax , wait till we see our personal taxes and the GST rise.... were coming back ,,,,were coming back.....
@Ozipeter "a complex split system where some things are taxed and others are exempt" ...what's your problem with that? Are you saying everything should be taxed no matter what?
@1CaptainAustralia1 since your comments suggest that maybe you have never filled out a BAS statement. Yes consumption tax on everything and personal tax rates decreased which was Hewson proposal in the first place if you check. What a mess
The aspect of this interview that always hits me hardest has to be listening to Mike Willesee talking about a cake and how the cake might have icecream. It really does sound like the interview was caught when the two of them were having a discussion "off air".
Mike Witlessly asked if a birthday cake would attract GST. Hewson said it would, if it currently attracted sales tax; if not it would exempt. Clearly explained and very friggen simple to understand, unless you're an ACA host.
Hewson explained it...fuck I hate bubblegum news shows like this slop...HE EXPLAINED IT FINE! Not his fault if this witless country is full of fucking uneducated dickflops.
Sigh, a Current affair and Today Tonight used to be like this. Unfortunatley, just recently, I was channel surfing and on channel Seven's Today Tonight, and saw two dogs were getting married.
The only show that's near decent is the 7:30 report.
There has been a lot of dumbing down in the last 20 years. Back then, politics was a serious matter and hardly any thing was staged. Labour Party conferences were places of massive intensive debating but now Party conferences are a bloody joke. they worry more about the media then about actually formulating serious policies
I agree wholeartedly. In his daires, Mark Latham said ideas won't win over constituents but a "Nice friendly handshake down at the local supermarket will." Now you start to see people voting for a candidate just because they're physically attracted to them. Where's the ideology? Where's the passion? Low brow politics is disgusting.
With the GST, the end consumer pays. The people who made the ingredients and the people who baked the cake don't pay any GST. Well, they do but they reclaim the cash from the ATO. Which is fair enough
@jarred160788 Yup, I mean it's easy to make any politician have difficulty in answering specifics about a simple hypothetical example. In my experience those whom are best at it are lawyers; Hewson was never a layer. He was an economist for the Reserve Bank, diddling over figures not *items* or *objects* that people use everyday.
Little known fact, in Hewsons fightback policy was plan to reduce carbon emissions by ten percent by the year 2000, that would have meant our carbon emmisions in 2005 would have been lower than if the Howard government in 2001 had completely adopted all the proposals of the Australian greens party.
that this issue was made into such a big deal is a joke. it was a retarded question and Hewson (who had been an economics lecturer) answered it as accurately and simply as he could have. imagine a politician who prefers to answer a question which entails a bit of complexity honestly, as opposed to just popping out some bullshit, easily digested one liner. and look what happened to him for doing it. that is what is fucked.
yes, i hear u. BUT while he could have answered it better it defs wasn't a simple yes/no question . it just upsets me that it screwed things up for him so much. and willise is a smug bastard.
and the gst wasnt even that complex. it was the existing system that was complex. so comparing the too seems complex when its only a complex transition
This interview still gives me nightmares, what the fuck was Hewson thinking here, I remember I was 15 when I was watching it thinking, thats it, he fucked it.
Yeah I remember that & thinking considering this guy is an economic lecturer to use this sort of an answer concerned me greatly. I remember that I was going to vote for him then after this interview I went & voted for Labor
You mean the important reforms undertaken by labor from then onwards helped out the coalition when they came into power? Yeah thats right,low inflation & a strong economic recovery. Statistic clearly showed this already that by 1995 economy was well on its way.
