Showing posts with label Scott Morrison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scott Morrison. Show all posts
Tuesday 18 September 2018
Prime Minister Shouty McShouty is just being his normal obnoxious self
There has
been some advice offered to Australian Prime Minister and Liberal MP for Cook Scott Morrison by mainstream media.
Some
journalists are suggesting that he should shout less.
That would be
nigh impossible as it would be going against his very nature as the political
version of a weekday schoolyard bully and a Sunday self-righteous prig.
Here are
videos of his performance in the House of Representatives as Treasurer to demonstrate
that he had little volume control even then :
Sunday 16 September 2018
The Scott Morrison Social Media Experience in 2018: expletives deleted
"QT was on fire today 🔥 Good work, team. https://t.co/M6UWcQO0HU"
Three hours after he posted this tweet on 13 September 2018, Australian Prime Minister and Liberal MP for Cook Scott Morrison deleted it;
Some hours later he apologised for the profanity included in the Fat Man Scoop "Be Faithful" hip hop song, part of which he had embedded in video of that afternoon's HoR Question Time - pleading ignorance.
Remove that dodgy tweet from his Twitter account he may have, but the twitterverse being faster than Morrison's digits meant there was still an echo left on that social media platform:
The reason why the government benches were conspicuous for so many arms upstretched in unison in the video is because, in true tent revival-style, Morrison was asking his colleagues to raise their hands:Good morning!— BuzzFeedOz Politics (@BuzzFeedOzPol) September 13, 2018
The prime minister deleted a tweet while you were asleep because it contained a song about fucking tonight. pic.twitter.com/oRxrIJi8aP
I'll ask those on this side of the House: who's ever run a small business here? Here we go! Who's ever worked in the private sector here? Here we go! Who's been a police officer here? Here we go! We've got a police officer up the back. Who is a farmer on this side of the House? We've got some farmers over here. We've got medical practitioners. Who has ever served in the Australian defence forces on this side of the House? The Liberal-National Party is the party of ordinary, everyday Australians going out there every day, having a go and getting a go.
"Who F#ckin Tonight? Who F#ckin tonight?
Who F#ckin Tonight? Oh!Oh! Who F#ckin tonight?
Who f#ckin Tonight? Who F#ckin Tonight? Oh!Oh!
Stop Playin, Keep It Movin! Stop playin, keep it movin!
Stop playin, keep it movin! Keep movin movin movin movin!
Hey sing along!" [Fat Man Scoop's "Be Faithfull"]
I'm still wondering which age demographic he was trying to impress. Particularly as these lyrics appear to have originally been penned in 1999.
I am also curious as to why the Prime Minister of Australia chose to ignore the conditions imposed on use of footage of parliamentary proceedings.
In particular 15.12(c) broadcast material may not be digitally manipulated.
As for why the reason Morrison gave for deleting his tweet changed in the following days from inappropriate lyrics to being in breach of parliament's rules on use of video footage, well that is anyone's guess.
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Thursday 13 September 2018
Australia has a prime minister who rejects realitiy and embraces idiocy
Scott Morrison with a coal specimen supplied by the Minerals Council of Australia ABC News, 9 February 2018 |
During an interview
with the ABC 7.30 program on 11
September 2018 Prime Minister & Liberal MP for Cook Scott Morrison declared he is “troubled” by the politics of envy in
Australia and has “a very strong view” on what fairness means.
His version
of “fairness” is a redefinition far removed from the contents of any dictionary
wherein it is usually taken to mean impartial and just treatment or behaviour
without favouritism or discrimination.
His expresses
his version of fairness as “those that have a go get a go” or “a fair go for
those that have a go”– phrases that are inherently judgemental.
It seems that in Morrison's world only individuals who are already capable of helping themselves in some fashion will deserve
assistance from others.
Morrison
again refused to say why the parliamentary Liberal Party changed leaders and in the interview sought to divorce himself from both the spill process and outcome, as though he
wasn’t a participant in those rolling leadership ballots.
