Does Gillard inspire confidence?

[drsmith]

According to Joe Hokey, the Coalition's spending is $25.7bn and their savings are $28.5bn.

 

[Julia]

According to Joe Hokey, the Coalition's spending is $25.7bn and their savings are $28.5bn.

Are they including the savings from the non-application of the resources tax in this?

 

[drsmith]

Are they including the savings from the non-application of the resources tax in this?

The quote was on today's debate with Wayne Swan but Joe did not go into further detail.

The savings I added up from the Liberal's web site last night was $28.9bn. This excluded savings from the RRT but included transfers of funds from Labor's programs to the Coalition's and the $6.1bn business tax to fund their maternity scheme.

 

[IFocus]

The quote was on today's debate with Wayne Swan but Joe did not go into further detail.

The savings I added up from the Liberal's web site last night was $28.9bn. This excluded savings from the RRT but included transfers of funds from Labor's programs to the Coalition's and the $6.1bn business tax to fund their maternity scheme.

Thanks for the numbers

 

[moXJO]

WA has a Liberal State Government,8 complaints in the state!

A little more on this

According to a 2006 report from the IPA, the Bracks Labor government dictated that while Commonwealth Games village was a series of houses the contractor had to use ‘union-friendly’ work practices, similar to those used on high-rise building developments. And because this was an unusual instruction the contract reflected some of the cost differences.

Hey presto! What do you find? The IPA says the ‘union-friendly’ contracts boosted the cost of the Commonwealth Games village by between 25 and 34 per cent, almost exactly the figure that we are seeing around the country in education buildings.

In the Building Education Revolution the Labor state governments in every state, except WA, appear to have instructed the state schools to use some of the ‘union-friendly’ rules rather than the efficient system we use for home buildings. The Catholic schools used the efficient system.

Meanwhile in WA – the only state where there isn’t a Labor government – the public education sector in fact bettered the Catholic system because the public servants were allowed to use their bulk-buying power and standardised designs etc.

 

[overhang]

According to a 2006 report from the IPA, the Bracks Labor government dictated that while Commonwealth Games village was a series of houses the contractor had to use ‘union-friendly’ work practices, similar to those used on high-rise building developments. And because this was an unusual instruction the contract reflected some of the cost differences.

Hey presto! What do you find? The IPA says the ‘union-friendly’ contracts boosted the cost of the Commonwealth Games village by between 25 and 34 per cent, almost exactly the figure that we are seeing around the country in education buildings.

In the Building Education Revolution the Labor state governments in every state, except WA, appear to have instructed the state schools to use some of the ‘union-friendly’ rules rather than the efficient system we use for home buildings. The Catholic schools used the efficient system.

Meanwhile in WA – the only state where there isn’t a Labor government – the public education sector in fact bettered the Catholic system because the public servants were allowed to use their bulk-buying power and standardised designs etc.

Not sure where 25 to 34% is coming from as the inquiry has revealed blowouts of 5-6%, this being the preliminary inquiry of course. Also I haven't seen 1 school project in Vic to what would be considered "union friendly"

 

[moXJO]

Not sure where 25 to 34% is coming from as the inquiry has revealed blowouts of 5-6%, this being the preliminary inquiry of course.

Really? not cost blowouts (thats another thing altogether), the way they were priced compared to catholic schools or normal jobs.

But the cost doubling is not isolated to prefabricated buildings. The estimates document shows the price the department expects to pay for most school buildings is roughly double what comparable buildings cost to deliver.

The Catholic Holy Trinity Primary School in Wagga Wagga, in regional NSW, has just completed building a brick 240sq m commercial-quality tuckshop for $600,000. The canteen includes a commercial kitchen with stainless-steel benchtops, a separate cold room and a toilet block.

