@aftanas wrote:
@izabsmiling wrote:
why does our Prime Minister need attacks against Australia's former Government as his defence all the time ?
Attacking OUR former Government on a world stage makes our current Government look pathethic.
It's bad enough in question time .
Would someone please tell Tony Abbott that the job we elected him and pay him to do is to be our leader....He is no longer in Opposition and the fact that he spends so much time attacking the former Governments of our Country is a waste of our money...
cut the carp talk and cut the wasted time it takes up (as you said you would) and get on with the job we pay you to do.
Domestic politics does not stop because a Prime Minister is talking at an international event. From an international perspective it would have been beneficial for Tony Abbott to have lauded Australia for navigating through the Global Financial Crisis relatively unscathed. However, in doing so he would have been praising the previous Government which would have been politically unwise.
Tony Abbott has two jobs: he is the Prime Minister and he is also the leader of the Liberal National Party coalition. Those jobs are not necessarily compatible, and in criticising Labor he was merely doing is job, albeit his party leadership job rather than his other job. As it was put by Sir Humphrey Appleby in an episode of Yes Minister:
The Prime Minister is much more worried by discontent among back-benchers than among nurses and teachers. Nurses and teachers can't vote against him until the next election. Back-benchers can vote against him at 10 o'clock tonight.
If foreign trade is his aim...he should be most worried about how he presents himself (and us) as our Prime Minister on the International Stage ...to Countries he may want us to do business with .
He has gotten press attention OS before for doing the very same thing ...a few months ago
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Abbott's ALP criticism could affect US links
Tony Abbott's use of a Washington Post interview to brand his Labor predecessors as ''wacko'' and ''embarrassing'' could set back his working relationship with the Obama adminstration, a leading US commentator says.
Perhaps you can chalk it up to a rookie mistake. But it is a pretty big one.
Norman Ornstein, an author and political scientist with the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, said he ''winced'' when he read the interview in which Mr Abbott put the boot into the Rudd-Gillard government in unusually strong language for a foreign interview.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbotts-alp-criticism-could-affect-us-lin...
Locally ...if everyone in the Coalition is OK with his speech including his comments about the former Governments spending which got us through the GFC and saw Australia rise from 10th-ranked economy in 2007 to the world's top ranking by 2012...the whole Coalition look foolish.Is anyone checking his material ?
He would have needed everyone listening to be totally unaware of the facts even if our PM and the members of the Coalition weren't /aren't.
If they are aware ....he looks like a fool and has made our Country appear foolish and ignorant with it
Embarrassing is putting it mildly