But what
caught the attention of a numbers of viewers was his response to two questions.
The first response contained Morrison's assertion that he had separated climate/ environment and energy policies and admissions that he was removing climate change targets from future energy policy and was giving no guarantee of future funding for greenhouse gas emissions reduction.
The first response contained Morrison's assertion that he had separated climate/ environment and energy policies and admissions that he was removing climate change targets from future energy policy and was giving no guarantee of future funding for greenhouse gas emissions reduction.
The second involved his belief that there was a need for additional legal protections of religious freedoms when none were being threatened.......The moment @ScottMorrisonMP condemned my great grandchildren to death. @abc730 #auspoll #climatechange pic.twitter.com/eKlhfEY7jc— Fr Rod Bower (@FrBower) September 11, 2018
For Scott Morrison the primary fear of a majority of the Australian population is less important that demonstrating his missionary zeal to institutional Christianity and his unwavering support to the fossil fuel industry.Sales: "Can you give me an example at the moment where people's religious freedoms are being impinged?"— Greg Jericho (@GrogsGamut) September 11, 2018
Morrison: "That's not the point. Australians want to be sure that in the future those things won't be"
oh dear #abc730
Monday 10 September 2018
Under Morrison's prime ministership will church and state begin to regressively merge?
Liberal MP
for Cook, former Australian Immigration Minister and former Treasurer, Scott
John Morrison, is being marketed as Australia’s first Pentecostal prime
minister.
Right from
the start of his parliamentary career Morrison politicised his own faith and made
sure he identified as a Pentecostal ‘Christian’ in his First
Speech in the House of Representatives on 14 February 2008.
This month
the Pentecostal ministry returned the favour by commencing his re-election
campaign….
The
Guardian, 7
September 2018:
Pentecostal leaders have
warned their congregation that “darkness” will spread across Australia and
Christians will be persecuted if Scott Morrison
does not win the next election.
Others have been told
that Morrison’s rise to power was a “miracle of God” that answered three days
of prayer and fasting. They have been told that Morrison has made a public
stand for Christian freedoms, and has promised to keep doing so, so God intervened
to ensure he beat the home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, in
the Liberal leadership spill.
Videos posted to YouTube
show how Pentecostal and evangelical religious communities are reacting to the
rise of Morrison as prime minister.
Last Sunday, pastor Adam
F Thompson from Voice of Fire Ministries and Adrian Beale from Everrest
Ministries told a congregation of Hope City Church that Morrison’s elevation to
power was divinely inspired.
Thompson, who says he
can interpret dreams and that supernatural signs and manifestations accompany
his ministry, said he’d received a message from God that Morrison and the
Coalition must win the election.
“The Lord woke me up at
4.30am this morning,” Thompson told the Hope City Church congregation on
Sunday, in a
video he asked to be recorded.
“Scott Morrison, he’s a born-again Christian,
he’s probably one of the first ever born-again prime ministers, but it’s not
time to celebrate at the moment.
“This is a crucial time
right now … In the next six months it’s time for the body of Christ [the
Christian church] to put its differences aside … and come together and agree
that Jesus is the Messiah and start praying together and calling it in and
praying for our prime minister right now, and for our government.
“I really see that the
body of Christ is going to have influence in the arena of – the political arena
of this nation.
“[But] if the prime
minister right now doesn’t get elected in this next election there’s going to
be darkness coming. And I’m not being negative. The laws are going to change
where darkness is going to come and there will be persecution on the church.”
Thompson asked the
congregation if they truly wanted a Pentecostal revival and reformation in
Australia.
“If it doesn’t happen in the next six months,
in the next year I should say, there is going to be, the laws are going to come
in, where they’re going to change and darkness will come,” Thompson said.
“The Lord is saying he
wants us to rise up and pray, rather than come into persecution where we’ll
have no choice.”
