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 BROOKE wrote:

Lets list Tony Abbotts shameful acts:

1) Outlawing bikie gangs (well known for decades as standover men and drug couriers)
When
 did this occur precisely? I seemed to have missed the debate as well as
 the legislation. No doubt more needs to be done about their particular 
involvement in crime but it will take far smarter people than Abbott and
 Newman to do so effectively. I note no mention of bolstering ASIC with 
more powers or resources to crack down on the big end of town but when 
you have tin ears and your eyes averted that's to be expected - and I'm 
talking about both you and the mob you so blindly support.

2) Make it difficult for banks to determine the terms of a loan, particularly as they relate to interest rates.
Please
 explain. Interest rates are ultimately determined by monetary and 
fiscal policy and markets, unless of course they are controlled by banks
 and supported by lax members of parliament - for example the ludicrous 
credit card interest rates currently permitted. I see you've conveniently overlooked the changes to FoFA which reduce consumer protection from shonky financial advisers. Naughty naughty.

3) Attempt to help small business (the biggest employer in the country) by lowering taxes.

Which taxes, and how do they help small business exactly? Would 
that be the tax on Medicare vistis which will diminish the amount of 
concessional spending for consumers who are the lifeblood of small 
business? Or perhaps the reduction in asset write off from $6500 to $1000 - I'll leave you to work out the tax increase involved in that decision. The
 budget announced a commitment for a 1.5% company tax reduction for some
 small businesses effective from July 2015. Could be a good thing if 
they actually follow it through.

4) Make obsolete cushy high paid government jobs at universities etc, that produce nothing for the country.
Wtf
 is this nonsense?  If you believe that universitities and their 
researchers, managers and "teachers" produce nothing for their country 
then you're in the running for the most unthinking, ill-informed 
conservative supporter on this forum. And that's saying quite a lot.

5) Develop employment programs for the unemployed, rather than handouts that lead to nowhere.

What programs are these precisely and what evidence is there that 
they do anything for the unemployed? If you mean there should be mutual
 obligation of some sort in some (many) cases then you might have a 
point. How that is implemented is an entirely different matter. Other 
than that your comment is simply waffle. Howard's work for
 the dole schemes were expensive flops and there's little reason to 
think that this band of incompetents will do better than Little Johnnie. Abetz's idea of 40 applications a month is the biggest joke yet from this clueless mob and won't see the light of day.

6) Stop the boats, which really should have been called "stop the drowning at sea".  Mission accomplished.

No doubt something had to be done to deter refugees and 
others from putting their lives at risk and they've had significant 
success in that. And yet people have  drowned on Morrison's watch, 
others were returned to murderous regimes where their fates were unknown
 (out of sight out of mind), and "illegal" immigration continues 
unabated as long as you arrive by air. Many people believe
 that Australia's actions in Iraq and Afghanistan make us duty bound to 
accept refugees from these countries. Where do you sit in that 
discussion?

7) Stop foreign aid to countries like Israel,
 by borrowing money from New York banks, and then donated to Israel as 
"foreign aid" interest free, to them only.
Please feel free to 
elaborate. We know they've cut foreign aid, which is an unconscionable 
act in the eyes of many other "christians", although not the Jesuit 
educated ones in the Abbott government obviously.

  8) Try to repeal, amend, change the draconian freedom of 
speech rules, which really only benefited those who own our courts to 
stop the truth from being said.

Childish nonsense. There is nothing in the legislation which prohibits or diminishes the right to "free speech" or discussion. The
 law under which Bolt was prosecuted has worked well and provided some 
recourse against those who would use their power to vilify others.  The 
fact that the government has backed away from Brandis' ludicrous 
amendment shows just how badly they read the mood of the community. I 
suggest you do a bit of reading about the Bolt case and why he was found
 guilty. Statements like yours above show just how easy it is to fool the gullible and why education is critical to democracy.

9) Standing up for Australian citizens when they are blown out of the sky.

As any PM of this nation would have done. Unlike many others I don't doubt Abbott's motives in this case. 

10)
 Daring to criticize old allies, while assisting previous enemies like 
Japan, allowing them to remilitarise and sign revolutionary trade deals 
with them.

I've missed it again apparently. Which "old allies" did Abbott 
criticise, what was significant about the criticism, and what part did 
Abbott play in Japan's decision to change its constitution? The 
"revolutionary" trade deal was of course put together over many years. 
Abbott did no more than put his signature on the work done by officials 
during the Rudd and Gillard years.

Conclusion: All in all, not a bad first 6 months for the Abbott Government.

Now, what was it that Julia did again?
Oh thats right.

1)Call the male population of Australia  "sexist".

You appear to believe Abbott (Jones et al) constitute the 
Australian "male population". Thankfully they don't, nor are they 
representative of male attitudes to women in this country. How many 
women are there in Abbott's ministry? Save your virginity ladies - it 
will come in handy along with ironing, cooking and sewing skills Tony so
 admires.

2)Ramp up foreign aid to Israel (admitted by Bob Carr).
3)Try to destroy free speech so no-one could criticise her friends in Israel.  (also admitted by Bob Carr)

I don't pretend to understand the point you're trying to make but 
your ability to misunderstand basic facts and take things out of context
 is obvious so I think we can draw our own conclusions as to what is going on. The Australian parliament has 
generally had a bipartisan (and some would say blinkered) approach to 
Israel. Don't know or care about your personal dislike of that nation 
but I do recall  Carr being criticised for permitting aid to flow to 
Palestinians via the UN, which could either support your point or refute
 it - if it was comprehensible that is.

  I suggest you do more than contemplate your navel fluff and 
actually educate yourself. Despite being in a minority government under 
constant attack from an opposition intent on nothing other than gaining 
government irrespective of the cost to the nation, Gillard was able to pass a record amount of legislation. She was far from a perfect leader but your ignorance of her achievements doesn't impact her standing one iota either way.

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