Sorry but inflation & the economy was on its way to recovery by the time Howard came in. And labor's economic reforms were not stolen from Hewson. Floating the aust $ & wiping off tariffs were all done by labor. Not by Hewson.
floating the dollar was done well before the recession.
wiping off tariffs had been done by labor and liberal for over a decade by that stage.
and no, inflation was not on the way to recovery. i checked the abs website, by 1995 it was up around 5% and had been increasing steadily after the recession.
u can repeat urself as many times as u like but it doesnt make what u say true
Fact. Floating the $ was done by Keating & Hawke. Wiping tariffs was done by labor, acknowledged by all academics. Financial institutions,economists have all stated the reforms set by Hawke & Keating helped us through the asian financial crisis & made Australia strong against future recessions. Inflation was high towards the end of 80s,then was slowly going down so by the time the nxt govt came in.
You do realise that Keating's reforms resulted in the financial crisis. Thanks to the deregulation of the financial market, financial institutions have been able to do what they like with out hardly any restrictions what so ever. The RBA is a joke and the federal government is borrowing like there is no tomorrow plus the government is spending like a drunken sailor. Keating pist away all the money he got fromthe sale of government assets and ran up a massive 90 billion dollar debt.
Actually Australia's financial markets are more heavily regulated that those in the rest of the western world. That's why we weren't hit anywhere near as hard as the US, Britain or Ireland. In fact the main reason we were hit at all was down to the rise in the inter-bank lending rate which was caused entirely by the crisis in other countries. Ireland is now experiencing a depression and 14% unemployment. count yourself lucky that you had Keating's foresight. He predicted this crisis
As for rat features (senior idiot Howard), he did not save on cent (accet for a couple of billion dollars in the future fund which was started before he was booted out). He also pist away cash on stuff (god knows what). He didn't spend any thing on infrastructure and he cut back the funding for universities and TAFE. He kept on privatising and pissing away the cash that was raised from the sales. Welfare exploded to 100 billion dollars (10% of GDP). Foreign debt exploded to nearly $600 billion
Thanks to the abolition of tariffs, 92% of Australia's manufacturing sector was destroyed by 1992. Australia is now a consumer economy. Do you want to know why that is bad? The only two sectors that are keeping Austalia afloat are the agriculture/husbdary sector and the mining sector. Now, we don't even sell enough of those things to pay for our consumption. Our economic survival depends on how long China will keep on booming.
But the abolition meant lower prices, reduced inflation and increased purchasing power for ordinary people, giving a better-functioning economy with lower unemployment.
This is 100% correct. We have all our eggs in two baskets. China is getting tired of sending us all that money now too and have resorted to buying up our mining industry and employing chinese workers. Soon all we'll be getting from our mining industry is tax revenue.
This was the night Hewson lost the election before it was even held.
MrTomkul 19 hours ago
He's actually pretty cool these days. He actually sounds like a human being.
HouseholdDog 6 days ago
thank god Keating defeated this wanker
bigswano 1 week ago
Typical Australian politician. They either fucken lie, or try to baffle us with bullshit. They all have their snouts in the troff. Fuck all of em..Labor, Liberal and the independants.
Detroit8V92tta 3 weeks ago
Just saw an advert on channel 7 for a new Willessee show that mentioned this interview. The current number of views is 27,088 on the 29th of Jan. Will be back to check how many it has in 2 weeks because I'm relatively sure a lot of young Australians have no idea what this is.
charlesmontenberry 1 month ago
last thing we needed was another monarchist in power
sliat1981 1 month ago
Bye bye 1993 election.....
clubsweat 2 months ago
what a fucking tool!! more money in our pockets? biggest load of shit ever.
isotropicdzero1 2 months ago
Just think if this interview had never happened. Australian politics would be vastly different.
TheMadameAce 2 months ago
howard introduced it--labor cant live without the gst--so much for labors rollback plans
64downtown 3 months ago
Makes perfect sense to me. Whilst he may look stupid trying to explain this, our current leader is levying a tax to stop us igniting those candles on the cake!
