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banco said:
I wait for the usual conservative crowd to demand an immediate return for surplus. Somehow I think they will shut up now that a liberal government is in power.
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So we ignore that labor is blocking in the Senate. Labor made a mess and you think it will be sorted in a year. It would take 3 years under a competent government just to start heading in the right direction. Competent is something this current mob isn't in danger of being labeled. But still, I dont see labor as being ready to govern any time soon.
 
moXJO said:
So we ignore that labor is blocking in the Senate. Labor made a mess and you think it will be sorted in a year. It would take 3 years under a competent government just to start heading in the right direction. Competent is something this current mob isn't in danger of being labeled. But still, I dont see labor as being ready to govern any time soon.
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If polling is right then the majority of voters are against the changes to uni funding and to the GP tax.

Considering these changes go against what the Coalition promised pre election, Labor and the minor parties have a lot of public support for what they're doing.

That said, i do hope in 2015 that they start to provide some solutions. Would be nice to think they could show themselves worthy of some votes at the next election
 
moXJO said:
So we ignore that labor is blocking in the Senate. Labor made a mess and you think it will be sorted in a year. It would take 3 years under a competent government just to start heading in the right direction. Competent is something this current mob isn't in danger of being labeled. But still, I dont see labor as being ready to govern any time soon.
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It is the old old story....fill people's pockets with money and you will always be good fellows ( the Green/Labor socialist left wing philosophy).....attempt to take it out of their pockets and you become the villain....Rudd's $900 checks all and sundry including dead people and people overseas sure made everybody happy and now we have to pay it back indirectly through sacrifices and the naive are complaining and shouting from the roof tops, this "ROTTEN LIBERAL GOVERNMENT"........we have to get rid of them and then we get on the merry-go-round again.
 
If someone managed to get Ex Prime Minister Ainsley Gotto together with her protégé Prime Minister Peta Credlin, do you think they could work through this mess that the elected swill have got us into? We could put an umpire in place who can handle the lot with finesse and fortitude ... Paul Keating maybe?
 
Tisme said:
If someone managed to get Ex Prime Minister Ainsley Gotto together with her protégé Prime Minister Peta Credlin, do you think they could work through this mess that the elected swill have got us into? We could put an umpire in place who can handle the lot with finesse and fortitude ... Paul Keating maybe?
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Was said this morning that if the public know a Chief of Staff's name then they are not doing their job properly.

The fact that Credlin has generated such a public antipathy among LNP members indicates that she is exceeding her authority, or that Abbott is exceeding his.

A PM and his C.O.S. are not dictators in the Westminster system, they are there to oil the wheels of governments and to make Minister's and the Cabinets job easier by good organisation and interpersonal relations between Ministers and their departments and Ministers and their Cabinet ciolleagues. Which is plainly not happening.

Failing at all levels is Abbott.
 
sydboy007 said:
If polling is right then the majority of voters are against the changes to uni funding and to the GP tax.
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Yes I think there is a generation of baby boomers who might talk up political differentiation, but affordable education and health is something that is wrapped up in the fight to rid themselves of the cautious handcuffs of their silent generation parents.

Knowing there are safety nets allows go getters to have a crack, which baby boomers subsequently did of course, but then allowed successive helicoptering govts to nanny them in parlance correctness resembling the Victorian/Edwardian great generation where we all get personally insulted by minor nuances.
 
Ms Bishop is on safe ground criticising Mr Abbott.:)

Yesterday, Ms Bishop, while defending Ms Credlin as an “essential” part of the government, refused to support Mr Abbott’s use of gender to explain away complaints about his chief of staff: “That’s not the way I would put it.

“I have been on the record many times saying I don’t view the world through a prism of gender. I never have, I never will.”

Ms Bishop’s comments came as a Galaxy poll showed that 57 per cent of voters rate her performance as “good” and 24 per cent as “poor”. Mr Abbott’s performance is rated as good by 27 per cent and poor by 63 per cent
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.Today's The Australian
 
SirRumpole said:
Was said this morning that if the public know a Chief of Staff's name then they are not doing their job properly.

The fact that Credlin has generated such a public antipathy among LNP members indicates that she is exceeding her authority, or that Abbott is exceeding his.

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Yeah well it could our fault from a few weeks back ... coincidence perhaps? :rolleyes:
 
Tisme said:
Yeah well it could our fault from a few weeks back ... coincidence perhaps? :rolleyes:
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???

Our fault ?

I only know about Credlin from what I read in the media, which means she already had the publicity she didn't want.

I'm not egotistical enough to think the "public" cares about what we say :cool:
 
I see new places have been found for the faithful:

John Lloyd Public Service Commissioner

Salvatore Vasta Federal Court Judge

Alexander Street Federal Court Judge

Paul Neville board position National Film and Television Archive.

Ian Campbell councillor for Australian National Maritime Museum

Peter Collins councillor for Australian National Maritime Museum.

Janet Albrechtsen councillor of the National Museum of Australia.
 
Tisme said:
I see new places have been found for the faithful:

John Lloyd Public Service Commissioner

Salvatore Vasta Federal Court Judge

Alexander Street Federal Court Judge

Paul Neville board position National Film and Television Archive.

Ian Campbell councillor for Australian National Maritime Museum

Peter Collins councillor for Australian National Maritime Museum.

Janet Albrechtsen councillor of the National Museum of Australia.
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I was under the impression the government was abolishing as many quangos as they could.

I wonder if they'll sack Tim Wilson from his $1.5 million sinecure at the Human Rights Commission ?
 
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