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THE Coalition will today promise employers cash payments of more than $3000 for giving jobs to people aged 50 and over.
The Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, will unveil the policy as the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, continues to press home what she said yesterday was her opponent's fundamental weakness - the economy and employment - and demand a second debate.
As expected, the Reserve Bank left interest rates on hold yesterday, prompting Ms Gillard to rebadge the campaign from now until election day as being about the economy.
"On a day like this it brings into sharp relief the fact that economic management is at the centre of this election campaign,'' she said after the official cash rate was left unchanged at 4.5 per cent.
''If we'd done what Mr Abbott had advocated then we'd be in a recession now.''
- By Gus Leonisky at 4 Aug 2010 - 9:36am
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he sold some budgie smugglers once...
From the SMH
...none of the Coalition economics team has even one day's experience managing a national economy.
Together with national defence, managing the economy is one of the two great responsibilities that fall uniquely to the federal government.
Abbott chants a sacred daily mantra: "End the waste, pay back the debt, stop the big new taxes and stop the boats."
Yet when he was asked yesterday when he would return the budget to surplus, he had no answer. Pressed by a reporter - "You don't know when the country will be back in surplus under a Coalition government?" - he dodged.
Abbott told a news conference in Brisbane that he couldn't nominate a time because, "I don't know what I will inherit" from Labor.
Two problems. First, it's unconvincing. If he wins and discovers Labor has lied about the public accounts, he need only say so and he would be held blameless.
Second, his answer is very odd because on the same day, Joe Hockey told reporters in another part of Queensland: "It's the Coalition that will deliver a surplus in three years' time, a real surplus."
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Tony has no idea about the REAL economy and tells crap as he goes along... Though he sold some budgie smugglers once for charitable purposes, beyond that he's a disaster Australia can't afford...