I suppose the spending cuts that Labor took to the last election but are now combining with the Greens to defeat in Senate are the Abbott Government's fault too.Your grand kids will have less for education and health care as a result.
Abbott help create the issues backed the spending (populous opposition) and opposed the mining tax as Gina didn't have enough zillions and Rudd botched the implementation.
Your grand kids will have less for education and health care as a result.
This government is really taking us forward with the correct priorities, How goes that song .................hands on hearts Rule Britannia...........
Knights and dames reinstated in change to Australia's honours system
Tony Abbott reveals the outgoing governor general, Quentin Bryce, and her successor, Peter Cosgrove, will be the first to receive the titles
http://www.theguardian.com/politics...o-australias-honours-system#start-of-comments
This government is really taking us forward with the correct priorities, How goes that song .................hands on hearts Rule Britannia...........
Knights and dames reinstated in change to Australia's honours system
Tony Abbott reveals the outgoing governor general, Quentin Bryce, and her successor, Peter Cosgrove, will be the first to receive the titles
http://www.theguardian.com/politics...o-australias-honours-system#start-of-comments
Every day the goes by under the Abbott government we move a step closer to the 1950's
Next thing Tony will get up in Parliament and say of the Queen "I did but see her passing by, and yet I'll love her till I die".
Good to see you are a Royalist.
Don't you mean a step closer to 2050.....1950 has long gone so we can't possibly take a step closer.
You most likely were not even born then.
Personally, I don't mind their return.
Cambridge Dictionary:
BIGOT: a person who has strong, unreasonable beliefs and who thinks that anyone who does not have the same beliefs is wrong.
So Orders of Australia just don't cut it ?
JOE Hockey’s warning on the budget blowout is aimed at his leader’s office as much as at Labor and the public at large.
With just seven weeks left before he stands up in the House of Representatives to deliver his critical first budget, now is the time for Coalition leadership to confront the politically unpalatable savings decisions that are needed to bring the government’s finances back under control. It must not defer decisions until next year or, worse, after the next election to avoid short-term political pain.
The government has been in possession of the Commission of Audit’s first report for six weeks. It will have made recommendations affecting age pensions, Medicare, family and disability benefits along with industry and defence programs. Anything less would fail to deliver the budget surplus equivalent to 1 per cent of GDP by 2023, which was at the heart of its terms of reference.
Hockey is saying the government must bite the bullet now, because finances are not going to get any better. On the contrary, they will get much worse as unbudgeted defence, health and education commitments kick in from 2017-18 onwards.
It is striking that the government is also wanting to introduce new spending of its own, including roads and its extravagant paid parental leave scheme, further confusing its budget message.
Hockey will receive the commission’s second report by the end of this week. It will make recommendations on budget governance, including new fiscal rules.
Labor’s Chris Bowen says if only the government had not jettisoned Labor’s fiscal rules while adding some fresh spending, it could be back in surplus within five years. However, if only Labor had kept to its own fiscal rules, the deficit would be a fraction of its current size.
The problem, as the Parliamentary Budget Office has detailed, is that the cost of pensions, health, education and defence is rising more rapidly than inflation.
The government must not only agree to tough savings, but also to new rules imposing greater discipline on its spending than Labor was able to achieve.
+1.Joe Hockey is becoming the strength behind this government,
Joe Hockey is becoming the strength behind this government,
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...lear-pm-act-now/story-e6frg9qo-1226864761688#
I thought the carbon tax wasn't about revenue but about saving the planet.It's pertinent to look at expenditure, but it's also pertinent to look at revenue, but sadly "the strength" seems totally unable to do this, apart from giving away revenue like the carbon and mining taxes. The expenditure associated with the mining tax could be abolished, but the tax itself kept and strengthened which would put our income on a sounder footing and enable the paying off of debt, which "the strength" still has no idea of how to achieve.
I don't get it either. Hopefully it will be TA's only Julia Gillard style captains pick.+1.
On the Knighthood thing, I don't care one way or the other. Just think it's irrelevant and unnecessary, and handing to the Left a reason for the mockery about reverting to the 50's.
I don't get it either. Hopefully it will be TA's only Julia Gillard style captains pick.
I was born in the 1950's and I meant a step closer to the 1950's in style. You know, women at home doing the ironing, God Save the Queen played in schools every morning, and Knighthoods dished out by politicians to their mates.
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