How much longer can the labor independent for Lyne, Mr Rob Oakeshott continue to support the seemingly inept Gillard Labor government. Since the 2010 election the Gillard Government has lurched from crisis to crisis, to say the least their record is cause for concern:-
(1) The rorts and waste of the Building the Education Revolution
(2) Border protection and the Malaysian non solution
(3) Pink Bats
(4) Green loans
(5) The broken carbon tax promise
(6) The broken promise to Andrew Wilkie on poker machine reform
(7) Ever increasing national debt and the borrowing of some $100 million a day by the government.
(8) Since the election of labor in 2007, they haven’t added a single cent to the nation’s future fund.
(9) The bungled appointment of the chair person of the future fund
(10) Failure to produce a cost benefit analysis of the National Broadband Project
(11) Broken promise by Gillard to release the modeling for the mining tax
(12) The $10 billion invested in the Green Innovation Fund which will invest taxpayer funds in projects which can’t attract private funding.
(13) Gillard’s Industrial Relations legislation which has seen an ever increasing number of industrial disputes and increasing complaints from business.
(14) The government’s attempt to exert pressure on the Reserve Bank to reduce interest rates.
(15) The political agenda to return the 2012/13 budget to surplus when many economists are warning against it.
(16) The government’s failure to include the massive expenditure on the NBN in the budget.
(17) The disgraceful 4 years investigation by Fair Work Australia into the Craig Thomson Affair and his failure to stand aside.
(18) The sleazy Peter Slipper affair, which is of Ms Gillard’s own making.
(19) The appointment of a labor mate to head the NBN
(20) The failure of the Prime Minister and her colleagues to listen to the community and act on their advice.
(21) The $7 billion loan, (gift), to the I.M.F which the treasurer has said the country will never ask to be repaid.
(22) The governments creative accounting by bringing forward/delaying expenditure for future years in an attempt to provide the appearance of a claytons budget surplus.
The above list is not intended as an exhaustive list of the Gillard governments incompetence but a short summary of some of its many failings and blunders since the 2010 election.
Surely it is time for both Windsor and Oakeshott to reconsider their continued support for what is fast becoming the worst prime minister and government in Australian Political History.
Don Campbell
Port Macquarie
