A free ride on the gravy train
When Tony Abbott rolled Malcolm Turnbull for the Liberal Party leadership back in 2009, he immediately threw out the constructive negotiations towards an emissions reduction scheme.
“Oppositions are not there to get legislation through,” Abbott intoned, heralding his approach for the next 4 years.
There would be no discussion, no amendments, no working together to improve legislation, no alternatives offered. It would just be NO to everything.
And here we are a decade later with no energy or climate change policy.
So used to this approach did the Coalition become that, when they did finally become the government, they had nothing to offer. They have spent six years still opposing Labor’s ideas.
Our overly generous property tax concessions are a prime example.
In his 2005 tax policy paper, Malcolm Turnbull described negative gearing and the CGT discount as a “sheltering tax haven” that is “skewing national investment away from wealth-creating pursuits, towards housing”, and has caused a “property bubble”. Turnbull also acknowledged that “Australia’s rules on negative gearing are very generous compared to many other countries” and that “the normal deductibility principles do not apply to negatively geared real estate such that the taxpayer is not obliged to demonstrate that the negatively geared property will generate positive cash flow at some point in the distant future.”
In 2014 he said, “Looking at Australia’s tax regime you would say that it is too tough on people earning income… but is incredibly concessional to older people who have made their money…”
When Joe Hockey made his final speech to parliament in 2015, he said: “negative gearing should be skewed towards new housing so that there is an incentive to add to the housing stock rather than an incentive to speculate on an existing property.”
Today, the ABC is reporting that Scott Morrison was also considering reforms regarding tax concessions when he became Treasurer in 2015.
Obtained under freedom of information laws, a senior NSW Treasury official in October 2015 wrote: “The Commonwealth appears more willing to consider broader tax reform.
“The Commonwealth Treasurer has indicated that all options need to be considered, including superannuation, capital gains tax and negative gearing.”
Mr Morrison in February 2016 said there were “excesses” in negative gearing and that the government was considering changes.
So everyone was in agreement that change was necessary, until Labor announced their policy a month later. The Coalition’s reaction was to go to their safe place of just saying NO again.
In his 2009 book Battlelines, Abbott wrote
“The next Liberal government won’t need to assume office with specific policies on all topics down to the last detail. Too much detail can easily give the government material for a scare campaign.”
And that has been their mantra ever since. If you have no policies, no-one can criticise them.
But that isn’t called governing. It’s just a free ride on the gravy train.
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Return to home pageKaye, I now wait with trepidation for the results of the election. Most of the people I talk to seem to have swallowed the coalitions lies.
You have pointed out further examples of their dishonesty, but who is listening. I have done my bit, voted on the first day pre-polling was available.
Peter,
I have also stopped listening so I can’t blame others for doing likewise. Fact-checking this government for the last six years has been soul-destroying. If there is one thing I hate, it is dishonesty. How can we fix problems if we don’t acknowledge that they exist?
” If there is one thing I hate, it is dishonesty.”
Unfortunately, there is a lot of it about at every stratum of society and in every corner of the community.
It seems as if humanity has evolved to depend on myths, fables, half truths and outright lies for its sense of being.
I find that genuinely truthful people are hard to find; more frequent amongst autistic and aspergic folk but so delightfully ubiquitous amongst those with Down syndrome.
DrakeN,
I always told my children, tell me the truth and I can help you fix things, lie to me and you are on your own.
Chris Bowen at a press conference just said ….What Australians are sick of are political parties who say, “Just because somebody thought of the idea we say no.”
I swear, sometimes I think my lounge room is wired. The football commentators always say what I just said too.
Thank you, Kaye, for doing the horrid research and checking of this government.
Your summaries of what’s happening is all I can bear.
Been here before though, so I’m never optimistic with new government anymore. Seen their dishonesty and policy backflips before.
And, neither LNP or LP is saying the right things about the climate emergency we all face
These reports make it difficult for the climate change warriors? Engdahl is a very reliable source for many issues…
https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/16/the-dark-story-behind-global-warming-aka-climate-change/
https://newagora.ca/global-warming-a-total-hoax-and-scam-run-by-corrupt-scientists-warns-greenpeace-co-founder/
I know why the climate is changing and it not driven by carbon dioxide. Dr Paul Laviolette has more details on his website at
David,
STOP IT.
This is an article about how important truth is and you throw in that load of total crap.