APPRENTICESHIP4PAUL 4 months ago 2
I can't believe we used to argue over this shit lol
theloriente 4 months ago
It is a shame to see true journalism thrown out the door in Australia, however listening to Hewson's response, he answered the question truthfully. The tax system was such a shamble that there were random tax amounts, where you would pay 21% tax on candles and possibly 8% tax on sponge cake. The GST was implemented to make it easier for Australians to know how much tax was going to the Govt. There is no way off the top of his head with the previous system he could say the truthful answer.
observer0606 4 months ago
It is a shame to see true journalism thrown out the door in Australia, however listening to Hewson's response, he answered the question truthfully. The tax system was such a shamble that there were random tax amounts, where you would pay 21% tax on candles and possibly 8% tax on sponge cake. The GST was implemented to make it easier for Australians to know how much tax was going to the Govt. There is no way off the top of his head with the previous system he could say the truthful answer.
observer0606 4 months ago 2
Typical stupid politicians answer; a simple 'yes' or 'no' type of answer would do. Hewson's reply was the reason why they lost the election at that time. The 'Fightback' policy was great in theory, but they just couldn't sell it at the time -aren't politicians dumb-arses. Go on Willesse for getting it up him; Mike needs to come back, we need journos like him, no BS.
chewie211171 5 months ago
@chewie211171
Politicians deal in diversion, not honesty.
fitzy098 3 months ago
Nailed it!
Nahasapasa 6 months ago
Just imagine if they really asked Julia Gillard some tough questions like how come you cant get one single scientist to stand by your side to back up your claims of man made global warming. Question: how is it that in Sydney harbour they have a place called Fort Denison that has been using and stores records of tides since it was built and guess what folks ...no eveidence what so ever of sea rise. NONE.
brisisnice 7 months ago
@brisisnice just because you don't understand it, it does not mean its not happening, I'm sure you have no idea how life exists on Earth but it happens anyway, strange analogy I know but the point stays the same
irishgodfatherchris 6 months ago
@brisisnice Gillard can't get one scientist to back her up? Really? You're ridiculous
TRusty499 4 months ago
@brisisnice I suggest you wiki "Global Warming" up and read up then check out the ~200 references below. Every real scientist will tell you it is happening, we're damaging the ozone layer, more ultra-violet radiation is staying due to the CFC gases, ice is melting down to water, water rises sea levels, simple.
RipperLord 4 months ago 2
@brisisnice a lot of scientists back up global warming. the scientists that don't back up global warming are equivalent to the people that deny the holocaust.
pradawallflower 3 months ago
A political career ended in 3... 2... 1..
hempyexxy 7 months ago
hewson couldn't have fucked up that answer more hahaha
bigswano 7 months ago
Just imagine: ever since this interview, when he gets his birthday cake at his birthday party he must think "FUCK YOU, WILLESSEE!
jarred160788 9 months ago 7
@jarred160788 I imagine that ever since this interview, he wakes up every morning and says to himself, "Why?"
iinspectra 7 months ago
What turn coat Hewson turned out to be, must be in bed with Turnbull!
MRMILO57 9 months ago
yesorgasm yourself with workchoices the madmonk abbott the number one enemy of the workers rights the anti union propaganda that went overboard for nothing unions been around for over 150 yrs and not workchoices or other brainwashed libs like yourself are never going to take workers rights again orgasm in tony madmonk abbott budgies and wipe your face
luneco100 9 months ago
yourorgasm yourself have a look under workchoices on google after 25 yrs in the construction industry I know what workchoices done to our industry more money crap in 1989 I was on $850 a week 10 wks on 1 off in 2007 under workchoices laws in the pilbara I was on $1500 a week 4 wks on 1 off don't tell me about higher wages I know today im earning more than under workchoices thanks to union eba'S that the libs tried to destroy
luneco100 9 months ago
What about Bill Shorten getting asked the same question on Q&A.
He fumbled around like the worthless talent void maggot that he is.
GST best thing that ever happened ten years on and every dole bludger in the land is a bone fide tax payer.
GST fuck yeah.
Hossco76 9 months ago
god....how hard can it be??????????????????????