In the video, Beale from
Everrest Ministries then leads the congregation in prayer for Morrison, calling
on God to help Australians grasp the value of his intervention in the
leadership spill.
“Just as Scott has come to the fore, unexpected
Lord, you’ve kept him hidden for a time such as this,” Beale said.
“Lord, we pray that the
whole of the body of Christ in Australia would grasp the value of what you’ve
done, Lord, and get behind our new leader … and that the next election would be
won so that godly principles would be put into place, rather than the enemy
having his way.”
In a
different video posted to YouTube, Warwick Marsh from the Australian
Christian Values Institute has claimed three days of prayer and fasting had
been answered with two miracles.
“Firstly, on the 15th of
August, the Senate voted down the euthanasia in the territories proposal. No
one expected this. This was an absolute miracle,” Marsh says in the video,
which was posted last month.
“Secondly, on Friday the
24th, the Liberal party voted in a new prime minister, Scott
Morrison, after a week of political turmoil.
“Many people here in
Australia of faith believe this was a miracle of God, as Mr Morrison has a
strong faith in God and has made a stand for Christian freedoms and has
promised to do so in the future.
In apparent response Morrison has stated....
Pause for a moment and consider the ramifications for an Australian democratic secular society, when the far-right leader of a right wing federal government apparently believes that secular society has no greater claim to legitimacy than faith-based society and, that prayer not environmental or economic policy is an appropriate response to the effects of climate change.
BRIEF BACKGROUND
Scott
Morrison was managing director of Tourism
Australia from 2004-2006 when he lost
his $350,000-a-year job after what insiders describe as a bitter falling-out
with the federal Tourism Minister and Liberal MP for McEwan, Fran Bailey.
Subsequently
he stood for parliament as a Liberal Party candidate and won the seat of Cook
in the 2007 federal election.
On the
election of the Abbott Government in 2013 he began his ministerial career:
Cabinet Minister from 18.9.2013
Minister for Immigration and Border
Protection from 18.9.13 to 23.12.14
Minister for Social Services from
23.12.14 to 21.9.15
Treasurer from 21.9.15 to 26.08.2018
Prime Minister from 24.8.2018.
As Minister
for Immigration and Border Protection Morrison had a reputation for refusing
information to parliament, mainstream media and the general public.
Eight asylum seekers in onshore/offshore detention died during his term as immigration minister - these deaths included three suicides (one by self immolation), one ruled a death in custody, one due to failure to receive adequate medical care whilst in offshore detention and another a murder of an asylum seeker by offshore detention security guards.
His well-known antipathy towards asylum seekers has been demonstrated by his actions and statements such as this in 2013:
Eight asylum seekers in onshore/offshore detention died during his term as immigration minister - these deaths included three suicides (one by self immolation), one ruled a death in custody, one due to failure to receive adequate medical care whilst in offshore detention and another a murder of an asylum seeker by offshore detention security guards.
His well-known antipathy towards asylum seekers has been demonstrated by his actions and statements such as this in 2013:
In 2015 and 2018 Scott Morrison took part in the removal of two Liberal prime ministers - Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull. In the first instance by agreeing not to stand as deputy on Abbott's ticket and in the second instance by sending his own supporters to lobby for the second leadership spill and then successfully standing for the vacant prime ministership.
The first two Newspolls published after he was sworn in as Australia's 30th prime minister were unfavourable to the government he leads. The second was the Coalition Government's 40th consecutive unfavourable Newspoll with First Preference voting intentions running at Labor 42% to Coalition 34% and Second Preference voting at Labor 56% to Coalition 44%.
So unlike the prime minister he replaced, Morrison experienced no 'honeymoon period' after he came to office.
Due to the resignation of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull on 31 August 2018 Scott Morrison currently leads a government without a majority in the House of Representatives.
