With the outlook for our great nation looking more and more of a concern and, considering this site is full of deniers who think our problems are all Abbotts fault, I ask you, are you worried yet?

Have you taken your heads out of the sand a seen what's ahead? Yet you still think we need to protect high wages, protect penalty rates and go on tax witch hunts to get the big end to pay more so we can do even less.

Good luck.

rehctub,

".... considering this site is full of deniers who think our problems are all Abbotts fault..."

Um....so things go into a downward spiral under Abbott - but it's not his or his govt's conduct that's at fault?

Not what you said when you were trashing Labor when it was in govt.

You might like to take into account that Private sector business investment rose 68.8% under previous Labor govt - it is down 15.1% under Abbott govt.

Unemployment is up.

Hockey has decided to do nothing about multinational corporations dodging tax or, for that matter, very rich Australians.

And now, because the govt is doing so crap in the polls, he's spruiking tax cuts.

"Why pick now, of all times, to cut income tax?

Bracket creep - Joe Hockey's stated reason for wanting to cut rates - is at a record low.

That's right. The risk of getting a pay rise that would push up your average tax rate is the lowest since the official wage price index began in 1997. In the past year, wages climbed just 2.3 per cent per cent, which is about as close to zero as wage rises get."

"According to the Treasurer: "It's not a case of either getting back to surplus or having tax cuts and a bigger deficit, that's just not right."

He can't "sit by and allow bracket creep to cover rising government spending".

But bracket creep isn't covering rising government spending. His own May budget booked $25 billion of bracket creep over the next four years, all of it to be directed to bringing down the deficit."

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/joe-hockey-offers-the-tax-cuts-we-neither-need-nor-can-afford-20150824-gj6o1f.html#ixzz3kHq5SzyV

Govt talking rubbish - as usual.

Globalisation as a strategy and multiculturalism as a tactic are intended to break down communities, restrict political liberties and lower wages and living conditions across the board, I'd say both Labor and the Coalition have lived up to the promises of a liberal democracy. When they went full steam ahead into the "Asian Century" it was implied, if not well understood that the result would be an Asian standard of living for all Australians.

Rehctub, are you for real?

If things are currently going so bad for Australia, isn't that the current Governments fault, as least in part?

How long are you and the other real world deniers going to continue to blame the past Government for what the current one is doing (or not) right now?

I hope you and the other Abbott groupies don't look even vaguely 'foreign' (I assume that to mean dark skinned, bearded, middle eastern looking men?) and plan to walk around the Melbourne CBD, just in case that mad Dutton decides to send the 'border patrol' blokes out to ask people in the streets for their current visa and passport?

Lol! Maybe the refugee boats did make land up north lately after all, and the 'invaders' are congregating in Spencer Street!

The police should have been doing a spot check of cab drivers at the airport rank or local kebab shops, eh Suseonline? Sure way to lose the cab service for the day and no kebabs for that unhappy experience of salmonella from the meat substitution racket.

The leftists are the queens :) of faux outrage. The tabloids are always thankful on a slow news day. Which is most days in view of the lack of talent available for any real investigative journalism.

The police have been conducting spot checks at railway stations for years. It is usual to have the dog squad in case any drugs are found and someone from Immigration to refer any possible visa dodgers to.

Recent history for the memory challenged,

http://tinyurl.com/p2mdrhk

Suse,
In Melbourne the authorities will set up a roadblock and divert all traffic through to a large car park then send each driver through a line of inspectors, the drivers are alchohol and drug tested, their ID and registration are checked, the Sheriff's department checks for outstanding fines or warrants, then immigration status, and vehicle roadworthiness. This happens every single day, most of us workers who spend a lot of time on the road have been through them multiple times in a year and Socialist Alternative don't say a word.
If you want a laugh watch the footage of the Melee at Chris Pyne's visit to Victoria University then view the footage taken on Flinders St hours later, it's the same bloody people, the same hysterical brunette in a blue cardigan is the central character in both news reports.
Does it ever occur to you that these "protestors" might be getting paid to carry out these stunts? Say by, oh I don't know, a TV station or newspaper group, a union or the Labor party?