Congratulations to Tony Abbott and the Coalition
I think he will make a good PM.
Labor only have themselves to blame and I am glad its over.
Yes. Labor have only themselves to blame.
How could this Labor government seriously expect to be voted back in after six years of lies, character assassination, dysfunction and infighting, reckless spending, budget deficits, spiraling debt, and general incompetence. Not to mention an election campaign in which they continually resorted to lies, deceit, and negativity.
The criticisms that could be legitimately leveled at the Rudd/Gillard Labor government are almost endless.
For the next fifty years or more this government will be viewed with anger and contempt by a lot of people, just like the Whitlam government of the 1970’s is still despised by many today.
And the contempt won’t just be on account of their economic incompetence either – some people have more personal reasons to despise this government. Like, for example, the family of the woman who was killed when a truck squashed her car on the Toowoomba range.
Her granddaughter was trapped in the car for two hours beside her dead grandmother before she could be cut free – she is still traumatized to this day.
The dead woman was a lovely person, a mother, wife, grandmother, and now she’s gone.
What’s this got to do with the Rudd government?
When Rudd came to power he scrapped the 700 million dollars that the Howard government had allocated for the new Toowoomba range crossing. He could find 20 billion dollars for his stupid school halls project, more billions for roof insulation, 12 billion to waste on illegal boat people. But he couldn’t find a relatively paltry 700 million to replace one of the busiest and most dangerous sections of road in the country. Result – people have been getting killed on this section of range since Rudd became PM six years ago.
There were deaths on this road before Rudd came to power too, but at least something was going to be done about it. But not by Rudd – even though he’s a Queenslander who lives only an hour and a half from this problem section of road, and even though it’s one of the most commercially important roads in the country, Rudd has adopted a ‘couldn’t care less’ attitude to the problem.
The families of the many people killed on this road would be justified in viewing Rudd with absolute contempt.
These are the personal tragedies that can result from a bad government – Rudd and Gillard have a lot more to answer for than just stuffing up Australia.
Thank goodness Australians have had the sense to throw them on the scrap heap where they belong. Good riddance to the scourge that has been the Rudd/Gillard Labor government.