The Gillard Government

[drsmith]

The second round of tax cuts associated with the carbon tax looks like being the next promise to fall,

http://www.smh.com.au/business/federal-budget/carbon-price-tax-cuts-under-threat-20130508-2j6ix.html

 

[Bintang]

The second round of tax cuts associated with the carbon tax looks like being the next promise to fall,

http://www.smh.com.au/business/federal-budget/carbon-price-tax-cuts-under-threat-20130508-2j6ix.html

Pity they have to make all this so drawn out and complicated. Why not just simplify everything by coming clean and announcing, "As of today all past promises are cancelled. Please also be aware that all future promises will be cancelled after the election because we will only be making them to persuade you fools to vote us".

 

[MrBurns]

Hello bunyip, when you were involved in a commercial cattle enterprise, assuming you exported them, what measures did you have in place to ensure they were not cruelly treated and abused at their destination?

Good article from the Age hat puts in somewhat into perspective -

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/live-animal-exports-a-struggle-to-the-death-20130507-2j5oz.html

 

[waza1960]

Good article from the Age hat puts in somewhat into perspective

Thanks for that Mr B yes a good article IMO.

what measures did you have in place to ensure they were not cruelly treated and abused at their destination?

This sort of response really gets me .Surely its not the job of the cattle producer to check what's happening after
he has sold the cattle and they have left Australia. This just smacks of arrogance to impose our standards on other countries , no better than Aussie white trash getting caught with drugs in Bali and then us whinging about their laws.

 

[Julia]

This sort of response really gets me .Surely its not the job of the cattle producer to check what's happening after
he has sold the cattle and they have left Australia. This just smacks of arrogance to impose our standards on other countries , no better than Aussie white trash getting caught with drugs in Bali and then us whinging about their laws.

And your sort of response really, really gets me! To attempt to offer an analogy between hideous cruelty to animals who are without choices, and dumb criminals is offensive and just silly.

 

[drsmith]

Pity they have to make all this so drawn out and complicated. Why not just simplify everything by coming clean and announcing, "As of today all past promises are cancelled. Please also be aware that all future promises will be cancelled after the election because we will only be making them to persuade you fools to vote us".

I hope they've got the Clean Energy Finance Corporation in their sights. That would really set the cat among the pigeons with the Greens.

Mr Combet warned further cuts in carbon tax-linked expenditure would be made in the budget, saying the government would maintain the budget neutral approach it had adopted in relation to the carbon price.

“There will be savings that will be made. This is one of them that I am making today, but the specific details of all that will be announced in the budget,” he said.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...fter-price-slump/story-e6frg6xf-1226637448746

It's a question though of whether they are able to unpick the mess of their own creation.

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has begun to build its investment pipeline after the government's issue and release of its $10 billion investment mandate this week.

The funds will become available after 1 July 2013, and the CEFC is progressing discussions with financial institutions and project investments with a view to contracting investments in the coming months.

The full $10 billion is now legislated, and will become available for investment in $2 bill tranches, annually over 5years commencing 1 July 2013.

http://www.financialstandard.com.au/news/view/27445296

 

[Julia]

It's a question though of whether they are able to unpick the mess of their own creation.

Agree.
But they should be encouraged to do it now. The more they peel back themselves, the less remains for the incoming government to deal with. Whomever makes the cuts will probably get the blame from affected voters.

 

[Logique]

Could we have this redheaded Julia for our Prime Minister. She gets my vote anyway.

Yes, she's a citizen of the UK, but that's a mere technicality. Let's have a railway and canal walks led recovery for Australia.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dtp33/episodes/guide

 

[MrBurns]

Why is it whenever Gillard gets anything through, it's a "historic day"

The only historic day she'll be involved in is Sept 14.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Agree.
But they should be encouraged to do it now. The more they peel back themselves, the less remains for the incoming government to deal with. Whomever makes the cuts will probably get the blame from affected voters.

Lib-Nat governments generally go with the cycle, to fix ALP stuff ups.

Necessary pain for 18 months, then a period of stabilisation and a loosening towards the end of term.

If TA gets elected though he will inherit a greater fiscal stuff up than even Fraser did from Whitlam.

Gillard, Swan, and the Motley Crew of crooks, misogynists and half-wits, will leave a country with huge problems.

gg

 

[drsmith]

Lib-Nat governments generally go with the cycle, to fix ALP stuff ups.

Necessary pain for 18 months, then a period of stabilisation and a loosening towards the end of term.

If TA gets elected though he will inherit a greater fiscal stuff up than even Fraser did from Whitlam.

Gillard, Swan, and the Motley Crew of crooks, misogynists and half-wits, will leave a country with huge problems.

It's good to see you around again GG. I was beginning to wonder whether you were back at the nunnery or were awaiting connection to the NBN.

This government has been so inept that it's had to start dealing with it's own mess before being kicked from office.

This must be a new low for any federal government of modern times.

 

[MrBurns]

This must be a new low for any federal government of modern times.

This is interesting from that point of view, this Labor Govt is testing how low a political parties popularity
can sink to.

From here on it will be known as "The Gillard Scale"

 

[drsmith]

Labor claims it's budget problems are purely related to revenue.

The unfolding and worsening financial disaster that has been their asylum policy alone very much suggests otherwise.

As for their budget projections on this, they remain absolute fantasy.

As the Gillard government's revamped Pacific Solution failed to stem the tide of arrivals, that figure was revised up to 12,190 in February. But so far this financial year, 20,429 people have reached Australia on boats.

Predictions released as a part of the additional budget estimates process in February revealed the government expected to spend $2.23bn this year managing arrivals. But in Labor's budget forecasts, that figure drops to $1.3bn next year, before plummeting to $450 million in 2014-15 and just $337m in 2015-16.

Perhaps their dreaming of a Coalition government.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...s-5bn-black-hole/story-fn9hm1gu-1226637903975

And on top of that, there's this,

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...th-no-money-work/story-fn9hm1gu-1226637953646

What a mess.

 

[wayneL]

Lib-Nat governments generally go with the cycle, to fix ALP stuff ups.

Necessary pain for 18 months, then a period of stabilisation and a loosening towards the end of term.

If TA gets elected though he will inherit a greater fiscal stuff up than even Fraser did from Whitlam.

Gillard, Swan, and the Motley Crew of crooks, misogynists and half-wits, will leave a country with huge problems.

gg

Well, at least we now qualify for entry to the EU :

 

[MrBurns]

Bill Shorten on Lateline looks like a recovering alcoholic and sounds about as coherent , a complete d****head

 

[DB008]

Bill Shorten on Lateline looks like a recovering alcoholic and sounds about as coherent , a complete d****head

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2013/s3755909.htm

Just watched it. Shorten is a goose.

 

[Julia]

Bill Shorten on Lateline looks like a recovering alcoholic and sounds about as coherent , a complete d****head

That's the first time I've ever seen him completely out of his depth.
It was just an embarrassing performance. Tony Jones wasn't letting him off easily either.

 

[noco]

I just picked up on this historical U-Tube and it is history repeating itself with this socialist left wing Laobor government rhetoric of today.

Nothing has changed even from the Keating era.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=memRdMdxR4c

 

[dutchie]

I just picked up on this historical U-Tube and it is history repeating itself with this socialist left wing Laobor government rhetoric of today.

Nothing has changed even from the Keating era.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=memRdMdxR4c

This is also very funny...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfewd0vUSrs

 

[DB008]

More lies...

Swan promises surplus in 2016-17
http://www.skynews.com.au/topstories/article.aspx?id=871303

I have no idea why they are even talking about 2016-17, they will be out of office end of this year...