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drsmith said:
Yes, Labor through the Senate still yields considerable influence over the budget but not the boats despite it's best offorts.

Note the difference.


That's one where's there's near universal agreement that it never should have been made in the first place.
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Keep clinging to the boats. It's about all the coalition supporters have left.

So now Tony's promises should have another asterix? "Where there's near universal agreement I shouldn't have made the promise I will drop it"
 
banco said:
"Where there's near universal agreement I shouldn't have made the promise I will drop it"
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His mistake was to make it in the first place and as a consequence there's a political price in dripping it. That doesn't mean the Libs shouldn't drop it. At this stage we don't know whether it's dropped or just refocused to include childcare.

As for the boats, Labor's boat on that sank long ago leaving the critics of the current government in that policy area floundering in the water ever since.
 
drsmith said:
It'd be a bad move for the Libs to change the PM that way.

It'd be too close to being like Labor.
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The best way would be for Abbott to fess up that he's useless and resign for the good of the party. Hell if he could do that it might even make him worthy of a knighthood.
The alternative will be spear throwing.
 
Do you reckon the ABC and Fairfax press will be all over the Press Club address today!

In defense of the PM, his personality is more suited to a company CEO, with a small close circle around him. The uber glad handing of colleagues required in party politics just doesn't come naturally to him.

In this sense the Three Indeps (Mr 17 Minutes et al) were correct in respect of Julia Gillard, who by contrast thrived on it. Not saying they made the right call, but they evaluated the respective personalities.

Summary:
The PM consults and takes advice from too few. If he can change, he can survive. And his Head of PM Dept has to go. And stop sitting in on Cabinet meetings.

On another subject, all the best to the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl today.
 
captures the mood of the cabinet better than any words could

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Abbott has got to go. Watching the his Press Club address and he is still acting like an opposition leader, still playing the Labor blame game even though we're approaching the half way mark of his term. He created this obstructive opposition strategy so he only has himself to blame. Almost chocked on my lunch when he claimed that he is all about fairness which is something this coalition government certainly doesn't stand for.
 
overhang said:
Abbott has got to go. Watching the his Press Club address and he is still acting like an opposition leader, still playing the Labor blame game even though we're approaching the half way mark of his term. He created this obstructive opposition strategy so he only has himself to blame. Almost chocked on my lunch when he claimed that he is all about fairness which is something this coalition government certainly doesn't stand for.
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He had me going there for a while but I soon realised it was the same old platitudes coming out again. Stop the boats, build the roads (that people don't want judging by the Victorian and WQld votes), fix Labor's budget deficit (that the Coalition doubled). Break promises and call it being honest ha ha ha what a joke.

And give the police and security agencies "all the power they need" without any specification of what that means. It usually means all the power the agencies want which is everything they ask for. Inconveniencing the majority to catch (perhaps) a very few people.

Be very worried where this sort of paranoia is heading.
 
overhang said:
Abbott has got to go. Watching the his Press Club address and he is still acting like an opposition leader, still playing the Labor blame game even though we're approaching the half way mark of his term. He created this obstructive opposition strategy so he only has himself to blame.
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Turnbull is a clean skin in all this, had little to do with all the negativity in opposition (Noalition) and now has had little to do with the back flipping and broken promises in Government..they would be insane not to go for Malcolm of the middle. :2twocents
 
So_Cynical said:
Turnbull is a clean skin in all this, had little to do with all the negativity in opposition (Noalition) and now has had little to do with the back flipping and broken promises in Government..they would be insane not to go for Malcolm of the middle. :2twocents
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I agree.
There is no coming back for about Abbott. NSW elections are coming up so he wants to fall on his sword soon. Hope he doesn't pull a Howard and overstay his welcome. He was a good opposition leader but never made the transition to pm.
 
moXJO said:
I agree.
There is no coming back for about Abbott. NSW elections are coming up so he wants to fall on his sword soon. Hope he doesn't pull a Howard and overstay his welcome. He was a good opposition leader but never made the transition to pm.
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Agree 100% with those sentiments.
 
