Dear Yabby,

I'll let you have the last word
as long as you understand that you're wrong. ;-)

More lies yet again.

Can this woman ever tell us the truth?

Can we ever trust what she says?

How anyone can support her defies logic if you ask me.

If she was a kid at school, she would spend a lot of time in detention for compulsive lying.

And you want us to trust her!

Yea, right!

Dear rehctub,

Why just once why don't you come up with something new -
like placing a bit more scrutiny onto the Coalition
and holding them to account? Afterall if you think
things are so bad with the current PM - take a closer
look at the alternative - put the alternative under
the microscope and see what you can come up with
(if anything).

Heres a link for your reading Yabby, enjoy.

http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/howard-was-good-but-keating-was-better/

Meanwhile I will look for some other specifically selected stats re the other factors such as interest rates, inflation etc. And on the jobs front, Keating's Treasury produced many more real jobs than Howard did. Not part time or casual positions without sick pay or holiday pay etc.

Stats don't show the whole picture anyway.

*Without Keating, Labor would be a poll-driven, economically illiterate, intellectually barren and pea-hearted political party too timid to pursue a market-based reform agenda.*

Your author got that bit right, Thinker 2. The things is, the
reforms that Keating undertook, only needed to be done once and
then continued. Like sell Govt businesses, drop tariffs, reform
the tax system, lower tax rates, give business confidence to invest.
Pay off Govt debts, cut spending, cut waste etc.

That is what Costello did. Govt sometimes achieves more by not
fiddling with the system, which creates stability. In the end it
is private enterprise that creates jobs by investment, not Govt.

Reform of the labour market was also sound policy. What we have now
is unions wanting to take over the running of the mines etc, so we
are returning to union thuggery by Govt mandate. Hardly a great
reason to invest here.

I await those figures that you mentioned, the two I linked to so
far, show the exact opposite of what you claim.

T2, what these stats don't tell is the IR regulations, se by Keating a d I hearted by Howard.

It was un fair dismissal that started the casualisation of the workforce, the worst policy ever in my view.

Lexi, you seem to always forget that it is governments role to govern, not those in opposition.

Now as for Julia, what you are suggesting is it's fine to lie to the people, repeatedly in might add.

Take a good hard look around and see the damage these fools have caused to many small businesses, the backbone of our society.

As I have said before, this year will be the last for many, and for many others, who can't afford to walk away, there is little chance they will continue once their leases have run out.

It's mostly due to lack of confidence.

Just take the solar rebate, just wiped out at a heart beat.

How do these people in business who have set u to to do this work get on now.

You simply have no idea.
ask not whether Tony Abbott is worthy, ask whether or not Julia Gillard deserves the trust of the people for another term especially considering her compulsive lying.