Support for Abbott Plummets in wake of Broken Promises and G20 Gaffes

ltdnews only has so much lipstick. Obviously not enough to cover up the first pm to still be in opposition (stolen again from pb)

IT’S THE MEDIA’S FAULT!

I don’t think you should let Labor of the hook that easily reb 😉

and within 12 months we’re signed up and ready to go …

I wonder how many other people think that we have signed a “Free Trade ” Agreement with China?

What have they given away?

Well, for starters, the farm. The Nats must be quite chuffed with their achievement.

I mean, from the bits we have seen about this agreement to agree, we are allowed to sell a bit more there, in return for them being able to buy up everything that we sell back to them 😯 ❓

So they can buy up what they are about to purchase.

How in gods name is that “Fair”?

I guess yabot was serious when said “I’m focussing not on what might happen in 16 years’ time. I’m focusing on what we’re doing now.”

So, it appears he doesn’t care how much of Australia Australians own that they can sell to the Chinese in 16 years time?

As long as he gets his FTA signed now (or later)

I also wonder why there are not more cheering about how great it is we have signed this FTA with China?

Why are you lot so cynical?

I don’t know.

Could it be because our grubmint pushed Climate Change off the table and replaced it with “real solutions”

You know, like making absolute commitments that make a real change, not airy fairy stuff like a Climate Fund.

You know, real stuff, like a PPL, a $7 fee for GP visits and university deregulation

No wonder the G19 went away confused, bemused and totally let down.

“If anyone can produce a serious economist who says that slapping on a GP tax or $100,000 degrees are going to make it easier for Australia to grow … I’d like to meet them,” he said.

http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/ppl-in-mix-as-australias-g20-commitment/story-e6frfku9-1227125809813

I’d like to meet them too.

which requires no elaboration from me

ROFL

So, you think making commitments of policies that have been rejected in our Parliament and will quite likely never see the light of day is a “real solution”

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Yes, it’s odd that the so-called leader of the free world would make such a bombastic intervention into the politics of a supposed ally and friendly host, but the true statesman turns out to be Mr Xi of China.

#whenworldscollide.

‘The G19 basically begged him to include Climate Change’

I don’t doubt your word, but would you have a link?

“he confused China with Tasmania”

Well, they’re both overseas.

“he confused China with Tasmania”

Chinania?

“So, no-one is very happy with us signing this FTA with China then?”

There are always Winners and Losers you Bolsheviks just concentrate on losers since you have quite an afinity with that kinda status………………….LOL

“So, no-one is very happy with us signing this FTA with China then?”

Barnaby is happy, the farmers and graziers will claw back a decent return at the expense of city folk. Its a postmodern agrarian revolution.

“… I too would have thrown Churchill’s bust out”

I knew you would say that. But Obama is anti-british and pro-france.

Most Americans thought giving DVD’s as a present to Gordon Brown was embarrassing.

I’ve not specifically read the FTA, but China continues to grow at about 7% a year. Australia is wise to hitch itself to the growth.

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Claim on line vouchers makes a good point

“…….It’s nice to actually be appreciated for a change, unlike those mindless pricks like egg, walrus and Neil………”

You are sooooooooooooo lucky I dont have feelings

As far as egg and NoS are concerned https://www.lifeline.org.au/

grog has a good piece up explaining how efficient our IR system actually is.

Given the current weak employment growth and rising unemployment, it displayed that the current IR system works exactly as an efficient IR system should
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But over the past three years – under the Fair Work Act – for the first time since the wage price index has been calculated, labour productivity has actually grown faster than wages. This is pretty much your aim when you are devising a flexible and efficient IR system:

http://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2014/nov/18/slow-wage-rises-show-australias-industrial-relations-system-is-working

Yet still, it MUST be changed! 😯

The plebs are STILL earning over $2 and hour

Good point. There is still work to be done then

“”Well obviously. The plebs are STILL earning over $2 and hour””

Hopefully the FTA will fix that up

‘The FuckedTradeAgreement with China will be a python squeeze!’

Speaking for the farmers and graziers, its a win win.

“”Gas prices have skyrocketed with sales overseas “”

Yes I’m so glad the World is moving away from fossil fuels…………ROFLMAO

Why don’t you stick some more of those sun dial solar thingys on your roof or…………………………

Solution : Buy some Santos or Woodside Petroleum shares

‘Shouldn’t it be a win-win for all Australians not just a favoured few?’

Its been out of balance for a long time, the poor buggers have been dudded by coles and woolies, its about time we recognize the true value of the man on the land.

