Tony Abbott's Support Page

[icyfroth]

A reminder of the debt that Australia has, while Labor can bury their heads and deny it exists the fact remains we have a huge problem with debt and sooner than later the chips will fall, no business, no state and no country can keep operating in the red, eventually those we own the money to will own us. Who will own us?
The state of Qld has debt of $80 billion dollars, Labor are saying they don’t think it’s that bad, Bill Shorten on Australia’s debt, there is no debt crisis, there is a crisis and we are in this situation because of Labor, no one else and the bottom line is Labor can’t fix this problem, their speciality is creating debt not fixing debt.

[iapetus_rocks]

 What is good about Newscorp being the only newspaper choice if Fairfax goes under?  

I'll take that as a rhetorical question. . .

[debra9275]

All of News Corp’s major mastheads lost readers last year, Roy Morgan has found.

The Australian’s readership dropped by 14,000 in December 2014 compared with the previous year, falling to a print readership of 340,000.

Murdoch’s most widely read Australian tabloid, The Herald Sun, lost 148,000 readers, down to a circulation of 892,000.

The Daily Telegraph (-114,000), The Adelaide Advertiser (-38,000), The Courier-Mail (-18,000) and The Geelong Advertiser (-5,000) also suffered readership losses.

the same is happening at Newscorp Gleee,  though murdoch still makes a lot his of money from foxtel and realestate.dotcomau here

but the newscorp papers are on the nose

[idlewhile]

I really have to wonder too. What on earth is a highly educated person (at taxpayers expense) doing wasting their life on here.

Surely after all this you'd think a more productive pastime could be found. Maybe something to benefit the needy, you know, to give back.

[idlewhile]

Fairfax has been going down since Young Warick's time. He was an entitled loser and partly destroyed Fairfax.   Subsequent editiors  dithered around until they nearly  lost it all and their online presence was late in coming.

Fairfax is barely an online presence and no thinking person would buy therir leftist paper, why? because nobody wants it, that's the real reason Fairfax failed, they didn't print what the public wanted to read.

They thought the "rivers of gold" would be theirs forever but they didn't count on Lachlan Murdoch and young Packer to go into real estate.com and job seek.com and cars.com and  all the other adverising the complacent Fairfax  thought would keep them on easy street forever.

Obviously many on here don't read extensively, they rely on the cries and moans of their fave left media, nana bloggers and the ABC left... but if they had taken a day or so to read the book "Killing Fairfax" they would know just how lazy, entitled and complacement Fairfax was and still is, they were sitting ducks and they deserved it.

[idlewhile]

Fairfax spat in the face of the only person who could save Fairfax. They deserve to go under and the sooner the better.

[cherry*135]

Dumping Tony Abbott has fringe benefit of ending unpopular policies


Leadership chatter has not stopped. It may all come to a head sooner than you think.

Desperate Liberals weighing up a switch to a more popular leader are increasingly awake to an even more durable benefit: a plausible escape from unpopular policies to which the current leadership remains mystifyingly welded.

Think for starters the GP co-payment – now called somewhat comically, "a value signal in health" and university cuts. Both have driven MPs to distraction because from the get-go they've been disasters, and yet remain strangely unkillable through multiple defeats and backflips.

....This is the signature political failure of the Abbott project and a testament to Labor's success in portraying Joe Hockey's first blueprint as an ideological document – a wilful attempt to make life easier for the well off at the expense of the poor. Politically, the budget was doomed the moment it contained broken promises, but the absence of tough medicine for the rich, beyond a small and temporary budget repair levy, denied the government the cover of demanding sacrifice from all.


...But for Hockey the question now must be whether he lasts long enough to deliver a second budget. He is as welded to Abbott as Abbott is to him. Liberals say they'll go down together.

Chatter in the government shows no signs of abating and could yet manifest itself in a sudden move to replace Abbott with Malcolm Turnbull as early as the first full sitting week beginning March 2.

If that happens, the IGR will still be an important document because the long-term problems aren't going away. But don't expect to hear much about university deregulation or the toxic GP payment, no matter what Orwellian name it has acquired by then.

Mark Kenny is Fairfax Media's chief political correspondent.


http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/dumping-tony-abbott-has-fringe-benefit-of-ending-unpopular-p...

[idlewhile]

Abbott hating is a pastime that only shows up the haters. They are 100% behind Shirten, the hollow man now says he will not tow back boats.

Now this policy is the only policy that has worked, stopped the drowning and loss of life, drove the criminal people smuggles out of business and now Shirten wants us to vote for him so the catastrophic border failure under the last Labor govt can re start.

Good luck with that Billy, can't wait. 🙂

[idlewhile]

Can you enlighten us with your own opinions rather than just copy and paste articles we have all read already.

Surely someone with your education can construct an opinion that will enlighten us all, will educate us on many levels, it would so enrich the forum don't you think?

[cherry*135]

Prime Minister Tony Abbott awards 'Matehood' to John Booth, publisher caught up in ICAC inquiry

Knighthoods are not the only awards proving problematic for Tony Abbott.

The Prime Minister is under fire for this week awarding a "Matehood" to a local newspaper proprietor accused of misleading a corruption inquiry.

John Booth, publisher of Ryde's The Weekly Times, received a "Mate of Bennelong" award on Monday in recognition of his contribution to the local community.

The honour comes less than a year after the Independent Commission Against Corruption recommended Mr Booth be considered for prosecution for giving false or misleading evidence during its inquiry into Ryde City Council.

[polksaladallie]

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@idlewhile wrote:

I really have to wonder too. What on earth is a highly educated person (at taxpayers expense) doing wasting their life on here.

Surely after all this you'd think a more productive pastime could be found. Maybe something to benefit the needy, you know, to give back.

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I wonder too.  Care to tell us?