thinker 2 - Quote "to the rest of the world. It's already an International embarrasment when people talk of turning the boats of asylum seekers back out to sea" Your statement is ludicrous EVEN NEW ZEALAND TOLD THEM THEY WERE NOT WANTED. Even Israel has been building a fence to stop them Even going so far as to say "We are determined to stop the flow of the infiltrators"

The world sees us as stupid for this year alone having over 14,000 welfare for lifers arrive, which the taxpayer has to support. NOT ONE IS HOMELESS OR GOES HUNGRY THOUSANDS OF AUSTRALIANS DO.

The figure for boat arrivals was estimated at 450 per month for 2012 to 2013 we get over 2,000 per month at present. The cost of keeping arrivals on Manus and Narau is estimated at $5.4 BILLION with a top of $6.6 BILLION.
Figure are used by people saying EACH boat arriving costs us $12 million dollars so just to keep the ROYAL AUSTRALIAN TAXI SERVICE there to pick them up.
They are costing BILLIONS at the moment and there is in reality no top $ figure what if next week 25 boats turn up with 100 people on each then again the next week (after all the Government arrivals estimate has been blown out lately by 500%) THERE HAS TO COME A TIME WITH ALL THINGS MONEY RELATED YOU SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

I thought these people claimed to be sound econonic managers.

I also thought that the independent assessment of the NSW economic situation after the election found the State to be in good shape.

This is just party ideology masquerading as economics.

Cut essential services (because it's part of your agenda) but try to blame it on the previous administration - the oldest trick in the book for every incoming government.

Expect to see much more of the same.

I must admit I haven't read many real newspapers lately, the news on the internet does not specify areas that are very cerebral, nor does it go to any local detail in NSW as most of the news is written in another country. Unless there are links to our papers, but the choice of topics and links is basic. I don't think the topic has made it to the news on the internet. I didn't know that Unsworth, I mean, O'Farrell (see, wrong Barry), was appropriating figures that could be seen as misappropriation. But lets face it, we have has such a bad run of leaders in NSW. Business prospers in this state, it can't be that hard to balance the budget and go back to the basics and just be efficient and prudent and not too entangled with corporations. That could be seen as corruption. They don't seem concerned about this image. I'm sure Kerry Paker is very happy. The only question is, how big will Crown Casino be in Sydney?

I just heard on the radio that they have just uncovered another $2 billion that had somehow seemed not to have been there.

My dear saintfletcher, it's Barrel not Barry. Barrel O'Farrell's waistline is the equator.

O'Farrell is a dud, he was a dud in opposition and he is a dud as premier. Look at the list of lies he has already accumulated since the election. Saying all of that, NSW Labor was and is worse.