The Budget In Three Minutes

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May 152013
 

This video explains the benefits of the 2013 Budget brought down by Treasurer Wayne Swan last night. What sort of nation do you want to live in? One that realises that you have to invest today to generate revenue in the future? Or do you want an alternative where services are cut to the bone, or even abandoned totally, in pursuit of a short term profit (surplus)? Do you want the same sort of austerity imposed on this country that has failed in other nations? The choices we face this year have never been more stark. Vote wisely. Vote for the future. Your future. My Future. Our future.

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Abbott And Abetz Announce Workers Paradise

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May 102013
 

In a joint press conference yesterday, Tony Abbott and Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations, Eric Abetz outlined their long awaited plan to turn Australia into a workers paradise. But is it as worker friendly as they would have you believe? Sally McManus of the ASU has done an analysis of the proposed changes, and is less than happy with them. You can read her analysis here: What Tony Abbott Proposes To Take Away One of the most salient points is: Weaken the Award safety-net (loosen the “better off overall test” so agreements can go below even the Award minimum). Wages apparently, cannot go low enough for the Tories. Cheap labour is their holy grail. Cheap-labor conservatives don’t like social spending or our “safety net”. Why.

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Mirabella Being Liberal With The Truth

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Apr 132013
 

The abominable member for Indi, Sophie Mirabella, has joined a growing list of her Noalition colleagues being liberal with the truth. On March 21 the Puff Adder, as she is unaffectionately known by some (I’m looking at you BK ), issued a press statement on her website claiming that the “Carbon Tax” had had an adverse effect on the bottom line of brick manufacturer Brickworks (ASX: BKW). It claimed: Local manufacturer Brickworks has today released their half year report, revealing a staggering increase of $4.7 million in energy costs, including from the carbon tax. According to the report provided by Brickworks to the ASX today: … the first half result incorporates an increase of $4.7 million in energy costs, including the carbon tax. Looking at the actual

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Cory Bernardi Wrecks Abbott’s Good Vibrations Tour

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Jan 282013
 

Things must be getting very desperate at LNP headquarters. Every attempt to try and nullify the negative image most Australians have of Tony Abbott have ended in failure. Margie and the kids didn’t work. The Peta Credlin gambit didn’t work. In what must be the final attempt to remove Abbott’s negative image, this weekend he kicked off his “Good Vibrations Tour” to try and woo the punters. No sooner had he kicked off his tour though, revelations about South Australian Senator Cory Bernardi’s associations have derailed it, and look like turning it into The Tour De Farce. Now, as much as I hate John Howard and everything he stood for, even I have to give him a gold star for what he did to control

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Abbott Attempts To Rewrite History Again

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Jan 272013
 

On a day that many Indigenous Australians regard as Invasion Day, Tony Abbott gave them another kick in the teeth by airbrushing their history out of the picture. At a Citizenship ceremony in Adelaide Abbott had the following to say: It is a proud people that you are joining. We had inauspicious beginnings. The first lot of Australians were chosen by the finest judges in England, not always for good reasons, and from that rather inauspicious beginning we have become a rich, a free and a fair society which has contributed so much to the wider world in good times and in not so good times. Say, what?!?!?!?! The “first Australians” were sent here by English judges?!?!?! The “first Australians” actually arrived here of their

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Peta Credlin And The Streisand Effect

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Jan 062013
 

The Streisand Effect has been discussed a couple of times on this blog.  It refers to the effect that trying to cover something up or suppressing it, has the opposite effect of drawing attention to it. The last time it was covered was when Margie Abbott was given blanket coverage in News Limited‘s fish-wrappers to try and convince women voters that her husband, the lying, hypocritical, cowardly Tony Abbott isn’t a misogynistic relic from the distant past (See Margie Abbott And The Streisand Effect). The women (and men) of Australia were not fooled by the shallow attempt to raise his appeal amongst women voters however, and so all that pathetic effort did was draw attention to his obvious shortcomings. Albert Einstein said that (words to

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Menzies House Shows Its True Colours

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Nov 212012
 

Menzies House, the website set up by Cory “Bestiality” Bernardi, to promote “conservative, centre-right and libertarian” causes, has shown that it is not concerned about the “centre-right” at all. A recent post on the site proves it is firmly on the ultra-hard-right end of the spectrum. The article entitled “Child Labour Laws May Prove Punitive For Some” written by someone who is described as “a member of the Young Liberal Movement studying law at Macquarie University”, states that repealing the child labour laws would benefit children from poorer socio-economic backgrounds. In the fourth paragraph the author states: If a poor child were able to work from the age of 8 to 16 years old, they would accumulate enough money to take a family out of

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Confirmation That Libspill Is On

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Nov 192012
 

Over the last few months there has been growing speculation that embattled Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott is going to get rolled. This has now all but been confirmed. The embattled Abbott’s popularity has been tanking for a long time now causing him to try ever more desperate stunts to try and revive his flagging fortunes. His carbon tax scare campaign has utterly failed. His constant attacks on the Prime Minister have made him appear to the voters as a misogynistic, sexist bully. He’s even dragged his wife and kids out to spruik for him, which again, has been an utter failure. The only thing keeping him in his job has been the sycophantic musings of his fans in the Fourth Estate. However, the

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