Abbott/Liberal Govt Watch

[Jimmy_041]

Cant you see the connection between the two?

[shoe boy]

(Paraphrase) I'm off to South Africa for the funeral of Nelson Mandela. A man who changed the world and is the father of Modern South Africa, BUT look out for evil carbon tax.

Who is writing Tony's speeches these days?? Clarke and Dawe, because they are satirical GOLD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=yo ... pp=desktop

This bloke gets better every week!
As for Clarke and Dawe they haven't had better material to work with in a long time.

[bennymacca]

my god.

he cant take 1 millisecond away from politics

thats what gets him in trouble overseas too

[Q.]

Credlin must be on leave.

[Bully]

It was tony abbotts fault that Mitsubishi and Nissan left Australia , and tonys fault that GMH will follow

[Q.]

I'm not sure why people got the impression the Libs would have dealt with the manufacturing sector any differently. They've never been been saviour of the working class, so why start now?

[Bully]

I am for one keeping GMH here as I love my commodores being Australian built. But this has been a long period of troubles for the car industry. It is their fault for not keeping up with the times and building small cars, not petrol drinkers!

I just can not understand that some tunnel visioned people think its all the current governments fault that GMH has decided to pack up and leave.


And before a certain billy responds, it would be the same if it was labour in charge with this posting

[shoe boy]

I am for one keeping GMH here as I love my commodores being Australian built. But this has been a long period of troubles for the car industry. It is their fault for not keeping up with the times and building small cars, not petrol drinkers!

I just can not understand that some tunnel visioned people think its all the current governments fault that GMH has decided to pack up and leave.


And before a certain billy responds, it would be the same if it was labour in charge with this posting

[bennymacca]

Part of the reason why they went by the wayside is that they continued to manufacture consumer level cars when overseas manufacturers were doing it cheaper, with lower production costs, and better quality.

What they should have done is gone for high quality high value added manufacturing. Germany is probably a decent example of how this can be done

[bennymacca]

Part of the reason why they went by the wayside is that they continued to manufacture consumer level cars when overseas manufacturers were doing it cheaper, with lower production costs, and better quality.

What they should have done is gone for high quality high value added manufacturing. Germany is probably a decent example of how this can be done

[Rik E Boy]

Nothing has happened yet to base a judgement on as the Liberals are still trying to decipher the confusion in the mess left behind and work out what they have to do. Only prejudicial presumption rules here at present.

As I've said before, though I am a Liberal Party member, I'm not a big Abbott fan either.
But I'll wait and see before I start pushing for his replacement.,

He did do a good job sorting out the mess his (Liberal) predecessor had made of the Health portfolio, when he took it over in 2003.

- Signing/Threating to sign the TPP 'agreement' before the Sentate sees it. Phillip Morris is planning to sue us to get their prett pictures back on their deadly product. Expect more of this shit if this agreement gets signed
- Gonski backflip when Pyne hasn't even read the report
- Threating to cut the funding of the ABC because it dares to bad mouth the government
- Offending China
- Offending Indonesia
- Offending East Timor
- Deleting articles from the Tony Abbott website that contradict his current position on various matters
- Censorship being raised to an artform - authorising the Militar to say **** all on Soveriegn Borders
- High court challeges to prevent homosexual marriages
- Establishing a debt-ceiling at a time when he was supposed to be reigning in debt responsibly
- Introduction of new powers to prevent protestors in Tasmania from entering a 'worksite'
- Dredging the great barrier reef marine park
- Raiding Women's superannuation
- Reneging on a payrise for Child Care Workers while at the same time handing out the usual Tax cut to the Rich
- Repealing Anti-Vilification legislation
- Closing down GrainCorp negotiation in a so called 'open for business' government, now he has to play tough on Holden and QANTAS.
- Despite the meltdown in Japan, thinking of creating a Nuclear Power plant in FNQ
- Attempting to change the rules on how the Governor General is selected because of Quentin Bryce's dissent

This is a corporate dictatorship, paid for by Murdoch and Reinhardt. These clowns have no idea that they were voted in TO REPRESENT US, not sell us as products to multinationals. Abbot doesn't give a shit because like George W Bush, he's been bought and paid for and they are now coming to collect.

It will take us decades to recover from this government.

regards,

REB

[bennymacca]

Decent list there, agree with most of it, but nuclear power is the only clean energy source that can supply base load generation, should be looked at seriously. And there was certainly no "meltdown"

[Q.]

They've been busy.

See how busy they get with a favourable senate.

[Gozu]

Now Holdens gone to add to the list

[tigerhutch]

Will this govt go down as the worse ever

[Jimmy_041]

I'm not sure why people got the impression the Libs would have dealt with the manufacturing sector any differently. They've never been been saviour of the working class, so why start now?

You're too young to remember Playford

And what about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_car_plan

[Bully]

Now Holdens gone to add to the list

yeah, tony abbotts fault right there......

[Q.]

I'm not sure why people got the impression the Libs would have dealt with the manufacturing sector any differently. They've never been been saviour of the working class, so why start now?

You're too young to remember Playford

And what about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_car_plan

Too young indeed.

Never, as in, never in most of my short lifetime.

