The Prospect of Tony Abbot As Prime Minister

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Recent opinion polls show Tony Abbot has a better-than-even chance of becoming Prime Minister. This possible requires some serious thought. If you are gay, you can absolutely forget about same-sex marriage rights. At least with Labor, all that's required is to get the matter tabled at cabinet and the vote will be won. His absolutely archiac and offensive attitudes towards women, climate change and indigenous people is infuriating.

He carries a dangerous attitude towards to industrial relations and his deep indifference and ignorance of economic matters. Abbot loved 'Workchoices', and will bring it back; especially targetting unfair dismissal laws, pay and conditions, and penalty rates. Opposing the economic stimulus package, which is considered among the best designed in the world, with excellent results, Abbott not only expressed opposition to it, but slept through the vote after a night on the sauce.

Absolutely reckless cuts are planned against nation-building IT and environmental infrastructure, in favour of handing back $10.5 billion of resource rents from our commonwealth, to mining companies; because Tony understands that billionaires are having tough times. Abbott's accounting has been slippery or stupid. [T]he Coalition asked the department the cost of giving the Productivity Commission an extra $4 million a year. Yesterday the department replied poker-faced that it would cost $4 million a year.. One can only echo the words of Craig Emerson; Australia has never had in the post-war era a more economically incompetent candidate for the prime ministership than Tony Abbott.

Update: Former Reserve Bank chief, Bernie Fraser, (hardly a radical) blasts the Coalition over their economic policies.

Comments

[discordia13.livejournal.com]

I have the same feeling about this election that I did when Keating was ousted. Despite what people may think about the ALP's most recent cock ups I think they need at least another 3 years in power before we could say they have been a bad thing.

People also conveniently forget that everything the ALP have tried to do for the last year was blocked on principle because that's what the opposition seemed to think their job was. Oppose regardless of merit instead of offer an alternative.

I don't want to see any party in power that makes stuff up as it goes along and DENY is their default policy on things they haven't thought about.

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The worst ALP cock-ups in the past three years are really quite insignificant to their successes. Because it's been more or less smooth sailing economically in Skippy-land many people have no concept on how bad it could have been. An export-orientated economy like ours could have very much gone belly-up.

You're very much right on how various measures were blocked by the opposition; like the voter registration issue...