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philperth2010

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What will Abbott do???
Feb 19^th, 2012 at 4:39pm

If Abbott becomes PM what will he do???

Scrap the carbon tax.....
The carbon tax will have little affect on individuals or companies but will have a huge bearing on revenue.....Direct action is expensive and ineffective and must be paid for out of consolidated revenue!!!

Scrap the mining tax.....
The mining tax will have no affect on mining investment or the consumer but it will have a huge bearing on revenue and reduce the Governments ability to protect industries and build the foundations for future growth!!!

Reintroduce Nauru and expensive off shore processing whilst turning back the boats at sea.....
The policy of persecution and trying to turn boats back might have an affect on people seeking asylum in Australia however this will no doubt send these people somewhere else so it is no longer our problem.....Further eroding our relationship with Indonesia who have already rejected the policy from Abbott....No solution to the plight of refugees but Abbott can keep desperate people from seeking any assistance from Australia.....Hardly something to be proud of!!!

Introduce a very generous paid maternity scheme.....
Abbott's paid maternity leave scheme is to expensive and will force companies to keep jobs open for up to six months....Paid for by a levy (not a tax) on business to reward greed....A sort of reverse means test where the more wealthy you are the more you get....Wealthy parents need more money for silver spoons!!!

Restoring the health care rebate.....
This will be expensive and cost the budget billions that will increase over time adding nothing to the public system.....The rebate does not decrease the amount of sick people of provide more doctors and nurses it just makes private health funds richer!!!

Provide tax cuts for all Australian's including millionaires without raising any taxes.....
Further eroding budget revenue and the Governments ability to invest for the future and fund services.....Tax cuts without a dividend or gain in productivity.....worthless vote buying!!!

Abbott will dump the NBN.....
Technology that will pay for itself and provide revenue for many decades to come.....Telecommunications will still have to be replaced due to the aging copper network however without the NBN we can expect a far inferior service and little for the country where profits are not worth the time of the private sector!!!

Abbott has revealed he wants to return to the policies of the Howard Government despite the fact the world has changed since the days of high end tax cuts and pork barreling.....
So far all we know about Tony Abbott's policies is that he will be an expensive gamble who is offering nothing accept giving more to people who are well off and less to people who are struggling.....I cannot see what is good about any of his policies to be honest!!!

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corporate_whitey Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8896 Archivist	Re: What will Abbott do??? Reply #1 - Feb 19^th, 2012 at 4:45pm And the world is full of people who want to engineer instability and insecurity for their own sake and their own profit and hang the intended human consequences....collateral damage and growing pains to them...
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Reply #2 - Feb 19^th, 2012 at 5:34pm

You forgot to add Workchoices.
Once the Libs are back in, and at this rate, with Labor infighting and 95% of Australian media owned by regressive right wingers... they will get in.

Number 1 priority will be to implement WorkChoices. This time it will probably be more extreme (as a sort of revenge against the Australian people).

I imagine minimum wage will be lowered, Holiday pay, overtime and Sunday loadings will go. Holidays will be reduced or removed altogether. In America, the normal is 2 weeks a year if you are lucky. Hours work will be increased, whereas overall pay will be lowered.

Tax on the lower income earners will be increased, whereas millionaires will get a tax cut.

This is where Australia is headed. It's a race to the bottom.

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Reply #3 - Feb 19^th, 2012 at 6:24pm

Clanky wrote on Feb 19^th, 2012 at 5:34pm:

You forgot to add Workchoices.
Once the Libs are back in, and at this rate, with Labor infighting and 95% of Australian media owned by regressive right wingers... they will get in.

Number 1 priority will be to implement WorkChoices. This time it will probably be more extreme (as a sort of revenge against the Australian people).

I imagine minimum wage will be lowered, Holiday pay, overtime and Sunday loadings will go. Holidays will be reduced or removed altogether. In America, the normal is 2 weeks a year if you are lucky. Hours work will be increased, whereas overall pay will be lowered.

Tax on the lower income earners will be increased, whereas millionaires will get a tax cut.