ZENITH2k9 10 months ago
He should have just said, "Yes you will pay 10% more for the cake because you are buying goods and using a service."
boogiefever1985 11 months ago
im pissing my self laughng after watching that video hahaha
Grefi1985 1 year ago
Unemployment was at all time low under Howard. Simple as that
yourgasm 1 year ago
@yourgasm workchoices AWA'S casual flat rate unemployment lazarus created a division amongst the workforce dog eat dog lies deceit to help out big wealthy business prosper at the expense of the aussie battler he was the most right wing conservative this nation as seen and the madmonk is not far behind as a liberal supporter you must be proud of what frogmouth lazarus done to his own people yeah feel proud of anti worker laws brainwashed conservatives like you are plentiful thanks to frogmouth
luneco100 9 months ago
@luneco100 The only reason there was division was the fact that he allowed the unions dominate the whole campaign when really the results clearly showed the workers were better off. High wages,low unemployment. Let's face if the battlers benefitted more under Howard than it was under the Labor govts of the 90s. Typical brainwashed sheeps like yourselves who don't actually go & do research & just believe what the TV ads tell you. Why am I not surprised?
yourgasm 9 months ago
Poor Hewson. The interviewer manipulated him into that shitty cake metaphor.
anaemia 1 year ago
@anaemia
no, he got himself into that mess by being in politician mode when giving the answer.
alphamone 1 year ago
@alphamone I disagree - I think that he was trying to give an intelligent answer to a rather silly hypothetical question and got manipulated into coming out the fool.
While I am not a small-L liberal, I do respect Hewson quite a lot. He may very well be the last major party leader to almost always avoid spin when he talked.
anaemia 1 year ago
its a simple question, give a simple answer :/
imlay1992 1 year ago
as waugh said to the south africans, 'mate you just dropped the world cup,'''
hewson you just dropped the election...
strikeforcefreedom10 1 year ago
Dr Hewson should've just stuck with economics. He doesn't know how to play politics.
Rafdaganga 1 year ago
Well I guess we can't complain now about politicians being dishonest or negative. The last time we had an opposition which honestly focused on their own policy rather than negatively attack the other side...they lose!!! Despite the government being in power for a decade resulting in 10%+ unemployment and astronomical interest rates.
andysensei1 1 year ago
@andysensei1 LOL at your stupidity. Unemployment rate under the howard government never dropped bellow 4.5%, other than the time when he took over from keating.
Rafdaganga 1 year ago
@Rafdaganga How much effect this interview had is not known, because then again he did have a few problems with his wife and that was a scandal as well. So maybe the voters did not like him.
Ken0009100 1 year ago
Funny thing about Dr Hewson and leadership, he said if he lost he would resign as leader and he got challenged by John Howard but retained, however Peter Costello and Malcom Fraser suggested Alexander Downer nominate himself on the party ballot and Downer won the job.
Ken0009100 1 year ago
This interview is suggested to have been the key thing that cost him the election, however this helped them get a greater victory 3 years later.
Ken0009100 1 year ago
We'll Stop the Cakes.
Lenkic13 1 year ago
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Ihatedawannabes 1 year ago
At least he answered correctly and honestly. He was the last intelligent, honest man in the liberal party. Who understood the policies he was proposing and was happy to put them up to scrutiny.. Howard, abbott etc are all about pouring dirt on the opposition; distracting the public with non-issues like "boat people" in the meantime keeping their policies as secret/ambiguous as possible then passing whatever they want once they get in.
antonc81 1 year ago
@antonc81 i hate to break it to you but being intelligent and honest is what loses politicians elections. the only way either parties get elected is by sticking to their message and keeping it simple. its utter bullshit to say just howard and abbott do it because its been going on for decades
AussiePolitics 1 year ago
@AussiePolitics But Johnny and Abbott make an art of it. They don't keep their message simple.. they have no message (other than scaring ppl with immigration/ public spending) - focus on criticising the gov for anything they can (eg pink batts) no vision on education, medicine, tax reform etc then accuse labor of running negative campaigns and not showing any vision.. and they get away with it. It's brilliant. Bring back Malcolm Fraser, at least he had the balls to run on Liberal party values.
