Coalition heading backwards with first steps

[Neferti]

Meanwhile, he will go about business and QUIETLY get the country back in working condition!

He won't if his new book on "how to destroy a government in 6 years" gets into circulation.

http://www.tonyabbottexposed.com/

I haven't checked that link. The title sounds iffy!

I think Tony Abbot will be a big surprise as Prime Minister, for a lot of people. An extremely good one! He is taking his role as VERY serious, and so he should. It is a privilege to become one of our Prime Ministers.

I doubt he will be the power-hungry pollie that we have all been used to and he certainly doesn't need or want some power-hungry MP spouting off at a "door stop" ....

Tony is the Big Kahuna and I doubt he will micromanage, like Kevni, but he does have a right to know what the rest of his Ministers are doing and saying. It all reflects back on Tony and he is the one who will/would get lambasted by the MSM if any of his Ministers say something off the top of their heads.

He is being careful. It is his way. I imagine that you would find that Tony has no airs and graces, he knows protocol and has excellent manners and can communicate with the poor as well as the high and mighty with equal ease. He is a Scorpio, afterall.

[Aussie]

[Neferti]

Meanwhile, he will go about business and QUIETLY get the country back in working condition!

He won't if his new book on "how to destroy a government in 6 years" gets into circulation.

http://www.tonyabbottexposed.com/

I haven't checked that link. The title sounds iffy!

I think Tony Abbot will be a big surprise as Prime Minister, for a lot of people. An extremely good one! He is taking his role as VERY serious, and so he should. It is a privilege to become one of our Prime Ministers.

I doubt he will be the power-hungry pollie that we have all been used to and he certainly doesn't need or want some power-hungry MP spouting off at a "door stop" ....

Tony is the Big Kahuna and I doubt he will micromanage, like Kevni, but he does have a right to know what the rest of his Ministers are doing and saying. It all reflects back on Tony and he is the one who will/would get lambasted by the MSM if any of his Ministers say something off the top of their heads.

He is being careful. It is his way. I imagine that you would find that Tony has no airs and graces, he knows protocol and has excellent manners and can communicate with the poor as well as the high and mighty with equal ease. He is a Scorpio, afterall.

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[Aussie]

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[Neferti]

[IQS.RLOW]

Meanwhile, he will go about business and QUIETLY get the country back in working condition!

He won't if his new book on "how to destroy a government in 6 years" gets into circulation.

http://www.tonyabbottexposed.com/

I haven't checked that link. The title sounds iffy!

I think Tony Abbot will be a big surprise as Prime Minister, for a lot of people. An extremely good one! He is taking his role as VERY serious, and so he should. It is a privilege to become one of our Prime Ministers.

I doubt he will be the power-hungry pollie that we have all been used to and he certainly doesn't need or want some power-hungry MP spouting off at a "door stop" ....

Tony is the Big Kahuna and I doubt he will micromanage, like Kevni, but he does have a right to know what the rest of his Ministers are doing and saying. It all reflects back on Tony and he is the one who will/would get lambasted by the MSM if any of his Ministers say something off the top of their heads.

He is being careful. It is his way. I imagine that you would find that Tony has no airs and graces, he knows protocol and has excellent manners and can communicate with the poor as well as the high and mighty with equal ease. He is a Scorpio, afterall.

Its actually a pro-Abbott website

Just shows Mantra doesn't even read her own propaganda- note this list doesn't include the additional Rudd fuckups after playing reverse stabby stab with Julia

http://www.tonyabbottexposed.com/gillardrudd-record/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
1. Grocery Watch