This is where Australia is headed. It's a race to the bottom.

If labor try to run that line, they will be sorry they did. The electorate are not playing labor games very well and will see straight through that argument as the lying labor are being desperate and dishonest.

Saying that, anything is possible now that labor have started a precidence of lying at election time on major issues.

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Reply #4 - Feb 19^th, 2012 at 6:26pm

Clanky wrote on Feb 19^th, 2012 at 5:34pm:

You forgot to add Workchoices.
Once the Libs are back in, and at this rate, with Labor infighting and 95% of Australian media owned by regressive right wingers... they will get in.

Number 1 priority will be to implement WorkChoices. This time it will probably be more extreme (as a sort of revenge against the Australian people).

I imagine minimum wage will be lowered, Holiday pay, overtime and Sunday loadings will go. Holidays will be reduced or removed altogether. In America, the normal is 2 weeks a year if you are lucky. Hours work will be increased, whereas overall pay will be lowered.

Tax on the lower income earners will be increased, whereas millionaires will get a tax cut.

This is where Australia is headed. It's a race to the bottom.

you are an idiot. no other commentary is needed.

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Reply #5 - Feb 19^th, 2012 at 7:27pm

Abbott will dump the carbon tax and the cheering from Australians will be heard around the world.

Abbott will not introduce any of his carbon reduction measures. He will defer any action until Canada, Japan, China, Brazil, USA, South East Asia, Africa (particularly South Africa), the Middle East and South American countries (particular power house Brazil) agree to do anything. Which at the moment they are doing nothing.
Abbott will cite the collapse of the EU trading scheme price and the fact those Euro countries are now exporting their manufacturing jobs to China and India because of ETS imposts.

Abbott will set up an IR productivity enquiry. It will focus on the workings of the draconian changes instigated by unions' wish lists of demands and dutifully implemented by Gillard. The findings will result in the dismantling of the union run Fair Work Australia. The ABCC will be re-established to belt the bejesus out of the militant union thugs and again kick their sorry arses off the building sites. Productivity will rise and worker employee relationships will again thrive. The pointless us and them mentality encouraged by the unions will fade away again.

Abbott will abandon the wastful green schemes saving tax payers billions. The wailing of Bob Brown and the greens will be heard around the world. Suck it up idiots.

Abbott will call a double dissolution and the Greens will be decimated.

Abbott will reopen Nauru, reintroduce temporary protection visas and turn the boats back.

Abbott will repair relations with Indonesia caused by stupid Gillard and the live cattle trade debacle.

Abbott will restore Australia's finances and begin to pay off yet another Labor debt legacy.

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Reply #6 - Feb 19^th, 2012 at 7:28pm

how about we ask WHAT WILL RUDDS Policies be???

LOL

as it seems imminent that he could be PM next week I would think what he would do is far more important than what abbott may or may not do..

as it is... just about everything this govt has touched has turned to porridge...so maybe by the time Abbott gets in none of phils forecasts will be anything to worry about..

as they will all have folded under their own..deluge of mismanagement and ineptness or just plain run out of money...

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GoddyofOz Gold Member Offline Vote 1 for Sex, cause you're gay if you don't Posts: 2397	Re: What will Abbott do??? Reply #7 - Feb 19^th, 2012 at 7:35pm You don't need so many lines to answer a simple question. He will cut everything, including taxes for high income earners.
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Clanky New Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 7	Re: What will Abbott do??? Reply #8 - Feb 19^th, 2012 at 8:44pm longweekend58 wrote on Feb 19^th, 2012 at 6:26pm: you are an idiot. no other commentary is needed. I take it that the forums rules of not attacking other members, is not enforced here?
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Reply #9 - Feb 19^th, 2012 at 9:11pm

longweekend58 wrote on Feb 19^th, 2012 at 6:26pm:

Clanky wrote on Feb 19^th, 2012 at 5:34pm:

You forgot to add Workchoices.
Once the Libs are back in, and at this rate, with Labor infighting and 95% of Australian media owned by regressive right wingers... they will get in.

