If Abbott gets up...get used to this..

[Aussie]

The Qld., LNP Treasurer announces he lied...and postpones a promised surplus.

This a typical of the LNP.....before the Qld Election just over 12 months ago, they promised the public service would not be attacked and they would allow it to reduce by natural attrition....just like Abbott has promised.

Not long after they win, they SACK 14,000 Queenslanders so that they could get the State back in surplus by 2014/15. Now, they announce they will not do that. I expect Poachy et al to be loudly condemning the LNP for this outrage.

[Rorschach]

Lies...



"uh... There will be no Carbon Tax under the government I lead...!"

Will probably go down as the biggest lie told to the Australian people by any politician from any Party.

[Rorschach]

To paraphrase Peter Garret when asked about certain policies and promises under Rudd...

"ah don't worry about that, after we get in we'll change everything"

[IQS.RLOW]

Link to 14000 sackings?

[Rorschach]

Peter Garrett's gaffe was no simple joke
* by: By Steve Price
* From: The Sunday Telegraph
* November 04, 2007 12:00AM

It was no joke. The Chairman's Lounge is a separate frequent flyers lounge away from the crowded normal Qantas Club.

As its name implies, the people given access to it are approved by the Qantas chairman, Margaret Jackson.

I have been a Chairman's Lounge member since 2002.

On Friday I checked in for a flight to Sydney, leaving Melbourne at 10am, after a dinner the night before to look back at the ownership of 2UE and Melbourne's 3AW by the media company Southern Cross.

About 9.40am I turned around and saw Richard Wilkins from the Today show standing near the entrance desk with Labor's environment spokesman, Peter Garrett.

The former lead singer of Midnight Oil is a hard man to miss, especially for someone as short as me.

I stood up and went over and said hello to Richard, and introduced myself to Garrett.

I have interviewed him on radio several times but have never spoken to him in the studio or met him socially.

The conversation was brief and pleasant. The end result was an election campaign grenade that went off on Friday and that might still take some casualties with it.

Holding a copy of the Melbourne Herald Sun with a front-page treatment about Kevin Rudd playing "me too" politics and copying the Coalition's election promises, I said to Garrett that it was turning into the "me too" election.

With a straight face he replied that that would not matter because "once we get in we'll just change it all".

I just looked at him, said nothing and walked off.

I didn't ask what he meant or engage in any other conversation.

That just seemed the end of what he wanted to say, so Richard and I went and sat down to wait for our plane.

The first thing I said to Richard was: "Did he say what I thought he said?"

Sure did, mate, he said it all right, said Richard, which made me think that he had found the comment as odd as I did.

He has since said he thought it a jocular remark in response to a cheeky question.

Richard, I am sure, didn't think any more of it until the media sharks began circling on Friday afternoon wanting his version of events.

You see, a lot of the rest of the media would like to believe this didn't happen or, as a rival radio station presenter tried to suggest, it was Price "big noting himself".

Well, it did happen and I hardly need to big note myself - I have three hours a day, five days a week where I can do that.

One TV news executive, in a brief mobile phone conversation, said it was hard to believe - unless I outed the third person present.

Because, you see, having a witness to this conversation is very important.

We are in the middle of a very dirty and aggressive election campaign.

I wasn't prepared to identify Richard Wilkins because it put him in a difficult position.

It wasn't his decision to report what had been said in an on-the-record blunder by Garrett, so it really wasn't his problem.

In the end, Garrett's office must have told the rest of the media Richard was there - hoping to minimise the damage, from their point of view.

But the damage was done by their own boss, who confirmed the details of the conversation, as did Richard.

The decision to make public what happened before jumping on QF422 back to Sydney on Friday was an easy one.

I had identified myself as Steve Price from Radio 2UE and had asked a direct question of a high-profile star Labor candidate who in three weeks time might be in charge of Australia's environment.

I got a direct, surprising and even naive and silly response to a straight question.

I was not being cheeky, as Richard says - I was being me.

And does anyone think I would be dumb enough not to report the end result?

Steve Price is on 2UE weekdays between 3pm and 6pm.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/opinion/peter-ga ... z2UNHFkHeu

The proof is in the pudding we've been forced to eat since 2007. Howard-lite Rudd turned into a socialist PM after all. Followed by Julia the RED.

[Rorschach]

Wanna quote about the federal surplus?

[Aussie]

Link to 14000 sackings?

Go fetch.

[IQS.RLOW]

Link to 14000 sackings?

Go fetch.

Already have.

You lied.

[Jovial_Monk]

You will find plenty of links on my board, IQ, thread entitled “the lowlife Campbell Newman”

So fetch, that’s a good girl!

[Aussie]

Already have.

Good dog.