I find Penny Wong one of the very few shining lights in what is a rather dark and dingy Labor administration, would welcome her into the Greens any day. How could things get even darker and dingyer, I know, vote in the Mad Monk and his band of wombats
I was watching 'sky' the other day and they were interviewing this Arny Schwarzenegger type. Found out he's a Liberal Senator, boy who let him out of his cage. How about it SM please give me the low down on this Arny fella is he also a Rhodes Scholar like the boss? I don't think so, because between the grunts he seemed rather incoherent. What school did he attend, Taronga Park School?

Anthonyve,
The Global Financial Crises is a bit of a misnomer. To have a GFC, as the name implys it has to be globally, world wide, everybody, besides Antarctic (nobody) another continent was not affected, Australia (22 million), so there wasn't any GFC just a partial GFC and that would be a contradiction in terms. Rechtub will most likely point that out to you shortly and give due praise to the Rudd Labor Government for shielding Australians from that non existent GFC the world had in 2008. Please don't hold your breath for that to come. At that time the Conservatives opposed what Labor done. In government the Liberals would have resorted to their old time (non) action, whenever there has been an economic crises, cut cut cut, tighten the belt, help big business, batten down the hatches, bugger the people ride out the storm. The Conservative mantra the world over "The free market will fix everything in time." by nature they believe in non intervention (that's socialism, and the conservatives are ideologically opposed to any form of socialism). Don't worry about people, its money that counts, so millions have to suffer for the good of the few, that's how their God wants it, so they think.

Yeah, Paul, I think you're spot on there.
The Right have this weird notion of putting the economy ahead of people. Yet the economy doesn't actually exist - it's no more than the sum total of millions of decisions made by millions of people interacting.
Yet somehow, they think this non-entity is more important than a living, breathing human.
Makes no sense to me at all.
Cheers,
Anthony

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To paraphrase the wisdom of Tony Abbott - "Well she just does".

Where has Belly been ? Not a peep from him.
Not hiding his head in shame is he ?

You're right, we did have a GFC back in 08 and although I didn't have a problem with the stimulus at the time, it was the delivery that was the problme, as simply handing out cash makes it too open to waste, which by the way happened to much of the money.

Now putting the GFC aside, what then caused the mulitiude of stuff ups created by labor ever since and, why the need to borrow so much for so long. You lot have said yourselves, we had a buffe and it was used during the GFC.

It's not just federal politics that has been a mess, most states are in poor shape as well , which, for the likes of WA and QLD, given their mining win falls, is a disgrace and proof that labor governments, at all levels are simply incompitent when it comes to spending out taxes.