Flood tax, carbon tax

[Pastafarian]

All introduced by a competent and accountable govt who posted surpluses year after year.
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Competent I grant you. Accountable, only sometimes. Lucky, definitely.

Labor= incompetent, unaccountable, waster of opportunities.

Incompetent and waster of opportunities is subjective, but unaccountable. You mean we haven't had senate inquiries, the house of reps, an opposition, and the media since 2007?

[IQS.RLOW]

Unaccountable for a whole list of reason...the NBN being one but unaccountable for their list of broken promises.
They are a fucking disgrace

PROMISE – “I am an economic conservative, I am committed to balancing the
budget” - Kevin Rudd 2007 election

BROKEN – Labor’s first budget produced a $27.1 billion deficit (double the previous highest ever deficit). The 2009-10 budget predicts a record $58 billion deficit. Net public debt will blow out to $315 billion. 2010-11 Budget predicts a $40.8 billion deficit


PROMISE - Parliament will resume before Christmas and Ministers will not be allowed a Christmas holiday break

BROKEN - Ministers all have Christmas holidays and Parliament does not sit until February, the latest start in memory


PROMISE - Labor will deliver fibre to the node broadband with speeds of 100 megabits per second to 98% of Australians beginning by Christmas 2008 at a cost of $4.7 billion

BROKEN - Labor axed the $900 million Opel contract to deliver wireless broadband to regional Australia and has not delivered fast speeds to any household by Christmas 2009. Now only 90% of Australians will ever get fibre to the home and 2 million Australians in regional areas have been excluded from Labor's promise. The cost of Labor's scheme is now put at $43 billion


PROMISE - Labor will give a computer to every secondary school student in years 9-12

BROKEN - Now the promise is only to have a computer available for every second child and only if the State Government or parents pay for electricity, programs, cables, repairs, upgrades etc


PROMISE - Labor will create an education revolution

BROKEN - Literacy and numeracy at record lows


PROMISE - Labor will provide a Trade Training Centre at all 2650 secondary schools in Australia

BROKEN - Trade training centres will only be provided to clusters of schools and only one has been opened after Labor's two years in office


PROMISE - Labor will establish Grocery Watch to put downward pressure on grocery prices

BROKEN - After spending $13 million on failed grocery price reporting schemes, Labor abandons Grocery Watch


PROMISE - Labor will establish Fuel Watch to help motorists buy the cheapest petrol

BROKEN - Labor abandons its failed Fuel Watch scheme after spending $21 million


PROMISE - Labor will provide an extra $15 million for Rural Research and Development Corporations affected by drought

BROKEN - $10 million provided for climate change activities instead


PROMISE - Labor will establish an Office for Children and Young People

BROKEN - Never delivered


PROMISE - Labor will reduce expenditure on consultancies by $395 million

BROKEN - Labor paid $952 million in consultancy contracts in its first two years in office, more than any other government in history


PROMISE - Labor will give the states until mid 2009 to fix hospitals or the Government will hold a constitutional referendum to transfer responsibility for health to the Commonwealth

BROKEN - June 30 2009 passes with no action - just an announcement to review the review. In April 2010, the Rudd Government backs down entirely and allows the States to continue to run hospitals


PROMISE - Labor's modern award will not make workers or employers worse off

BROKEN - Labor's new awards leave most employers worse off and also many employees


PROMISE - Labor will maintain and improve the Regional Partnerships Program

BROKEN - Labor axes the Regional Partnership Program


PROMISE - Labor will take legal action to stop Japanese whaling

BROKEN - Japanese whaling continues without interruption and no court action has been commenced. No court action even likely before 2011


PROMISE - Labor will establish 35 general practice super clinics to improve local medical care

BROKEN - After two years in office only one super clinic is operational and another was opened at the end of January 2010. The 2010-11 Budget promised 23 more general practice super clinics


PROMISE - Labor will hold a referendum with the 2010 federal election for four year terms for Members of the House of Representatives and Senate

BROKEN - Government abandons referendum promise (28-1-10)


PROMISE - Labor will deliver 750 new homes, rebuild 230 houses and refurbish 2500 dwellings in the Northern Territory at a cost of $672 million

BROKEN - $170 million spent and only seven new houses completed


PROMISE - Mr Rudd promised he would update the House of Representatives on the progress towards closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage on the first sitting day of each year

