on 15-12-2013 04:57 PM
WELL Done to the LNP cleaning up the massive mess left by Labor and the Greens.
Tomorrow marks 100 days since the election.
I want to update you on the progress that the Coalition Government has made in implementing our Plan to build a strong, prosperous economy and a safe, secure Australia.
We are purposefully, carefully and methodically putting in place policies to help families by reducing their cost-of-living pressures, improving job security, encouraging small business and delivering better services.
As you will see, the Government is keeping its commitments and implementing the plan we took to the election.
We are the Government that will scrap the Carbon Tax, end the waste, get the Budget back under control, stop the boats and build the infrastructure of the 21st century.
These are the practical measures that will help our country get ahead – as well as help you and your family plan your future with confidence.
My pledge is that we will not let up in 2014: every day we will keep building the stronger country that all Australians want and deserve.
Solved! Go to Solution.
on 20-12-2013 09:40 AM
Taxpayers won't quickly forgive the expenses scandal
Posted Thu 10 Oct 2013,
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-10/green-why-the-expenses-scandal-still-has-legs/5013230
20-12-2013 09:45 AM - edited 20-12-2013 09:46 AM
Prime Minister Tony Abbott blames Gonski funding 'confusion'
The Coalition's pre-election pledge that ''every single school in Australia will receive, dollar for dollar, the same federal funding over the next four years whether there is a Liberal or Labor government'' seemed pretty unequivocal.
People who didn’t know who Christopher Pyne was before the election know who he is now and they hate him.
But Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Sunday there was confusion in the community about the exact shape of his Gonski-related promise.
It's the community's fault ...thanks Mr PM.
Real nice of you to put that on us
Scott morrison said they didn't have a tow back policy ...it was media misrepresentation over a long period of time.
BS
A recent attempted tow-back wasn't successful
20-12-2013 09:56 AM - edited 20-12-2013 09:57 AM
another achievement ?
Tony Abbott winds back code of conduct to let ministers keep shares
Tony Abbott has wound back the ministerial code of conduct to allow federal ministers to keep shares in public companies they would have been forced to sell under the Gillard and Rudd governments.
The code outlines rules and procedures ministers must follow to avoid conflicts of interest. The new standards leave it open for ministers to hold shares in public companies that do not relate to their portfolios, at odds with the standards set out by the previous government.
Under the code of conduct created by the Gillard government, ministers were required to get rid of all public and private shareholdings other than some forms of managed funds.
“In recognition of the collective responsibility that ministers bear in relation to cabinet decisions, these standards require that ministers divest themselves of investments and other interests in any public or private company or business, other than public superannuation funds or publicly listed managed funds or trust arrangements,” the 2010 guidelines read.
what about what's going on around our Great Barrier Reef ?
on 20-12-2013 11:26 AM
on 20-12-2013 03:41 PM
@am*3 wrote:
Why is TA doing so badly in the polls so soon after being elected?
From reading twitter and Andrew Bolt, it is the fault of paid armies of Labor twitter trolls.
I make hundreds of jokes about the government on twitter whenever I'm near my phone and bored.......I wish I was given some money for it.
A strange way of explaining unpopularity.
on 20-12-2013 03:44 PM
@nero_wulf wrote:The labor and left mentality and what Labor has created... and what we see on here on a daily basis
Wow , I found a whole bunch of these looking through someones twitter account.......
BTW-nobody like that comedian, not even the left.
on 20-12-2013 03:45 PM
@izabsmiling wrote:another achievement ?
Tony Abbott winds back code of conduct to let ministers keep shares
Rules to avoid conflicts of interest allow shareholdings in public companies that were banned under Rudd and GillardTony Abbott has wound back the ministerial code of conduct to allow federal ministers to keep shares in public companies they would have been forced to sell under the Gillard and Rudd governments.
The code outlines rules and procedures ministers must follow to avoid conflicts of interest. The new standards leave it open for ministers to hold shares in public companies that do not relate to their portfolios, at odds with the standards set out by the previous government.
Under the code of conduct created by the Gillard government, ministers were required to get rid of all public and private shareholdings other than some forms of managed funds.
“In recognition of the collective responsibility that ministers bear in relation to cabinet decisions, these standards require that ministers divest themselves of investments and other interests in any public or private company or business, other than public superannuation funds or publicly listed managed funds or trust arrangements,” the 2010 guidelines read.
what about what's going on around our Great Barrier Reef ?