The first two Newspolls published after he was sworn in as Australia's 30th prime minister were unfavourable to the government he leads. The second was the Coalition Government's 40th consecutive unfavourable Newspoll with First Preference voting intentions running at Labor 42% to Coalition 34% and Second Preference voting at Labor 56% to Coalition 44%.
So unlike the prime minister he replaced, Morrison experienced no 'honeymoon period' after he came to office.
Due to the resignation of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull on 31 August 2018 Scott Morrison currently leads a government without a majority in the House of Representatives.
Morrison has not been generally viewed in a favourable light by the media nor by some who worked with him in the private sector.
The
New Daily, 25
August 2018:
Morrison attended Sydney
Boys’ High School through to Year 12. In March 2015, approximately 300 alumni
of the schools former students signed a letter protesting Mr Morrison’s
attendance at a fund-raising event. The letter accused Mr Morrison of having
“so flagrantly disregarded human rights”…..
Veteran Canberra
journalist Laurie Oakes once said on television that the government “should
avoid the goading and arrogance of Scott Morrison, where he just pours mullock
on journalists”. Oakes added that his attitude towards journalists was
disgusting. “When people like Scott Morrison give us the finger when we ask
tough questions, we’ve got to shine a light on that and expose it because it’s
not acceptable.”
To become Liberal
candidate for Cook in 2007, he lost the preselection ballot, 82 votes to 8, to
Michael Towke, a telecommunications engineer and the candidate of the Liberals’
right faction. However, allegations emerged that Towke had engaged in branch stacking and
embellished his resume.The Liberal Party’s state executive disendorsed Towke
and Morrison won the pre-selection. Later, the allegations against Towke were
disproved and Sydney’s Daily Telegraph was successfully sued by
Towke.
When 48 people died in
the Christmas Island disaster of 2010, Morrison objected to the Gillard
Government offering to pay for families’ fares to the funerals in Sydney……
The BBC’s Nick Bryant
ungenerously wrote: “My hunch is that Scott Morrison doesn’t spend much time
agonising over the contradictions that have marked his career, or fretting
about the veering course of a political journey that has taken him from the
moderate wing of the party, to the right. The main point for him is that his
career has been heading in an ever-upward trajectory.”
The
Saturday Paper,
8 September 2018:
Twelve years ago,
Morrison was sacked from Tourism Australia – two years into his term as boss
there. The then Liberal minister for tourism, Fran Bailey, in 2006 said the
board could no longer work with him. He was “incapable of being a team player”
and faced a revolt from state and territory tourism executives.
An Australian National
Audit Office report released a scathing report into Tourism Australia’s
management of “perceived conflicts of interest” while Morrison was at the helm
and quoted industry observers who had “expressed the view that the perceived
conflicts of interests of board members are a major risk to Tourism Australia’s
reputation”.
Morrison’s reported
half-a-million dollar payout was questioned as excessive and not in accordance
with regulations according to then Remuneration Tribunal president John Conde.
Morrison’s ability to
listen to others was questioned during his time as treasurer. Sydney Liberal
John Alexander, who headed a group of parliamentary colleagues worried about
housing affordability, was incensed by Morrison’s dismissive attitude to him.
The task of holding his badly fractured government together will make
Morrison’s time at Tourism Australia seem like a walk in the park.
Karl Stefanovic put it
bluntly on the Nine Network: “You are the boss but you have little or no
control over the party … Your party is an absolute dog’s breakfast.” Amazingly,
Morrison said he was “not fussed” about all that. “We are focused on the job
ahead.” But in a giveaway that it’s getting to him, the PM leaked one of his
own pending announcements: that his five-year commitment to raise the pension
age to 70 was being ditched. Labor’s Jim Chalmers quipped the PM was getting in
first.
