Malcolm Turnbull - How long?

[Slax]

ASIC already charges fees. Companies house (which is separate to the FCA in the UK)does not. The Guardian conveniently ignores such facts. It also quotes the Greens which is rather amusing given their quaint views on finance matters.

"Any price rises in data access would make these investigations impossible."

Yep of course it would.

The Greens financial credentials are better than the Liberal Party.

 

[Northalives]

This is off the top of my head - but is an incomplete list of what the Abbott govt did in its first 12 months.
The worth of every single action can be argued against politically it can't be said they didn't do anything, or dithered about making decisions.

Immediately on taking office set tougher rules for ministerial entitlements.
Stopped the out of control people smuggler boat trade into Australia only 12 weeks after taking office.
Abolished corporate welfare for Ford, Holden, Toyota, Coca Cola and Qantas.
Appointed the first ever Cabinet Minister dedicated to Small Business, Bruce Billson ( Turnbull shoves the position off to the Assistant Treasurer and then finally boots it out of cabinet entirely after the election.)
Commissioned white papers for Tax and Federation reform, Northern Australia and Agricultural Competiveness. (First two abolished by Malcolm Turnbull just as they were reaching green paper stage)
Offered states bonus for privatisation projects (policy also abolished by Turnbull).
Led a huge trade delegation of business leaders, NGO leaders and arts and cultural leaders from across Australia to Japan, South Korea and China.
Concluded 3 free trade agreements with those countries within 12 months after the faffing around of the previous three governments.
Brought Japan into the bidding process for the manufacture of Australia's submarines.
Repaired the relationship with Indonesia after the revelation the Rudd Government had tapped the phone of the President and his wife. Achieved this despite Indonesia's angry opposition to the boat turnback policy and without throwing previous prime minister Rudd under a bus.
Abolished the carbon tax.
Abolished the Resource Super Tax.
Sold Medibank.
Made the decision on the site of Sydney's second airport - Badgery's Creek - again after years of previous govts faffing around.
Instituted Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance.
Instituted RC into the pink batts fiasco to ensure no future government would ever behave so irresponsibly in the future.
Established Commission of Audit to advise on the reduction of the debt and deficit, as promised in the 2013 election campaign.
With the 2014 Budget became the first government since Hawke/Keating, Howard/Costello to propose badly needed structural reforms to the economy of this country.

There's other stuff like infrastructure and deregulation. Like I said you can argue against each action they took, but Abbott and Credlin did not muck around in the first 12 months.

How dare you put Abbott/Hockey in the same category as Hawke and Keating? It's insulting enough to mention the troglodytes Howard and Costello in the same breath as Hawke and Keating but Abbott and Hockey? That's absolute lunacy!

Hawke and Keating dragged Australia into the late 20th century and then proceeded to put us way ahead of any other place on earth and along came Howard and Costello, transferred wealth upwards, put the yoke of a GST on the poorest, proceeded on an upper-middle class "welfare" binge, the likes of which we have never seen and squandering the proceeds of probably the most buoyant economic periods the world has ever seen and you put them in Hawke and Keating's class?

You have the audacity to put Abbott and Hockey in the same universe as Hawke and Keating? Abbott and Hockey implemented the disgraced and disgraceful of Thatcherite policies 30 years after she destroyed Britain and the same policies have nearly Abolished Australia!

Abbott and Hockey's mentally incompetent and intellectually bankrupt policies may have brought on multiple orgasms for the socially dismissive bean counters, the academic economists who have absolutely no concept of what living in the real world is but the impact of their villainous "economic theories" have on normal, everyday human beings is devastating but that doesn't matter hey GuruJane? So long as the privateers and speculators have all the resources with which to gamble, to hell with stupid concepts like community and families: they should be happy with what trickles down to them.

 

[medusala]

How dare you put Abbott/Hockey in the same category as Hawke and Keating? It's insulting enough to mention the troglodytes Howard and Costello in the same breath as Hawke and Keating but Abbott and Hockey? That's absolute lunacy!

Hawke and Keating dragged Australia into the late 20th century and then proceeded to put us way ahead of any other place on earth and along came Howard and Costello, transferred wealth upwards, put the yoke of a GST on the poorest, proceeded on an upper-middle class "welfare" binge, the likes of which we have never seen and squandering the proceeds of probably the most buoyant economic periods the world has ever seen and you put them in Hawke and Keating's class?

Compare? Well Keating tried to introduce a GST and Keating did introduce family payments. As for bouyants periods terms of trade were rather better for Rudd than Howard

Other than those errors a really well thought out post.

 

[Freomaniac]

Turnbull was very lucky to win this years election. Had the election been held in october or november this year, labor would of won narrowly.

Saying that... You question how long he will last. in the last 10 years after Howards era ended, Rudd, Gillard and Abbott never brought stability

 

[Juddism]

So this gay legislation will be rejected by the Senate. Another failure to the Turnbull name.

Turnbull can thank Turnbull for that...his senate changes have made it more difficult than he could've imagined.

 

[pazza]

This whole thing in Syria with possibly the RAAF involved in "accidentally" killing some Syrian soldiers is going to be an interesting topic this week.

 

[Ice-Wolf]

This whole thing in Syria with possibly the RAAF involved in "accidentally" killing some Syrian soldiers is going to be an interesting topic this week.

