The Gillard Government

[bunyip]

Good interview with Peter Costello on ABC 7.30 program last night – it really lays bare how the outrageous spending of the ALP government has landed them in such a mess.
The first couple of minutes of the interview are about the Queensland government, but then it gets on to issues relating to the debt situation created by federal Labor.

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2013/s3748704.htm

 

[bigdog]

ABC television Mondays 9.35pm ABC 1, repeated Tuesdays 12.30pm

The next Q&A Panel Ask a Question in on Monday, 6 May 2013 and includes Julia Gillard - Prime Minister of Australia on the panel

Suggest that we all send lots of questions using the ABC website [Ask a Question] tab.

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/

 

[bunyip]

ABC television Mondays 9.35pm ABC 1, repeated Tuesdays 12.30pm

The next Q&A Panel Ask a Question in on Monday, 6 May 2013 and includes Julia Gillard - Prime Minister of Australia on the panel

Suggest that we all send lots of questions using the ABC website [Ask a Question] tab.

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/

I'm surprised that she agreed to be on the panel - I imagine she'll get some hard questions.

 

[Ijustnewit]

I'm surprised that she agreed to be on the panel - I imagine she'll get some hard questions.

I doubt she will get any hard questions , it will be the usual stitch up and any detractors will be shut down before they can say anything against Labor .

 

[Miss Hale]

I'm surprised that she agreed to be on the panel - I imagine she'll get some hard questions.

It's not actually a panel though, she will be there by herself. Much easier to control the direction of the discussion that way. She's been on before and she was on her own then too. It will all be carefully stage managed I expect.

 

[moXJO]

Lets face it NDIS is just another labor smokescreen to divert attention.

 

[wayneL]

 

[IFocus]

Abbott will be on next week...............not

 

[drsmith]

Abbott will be on next week...............not

Increasing the Medicare levy ??

That's your feathers they want to pluck too.

Lets face it NDIS is just another labor smokescreen to divert attention.

They've gone insane.

The funny thing about this is that the Coalition doesn't have to do anything. Tony Abbott can just sit back and watch Labor flounder on the beach.

 

[sptrawler]

Increasing the Medicare levy ??

That's your feathers they want to pluck too.


They've gone insane.

The funny thing about this is that the Coalition doesn't have to do anything. Tony Abbott can just sit back and watch Labor flounder on the beach.

I was at a small business owners factory unit today, he was going balistic about Gillard and Labor.

The sad thing is he is going bankrupt, after being in the business since 1980, apparently he has never seen things this bad.

 

[drsmith]

The sad thing is he is going bankrupt, after being in the business since 1980, apparently he has never seen things this bad.

The greatest damage they are doing with all their mad political jumping around could well be in the economic confidence of the public at large.

 

[sptrawler]

The greatest damage they are doing with all their mad political jumping around could well be in the economic confidence of the public at large.

Exactly doc, we've been saying it for years.
People aren't spending because they have no faith in the governments ability to manage.
Therefore you have the majority of people forever expecting and preparing for the worst.
It becomes a self fullfilling prophecy, that has been brought on by a pathetic government.
They have focused on staying in power, rather than focusing on providing stable government with policies based on well thought out ideas.
No, what we have is add hock policy, band aid tax grabs, headline grabbing sexist rants. Minority parties and independents holding the country to ransom for their personal agendas.
No one has been at wheel, since Kev was chucked out for poor driving.lol

Australia is so over Labor, it will be a nasty night in September.lol

 

[bigdog]

http://www.bigpondmoney.com.au/seven-deadly-gillard-sins

Seven deadly Gillard sins
Updated: 4:48:59 PM, Wednesday May 01, 2013

By Robert Gottliebsen
First published 30 April in Business Spectator

Seven deadly Gillard sins

From poor business relations to IR blunders, Julia Gillard’s mistakes have revealed unfortunate similarities to Kevin Rudd.

If the only mistake the Gillard government had made was creating a deficit out of yet another set of bad Treasury numbers then the likely next prime minister, Tony Abbott, and his looming treasurer Joe Hockey would face a straightforward task.

But the current government’s mistakes go much deeper and will require an entirely different approach. This morning I will list my seven deadly Gillard economic sins and invite readers to comment and add to them via conversation. Tomorrow I will list the actions Tony Abbott must consider with the same invitation to readers.