The
Sydney Morning Herald,
3 November 2012:
In 1998, aged 30,
Morrison went to New Zealand to run that country's national Office of Tourism
and Sport, answering directly to the then tourism minister, Murray McCully. He
became known as "Murray's Rottweiler", so enthusiastically did he
throw himself into a battle between the minister and the national tourism
board. When the dust settled, the casualties included the board's chairman and
chief executive, as well as McCully himself. A Wellington newspaper reported
that in the ensuing inquiry, Morrison emerged as "a cross between Rasputin
and Crocodile Dundee".
Saturday 8 September 2018
Quote of the Week
“We have lost our moral
compass as a nation. And our new PM has been a huge part of the problem.” [Director of Legal Advocacy at Human Rights Law Centre Daniel Webb, Twitter,
31 August 2018]
Monday 3 September 2018
Are you listening Prime Minister Morrison? This message is for you as well
Saturday 1 September 2018
Tweets of the Week
He may be an odious, pernicious, spiteful, browbeating, incompetent, callous, prevaricating, psychopathic, coercive, bullying, precipitous, acquisitive bigot, but Scott Morrison...sorry what was my point? pic.twitter.com/KXsfgFoj3H— Richard O'Brien (@RichardAOB) August 24, 2018
Indigenous people: We want a voice to parliament.— IndigenousX Pty Ltd (@IndigenousXLtd) August 28, 2018
ScoMo: Ok, Tony Abbott will be your voice.
Indigenous ppl: ... we're speechless.
ScoMo: Perfect.
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Friday 24 August 2018
Nationals MP for Page Kevin Hogan tries to straddle the Coalition fence by becoming a Faux Independent after the new Morrison Government is sworn-in
The political situation in Australia thus far this week..............
Thinking to hedge his bets in a toxic political environment and remain in the federal parliament beyond the forthcoming federal election, Kevin Hogan sent out this media release on 23 August 2018:You can't get any more blunt than @murpharoo's assessment of #libspill -— News Breakfast (@BreakfastNews) August 22, 2018
"The Government is killing itself in plain view ... It doesn't matter who wins because they're stuffed" pic.twitter.com/1HazIUyd06
STATEMENT FROM KEVIN
HOGAN
This constant rotation
of Prime Ministers by both the Labor Party and the Liberal party, I cannot
condone.
I am announcing
today, that if there is another leadership spill for the position of Prime
Minister prior to the next federal election, I will remove myself from the
government benches and sit on the cross benches.
I have made this
decision because my community is fed up. What we have been seeing in
Canberra with leadership changes over the last 10 years, is letting our
great country down.
This is not about Peter
Dutton, Malcolm Turnbull or Kevin Hogan, it is about the Office of Prime
Minister.
I remain 100 per cent
committed to delivering for my community. I remain committed to the National
Party.
If this occurs, I will
still attend National Party meetings if invited. I will not attend Coalition
Party Room meetings.
I will support the
Government in No Confidence Motions and Supply. Any other legislation I
will take on a case by case basis.
The model I intend
to follow is similar to what the Western Australian National, Tony Crook did.
Hogan has been in the federal parliament and a member of the Abbott & Turnbull Coalition governments for almost five years and in that time has never voted against Liberal-Nationals party policy.
What Hogan is doing with this media release is taking a hollow stance.
He fully intends to support the new Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Nationals Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack.
An arrogant new prime minister with a history since 2013 of human rights abuses as Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, of welfare recipient bashing as Minister for Social Services, of relentless cost cutting as Treasurer and as a strong supporter of propping up the rich at the expense of low income families.
Wednesday 16 May 2018
A Turnbull Government Minister Gets The Dig In - then tries to remove the evidence
This was Australian Treasurer and Liberal MP for Cook Scott Morrison having second thoughts....
This was the tweeted video Morrison was attempting to hide....
The video still lives on Twitter because although Morrison could be incredibly childish he couldn't be all that original....