antonc81 1 year ago
@antonc81 and yet keating ran the 1993 election against keating not on vision but as a scare campaign against gst. he was not different to the liberals going on about a big new tax. all through the howard years the labor opposition were no different, criticising them for everything they could too.
oh and that is really one eyed to act as tho only one party ever does any reformes. both labor and liberal governments for the past 20 years have reformed the economy
AussiePolitics 1 year ago
@antonc81 furthermore the liberals SUPPORTED labor during their economic reforms in the 80s so no, the were not attacking them on everything. they could very easily have created a huge scare campaign about the removal of tariffs and labor would have lost a lot of its core base of support. why do you talk about parties not having vision and yet you want fraser back? the man had a massive majority and control of the senate and still he did shit all.
AussiePolitics 1 year ago
@AussiePolitics I have no principled problem with the Liberal party or Liberal party values. I probably would have voted for Hewson If I was of voting age at the time. My problem is with Howard/ Abbott/ Hockey - they either do not stand for anything or they know that what they stand for would be so unpopular that they have to keep it under wraps until they get into office.
antonc81 1 year ago
@antonc81 yet the reason you hate them you say is because they oppose for the sake of opposing with no message is exactly what keating did in the 1993 election and what all successful politicians have done all over the world for decades. just this year we saw labor run a massive negative campaign against the liberals talking about how they were going to destroy health care and bring back workchoices. now that is a fear campaign and no different to the libs style.
AussiePolitics 1 year ago
@antonc81 Just because someone is smart does not mean they will win the election Howard defeated Keating in 1996 in a landslide and was in for 11 years. Dr Hewson was not that experienced as a politician as he was only there for a fews years.
Ken0009100 1 year ago
@Ken0009100 I agree with you there.
antonc81 1 year ago
The Cake is a lie?
jarydm87 1 year ago
Poor bastard... :(
HeartlessTory 1 year ago
this question lost him the election...
tehnatureboy 1 year ago
Since the Nine watermark is on this video, was this aired on some kind of special or something?
AccordionManiac 1 year ago
I'd pin point this as what made him loose the election, hahaha must say though I'm a big fan of keating anyway.
sophilianate 1 year ago
god that was so much worse than my memory of it.
youcancallmebetty 1 year ago
Should've just said "no Mike"
bankger2 1 year ago
look at the GST we ended up getting thanks to the Democrats , a complex split system where some things are taxed and others are exempt. Under Hewson GST there was going to be much lower personal tax , wait till we see our personal taxes and the GST rise.... were coming back ,,,,were coming back.....
Ozipeter 1 year ago
@Ozipeter "a complex split system where some things are taxed and others are exempt" ...what's your problem with that? Are you saying everything should be taxed no matter what?
1CaptainAustralia1 1 year ago
@1CaptainAustralia1 since your comments suggest that maybe you have never filled out a BAS statement. Yes consumption tax on everything and personal tax rates decreased which was Hewson proposal in the first place if you check. What a mess
Ozipeter 1 year ago
The aspect of this interview that always hits me hardest has to be listening to Mike Willesee talking about a cake and how the cake might have icecream. It really does sound like the interview was caught when the two of them were having a discussion "off air".
saintkartano 1 year ago
It was a really bizarre chat, wasn't it? It's going to appear in the first paragraphs of both their obituries though.
Wingtipshoes 1 year ago
Still makes me cringe all these years later!
pvdstaal 1 year ago
Mike Witlessly asked if a birthday cake would attract GST. Hewson said it would, if it currently attracted sales tax; if not it would exempt. Clearly explained and very friggen simple to understand, unless you're an ACA host.
libertyordeaf 1 year ago
As you say, the answer's correct - the thing is, it's an appropriate answer for an economist, but not a politician.
