I voted liberal after the Rudd/Gillard circus thinking the liberals were a more sane option...boy was I wrong
The liberals work better when they have been put out for pasture for about 8 years...unfortunately if it’s the wipeout they are predicting I don’t think there will be a liberal party as their cash has pretty much dried up
This government has pretty much tripled our country’s debt and moved the goalposts around on most of their election promises and pretty much governed for themselves and not the people who elected them
If your not from an affluent family..have a property portfolio or run a big business I honestly don’t know how you could vote vote for them....they have done nothing but wreck families and young people with their cuts and policies and are completely out of touch with most Australians.
But that’s your right to vote for whoever you want and I respect your opinion
I’ve had a lot of dealings with the CFMEU in my career and I dislike Shorten for that reason.
I despise feminist ideology, lies, and fake statistics like the pay gap that undermine meritocracy, so I dislike Plibersek for that reason.
I’m not from an affluent family but I do have a decent property portfolio that I have earned entirely on my own through self-education and calculated risk-taking, so I dislike Labor as a whole for that reason.
Your comments around the budget aren’t quite accurate. Yes, debt has increased, but not by 300% and it’s not clear whether Labor would’ve done any better. From
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018...iberals-doubled-net-debt/10595756?pfmredir=sm:
The Government's monthly financial statements show net debt has doubled over the Coalition's two terms in government — from $174.6 billion in September 2013, when it was first elected, to $354.5 billion in October 2018.
However, this is not the only way to track net debt.
Measured as a share of gross domestic product, which takes the size of the economy into account, net debt grew more slowly over the five years to June 2018 compared to the simple dollar amount.
Experts said paying down debt wasn't entirely within the control of government, with broader economic circumstances also playing a significant part. Some Coalition savings measures had also been blocked in the parliament by the Opposition.
The biggest factor is the lost royalties due to the unprecedented commodities downturn from 2012-2017. Metallurgical (steelmaking) coal spot prices fell from ~$330/t to less than $100/t practically overnight in 2012 when China drastically cut its imports, and iron ore didn’t fare much better. Given that the mining industry makes up roughly one quarter of our entire economy, that is an
enormous hit to the federal budget.
Conversely, the last Labor government presided over an unprecedented mining boom. For perspective, BHP Billiton posted a
$22.5b annual profit in 2011 (
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-24/bhp-unveils-record-profit/2854114). Labor — Wayne Swan in particular — like to pat themselves on the back for seeing us through GFC without going into recession, but a blind, deaf monkey could’ve done that given how much mining revenue was filling the coffers. However, all you need to do is look at their ridiculous policies like the stimulus package to see how economically amateur the last Labor government was. Where do you think that most of the $12.7b redistributed to low income earners went? Hint: not on retail as intended.
Turnbull was right when he said that it was Chinese stimulus (i.e. commodity exports) that got us through GFC unscathed, and the unholy alliance between Labor and the Greens wants to gut the mining industry on false premises. I have actually worked on the feasibility studies for Adani and the amount of propaganda out there is frankly absurd. We are sitting on a figurative gold mine at a time when the cooling property market is going to cause a lot of economic pain in the near future, and we will continue sitting on it if Labor get in again.