Tottenham Central School, near Dubbo in central NSW, is receiving a 25sq m tuckshop for $594,000. That canteen is not even big enough to fit a full-sized fridge or a meat slicer. According to NSW government records, the Tottenham school is one of 19 schools receiving the tiny canteens. Government audits have found no problems with the price.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/frustrations-build-around-the-states-as-costs-blow-out-well-beyond-needs/story-e6frgczf-1225872379542

Also I haven't seen 1 school project in Vic to what would be considered "union friendly"

LOL uh huh

 

[trainspotter]

Last night on Q&A the "REAL" Julia was on display. She worked the crowd over like a snake oil saleswoman. The crowd was eating out of her hand all night. Well done Julia ! The Mark Latham question was deflated before it began to burst like an angry boil. She appeared relaxed and in control of her candid remarks that kept the audience enthralled. It was a pity it was a solo appearance and there were no "REAL" curly questions that would have asked about policies and the future of the nation. More like a social chit chat at the Country Womens Association. More pie?

 

[sails]

Ms Gillard certainly knows how to work the crowd - it's a pity she represents such wasteful fiscal policy and has done deals with the greens..

 

[noco]

Last night on Q&A the "REAL" Julia was on display. She worked the crowd over like a snake oil saleswoman. The crowd was eating out of her hand all night. Well done Julia ! The Mark Latham question was deflated before it began to burst like an angry boil. She appeared relaxed and in control of her candid remarks that kept the audience enthralled. It was a pity it was a solo appearance and there were no "REAL" curly questions that would have asked about policies and the future of the nation. More like a social chit chat at the Country Womens Association. More pie?

Tony Jones was absolutely soft on Gillard.

I would like to have seen the questions Jones knocked back. I'm sure he would have hand picked the esay ones.

It will be different when Abbott has his turn. The questions will be designed to embarrass him to the kilt.

 

[trainspotter]

It will be intersting to see how the crowd reacts to Tony Abbott and what questions will be asked of him. I note that when he went on "Hey Hey it's saTURDay" that the crowd booed him.

Not helping that Hockey said 25 billion and Abbott said 18 billion. Of course this was the interest saved on the NBN rollout etc etc but on't let the truth get in the way of a good story. Also Treasury has crunched the numbers on election promises and are also claiming a 800 million funding shortfall ??

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/federal-election/abbott-caught-short-by-800m-20100809-11u62.html

WHY oh WHY do newspapers publish pictures like this?? HUH ??

 

[Mofra]

Interestingly, the normally right-leaning Terry McCrann has penned an unflattering article regarding Abbott's tax agenda. Will provide a boost the the Labour-types who will shift the focus onto the economy which is seen as Abbott's weakest area:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/busines...-ticks-wrong-box/story-e6frfig6-1225903182377

He does raise the politically unpalatable (but possibly the most effective) GST issue in the article as well.

 

[drsmith]

To me the GST should not be raised but rather expanded to cover all goods and services.

Getting rid of the minor taxes as suggested by Terry McCrann does at face value make sense.

 

[noco]

To me the GST should not be raised but rather expanded to cover all goods and services.

Getting rid of the minor taxes as suggested by Terry McCrann does at face value make sense.

Yes I agree. An extra 2.5% on the GST would amount to about the same as an ETS.

An ETS will add heaps to the cost of living and we won't know where or how it will affect goods and services. At least with an extra 2.5% (12.5% GST) we will know exactly what any increase will be.

Unfortuneatly the Labor Party would dare not increase the GST for fear of losing votes.

NZ has just up the GST to 15%.

 

[drsmith]

I suggested the GST should be expanded to include all goods and services, not raised. The purpose should be as part of overall tax simplification, not to raise extra revenue.

Raising the GST rate is a slippery slope. 12.5%, 15%, ??% ?

 

[bigdog]

Julia Gillard the Home Wrecker

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/..._look_at_past_extremism_lets_look_at_gillards

I’m just dying for someone to track down the former Catherine Emerson and ask if she will be voting for Gillard.

Ms Emerson is the ex wife of small business minister Craig Emerson and the mother of his three children. She apparently learned that Julia and Craig were an item when hubby said he wanted a divorce and would be moving in with the future PM.

They were together for two years. Reckon any widespread mention of “other woman” Gillard’s home-wrecking activities will pretty much torpedo Abbott’s problems with the purported “gender gap.” You won’t hear another word about it after that.

