Julia
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I've only watched the first half but found it entirely predictable and pretty boring. She declared all the questions asked were "great questions" and for the most part then proceeded not to answer them.Had to say I was surprised and impressed with Julia Gillard on QANDA tonight.
Seemed absolutely on top of all the questions. Managed to answer them properly (or was reminded to do so and responded) Didn't over talk or become boring. Didn't seem to use the negativity card that much. Overall warm, witty and wise. When they panned across the audience everyone seemed quite focused on her responses.
Yep, I agree. It was quite obvious that QANDA was well and truly scripted.Q&A is all scripted and carefully answered before hand. I say bring back the school kids to ask on the spot questions.
I'm backing disunity within the ALP to be the defining issue.I think labor will take it out.
Ms Gillard refused to say that she had apologised "face to face" to Mr Rudd but described him as brave for leaving his sick bed to campaign for Labor. She said the Rudd government had been in a "downward spiral" until six weeks ago, forcing her to step in.
There was a party political broadcast from Ms Gillard on ABC Radio this evening. She compared Australia's position with that of e.g. the US and Europe. She didn't, of course, see any need to mention that Australia had a very healthy surplus, well regulated banks, and overall an economic situation completely different from those countries with whom she was making the comparison.
Abbott acquitted himself well.
Interesting 7.30 program with Kerry O'Brien and Tony Abbott.
I thought Kerry dissected Tony's policies very carefully. Managed to point out that during the GFC the govt lost $110m in income from tax side and that as far as stimulus packages the opposition supported all of the first $25 b and about half of the next package. There was about $20b of stimulus package that the Liberals didn't support.
What all that meant was that when the Liberals are decrying the $200b government debt Labour ran up in fact there is only about $20b they could/would have done differently.
Worth a look in IView to make up your own mind.
I actually thought quite the opposite, i.e. that Kerry O'Brien was more benign than usual and Tony Abbott looked a total fool over the Libs' broadband policy. It's just not OK to say "oh, I'm no tech-head" and fail to be able to articulate how the plan will work.In Kerry O'Brien's interview wth Tony Abbott tonight O'Brien was at his nastiest. Abbott acquitted himself well.
The Libs have never said they would not have instituted a stimulus package.What all that meant was that when the Liberals are decrying the $200b government debt Labour ran up in fact there is only about $20b they could/would have done differently.[/B]
Media reporting and opposition politicking have left many people with the impression much, if not most, and maybe even all of the billions spent on school buildings under the Rudd government's stimulus package has been wasted.
It will have delivered more than 10,500 construction projects to more than 7900 primary schools by late next year. About a third of the money is going on multi-purpose halls, almost 30 per cent on classrooms and a quarter on libraries, with the remainder going on covered outdoor learning areas and other things.
Spending of the money is being administered by 22 state government, Catholic and independent school authorities. Although the NSW government accounts for 22 per cent of the projects, it attracted 56 per cent of the complaints. The Victorian government, with a 12 per cent share of projects, attracted 20 per cent of the complaints.
One way the Liberals do this (so far it hasn't suited Labor to run this line) is to exaggerate the effect of the budget on the level of interest rates. One rarely fully articulated argument is that budget deficits - which have to be covered by government borrowing - leave fewer funds available to be borrowed by the private sector and thus force up interest rates.
This would be true if our capital markets were cut off from the rest of the world but, since they're not, it isn't. Effectively, both our public and private sectors borrow in the global market, where their demand is too small to have any effect on world interest rates.
A slightly more balanced view of stimulus
"Claims of stimulus waste were greatly exaggerated "
http://www.smh.com.au/business/claims-of-stimulus-waste-were-greatly-exaggerated-20100808-11qdj.html
I actually thought quite the opposite, i.e. that Kerry O'Brien was more benign than usual and Tony Abbott looked a total fool over the Libs' broadband policy. It's just not OK to say "oh, I'm no tech-head" and fail to be able to articulate how the plan will work.
Mr Abbott did improve later in the interview, but still was hardly convincing.
My thoughts too. He looked like a fool over his complete lack of knowledge on broadband. He does not have to be a Bill Gates but some basic knowledge about their own policy would obviously have been useful.I actually thought quite the opposite, i.e. that Kerry O'Brien was more benign than usual and Tony Abbott looked a total fool over the Libs' broadband policy. It's just not OK to say "oh, I'm no tech-head" and fail to be able to articulate how the plan will work.
Mr Abbott did improve later in the interview, but still was hardly convincing.
Giving everyone $900 kind of throws out any argument that it was sensible spending.A slightly more balanced view of stimulus
"Claims of stimulus waste were greatly exaggerated "
The Liberals announced their so-called National Broadband Network today, and predictably - and correctly - they're getting mauled for it.
No vision, back to the good old days of Telstra swinging its over-sized dick around no ubiquity whatsoever, completely and utterly woeful.
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