BROKEN - Mr Rudd didn't do that in 2009 or 2010


PROMISE - Labor promised to take legal action against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on a charge of incitement to genocide

BROKEN - Labor has not taken any action


PROMISE - Labor will spend $100 million to re-engineer Menindee Lakes to save 200 billion litres of water a year for the Murray Darling

BROKEN - Nothing has been done


PROMISE - Labor will establish a Coastguard with purpose built vessels and dedicated trained staff

BROKEN - Coastguard promise abandoned and Labor cut the budgets for Customs and Quarantine in its first two budgets


PROMISE – “We will create the right incentives for individuals and business

BROKEN - Labor gutted $1 billion from business incentives including axing the Commercial Ready program, Small Business Field Officer program, New Business Incentive Scheme and the Global Opportunities program


PROMISE - Labor will increase the overall size of the Australian Federal Police by 500 sworn officers

BROKEN - Only 100 officers to be recruited between 2008-10, Labor winds back the Air marshals program and cuts AFP budget. Another $23.5 million cut from AFP in 2010-11 Budget


PROMISE - Labor will retain private health insurance rebates (letter to private health funds, September 2007)

BROKEN - Labor introduces legislation into Parliament to reduce the rebates


PROMISE - Labor will end the blame game

BROKEN - Of the first 500 Questions Without Notice in Parliament asked of Labor Government Ministers, Labor blamed the Coalition in 77% of their answers (81% of answers to questions asked by Labor Members of themselves)


PROMISE - 260 child care centres will be built in schools and TAFEs

BROKEN - After two years in office only one has been opened. The Rudd Government abandons the promise saying only 38 will be built


PROMISE - Labor will pay a $6,000 bonus to attract 7,750 nurses back to work

BROKEN - Only 752 nurses have accepted the offer


PROMISE - Labor will introduce mandatory filtering of all unlawful and inappropriate online material on websites

BROKEN - Only "refused classification" material is to be filtered and that is already banned. Labor then abandons its internet censorship promise altogether and announces a new 12 month inquiry to be followed by COAG consideration


PROMISE - Labor is the Party for the environment

BROKEN - Labor axed the previous Government's Natural Heritage Trust and the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality and replaced them with its Caring for Our Country program spending $1 billion less


PROMISE - Labor will lower the tax burden

BROKEN - Taxes have gone up in every Labor budget


PROMISE - Labor will request UN Security Council to take court action against the Burmese Junta for crimes against humanity

BROKEN - No action taken


PROMISE - Labor will provide rain water tanks to all of Australia's 305 surf lifesaving clubs

BROKEN - After two years only 45 have been provided and program axed altogether in 2010-11 Budget


PROMISE - Labor will standardise business regulation across the states and reduce red tape

BROKEN - Labor admits its program is behind schedule and virtually nothing has been achieved


PROMISE - Labor will close the gap on Indigenous disadvantage

BROKEN - Labor's second report to Parliament shows little or no progress in health, education or employment outcomes


PROMISE - Labor will provide 200,000 households with interest free loans of up to $10,000 each under its Green Loans scheme

BROKEN - After the election, the commitment was cut to 75,000 households. The scheme has now been scrapped after providing loans to only 1,008 households


PROMISE – Labor will address the systemic skills shortage faced by the shipping industry due to high training costs

BROKEN – Despite a Coastal Shipping Inquiry, no action has been taken to address skills shortages


PROMISE – Labor will establish a fourth free to air commercial TV network

BROKEN – Labor abandons the fourth network and grants a $250 million reduction in licence fees for the existing commercial TV networks


PROMISE – Labor will take “a very hard line… a very tough line on people smuggling”

BROKEN – Labor weakened border protection laws and by 19 May 2010 there have been 128 boats with 5,932 unauthorised people arrive (since August 2008 when Rudd Labor weakened border security)


PROMISE – “Labor’s policy is that if people are intercepted on the high seas, then the vessel should be turned around”

BROKEN – Not one vessel has been turned around


PROMISE – Labor will “increase… x-raying and inspecting containers arriving at our ports from overseas” (Arch Bevis 5-10-2007)

BROKEN – Labor cuts $58.1 million Customs and Border Protection’s air and sea cargo inspection measures. 4.7 million less cargo consignments to be inspected.


PROMISE – “Ministers must accept the full implications of the principle of ministerial responsibility. They will be required to answer for the consequences of their decisions and actions”

BROKEN – Peter Garrett stays in office in spite of his failed home insulation scheme which has funded up to 250,000 botched home insulations, leaving at least 1,000 roofs electrified, at least 100 house fires and four died.


