The politico/journalistic landscape has gone a bit troppo IMO. No sober analysis and watching ho the new gu'mint goes, just non stop sensationalism and totally BS hanging of **** at every opportunity.
I cannot recall such a puerile and poisonous period at the beginning of an administration.
Hell, I'm not agin hanging sh8t off any government and have slagged off both sides at various times, but at this stage of proceeding I find it ridiculous, pointless and societally disappointing.
They can't even reduce PS head count by much because Labor had already done a pretty good job of it, though I dare say they could save a small amount of money by removing a few more of the chiefs and leaving the indians alone.
THE style and timing of the Abbott government’s promise to cut 12,000 public service jobs is being reviewed after it was discovered that the previous Labor government’s policies were estimated to result in 14,500 job losses in the next four years.
Labor’s projected job cuts could save up to $14.5 billion through to 2016-17 but only a handful of the proposed redundancies were funded and have already pushed some government agencies into operating losses.
The cost of additional redundancies has the potential to push the budget further into deficit, already expected to be about $50bn in 2013-14. The job loss estimates, lack of funding and broadside manner of the redundancies have further complicated the preparation of the mid-year fiscal and economic outlook because there are now added costs and uncertainty about the timing of the Coalition savings based on an “additional” 12,000 job cuts.
It’s understood the Coalition government will stick by its target of 12,000 job cuts over the next four years but wants to target the job losses to match the Coalition’s policies and ensure the cuts don’t undermine priority tasks…
Before the election, Bill Shorten, Penny Wong and Chris Bowen criticised the Coalition’s declared plan to cut 12,000 public service jobs but did not issue a total figure for the impact of Labor’s policies on public service numbers.
During the election campaign Mr Shorten, now Opposition Leader, said the proposed job cuts were “economic vandalism inspired by conservative ideology” and Labor’s plan was “not to cut to the bone”.
I do wonder why senior MPs and Senators are being vetoed on their choice of head of staff, eg Eric Abetz.
It's like the PMs office is saying, you can only have someone that we can work with.
I wouldn't be happy either.
Here are some of the Fairfax media’s main criticisms lately of Peta Credlin, Tony Abbott’s chief of staff, now a hate figure of the Left that once decried the “misogyny” of critics of Julia Gillard.
There is another view point on it here - could it be simply more nasty bias from Fairfax?:
Read more: The case against Peta Credlin - three strikes and Fairfax is out of control
No need to guess where Bolt sources much of his insider info on the Abbott Government after that post.
Hmmm... so where are Fairfax getting their sources? Obviously not from Morrison. So, do they make it up?
There's clearly substance to some of the noises.Hmmm... so where are Fairfax getting their sources? Obviously not from Morrison. So, do they make it up?
I like the way Labor's policy reversal on spending cuts for higher education is brushed over.Here's another classic Faifax report.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/blowout-in-debt-is-governments-work-20131208-2yzem.html
There is mention of everything possible, including the Howard era.
Yet no mention of the Labor six year $300billion blowout, what a dick.lol
This goes well beyond Chris Richardson's view about an opposition blocking something it shouldn't. The election result isn't even cold and Labor walked away from its own policy position.Labor's surprise decision to use the Senate to block spending cuts for higher education that it had previously proposed will cost $2.3 billion.
''It looks like something the last opposition did to the last government, blocking something it shouldn't,'' said Deloitte Access director Chris Richardson.
TONY Abbott and the Liberals have lost their three-year carbon tax advantage over Labor, with support for the Coalition dropping to its lowest since 2011 to leave the opposition leading on preferences for the first time since the election of the Gillard government.
Just three months after being elected, the Abbott government's primary vote support has dropped to 40 per cent while Labor's two-party-preferred support has jumped five percentage points to put the ALP in front 52 per cent to 48 per cent.
And for the first time since the September 7 election, more voters are dissatisfied with the Prime Minister than satisfied.
On the issue of trust, the Libs spent a lot of capital on their Gonski funding only to achieve nothing in the end in a budgetary sense.Some unfortunate truths about Holden.
Labor promised $500 million a year as a co-investment and then reneged reducing it to $400 million.
The Libs have since reduced it to $200 million. This was the present model. GM have therefore concluded they can't trust Australian politicians to abide by existing agreements.
Word is Holden want $400 mil a year to invest in a new car.
The diesel rebate to mining companies is $3 billion a year.
It cost $5 billion a year to subsidise negative gearing.
That stupid car leasing scheme cost $250 million a year.
Predicted jobs lost will be 45,000 people and reduce national output by $7.3 billion per year.
When the dollar goes back down to 50c, and we have lost our manufacturing industry, we will regret this decision.
I voted Liberal in both the state and federal elections. I believe in Liberal values but I also believe that, as it appears, that if they deliberately sacrifice our car industry, it will be a massive mistake. The debate in the related thread has been of such low quality that I am just shaking my head.
The word is that we will still be able to buy Commodores but they will be made in Korea. Before the dollar rose, cars cost no more to make than they did in Korea. Some Liberals are fighting to keep Holden but they are not in Cabinet.
Some unfortunate truths about Holden.
Labor promised $500 million a year as a co-investment and then reneged reducing it to $400 million.
The Libs have since reduced it to $200 million. This was the present model. GM have therefore concluded they can't trust Australian politicians to abide by existing agreements.
Word is Holden want $400 mil a year to invest in a new car.
The diesel rebate to mining companies is $3 billion a year.
It cost $5 billion a year to subsidise negative gearing.
That stupid car leasing scheme cost $250 million a year.
Predicted jobs lost will be 45,000 people and reduce national output by $7.3 billion per year.
When the dollar goes back down to 50c, and we have lost our manufacturing industry, we will regret this decision.
I voted Liberal in both the state and federal elections. I believe in Liberal values but I also believe that, as it appears, that if they deliberately sacrifice our car industry, it will be a massive mistake. The debate in the related thread has been of such low quality that I am just shaking my head.
The word is that we will still be able to buy Commodores but they will be made in Korea. Before the dollar rose, cars cost no more to make than they did in Korea. Some Liberals are fighting to keep Holden but they are not in Cabinet.
Not when you consider the mentality of your average Labor voter!You have to give Fairfax credit for still backing losers.
Even after a flogging in the election, they are backing Labor to the hilt, despite the Greens jumping ship.
Labor are wallowing around trying to say the carbon tax`was crap and made no difference, but now we need to adopt their next plan. Give us a break.
Now we have some female politician, making disgracefully sexist coments about a male Liberal politician and it hardly makes a ripple. What a joke for misoginy.
Now the boat influx has dropped from 1000 per week, to 100 per week the silence is deafening from Fairfax.
What a hoot, Qantas loses $300m after paying $100m in carbon tax, then guess what, Bowen says we need to bail them out. That has to be the joke of the year.lol,lol,lol
How the Labor die hards support these idiots is beyond comprehension.
The justification for the aid is also flawed IMO.
Why is it sensible to use public funds to prop up a car industry, on the basis of protecting jobs?
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Ford Australia says it will close its Australian manufacturing plants in October 2016, with the loss of hundreds of jobs.
It is not about protecting jobs, its about keeping our manufacturing base.
There are many companies that supply components to the car industry that also compete on the world stage supplying niche products.
Once we have lost our engineering design skill base it is difficult to get it back.
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