POOR David Littleproud. He sold hallowed principle at the height of half-smart triangulation mania in the last days of ScoMo and now Jim Chalmers intends to pilfer the windfall. The leader of the National Party has today berated the PM and the Treasurer for planning to slash as much as $7bn of the $10bn allocated by the previous government to buy a green light for net zero – proving once again that climate doesn’t pay.
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So, last year the Beetroot and Littleproud, instead of sticking to principles and walking away, struck a deal with Scumbag Morrison on net zero emissions. Scumbag lost the election big time. Labor are in power and owe the Nationals nothing. And now they end up with net zero dosh.
If you didn’t laugh, you’d cry.
This, ladies and gentlemen, perfectly sums up the state of conservative and right of centre politics in this country.
The Hunchback of Voter Pain doesn’t like questions not in his “narrow script”
Neat trick with Medicare too.
How to slash that in the budget when you’re a Labor government?
Simple: just accuse thousands of doctors (falsely) of defrauding the Commonwealth, thus creating a class war narrative that allows you to make cuts.
At least Labor are honest and committed liars, unlike the other mob.
We’ll know if the alp really harbours a proper lefty style grudge against the ama if they open up more spaces to graduate doctors in the uni system.
Sadly there are lots of doctors that over-bill for services that they barely did or did not do at all. A friend had an obstetric ultrasound by a sonographer and got charged for a consultation fee as well. The obstetrician walked into the room for about 30 seconds.
The government should have an easy evaluation.
If any project does not have the support of Infrastructure Australia it does not go ahead.
Non Mentis
Agreed, so long as I get to select the executive members of Infrastructure Australia.
PS, would IA really approve the Ring Railway to many non-existent locations?
Unfortunately both parties ignore IA. If this government does then the criticism directed at the previous government will be just as strong on them. given they are in budget repair mode where the previous government passed on this some might argue it could be worse.
Non Mentis
given they are in budget repair mode where the previous government passed on this some might argue it could be worse.
About the only thing that the Coalition has learned since 2007 is that there is no political point in repairing the budget, simply to give Labor and the slime the opportunity to engage in yet another squanderfest.
It will be interesting to see how much “budget repair” actually occurs.
PS, if all sides ignore IA, what is the point of the organisation? Perhaps Labor could start the “budget repair” there, with its abolition? Then follow it up with all the other organisations which have the principal purpose of providing protective cover for politicians too weak-kneed to take and defend their decisions publicly. That is, after all the job they sought when they ran for office.
Ignoring IA is far too tedious.
Much easier and politically advantageous to get them to “change their advice” – simples.
The easiest evaluation of all is the one reverse-engineered to fit the latest political/ideological fad.
Terry
True, but that simply confirms that IA (and likely many other such organisations) exist essentially to give “eggspurt” cover for political decisions.
Let the politicians have the guts to take openly, and defend publicly, their own decisions. Abolish all the “eggspurt” organisations, and use their funding to start the course of “budget repair”.
100%
Idiots.
The IA isl ike the old IAC. They gave out independent advice on tariffs which was ignored until Whitlam.
An organization like IA can examine proposals and see if they stack up. If they do not then the government of the day deserves all the condemnation they get.
budget repair means reducing the structural deficit currently around $40b. The Liberals rarely address the structural deficit.
IA doesn’t have any magical abilities to pick winners.
Its CEO Romilly Madew is a professional committeeman.
Hasn’t ever built anything.
Non Mentis
IA is not the only organisation to have its advice consistently ignored by politicians.
Why should we pay both for politicians who lack the courage to make and defend their decisions publicly, and organisations whose recommendations are routinely ignored by politicians of all parties?
Whitlam as an exemplar of good government? ROFLMAO. Responsible for a lot of structural deficit.
That post was a reference to a Don Surber News thread depicting a meme thingy of Zelensky captioned under a header saying “Last Month I Made $40,000,000,000 working from Home”.
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/10/highlights-of-news_01521894324.html
That is why you are an ignorant prat. Whitlam was a Rattigan man and a lot of his policies was influenced by the excellent Vernon committee which Menzies ditched.
his problem was going too far too fast, not realising conditions had changed and being too sentimental about ministers in cabinet.
As joshua gans has pointed out to Sinclair Davidson’s expense net debt did not rise whilst he was in government.
Non Mentis
ROFLMAO, adoration of Whitless continues on the political left, as it will until the entire generation of 1975 leftists are in their graves.
Everything you write is a leftist value judgement, unrestricted by reality. Get a real education. Go back to pre-school first, then work your way up.
You obviously cannot read. I am not a fan of Whitlam for the very reasons stated above.
go back and take those ESOL lessons yet again.
Non Mentis
I am not a fan of Whitlam for the very reasons stated above.
Which set of reasons?
This set?
Whitlam was a Rattigan man and a lot of his policies was influenced by the excellent Vernon committee which Menzies ditched.
Sounds like praise.
Or this set?
his problem was going too far too fast, not realising conditions had changed and being too sentimental about ministers in cabinet.
On the one hand, on the other hand?
If you could only learn to write clear sentences. Back to pre-school.