You're UnbelieveaBill pic.twitter.com/sDmmnbO73V— Alice Workman (@workmanalice) May 11, 2018
Journalist Alice Workman tweeting @nickwray's creation, 11 May 2018
Even the UnbelievaBill has tag is not original - see Instragram hash tag - and then there is poor Bill D who as @unbelievabill must wonder what is happening to his Twitter mentions.
Tuesday 15 May 2018
It doesn't pay to tell outright political lies on national television....
.... because there are bound to be old election campaign warriors watching.
Australian
Treasurer and Liberal MP for Cook Scott Morrison, ABC Insiders
interview, 13 May 2018, telling an untruth:
“You tell me when a
government in their budget has ever provided detailed costings, post the
forward estimates up to the medium term. It’s never happened….
..we don't provide within-year
estimates …on the cost of expenditure items”
Hawker
Britton Managing Director Simon Banks,
Twitter, 13 May 2018, showing
Coalition Government costings in 2014-15 Budget:
It is amusing to note that Scott Morrison was a member of the Coalition Government when that 2014-15 Budget was handed down.Angry @scottmorrisonMP claiming government's have never provided year by year costings over the medium term of policy changes— Simon Banks (@SimonBanksHB) May 12, 2018
Simply untrue #insiders
And here's one example - the LNP's 2014 cuts to schools and hospitals pic.twitter.com/b8MMdrI8eG
In fact he was a Cabinet Minister being then the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, so he would have more than a passing understanding of what went into those particular budget papers.
Saturday 12 May 2018
Thursday 2 June 2016
Australian Federal Election 2016: right-wing propaganda running wild
This scare campaign is looking suspiciously as though it is being made up as the proponents go along.
The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 May 2016:
The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 May 2016:
Research intended for use in a bid to discredit Labor's negative gearing campaign was commissioned after a meeting between Scott Morrison and a close friend and senior figure in Australia's property industry.
But the draft report contains a series of factual errors and makes bold claims of a "resale price cliff" and "social dysfunction" that have alarmed some in the real estate industry to whom it has been circulated.
An email obtained by Fairfax Media shows Greg Paramor, the managing director of property company Folkestone, discussed the need for a study critiqueing Labor's policy with Brian Haratsis, the executive chairman of advisory firm MacroPlan Dimasi. Mr Paramor, who is a friend of Mr Morrison and former president of the Australian Property Council, made the request after his encounter with the Treasurer.
"Greg recently had the opportunity to meet with The Hon. Scott Morrison to discuss negative gearing," the email notes. "As a result of that meeting, Greg agreed to provide a report to the Treasurer – he asked Brian Haratsis to undertake a study on the impact of the proposed negative gearing changes."
The email, sent from an unnamed person inside Mr Paramor's company, was sent to senior industry figures last week.
It also asks for feedback as "the Treasurer is keen to get the report next week".
Entitled "Short Memory: Negative Gearing and Capital Gains Tax: Foundations of the New Australian Housing Model," the attached draft report is also presented with an alternative title: "Shortened Memory".
It claims Labor's policy would remove 205,000 dwellings from the rental housing stock over a decade, adding to housing stress. Asked why removing dwellings from the rental stock would add to housing stress when the dwellings would still be available for use, Mr Haratsis said the phrase was meant to refer to low-income rental dwellings.
Illustration: Ron Tandberg
The draft says Labor's policy would both make housing less affordable and create a "resale price cliff" as large numbers of apartments were sold at a loss. Mr Haratsis explained the apparent contradiction by saying the market was bifurcated and that different parts of it would react differently….
The Treasurer's office denied he had asked for a report to be prepared or that he or his office had received copies.
The report also says Australian governments would need to stump up an extra $3.3 billion per year for social housing and rent assistance should Labor's policy became law, more than the $3.2 billion per year it would raise.
The total economic cost of Labor's policy would be $5 billion per year, a reference Mr Haratsis said has since been removed from the document after acknowledging that it was arrived at by adding up payments without subtracting receipts.