PROMISE – Kevin Rudd describes Government advertising as “obscene” and “a cancer on democracy” and declares that the Auditor General will scrutinize Government advertising to ensure it is not political. There will be no Government advertising 6 months before a federal election

BROKEN – Rudd Government reneges on its promise and will subject its advertisements for scrutiny only by a Government appointed committee. The 2010-11 Budget announces $126 million on new political advertising before the 2010 election

The Rudd Government declares that its $38 million advertising campaign to support its super tax on mining is a national emergency and overrides all scrutiny of the advertisements

The Government also plans to spend $16 million on the NBN (even though the Government has no idea on how to build it) $10 million on the health plan (even though the Rudd Government has backed down to the states and will not take over running hospitals) $13.9 million on the CPRS even though the Government will not be proceeding with the scheme until after two elections


PROMISE – Labor will return the management of immigration detention centres to Government employees

BROKEN – Labor renews contract for Serco to manage the centres for a further four years despite at least ten recent escapes with most escapees still at large


PROMISE – Labor will reduce regulation. For every new regulation we will repeal another

BROKEN – After two years Labor has enacted 9997 regulations but repealed only 52


PROMISE – There will be no net increase in health bureaucrats (Kevin Rudd 3 March 2010)

BROKEN - $500 million provided for a new layer of health bureaucracy in 2010-11 Budget


PROMISE – There will be no nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory

BROKEN – Government proceeds with plans for a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory but at a different site


PROMISE – A Labor Government will mark International Day of the Family with a special Cabinet meeting (Kevin Rudd, press release, August 07)

BROKEN – No special Cabinet meeting on May 15 in 2009 or 2010


PROMISE – Labor will reform the electoral system including caps on political donations and electoral spending by political parties

BROKEN – No changes made and union advertising continues unabated


PROMISE – Labor will establish an Independent Election Debate Commission to conduct 3 debates between leaders during the election campaign

BROKEN – No commission established and Labor refuses to commit to three election debates


PROMISE – Labor will rein in excessive corporate salaries

BROKEN – No action taken


PROMISE – Labor will provide 2500 new aged care beds

BROKEN – After two years only 52 were operating


PROMISE – Labor will conduct a ‘root and branch’ restructure of the tax system (Henry Review)

BROKEN – Only parts of four out of its 138 recommendations were accepted


PROMISE – Labor will establish a Department of Homeland Security

BROKEN – Never delivered


PROMISE – Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister will live solely at The Lodge in Canberra to save the cost of Kirribilli House in Sydney

BROKEN – Kevin Rudd stays much of the time in Sydney


PROMISE – Labor promises to extend eligibility for the Export Market Development Scheme to more exporters

BROKEN – Government introduces legislation to Parliament on 26-5-10 to reverse the changes


PROMISE – Labor will work with the states to reduce their reliance on poker machine revenue

BROKEN – Government accepts only one of the 48 recommendations in the Productivity Commission report on gambling. The report said Australians spend $19 billion on gambling


PROMISE – Labor will make more exporters eligible for the Export Market Development Grants scheme and increase the size of the maximum grants (ALP 2007 election platform)

BROKEN – Labor legislates to reverse the changes to the scheme following cost blow outs


PROMISE – Rudd vows no pre-poll cash splash

BROKEN – Just wait!!!

PROMISE – Julia Gillard repeatedly promises her loyalty to Kevin Rudd

BROKEN – Supported by factional warlords, Julia Gillard deposes Kevin Rudd in a midnight coup


PROMISE – Labor will pay the child care rebates fortnightly rather than quarterly

BROKEN – No action taken but Prime Minister Gillard makes the promise, but it is not to take effect until July 2012 – after the next election


PROMISE – Labor will fix the benefit indexation issue for retired defence personnel in the DFRDB Scheme

BROKEN – Labor commissions a report on DFRDB and then decides to do nothing


PROMISE - We will honour every promise made to the Australian people (Rudd 17/03/2008)

BROKEN - Scores of broken promises


PROMISE – Labor will establish a 150 member Citizens Assembly to determine the Government’s climate change policy

BROKEN – Labor dumps Citizens Assembly and instead will have a Parliamentary Committee but only those who support and Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme can participate


PROMISE – There will be no Carbon tax during the next term of a Gillard Government