They can blame it on the yanks.

 

[Sydney Bloods]

They can blame it on the yanks.

which has its own problems, if the yanks are telling aus planes what to bomb, a cavalier attitude from the yanks puts both the lives of innocent people at risk, but also places our pilots at risk of being charged with war crimes.

if this really is the yanks fault, whats being done to ensure similar incidents wont reoccur?

 

[Maggie5]

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-po...pitches-welfare-overhaul-20160919-grjztz.html

Found this part interesting:

However, this problem would be directly related to the difficulty graduates have had in finding work. According to at least one study, by the Foundation for Young Australians, it will take the average graduate up to five years to find full-time work after study.

If this is fact, what hope do those unskilled or without any qualification have of finding full-time employment?

 

[Pessimistic]

Turnbulls senate debacle may have gone 360 and actually give him waht he wants

As long as he convinces his right wing that negotialting with the alp is preferable to the greens (who they. Hate) and one nation (who they are scared will become more popular than them) then he gets what he wants, but says to the right "well what can you do?"

Whats betting in the negotiations hes sometime suggesting things even the alp find too progressive?

Anything which puts power in the centre rather than either extreme is good by me

 

[Power Raid]

greens social policy with sensible economic management would be a good thing

perhaps they should negotiate

 

[kwikfix]

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-po...pitches-welfare-overhaul-20160919-grjztz.html

Found this part interesting:

However, this problem would be directly related to the difficulty graduates have had in finding work. According to at least one study, by the Foundation for Young Australians, it will take the average graduate up to five years to find full-time work after study.

If this is fact, what hope do those unskilled or without any qualification have of finding full-time employment?

Going to uni doing an arts degree doesn't guarantee any one job but a s**t kicker on a building site with half a brain can earn upwards of $80,000 pa.

 

[kwikfix]

greens social policy with sensible economic management would be a good thing

perhaps they should negotiate

Lay off the weed Power Raid.

 

[Maggie5]

Going to uni doing an arts degree doesn't guarantee any one job but a s**t kicker on a building site with half a brain can earn upwards of $80,000 pa.

Don't think that is what they were referring to. Check it out.
I believe Engineering was one.
You are such an angry ant. LOL

 

[Maggie5]

Just heard another 45 people lost their jobs today (full-time, this is on top of 25 people last month), a private RTO.

I wonder how the jobs and growth mantra is going? More like jobs lost.

Still can't see any policies that this government (including Abbott's term) has contributed to growth in the full time job market.

 

[Fire]

Going to uni doing an arts degree doesn't guarantee any one job but a s**t kicker on a building site with half a brain can earn upwards of $80,000 pa.

Jeez what is with the right wing fascination with arts degrees?

You seem to think it's a synonym for 'University Graduate'. Not even the people with the BA thinks it's relevant enough to bring up!

 

[szhengd]

https://www.theguardian.com/busines...to-stop-bank-hearings-from-getting-too-heated

well here's some good news. The heads of the big 4 will face the parliamentary committee from tomorrow, to answer some probing questions about their business. This will surely keep them accountable and replace an RC

Top stuff Mal

 

[Pessimistic]

https://www.theguardian.com/busines...to-stop-bank-hearings-from-getting-too-heated

well here's some good news. The heads of the big 4 will face the parliamentary committee from tomorrow, to answer some probing questions about their business. This will surely keep them accountable and replace an RC

Top stuff Mal

Real outcomes? Or just some prefermined scraps for the proles?

 

[Procrastinator35]

Jeez what is with the right wing fascination with arts degrees?

You seem to think it's a synonym for 'University Graduate'. Not even the people with the BA thinks it's relevant enough to bring up!

A left-over misnomer from the 60's & 70's re Berkely Uni & the anti-Vietnam movement.....Ever since then, all humanities dept's have been painted as pinko hotbeds for left-wing Marxists revolutionary conspiracies....Ergo, anyone with a Liberal Arts degree is of necessity, a bleeding-heart, brain-washed lefty.

 

[Chief]

Jeez what is with the right wing fascination with arts degrees?

You seem to think it's a synonym for 'University Graduate'. Not even the people with the BA thinks it's relevant enough to bring up!

It's something they heard about once.


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[Freo Big Fella]

https://www.theguardian.com/busines...to-stop-bank-hearings-from-getting-too-heated

well here's some good news. The heads of the big 4 will face the parliamentary committee from tomorrow, to answer some probing questions about their business. This will surely keep them accountable and replace an RC

Top stuff Mal

Interesting the Coalition majority appears to be already planning to deliberately squib the whole thing.

 

[pazza]

With the polls sinking for him nationally, the days of him remaining PM are already numbered. Popcorn is getting ready.

 

[Fire]

Say what you want about Abbott, and I will, but at least he had a reason to be the PM.

Turnbull stands for nothing. He's just sitting in the chair dithering, trying to appease the delcons. I don't see the point of him anymore.

 

[Gough]

On issues like SSM marriage, action on climate change, and now an RC on banks, I can't recall a government acting so strongly in the face of public opinion. It must be particularly hard for the PM too given that at least on the first two issues he is being forced to act against his own beliefs.

 

[GreyCrow]

Malcolm was the gravel that smoothed out the election speed bump. Now , like gravel , he will wash away with the Wets.