Broken promises. What is acceptable?

[i-need-a-martini]

Lots of broken promises are made by governments. If the promises are broken because of economic need, I understand.

But what of the empty promises that they know they can never keep. Like the 'Stop the Boats' promise?

Or this one: where Abbott promised at the Garma festival in the weeks leading up to the election that he would spend his first week as Prime Minister in Yolgnu country.

To break promises like this is just a low act by someone who knew he would never be able to keep it.

See where he says it clearly here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1OKujvU2wQ

I wouldn't bother to listen to the whole boring speech (although many of his off the cuff comments are a little eyebrow raising) but at 21:40 he starts making promises he can't keep.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@am*3 wrote:

Are any of Tony Abbott's ' promises' achievable?  Does he know how much it costs to build a new 8km portion of a highway? How is he going to fund the billions needed  for 'fixing' roads Australia wide?

How presumptuos of him to say he wants to be known/rememberde as the infrastructure PM.. shouldn't he leave that comment until after he has 'fixed; roads and spent multi billion dollars on infrastructure, not before he has done any of those things?

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Dunno, but we're getting the M1 fixed up here on the Coast. When it's done, it'll be a clear and easy run through to the Cooli airport and from there I can get anywhere! Hope he extends the railway through to Cooli and up into Surfers,that'd be good.

This monorail system that some dimwit approved is a total waste of time and money. Nice for the tourists I suppose, but they're not the ones wanting to go where it runs to LOLOLOL

[cherry*135]

It was 10 years overdue the highway here ( used by residents and thousands & thousands of cars heading down the coast from Sydney in the weekends and holiday periods) then we had 2 parts of it replaced, the third  section started and due to be finished in a year or so. Still bottle necks in other parts, or dangerous road conditions (accident spots)...can't see TA waving his magic wand and getting the entire Sth Coast NSW highway up to date in his lifetime, and that is only one of many, many highways in Aust that need upgrading.

[lakeland27]

 infrastructure pm indeed. we'll see when its finished shall we. so far he's killed off australia's biggest project. his achievement so far is 2 steps backward so he has his work cut out

[poddster]

You are not refering to the White Elephant are you, LL???

[lakeland27]

its only referred to in that fashion by luddites. 

[*crikey*mate*]

what on earth is a luddite?

[izabsmiling]

Crikey , no one did ..not even the actual author of the piece .Read the full article  

I c&p'd the part I was wanting to note in the post I made and added the link to it's source .

Others focused on the rest of the article from the link which wasn't relevant to the hung parliament which was being discussed between other Podsters here .

Thanks Meep , I will have a read of that asap 

[cherry*135]

Here is Tony's to do list: ( quoted from a previous post of mine)

What a to-do list:

sack econocrats guilty of having worked with the enemy,

pass an edict against climate change and discourage all discussion of it,

stop publicising boat arrivals,

build more motorways,

move to a cut-price national broadband network

and take science for granted.

It's early days, of course, and there's more, but not a whole lot more:

abolishing the onerous tax on our impoverished global mining companies,

getting rid of red and green tape (translation: making it easier for big business to get its way without delay)

and beating up the Tax Office for being too diligent in making small business pay its tax.

[izabsmiling]

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@crikey*mate wrote:

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@izabsmiling wrote:

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@crikey*mate wrote:

heresay

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Crikey , we aren't in a courtroom 

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Oh, well that's all right then. 

"someone told me" LOLOLOL

convincing stuff.

Hey, you live on a farm, don't you? Maybe we could all sew costumes in the barn, chew straw and ask the cows for their opinions.

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You fail to understand that I wasn't trying to convince anyone of anything ....as I said I am not in a Court room.

You could do worse things than sew costumes in the barn, chew straw and ask the cows for their opinions I suppose .

[*ibis]

 onerous tax

OMGim laughingso hard  cnt seee