‘The farm is literally being sold out from under us … ‘

Mainly in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, not too much in the bush.

‘I think the Chinese will always outsmart us.’

They genuinely only want the world to benefit from their wealth, Xi is a benevolent dictator.

“They genuinely only want the world to benefit from their wealth”

Come on Egg. Humans only do things from self interest.

Ludicrous

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with myriad present-actual and future-potential uses beyond tossing them on the bonfire.

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(It’s all good, Neil; when Andrew Robb extols the fact that Australian fresh milk is fetching up to $9 a litre in Beijing; and when Tony Abbott explains to Alan Jones that megafarmers will only be doing what free-marketeers do when voluntarily selling the family farm and/or its produce to the highest bidder; you may rest assured that the costaliving for average innacity-leet latte-guzzlers can only be improved by a FTA; under a government which freely acknowledges as ridiculous the idea of Australia’s being, and being able to be, the Foodbowl of Asia; because unmet demand so, so, so far outstrips capacity to supply; but we can, will, and do try.

Nevertheless, it’s perhaps best to wait for the formal modelling, reportedly yet to be undertaken, before making any declarative announcements about how very much are the huge benefits which Australians will derive; and, in the interim, while you and I await your and my government doing and releasing some due diligence documents to the public, we might, perhaps, consider a recent David Rowe cartoon from the AFR, to keep ourselves amused.)

releasing some due diligence documents to the public

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But will it be in the form of a #ginapoem?

“”Yeah, that’s why three of us got out of our cars at a busy intersection yesterday … to help push a stalled P platers car off the road … “”

Straight into a ditch I bet

Why did you give us all a lesson on Natural Gas being a fossil fuel when I already know that ?

you can take your feeble shots at us beancounters

OK

“You’re”

It’s time to have some bad grammar banning

I may occasionally partake of substances which are deemed by our moral and intellectual betters to be illegal. I fully understand the consequences if the law enfocement community wants to clamp down on what I do in my own home to my own body.

I’m happy to take that risk.

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It’s the ABC making a living by talking about the ABC

Funny, I watched it on channel 7

Are the reporters there as ‘privileged’ as ‘consultants’ hired by big companies to work out ways to rip off workers?

This also is a case of saving a dime but costing a fortune (or whatever that saying is)

The Abbott government is creating “a fourth free-to-air network by stealth” after it proposed doubling the amount of advertising on the SBS, Ten Network boss Hamish McLennan says.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/stealth-attack-rival-tv-chiefs-livid-over-sbs-changes-20141119-11pvvw.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nc&eid=socialn%3Atwi-13omn1677-edtrl-other%3Annn-17%2F02%2F2014-edtrs_socialshare-all-nnn-nnn-vars-o%26sa%3DD%26usg%3DALhdy28zsr6qiq

As I said earlier, there is no forward thinking at all with grubmint, They came in with appears to be the one aim of cutting anything their ideology does not like, and to hell with the consequence.

In fact, in many ways, they resemble a ‘privileged consultant’ hired by a big company to work out ways to rip off those not in their box of winners?

(So, first we appoint some conflict-of-interest-free cultural warriors to the entity which selects board members; then we subtly intimate that existing board members, some more than others, should resign; and, as our contribution to ‘objectivity’, we have also preprepared some ‘suggestions’ for how new/old board members will exercise their ‘independent’ duties; off the back of a blatant, fundamental breach of an unambiguous promise-cum-contractual-term to the Australian people not to block supply to a public statutory corporation; for all of which behaviour we take no responsibility? Nice.)

A fantastic analysis of what yabot said to world leaders, and, more importantly, how that differs to what is said to us

Weird and graceless. Shorten’s description of Abbott’s G20 address to world leaders was spot on. We all know that Abbott doesn’t perform well at public speaking. And we never expected him to say anything inspiring, intelligent or even informative at the G20. It’s not like he was going to admit he’d been wrong about climate policy and could Obama and Xi Jinping please help him to fix his faults. No, what we expected was for him to be uninspiring, unintelligent, and to say not much at all. Like he usually does. Because let’s face it, we’re used to three word slogans repeated slowly, spread out amongst ahh, err, arh, urms ad nauseam. But that’s not what we got from Abbott yesterday. Surprisingly, we got worse than this. Which is why it’s worth taking a closer look at what he actually did say.

http://victoriarollison.com/2014/11/16/what-abbott-actually-said/

The kind of analysis our msm miss repeatedly. eg

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought Pyne’s argument was that deregulation of university fees would make fees less expensive?

