Hurry on September 7

Labor continue stimulus payments despite global financial meltdown ending

A STAGGERING 6000 people - including overseas backpackers - have received Labor's $900 "stimulus" payment since January 1- even though the global financial meltdown ended four years ago.

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Comments

[Georgina]

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Where is the money coming from Rudd? Is it in your costings?

[Anton]

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On the national credit card

[kraka]

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Its all over folks-no-one is listening to the labor party except the rusted ons. It will be all over by about 6.30pm election night and I predict Abbott will turn out to be one of our better PM's. Watch him rise in stature once he has the job he has coveted for 3 years without the worry of a media trying to get a gotcha moment and prevent it.

[John Mc]

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Abbott certainly has the potential to be one of the great all-time Australian PMs. He'll need a good team behind him though; his instincts on financial matters and classical liberal values aren't strong. But his people skills and personal honesty mean that over time his popularity will be (eventually) pretty good.

[Anton]

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This election will be decided by people that don't get their politics from Q&A, but on worksites, barbaques and pubs. Labor has no way of getting their message to them, and the Liberals don't need to.

With 100+ seats and probably the senate Abbott will have an opportunity to do good. I hope he uses it well

[kraka]

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Agreed, Unfortunately he will have to do a Campbell immediately and have the books properly audited and use the results to reneg/delay things like the PPL, direct action while also eliminating the RET's etc.

As the polls in Qld show it has not hurt Campbell (unless you think dropping from 61-39 to 59-42 is hurting him-bwaaahahahaha)

If the books are as seriously wrong as many of us suspect I hope they lay criminal charges against some public servants-at least put the broom though them in those departments. It's the only way for him to do good-come clean, sack the incompetents and give yourself 3 years to turn it around.

Lets face it, after September 7 the blood letting in the ALP is going to be something to behold so the Libs can do what they want while the news centres on the repercussions and revenge in the ALP

[bluebell]

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KRudd is really losing it - the longer the campaign rolls on the more shrill he is becoming. Today he was up here in Queensland using a school earmarked for closure as his latest political prop.

http://www.news.com.au/national-news/federal-election/federal-election-2013-day-16-of-the-campaign/story-fnho52ip-1226700260728

The ALP vicious attack Ads will no nothing for their campaign either - along with their foreign import spin doctors it shows us that they have nothing left.....the barrel is empty. They are now resorting to desperate measures - the same measures that Anna Bligh used in her last campaign. Australians resent and reject smear and attack tactics and have done so for ages. We resent USA style electioneering tactics being used here in this country....and if they cannot see that they are DUMBER than I thought!

[Anton]

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I hope he starts cleaning on the first day of parliament. This is what the voters want, not pandering to public sector unions and other parasites. Campbell Newman has lost no support (Rudd from Queensland apparently does not know this).

The people are angry-mad, if Abbott wins he will have a blank cheque mandate to clean the place. The public sector unions are a small minority of the population and we are sick of them.

[Brian Richard Allen]

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.... With 100+ seats and probably the senate Prime-Minister-elect Abbott will have an opportunity to do Good. I hope he uses it well ....

I believe Mr Abbott is the Western/Civilized World's very finest politician since my old boss, the great Ronald Wilson Reagan. Like Mr Reagan, Mr Abbott is a principled man of moral and intellectual integrity and who shares Mr Reagan's most attractive attribute: that he was without false pride and cared not one whit who got the credit for a job well done.

Like Mr Reagan, Mr Abbott will surround himself with other First Class Men, not with the no-threat fifth raters that surround most (at-best, themselves, only-second-rate) politicians.

Only Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, comes close to sharing Mr Abbott's qualities and potential -- and during the Harper government's time in office, Canada's turn-around has been astounding.

Please God I'm Right, for with China's Multi-Trillion-Dollar "stimulus" growth, property bubble and faux "growth" all headed for the sewer and Capital outflow causing the Aussie to head toward its real (USD$0.55-60¢?) value, there are extremely tough times ahead.

If Australia will have a chance at a turnaround, it will need inspired leadership and, more importantly, will need that the yoke of government lifted from its neck.

Brian Richard Allen

[Anton]

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I don't support all Abbott's policies, but I think he is a good man. At least he is honest and humble, which is a solid foundation. Hopefully he can keep some of the career politicians in the Lib/Nats from abusing the opportunity he will be given.

He also needs guidence from somewhere, because the Liberals are full of Keynesians and big government statists. Thatcher was lucky to get guidence from Hayek, which helped to bring Britian out of the gutter.

Australia is heading to very hard times, regardless of who wins government. Keynesian stimulus and taxation ideas will finish Australia off for decades, we are very fragile right now. We need a massive boost to competitiveness and productivity because capital is already leaving and China is slowing.

We need lower energy costs, trade unions brought under control and a significant reduction (50000+) in public servants and a reduction in our welfare bill. All savings need to be passed as permanent tax cuts after paying off some debt. Then regulations on business need to be reduced, the influence of greens and other communists eliminated. Then the rule of law must be restored.

There is a lot to do

[Brian Richard Allen]

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Great minds!