[Psyber]

- Signing/Threating to sign the TPP 'agreement' before the Sentate sees it. Phillip Morris is planning to sue us to get their prett pictures back on their deadly product. Expect more of this shit if this agreement gets signed
- Gonski backflip when Pyne hasn't even read the report
- Threating to cut the funding of the ABC because it dares to bad mouth the government
- Offending China
- Offending Indonesia
- Offending East Timor
- Deleting articles from the Tony Abbott website that contradict his current position on various matters
- Censorship being raised to an artform - authorising the Militar to say **** all on Soveriegn Borders
- High court challeges to prevent homosexual marriages
- Establishing a debt-ceiling at a time when he was supposed to be reigning in debt responsibly
- Introduction of new powers to prevent protestors in Tasmania from entering a 'worksite'
- Dredging the great barrier reef marine park
- Raiding Women's superannuation
- Reneging on a payrise for Child Care Workers while at the same time handing out the usual Tax cut to the Rich
- Repealing Anti-Vilification legislation
- Closing down GrainCorp negotiation in a so called 'open for business' government, now he has to play tough on Holden and QANTAS.
- Despite the meltdown in Japan, thinking of creating a Nuclear Power plant in FNQ
- Attempting to change the rules on how the Governor General is selected because of Quentin Bryce's dissent

This is a corporate dictatorship, paid for by Murdoch and Reinhardt. These clowns have no idea that they were voted in TO REPRESENT US, not sell us as products to multinationals. Abbot doesn't give a shit because like George W Bush, he's been bought and paid for and they are now coming to collect.

It will take us decades to recover from this government.

regards,

REB

Jeez! You are prolific and dedicated...
I respect your right to your opinions based on your world view and experience.
None of us has to agree entirely with others, that is democracy in action.

Here is my purely personal, and biased by my own life, perspective:
( I have time as I'm sitting here waiting for my car to be ready to pick up.)

1. I'd ban cigarettes entirely.

2. Gonski was half-baked and needs review.

3. The ABC is a bit left in orientation, but more importantly it runs too many channels and too many radio stations. I watch/listen to it more than the commercial broadcasters, but it is becoming full of pointless fillers and repetition. Pruning is needed but I oppose privatisation.

4. Offending - he hasn't called a foreign PM "recalcitrant " yet. Some spying is valid but should be better handled and kept under wraps.

5. I guess if you change your mind it is reasonable to take down your outdated statements.

6. Censorship? - trying to manipulate the daily news back-fired on the ALP - and may have encouraged the smugglers and their customers.

7. I'm a supporter of gay marriage, but it is a Federal issue. I support a free vote in the Federal Parliament.

8. The ALP's Treasurer established a debt ceiling. We had never had one before. It was an attempt to establish some image of credibility for fiscal responsibility but it backfired when the debt climbed. The present increase is required to accommodate the delayed peak tide that will come before policy changes can be put in place and take effect, and to stop the ALP behaving like the Republican party when the peak arrives (and trying to dress up the debt they created as new post-election debt).

9. I don't think demonstrators should be allowed to storm and disrupt a work site. Demonstration outside the fence is fine.

10. I am opposed to dredging in the Barrier Reef and I've signed the petition.

11. I'm for fair superannuation for all, proportional to beneficiary contributions to independent funds, with some subsidy for the financially disadvantaged.

12. Child care? Here I am conservative. In an overpopulated world people should think before they reproduce, and support their own children. However, yes, the wages paid to workers should be fair (and funded on a user pays basis). I agree with less tax cuts to the very highly paid.

13. The Anti-vilification legislation seemed a bit over the top to me and needs reconsidering.

14. I'm glad GrainCorp is staying in Australian hands, and would support subsidies to keep it so. However, there are limits to paying foreign owned companies to stay in operation here. Julia Gillard's last hand outs were supposed to guarantee GMH were staying in manufacturing here for 10 years, but it was never going to be so. It became inevitable that manufacturing of all products would leave Australia once we started cutting Tariffs - was that under Hawke/Keating?

15. IIRC, two of the four plants in Japan melted down only because not one of their three diesel back up generators had been adequately maintained. Modern melt-down proof nuclear technology now exists.

16. I've been a Republican since 1966, but I do think it was inappropriate for her to make that statement while still GG, even if I do agree with her.

I don't buy your ending summation.

[Ruben Carter]

- Signing/Threating to sign the TPP 'agreement' before the Sentate sees it. Phillip Morris is planning to sue us to get their prett pictures back on their deadly product. Expect more of this shit if this agreement gets signed
- Gonski backflip when Pyne hasn't even read the report
- Threating to cut the funding of the ABC because it dares to bad mouth the government
- Offending China
- Offending Indonesia
- Offending East Timor
- Deleting articles from the Tony Abbott website that contradict his current position on various matters
- Censorship being raised to an artform - authorising the Militar to say **** all on Soveriegn Borders
- High court challeges to prevent homosexual marriages
- Establishing a debt-ceiling at a time when he was supposed to be reigning in debt responsibly
- Introduction of new powers to prevent protestors in Tasmania from entering a 'worksite'
- Dredging the great barrier reef marine park
- Raiding Women's superannuation
- Reneging on a payrise for Child Care Workers while at the same time handing out the usual Tax cut to the Rich
- Repealing Anti-Vilification legislation
- Closing down GrainCorp negotiation in a so called 'open for business' government, now he has to play tough on Holden and QANTAS.
- Despite the meltdown in Japan, thinking of creating a Nuclear Power plant in FNQ
- Attempting to change the rules on how the Governor General is selected because of Quentin Bryce's dissent

This is a corporate dictatorship, paid for by Murdoch and Reinhardt. These clowns have no idea that they were voted in TO REPRESENT US, not sell us as products to multinationals. Abbot doesn't give a shit because like George W Bush, he's been bought and paid for and they are now coming to collect.

It will take us decades to recover from this government.

regards,

REB[/quote]



What he said.