I haven't read his press release, but I've heard snippets of it played on the radio and tv. I believe, and someone can correct me if I'm wrong, that he made reference to Labor's economic management and how he feels that it would be better than the Coalition's management.
How is that so?
Treasury announced that the costings of the Coalition's policies show up an $11b hole, and the Coalition have retorted that there are differences in calculations used by the Coalition as compared to those being used by Treasury.
How on earth can Treasury calculate their interest payments based on a 4.9% interest rate?????
Talk about having their heads up their backsides! Please Mr Henry, can I have some of that money that only costs 4.9% because the best I can get right now is about 7.9%! The banks, if you remember, didn't even pass on all the interest rates cuts that the RBA announced over the last 2 years, so I'd really like a bit of what you've got.
What a joke.
Anyway, even if there were an $11b hole in the Coalition's figures, isn't it a whole lot better than the $43b hole that is the NBN in Labor's costings? I should think so! Labor is so concerned about this NBN that they haven't even put it in the budget...talk about great economic management! If the CEO of a publicly listed company did that surely he'd find himself in the do-do big time?
Morons.
I was reading the BRW last week (volume 32, number 33) and there was a letter published on Page 16 (Letters to the Editor), and I thought I would reproduce it here. It was authored by a Mr Michael Johnson.
Did we really deserve this?
They say we get what we deserve. Never has this been more true than in the 2010 federal election.
Sadly, the outcome of the former prime minister John Howard's "comfortable society" is a country that is seemingly devoid of vision,
of leadership and has the political conversation of that of a small, inwardly focused aged-care ward.
In 2010, and at a time when someone needed to stand up, both parties chose what they believed was the safe route.
They chose to focus on the title of power not what is required of those who will wield this power on behalf of all Australians.
What the country is calling for is a vision for the future. A vision that is more than what we are at present or what we have been historically.
Australia needs a vision and a sense of purpose that harnesses the ethos of the clever country through an innovative industrial sector, that proudly claims the value-adding opportunities that our rich natural resources provide and delivers equality of opportunity that underpins the now-cliched term "a fair go for all".
The greatest tragedy is not what has been said, claimed and done, but
what has been left unsaid, ignored and removed from the national
conversation".
He's probably not wrong!
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