david murray on bolt report, page-4

"The real question is who has the guts to actually tackle it?"

Abbott’s dirty economic secret: he’s just like Labor

Four economic policy issues - middle class welfare, climate change, maternity leave and industrial relations - show an opposition leader far more social democrat than economic liberal.

The most odious example is Abbott’s extraordinary defence of middle class welfare. Labor’s inspired decision to freeze indexation of welfare at $150,000 per family in this months budget elicited an extraordinary rebuke from the opposition leader.

Abbott described them as “class war cuts” and accused the government of declaring war on “aspirational” Australia. But the only war is against those who aspire to live beyond their means, and anyway, freezing indexation at $150,000 is not so much a war as a pillow fight.

The opposition are boxed into extending welfare for those who can comfortably fend for themselves. The “cost of living” pressures these families face is whether they can afford a second new car or have to slum it with a perfectly functional second-hand one - not whether they can put food on the table. It might be good politics to prop up the upper middle-class with welfare but it’s absurd economics.

The Liberal Party have replaced Labor as Australia’s champion of welfare and if John Hewson or Jeff Kennett were in a grave, they would surely be rolling in it.

The ideological depravity of Tony Abbott is also evident in his approach to climate change. Labor and the Liberals are equally committed to tackling climate change through a five per cent reduction of Australia’s 2000 carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. The only difference is one of method. Labor will introduce a market-based mechanism, and the opposition government-funded direct action initiatives.

http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Abbotts-dirty-economic-secret-hes-just-like-Labor/

I disagree entirely with your "it doesnt matter who did what comment"

you would expect a left leaning government to hand out more social programs, that the liberals were indulgent up to their armpits, suggests a complete departure from the "script" as such their bereft of their "legitimacy" as the party of economic conservatism.
The natural consequence should be consigned to the political grave yard,devoid of true and "proper policy",their propped up by Alchemists under the guise of foreign miners,who have poured Australian money into the liberal party coffers.
Frankenstein is alive and well.

Raider