I don't think it has anything to do with treasury. What's more I don't think the last 12 months of catastrophe is ant incompetence, I think it is a pure act of vindictive spite by the red witch.

She is out to cause as much trouble for Abbott, by leaving the economy in the worst possible position she can. Poor dumb Swanny may or may not understand all this, probably he does not, & is just a pawn.

That all this will cause immense pain for the Oz population is a bonus. It pays us back for not loving her, & accepting her as our beloved leader.

She will be living the high life on her recently increased super., laughing her head off at us as we try to claw our way out of the mess.

Hasbeen - I think it is a pure act of vindictive spite by the red witch.

Could well be, Hell has no fury like a woman scorned & all that

Poor dumb Swanny may or may not understand all this, probably he does not, & is just a pawn.

I've had the misfortune of meeting the dying duck several times and its fairly obvious he was out of town when the brains were handed out. He's had a rather chequered political career & is very unlikely to get another chance by the good people of Lilley. From what I've heard, he isn't exactly the most switched-on representative. The clown had a very 'interesting' run-in with certain authorities a while back, seems a used car salesman crony provided him with a vehicle and said authorities saw fit to ask a few pointed questions about the circumstances. As I recall, the media feasted on the story for some time.

Belly,
Which part of Labor can't manage don't you understand ?

Dear Individual,

So the International Monetary Fund, the Reserve Bank,
and world economic experts have it all wrong and that
our economy is in good nick and we've been given
a triple A rating, and that we're the envy
of other countries around the world, is something that
we need to ignore.

Makes perfect sense to some I guess.
Thinking is obviously not everyone's strong suit.

So if that's the case Lexi, care to explain how you would describe the shape we were in pre labor?

As I say, to win any race, you needn't be very good, just better than the rest.

Dear rehctub,

To win this particular race it's far easier when you've
got big media, big business and big money, lined up
supporting you. Then it becomes rather hard for the
other side to get any message out. And its the media
that influences polls and public opinion.

As for what was it like before Labor? As we all should
know the Coalition had the fortune to hold office in
good economic times, especially from 1996 to 2007 when
the Howard government enjoyed the dividends of the
Hawke-Keating economic reforms and when the world economy
was enjoying a long speculative-driven boom. Good luck,
perhaps, but not good management.

The Howard administration neglected the asset side of
public finances. If the Howard Cabinet had been the board
of a publicly listed company, the shareholders would have
thrown them out for weakening the company's asset base.

It's very easy to leave money in the kitty when very little
was done over 11 years of the Howard Administration. And let us
not forget that according to the OECD overall taxation in
Australia increased when the Coalition took office in 1996.
Taxes were then higher throughout the entire Howard/Costello
period than at any time during the preceding Hawke/Keating
years.

Still the public eventually kicked them out of office and
Howard was only the second PM to not only lose the election
but get kicked out of his electorate as well. I guess that
was a massive indictment of the Asutralian people and
their judgement of character.

It shall be interesting to see what happens if the Libs
win the next election. The Libs are the party that keeps
telling us that government doesn't work. Then they get
elected and prove it.