Watching The Coalition Squirm Is Quite Funny

Lower interest rates, higher full-time job figures, excellent growth in GDP. The mining doomsayers are actually investing in mining shares..... It actually smacks of collusion by the coalition. It is just an absolute farcical. Hocking won't survive, the coalition have made him the face of the petty opposition to all things positive in the Australian economy. Manufacturing is the one things he highlights with a red pen, but knows all too well that the Australian dollar is a contributing factor, which essentially indicates the strength of the Australian economy in comparsion with the world. Gillard will be PM for years to come!!

 

Ju-LIAR Gillard has ruined the labor parties chance of governing for at least the next ten years, after people have also had a gut full of the liberals and change back over to labor only because they're the only alternative.

The fact that she promised she would not have a carbon tax under the government she lead has condemned her and labor to the guilotine at the next election.

The other fact is 80% of Australians dont want this carbon tax which will committ every man woman and child to financial slavery lowering our standard of living and wont reduce our CO2 emissions at all, if anything they will increase.

Federal labor is headed the way of QLD labor, i bet there must be many labor supporters like myself that voted for Gillard because she promised she wouldn't.

 

In the words of ziggy stardust, we shall see after July 1. In the meantime lets sit back and watch the coalition squirm, squeal, squawk or whatever else they want to do. The liberals are already on the search for a new leader, mark my words. Malcolm Turnbull is quietly waiting in the wings. He hasn't said a word but for good reason. Because he'll be the only credible face in the coalition who'll have the ability to lead!!! Abbott is a dead man walking.

 

Just delusional spin. Australia is still in a fortunate position DESPITE the balls ups of this "Fed Govt", but we aren`t idiot proof for ever.

 

In another 10 years you'll still be saying the same thing I suppose.Typical!!

 

I'd agree, the Coalition is stuck now. But this is the place that Abbott was always going to take them. Relentless negativity has become boring to the uncommitted voter. They read the press, they see the good news (except for The Australian which is now becoming a joke) and realise that things are not too bad at all. There must also be the realisation that the Coalition has no constructive engagement to make, just smearing. Gillard is right to tough it out, I hope some of her parliamentary party colleagues have some bottle as well, they can win the next election if they keep their nerve and don't try and install Rudd again.

 

How can the truth change with time? The mining boom has created the figures that the ALP is crowing about, not ALP policy. All the ALP has done is to try to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. No brains, no balls, no hope.

 

Touche

Toattly agree.

 

Our economy was not destroyed by the GFC thanks to our govt actions on policy. The Coalition would have done its austerity thing and our economy would have collapsed, as is happening elsewhere.

 

I think you are forgetting that austerity measures wern`t called for, due to the huge bank balance that we had when the ALP started (although they`ve destroyed that now), and the mining boom (which they`re in the process of stuffing up), nothing is idiot proof.

 

This is the very thing the coalition were critical of the government over........pleeeeaaasse Aussie!!! You're forgetting the fact that the governing parties in all instances of austerity measures are conservative. Spain is the latest! This tells the real story!

 

Are you really trying to tell us that the coalition wanted austerity measures for Australia?

 

Absolutely!!They opposed the stimulus in favour of an austere approach. what's surprising bout this?

 

Turnbull also wanted a Stimulus, just less of it.

 

Their is a small faction within the Liberal party, le by Turnbull and Hockey, that are not as conservative as Abbott and his faction. Problem is they have become weak. Turnbull is old style Liberal. Rudd had similar politics, either of them could of represented either party.

I like Turnbull, he considers his position before stating it. There are reasonable politicians on both sides that are playing the game for mere survival. Turnbull is just one. As the Libs get caught up in the childish politics of the last month or so Turnbull has distanced himself. Smart move. there is a lot of politics left before the next election.

 

Ah! So that`s an "austerity measure" in your book. Not shouting everyone a night out at the pub.

 

It's really a shame about "email gate", Turnbull would have been such an awesome PM. I'm still holding out hope!

 

Ziggy as we are discussing in another thread, there is still a lot to play out. Abbotts antics of running from the chamber showed how childish our politicians have become. On one side we have a government that has seemingly disendorsed Craig Thompson, then it appears they have calluded with him in a stunt to show up the opposition leader during parliament. This would be funny and ingenius if we were talking about High School, and adolescent children, however we are talking about our political leaders who are more intent on playing games with each other than solving real issues that are affecting the people of this country. Shame on all of them.

You have to ask yourself a question, if we were in the Middle East, or some European countries, would we stand for this ? What would happen to this government and opposition in one of those countries ?

For the life of me I wonder why we have not as a collective people not marched on Canberra and let them know of our dissillusionment of the establishment.

 

another who likes to play silly buggers!! You and I and everyone else knows the invaluable benefits of the governments measure to limit the impacts of the GFC. We were just lucky to have a labor government in at the time!

 

we were lucky to have a liberal govt for such a long time beforehand.

 

If you call saving money for the sake of spending on "essential" infrastructure lucky, then please yourself. The current government have worked miracles in addressing the essential infrastruture needs and saving us from economic doom.

 

Yes they have, with money saved by the preceeding Liberal government. I just wonder how many miracles, as you say, would of been worked if the coffers were bare.

 

Lucky alright! The Libs would have made people WORK for the money!!!!!!!!

 

The costs to infrastructure development would have been much less expensive had the Libs progressively addressed these issues, which would have meant much less money in the long run. Labor committed to addressing the essential infrastructure needs, which meant money had to be spent in excess of what should have been, had the liberals addressed this in government. The future fund was piddly in comparison to the events and money that was required to ensure our financial stability, which Labor managed beautifully(Natural Disasters & GFC). Fair dinkum! Once again the Libs spruiking off about savings while letting everything rot around em. The Libs aren't the consumate financial managers, this is the biggest furphy told. Under John Howard's watch as treasurer, interest rates were 21% and inflation was skyrocketing. Howard as PM got lucky with the mining boom, but forgot to invest money in the community!

 

Now I understand, it was all John Howard`s fault that a 7 meter x 3 meter tuck shop cost $650,000.00.