Peter Costello, when he did his audit of Queensland finances, blew the whistle on this and when Campbell Newman swept to power he found a number of “dirty little secrets”, according to the Courier-Mail, that “thanks to the unions, some public servants were paid to do nothing. They did no work for ten years”. And there’s Kevin Rudd saying that Abbott will cut, cut, cut and that Newman has cut, cut, cut. How Tony Abbott has the patience to accommodate such hypocrisy and dishonesty is beyond belief. The interest on Queensland’s debt which will top 81 billion, the interest on the debt will be 11.6 million dollars a day or almost 500,000 dollars an hour. Kevin Rudd endorsed the man who was the architect of it, Peter Beattie. Kevin Rudd told us he was putting a broom through New South Wales Labor to clean up cronyism and that’s defined a new party of Kevin Rudd. One of the architects of the current House of Labor is Sam Dastyari. He’ll take his seat as a Senator after the Federal election. He was chosen by Labor, hand-picked, one of the apparatchiks of the Labor Party, a casual vacancy caused by Matt Thistlethwaite’s movement to contest Kingsford-Smith. Young Sam Dastyari is the former New South Wales State ALP, one of the so-called faceless men who knifed Kevin Rudd only to later knife Julia Gillard. Kevin Rudd was putting a broom through cronyism. There weren’t any questions about that in the debate. But he kept saying he’d cut, cut, cut. What Mr Rudd didn’t say was that Jane Halton, the secretary of the Department of Health and Ageing, and Andrew Metcalf, the secretary of the Department of Agriculture, have seen the writing on the wall. They’re going to cut, cut, cut. 400 will go from Health and 300 from Agriculture. The public service realises that the rorts have to stop. I said yesterday that we need, as former Senator Stephen Loosley said, something like the US Commission on Presidential Debates. And that Commission frames the debates in such a way that they’re independent, fair and transparent. We need, as he said, a Prime Ministerial Debating Commission. We need to establish a framework for three debates, one on domestic policy, primarily the economy, one on foreign policy, defence and national security and then a Town Hall debate, where the Prime Ministerial aspirants face a representative sample of electors combined with a journalistic contingent from beyond Canberra. All we saw on Wednesday night was Kevin Rudd standing up and telling lies, Tony Abbott took a billion dollars out of the health budget, he never did any such thing. But Rudd gets away with it, it’s unchallenged. Tony Abbott has a 70 billion dollar black hole, that’s also been demonstrated to be completely untrue.
Posted on: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 05:15:29 +0000
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