 

[bigdog]

Re: Julia Gillard the Home Wrecker

http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2006/s1586140.htm

The Gillard Diaries - Transcript
PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT: Monday, 6 March , 2006

JULIA GILLARD: My relationship with Craig Emerson was a very important one to me. Being involved with a colleague has got its down side in the sense that drawing the line between what's work and what's not work becomes increasingly blurred. Craig and I were staying together at a hotel and I'd managed to forget to pack my contact lens holder. So I was just storing the contact lenses at the bottom of a glass, which wasn't exactly the smartest thing in the world to do. Er, so...in the bathroom, this glass with the contact lenses and a bit of solution in them. So, you know, during the course of the night, Craig gets up and thinking it's water, grabs the glass and drinks it. So I was wandering around National Conference blind for the next morning. I did have to give the Health Policy Report at the podium not basically able to see my notes or see the audience. Craig and I lived in different states in very demanding positions. And in the hurly-burly of the Labor world, ultimately it was just too difficult. I'm not involved in a relationship now, and you know, your, sort of, your life history rolls on.

 

[bigdog]

Re: Julia Gillard the Home Wrecker

http://www.rightpulse.com/archives/2181

Gillard the home wrecker
August 3rd, 2010
It is widely know that between 2003 – 2005 Gillard had a relationship with fellow ALP hack Craig Emerson. The relationship destroyed Emerson’s marriage and his family of three young children. Gillard is a feminist so her disdain for marriage should come as no surprise. The media think Gillard’s personal life should be off limits to reporting, because it is supposedly irrelevant to Gillard being PM. 2GB’s Ray Hadley on Monday said he didn’t care about the affair. I wonder what Craig Emerson’s wife and children think. I gather they cared at the time.

Gillard’s personal choices are relevant to the campaign. Hadley and others of his ilk might consider that Gillard’s personal life clearly indicates that she cares nothing for the institutions of family and marriage – two of the foundation blocks of the modern conservative movement. Gillard’s true opinions on a host of other social issues then follow. For instance, how much does Gillard really want to support stay home mums, the family tax-benefit, etc… Or given Gillard’s extra-martial affair, de facto relationship and feminist background how convincing is her opposition to homosexual marriage. Not very.

The feminist movement has been rallying against heterosexual marriage for 30 to 40 years, so it is no surprise that they support homosexual marriage, hoping such a social change will devalue marriage generally to make it meaningless. Spectator Australia asks the question but can’t come up with the answers:

What I’m getting at here is that these feminists can’t have it both ways. Marriage is either, by its very nature, an anachronistic heterosexual institution that advantages heterosexual men and should be done away with, or it isn’t. It can’t simply be extended to include any type of person who is intrinsically excluded from it just because minority rights are cool. Why put so much time and effort into exposing the tradition as a tyrannical, oppressive, bourgeois fiction then campaign to resurrect it for a particular group?

I think the answer is not to be found in a Gillard born-again political conversion. The radical left know what they are doing and it is hard to believe that Gillard is too far away from them. Devalue – destroy.

 

[explod]

Re: Julia Gillard the Home Wrecker

That is not right, the marriage was broken before she ever started going out with him and they were living seperate lives.

The press would have been right over this like s... to a blanket if there was any chance of such a scenario being correct.

This post is being written with my wife looking over my shoulder, she says "totally incorrect information"

Big dog you are barking up the wrong tree here. Go elsewhere with your sculduggery.

 

[IFocus]

Re: Julia Gillard the Home Wrecker

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/..._look_at_past_extremism_lets_look_at_gillards

I’m just dying for someone to track down the former Catherine Emerson and ask if she will be voting for Gillard.

Ms Emerson is the ex wife of small business minister Craig Emerson and the mother of his three children. She apparently learned that Julia and Craig were an item when hubby said he wanted a divorce and would be moving in with the future PM.

They were together for two years. Reckon any widespread mention of “other woman” Gillard’s home-wrecking activities will pretty much torpedo Abbott’s problems with the purported “gender gap.” You won’t hear another word about it after that.

Bigdog are you claiming Craig Emerson wasn't responsible for the break up of his own marriage?