"I am writing this as we go, and there are a number of references that you are looking at that won't be there in the final," he said. "I want to go back and recalculate the numbers."
Prepared in haste with what appears to have been a speech recognition program, the draft at one point refers to Labor's promise to "grandfather" the entitlements of existing investors as a promise to create "ground furthered" properties.
The leaking of the report potentially blunts another avenue of attack on Labor's plan to restrict negative gearing to new properties only and halve the capital gains tax discount to 25 per cent, which has been the subject of a fierce government scare campaign.
Mr Haratsis insisted it was his decision to initiate the report after his meeting with Mr Paramor, that he would fund the work himself and that it was planned for release next week - at which point "I could maybe give it to the Treasurer".
The report critiques organisations such as the Grattan Institute, which engages in "Robin Hood economics" and chooses to "ostracise high income individuals" instead of focusing on tax efficiency.
Sunday 15 May 2016
Action hero Scott Morrison of the Turnbull Coalition Team sends dispatch from Coalition Campaign Headquarters 2016 (CCHQ 2016)
This is what Labor’s Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen stated on 10 May 2016 as reported by SBS News:
The ritual election costings debate has begun with shadow treasurer Chris Bowen promising Labor will release four and 10-year costings of its policies.
But the bottom line won't be revealed until the latter part of the campaign, "after we've announced the last bulk of our policies", Mr Bowen told the National Press Club on Tuesday.
"That will enable us to say more about the trajectory back to budget balance," he said.
Labor would stick with the independent Parliamentary Budget Office for its costings, rather than submitting policies to Treasury, Mr Bowen said.
"They are well resourced, competent people and if there is a dispute between the Treasury and the Parliamentary Budget Office as to costings, that does not automatically mean that the PBO is in some way in error," he said.
Mr Bowen also said while Treasury was an arm of the government, its secretary was not a political play thing and he would work with the Abbott-appointed head John Fraser.
This is what Chris Bowen also clearly stated in 10 May 2016 media release:
Labor is the only party setting the economic agenda.
If elected, we will:
*Deliver an economic statement within three months of being elected to protect Australia’s AAA credit rating.
Implement our productivity-enhancing economic agenda, including our plan to deliver once-in-a-generation school reforms, lifting educational outcomes and boosting GDP.
*Deliver our $10 billion infrastructure facility which will create approximately 26,000 jobs and add around an extra $7.5 billion to Australia’s GDP every year.
*Reform negative gearing and Capital Gains Tax, stimulating new housing construction and putting the great Australian dream back within reach of working and middle-class
Australians.
* Making record investments in the renewable energy sector preparing our economy for a less carbon-intensive world.
As for any possibility of a minority government after 2 July 2016, SBS World News Radio reported on 10 May 2016:
Voting preferences dominated discussion across all major parties.
It stemmed from Greens MP Adam Bandt raising the prospect of forming an alliance with a minority coalition or Labor government in the event of a hung parliament.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, whose party has ruled out governing with the support of the Greens, used the occasion to warn of a return to a past political scenario.
"Why would we run the risk of having another Labor-Greens independent government, another hung parliament, which is plainly in contemplation of the Labor party, it is plainly in the enthusiastic contemplation of the Greens, and we know what the price will be: people smugglers back in business, much higher taxes even than those already contemplated by Labor and a much higher carbon tax even than that already contemplated by Labor."
Bill Shorten, too, appeared quick to quash the idea.
"Every time you see a Green politician saying they are against the Liberals, then why are they making it easier for the Liberals to get elected in the suburbs and regions of Australia. Or, can I put it another way to Mr Bandt and the Greens, tell them they are dreaming. No deals with Labor about forming a coalition."
This was Treasurer Scott Morrison of the Turnbull Coalition Team in a media release sent from Coalition Campaign Headquarters 2016 (CCHQ 2016):
Image @latingle
As journalist Laura Tingle observed on 11 May; Is the government just a little panicky here?
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