2. Fuel Watch

3. Climate Change “greatest moral challenge” abandonment

4. Copenhagen 114 person strong extravaganza & failure

5. $275 million 31, later 450 GP Super Clinics promised, only three delivered

6. $47 billion National Broadband white elephant, without a business plan

7. 2.1 Billion Laptop for every child – without infrastructure

8. Mandatory Internet Filter – dangerous, ineffective, mis-managed

9. Litigation of Japan whaling – empty PC rhetoric

10. Commonwealth Health takeover replaced with pretend ‘reform’

11. Murray Darling River State non-deal

12. Rudd economic conservative turned anti-capitalist, now Gillard

13. Foreign policy damage– China, Japan, Indonesia, India

14. Asylum Boat people arrivals explosion & its denial for year

15. Stimulus spending too big, too late and mainly on Labor electorates

16. Bank interest rates rises due to over stimulus

17. Industrial relations rollback to pre-Keating era

18. Wild Rivers legislation support harms aborigines

19. More not less Secretive Government – less granted FOI’s

20. Public Housing promise undelivered

21. 2020 Summit – staged celebrity talk-fest

22. Promise to retain universal Private Health rebate broken

23. Rudd promise to make Canberra his base

24. Promise to clean up election funding broken

25. $3.45 billion pink bat Home Insulation debacle

26. $275 Million Green Loans debacle

27. Raise the standard of Ministerial responsibility abandoned

28. Political advertising ombudsman promised then dismantled

29. $534 Million Solar Panel Rebate sudden withdrawal

30. Halve homeless by 2020 / by 20% by 2013 – instead rising

31. Build 222 childcare centres – abandoned

32. Pacific Workers Scheme failure

33. Meat imports restarted from mad cow disease countries without consultation

34. Mining Tax mis-design, mis-management & lies on tax rates

35. $38.5 million for a pro-mining tax ad campaign

36. 1 Billion Cash for Clunkers greenwash stupidity

37. Bullying East Timor for our detention centre

38. 150 Citizen’s council for Climate stupidity

39. Pork barrelling infra-structure grants to Labor seats – auditor

40. Gillard opposition to pension increase for non-Labor voting pensioners

41. National Security Committee run by ex-bodyguard

[Rorschach]

That's right, I have no idea why she posted that link...

She must have thought it was anti-Abbott or she never would have posted it.

Or perhaps she's coming to her senses at last.

[Neferti]

That's right, I have no idea why she posted that link...

She must have thought it was anti-Abbott or she never would have posted it.

Or perhaps she's coming to her senses at last.

Indubitably.

Mantra's links are usually anti-everything so generally I never bother to look.

[mellie]

Abbott softens stance in Indonesia
1 Oct, 11:21 PM

Politics

AAP

The Tony Abbott that Australia knew as opposition leader is not the Tony Abbott on display this week in Jakarta, where his confrontational style has been replaced by a more conciliatory approach.

Early indications from business and political leaders in Indonesia suggest Mr Abbott's first trip to Jakarta as prime minister has been a success, at least in terms of how he is viewed there.

Sacrifices have had to be made.

Mr Abbott insists he remains committed to stopping asylum-seeker boats from arriving in Australia, but the rhetoric that served him in opposition has been discarded.

Before and after the election, the coalition's stance was that it would not be "seeking permission" from Indonesia to implement its border protection policies.

But now, by Mr Abbott's own admission, the coalition "will do nothing in Indonesia other than in co-operation with Indonesians".

"That's the whole point. We are good friends, we fully respect each other's sovereignty, we fully adhere to each other's sovereignty," he said as he wrapped up the two-day trip on Tuesday.

It appears that a number of the asylum-seeker policies he took to the election have been all but scuppered.

The protests out of Jakarta only got louder as Mr Abbott's critical meeting with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono approached and it was clear that something was going to have to give.

The pledge to stop buy boats from Indonesian fishermen to prevent them from falling into the hands of people smugglers, and a plan to pay bounty money for information on smuggling operations, seem to have been abandoned.

There are also doubts over the plan to turn boats back to Indonesia after Mr Abbott twice on Tuesday refused to answer direct questions about whether the strategy would ever be implemented.

Indonesia remains firmly opposed to all three measures.

Having spent the past three years banging on about stopping the boats, Mr Abbott now favours a softer, quieter approach.

"I'm just not going to engage in the kind of press banter that is not going to be conducive to what is in our overall national interests, Australia's and Indonesia's, to get these boats stopped," he said.

"My objective here is to stop the boats. It is to stop the boats. And in order to ensure that the boats are stopped, I want to have the best possible relationship with Indonesia."

Abbott's willingness to compromise suggests he could possess the delicate diplomatic skills needed to achieve a better relationship with Jakarta. He has at least passed his first crucial test.

But he will also remain shackled to his promise to stop the boats, and it's that pledge that will likely determine whether or not he is ultimately a successful prime minister.

I remain optimistically assured Tony knows what he's doing and is softening his approach, diplomatically speaking, for the best possible outcome in terms of stopping the boats.

Have to give Jakarta the benefit of the doubt, the opportunity to work with our nation in terms of striking some sort of bilateral agreement.