buzzanddidj
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longweekend58 wrote on Jul 10 th, 2012 at 2:00pm: buzzanddidj wrote on Jul 10 th, 2012 at 1:03pm: Doctor Jolly wrote on Jul 10 th, 2012 at 10:56am: The liberals seem deadly quiet on this tax that was supposed to destroy us.
Anyone know why ?
He's "rolling back" his "repeal"
He doesn't NEED it
The 2013 Federal Election is HIS - in the bag ( ... note the word "problematic" creeping into the debate)Opposition leader Tony Abbott will have difficulty repealing the carbon tax July 02, 2012 INDEPENDENT MP Andrew Wilkie says it will become increasingly difficult for Tony Abbott to abolish the carbon tax as Australians get used to it. It comes as a group of big businesses publicly declared their support for the controversial tax. Mr Wilkie says the coalition is not a certainty to win the next federal election but, if it does, it will face a battle to deliver on its promise to repeal the controversial tax. ''If the coalition win the election, and that's not a certainty, (it depends) whether or not they control the Senate,'' Mr Wilkie told reporters in Hobart. ''I think (it's) a bit like the GST - highly controversial but, once people have realised the sky hasn't fallen in, they see the sense in the reform, they live with it a while, I think it becomes increasingly difficult for Tony Abbott to unwind it in the future.'' Mr Wilkie supported the carbon price and says many in his Tasmanian electorate of Denison, where he is riding high in a number of polls, are behind him. On the first business day of the carbon tax, a a consortium of almost 300 big businesses, including Westpac, AGL, Unilever and GE, have signed a joint statement backing the tax and accused the coalition of creating uncertainty by promising to scrap it in government . And it will NEVER pass the Senate How's THIS for election policy ? STOP charging the country's BIGGEST polluters for the privilege
CUT aged, disabled and carers pensions
INCREASE income tax to the nation's poorest ... all the while trying to convince the electorate that all these "massive" price increases, on every consumable, will miraculously fall in the same week ? if you wanted a genuinely representative opinion of the electorate of Denison you wouldnt quote the candidate who finished THIRD and who seems to be almost without a spine in his dealings with Gillard. She has shafted him twice and he still worships at her feet. he will not be missed. Andrew Wilkie way ahead in local polling June 29, 201212:00AM BALANCE-OF-POWER independent Andrew Wilkie would easily win his Hobart seat if an election were held now, as he is the first choice of 40 per cent of his constituents. The most comprehensive poll yet of his electorate of Denison, provided exclusively to The Australian yesterday, is larger than previous polls and, unlike some, clearly named him in the question, rather than referring only to "independents" or "others". http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/andrew-wilkie-way-ahead-in-loca...In conjunction with The Australian, ReachTEL conducted a four-question survey of 644 residents in the Tasmanian Federal electorate of Denison on the night of the 27th June 2012. The results showed that Andrew Wilkie is well clear having doubled his primary vote since the 2010 Federal Election. In the same period, Labor has halved their primary vote thus avoiding the three-way race that occured at the election. Key findings: •Andrew Wilkie is well clear with 40% of the primary vote thus avoiding the three-way race that occurred in 2010.
•Since the Federal Election in 2010, Labor’s primary vote has halved while Andrew Wilkie’s vote has nearly doubled.
•Nearly two-thirds of the electorate prefer Julia Gillard as Prime Minister over Tony Abbott.http://www.reachtel.com.au/blog/andrew-wilkie-well-clear-in-denisonHis seat must be ( ... close to) the safest in Australia
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