Hockey, Abbott can't sell this budget...

[fourandsixpants]

No surprises here!

"The reason why this Government would have to spend taxpayers' dollars and take that from places like schools and hospitals to sell the message is because Joe Hockey and Tony Abbott cannot sell this budget," FrontBencher Brendan O'Connor said. 

"The reason they cannot sell this budget is because this budget is a budget of broken promises, a litany of lies by the Government, imposing cruel measures on the Australian people."

Labor Senator Sam Dastayari says no amount of taxpayer advertising will change the community's view of the budget.

"This budget can't be sold because it's unsaleable, and no advertising campaign's going to fix that," he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-27/cormann-hints-at-taxpayer-funded-budget-ad-campaign/5480170

[boris1gary]

even there own are unconvinced....

Liberal MP Dennis Jensen fires broadside at his government's medical research fund

• CSIRO document reveals site closures and research program cuts

A Liberal MP has blasted the Abbott government's defence and science policies – including the budget centrepiece of a $20 billion medical research fund.

In a speech delivered in Parliament on Tuesday night, West Australian MP Dennis Jensen described the government's science policies as "foolish" and incoherent.

Dr Jensen, a former research scientist and defence analyst, criticised the government for cutting funding to the CSIRO and Australian Research Council while creating a medical research fund.

''There appears to be a lack of understanding of how science works,'' Dr Jensen said.

''Where is the coherent, co-ordinated approach to science policy?''

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/liberal-mp-dennis-jensen-fires-broadside-at-hi...