The country is open for business and so is the golden feed trough.
on 20-12-2013 03:47 PM
Joe Hockey says there is no more money?
Believable?
Like when he promised to stop over indulging in food?
20-12-2013 04:10 PM - edited 20-12-2013 04:13 PM
more achievements
A landmark deal that hands control of $5 billion of key Australian electricity assets to a state-owned Chinese firm has quietly sailed through the foreign investment approvals process.
Coalition approves China State Grid power buy
PUBLISHED: 6 HOURS 58 MINUTES AGO |
Updated | Treasurer Joe Hockey has approved State Grid Corporation of China’s $7.5 billion purchase of critical electricity and gas distribution assets across Australia’s east coast.
Abbott ‘gutting’ financial planning laws: Bowen
PUBLISHED: 1 HOUR 9 MINUTES AGO
Federal Court approves Whitehaven’s Maules Creek coalmine development
PUBLISHED: 0 HOUR 10 MINUTES AGO
Telstra sells CSL for $2bn
PUBLISHED: 5 HOURS 19 MINUTES AGO |
Updated | Telstra shares are trading at near eight-year highs after it announced the sale of its 76.4 per stake in Hong Kong mobile business CSL to Hong Kong Telecommunications for $2 billion.
Credit Suisse to advise on Telstra-NBN negotiations
PUBLISHED: 5 HOURS 44 MINUTES AGO |
AMES HUTCHINSON AND SARAH THOMPSON
Credit Suisse has won a contract to advise the federal government on renegotiation of the $11.2 billion contract between Telstra and NBN Co, adding to a bevy of consultants on the complex arrangement.
The Department of Communications on Thursday awarded the contract to the advisory firm, which Street Talk previously foreshadowed was a front runner for the deal.
It will advise the government on how to change key aspects of the existing contract, which was negotiated under the previous Labor government to give NBN Co access to Telstra’s infrastructure for the rollout of the national broadband network.
The original contract also saw Telstra’s copper and cable broadband customers migrated to the NBN as it rolled out.
However, the government is seeking changes to the agreement so that it can use Telstra’s existing copper network as part of the NBN. Under a proposed rewrite of the $41 billion project, NBN Co would roll out fibre cabling to street nodes and then use the existing copper wiring to deliver faster broadband.
It is also seeking to lease or buy Telstra’s cable broadband network as part of the project.
http://www.afr.com/p/technology/credit_suisse_to_advise_on_telstra_oFjegesYwzCuoAGlSzFdDP
WA collects surprise revenue boost
PUBLISHED: 14 HOURS 53 MINUTES AGO
The West Australian government will collect $1.2 billion more in revenue than it expected before making big ticket commitments in the March election that are being cut or delayed, an financial documents show.
Coalition to cull Labor’s FoFA reforms
PUBLISHED: 14 HOURS 54 MINUTES AGO
The Abbott government will seek to overturn virtually all of the former Labor government’s reforms to the financial planning industry in the wake of the Storm Financial collapse.
Financial inquiry panel assembled
PUBLISHED: 14 HOURS 53 MINUTES AGO
An academic, a former investment banker, a life insurance and super executive and a a senior corporate executive will join David Murray on the panel of the Abbott government’s inquiry into the nation’s financial system.
http://www.afr.com/p/business/property/government_property_nsw_recruits_NBtDbsARuk1CMkd2eZXymI
Government Property NSW recruits new directors
PUBLISHED: 19 DEC 2013 1
Government Property NSW, which manages the state’s $100 billion property portfolio, has appointed six property industry executives from the private sector as new directors within the agency.
Angus Grigg | Tony Abbott’s China moment has arrived. Less than four months after taking office the Prime Minister finds himself caught in an awkward position with Australia’s biggest trading partner.
http://www.afr.com/p/national/east_timor_takes_australia_to_international_R7raOeXJvCWBTJoL55sivO
lots going on .Why isn't the OP discussing it ?
http://www.afr.com/national/politics
on 20-12-2013 04:14 PM
Why is TA doing so badly in the polls so soon after being elected?
Probably because the fastest way to give someone the irrits is to tell them one thing and do another. Tony's track record is there for all to see -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWmNc64RnKk&feature=youtu.be