Poor Malcolm Bligh Turnbull, erstwhile Federal Leader of the Opposition.
Nothing is really going his way these days when when it comes to the economy.
Rudders has stolen thunder from The Cap'n when it comes to pensioners, low income families and first homebuyers.
He has given them at least 1,400 reasons why he and not the Coalition will be remembered this Christmas when the one-off lumpsum payments flow through the system.
Turnbull is also left with a poor selection of milksop responses like 'I thoughta it furst', as Rudd and Swan don gravitas cloaks and sally forth to head off domestic impacts of the global economic crisis.
It sort of makes nonsense of all that braying Turnbull was doing less than three weeks ago:
"Malcolm Turnbull: I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition moving immediately— That the Rudd Government be condemned for being out of touch, out of its depth and out of the country. In particular:(1)that the Government be condemned for its complete indifference to the plight of Australian pensioners who are struggling on a daily basis to meet the rising costs of petrol, groceries and rent;....
That this House condemns the Treasurer for his complete lack of understanding about the domestic impact of the global financial crisis and his inability to understand the impact it will have on Australian families, their jobs and their mortgages."
Nothing is really going his way these days when when it comes to the economy.
Rudders has stolen thunder from The Cap'n when it comes to pensioners, low income families and first homebuyers.
He has given them at least 1,400 reasons why he and not the Coalition will be remembered this Christmas when the one-off lumpsum payments flow through the system.
Turnbull is also left with a poor selection of milksop responses like 'I thoughta it furst', as Rudd and Swan don gravitas cloaks and sally forth to head off domestic impacts of the global economic crisis.
It sort of makes nonsense of all that braying Turnbull was doing less than three weeks ago:
"Malcolm Turnbull: I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition moving immediately— That the Rudd Government be condemned for being out of touch, out of its depth and out of the country. In particular:(1)that the Government be condemned for its complete indifference to the plight of Australian pensioners who are struggling on a daily basis to meet the rising costs of petrol, groceries and rent;....
That this House condemns the Treasurer for his complete lack of understanding about the domestic impact of the global financial crisis and his inability to understand the impact it will have on Australian families, their jobs and their mortgages."
"Mr Turnbull said Mr Rudd "should not constitute himself as the leader of the big bank protection association. The banks are big enough to make their own case."
Wasn't that long ago that Turnbull treated the notion of inflation with a dismissive joke.
The Cap'ns feeble effort on Monday, "What we hear is that at long last they're going to provide some additional resources to pensioners," only served to remind many on the NSW North Coast that when in government the Coalition resisted raising the base pension and firmly set its face against any fair go for disability support pensioners.
Now if he wanted to talk about the Rees-Rudd community housing rental policy debacle...
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