apologies, I inadvertently posted the original under the general thread....
please repost your replies here....and add to the list...
if you need some reminders of the failures, and to add more....see the link below at the Liberals web site daily news
List of Federal Labor Government failures! LIST THEM! 1. 2020 - 1,000 B&B;minds, $2+m = 9 useable ideas. 2. Save the whales (using the navy to confront Japanese) 3. Fight Inflation Genie - Oops GFC. 4. Taxes up (Gas, Diesel, Transport, Alcopops) inflationary 5. Fuelwatch - cost $21 million stunt -lenses fell out. 6. Grocery Watch, err, Choice June, 2009 abandoned its $13 million election promise to force grocery prices down. 7. Arresting Iranian leaders - Stunt 8. Bank Guarantee - still over 200,000 bank accounts frozen from September 2008 - blunder locking up $25 billion of savings for possibly 4 years. 9. Education Revolution - still revolving 10. National Broadband Network (from $4b, to $7b to $43 billion) - inexplicable 11. Cash Splash 1 - borrowed 12. Cash Splash 2 also borrowed = $42 billion 13. Work Choices /Fair work Will cost jobs Awards Backflips special dispensation for Tourism/Food industry. Horticultural Industry warning new awards will put farmers out of business, eg, casual pickers weekend rates. - No response from Gillard yet. Aug 19, 09. 14. Immigration/Refugees/Asylum Seekers = Open door - +/- 50 SIEV deaths so far 14A. Oceanic Viking now facilitating SIEVs and legitimising blackmail/extortion from illegal immigrants 15. Defence - cut expenditure & increase weaponry? 16. Homeland Security Department a non-core promise broken Nov 28, 2007 17. Global Cooling/Warming/Climate Change/Carbon Reduction - Scam 18. Budget Surpluses - Ancient history. 19. Economic conservatism - new words, still not in ALP dictionary. 20. The buck stops with me! 21. Electric cars /Hybrid Cars - $6.2 billion Toyota for one bemused & grateful. 22. Job creation & security from IR reforms - for Trade Union leaders. 23. Securing water on the Murray/Darling - its secured alright well out of sight. 24. IVF Program cuts - the caring ALP. 25. Medicare/Private Health rebate not to be touched - key election promise - outright lie 26. Dental Scheme gone the caring ALP 27. Cataract Surgery costs doubled the caring ALP 28. Superannuation the government needs it more than you. 29. Home Savers Grant - a fizzer, not enough people saving 30. First home Owners grant increased, not aimed to generate building, inflating house prices 31. One Stop Super Childcare Centres maybe in 2095 32. GP Super Clinics - $275 million borrowed 1 open Palmerston NT, ALP stronghold struggling to provide even most basic service, . 3 approved SA Noarlunga ALP stronghold, Playford North, ALP stronghold, Modbury , ALP stronghold. 33. No compulsory University Union Fees an outright lie voted down 34. Coastguard huh! 35. Maternity Leave - out in the never never 36. Worker Share Options, June 2009 on, off, on, off, on like a light switch - blunder 37. Carbon emissions reduction - LPG conversion subsidies being phased out l June 2009 38. Carbon Emissions reduction Part 2 - Household Solar Rebate axed 9/6 30. Schools Stimulus/? Infrastructure Program absolute chaos. Subject to AG inquiry. 40. Flood Relief NSW North Coast June 2009 serves them right for living there. Qld got it so all OK 41. Ruddbank - fizzer. 42. ABCCC back flip with twist 43. Federal takeover of hospitals by mid 2009 if no improvement. To dream the impossible dream 44. Indigenous conditions worse 45. Reduce consultancies by $112 million = increase to $800 million (6354 consultancies) 46. Govt will pay small business invoices on time = takes a lot longer 47. No nuclear Waste Dump NT election promise broken June 2008 48. $15 million to rural research & development corporations election promise broken May 2008. 49. A E reporting on childcare standards & universal pre-school for 4 year olds election promise broken June 2009 50. Increased Skilled Immigration in economic downturn leads to lack of work for young people. (GFC forces older workers to work longer plus additional jobs going to immigrants rather than our youth) blunder, blunder, blunder. 51. ALP Uranium Policy/stance in tatters. Garrett approves uranium mine. 52. Open and accountable government no results yet 5 dead SIEV boat. NO Response to 53+ missing presumed dead on SIVE the Government knew about. 53. Diplomacy Japan biggest customer snubbed first jaunt. India Uranium contract cancelled at first opportunity. USA conversations (real/imaginary) released to media. China, May 2009 difficult to deal with Australia led Asia Pacific Body thud. 54. NBN - July 2009, Senate Committee told by finance analysts believe plans for the national broadband network are in shambles. blundering money wasting. August 0 experts advise costs could be as high as $20,000 per connection making $43 billion a major understatement, 55. Selling scarce arable land to foreign mining interests. 56. Boost funding for aboriginal Legal Aid lie actuality = cuts to funding in first budget. 57. Scale back Intervention ignored review recommendations. 58. Revitalise aboriginal languages $9 million for 200 languages of which how many have been translated to written language? 59. Homes /renovationsfor indigenous not one shovel lifted to date scheme mishandled to the point that one State govt could fall. August 09 NT Govt just scrapes in. Controversy still rife. Still nothing done. 60. Digital TV Conroy, 2008, slash $22m from costs of changeover , figures make no sense original estimate $16m now to cost $66m (advertising costs ?) 61. NBN plan lack of organisation leads to inability to generate meetings with business in Tas. Already appearing to fall over. 62. Cheaper Better Childcare Govt regulations will see Childcare costs going up by about $1500pa on July 1, 2010 63. NBN Experts are now saying it will cost in the region of $20,00 PER CONNECTION. $43 Billion could be quite an underestimate on those figures. 64. SORRY! Feb 8, 08. K Rudd We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country. Aug 22, 09 The Australian WELFARE workers have swooped on the opal mining town of Lightning Ridge in northwest NSW, removing more than 40 Aboriginal children from decrepit homes in shanty towns........ Aboriginal women, stunned by the removals, say it amounts to a modern-day Stolen Generation, but the most recent statistics on child removals show Aboriginal children are being taken from their parents in numbers much greater than the Stolen Generations. 65. During the 2007 federal election Labor promised it would encourage sourcing of forests from sustainable forest practices and seek to ban the sale of illegally logged timber imports. broken promise Aug 2009. 66. Oops missed one from March 2008. Labor promised bi-partisan support to pass legislation that would enable the removal of criminal convictions from fishermen caught fishing by accident in Great Barrier Reef green zones prior to December 14, 2006. Minister Garretts statement, that the criminal convictions will stand, shows the true value of their phony pre-election promises of justice for these fishermen, Senator Boswell said 67. January 2009. CONTROVERSIAL prison operator G4S will have its contract to run Australias immigration detention centres extended until at least July 31 despite Labors pre-election promise that the public sector would manage the centres. 68. Skills Program , Sept 2009, The Australian Kevin Rudds $2bn skills plan in disarray 69. More affordable Housing October 2009 prices forecast to go up 20% 70. Cheaper Books for Australians backflip to protectionist policies 71. Stern Hu still incarcerated and the Australian reports Inflexible Canberra hindered the release of tortured Somalia hostage by at least 12 months 72. ETS originally to cost $1 pp pa, then $45 - now MINIMUM of $1100 pa. (Australian voters decision on latest wild guesstimate now pending rather than a foregone conclusion)