“Engdahl is a very reliable source for many issues”
Engdahl is a contributor to the website of the anti-globalization and conspiracy theorist Centre for Research on Globalization, the Russian website New Eastern Outlook, the Voltaire Network, and Veterans Today. He has been described by James Kirchick in Time magazine as being a “crank ‘historian’.”
and more…
“WHO ARE THE GODS OF MONEY? The NEW WORLD ORDER enslavement plan! THE CLIMATE CHANGE construct! The ruling elite´s succesful economic crisis & The Federal Reserve! Media manipulation lies! Vaccinations and chemical medicine that makes people sick! The 9/11 lie! Oil and energy = Rothchilds vs. Rockefellers! The political voting scam! Nikola Tesla and Free Energy! GMO food poison! The Bilderberg Group! etc…
These controversial and eye-opening topics and more – discussed in this interview with award-winning American author, professor, historian, investigative reporter, geopolitical analyst, economic and conspiracy researcher:
F. WILLIAM ENGDAHL.”
I won’t bother with your other bullshit links. One is always enough with you to show what utter crap you are spewing forth.
The real polling….
Monday update 5 days out
Betfair Labor 1.12 Coalition $7
Sportsbet Labor $1.14 Coalition $5.50
Ladbrokes Labor $1.12 Coalition $6
David Bruce,
Nonsense! Crap! Bullshit! Go get an education.
David Bruce,
“Global warming a total “hoax and scam” run by corrupt scientists, warns Greenpeace co-founder” My favourite part of the utter nonsensical piece was seeing –
“Sources for this article include:
Breitbart.com
NaturalNews.com”
Hilarious.
Take your rubbish and stick it…you can guess where.
Kaye Lee,
I am not in the least little bit surprised that Scummo was looking at possible changes to tax concessions and negative gearing. Until, that is the screams from his LNP mates and, no doubt, a lot the 10% club helped him change his mind (what there is of a mind that is).
All the LNP will have in opposition is “NO!” and Scummo and selective amnesia and maybe soon after to be not Scummo but mostly likely be Friedeggburger (if he dosn’t get the axe). The only concern I have is what will happen if the RRaR-WNJ’s get control of the Senate.
@David Bruce: Wake up!! Burning petroleum products like petrol, diesel & coal et al creates CO2 as a natural by-product. CO2 levels have risen above 300ppm and continue to rise causing the world climate to become more uncertain, more catastrophic and less predictable. There are simply too many independent studies by credible scientists showing the same trends in results; that the world climate is warming up. Ostriches bury their head i the sand so that they cannot see the danger. Perhaps “Ostrich” would be a more accurate tag when posting.
David Bruce:
you subscribe to causes of CC which have been thoroughly debunked. Please stop trying to spread this rubbish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Most of us are convinced of the genuine science.
https://skepticalscience.com/cosmic-rays-and-global-warming-advanced.htm
David Bruce
When you go to the doctor and you want to be sure of the prognosis, do you seek another opinion from
a) another doctor?
Or
b) ask anyone who is not a qualified medical professional?
Kaye,
"I swear, sometimes I think my lounge room is wired."
I have no doubt that it is, you needing electricity and all that modern stuff.
Of course, you do know enough to be careful of the “smart” TV, the Alexa thingummy etc.
David Bruce may be a “sock puppet” for the climate change denialist propaganda units funded by various groups eg the Mineral Council, the Koch brothers etc in whose interests it is to try to sow doubt about the science, along the same lines as the Tobacco industry.
Bruce alleges among other things, that climate change scientists are benefiting from the funding they receive. Well yes, just as anyone who draws a salary but it begs the question: who is REALLY benefiting from CC denial??
I’m sure everyone on here would have seen this from Greenpeace.
The webs these pricks weave make me sick to the stomach.
I just clicked on the link to make sure it was going to work, and was horrified to see the advertisement before the Greenpeace video was potato head Dutto himself. These a….holes are everywhere.
The Thug, the Fizza and the Adman
The Thug
It was six years ago
we start our tale of woe
When Abbott and his circus came to stay
They’d beaten Kevin Rudd
when help from Murdoch’s mud
and Abbott’s skill at lying won the day
It didn’t take too long
for things to go quite wrong
Their promises were broken from the start
Cormann and Joe Hockey
smoked cigars being cocky
as their budget stunk like a smelly fart
The budget of fourteen
was underhand and mean
so the polls went into terminal decline
We had Abbott’s Dames and Knights
the Egghead’s “Bigots rights”
and backflips from perfidious poodle Pyne
While Abbott led the side
the polls kept on the slide
with his lies and his stupid captain’s picks
The crew were just as weak
they were soon up shit creek
This party of pernicious lying pricks
Things went from bad to worse
as they flogged a dying horse
The backbench thought the jockey was to blame
They tried an empty chair
but the spill went nowhere
they were left with the Thug, though now quite lame
With Bronwyn on the take,
exposed through chopper gate
the public had concluded they’re the worst
They were deep in trouble
inside a bullshit bubble
with just the prick in charge to make it burst.
