a Liberal approach

[sprintcyclist]

Listening Tour



Dear Andrew,

One of the great challenges for a Member of Parliament is to stay in touch with the needs and concerns of the community.
That’s why some of my colleagues and I started the Pollie Pedal bike ride back in 1998. This is now the 13th Pollie Pedal.
Over the years, we’ve visited dozens of small towns that would otherwise have been way off politicians’ usual beaten track.
We’ve also raised over $1 million for charity.

This year’s ride goes from Melbourne to Sydney via Yea, Benalla, Albury, Khancoban, Berridale, Canberra, Goulburn and Camden. Along the way we will be stopping to talk with local communities about their concerns at the lack of real action to fix poor hospital services, improve local infrastructure, address water shortages and build much needed new school facilities. I’ll also be gauging their views about Mr Rudd’s great big new tax on everything!


Every day, I will be reporting on the Liberal Party website what I am hearing from ordinary Australians. You might like to check for updates.

I doubt that the Prime Minister would do anything like this. It’s too unscripted. Mr Rudd’s community cabinets are carefully choreographed and his community events as staged as Labor’s media management skills can make them.
This is why people are starting to think that Mr Rudd and Labor have lost touch with ordinary Australians; that they’re all talk and no action.

My commitment to Australians is to take to the coming election policies for direct action which will make a real difference in people’s lives in the next three years – not 2050 or 2020.

I have spent a lot of time since becoming Leader moving around Australia and talking with people in all walks of life.
This week I’ll be traveling on a bike and staying in caravan parks. You can’t get much more down to earth than that. It’s another chance for me to talk directly with ordinary Australians about their concerns and their hopes for the future for their families and local communities.

What I hear will help us as we put together our plans for direct action which we will be releasing in the coming months.

Yours sincerely,





Tony Abbott



PS: Labor and their union mates are already spending millions of dollars on negative attack ads. You can help us stand up to their lies by donating to help fight Labor.

[boxy]

I like how he tells us what our concerns are going to be, in the second paragraph

[Machiavella]

I like how he tells us what our concerns are going to be, in the second paragraph

If he comes your way, what will you tell him?

I dont know who "Andrew" is, should I?

Actually, I'm starting to really like Abott. Yesterday, in the ABC TV1 QandA, he was he was given a wannabe trick question by some smarty pants: "What do you think Jesus would have said to the illegal migrants" he was asked and answered: "First of all, I dont think Jesus would ever have put his hand up to become leader of the Liberal party.." hehehehe.

A political leader with a subtly self-deprecating sense of humour? When have we last seen this?

[Howard Stinks]

"Machiavella"I like how he tells us what our concerns are going to be, in the second paragraph

If he comes your way, what will you tell him?

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What I would tell him is not fit for this forum, have you got a shore ass from the bike?

dont know who "Andrew" is, should I?

Andrew Bolt? Brother right wingers! It is Sprinty obviously.

Actually, I'm starting to really like Abott. Yesterday, in the ABC TV1 QandA, he was he was given a wannabe trick question by some smarty pants: "What do you think Jesus would have said to the illegal migrants" he was asked and answered: "First of all, I dont think Jesus would ever have put his hand up to become leader of the Liberal party.."

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Wake up to yourself he is a bob each way, he side stept the question didn't he?

A political leader with a subtly self-deprecating sense of humour? When have we last seen this?

I agree he is a joke isn't he?

By the way they are not "illegal migrants" they are refugees, they have every right to seek political asylum.

[boxy]

My major concerns with where Australia is heading lie in population control (the lack thereof) and the constant privatisation of anything, even if it is nailed down.

BTW...


That Jesus question was a load of crap. There is no right answer to it, apart from saying that you won't comment. No one wants Jesus as their political leader, because sometimes you've got to be a selfish fluffy bunny, and look out for your own interests first. We don't want leaders who will be prepared to nail the country to a cross.

Abbott said that he didn't want to verbal Jesus, unfortunately, he went on to do just that... and of course, the Jesus that Tony imagines, agrees with Liberal policy

[TomB]

..... No one wants Jesus as their political leader, because sometimes you've got to be a selfish fluffy bunny, and look out for your own interests first.....

I'm pretty sure that ole JC actually stuck it to the money lenders and their ilk, but anyway, who's to say that he wouldn't have decided that Australia was a hellhole and actually tried to send all the sodomites here?

[Howard Stinks]

WTF everyone is worried about how Australia is going to change, two hundred years ago it changed fron Aboriginal to what it is today,so fucking what about a change?
How about Australian Peoples Republic of China.

[boxy]

I'm worried about the massive increase in our population that both sides are advocating... but do carry on, I'm sure that strawman deserves burning

[Howard Stinks]

I'm worried about the massive increase in our population that both sides are advocating... but do carry on, I'm sure that strawman deserves burning

Fair enough I assume you are worried about sustainibility,my point is change will happen it will happen slowly and peacefully or with violence, if one looks in the past,Greeks,Romans,Turcks,British etc,they all came and gone.
Let's not forget what happened with hittler he thought his race was above all other races and we had WW2.

[boxy]

Godwined!