skippy. wrote on Nov 26^th, 2015 at 10:59am:

Like what?

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Nov 26^th, 2015 at 11:26am:

Business people aim to make money, he's made zillions.

There you are you see. Moderation in all things.
SkyNews:
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has vowed he won't take a 'slash and burn' approach to public spending, ahead of next month's budget update.
Speaking to the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the prime minister also rejected dramatic tax hikes as a solution to the budget deficit. He also warned states and territories that meaningful reform on health and education funding will require their full and genuine involvement on both structural and funding issues.
Speaking to business leaders, he said all Australia's governments needed to work together to get their own houses in order. He said sale of commodities would no longer do it for Australia over the next decade.
Mr Turnbull and state premiers and territory chief ministers sit down at the Council of Australian Governments meeting on December 11 with a new dialogue on economic reform 'the critical and leading item on that agenda'.All economic reform options remain on the table and imaginative reform was needed at federal and state levels, he said. 'Meaningful reform to address health and education funding will require a full and genuine buy-in from the states on both the structural and revenue-raising issues,' he told the Australian Chamber Business Leaders annual dinner.
Mr Turnbull said the budget had been in deficit since 2008, so some might say 'let's just go ahead and reduce the deficit by raising taxes'.But tax reform wasn't an end in itself and the tax system needed to be a catalyst of higher economic growth and should be the servant of the economy and its people and their businesses, not the other way round.
He said the government was examining personal tax particularly carefully.'As the average wage earner moves into the second highest tax bracket there is a very real risk that current tax settings will unduly discourage participation, effort and innovation,' he said. Mr Turnbull said tax reform was a complex exercise and the government had insisted all options, even the unlikely, should remain on the table.
But ruling options in or out, as Labor had done, soon left no options at all before there was a proper review.

Anyone flirting with the idea of voting for Turnbull, consider balancing the conservative agenda of the coalition by giving The Greens control of the Senate.

This will weaken the conservatives further so not to risk them assassinating Turnbull, if he forms government after the election.

Turdball will lead the liberals for a considerably shorter period than Abbott.

Turnbull our longest serving PM?

the last time the retards made this prediction they lost the PM before he'd served a full year.  If that's a sign of whats to come, Turnbull is finished in another year ...  when the election is due

Lord Herbert wrote on Nov 26^th, 2015 at 2:28pm:


Yes, Herbie, but why isn't Mr Abbott on your list?

You tell me that.

Karnal wrote on Nov 26^th, 2015 at 3:40pm:


Abbott has no more heart for the fight. He's all washed up. He's getting ready to become a professional speaker at business functions while working on his autobiography. 

One reason he's through with the political game is that he discovered there are no friends in politics. Who he thought were his closest friends and confidantes were the very ones who sharpened Turnbull's assassination dagger.

Abbott's "Et tu, Brute?" moments left him utterly disillusioned that there is any honour amongst politicians.

But then again, he's the bastard who put Hanson and Ettridge in prison. Live by the sword - die by the sword.