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Tony Abbott for PM

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I am sat tonight here in a chilly Canberra in the Hong Hau Restaurant at Kingston, having been privileged to listen earlier to Tony Abbott's Budget in Reply speech in Parliament House.

This is a true Leader, speaking of the future, a bright future for all Australians and not made on cheap handouts to those who could do better in a more vibrant economy.

Gillard looked as if she had swallowed a raw prawn.

ALP staffers agree with their coalition counterparts here tonight that it is just a matter of time before he is PM, and Gillard just history.

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I cannot find a link, but it was reported in the conservative press today that Abbott, in his response to the Family School Bonus announced in the Budget, said that the money was a carbon tax sweetener. Asked how the payments were different to Howard government handouts, such as the Baby Bonus, he said: "They just are."



Hockey then argued that the payments were "vastly different " from the Baby Bonus because "you have to have a baby" to claim the bonus.

Gillard then reminded those bozos that babies actually grow to become school children.....

Seriously, consider if Abbott wasn't in a position to win the next election by default, which seems a foregone conclusion. Would anyone want a cod-gob like him to be PM? He doesn't really seem capable of earning the job because he is not smart in what he says and what he does.

Obviously there will be replies to this post along the lines of Gillard and her gov't not being very smart along the journey as well. Fair point. But at least, tone notwithstanding, she doesn't say doofus things!
 

I have to agree. Abbott's and Hockey's comments yesterday were just plain dumb. Considering they knew they were going to be questioned on the schoolchildren's payments issue, not having a prepared and intelligent response ready was stupid. They deserve the drumming Gillard gave them in parliament.
 

I agree with all f that he was very impressive and Gillard did look guilty...
 
Fair criticism. He could have pointed out Costello's premise at the time of the introduction of the baby bonus ("One for Mum, one for Dad, and one for the country") which was based on the need to increase the younger population in order to fund increasing pressures of funding upcoming retirees.
NB I've never been in favour of any baby bonus, just suggesting that there was a pretty valid response available to the Libs as an alternative to "they just are" which is just embarrassing.

But at least, tone notwithstanding, she doesn't say doofus things!
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You can't be serious. Consider just the latest one where she very belatedly had Slipper and Thomson stand aside. When asked why she did this, after weeks and weeks of defending both of them, she replied that "a line had been crossed".
She was completely unable to explain what the line was and how it had been crossed.
 
1 vote Tony was underwhelming in this speech tonight....the overenthusiastic shouts of "hear hear" were a little staged and over done for mine...i got the impression the "team" doesn't really believe in him.
 
Eager said:
Obviously there will be replies to this post along the lines of Gillard and her gov't not being very smart along the journey as well. Fair point. But at least, tone notwithstanding, she doesn't say doofus things!
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I mentioned this in another thread. If it isn't scripted he seems to have problems. To be fair Gillard just avoids answering altogether for as long as possible and ends up saying nothing by the end of it. Those bogan tones really grate the ears as well.
 
So_Cynical said:
1 vote Tony was underwhelming in this speech tonight....the overenthusiastic shouts of "hear hear" were a little staged and over done for mine...i got the impression the "team" doesn't really believe in him.
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I got the exact opposite impression, he was concise, forceful, a real leader as gg said.
 
So_Cynical said:
1 vote Tony was underwhelming in this speech tonight....the overenthusiastic shouts of "hear hear" were a little staged and over done for mine...i got the impression the "team" doesn't really believe in him.
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You hope???

With a primary vote of 51%, I would think the team are doing fine. Abbott has done well to keep his side in line and he has done as he promised to keep pressure on this government. Sadly, they haven't had the numbers to stop unwanted legislation going through but he should have the numbers to clean it up. Messy job though.
 
The distinction the Coalition could have made is that the baby bonus was introduced at a time of budget surplus.

That being said, their weak response to this is nothing compared to the putrid stench eminating from the filthy rotting corpse that is Gillard Labor.
 

I am extremely distressed by the adverse comments both Eager and So_Cynical have made about Tony Abbott's budget in reply speech. They are partisan replies unfitting of a public forum such as ASF.

I have always been ready to applaud the ALP for good policy and action, the dispatch of Kevin Rudd to the outer, being the only one that comes readily to mind, but I am sure there are some more, and I would be the first to applaud them if there were.

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Gillards ability to absorb pressure has been outstanding pity quite a bit was of her own making would Abbott be able to string two words together under the gun?
 

When Abbott gets in interest rates should be on an upswing, inflation will be raising its ugly head world wide after all the presses wear out with unemployment also rising, will be waiting with bated breath to hear how the coalition handle the economy better than Labor.

Maybe they could sprout the truth that its the world economy that .......
 
MrBurns said:
I got the exact opposite impression, he was concise, forceful, a real leader as gg said.
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I must be living on a different planet..find it hard to fathom that words like 'impressive' and 'true leader' could be used in the same sentence as 'T Abbott'.

He will be PM by default and rightly so..but really....this is a tragic statement
 
The achilles heel remains six months parental leave at full pay, the cost will be passed on to consumers. It's a free kick to Labor.
 

LOL

May I remind everyone here of my recently completed, peer reviewed PhD thesis "The Impossibility of Objective Leftist Thought"?

Several brains of leftists were removed, dissected and studied for signs of objectivity.

None was found.

Due to time constraints, the brains could not be properly reassembled and enerviated, the bits just shoved back into the cavity and sewn up. Remarkably, there was no discernible difference in thought process, post procedure.

Several features were however found in the leftist brain which serves to differentiate them from centrist/right brain which have proven to be hard wired, IOW they seem to be incapable of changing, even when presented with unequivocal empirical evidence.

Inter alia:
A delusion regard of their own intelligence
Monumental hypocrisy
Prone to regarding propaganda as fact
A strong tendency towards Catastrophilia
An irrepressible jealousy of success
Love of bogun Prime Ministers

GG

In light of my findings, to quote from that epic tome of old "... forgive them; for they know not what they do."

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LOL - your best work yet Garpal.

We Liberal supporters never contribute partisan posts.
We never criticise Labor unfairly for we are in the right - whooppee!
(just see my posts)

Thank god for these blokes otherwise we would really go to town.
 
Garpal Gumnut said:
I am extremely distressed by the adverse comments both Eager and So_Cynical have made about Tony Abbott's budget in reply speech.
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You shouldn't be GG. Adverse comments from these guys actually shows that the speech hit the spot. I heard more adverse comments on ABC radio this morning from Christine Milne and Penny Wong - all true to form. Wong also said it was Abbott who was engaging in class warfare - not Gillard.
 
wayneL said:
LOL

May I remind everyone here of my recently completed, peer reviewed PhD thesis "The Impossibility of Objective Leftist Thought"?

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Are you doing one on the "Tea Party" next?
 
Logique said:
The achilles heel remains six months parental leave at full pay, the cost will be passed on to consumers. It's a free kick to Labor.
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Agree. He is giving Labor their advertising script with this.

Back to his speech last night, I found it odd that he made just one policy announcement and that was what would surely have to be the rather insignificant suggestion that schools should have 40% of students studying a foreign language. He even implied that English was not going to be the language of the future.

Now, I wouldn't disagree that learning another language is a useful and interesting thing for people to do, but why on earth would you make this the sole policy comment in an otherwise purely political speech?

I'm also pretty sick of all political leaders apparently feeling obliged to deliver their comments in shouting voices. Gillard in particular just screeches with her harsh tone.

I'd have been more disposed to listen to Tony Abbott last night had he not thundered away. John Howard always managed to make his points effectively in a quite moderate voice.
 
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