By Andrew Bolt ~ Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has an unusual approach to budgeting. If the money isn’t there, just spend more: JULIA Gillard will today reveal a further deterioration in the government’s tax revenue forecasts, with Treasury warning that the federal tax take this financial year will be $12 billion less than predicted […]
By Andrew Bolt ~ Last year the Gillard Government said we must reach a surplus this year – or else: Treasurer Wayne Swan: Our commitment to return the budget to surplus in 2012-13 is even more important in the environment that we’ve got in Europe. We’re seeing the consequences of lax fiscal policy in many […]
By Andrew Bolt ~ The Australian Labor Government’s vote just sunk again: The latest Fairfax-Nielsen poll has revealed only 29 per cent of voters backed Labor, down 2 percentage points, while 49 per cent favoured the Coalition for their first preference vote… Tony Abbott now leads Ms Gillard as preferred prime minister by a solid […]
By Andrew Bolt ~ The Gillard Government is spending billions it’s borrowed – and which we will have to repay: Analysis of Budget documents reveals that between the 2010 election and Federal Treasury’s update in October last year, the 2012-13 net debt estimate rose $54 billion to $144 billion. With Wayne Swan having junked the […]
TonyfromOz prefaces….. This has to be on of the biggest fiascos in the history of Australian politics. The Prime Minister Julia Gillard calls for a vote as to who leads the Party, and the one person who was plotting behind the scenes to take her job, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd doesn’t even stand for […]
TonyfromOz prefaces….. This is all happening right now as I write this, and it’s happening faster than I can keep up with. There has been a call for a change in Leadership of the Australian Labor Party, and this is effectively a vote for Prime Minister of Australia, as the Leader of that Party is […]
By Andrew Bolt ~ Yesterday’s hearings into the Gillard Government’s proposal for state controls over the press made clear this was driven by a hatred of the Murdoch media, parts of which have been very critical of government blundering: Labor Left figure Doug Cameron, his colleague John Murphy and Greens senator Scott Ludlam led the […]
By Andrew Bolt ~ And haven’t we seen already what this Australian Government will stoop to to kill investigations it considers politically damaging: Media companies are preparing to mount a public campaign against the Gillard government’s plans to oversee the press as last-minute talks fail to produce a compromise on ways to regulate news and […]
By Andrew Bolt ~ Tax and spend: The Australian Labor Government has pumped an extra $32.6 billion in net spending into the economy over the past three years, undermining its fiscal strategy of returning the budget to surplus and paying off debt. An analysis by The Weekend Australian of the federal government’s revenue and expenses […]
By Andrew Bolt ~ Terry McCrann on being buried in global lies – and China’s emissions: Everything, and I do mean everything, that Australia’s Minister for Climate Change Greg Combet and indeed, even Prime Minister Julia Gillard say on climate change is either a direct lie or a very deliberate constructive lie… The lie from […]
By Andrew Bolt ~ TonyfromOz prefaces….. Late on Sunday, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the release of this latest White Paper, this one titled ‘The Asian Century’. Wide ranging and often rambling, one of the prime targets is Education, and the aspirations of this Labor Government to widen considerably the teaching of Asian languages in […]
By Andrew Bolt ~ Enough. An early election is demanded to end this poisonous culture of abuse and deceit. The Herald Sun: ONE thing has become clear in the aftermath of the Peter Slipper affair – Australia cannot endure another 12 months with a dysfunctional Parliament. It was always likely that a minority Gillard Government […]
By Andrew Bolt ~ Yesterday, the Speaker of the Australian Federal Government’s House Of Representatives, Peter Slipper was embroiled in controversy over the most foul and disgusting phone text messages which unbelievably denigrated women. There was a vote to remove him as Speaker, and the Labor Government, especially all their women members, voted in favour […]
May 18, 2013 by papundits
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