Krudd - $1 million on travel in 9 months as Foreign Minister.
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Left MPs are concerned the changes remove completely Australia's obligations under the 60-year-old UN convention on refugees.
They say the changes would remove legal protections and Australia's obligations to refugees.
The coalition is saying much the same thing.
Opposition frontbencher Greg Hunt says the government is planning to strip out the 1951 UN convention protections.
"This is a first for Australia," he told ABC Television today, challenging Prime Minister Julia Gillard to nominate another developed nation that had done the same.
Abbott's success in the polls is proof that the majority of Australians think that change in itself is a good thing. How else do you explain the popularity of a man and a party that has no policy, no big picture and ....... sorry....he does have a policy: no more great big new taxes!
THE former treasurer Peter Costello has savaged Tony Abbott's paid parental leave policy as a ''silly'' idea that would reduce the global competitiveness of Australian business and which contravened the Liberal philosophy of low taxes.
Mr Costello, the nation's longest-serving treasurer, says the fact that the policy would be the most generous state scheme in the world after Sweden's ''should have set alarm bells ringing''.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/costello-slams-abbott-parent-tax-20100316-qclw.html#ixzz1YXk2nIdO
Not as much as Labor and the Greens.He loves great big tax's
Not as much as Labor and the Greens.
Oh I think we will find out different once Abbott becomes PM and treasury point out the reality of government.
Abbott being the biggest political windsock in modern history wont hesitate to raise taxes.
And, IFocus, you have made a very categorical statement about Abbott raising taxes - care to back it up.
The explanation is easy. It's not that the majority of Australians want change, Abbott or the Liberals.Abbott's success in the polls is proof that the majority of Australians think that change in itself is a good thing. How else do you explain the popularity of a man and a party that has no policy, no big picture and ....... sorry....he does have a policy: no more great big new taxes!
The explanation is easy. It's not that the majority of Australians want change, Abbott or the Liberals.
Rather, it is that they do NOT want a continuation of this Labor government and are willing to give any viable alternative a go. If I formed a new party with a reasonably centre world view, credible candidates and a decent campaign budget then I've no doubt I'd gain a substantial vote at the next election.
In the real world, Tony Abbott and the Liberals are an established, well organised and viable alternative with which the Australian people are already familiar. Whether or not anyone agrees with their policies, few would doubt that they are at least capable of forming government and thus represent an alternative to Labor / Greens.
With so many wanting to get rid of Labor, it follows that they'll take a chance on Tony and his unannounced policies. Any port in a storm as they say.[/QUOTE
Well Smurph the acid test is about to begin for these idiots.
It is all well and good saying we fiscally managed us through the G.F.C.
Lets see what happens over the next 6 - 12 months. Read below
http://www.smh.com.au/business/worl...nufacturing-shrinks-again-20110922-1kmff.html
http://www.smh.com.au/business/mark...-drag-global-stocks-lower-20110922-1kn5o.html
It is now that Swan would like to have a $20billion surplus. We are now entering the period where Government stimulus is going to be required. imo
The carbon tax and the N.B.N are about to become a cement collar around the Governments neck that will drown them. Unfortunatelly it will probably drown us with them.
Interviewed on 7.30 last night Mr Swan did not rule out further stimulus.It is now that Swan would like to have a $20billion surplus. We are now entering the period where Government stimulus is going to be required. imo
The carbon tax and the N.B.N are about to become a cement collar around the Governments neck that will drown them. Unfortunately it will probably drown us with them.
Any reactions to such a proposal?
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