The under-the-carpet problems for the next government are going to be:

1. The economy is actually in an awful state, on the edge of a cliff with foreign debt, domestic debt, drastically cutting waste as essential to do anything about climate change, skills shortages because the employment is so much in the wrong jobs, government surpluses achieved by selling off assets and not fixing the desperately needed infrastructure to cope with peak oil and water shortages, and a turn-around to realise that encouraging population growth is catastrophic for survival as well as for the fraudulent prosperity from escalating property prices. Etc.

2. Doing something about all these as well as wasting our substance on military excursions that can help little on the world scale.

3. We have not been told what the coalition will or can do about these emergencies, and ALP is slow off the mark too.

4. In fact, the public has not been told how serious the situation is.

This is a federal election & the two should be kept separate.When it comes to the state election many state labor governments will be out the window so fast their feet won't touch the ground.So how do you get a wall to wall labor!

Why do Young Liberals post here? If to improve their debating skills, how come they never defend any of the ridiculous claims they make? I guess its like all education for the privelidged, all they have to do is show up. "Full steam ahead, and steward! more port for the officers mess!

If Labor gets in, you'll see the following:
A massive increase in immigration from the least assimilable nationalities. Notice that Labor never mentions their immigration policy.
Budget deficits galore financing the ridiculous Gore-inspired climate change policies, until interest rates need to be doubled or trebled to fix up the mess.
The country run by the unions, as Kev has to pay his debts to them - who is bankrolling all those ads, by the way?
Wall-to-wall Labor Governments- seeing the mess they have made of State Governments, this is really scary.
If you want to see what it is going to be like, you only have to look at the disaster caused by the "NuLabour" spin-meister traitors in England.
Garrett was stupid enough to reveal Labor's real intentions.
I'm afraid we're going to be in for some really tough times, if Labor wins. They cannot be trusted.

What a pack of illiterates. Never have I read so much drivel by so many about this tedious little Alexander Deane who thought it was perfectly acceptable to illegally turn away and lock up the refugees on the TAMPA.

Arjay, Howard and Fraser gave us the worst recession since the great depression with stagflation, 11.4% inflation, 10.4% unemployment and 13.5% mortgage rates on money they were paying over 21% for months on end.

Now, the ALP have been in government before and the country did not come to a sudden halt so will you please all take a bex and have a good lie down before you have kittens.

This is not an economy, it is a nation with people with wants and needs. At this point in time our national debt is 161% paid at 12% interest to the rest of the world, mortgages are about 45% of income, there are no jobs in spite of the employment lies. ONly 7.5 million people in Australia work full time, 2.9 million part time and the rest are under 15 or old or on pensions for sickness or disability.

Now enough already.

As regards the Great Economic Management Lie I have cut & pasted a Best Of' tribute in homage to the many worthy posts contributed thus far.
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"John Howard and Peter Costello have not made a success of running our economy. If they had we would have have spent money on infrastructure for the future rather than promote speculation, with tax cut for high income earners. Their policies have bid housing out of the reach of many young families"
Posted by Foyle (p.1)

"I am so tired of hearing the lies about the high interest rates!... Average mortgages were $60K. 18% of $60K is less than 6% of $200K "
"the Howard govt has cut ..payments to states by about 2% of GDP. Thats quite a lot".
Posted by 'Rain' (p.4&6)

"he placed the rates debate on the table pretending the government has a bigger role than it really does"
Posted by TurnRightThenLeft (p3)

"skills shortages because the employment is so much in the wrong jobs, government surpluses achieved by selling off assets and not fixing the desperately needed infrastructure to cope with peak oil and water shortages"
"realise that encouraging population growth is catastrophic for survival as well as for the fraudulent prosperity from escalating property prices. Etc"
Posted by 'ozideas' (p,7)

"At this point in time our national debt is 161% paid..to the rest of the world"
Posted by Marilyn Shepherd (p.7)

we tender this account on behalf of
Australian voters.
workchoices 1% of the vote.
Children overboard 1% of the vote
AWB scandal 1%
Exporting Australian citizens to the Philippines 1% of the vote.
Loss of parliamentary accountability 1% of the vote
Your extremely late conversion to climate change 1% of the vote
Lies real or perceived from you and your Cabernet 1% of the vote
Taking your battlers for granted 1% of total vote
Old mate you will note our prices are the discount ones and some items have been left of the bill.
Posted by 'Belly' (p.6)
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My heartfelt thanks to these & other posters.

- Mr Smith