The Gillard Government

[Bintang]

Miss Gillard has broken every promise since 2010 and now she has new promises to break again in 2013.


http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...never_mind_the_last_promises_gillard_has_new/

I've finally figured out what Julia Gillard's new year resolution is. It must be the same every year:
"I will not tell any more lies"

 

[IFocus]

Let's hope he and his leader have the political courage to not succumb to too much vote buying, something imo the electorate won't say no to, but which they fundamentally despise. Tony Abbott has made a good start here in insisting the Coalition will abolish the School Kids Bonus.

Parental Leave Scheme.

 

[Logique]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...ern-sydney-visit/story-e6freuy9-1226590291268

"..In another awkward moment, Ms Gillard's clothes arrived at Rooty Hill RSL, where she is staying, marked 'Prime Minister's overseas visit'".

 

[Miss Hale]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...ern-sydney-visit/story-e6freuy9-1226590291268

"..In another awkward moment, Ms Gillard's clothes arrived at Rooty Hill RSL, where she is staying, marked 'Prime Minister's overseas visit'".

LOL

 

[dutchie]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...ern-sydney-visit/story-e6freuy9-1226590291268

"..In another awkward moment, Ms Gillard's clothes arrived at Rooty Hill RSL, where she is staying, marked 'Prime Minister's overseas visit'".

At least it did not say "Prime Minister's visit to a foreign land"

 

[bunyip]

Newman as opposition leaders do made a lot of noise about how bad things are what he was gunna do to make it all better.

Basically he has done very little except bring in Costello to made over blown claims of the states debt position, bash homosexuals and increase the unemployment rate none of which will solve the states debt problems

How has Costello bashed homosexuals?
How do you know he made over-blown claims about the state's debt?
On what basis do you claim Costello was brought in to increase the unemployment rate?

No, Costello's findings about the debt situation won't solve anything - solutions will only come via Newman taking decisive action to address the problems. He's already made a good start in that direction by trimming the fat from the public sector.
Recently I spoke to a young bloke who used to work for QBuild, one of the organisations that Newman closed down. This young feller told me.... “I didn’t like losing my job, nobody ever does. But really, QBuild was a poorly run organisation with some shocking waste in it. I could name you things that went on in there that would make your toenails curl...blokes booking out overtime that they’ve never done, materials being pinched by staff – you’d have to have worked in that show to know just how bad it was.”

Queensland like the federal government is facing revenue short falls reality is he cannot do much at all.

Interesting to note that while you criticise Newman for not doing anything, you're unable to come up with any worthwhile suggestions yourself.
It's easy to tear a house down, but much harder to build a better one in its place.

 

[IFocus]

This young feller told me.... blokes booking out overtime that they’ve never done, materials being pinched by staff – you’d have to have worked in that show to know just how bad it was.”

Corrupt eastern sea board of Australia

 

[IFocus]

Interesting to note that while you criticise Newman for not doing anything, you're unable to come up with any worthwhile suggestions yourself.
It's easy to tear a house down, but much harder to build a better one in its place.

Newman is constrained by revenue my point is he cannot do much at all except trim around the edges claiming how good he is.

Assets sales will be the only way to raise revenue, in WA Labor have ruled that out so should Newman but he is instead softening ever one up for the inevitable.

 

[sptrawler]

Newman is constrained by revenue my point is he cannot do much at all except trim around the edges claiming how good he is.

Assets sales will be the only way to raise revenue, in WA Labor have ruled that out so should Newman but he is instead softening ever one up for the inevitable.

It would be difficult to hold WA labor up as paragons of virtue.IMO

 

[sptrawler]

This post in the SMH is very poignant.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...what-abbott-has-got-right-20130304-2fgsv.html

Abbott doesn't live on the Sydney waterfront, I know of a couple of ex PM's that do and I'm sure another will get there.lol

 

[Logique]

I think Hilary Clinton had the look first.

Not a crumb from the PM's table for locals
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...table-for-locals/story-e6frezz0-1226591037735

...The five women handpicked by Gillard to feast on "vegetable tarte tatin" and Alaskan king crab were "mummy bloggers" who had previously dined with the PM at Kirribilli house in December, and none of whom appears to live anywhere near Rooty Hill.

One guest was "Mrs Woog" of the Woogsworld blog. A former publishing executive who lives on Sydney's lower north shore, her motto is "Making the most out of the mundane". She posted a review of the dinner on her blog with photos of the PM's roasted chicken supreme, potato gratin and sun-dried tomato jus main course.

"We've met her a few times before," blogger Eden Riley, a dead ringer for the PM with her red bob and glasses, said after the dinner. "But I had my glasses before her."

They all had a lovely time, sequestered away from the great unwashed of Rooty Hill who were sitting a few metres away in the bistro or next door watching Murray's live show..

 

[Logique]

The actual increase in the tax free threshold was only a third of what Labor claimed.

Lies, damned lies and Labor claims
by Ross Gittins, SMH - 6 March 2013
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/lies-damned-lies-and-labor-claims-20130305-2fivr.html

Labor's repeated claim to have tripled the tax-free threshold from $6000 to $18,200 a year has always been literally true, but highly misleading. That's because it conveniently ignores the complex operation of the low-income tax offset.

