Wobbles,
When you look at the seat of Bennelong I find it rather difficult to conceive that work choices had anything to do with it. Bennelong isn't exactly the kind of neighborhood to be affected by that policy. Maxine McKew is purely a product of academic media hype. What have we seen or heard of her since the election ? Nothing ! Can you cite just one policy or whatever she has brought forward that is of benefit to us all ? I saw her on a TV discussion a few weeks ago & she just didn't have anything of substance to argue about. She was utterly lost when she realised that she couldn't simply say "sorry, we're out of time" & change the subject when she had nothing to say. No-one, not even Abbott himself would claim to be automatically correct about anything. That in itself is a stock standard stereotypical ignorant academic defensive phrase. Abbott would make a good PM. Why ? If you listen to what he says rather than hear what you want to hear you'll find that he has a far more realistic outlook & expectation than Kevin Rudd. We all know what Bureaucrats are like & Kevin Rudd was a "senior" bureaucrat. In a way he still is.

Wobble
I hated, detested and voted against John Howard but I am so tired of hearing how Rudd kept us out of recession. Without the strong financial legacy the Howard government left we would have had no ammunition to start with. Bank regaultion also was not his making. Now we are seeing the waste, pillage and plunder of our nations wealth by Rudd. Mortgaging the house to the pay the butcher. We have not escaped anything until the debt is paid off. The interest bill alone is astronomical. He is one huge economic gamble at the moment.

Despite not wanting to hear about it, the fact remains that the economic stimulus package worked.

It's easier the pay the mortgage when you have a job than if you're unemployed and it's been widely agreed by both sides that it prevented a depression and massive unemployment.

At the time, both the package and the bank deposit guarantee were wholeheartedly supported by Turnbull but only opposed in part afterwards for political reasons.

As for what Abbott has to say, that changes when in suits him politically. He's even further to the right than Howard was and only beat Turnbull for the leadership by one vote and I can only imagine what he has planned when he drags the country back even further to the right.

Despite not wanting to hear about it, the fact remains that the economic stimulus package worked.
Wobbles,
That's like saying we can sell the house to pay the mortgage.

Selling the house to pay the mortgage? That's what Howard did as I recall. Abbott will sell Medicare and leave the Health Fund industry to do as it pleases. Great stuff.

Donkey “The truth is this Government is working in a dynamic, difficult and complex political and economic enviroment,”

Yes, most of the difficulties are of their own making with situations which are only “complex” to socialists.

Fact – Australia did not need a stimulus package, purchased with debt which our grandchildren are expected to pay off

Fact – more houses burned down as a result of stupid environment policies

Fact – boat people by the score because of Mr Rudd & his governments daft line on people smuggling

Fact – changing the tax system does not mean increasing the government take by increasing taxes or inventing new ones, like the opportunistic super-tax on mining profits

Prediction - If Rudd & co are let loose to “manage” the health system form Canberra –the best thing anyone could do is sign up for a fixed price funeral now.