Never truer words were spoken.The coalition have been good managers but also have been blessed with a minerals boom.Now is the time to make Australia a more dynamic country whereby a highly technical industry wants to move here also.We have a pretty inventive nation and we are not capitalising on our talents.Why not give some of that money destined for public servant's future fund to the CSIRO and research arms of our universities?

The whole farcical tax system needs a complete overhaul.It can be simplified and made fairer.Just because the OECD countries shoot themselves in both feet,do we have to follow suit?

The budget should have done a lot more, in fact vastly more, to prepare Australia for the era beyond the boom times of cheap fossil fuels. With oil prices inexorably rising and soon to reach a level that will really test the basic economics of many families, businesses and indeed society as we know it, this should surely have been one of the top priorities.

In conjunction with this, incentives to steer us onto real sustainability are badly needed.

Costello hasn’t a clue about the resource crisis that looms over us, even though he has said that “we are entering our third oil shock and the last two ended really badly for the world and Australia”. And he hasn’t a clue about sustainability.

He is terribly poorly qualified to be out national money-manager…. and woe betide us all if he becomes PM.

The sign of good leadership is like a good family budget.
The elderly the aboriginal problems homeless doctors trades people hospitals are all screaming for attention but we think its good to have such a large surplus.

I just dont understand how people can say they Government got it right.