Yes and Gillard and Obama were often seen in familiar uncompromising positions from time to time......They both followed the same ideology.
In the link I provided;
I think some action is needed to show Obama after his gross bad manners, that we cannot be taken for granted. Julie bishop should tell the Americans that they can no longer assume we are at their beck and call like lapdogs.
Tanya Plibersek on the other hand loved Obama'a speech, and;
In the link I provided;
I think some action is needed to show Obama after his gross bad manners, that we cannot be taken for granted. Julie bishop should tell the Americans that they can no longer assume we are at their beck and call like lapdogs.
Tanya Plibersek on the other hand loved Obama'a speech, and;
Seems it's mainly Liberal Govts at the beck and call of the US in recent times.
It was Howard that got us mired in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Abbott has plenty of bodies over in Iraq now too.
Quite true, and we should stop cosying up to American Presidents...starting with this ignorant clown;
Seems it's mainly Liberal Govts at the beck and call of the US in recent times.
It was Howard that got us mired in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Abbott has plenty of bodies over in Iraq now too.
Labor's long term commitments into health, education and the NDIS were too much and without the revenue to pay for it although they did get Treasury to model a rise in the GST.
Labor's long term commitments into health, education and the NDIS were too much and without the revenue to pay for it although they did get Treasury to model a rise in the GST.
It’s time for Tony – and Julie and Malcolm – to stop digging. The government is in a couple of truly untenable positions. It keeps digging itself in further.
Take climate change. Tony Abbott and senior ministers were deeply angry at Barack Obama’s show-stealing climate change speech during the G20. We know because they have been briefing News Ltd columnists to that effect all week – including graphic accounts of how they rang up afterwards and yelled at state department officials for failing to give a “heads up” that the president was going to “dump on” the PM.
Putting aside for one second the extraordinary position we are in when a speech that calls for an ambitious global climate deal and points out Australia has a lot to lose from a warming climate is seen as “dumping” on our prime minister, let’s think about how government ministers could have responded.
They could have tried to defuse the argument – responding to Obama’s call by pointing out that Australia has promised a new longer-term emissions reduction target and will reveal it soon. In fact, as soon as they said that, they also chose to escalate the row with some embarrassingly stupid arguments.
No Doc, Labor were going to finance all those promises with the money they did not get from the mining tax......they committed the money before they received it and you know the result from Labor's botched scheme.
ZILCH
Yawn............Abbott supported and promised the same while claiming no tax increases were needed to fund nor were cuts in spending required he was going to fund it all by cutting Labors excessive spending...........
14 months of Abbott, debt is still rising and so is Government spending
I notice some talk on how good Bishop is, lately Bishop has been working over time in raising her political profile mouthing the party line nothing more. Bishop is no intellectual giant I am not aware of her actually building, driving policy of any worth maybe others can correct me.
Tony Abbott keeps digging himself in deeper, and it makes no sense
http://www.theguardian.com/australi...gging-himself-in-deeper-and-it-makes-no-sense
You must like being constantly plucked.All fully supported by Abbott
You must like being constantly plucked.
Labor's modelling on the GST was done in secret. This government is at least more out in the open. Labor's modelling only came out because they thought they'd bang this government over the head with it. How daft was that.
This government has also pulled unfunded long term Labor spending from the health and education budgets. Have you forgotten about the states screaming over that at budget time ?
This government with the GST is effectively saying to the states that if they want Labor's long term funding increases to health and education, they need a revenue source. That's at least more honest and fiscally responsible than when Labor promised the money without revealing how they were going to fund it.
You guys can spin the current situation any way you like but I think Abbotts screwed seriously as all the chooks come home to rest.
He is currently behind a very second rate opposition leader (Shorten) who bleats sound awful as he waves through some shocking pieces of legislation (jailing jurnos for tens years etc) if he cannot get ahead of Shorten then clearly there is a problem.
Abbott has constantly looked woeful and now with the ABC cuts a lie on a lie no wonder Bishop is out there looking like a leader with the usual press coverage.
Note the trends are all heading the wrong way.
Yes, it is unbelievable.......the Green/Labor left wing socialists wreck the economy of this country, they sabotage the recovery and then become good guys......There are so many naive people being polled.
It looks like they really want to go back to the bad old days of the Rudd/Gillrad/Rudd era....OK, if that is what they want, so be it.
A recession in 2015 will not be good for the Government...some recession talk now emerging.
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/572147/20141110/australia-recession-morgan-stanley.htm#.VHHyz9LQq-0
https://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2014/11/21/australian-news/art-good-recession
Maybe it the recession we had to have ( ah la Paul Keating).
And we have no money in the piggy bank to cover it thanks to our Fabian friends.
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