Apparently it's the Victorian Labor Govt's fault because the previous Govt left them with a $1bn+ poison chalice liability for a pork barrel road network.

Damn those Labor people for the madness even though they were voted in by the public, the same public that voted him into the leadership role he says is the people's choice of "hire and fire".

Of course Tony has had a "ruff cupola munts"
 
I was Prime Minister of Austrailia for eighteen months and all I got was this lousy designer Tee-Shirt from the House of 'Mademoiselles DNA'
 
Tisme said:
……. the same public that voted him into the leadership role he says is the people's choice of "hire and fire".
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Funny that.
I distinctly remember voting to get rid of Labor but I don't remember voting TA into the leadership role.
There was nothing on the ballot paper about that. I think.:confused:
Oh ….maybe I'm just getting old.
 
Bintang said:
Funny that.
I distinctly remember voting to get rid of Labor but I don't remember voting TA into the leadership role.
There was nothing on the ballot paper about that. I think.:confused:
Oh ….maybe I'm just getting old.
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Yeah as hard as I looked on the ballot paper last week I couldn't see the LNP policies, Campbell Newman;s name and to add insult to injury it didn't have a mandate section either ....why do I keep getting the blanks damnit? Same could be said for the other parties.
 
Abbott not content with flooding the workforce with 457 visa holders, while long term unemployment is at it's highest recorded level, youth unemployment still going up and trend unemployment going in the wrong direction, now thinks it's a good idea to bring out the short term mobility visa, sans any English language requirement (makes it easier to underpay workers) or a requirement to show there's no suitable Australian willing and able to do the work.

There's already 1.1M temporary visa holders in Australia. Surely we don't need any more, though I suppose Gina would disagree.

The Department of Employment’s latest Skill Shortages Statistical Summary, released last week, revealed that “the availability of skilled workers is greater than it has been since the current series began in 2007, and fewer occupations are in shortage." Only 4% of employers did not receive an applicant for a position advertised.

I doubt making people less secure about their employment is going to help the economy, and hollowing out the middle class even more does more harm than good. Maybe having a secure job was the kind of entitlement Hockey was looking to remove?

Then we have a disgrace like this - https://newmatilda.com/2015/01/30/n...orces-govt-investigate-4-hour-foreign-workers

According to the CFMEU, the foreign employees have been working for 10 or 11 hours a day, up to 7 days a week and taking home between $40 and $100 per day, with virtually no workplace entitlements.
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“The Coalition Government’s increased focus on compliance within our skilled migration program is producing excellent results.

“As detailed in the 2013-14 Annual Report, the number of sponsors monitored in 2013-14 increased by almost 20 per cent compared to the previous year. Furthermore, the number of sponsors sanctioned in 2013-14 increased by 68 per cent compared to the previous year."

“This is a clear indication of this Government’s strong commitment to maintain integrity in Australia’s migration program.”
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Sorry to say, but if the Abbott Govt thinks a 67% increase in non compliance from just a 20% increase in surveillance will improve confidence in the way things are currently running with the 457 visa programme, it shows just how out of touch they are with the voters.
 
This government now appears to be descending into Labor's disease,

MPs today continued to leak against the Prime Minister despite a staunch defence of his leadership to the National Press Club in Canberra on Monday.

“Cabinet ministers have been ringing me and telling me things are just untenable,” one MP said.

“Julie Bishop and Tony Abbott now have a Gillard-Rudd like relationship. It can’t go on like this,” another said.

But Ms Bishop has remained firm that she would not challenge the Prime Minister, telling Sky News that she was not counting her numbers.

“I’m not ringing the backbench for support, I’m not counting numbers,” she said.

“I will not challenge the leader.”
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...orts-tony-abbott/story-fn3dxity-1227206900863
 
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