When you allow for this offset, which Labor has reduced and changed without removing, the effective tax-free threshold has increased by a much smaller $4500-odd from $16,000 to $20,542. This explains why the tax cut arising from the seemingly huge increase in the threshold is so modest (for many, $5.80 a week) and also why the move yields no saving to anyone earning more than $80,000 a year. For them, the threshold increase has been ''clawed back''.

 

[bunyip]

Corrupt eastern sea board of Australia

Of course, there could never be even the faintest sniff of dishonesty or corruption in a squeaky clean state like WA, could there?? LOL

Now let me see....Carmen Lawrence was caught up in a corruption scandal, former WA premiers Ray O’Connor and Brian Burke did time in the slammer. And of course WA’s favourite son, the irrepressible Bondy, also graced a prison cell.
And a couple of FIFO workers I know from the WA iron ore mines tell me there’s plenty of gear being knocked off every day where they work.

Even your hero Gillard is caught up in a corruption scandal.

It goes on everywhere, boyo, as you well know, not just in the eastern states.

 

[bunyip]

Newman is constrained by revenue my point is he cannot do much at all except trim around the edges claiming how good he is.

And my point is that you’re just a lot of hot air with your huffing and puffing and criticism about Newman not doing anything, when in fact you now admit that you don’t think there’s anything he can do.
He’s only been in government for a short time – during the election campaign he outlined a number of his top priorities if he won government, and the time frame in which he’d address those issues. He’s delivered on most of them.
The main thing is that he’s doing what any competent manager would do when taking the helm of a business that’s struggling under a high debt/high expenses burden – he’s trimming the fat, cutting costs, getting rid of inefficient money-wasting outfits like QBuild, making the state lean, mean and efficient. If you’ve ever run a business yourself, then you’d recognize that Newman is taking steps in the right direction.
At least give the bloke some credit where credit is due. What would you rather he do – continue along the same lines as the incompetent, money-wasting Labor government that he defeated???

Same story federally.....if Abbot wins government from Gillard you can bet he’ll wield the axe out of pure necessity, for the same reasons that Newman is doing it in Queensland.......to get on top of the mountain of debt that Labor will leave him with.
And you and your lefty red ragger pals will jump up and down, whine and whinge and criticize, while offering no intelligent suggestions about what he should be doing. Just like you're whining and whingeing about Newman, while offering no intelligent suggestions about what Newman should be doing to help Queensland.

Assets sales will be the only way to raise revenue, in WA Labor have ruled that out so should Newman but he is instead softening ever one up for the inevitable.

Newman may or may not go down that road. He’s stated that he’s not in favour of it. Let's hope he can avoid it. But of of course there may be no choice but for him to cash in some assets. And if it happens, people like you will jump up and down and point the finger, with no understanding that he’s only doing what’s necessary because of the impossible debt situation that Labor left him with.

As for WA Labor ruling out asset sales........
Firstly - In the unlikely event of Labor winning in WA, they'd inherit an economy that's in much better shape than the Labor-created disaster that Campbell Newman inherited in QLD. There may be no necessity for asset sales.

Secondly – How believable is the WA Labor Party? We all witnessed the blatant dishonesty of Gillard making promises before the election, then breaking those promises without blinking an eye once she got into Government.
You’re a damn fool if you accept it as gospel truth that a political party, any political party, won’t do something because they said during the election campaign that they wouldn’t do it.

 

[bunyip]

How has Costello bashed homosexuals?
How do you know he made over-blown claims about the state's debt?
On what basis do you claim Costello was brought in to increase the unemployment rate?

Still waiting for your answer to these questions, IFocus.

 

[Julia]

The actual increase in the tax free threshold was only a third of what Labor claimed.

I've tried to point this out several times and am incredulous the Coalition hasn't made more political capital out of this basic reality. It's another of Labor's misleading claims.

 

[chops_a_must]

I've tried to point this out several times and am incredulous the Coalition hasn't made more political capital out of this basic reality. It's another of Labor's misleading claims.

Probably because they wont want to bring attention to it when it is reversed.

 

[Julia]

Probably because they wont want to bring attention to it when it is reversed.

If they reverse it to the previous situation where the low income offsets applied, the low income people for whom this matters will be no worse off.

 

[Ferret]

If they reverse it to the previous situation where the low income offsets applied, the low income people for whom this matters will be no worse off.

I agree that Labor's claim to have greatly reduced tax for low income earners is twisting the truth, but I don't see the benefit of going back to a more complicated arrangement for no net change.

Surely it is clearer and simpler to have a higher threshold and remove the low income offset.

 

[Julia]

I agree that Labor's claim to have greatly reduced tax for low income earners is twisting the truth, but I don't see the benefit of going back to a more complicated arrangement for no net change.

Surely it is clearer and simpler to have a higher threshold and remove the low income offset.

Agree, Ferret. And on a purely political basis, I expect the Coalition, if in government, will see the sense in letting the higher threshold stand. To do so will make no difference to their bottom line and will prevent a free kick by the government (then the Opposition) in being able to say "they took away tax benefits from the most disadvantaged Australians".

Given the Coalition's apparent lack of capacity to explain the underlying principles properly, I doubt their chances of persuasively explaining any backflip on the matter.