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Exactly, I was thinking the same thing. This example is typical of Labour's ability not to listen to the majority of the peoples wishes and the future direction and spendings of our taxes. Idiots
Lunatic KRudd promising AUS $2Billion to save Oz Car Industry (aka Holden)
Even Antony Green on the Drum the other day referred to the ABC's own Vote Compass results to explain how only 20% voters had any sympathy for bailing out the Oz car industry. Since many of the Vote Compass participants are sure to be ABC and tend to the left anyway and only 20% of these mainly Labour supporting particpiants think supporting the car industry is important, that is a damning statistic for anyone wanting to run this issue as a vote winner! KRudd, you are just plain nuts! :bananasmi
http://www.news.com.au/national-new...rs/story-fnho52ip-1226698747935#ixzz2cGb1SdVz
Oh boy...just a couple more weeks, just a couple more weeks....tick, tock....
VOTER support for Kevin Rudd has sunk to its lowest level on record, leaving Labor headed for a large election loss with Tony Abbott now virtually equal as preferred prime minister.
After two weeks of presidential-style campaigning - in which the Prime Minister's personal support has continued to plummet and the Opposition Leader's has steadily risen - Mr Rudd is in a worse position than when he was removed as Labor leader in June 2010.
The latest Newspoll survey, conducted exclusively for The Australian on the weekend, finds Mr Abbott in his best position ever against Mr Rudd.
Labor's primary vote, at 34 per cent, is now at its lowest level since Mr Rudd removed Julia Gillard as prime minister and the Coalition's primary vote of 47 per cent is at its highest during the same time.
Primary support for the Greens dropped from 11 per cent to 9 per cent as Mr Abbott spent much of last week campaigning against minority government, ruling out doing a deal with the Greens and challenging Mr Rudd to follow.
On a two-party-preferred basis, based on preference flows at the 2010 election, Labor's support has dropped two percentage points, to 46 per cent, and the Coalition's support has risen to 54 per cent.
The gloss is well and truly coming off now. At this rate, Labor might want Julia back as leader by polling day. At the very least, the generals in the Labor camp will be in a mild panic.
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Sportsbet now has the odds at $1.09/$7.25 in favour of the Coalition and the handicap has blown out to 17.5.No wonder, Rudd is truly hopeless, he just repeats mantra until e everyone roils their eyes and turns off.
Two other polls out today have the race much closer than Newspoll.
Roy Morgan is at 51/49% in favour of the Coalition although the recent trend like Newspoll is in favour of the Coalition. Essential Media is 50/50, but the most interesting aspect is the trend there is against the Coalition.
My read at the moment is Abbott at a canter none of the gaffs or bad news re coalition is sticking plus no serious questions are being asked, Rudd looks unsettled still some time to go but looks like coalition land slide.
My read at the moment is Abbott at a canter none of the gaffs or bad news re coalition is sticking plus no serious questions are being asked, Rudd looks unsettled still some time to go but looks like coalition land slide.
Who though now are you calling as the winners ?The winners 55%, the losers 45%, two party preferred.
It's pretty sad for the future of our country that the highlight of the election campaign so far has been Andrew Bolt getting trolled on Twitter (with Abbott trying to use automated bots to inflate his social media "friends" a close second), and subsequently trying to get angry and looking like an even bigger tossbag.
Abbott is planning a commission of audit. One of the chief purposes of these exercises is to enable the breaking of campaign promises.
New governments nearly always break campaign promises, using the commission of audit or traditional bureaucrats’ briefing about the state of the finances.
In 1983 newly-elected Prime Minister Bob Hawke was overheard telling his fresh-faced Treasurer Paul Keating to “lay it on with a trowel” at a press conference to announce the greater-than-expected budget deficit. So dire was the situation that unfortunately not all of Labor’s campaign promises could be honoured, they explained.
Thirteen years later Peter Costello needed no encouragement to chew the scenery. The findings of the commission of audit, and Treasury’s revised budget numbers, tilled the soil for what became known as core and non-core promises.
Funnily enough the new Labor government in 2007 and 2008 neglected to perform the ritual, not through any high ethical standards but an addiction to immediate gratification and lack of willingness to accept short-term political pain.
It was an appalling blunder on the part of Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan because it simply pushed the inevitable promise-breaking out several years when there was no one to blame but themselves. It let the Howard government off the hook; one great benefit of the exercise is the denigration of your predecessor’s record. We don’t like breaking our word any more than you do (the new government says) but you know who to blame.
That’s why it has to be done in the first year.
If the Coalition wins the election next month rest assured it will exercise the winner’s rights with energy and enthusiasm. Joe Hockey will shake his head in disbelief at the state of affairs revealed by the commission’s report. We knew the Labor government was bad (he’ll tell us) but not this bad.
Drastic action will be needed. Promises will need to be broken.
The Australian's Peter Brent on election commitments.
If the Coalition wins the election next month rest assured it will exercise the winner’s rights with energy and enthusiasm. Joe Hockey will shake his head in disbelief at the state of affairs revealed by the commission’s report. We knew the Labor government was bad (he’ll tell us) but not this bad.*
Drastic action will be needed. Promises will need to be broken.
This is a perfect illustration of one of the flaws with a separate levy on top of the corporate tax rate.Those franking credits are currently calculated at a tax rate of 30 cents in the dollar. When the Abbott-Hockey plan is introduced the franking credits will be calculated on the basis of 28.5 cent in the dollar. They are worth less and so the retirees and those saving to pay for retirement cop the bill because Abbott and Hockey have simply swapped a tax for a levy aiming to lower the franking credit.
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