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
