Friday 29th of March 2024

a case of lemon CONservative policies...

Malcolm's NBN

Malcolm Turnbull has given his government room to move on its unpopular tax cut for Australia’s biggest businesses after losing badly in Saturday’s critical byelection in the Queensland marginal seat of Longman.

While saying he would take the Coalition’s tax cut back to the Senate once federal parliament resumes after the winter recess, the prime minister only committed on Sunday to attempting to secure “a competitive company tax rate” rather than to the specifics of the government’s measure.

Appearing on the ABC for the traditional wash-up after the Super Saturday byelections that returned four Labor members and the Centre Alliance MP Rebekha Sharkie to Canberra, the manager of government business, Christopher Pyne, also conceded that the big business tax cuts were a hard political sell.

Labor used the government’s support for a tax cut for the big banks as a key bit of weaponry in the local campaign, which Susan Lamb won with a positive two-party-preferred swing of nearly 4%.

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Turnbull on Sunday attributed Labor’s success in Longman to the opposition’s “strategy of telling outrageous lies” rather than the government’s message not resonating with locals.

The Labor leader, Bill Shorten, told reporters on Sunday he had always been of the view “that giving away billions of dollars of taxpayer money back to the big banks and the multinationals was a shocking idea”.

Shorten predicted that Turnbull would continue to support the big business tax cut even if it were rebuffed in the Senate. He declared the choice for voters was between a party of big business and a “party of everyday Australians”.

Read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/29/malcolm-turnbull-...

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Nothing to do with Malcolm woeful NBN, his rubbish NDIS and a host of other crappy policies including the decimation of the ABC?

 

humble big head...

Malcolm Turnbull says he will “humbly” re-examine his government’s policies after the Coalition failed to win two key seats from Labor in byelections on Saturday.

The Queensland seat of Longman and the Tasmanian seat of Braddon stayed in Labor hands, despite eight weeks of feverish campaigning.

“We will look very seriously and thoughtfully and humbly at the way in which voters have responded,” the prime minister told reporters in Sydney on Sunday. “We will be carefully considering the analysis of the byelections, particularly in Braddon and in Longman.”

Labor framed the byelections as a choice between “hospitals and the big banks”, taking aim at the government’s plan to cut taxes for Australia’s biggest businesses.

 

Read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/29/labor-byelection-...

 

Malcolm won't rethink the policies... He will think of new ways to entice the cross benches to vote for his crappy policies...

he lost and the other bloke won...

There is only one truth from Super Saturday that the Coalition will need to confront before the Federal election: Shorten won and Turnbull lost.

Well, what was all that about? After nearly three months of unremitting angst, barely restrained hysteria and several shitloads of money, we are precisely back to where we started.  

Every single one of those turfed from the House of Representatives over the dual citizenship imbroglio is now back in the Parliament or in the case of David Feeney, replaced by a colleague from the same party.

So no changes to the Parliament and most importantly, no real effect on the Government, either way. And as necessary corollaries, no early election and no leadership spills. PM Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten can forget their immediate concerns, for the moment at least, and go back to what they do best — abusing each other.

 

Read more:

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/mungo-maccall...