Number 1 priority will be to implement WorkChoices. This time it will probably be

more extreme

(as a sort of revenge against the Australian people).

I imagine minimum wage will be lowered, Holiday pay, overtime and Sunday loadings will go.

Holidays will be reduced or removed altogether

. In America, the normal is 2 weeks a year if you are lucky. Hours work will be increased, whereas overall pay will be lowered.

Tax on the lower income earners will be increased, whereas millionaires will get a tax cut.

This is where Australia is headed. It's a race to the bottom.

you are an idiot

. no other commentary is needed.

No need for the insult?

But you can expect that if you disagree with some.

I think it is almost certain that the Libs would re introduce some aspects of workchoices with a different - or maybe no name.

The yellow bits I agree with

The blue I think less likley

The Red Poor & unneeded option

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Reply #10 - Feb 19^th, 2012 at 9:16pm

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Restoring the health care rebate.....
This will be expensive and cost the budget billions that will increase over time adding nothing to the public system.....The rebate does not decrease the amount of sick people of provide more doctors and nurses it just makes private health funds richer!!!

Actually both the relevant minister and Mr Abbott refused to commit to removing it. In fact almost the opposite when the minister said that he had some exciting plans for health inferring that he was planning how to spend the extra funds.

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Kat Gold Member Offline Socialism IS the answer. Posts: 17709 Everywhere and no-where Gender:	Re: What will Abbott do??? Reply #11 - Feb 19^th, 2012 at 10:12pm GoddyofOz wrote on Feb 19^th, 2012 at 7:35pm: You don't need so many lines to answer a simple question. He will cut everything, including taxes for high income earners. And cut welfare for the poorest.
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Reply #12 - Feb 19^th, 2012 at 10:28pm

Templeton wrote on Feb 19^th, 2012 at 7:27pm:

Abbott will dump the carbon tax and the cheering from Australians will be heard around the world.

Abbott will not introduce any of his carbon reduction measures. He will defer any action until Canada, Japan, China, Brazil, USA, South East Asia, Africa (particularly South Africa), the Middle East and South American countries (particular power house Brazil) agree to do anything. Which at the moment they are doing nothing.
Abbott will cite the collapse of the EU trading scheme price and the fact those Euro countries are now exporting their manufacturing jobs to China and India because of ETS imposts.

Abbott will set up an IR productivity enquiry. It will focus on the workings of the draconian changes instigated by unions' wish lists of demands and dutifully implemented by Gillard. The findings will result in the dismantling of the union run Fair Work Australia. The ABCC will be re-established to belt the bejesus out of the militant union thugs and again kick their sorry arses off the building sites. Productivity will rise and worker employee relationships will again thrive. The pointless us and them mentality encouraged by the unions will fade away again.

Abbott will abandon the wastful green schemes saving tax payers billions. The wailing of Bob Brown and the greens will be heard around the world. Suck it up idiots.

Abbott will call a double dissolution and the Greens will be decimated.

Abbott will reopen Nauru, reintroduce temporary protection visas and turn the boats back.

Abbott will repair relations with Indonesia caused by stupid Gillard and the live cattle trade debacle.

Abbott will restore Australia's finances and begin to pay off yet another Labor debt legacy.

Nice first post. Timing was right for you to chime in by the looks of your post.

If there was a clapping emoticon, I would use it.

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Reply #13 - Feb 19^th, 2012 at 10:30pm

Clanky wrote on Feb 19^th, 2012 at 8:44pm:

longweekend58 wrote on Feb 19^th, 2012 at 6:26pm:

you are an idiot. no other commentary is needed.

I take it that the forums rules of not attacking other members, is not enforced here?

It is a bit like defamation laws. If it is true, then it may be ok. I suggest it may be ok in this case.

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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: What will Abbott do??? Reply #14 - Feb 19^th, 2012 at 10:32pm GoddyofOz wrote on Feb 19^th, 2012 at 7:35pm: You don't need so many lines to answer a simple question. He will cut everything, including taxes for high income earners. Which are far too high
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