I just hope that all the criticisms of the current Govt are kept in reserve should they be required for a new Abbott Govt.
I'd love to know how long Abbott should be allowed to blame Labor for all his problems. How long till that excuse is no longer valid?
The Libs are positioning themselves as the Austerity Party at a time when other economies, who have had this approach to financial prudence imposed on them, are struggling badly. Loose monetary policy and deficit spending is now being seen by many as the panacea to avoid the dreaded R word.
If the Australian economy goes into recession in 2014/15 it will be interesting to see if the Libs stick to the less government, lower spending mantra they expect to sustain their popularity. Slash and burn politics is not what kept Howard in office, it was reckless generosity trying to out promise Labor with pre-election largess. I suspect that Abbott and Co will sow the seeds for their demise if they adopt the austerity line in response to recessionary pressure.
That puts them in it too, literally.Gillard and swan are still blaming Howard even though they promised to stop the blame game after the first year. NSW I haven't heard too much from Barry regarding labor stuffing up the state of late or from CNew up in QLD. Maybe they have I just haven't heard it.
That puts them in it too, literally.
Now there is a lot of talk about Australia needing to adopt a food and agriculture economy. Doesn't it just crack you up the irony of it.
Absolutely laughable. The average age of farmers is reported to be 62, and fruit producers in their late 50's.
Australia will be in a food shock in as little as the next 5 years.
We can't compete against countries that:
a) subsidise their growers
b) pay a dollar a day wages
Good luck with that.
Don't get me started on the biosecurity threat the imports we already have entering the country possess.
Absolutely laughable. The average age of farmers is reported to be 62, and fruit producers in their late 50's.
Australia will be in a food shock in as little as the next 5 years.
We can't compete against countries that:
a) subsidise their growers
b) pay a dollar a day wages
Good luck with that.
Don't get me started on the biosecurity threat the imports we already have entering the country possess.
Just to add more detail. There used to be 15 fruit exporters out the Perth area around 20 years ago. Today there are just 2.
My father manages one of them. I asked him about export volumes over the last 20 years just last week for a counter action to an idiotic Govt report.
From memory he exported over 200,000 boxes of fruit (from memory, the figure may be much higher) 20 years ago. This year he did less than 25,000.
We find it hard to land a box of plums in Asia for under $25 without losing money. Our competitors, mainly Chile, Argentina and South Africa can land them for around $10-12. They grow fruit of good exportable quality, much like us.
We have been annihilated from world wide markets and the same future looms locally.
We have far more to offer to the world than what's in the ground.IMO the only advantages we have over other countries are:
Easily accessable minerals, but high extraction costs.
Huge coal reserves, thereby cheap energy. But won't use it for illogical pollitical reasons.
Massive arable land areas, we have 22 times more than China and 4 times more than the U.S.
Another thing that I'm finding annoying is, these immature reporters, stating the obvious post mortem.
http://smh.drive.com.au/the-worst-candidate-for-government-help-20130523-2k475.html
Why, if he thought it was so obviuos Ford was going to fail, didn't he scream and shout when the government threw money at them?
Peter Martin - Monday said:On Thursday Labor’s Ken Rudd promised another handout of another half a billion dollars to Australian carmakers, this time to encourage them to build ‘greener’ cars.
We already hand Australia’s big four car manufacturers assistance worth more than $1 billion a year – and that’s just from the Commonwealth government. No one knows quite how much South Australia and Victoria chip in as well.
Yet the sad truth that for all the repeated talk about how important it is to have Holden, Ford, Toyota and Mitsubishi here in Australia making new cars - ordinary Australians won’t buy them.
As you get a bit older you tend to see how all parts of society are self serving, government included.
Your dad probably "killed the pig" when things were good, which he should have done.
The Gillard/AWU issue is still bubbling away in the background,
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...illard-interview/story-fni0xqrc-1226650256224
Ditto the Slipper issue which is now scheduled for the next court hearing in December.Obviously the Thomson issue and the Gillard issue are going to stay on 'simmer' mode untill after the election.
Ditto the Slipper issue which is now scheduled for the next court hearing in December.
As many of us suspected Gillard's tears when speaking in parliament about the NDIS were not genuine, she actually fought its introduction for the previous 18 months.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/.../comments/gillard_fought_what_she_cried_over/
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