wayneL
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Oh please! Your saying Coalition "scaremongering" is damaging to the economy, but Labor scaremongering isn't?
That's kid's stuff Syd.
I have to think that's why we've had a bounce in confidence because Tony had to stop scaring everyone once Rudd was back in. How much did his 3+ years of the carbon tax sky will fall on our heads cost us? Basically everything he said turned out to be WRONG. How much higher is unemployment because of his fear mongering?
The silence is welcomed, if hypocritical.
The left of the media failed constantly to report the almost daily boat arrivals, deliberately ignoring them as if it was not an issue for the Australian public.
I'm also not sure which left press you're referring to as the ABC were always announcing boat arrivals during the hourly news updates by the way.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...rs-in-check-20130925-2uelx.html#ixzz2g2DCg9KyThe directive jogged memories inside Labor of Mr Abbott blasting Mr Rudd in 2007 after it was revealed that all media releases from government bodies must go through his department.
''It seems like an early exercise in hyper-control by the new Prime Minister's office,'' Mr Abbott said at the time. ''A lot of people said before the election that Kevin Rudd would turn out to be a bit of a control freak and this seems to be an interesting suggestion that those fears were quite well grounded.''
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/indonesias-foreign-minister-warns-abbott-government-against-taking-any-unilateral-steps-over-asylum-seekers-20130927-2uhgo.html#ixzz2g2Dt9NOjThe Indonesians’ release of details of the conversation between the two foreign ministers in New York on Monday is highly unusual in diplomacy, and will raise the temperature further in an already super-heated debate, just days before Tony Abbott meets president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Jakarta.
Not-so-private talks ... A virtual transcript of the asylum seeker talks between Indonesian foreign minister Marty Natalegawa and Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop have been made available by Indonesia.
Blunt message ... Indonesian foreign minister Marty Natalegawa warned the Australian Government against 'unilateral action' over asylum seekers. Photo: Andrew Meares
Mr Abbott insisted on Thursday that his government was already “working very well together” with Indonesia, and that “we absolutely respect Indonesia's sovereignty”.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has publicly slapped down his Education Minister Christopher Pyne over his comments to scrap university service and amenity fees in a move to head off a damaging split within the Coalition.
Mr Pyne denounced the fees as ''compulsory student unionism by the back door'' in comments that inflamed old tensions between the Liberals and Nationals.
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You are even more negative than Albo and Short'un... have you considered running for ALP leadership?
Oh please! Your saying Coalition "scaremongering" is damaging to the economy, but Labor scaremongering isn't?
That's kid's stuff Syd.
Springhill, would you like to elaborate on that point with some actual facts?
Thank you for pulling me up on that, it actually averages to more than one per day this year.
To June 30th - 196 boats in 181 days.
http://www.aph.gov.au/about_parliam.../pubs/bn/2012-2013/boatarrivals#_Toc347230718
Perhaps you should check your facts before you act the uninformed smarty pants.
Checkmate.
Well Doc, Abbott is the Prime Minister and as a leader it is his duty to lead his troops in the right direction. If he were to allow them to wonder off in their own direction, then they deserve to be shot down in flames.
I can only admire the man for showing some discipline and courage in guiding his troops in the right direction.
If he did not take some action, I am sure he would come under intense cirticism from all sides of politics and the media.
I think Abbott will prove to be a great PM.
If Rudd had won, you wouldn't have had his face off the tv, absolute dick.
It is great, not to see a PM on tv, he should be busy getting on with running the country.
Every government faces its challenges, but how they handle them is what matters.Well doc IMO, the difference between a PM always on t.v, as opposed to one not seen.
It shows the difference between a showman and a statesman.
The Laborites had better get the cheap shots in early, I think it will prove more difficult, as time goes by.
It's yet another case of politics overshadowing economics: while newbie Treasurer Joe Hockey insinuates otherwise, the final count for the 2012-13 federal budget is an outstanding achievement, a monument to a skilled Treasury performance in very difficult circumstances. No, seriously.
