-- The Australian - Promising to hold the Prime Minister to account for his election promises to target rising petrol and grocery prices for "working families", Dr Nelson yesterday unveiled his revamped shadow ministry to take the fight up to the Rudd Government. As Mr Rudd prepares to fly to Bali next week for talks on climate change, Dr Nelson warned that the Prime Minister must be honest with the Australian public over the impact of any new agreement.
He can't Dr Nelson, he doesn't know the impacts, you see back when he was slinging mud at the out-of-touch, stuck-in-the-past, done-nothing-for-11-years John Howard, it was easy, the media swallowed it all and he only had all the slogans & headlines ready to go. Well now that the job is his, he doesn't have the details, the impacts, the costs, nothing. Last I heard, we're just going along with whatever is agreed to in Bali.
"Every Australian needs to understand that if Mr Rudd in our name, on our behalf, accepts cuts in the order of 25 to 30 per cent by 2020, that will have a devastating impact on our own economic development," he said. "It would have a serious consequence for electricity bills and many other burdens borne by working families in day-to-day life, and pensioners." Mr Rudd yesterday played down reports that Australia was moving to support a 25 to 40 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
Oh yeah, it was working families through the election campaign from Labor, but used very sparingly since then, now that he's governing for all global citizens and uniting the globe in his glorious battle. Good on Brendan Nelson for adopting the "working families" term, he needs to hold this band of raving leftists to account. Speaking of slogans and leadership wiffle-waffle, looks like the broadband revolution is also going up in flames.
The Australian - TELSTRA has bluntly rejected the new Government's proposal for a partnership to build a national broadband network, jeopardising Labor's ambitious agenda for a broadband and education revolution. Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo told The Australian yesterday that the company would never agree to the Government's suggestion of a form of joint ownership, mocking it as some sort of "kumbaya, holding hands" theory.
Oh dear, if that isn't a slap in the face and a kick to the shins, I don't know what is. By the way has anyone noticed how our new treasurer isn't talking much about interest rates anymore? I thought people were committing mass suicide because of interest rates, the way they were carrying on during the campaign, broken promises and what not. Well, that was then and now we're hearing about productivity, taking a while and "some sort of" advice he's getting. You know where else ministers can't decide what socks to put on in the morning without getting some "advice", NSW.
ABC News - There were some changes in nuance now that Mr Swan finds himself in government and having to deliver. With the election over, he is warning that a more productive economy will not happen overnight, and he admits it will be challenging to manage the fall-out from problems in the US economy. "And the advice I've received is that some sort of downturn in the US may impact on Asian growth, but it is not expected to be as significant as may have occurred in past economic cycles."
* Best before Dec - 2007
He can't Dr Nelson, he doesn't know the impacts, you see back when he was slinging mud at the out-of-touch, stuck-in-the-past, done-nothing-for-11-years John Howard, it was easy, the media swallowed it all and he only had all the slogans & headlines ready to go. Well now that the job is his, he doesn't have the details, the impacts, the costs, nothing. Last I heard, we're just going along with whatever is agreed to in Bali.
"Every Australian needs to understand that if Mr Rudd in our name, on our behalf, accepts cuts in the order of 25 to 30 per cent by 2020, that will have a devastating impact on our own economic development," he said. "It would have a serious consequence for electricity bills and many other burdens borne by working families in day-to-day life, and pensioners." Mr Rudd yesterday played down reports that Australia was moving to support a 25 to 40 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
Oh yeah, it was working families through the election campaign from Labor, but used very sparingly since then, now that he's governing for all global citizens and uniting the globe in his glorious battle. Good on Brendan Nelson for adopting the "working families" term, he needs to hold this band of raving leftists to account. Speaking of slogans and leadership wiffle-waffle, looks like the broadband revolution is also going up in flames.
The Australian - TELSTRA has bluntly rejected the new Government's proposal for a partnership to build a national broadband network, jeopardising Labor's ambitious agenda for a broadband and education revolution. Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo told The Australian yesterday that the company would never agree to the Government's suggestion of a form of joint ownership, mocking it as some sort of "kumbaya, holding hands" theory.
Oh dear, if that isn't a slap in the face and a kick to the shins, I don't know what is. By the way has anyone noticed how our new treasurer isn't talking much about interest rates anymore? I thought people were committing mass suicide because of interest rates, the way they were carrying on during the campaign, broken promises and what not. Well, that was then and now we're hearing about productivity, taking a while and "some sort of" advice he's getting. You know where else ministers can't decide what socks to put on in the morning without getting some "advice", NSW.
ABC News - There were some changes in nuance now that Mr Swan finds himself in government and having to deliver. With the election over, he is warning that a more productive economy will not happen overnight, and he admits it will be challenging to manage the fall-out from problems in the US economy. "And the advice I've received is that some sort of downturn in the US may impact on Asian growth, but it is not expected to be as significant as may have occurred in past economic cycles."
* Best before Dec - 2007
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