Election Aftermath

[Black Orchid]

Not exactly this election aftermath, but I think it's tragic that Peter Costello never got the chance to be PM. He had a lot of potential.

In the end it was his choice.
IMO he would have won back the government in 1 term and saved us 2 terms of the most incompetent government ever.

Agreed on both counts. It's a pity Howard didn't step down in his last term. Howard looked so old on tv last night. Older than his 74 years.

[Super Nova]

Congratulations Australia

Now... no carbon tax, reduced boaty's, right sized NBN, and improvements in the balance sheet. Sound like the lucky country will begin to return.

Go Australia.

[mellie]

Congratulations Australia

Now... no carbon tax, reduced boaty's, right sized NBN, and improvements in the balance sheet. Sound like the lucky country will begin to return.

Go Australia.

Life has always been much better here in Australia under a Liberal government.

Yesterday, our family celebrated with a picnic at a local reserve, (just around the corner) as did so many local families, and the vibe was truly positive.

Perhaps it was just me, but I got the distinct impression everyone was there celebrating the same thing we were.

A fresh new beginning.

It didn’t feel like the day after the election, it felt more like new years day, minus the hangover of course.

[Jovial_Monk]

Congratulations Australia

Now... no carbon tax, reduced boaty's, right sized NBN, and improvements in the balance sheet. Sound like the lucky country will begin to return.

Go Australia.

SuperTurdPolisher should know better, living in an economy hurting from self–imposed austerity that has INcreased the deficit.

Monkey man and the Audit report the economic illiterate will stop the NBN rollout as the contracts expire and will not roll out Fraudband. That will see a bit of private cherry picking that is just going to make a national scheme more difficult and expensive, the digital divide between country and city will widen.

We never had a carbon tax, we had a Carbon Price. Monkeyman will let that move to an ETS and leave it at that—my prediction #1. I predict that because business wants the certainty of a carbon price mechanism and removing it will eventually see Australian exports get hit with Green Tariffs—a removal will see, for example, Qantas get hit with a levy on every one of its planes that lands in the UK. Also—the present Senate will block that until the new one takes over 1 Jul 2014 by which time recession will be stalking the land and Abbott will take the easy way out.

With austerity being the order of the day in a years time I predict (#2) unemployment will have increased from 5.8% to 8.5% on its way to pass 10%. Because of this and the increasing deficit we will lose our triple AAA rating (#3) and interest rates on public and private debt will increase (#4), feeding austerity and plunging us into recession (#5). The $A will consequent dip markedly, zooming past its “natural” rate of 75–77¢US (#6) That will cause import prices to rise (not a prediction a certainty if #3 is accurate) including that of petroleum products increasing the price of everything made with or from or transported by petroleum.

This could further increase CoL already substantially higher if monkeyman’s PPL ridiculous policy gets up. The newly resurgent National Party will stop that as will Treasury, big business and small business so monkeyman will squib it. If not, all predictions should be moved up a notch.

About this time the economic illiterate Costello will hand in his botch job of an “Audit” which Abbott will squib doing things with (#7) and Turncoat will step up his destabilisation which he started doing like a month ago and shortly after 7/7/14 will launch a challenge (#8). He will make things worse (#9).

There, nine predictions you can hold me to account on.

[mellie]

It's called living within our means and not spending what you don’t have Monk....try it some time.

Perhaps if you yourself had have fostered more 'conservative' principles when it came to running your own small businesses, you'd be in a better place today?

And as for unemployment figures increasing..... not to be confused with the 'real' unemployment figures being made public for the first time since Labors departure.



Furthermore, how can you even begin to knock Costello, he was the best damn treasurer Australia ever had.

Was he leadership material?

Some argue Howard should have stood aside.

It's true, Liberal probably would have won the 2007 election if Costello had have ran for PM...but there was a drawback.

Whilst Costello was a great treasurer, the concern I had for him assuming the leadership was his desire for our nation to become a republic.

Howard knew it was a matter of Liberals lose the 2007 election -vrs- Australia becoming a republic shortly there after had Costello been leading the Libs and won the 2007 election.


Howard made the right decision, though many wet-Liberals don’t share my views on this.

[Jovial_Monk]

Oh—austerity will INCREASE the deficit as it has done in the UK, Ireland, Greece. . .

That is a certainty not a prediction when they go ahead with austerity.

Should have practiced a bit of austerity 2001–7, done lots of infrastructure too but nooo they had to feed the borrow-to-spend boom with tax cuts and pork. Now, modest deficits are the right setting and they will practice austerity instead.

Nats rorted $40Bn in the Regional Partnerships Program. Now they have only a $1Bn fund to waste and rort but that will go up. $40Bn—we could already have had the NBN! What a waste! Abbott, of course, if given free rein will waste MUCH more!

[mellie]

Liberals Austerity -vrs- Labors failed stimulus packages and squandering.

I'll take my chances with austerity, thanks.

[Super Nova]

Monk,

The UK is trying to address the mess the Blaire Libor government made. The economy here is turning because of the tightening of the belt policies. Your comments like all your others is wrong and not based in fact.

Nice name calling. I shall refrain lowering myself to your level.....

I hope the government reduces your lifestyle funding.... of the drunken small minded businessman of the year.... you should be worried. The new way forward is a smaller government plus attacking to welfare handed to bludgers like you.

[mantra]

We never had a carbon tax, we had a Carbon Price. Monkeyman will let that move to an ETS and leave it at that—my prediction #1. I predict that because business wants the certainty of a carbon price mechanism and removing it will eventually see Australian exports get hit with Green Tariffs—a removal will see, for example, Qantas get hit with a levy on every one of its planes that lands in the UK. Also—the present Senate will block that until the new one takes over 1 Jul 2014 by which time recession will be stalking the land and Abbott will take the easy way out.

If Abbott moves the carbon "price" to an ETS, which is what Rudd had planned for next year - then he is grossly deceiving his supporters. Carbon credit trading in 3 or 4 years will cost us dearly especially if we haven't got a fixed price here. It doesn't matter if it's higher now - it's stable. If the tax goes - then we are going to be subject and victim to world energy prices without any credits to compensate us for it.

I am totally against an ETS and Abbott needs to address his true intentions.

How is he going to extricate us from a legally binding international ETS agreement? This will come back to bite him and he will look like a bigger liar than Gillard.

[mellie]

Monk,

The UK is trying to address the mess the Blaire Libor government made. The economy here is turning because of the tightening of the belt policies. Your comments like all your others is wrong and not based in fact.

Nice name calling. I shall refrain lowering myself to your level.....

I hope the government reduces your lifestyle funding.... of the drunken small minded businessman of the year.... you should be worried. The new way forward is a smaller government plus attacking to welfare handed to bludgers like you.

This government will be clamping down on those who they deem fit and able to work and who live in areas where there’s an abundance of unskilled work.

http://contractworkinthemines.com.au/jo ... ourer.html


This is why Monks pissed.

All those on disability payment will be reassessed by government appointed physicians, this and be forced back into the workforce where there’s plentiful unskilled work opportunities.

I think singles over the age of 18 should be forced to relocate to areas of high unskilled employment also for a period...but that’s just my view.