Just to lighten things up:

As Gina Rinehart said to her children:
"Gimme More!"

As James Packer told 60 Minutes:
"Build Casinos and they (Chinese),
Will Come!"

As Joe Hockey told us on the News:
"There's no denying the numbers are great!:

And as Tony Abbott said on the 7.30 Report:
"Don't believe a word I say!"

Abbott says don't believe a word i say. That has been catching on for some time. I came across a bullsght bag in a souvenir shop, with instructions on how to fill it and how to dispose of it when full.
None of the noalition can recognize good figures, there is no economics in any of them.
Turnbull's time is near. Toni has lost slippers vote.
Economic illiteracy has no place in federal politics
If Abbott gets a chance we will be governed by mining tycoons.
To many chooks in one house.

One of the nice things about OLO is the fact that after the next election we can come back to threads like this one and have a good laugh.

Ant,

You live far from reality in the dream world of Labor spin, where everything positive is due to Labor's stewardship, and everything that goes wrong is someone else's fault.

The biggest minerals boom in the world is underway, and tax revenues are nearly 4x what they were under Howard, and employment here is nearly double. This is in spite of Labor's new taxes, union meddling with the new IR laws and blocking foreign labor. In spite of this Labor has yet to produce a surplus.

The rest of the economy which employs 90% of workers is struggling in particular with the onerous conditions of the fair work act.

To prove me wrong, just show me what Labor has implemented to improve the mining sector. If not I can add you to the labor spin doctors. I bet you even believe Craig Thomson is as pure as the driven snow, and that horrible Kathy Jackson just framed him.

Shadow Minister,
I think Lexi and 579 have answered your - well, I hesitate to call them points, but anyway, I think they have answered them perfectly.

Spindoc,
You're right there.
No matter who wins or loses it'll a good time for a laugh.
(Probably just before I go and drown my sorrows)
Anthony
http://www.observationpoint.com.au

Ant,

Lexi and 579 didn't address anything I said. Either you have literacy issues or you are deliberately ignoring what I asked you. What has labor done to lay claim to the stewardship of the mining boom? I believe that at best they are passengers, at worst they have their feet on the brakes, and the economy is doing well in spite of them.

P.S. the previous quarter's growth was 1.3%, and this quarter was 4.3%, so the average is not 4.5% or even 4.3%.