Sin number one is rarely mentioned in mainstream commentary: A dedicated and vicious campaign against small business, which is the main private employment creating sector of the economy. This was done via the Australian tax office which attacked small operators and refused to give many ABN numbers. Thousands of complex but useless regulations were introduced at the same time as the Gillard government promoted union dominated industrial relations laws that were designed for large business and made staff flexibility in small business much tougher. Independent contracting was actively discouraged.

Sin number two: Actively fan the greatest government employment binge in Australia’s history. As the above link pointed out, the Institute of Public Affairs estimates that since the global financial crisis public sector industries have lifted their employment by 406,000. In fairness, not all the 406,000 people are employed by Canberra by increasing regulation, red tape, state government requirements and duplication, but the Gillard government was the main driver.

Sin number three: Allowed the export of gas from Queensland, which under present extraction rules we did not have. Some of the export gas will now come from gas that was earmarked for Sydney and will help send NSW and later Victorian and Queensland domestic gas prices sky-high. The higher gas prices will be further boosted by actions of the NSW government. It’s a total mess (Leaky gas progress could lead to a NSW exodus, April 16).

Sin number four: Encourage the return of cartel-style agreements between big builders and building unions in the commercial building sector sending the cost of building the new mines and government projects up substantially (Lend Lease and Leighton need a new toolkit, April 8).

Sin number five: Pay no need heed to productivity in health. It’s all about handing out money. Rising heath expenditure is a key underlining reason for the deficits.

Sin number six: Decide to be completely remote from business. Treasury took the same view. As a result Canberra had no idea what was happening in the business arena (particularly in mining) and most of the treasury business forecasts were wrong. Worse still, they spent the money that they incorrectly anticipated receiving. The strategy was modelled on the Keystone Kops.

Sin number seven: Carbon was another Keystone Kops style fiasco. The Gillard government saddled Australia with an uncompetitive carbon price at the same time as a high dollar and rising electricity prices. They used much of the carbon money for social welfare and then later effectively slashed future carbon revenue, but did not cut back the spending. The carbon mess had little effect on emissions.

One of the reasons why so many big mistakes were made was that Julia Gillard turned out to be another Kevin Rudd. Rudd could not run a cabinet and Gillard’s supporters thought this would be her greatest asset. Instead she followed the Rudd decision making process on too many occasions.

 

[bunyip]

I doubt she will get any hard questions , it will be the usual stitch up and any detractors will be shut down before they can say anything against Labor .

It's not actually a panel though, she will be there by herself. Much easier to control the direction of the discussion that way. She's been on before and she was on her own then too. It will all be carefully stage managed I expect.

Yes, you're both probably right.

And even if she did cop a hard question or two, she's pretty adept at brushing them off and putting a positive spin on things.
Fortunately the public has woken up to her and no longer believes what she says.

 

[Country Lad]

.................she's pretty adept at brushing them off and putting a positive spin on things.

I won't be watching it but if someone who is wants to make it more interesting, please count the number of times she says:

1 Mr Abbott
2 It's the right thing to do

and let us know the score.

Cheers
Country Lad

 

[Calliope]

Leigh Sales exposes Swan for the fool that he is. I have a feeling that Sales won't be long in this job when she is starting to ask Labor some hard questions.

[video]http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2013/s3749648.htm#[/video]

 

[drsmith]

Leigh Sales exposes Swan for the fool that he is. I have a feeling that Sales won't be long in this job when she is starting to ask Labor some hard questions.

[video]http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2013/s3749648.htm#[/video]

He's still in Wayne's World,

WAYNE SWAN: When you operate a medium-term fiscal strategy, where you want to have surpluses on average over the cycle, you've actually got to match those structural spends with structural saves and that's the discipline that the Government is applying.

 

[waza1960]

Leigh Sales exposes Swan for the fool that he is. I have a feeling that Sales won't be long in this job when she is starting to ask Labor some hard questions.

Maybe she's not as biased after all . Or maybe after interviewing Costello she realises what a fool Swan really is

 

[Logique]

Maybe she's not as biased after all . Or maybe after interviewing Costello she realises what a fool Swan really is

Costello stood out like a beacon didn't he, like a lighthouse in a storm. It's a bumpy sea atm, and rogue waves.

 

[dutchie]

Using disabled people for political gain. How low can she go?

Not only is she incompetent but she's nasty too.