is the government doing what we want?

Originally posted by boatboy ↑

Hmmm, too bad Mr Turnbull is facing the same hopeless self centred hostile Senate that Tony Abbott did...as you write footy; "a long hard slog" is what is needed.

We need a committed Government to start with, the signs so far are not good...a revolving door of Ministers and a leader that seems to be avoiding publicity.
Questions is; Does Turnbull actually have the "staying power" and the guts to stand up and introduce unpopular Bills? Abbott did, look where it got him...forget about the backflips, the facts are what count.

We can in fact write off another three years...add six of Rudd, Gillard, Rudd and we have endured NINE years of nothing but increasing debt and now nervous nellies who don't want to lose their place at the trough.

Turnbull has faced no tests so far and even without he is proving to be a little wishy washy.

A huge change of attitude by the half percent Senators is needed too. But then I cannot see those drongos Muir, Lambie, Hanson-Young, Lazarus, along with Rhiannon and Waters et al ever backing something for the good of the country...so Big Mal will have his work cut out just to see real basic stuff passed. That will be his test.

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A test which Turnbull is doing his utmost to avoid having to sit. Has he studied?

It's not the lack of actual policies so much as the complete vacuum of any directional indicators. Everything is 'on the table' (except GST) but there has been nothing to state what the big picture is. Where does Turnbull see the country going and what conversations are needed to get us there?
Tax and spend?
Big govt/small govt?
More power devolved to the states or a federal concentration?

Who knows? Does Malcolm?

In the three months he was in charge last year it was all about 'wait until 2016, then you'll see'.
Now it is 'the budget is soon, then you'll see'.

The budget is in May! If we have to wait until then to get ideas from our PM then it is extremely unlikely that the budget will be anything apart from a disastrous 'business as usual' kicking the can down the road.

Then it will be 'wait until the election, then you'll see'.

There is no time like the present for Turnbull to tell us where he intends taking us. If he doesn't want to sit the exams then he shouldn't be in the class.