The budget proves once and for all that Australians can’t trust politicians......
When truth prevails over injustice, all Australians are winners – but on budget night the truth was nowhere to be seen.......
Liberal party strategy was to soften up the electorate by telling them things were bad, Australians are hopeless and the only way forward is the way set out in the budget. It doesn’t matter anyway, they thought. The voters will fall for it, they always have. This is how the game of politics works.....
The Liberals have made statements to parliament over the six months leading up to budget night about Australia's debt crisis. If something was not done (what the Liberal donors wanted), the economy would implode and everyone would suffer. This view was supported by the commission of audit.....
The truth is Australia has one of the lowest debt levels in the world. Australia’s general government net debt as a percentage of GDP was 13.5% in 2013, whereas the OECD average for advanced economies was 73.5%. Australia is one of only 13 countries to have a AAA credit rating.
These facts aren't helpful to the Liberal party, so their strategy is to get the treasurer and the prime minister to repeatedly lie to parliament and the electorate. The party's spin doctors could convince the journalists, so no one would be the wiser. Even though Australia didn’t have a debt problem, Abbott would introduce a debt tax that would help convince people we had a crisis on our hands – which was clearly not true.......
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/19/abbott-has-delivered-a-budget-for-the-lobbyists...
me as well, it's really all one discussion anyway.
