The Liberals need to pay for their sabotage of the economy thinking it would ruin Labor now that they've won, without backing down on the Military spending they locked in, plus they now need to find the same amount they sunk into that that they ripped out of Education and Hospitals.  They have to do it without breaking the budget, without blowing out the deficit further and without raising taxes.

$160 billion isn't a small amount.

What's the best way to do it?

Get the ATO to recommend a scope increase to the GST, test the waters, see how the people respond.  If they don't care, they'll adopt it, early, so people forget before the next election, if the people react badly to it, they'll swoop in, pretend it was never their idea and refuse it, claiming they're standing up for the people.

It's standard politics.  It's been done over and over.  This is nothing new...

Australian politics, the minutia of it, is still as predictable as it's ever been.  Those who support the Liberals won't bother to scratch the surface and accept whatever narrative they spew, everyone else will be branded a whinger because Labor lost.

Nobody cares about what is real anymore, just the way the political class want it.

If we fight amongst ourselves the Liberals will be able to continue to make false claims like they're better economic managers etc etc.

Bobby. wrote on May 27^th, 2019 at 7:20am:


The Libs deliberately tanked the economy to later attack Labor about it.

There is no excuse for such malice.

The only good thing about their win is now they have to deal with that.

Dnarever wrote on May 26^th, 2019 at 8:23pm:



You mean like it is only a SUGGESTION by the ATO. not government?

lee wrote on May 27^th, 2019 at 2:28pm:


This is true, but the notion of testing the waters consequence-free is nothing new in politics, especially with the Libs when they have the support of the media.