One September day
Turnbull made his play
And Abbott, still deluded, got the arse
They were sure Malcolm’s words
could polish policy turds
and fool enough to save their sorry farce
The Fizza
Turnbull started well
everything was swell
What a great time it was to be alive
Agile, innovation,
nuanced conversation,
the polls reversed, the party might survive
All was on the table
Malcom seemed so able
but pretty soon the cracks began to show
For him to get the job
he told the right wing mob
He’d keep all Abbott’s nonsense on the go
The voters were surprised
Mal was Tony, in disguise
Relief, turned to dismay, was this a joke
Different coloured ties,
more smiles, but same old lies
with new slogans served with waffle when he spoke
Hey let’s change the GST,
Yeah nah, not going to be
State income tax lasted almost, a day
Poor thinking was the norm
as Mal returned to form
and polls began to turn the other way
Malcolm’s great solution,
was a double dissolution,
an election called out of desperation
New slogans from snake oil man
“Jobs and Growth” and “plan”
So much for intelligent conversation
Then on election night
the polls were very tight
Nobody knew who’d lead Australia
Whatever be the score
One thing we knew for sure
Mad monk and the Fizza, both were failures
With a lead of just one
the fun had just begun
The senate was worse and full of crackers
With Abbott set to plot
a feral senate lot,
the right held tight their grip on Malcolm’s knackers
Yet Malcolm thought it wise
to bring in Abbott’s spies
Giving ministries to Dutton and Mathias
Although it must be said
with wood that’s mainly dead
There wasn’t much to choose amongst the liars
So Malcolm’s brilliant plan
was heading for the can
The senate or the right would hold the rein
As Malcolm waffled on
and on and on and on
divisions in the party room remained
We had a plebiscite
Demanded by the right
Even though the public view was clear
Despite the bigots best
the verdict came back YES!
Love had won over ignorance and fear
Forced into submission
the banking commission
revealed how these crooks would lie and steal
The bankers soon were seen
as morally obscene
with government asleep behind the wheel
Polls were front of mind
They were always behind
thirty losses on the trot would soon arrive
Though Mal was within striking
Abbott kept on sniping
and talk began whether Mal would survive
Murdoch came back to town
Intent to bring Mal down
Dutton was the puppet to wield the knife
Mal called forth a spill
He survived but very ill
Mal was fighting for his political life
This bunch of buffoons
behaved like bar room hoons
threatening and bullying their pals
Dutton just was Dutton
a deluded thug with nothin
but that didn’t stop these jokers killing Mal
The spud thought he was in
He’d practiced how to grin
Morrison and Bishop both organised
Bishop first got booted
then Dutton got rooted
and Morrison prevailed to win the prize
The Adman
Morrison started fast
to cover up the past
Spinning he was one of those blameless guys
Why did Mal have to go?
Morrison didn’t know
It wasn’t him, he’s just PM, surprise!
Morrison is a jerk
His default face, a smirk
His try hard baseball hat, a Trump like fake
He’s all stunts and spin
with smug and smirking grin
“Fair dinkum”, “daggy dad”, give me a break.
When parliament was back
along came medivac
Morrison started whistling, “stop the boats”
He thought it opportune
to use his favoured tune
and a scare campaign to move some simple votes
The stage was all prepared
for an Asylum seeker scare
a play in which Morrison had once starred
but Christchurch drew a line
on racist, hateful slime
Morrison couldn’t play his favoured card
The budget came and went
A useless non event
soon the election was off and running
To nobodies surprise
Their plan is built on lies
and Morrison’s skills at pure rat cunning
In just a few more sleeps
We can remove these creeps
But in politics nothing is certain
After six years of farce
This mob should get the arse
I won’t applaud until the final curtain
if the liberals lose, which on the balance of the bookies will happen, i hope its an annihilation. Thats all these bastards deserve. A stoning is too good for them. How a narcissistic person like Abbott ever got as far as he did is an indictment on the win at all costs disease that has swept both sides over the years. And its all because one side was in power for too long. They become addicted and the opposition even more desperate to win.
If Labor lose, oh my god, i gotta get out. It will be against all common sense and decency. Australia will become a basket case.
David, we’re not really into conspiracies on this site, especially when they’re thrown in to disrupt the topic under discussion.
Anyhoo, the real reason for my visit …
What the hell is going on down there? The crap coming out of the government and the media makes me think I’m reading about Trump’s America.
Michael.
To quote someone else….
Don’t you worry about that you people.
It’s madness here. Forget about it and enjoy being elsewhere. I am envious. I hope you two are having a blast.