And it seems Joe Hockey can't break old habits, fulminating about the final count. If he's not careful he might claim there's a budget crisis, forgetting that he effectively backtracked on that two days before the election.
And what's entirely missed is what an incredible budget 2012-13's proved to be. After a deficit of $43.4 billion the previous year – 2.9 per cent of GDP – it is an unprecedented and utterly amazing fiscal contraction to be able to get it down to about $19 billion, 1.3 per cent of GDP. Thank heavens Wayne Swan didn't succeed in reducing it to zero – that way recession would have laid.
After that exercise, the economy is not strong enough to handle further severe fiscal contraction just yet. And that's why Joe Hockey is letting the deficit run this year, never mind his political rants, announcing that he will trim the budget by all of 0.4 per cent. Big whoop.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-...get-outcome-20130927-2uik6.html#ixzz2g8YqpoDOIn the gap between political promises and achievement, it bodes particularly ill if Parkinson is being flicked as Treasury Secretary. Frank and fearless advice might not be appreciated.
But government spending actually shrank in 2012-13, from $371 billion. Spending has fallen in real terms before (indeed, it did in 2010-11), but hasn't shrunk in cash terms as far back as Treasury's current records go, to the start of the 1970s. Yes, it was aided by plenty of pea-and-thimble tricks involving bringing forward and delaying expenditure, but the Howard government never came close to hacking expenditure in real terms by 3.2%, as Swan did.
In attacking Labor's fiscal record today (including the downright weird statement that Treasury's nominal GDP forecast was a "promise" by Labor), Treasurer Joe Hockey and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann failed to answer the basic question: what would they have done differently? Faced with a $17 billion-odd write-down in revenues, should Swan have slashed spending by a further $17 billion on top of the historic cut he'd already inflicted on the budget? And done it when the economy was growing below trend despite the RBA bringing interest rates down to record low levels? How would the economy have fared with another $17 billion ripped out of it? How many jobs would it have cost to address the Coalition's debt'n'deficits rhetoric?
And of course there's the other question of where the "budget emergency" is, and why the Coalition isn't rushing to address it with a mini-budget to slash spending and bring Australia's debt under control. Instead, the government has been making noises about stimulating the economy. Indeed, apparently the government is considering adding to Australia's debt to fund infrastructure construction. If so, the Coalition would be demonstrating a welcome maturity on the issue of government debt -- and complete hypocrisy.
Perhaps, like corporate tax cuts or low interest rates that are bad when Labor's in power, government debt suddenly becomes a good thing when the "adults" are back in charge.
I am shocked, amazed the Abbott love squad here didn't see this
What you missed: an incredible federal budget outcome
Budget crisis ha ha ha and Hockey wont release the numbers before Xmas welcome to Stalinist government.
Just note the bit about a recession.....
Oh Coalition politics there is a crisis remember
Then you have Liberal arrogance they do it better than anyone
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-...get-outcome-20130927-2uik6.html#ixzz2g8YqpoDO
That little analysis doesn't take into account the creative accounting of offloading costs from 2012/13 to 2011/12 so the original 2012/13 surplus could be forecast in the first place.And what's entirely missed is what an incredible budget 2012-13's proved to be. After a deficit of $43.4 billion the previous year – 2.9 per cent of GDP – it is an unprecedented and utterly amazing fiscal contraction to be able to get it down to about $19 billion, 1.3 per cent of GDP. Thank heavens Wayne Swan didn't succeed in reducing it to zero – that way recession would have laid.
Well, Abbott has turned back a boat, let's see what comes out of his visit to Indonesia.
He has said a lot more with actions, than you lefties have said with words, since he got in.lol
It's about time the Indonesians took some action besides being offended all the time.
Find out where the smugglers are and shut them down BEFORE they sail.
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