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Lessons for history from an Australian prime minister : Comments

By Peter Bowden, published 14/9/2015

This is a speculative essay. It asks why, in a modern democracy, Australia should elect a Prime Minister who is widely and internationally criticised as overly militaristic and not that caring of the welfare of its people.

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CK is right of center, but has the journalistic ability and in depth knowledge to throw serious insight with his commentary.

Compare that to your extreme left rabid left whinge bloggers' insipid prose with the political insight of school child with brain damage. But I guess that mindless drivel is your thing.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Monday, 21 September 2015 7:20:34 PM
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SM,

"CK is right of center, but has the journalistic ability and in depth knowledge to throw serious insight with his commentary."

Does he really?

Like this type of thing you mean?

"These breakthroughs have been enormously beneficial for the nation, underpinning economic prosperity by protecting our international competitiveness..."

Our economy grew by 0.2% last quarter - and much of that paltry growth was due to increased defence spending.

Private investment is down.

Consumer confidence is down.

Net debt is up to 14.8% of GDP from 10.1% in June 2013.

Here's the latest:

"Foreign investors have turned especially bearish on the Australian economy, with one describing it as "toast", a National Australia Bank report says.

Chief economist Ivan Colhoun said a recent visit to clients in Britain, continental Europe and the Middle East revealed a "uniformly negative view on Australia's prospects".

"I have never experienced such overwhelming negativity on the outlook for the Australian economy and Australian dollar in all my years marketing the Australian economy offshore," he wrote on Monday."

http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/australia-is-toast-foreign-investors-tell-nab-20150921-gjrfth.html#ixzz3mNGnckHR

Chris Kenny waffling about "breakthroughs" which "have been enormously beneficial for the nation underpinning economic prosperity by protecting our international competitiveness" doesn't make it true.

Abbott had no economic plan apart from the IPA's agenda - he had no idea what actually governing was about. When the IPA's austerity plan was foiled at every turn, there was nowhere to go that didn't involve flags, uniforms and hysteria. Hockey didn't ever manage to pass a complete budget.

But Kenny can't see any of it...which makes him a partisan hack
Posted by Poirot, Monday, 21 September 2015 10:22:28 PM
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Dear Shadow Minister,

What on earth are you talking about?

The Murdoch press represents 2/3 of the media landscape in this country and they were so far in the Abbott camp they for all intents and purposes became his media unit. Throw in popular shock jocks like Jones, Bolt and Hadley who were completely sympathetic to Abbott's cause and the media bias for him was only comparable to Bishop's efforts as speaker.

How about parking the whinging on that score my friend because it just doesn't wash.
Posted by SteeleRedux, Monday, 21 September 2015 11:42:33 PM
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SR,

Newscorp does not control 2/3 of the Aus media. It does control 2/3 of the newspaper sales but only a small portion of TV, and no radio.

If newscorp can be considered to be the mouthpiece of the libs, then fairfax and the ABC can be considered to the mouthpiece of Labor.

Parrot,

Please grow a brain. The chinese economy and imports from Aus have crashed, and the mining sector is in far worse a condition than anytime under Labor, so things are not rosy. However, the non mining sector is growing well.

Getting rid of labor's useless time wasting regulations is saving the economy $bns. Fixing the budget black hole left by labor is being sabotaged by the Labor green coalition who as always put themselves ahead of the country.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 3:23:05 PM
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