Whatever the betting odds are, make no mistake, the bastards in the MSM are and will, continue to do their damndest to back Scummo and his pack of dickheads. Does anyone really expect anything else from Murdoch and his minions, or Kerry Stokes or that gutless failed treasurer Peter arsewipe Costello, ( he’s in charge of the editorials at SMH and The Age), or Ita Buttrose and her willing acolytes like Fran Kelly and half price Sales at the ABC, or the whimpering fools at SBS ? Not to mention the pricks at Skynews and of course Alan and his ‘chum’ Hadley at 2GB. They will carry on until the last minute.
Labor faces an historic battle and when they win, it will be the culmination of a struggle of epic proportions.
Thanks, Kaye. If you get sick of the mayhem over there, yer welcome to join us in Scotland.
Michael, I would contend that the so called mayhem over here is nothing compared to the Brexit chaos that appears to be enveloping the UK. Having been born in Scotland as we follow the saga, as much as we can, we are trusting that the correct decision, whatever that is, is the right one for Bonnie Scotland. We will survive whatever the outcome as you will, but let’s hope for the best for the people caught up in what seems to be your never ending saga.
Migs, I hope you don’t mind but I’ve taken it upon myself to dust down a space in the Cellar for all those ‘Duty Free’s’ you’ll be bringing back.
I thought that that 1/2 Container size space between the Grange and the Blackberry Nip would lend itself to an certain, umm….aesthetic, “little lone” the Feng Shui.
Your thoughts??
Anyhoo, Cheers 🍻
LOVO, by “dusting down a space” I assume you mean that you drank it. 😡
At least you made space for the crates of Stroma I’m shipping in. 😀
Aortic, Brexit is the worst decision ever made in Britain since Decca knocked back a recording contract for the Beatles in 1962.
The Scottish are not happy about Brexit as they had already voted to stay in the UK … a move they now regret.
A Brexit go ahead would ensure another Scottish referendum, however an independent Scotland would not be ensured entry into the EU. They would need to have their own army, currency, social security system among other things.
The best thing to do would be to have another Brexit vote.
Michael,
I will be spending the election in sunny Queensland. A friend asked me to hand out how to votes in Wide Bay but I think I might just go look at the dolphins and dugongs instead and then party when it’s done and dusted.
“Hey Australia, watch me pull a sudden brain fart policy out of my arse because all the crap has migrated up into my skull.”
https://www.smh.com.au/federal-election-2019/controversial-policy-to-help-first-home-buyers-did-not-go-through-cabinet-20190513-p51mtg.html
Urk, gag, choke, Scummo playing to the religulous (I like Bill Maher for that word) in yet a further attempt to garner votes –
https://www.smh.com.au/federal-election-2019/i-support-the-law-of-the-country-debate-over-sexuality-and-religion-creeps-into-election-campaign-20190513-p51mxm.html
I’ll be interested to see if any retiring Liberal MPs get cushy jobs with the firms they’ve handed taxpayers money to.
One of the few MSM outlets I regularly read is The New Daily. I find it offers generally a balanced approach in its political coverage, while having interesting articles across a a good general range.
As the Murdoch filth media seems to be all out attack on Bill Shorten and Labor as I am well informed in these columns, this article from todays edition made for a refreshing read.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/vic/2019/05/13/murdoch-news-corp/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning%20News%20-%2020190514
Thank You Graeme Henchel. A very welcome chuckle after breakfast.
Always enjoy your works Graeme.Thank you kindly.
Great verse Graeme Henchel. Thank you.
I see that big eyebrows repulsive little homuculus is spouting his garbage yet again –
https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/federal-election-2019-live-coverage-from-the-campaign-trail-as-may-18-poll-looms/live-coverage/eb0487f133741160fd2752600f12d029
If anyone is becoming more and more desperate it’s Scummo, because he’s been coming to Launceston just about every week since early this year and wafting his stench about with gay abandon (meaning: with rash, unrestrained impulsiveness, enthusiasm, or zeal). Thank (insert name of favourite deity here), in this case Nyarlathotep, I live 22 klicks outside the town because the air would been unbreathable.
Thank (insert name of favourite deity here), in this case Nyarlathotep,…
LOL. All praise be to Lovecraft up on high. 🙂
In other comforting news, the ever more desperate RWNJs that John West rejects, are nipping at each others heels:
‘sAbbottage’: Jim Molan’s rogue campaign poaches volunteers from Tony Abbott’s team which retaliates in kind SMH
Alcibiades,
It’s a dog eat dog world in the ‘Abbott-lilke-ilk’ bubble. Loyalty and fidelity are just an means to an end 🙄
“RWNJ’s that John West rejects”…gold 😄