BROKEN – Labor Government Ministers such as Martin Ferguson publicly call for an early introduction of a Carbon Tax. On 20-9-2010 the Gillard Government appoints a series of committees to report on how to implement a Carbon Tax


PROMISE – There will be no more onshore detention centres for asylum seekers

BROKEN – Government announces plans for three new detention centres in Australia (17-9-2010)


PROMISE – Labor will not build a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory

BROKEN – Labor introduces legislation to Parliament for the construction of a dump (probably on the same Northern Territory site as was proposed by the previous Government, Muckaty Station) 24-2-2010


PROMISE - 31 Labor MPs incvluding many Minisers sign a pledge to support equal pay for women

BROKEN - Government refuses to back equal pay case because of $4 billion cost


PROMISE - Government has a "set of policies" to lift pressure off working families (Oct 2007)

BROKEN - By October 2010, electricity prices are up 42%, water and sewerage up by 45%, mortgage interest rates up seven times in the past year


“Yes I do commit to keeping the promises at a local level that Labor and Labor candidates made at the last election” (Gillard, Question Time, 20-10-10)

Prime Minister Gillard says she did not believe that she would be able to honour her election promises because of the "new environment" (18-9-2010)

[Pastafarian]

Unaccountable for a whole list of reason...the NBN being one but unaccountable for their list of broken promises.
They are a fucking disgrace

So would you thus put them under the non-core promise category?

[skippy.]

The plane ticket levy was a matter of national importance
You obviously don't care about the workers

You obviously dont care about QLD.

So do you have those C@Ps? or are you just a whiny little bitch of a hypocrite?

[IQS.RLOW]

Unaccountable for a whole list of reason...the NBN being one but unaccountable for their list of broken promises.
They are a fucking disgrace

So would you thus put them under the non-core promise category?

More like the promises made by Cheating being L.A.W- massive failure and backflips

“Yes I do commit to keeping the promises at a local level that Labor and Labor candidates made at the last election” (Gillard, Question Time, 20-10-10)

Prime Minister Gillard says she did not believe that she would be able to honour her election promises because of the "new environment" (18-9-2010)

Sounds like a committment to me...although I am not surprised you offer a tired response to that massive list of incompetence

[IQS.RLOW]

The plane ticket levy was a matter of national importance
You obviously don't care about the workers

You obviously dont care about QLD.

So do you have those C@Ps? or are you just a whiny little bitch of a hypocrite?

Queenslanders would be well cared for without an extra tax if it wasn't for this govt

[Pastafarian]

“Yes I do commit to keeping the promises at a local level that Labor and Labor candidates made at the last election” (Gillard, Question Time, 20-10-10)

Prime Minister Gillard says she did not believe that she would be able to honour her election promises because of the "new environment" (18-9-2010)

Sounds like a committment to me...although I am not surprised you offer a tired response to that massive list of incompetence

Lol, sounds like a rehashing of the non-core promises statement.

[IQS.RLOW]

“Yes I do commit to keeping the promises at a local level that Labor and Labor candidates made at the last election” (Gillard, Question Time, 20-10-10)

Prime Minister Gillard says she did not believe that she would be able to honour her election promises because of the "new environment" (18-9-2010)

Sounds like a committment to me...although I am not surprised you offer a tired response to that massive list of incompetence

Lol, sounds like a rehashing of the non-core promises statement.

I'm guessing your eyes just glazed over and the drool from the corner of your mouth distracted you from the massive list of labor incompetence and broken promises

[Pastafarian]

I'm guessing your eyes just glazed over and the drool from the corner of your mouth distracted you from the massive list of labor incompetence and broken promises

Not really, just saying to break it down to one party is fantastic, the other is fatally flawed is an oversimplification of both partys' respective performance.

[IQS.RLOW]

I'm guessing your eyes just glazed over and the drool from the corner of your mouth distracted you from the massive list of labor incompetence and broken promises

Not really, just saying to break it down to one party is fantastic, the other is fatally flawed is an oversimplification of both partys' respective performance.

It needs to be kept simple to get the message through to reatrds like yourself who make excuses for this govt by looking back and pointing fingers- nerrrrrrrrrrr but look what they did- instead of taking Ghoulias advice to mooooooving fooooward
The facts are that the previous liberal govt performed brilliantly
The facts are that this govt is disasterously incompetent

Take heart that if you voted for these fluffy bunnies, I hold you equally in contempt.