I don't like it all that much either what this Government is doing but, had the previous loose assembly of incompetent morons not stuffed Australia so badly than Abbott's Government would be able to make less harsh choices. It IS all due to the previous ALP government that we now have to cop the crap we're copping. Abbott told Australians BEFORE the election that it wasn't going to be an easy ride yet people still preferred his alternative to what was in place.
C'mon morons, let him make the right decisions which you wouldn't recognise if you fell over them & let him get on with the much needed recovery of Australia. You caused the problem & now you're blaming Abbott, get a brain.

Some Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade staff are annoyed Prime Minister Tony Abbott's daughter Louise is working at Australia's embassy in Geneva, which is headed by former Coalition staffer Peter Woolcott.

But a spokesman for DFAT said the job helping represent Australia to the United Nations was awarded on the basis of merit.

Jealousy over plum jobs in overseas locations was a staple of workplace life at DFAT, but departmental insiders said there were concerns over Ms Abbott being hired in Geneva, given the political connections of the mission's boss.
One gets a scholarship and another working for AU in Geneva, incredible coincidence.

individual,

" It IS all due to the previous ALP government that we now have to cop the crap we're copping. Abbott told Australians BEFORE the election that it wasn't going to be an easy ride...."

Actually, it's all due to the Abbott/Hockey et al confected "Budget emergency" that "we have to cop the crap we're copping"...Gawd, how gullible do you have to be to keep on buying that? Australia was in very good financial nick (according to most prominent economists) before this mob of wreckers took over. How to douse consumer confidence - at it's lowest since the GFC.

Australian consumer confidence has fallen 17.7 points since the election - that's 16 %.

Hello recession?

Hockey doesn't even seem to understand his own sneaky budget.

I take issue with this particularly "...Abbott told Australians BEFORE the election that it wasn't going to be an easy ride..."

What Abbott told us "the day before" the election (and earlier) was this:

"There will be not cuts to health, no cuts to education, no changes to pensions...no cuts to the ABC or SBS".

That's what he said.

During the debate, Abbott says after Rudd accused him of planning to chop Medicare Locals: "We're not going to shut any Medicare Locals"

Guess what? They're shutting them (surprise, surprise!)

And that's aside from serially omitting to inform us that what they really had in store was to cut everything in sight, especially if Labor had had anything to do with setting it up.

Far from telling us it's not going to be an easy ride, Abbott and Co assured us that we'd be practically the same (except for boats and carbon tax)...and that all their spin was costed.

Wall to wall lies, so that they could come to power.

So much for our democracy...the LNP just trashed it.

And step up a bit, individual.

Your habit of continually referring to fellow posters as "morons" merely displays your lack of class and maturity.

people who rule third world countries who live the lavish life while their people starve in the streets.
Poirot,
yes and, in the western first world this mindset is specific to leftist bureaucracy.

fellow posters as "morons"
Poirot,
Well, offer me another word which is equally descriptive for those posters ?