ELECTIONS - Labor or Liberal

Health Minister Tony Abbott has conceded what opponents of Work Choices have long argued, that workers have lost protections under the coalition's reforms.

Mr Abbott, a former workplace relations minister, is heard making the comment in amateur video of him speaking at a local electorate function two days ago.


"I accept that certain protections, in inverted commas, are not what they were," he says in the video, broadcast on ABC TV.

"I accept that has largely gone. I accept that.

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numbercruncher said:

This is how I think the voting will go ......


60pc of 60+ year olds will vote Liberal
60pc of people under 30 will Not vote Liberal
85pc of 18 to 21yrs will not vote Liberal
90pc of hardcore one eyed capitalists will vote Liberal
65pc of people with young children wont vote Liberal
100pc of Enviromentalists wont vote Liberal
100pc of the Exclusive Brethren sect will vote Liberal
65pc of Business owners wont vote Labor
90pc of Muslims wont vote Liberal
60pc of Christians will vote Liberal
80pc of people voting that are struggling with $ wont vote Liberal
80pc of people on a hospital waiting list wont vote Lib
60pc of people that have been to Hospital recently wont vote Lib
65pc of University students wont vote Lib
90pc of people with rotten teeth wont vote Lib
70pc of High speed Internet fans will vote Labor
99pc of people too young too vote wouldnt vote Liberal

Add to the list if you like

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mark70920 said:

The exclusive brethren don't vote , 100% will not be voting for the LIBs. But they do manipulate , 100% of their campaign donations will be going to the Liberal party , no string attached? I don't think so.
The liberal party has a history of associating with cults , like the brethren and the HR Nicholls society (A cult of rich people who oppose the minimum wage every wage case and believe Australian companies should have access to the worlds labor markets. They want to achieve this with an open door immergration policy. Peter the next lib PM Costello is a founding member).
But don't take my word for it , have read yourself.

www.hrnicholls.com.au

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IF the Howard Government is re-elected, we will not get a Howard Government for the next four years. Sometime, in a year or two, he will retire and Treasurer Peter Costello will likely take over.





Peter Costello is a founding member of the HR Nicholls Society -- a right wing think tank with a rabid anti-union, anti-worker agenda.

A weekend in August was set aside for a gathering of this ultra conservative, union-bashing club.

Club membership requires only one prerequisite, a hatred of the working class and a commitment to turn the clock back a century and a half to the days when unions were unheard of and working men and women were lucky to earn enough to feed their families bread and water, much less own a car, a weekender or an investment property.

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"For the past 25 years the radical neo-liberals have engaged in a sustained assault upon the welfare state, trade unions, social justice movements and the Left in general," said Dr Damien Cahill, Honorary Research Fellow in History and Politics at the University of Wollongong.

"Radical neo-liberals advocate deregulation, privatisation, marketisation, and massive cuts to government expenditure. They have been in the vanguard of the transfer of resources from public to private and the transfer of power from labour to capital. This, after all, is what neo-liberalism is all about."

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Francis Begbie said:

My grasp of economics isn't at that of ben bernake just yet, but how much pressure do you think $9 billion towards school fees will put on inflation/the economy when we already have some $30 b (unsure of figure) of tax cuts and a labour govt saying they will cut emissions buy 60% by 2050, with no sought of scientific plan, viable policy to do so.

I hate to say it, but either way it looks as if when a recession does come in some years time, it will come hard, and we are goin to need a jeff kennet style government to shapen up Australia for the future. The more you save now, the more you have in the future boys.

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Aussiejeff said:

Mr Abbott today said he was confident the Government could still win because it would be "very, very unusual'' for the electorate to vote the Opposition into government. "This is still very winnable,'' Mr Abbott told ABC Radio today.

"Let's not forget that it would be totally unprecedented for the Australian electorate to throw out a good and competent government for an un-tried opposition'' he said.

"It's more likely that the people will change the polls than change the government.''

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Forget EI ... Tony Abbott has a terminal case of "Foot-In-Mouth" disease!

Errr, Tony ... so, given your wonderful logic, why did the "dumb" majority of electors vote for the "un-tried" Liberal opposition after all those years of Hawke/Keating? Should the idiot electors back then NOT have voted for the coalition at the polling booth?

In the words of another classic F.I.M.mer, "Please explain!"


AJ

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