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Having failed as economic managers, will Labor now splurge to buy votes?

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Philip S.

Is the fact that illegal arrivals have been ommitted from news reports recently due to the fact that it has become such a regular occurence it is no longer noteworthy?

Or could pressure have been brought to bear not to report the flood of boats during this coming year?

I suspect the arrivals will increase, as the savvy people smugglers will anticipate that should this government not be re-elected, the laws will be tightened considerably in an effort to stem the flood, and thereby reduce their profits - hopefully to zero!

With an election on the horizon now it would be in Labour's interest to see this subject slip quietly behind every other issue, wouldn't it?

Let's face it, they have plenty of their other governing failures to explain away, and boat arrivals are a very emotive subject with so many persons on both sides of politics qualified to cast a vote.

I discount the Greens here, as their agenda is so narrowly focused, and I regard them as merely an annoyance, who represent a small minority, but have managed to obtain a disproportionate amount of power by aligning themselves to Labour. As Andrew Wilkie discovered, their reward for doing so has backfired on them somewhat.

Imagine Pauline Hanson is thinking - I told them so, and they wouldn't listen to me.
Posted by worldwatcher, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 8:46:48 PM
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Labor will buy votes by puting us in more debt.

There is a way to resolve this dilemma.We must put pressure on the the Coalition to make the RBA do it's job of new money creation and loan it to our banks who currently borrow from the international counterfeiters like the US Federal Reserve.

If the US Fed can create micky mouse money in their computers,why cannot our RBA?
Posted by Arjay, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 9:59:40 PM
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Labor positive agenda includes many records,

4 years of record deficits
Changed border control from 300 illegal boat arrivals in 6 years to 30 000 in 4 years.
Record public expenditure with no visible service increase,
"reformed" the tax system, by simply adding new taxes and leaving the old ones in place.
20 000 pieces of legislative red tape for industry and small business.

Etc

The comparison of 5 years of Labor incompetence against the coalition's steady and reliable rule is stark.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Thursday, 27 December 2012 7:57:34 AM
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As opposed to some of the Howard "Golden Age" Miracles we've overlooked -

Biggest Trade deficit on record (including the longest run of successive monthly trade deficits),
Highest levels of household and business debt in history,
Lowest ever value of the Aussie dollar,
Interest rates consistently above the OECD average,
Highest inflation in 16 years,
Lowest ever housing affordability,
Highest rates of personal bankruptcies in 20 years,
Highest taxing government in history with
Massive cuts to health,education and other services while frittering away mineral boom benefits on electoral bribes.
Introduction of employee protection legislation prompted only by personal interest (such as bailing out a financially embarrassed brother's textile firm).


Those with short attention spans may have conveniently forgotten some of these items.
Posted by wobbles, Friday, 28 December 2012 8:31:19 PM
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Steady and reliable, Abbott does keep a steady and reliable effort at putting his foot in his mouth, so much so it keeps him from reading things that matter. The good old golden days, what an effort.
If you think Abbott can stop boats arriving hence forth you have rocks in your head.
Will we see some form of policy from the non policy party this year, or will believers just tag along anyway, like they did in QLD.
Costed policy with macho detail, is what is required.
Attacking our female PM, left mr Abbott a little lonely. It's amazing how they thought something that far back was relevant.
Not to mention calling the PM a crook. X 2 members of the noalition.
Women don't like the little man, he has a way of disgusting them, with his hatred of women in authority.
How is this man going to change his character and not get worse results. It will take more than letting his hair grow.
Posted by 579, Saturday, 29 December 2012 10:25:40 AM
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Oh god.

Does a duck quack?

Even Richardson, who perfected the policy of buying greenie votes to hold government, is horrified at how far Labor has now gone.
Posted by Hasbeen, Saturday, 29 December 2012 12:34:28 PM
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