Wingtipshoes 1 year ago 6
I like it how Mike Willesee is just looking at him thinking "What the fuck are you on about"!
ufuckfacesonofabitch 1 year ago
By chance, this was one of the few times I ever watched ACA. Just as amusing is the comments by the armchair economists posted here.
kirrazeta 2 years ago
Hewson explained it...fuck I hate bubblegum news shows like this slop...HE EXPLAINED IT FINE! Not his fault if this witless country is full of fucking uneducated dickflops.
Baledwyr 2 years ago
Sigh, a Current affair and Today Tonight used to be like this. Unfortunatley, just recently, I was channel surfing and on channel Seven's Today Tonight, and saw two dogs were getting married.
The only show that's near decent is the 7:30 report.
happytreefriendsfan9 2 years ago 51
There has been a lot of dumbing down in the last 20 years. Back then, politics was a serious matter and hardly any thing was staged. Labour Party conferences were places of massive intensive debating but now Party conferences are a bloody joke. they worry more about the media then about actually formulating serious policies
supremerat 2 years ago
I agree wholeartedly. In his daires, Mark Latham said ideas won't win over constituents but a "Nice friendly handshake down at the local supermarket will." Now you start to see people voting for a candidate just because they're physically attracted to them. Where's the ideology? Where's the passion? Low brow politics is disgusting.
happytreefriendsfan9 2 years ago
@happytreefriendsfan9
lol two dogs getting married
michael9678727 1 year ago
@happytreefriendsfan9 haha aca and today tonight has gone so downhll.
HxCSounds 7 months ago
Yeah i agree with the info section.. why aren't current affairs shows like this now?
justpostit 2 years ago
Mr Rudd, under the ETS, will a birthday cake cost more?
MrObjectivist 2 years ago 2
With the GST, the end consumer pays. The people who made the ingredients and the people who baked the cake don't pay any GST. Well, they do but they reclaim the cash from the ATO. Which is fair enough
supremerat 2 years ago
Thankyou for telling me something everybody already knows?
MrObjectivist 2 years ago
I imagine this would've made Keating grin from ear to ear with unadulterated glee.
jarred160788 2 years ago 31
@jarred160788 Yup, I mean it's easy to make any politician have difficulty in answering specifics about a simple hypothetical example. In my experience those whom are best at it are lawyers; Hewson was never a layer. He was an economist for the Reserve Bank, diddling over figures not *items* or *objects* that people use everyday.
Redcarpet01 1 year ago
Little known fact, in Hewsons fightback policy was plan to reduce carbon emissions by ten percent by the year 2000, that would have meant our carbon emmisions in 2005 would have been lower than if the Howard government in 2001 had completely adopted all the proposals of the Australian greens party.
cleaverwielder 2 years ago
All they had to do was not blow the budget out & we would've been fine. Sorry mate, facts are facts.
deathrider2006 2 years ago
I don't see the problem with this, I thought he gave an accurate answer.
Briffa885 2 years ago
that this issue was made into such a big deal is a joke. it was a retarded question and Hewson (who had been an economics lecturer) answered it as accurately and simply as he could have. imagine a politician who prefers to answer a question which entails a bit of complexity honestly, as opposed to just popping out some bullshit, easily digested one liner. and look what happened to him for doing it. that is what is fucked.
TheShultz66 2 years ago 3
it was a simple question, it wasn't retarded at all
more or less?
he might have been an economics lecturer, but it didn't stop him from making it sound incredibly complicated and difficult to understand
premiumunlegend 2 years ago
yes, i hear u. BUT while he could have answered it better it defs wasn't a simple yes/no question . it just upsets me that it screwed things up for him so much. and willise is a smug bastard.
TheShultz66 2 years ago
i actually agree. after actually watching thi si think he got the raw end of the deal
justpostit 2 years ago
and the gst wasnt even that complex. it was the existing system that was complex. so comparing the too seems complex when its only a complex transition
uzernamezallgone 2 years ago
This interview still gives me nightmares, what the fuck was Hewson thinking here, I remember I was 15 when I was watching it thinking, thats it, he fucked it.
