individual,

The IMF is representative of Western corporate interests.

It's main claim to fame is acting as a doorman for Western corporations, getting their foot in the door and in cahoots with governments.

Lots of cutting and privatisation where the IMF gets influence on arrangements...just the sort of organisation that you right-wingers embrace with gusto.

It did a study and found the Howard government was one of the most "fiscally profligate" in Australia's history

Just to keep us all up to date with Saviour Abbott's latest round of kiddie-talk.

Global media are now reporting his "baddies versus baddies" commentary.

Can't wait to see him strutting the world stage with his Grade 5-style rhetoric.

Should put Oz on map : )

http://www.france24.com/en/20130901-syria-conflict-baddies-vs-baddies-abbott

Poirot,
And what about that herd of pink elephants you saw ?

SM "While Labor has the right to question the coalition's costings, no one takes Labor seriously anymore. Rudd, Bowen and Wong are now the laughing stock of the media."

The "media", concentrated mainly as it is on meeting Rupert's needs, is hardly a fair arbiter if it does not equally pick up on Abbott's verballing of the The Parliamentary Budget Office. The PBO simply said it was inappropriate to imply that the PBO has costed LNP policy, to wit, Abbott says this is an implicit statement that LNP costings are accurate, clearly attempting to hoodwink the electorate.

No one can possibly take the LNP seriously on its costings because it will not reveal them to timely, official scrutiny, and, because it is prepared to verbal the PBO to create an illusion that it has somehow done so.

Spare us your parsimony with the truth, SM.

Abbott is the "last minute costing-kid"...

(don't know if that would rate him as a "goodie or a baddie")

Lucyface,

If you are going to post something, please, try to get vaguely near the truth.

The Treasury officials said that Treasury had not costed the coalition's costings, only Labor's version of them, and that what Rudd, Bowen, and Wong presented was false and inappropriate.

The PBO has costed the real LNP policies and given them the tick of approval.

You were right Labor is not only the laughing stock of the media, they are the laughing stock of the whole world.

P,

So Labor releasing its costings in 2007 12 hours before the polls opened makes them?