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 08:20 AM
The work being done behind the scenes is very important. All the thousands of regulations Labor put in at the request of the unions, crippled productivity & caused mountains of red tape. That's just a start.
The work the Abbott gov has to do is massive so talking about the few things we see & hear on media is minuscule & not that important.
To say "fail" is ludicrous & one eyed. The Abbott gov. will fix Labor's mess because that's what they do. Labor was so wasteful & reckless it beggared belief & all we got out of it after the biggest mining boom in history is massive debt.
If I was a Labor supporter I would be ashamed to even come in here & bleat "fail", but then that's what Labor does.
There is no money for the PPS, NDIS,Gonski & NBN, to implement them to the satisfaction of everybody. The Rolls Royce NBN has failed, Gonski is being trimmed & the NDIS may never be all things to all people, which is a shame because of the way Labor used the most vulnerable people in our society to wedge the Opposition at the time.
A sensible look at the way the Abbott gov. is progressing is the way to go instead of screaming "fail" before they even have a chance to start to repair the massive damage Labor did to the economy & to the psyche of Australians.
One way to look at it is to look at Labor in opposition, they now look weak & petulant, now they have no power, one wonders how they ever held any confidence of the people whilst they were in power in the first place.
on 20-12-2013 09:23 AM
So "Back in the day" is now some kind of slur on the people who didn't hold their hands out for money to see them through their lives at the expense of others.
So "Back in the day" when people did it for themselves is now used to denigrate??
"Back in the day" is when our country was built, wars were fought & men & women were proud to support their families, charity was the last thing they would accept.
People who do this type of offensive post are better off being ignored. With the wages today, people should be handed money from the cradle to the grave.
Welfare has practically destroyed the Aboriginal people & the caucasion welfare mentality has birthed a permanent underclass full of resentment.
So "back in the day" is something we can be proud of, a signpost of how a good society should conduct itself, not like part of our society we have now, a greedy mob who think governments are there to see them through life, to pay for their decisions & children & get no thanks for it in the end.
There is a place for welfare assistance & it isn't the middle classes who should be getting it. Mountains of money going overseas on pensions, people who come to Australia, get citzenship then go back home to live off Australia's generous pension is a start.
There are many examples of welfare that is bled from the many who really need it.
We need an inquiry into the welfare given. We need to stop the mindset of entitlement. As Joe Hockey said in his UK speech, "The age of entitlement is over", there's no more money.
on 15-12-2013 04:59 PM
on 15-12-2013 05:00 PM
seasoned pundits say its the worst begining ever, certainly in terms of polls thats 100% correct. verdict ? fail.
on 15-12-2013 05:01 PM
Look what Labore cost us
on 15-12-2013 05:06 PM
on 15-12-2013 05:11 PM
on 15-12-2013 05:12 PM
on 15-12-2013 05:13 PM
@nero_wulf wrote:Look what Labore cost us
thats the first time many products and services actually went down that i recall , do you have a comparison ? you need something to measure these figures against or they mean nothing . unless you are a tele reader i guess .
on 15-12-2013 05:30 PM
Poor Tony.
Not only does he look like he was in terrible pain when making that little YouTube infomercial but his document is about as informative as his pre-election 'policy' document.
His discomfort is quite understandable given that he can't actually show any achievements for the first 100 days. Quite frankly he would have been better off not drawing attention to it.
The only thing completed so far are reversal of Labor policies. Or a continuation of Labor Government policies. Otherwise it is all productivity commissions/ reviews/committees etc. But not one single new achievement of their own.
And then there are the big picture things like Indonesia will be the first overseas trip that Tony Abbott will take as Prime Minister. Well whoopdedo. That was a big success - NOT!
Or this one: Ensure that there is a Small Business Minister in the Cabinet. Ohhhkayyyy..? And this is worth putting into a major document because...?
And all the Stop the Boats garbage is laughable.
The document was a terrific example of small picture government instead of big picture leadership.
What a waste of the first 100 days.
15-12-2013 05:33 PM - edited 15-12-2013 05:37 PM
1 step forward a 100 backwards. What is the point of crowing about some perceived achievments when there is lots they have stuffed up already?
Plus their elections promises are turning out to be lies.
Example 1:
NBN
The Abbott government will break its NBN election promise of giving all Australians access to 25 megabits per second download speeds by 2016, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull admitted in Parliament on Thursday (12 Dec 2013)