Backfiring ...  I would class wanting to put the brakes on the economy and shifting in to reverse dumb.


Australian are not going to throw away their wealth and future once they wake up to the Liberals.

And as the last newspoll revealed with the massive 15% collapse in coalition support in a fortnight, word is out.

Liberals are economic illiterates.

longweekend58 wrote on May 18^th, 2012 at 6:27pm:


Talk about never been at the pointy end of a political situation at work. Your comment shows clearly you have no idea. Politics is about control, if you have not realised that you are not even in the game yet.

Look Who Is Funding The Australian Liberal Party

http://turnleft2013.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/look-who-is-funding-the-australian-...


This is the party some australians wants in charge of the country !

____ wrote on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:10pm:

You are so gullible

No only Losers, Liars



Kelly O’Dwyer and Senator Abetz started their spin cycle early. Kelly tweeted this with the caption “A picture paints a thousand words”.

Terrible isnt it? On the surface it looks like another small business struggling in the patchwork economy. Another black mark for the government?

Kelly went on to tweet more “detail” to this picture.

@KellyODwyer: Business downsizes from 2 shops to 1. reduces staff from 3 to 0. Owner unhappy with Gillard Gov policy IR, Super and Carbon Tax


meanwhile

http://allpress-antiques.com.au/documents/2031-Shop2

Shop2 is closing down as most stock is sold and now subletting, so having a clearance sale!
“Over the last four years I’ve been wanting to open another shop but not in Malvern as the mix of industrial, retro, glass and unusual items doesn’t quite fit this area“. That’s what he said. Nothing about the carbon tax, IR policy, or Super. More about location, location, location!

Yeah that’s right! The shop is closing because business has been so good, they have run out of stock! Thank you Julia!

And yes Kelly. A picture really does say a thousand words. A thousands words for fake come to mind.

adelcrow wrote on May 18^th, 2012 at 9:18pm:





so you dont think taking TAX money from the dead and dying is wrong then?????????????


its only  if its the LEGAL MANUFACTURERS of the deadly cigarette



I would bet the is the biggest from smokers.. the dead and dying..

of course you dont see it that way do you....

my husband died of lung cancer he was a smoker for the best part of his life.. I hold no one else responsible for that he made his choice.

just like you and I do... no I am not a smoker.now.and I am very much against it..

but  I do not see anyone  holding a gun at someones head and telling them they have to smoke..


anymore than I do with drinking or drugs... its all a matter of choice..

btw how much does the labor party get from the Liquor and hospitality groups???????..


alcohol also kills a lot of people..

Libs strike it rich

AUSTRALIAN billionaires have poured twice as much money into the Coalition than the Labor Party in the past six years, an analysis of political donations shows.

Australian Electoral Commission records show, of the more than 30 individuals and family businesses with assets and wealth in the billions of dollars, the 12 largest donors to political parties overwhelmingly favoured the conservative side of politics.

The billionaire's club, which includes Westfield's Frank Lowy, gambling magnate James Packer and "high rise" Harry Triguboff, have given a combined $6 million to the Liberal and National parties.

The donations are usually made via companies they own or run and must be declared.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been accused of introducing class warfare rhetoric into the national debate this week by referring to "real families", but Labor has still reaped $3 million from billionaires since before the 2007 election. In March, Treasurer Wayne Swan also attacked the country's super-rich, accusing them of seeking to shape Australia's future to satisfy their own interests.

Academics say Ms Gillard's party has been courting the rich for years, despite her recent language.

Mr Lowy's Westfield Group appeared to be the biggest billionaire donor to Labor, giving $1.14 million from mid-2006 to last year.

The largest sum he gave to Labor was $200,000, just before the 2010 election.

Australian National University political theorist Professor Geoffrey Brennan said Labor's class warfare talk was phrased solely to persuade. "Everyone claims to be for the battler," he said.

"The Labor Party is not a party for the poor alone.

"Could the revelation of this fact give the battlers pause for thought? Maybe," he said.

The figures showed that no matter their politics most billionaires donate to both major parties.

"You don't know who is going to win so it pays to spread your portfolio," Professor Brennan said. "It doesn't necessarily change policy but it gives privileged access."

Even larger-than-life Queensland miner Clive Palmer – often cited as a loyal supporter of the conservatives – gave $130,000, via his private company Mineralogy, to the West Australian Labor Party. This figure is, however, overshadowed by the $3 million he gave to the Coalition in the same period.

For all of the donors, their contributions to political parties can be personally regarded as loose change.

Mr Packer's Crown Limited, for example, has donated more than $300,000 to the major parties in recent years (plus a reported $250,000 to Bob Katter's party). These sums are merely a footnote buried deep within Mr Packer's $4 billion-plus net fortune.


http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/libs-strike-it-rich-20120512-1yk1l.html

cods wrote on May 19^th, 2012 at 8:26am:




So you support forced euthanasia when Libs peddle it, yet oppose voluntary euthanasia because it's Greens policy.

Are all Liberal Party supporters hypocrites?