Tony Abbott’s overwhelming self-belief is astonishing to behold
On Saturday, he wrote an article in the Australian which clearly indicates he believes the country, and the Liberal Party, will see the error of their ways and embrace the work he started during his short-lived and spectacularly unsuccessful stint in the top job.
He wants the Renewable Energy Target abolished.
He wants to increase GST to tax consumption rather than production.
He wants the company tax cuts fast-tracked.
He wants to get “taxes down and regulation down so that we can get productivity and profitability up.”
He wants “a ferocious clamp on all new spending other than that with a clear growth (or necessary national security) dividend.”
He gave Turnbull a serve saying that Trump’s election is a “good opportunity for the government not just to talk about agility but actually to be agile.”
He points out things have gotten worse under Malcolm.
“Although the government is in a worse position that it was 18 months ago to embark on a new round of major economic reform…”
And castigates Turnbull for not sticking with Abbott’s agenda.
“…Our economic reform challenge is becoming more acute,” Mr Abbott wrote. “It’s a pity that Malcolm Turnbull abandoned the tax reform and federation reform white papers that had been well under way under my government. This process was the best hope of securing a shift from taxing production to taxing consumption and for making government more efficient.”
Either Abbott has the memory of a goldfish or a pope-like belief in his own infallibility.
It would be a huge mistake to reward this sort of public dissent with a Cabinet position. Is Turnbull strong enough to stare him down?
We shall see.
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