Bassem77 2 years ago
Yeah I remember that & thinking considering this guy is an economic lecturer to use this sort of an answer concerned me greatly. I remember that I was going to vote for him then after this interview I went & voted for Labor
deathrider2006 2 years ago
cheers for the extra debt :D
uzernamezallgone 2 years ago
You mean the important reforms undertaken by labor from then onwards helped out the coalition when they came into power? Yeah thats right,low inflation & a strong economic recovery. Statistic clearly showed this already that by 1995 economy was well on its way.
deathrider2006 2 years ago
i don't consider 5% to be low inflation. sorry.
and almost all of labor's economic reforms were stolen from hewson.
uzernamezallgone 2 years ago
Sorry but inflation & the economy was on its way to recovery by the time Howard came in. And labor's economic reforms were not stolen from Hewson. Floating the aust $ & wiping off tariffs were all done by labor. Not by Hewson.
deathrider2006 2 years ago
floating the dollar was done well before the recession.
wiping off tariffs had been done by labor and liberal for over a decade by that stage.
and no, inflation was not on the way to recovery. i checked the abs website, by 1995 it was up around 5% and had been increasing steadily after the recession.
u can repeat urself as many times as u like but it doesnt make what u say true
uzernamezallgone 2 years ago
Fact. Floating the $ was done by Keating & Hawke. Wiping tariffs was done by labor, acknowledged by all academics. Financial institutions,economists have all stated the reforms set by Hawke & Keating helped us through the asian financial crisis & made Australia strong against future recessions. Inflation was high towards the end of 80s,then was slowly going down so by the time the nxt govt came in.
deathrider2006 2 years ago
you say tariffs like its just one thing while in reality there were a lot for all industries and both parties were removing them
liber8me 2 years ago
You do realise that Keating's reforms resulted in the financial crisis. Thanks to the deregulation of the financial market, financial institutions have been able to do what they like with out hardly any restrictions what so ever. The RBA is a joke and the federal government is borrowing like there is no tomorrow plus the government is spending like a drunken sailor. Keating pist away all the money he got fromthe sale of government assets and ran up a massive 90 billion dollar debt.
supremerat 2 years ago
Actually Australia's financial markets are more heavily regulated that those in the rest of the western world. That's why we weren't hit anywhere near as hard as the US, Britain or Ireland. In fact the main reason we were hit at all was down to the rise in the inter-bank lending rate which was caused entirely by the crisis in other countries. Ireland is now experiencing a depression and 14% unemployment. count yourself lucky that you had Keating's foresight. He predicted this crisis
BipedalHumanoid 1 year ago
As for rat features (senior idiot Howard), he did not save on cent (accet for a couple of billion dollars in the future fund which was started before he was booted out). He also pist away cash on stuff (god knows what). He didn't spend any thing on infrastructure and he cut back the funding for universities and TAFE. He kept on privatising and pissing away the cash that was raised from the sales. Welfare exploded to 100 billion dollars (10% of GDP). Foreign debt exploded to nearly $600 billion
supremerat 2 years ago
Thanks to the abolition of tariffs, 92% of Australia's manufacturing sector was destroyed by 1992. Australia is now a consumer economy. Do you want to know why that is bad? The only two sectors that are keeping Austalia afloat are the agriculture/husbdary sector and the mining sector. Now, we don't even sell enough of those things to pay for our consumption. Our economic survival depends on how long China will keep on booming.
supremerat 2 years ago
But the abolition meant lower prices, reduced inflation and increased purchasing power for ordinary people, giving a better-functioning economy with lower unemployment.
JohanRegus12 2 years ago
This is 100% correct. We have all our eggs in two baskets. China is getting tired of sending us all that money now too and have resorted to buying up our mining industry and employing chinese workers. Soon all we'll be getting from our mining industry is tax revenue.
BipedalHumanoid 1 year ago
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Wrighty0505 2 years ago