It exposes the completely vacuous and total inconsistent approach this grubmint has taken to almost everything to date.

Please make it stop.

So …. you are “ticked Off” 😉

(Also, how can, “It’s all our fault that Abbott can’t balance his books!”, possibly be true when The Plan clearly was that all promises detailed therein were fully-costed and fully-budgeted and verified by either the Charter of Budget Honesty or the Parliamentary Budget Office and received further rigorous testing after a detailed statement on policies funding and, by corollary, policies was published in good time before the next election?)

‘…after a detailed statement on policies funding and, by corollary, policies was published in good time before the next election?’

Never trust a politician, they have a tendency to exaggerate and tell outright fibs to achieve the desired outcome. Fortunately for the Conservatives they have two years before the next election. Then they will say the savings made were essential and get away with it.

(Speaking of successors to Vogon poetry, Our Future apparently is proceeding apace.)

The Ministry of Troof

‘It is estimated that 71% of Australians access the ABC’s television, radio and online services, with approximately 6 million unique visits to ABC online properties each week. Interestingly, the ABC also attracts 498,900 active users of the ABC flagship app each month. The online audience is significantly growing, based on the ABC’s Webtrends data, that recorded a shift from 5 million unique visits at July 2013.’

The Conversation

Jacqui Lambie makes Pauline Hanson seem statesman like

Oh my Dog…………………..cuts to the ABC ?????????????????

There go the dog collar wearing, bicycle riding, inner city, latte sipping Green votes……………!

How funny is this disintegration of PUP…

We have a delusional rich guy, one of his managers, a punch drunk former NRL player and a loud mouth bogan, all having a disorderly brawl!

‘Go Clivey’

” with the buffoons trying to run the country at present”

Typical ALP comment. Hand the incoming Coalition govt a trashed budget and then call them stupid because they do not fix the problem in 2 years.

I suspect the ALP has created a runaway debt train which most probably cannot be stopped.

‘Egg you are a pointless pillock.. yes the ABC is both popular and the most technologically advanced mult iplatform media network in Australia if not the world.’

In the old days at Gore Hill most of the staff were North Shore types who voted Liberal, now its totally in the hands of the PLS.

“In fact I wonder if Mr McLintock knows how to operate a fkn computer?””

Why are you offering to build him one of your homebuilt ones,……………… you know the ones you reckon could work in an F35 ?

Here is another one

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRZN3Iy_WrMjvM1yPoMpXUW5qPdJyAkgYjKHPl8E1GYvdpUhq4j1Q

What is it with the ALP and Obama?

Yeah, all the girly giggling and footy hand-balling of Gillard with Obama was repulsive.

It’s fine with me if a female politician has a go at him instead of flirting with him.

Yeah………..but I don’t utter silly hypocritical slogans

ROFL

that’s what thieves like you do

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(I thought George Christensen MP was busy professing his faith in an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent God and Her ability to provide a convenient distraction: Halal products may be funding Islamist extremism, claims Nationals MP.

Not that Neil would ever be so easily beguiled; and especially not when there’s the CoW’s FAT ATF FTA numbers AFT to peruse: Why isn’t the government being held to account on the China free trade deal?)

‘It’s fine with me if a female politician has a go at him instead of flirting with him.’

Bishop was a school teacher and the female leftoid school teachers I know reckon ‘she needs a good slap’.

“”Bishop was a school teacher and the female leftoid school teachers I know reckon ‘she needs a good slap’.””

Raises hand !

(I’ve been to the outer reef about 6 times TB)

I don’t understand what the controversy is about.

That’s not really surprising yomm 😉

I’m pretty sure Obama doesn’t give a fuck either, but I’m sure there are a lot of players on the side looking and drawing their conclusions from the way we are acting on the world stage.

Village Idiot summed it up pretty well 😉

Unfortunately, bishop just showed that the village is full of them.

btw Meta, I think grog summed it all up in this paragraph

Given the price of iron ore has fallen 47% since December and thermal coal prices have gone down 29% in the same period, does anyone really expect this agreement is going to improve our terms of trade?

But the meeja will spin it as if it has.

‘Unfortunately, bishop just showed that the village is full of them.’

She’s mooted to become the next PM.

Outrageous & overdeveloped ugliness in the very neighbourhood

I know the feeling 😉

TB has apparently been snorkelling in some interesting places!

“”Looking forward to your poem in Poet’s Corner … or a recipe, or a painting, or a photo, or a film review … anything creative and positive “”

Mmmmmmmmm……………………….a poem about Blind Trusts in the Cayman Islands perhaps ?