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A list of Rudd Fails!, courtesy of Doh on The Punch- Part 1 1. 2020
- 1000 B&B; minds, $2+m = 9 usable ideas.
2. Save the whales FAIL
3. Fight inflation genie Oops GFC
4. Taxes up (gas, diesel,transport, alcopops) inflationary
5. Fuelwatch, $21M FAIL
6.Grocery Watch/Choice dumped $13 million vow FAIL
7. ArrestingIranian leaders: stunt
8. Bank guarantee - over 200,000 accounts frozen
from September 2008.
9. Laptops
10. National Broadband Network
($4b-$7B-$43B): To cost about $20,000 a connection
11. Cash Splash 1 borrowed
12. Cash Splash 2: borrowed $42B
13. Work Choices/fair work:awards backflips tourism/food industry dispensation but farmers will
be out of work.
14. Refugees: how many boats so far?
15. Defence: cutexpenditure & build weaponry?
16. Homeland Security Department non-core promise broken Nov 28, 2007
17. The buck stops with me sowhere are you?
18. Securing Murray/Darling water
19. IVF: cuts.
20.Medicare/private health: rebate same/lie
21. Dental scheme: gone
22.Cataract surgery:costs doubled
23. Superannuation: government needs it more than us.
24. Home Savers Grant: fizzer, lack of people saving
25. FirstHome Owners grant: lifted, inflating house prices 26. One stop
childcare centres
27. GP super clinics - $275M.
28. Non-compulsory university union fees: voted down
29. Worker share options blunder
30. Carbon emissions reduction - LPG conversion subsidies phased out
31. Carbon emissions reduction (2): household solar rebate axed 9/6
32. Schools Stimulus/? Infrastructure Program Subject to AG inquiry.
33. Ruddbank
34. Federal takeover of hospitals by mid 2009 if no improvement. EPIC FAIL
35. Reduce consultancies by $112 million = increase to $800 million (6354 consultancies)
36. Govt will pay small business invoices on time = takes a lot longer
37. No nuclear Waste Dump NT election promise broken June 2008
38. $15 million to rural research & development corporations election promise broken May 2008.
39. A - E reporting on childcare standards & universal pre-school for 4 year olds election promise broken June 2009
40. ALP Uranium Policy/stance in tatters. Garrett approves uranium mine.
41. Diplomacy Japan biggest customer FAIL. India Uranium contract FAIL . USA conversations (real/imaginary) released to media. China, May 2009 difficult to deal with Australia led Asia Pacific Body thud.
42. Boost funding for aboriginal Legal Aid lie actuality = cuts to funding in first budget.
43. Scale back Intervention ignored review recommendations.
44. Homes /renovations for indigenous not one shovel lifted to date
45. Digital TV Conroy, 2008, slash $22m from costs of changeover, figures make no sense original estimate $16m now to cost $66m
46. Cheaper Better Childcare Govt regulations will see Childcare costs going up by about $1500pa on July 1, 2010