We hear all the bad things our government has done.

We hear about the ;

corruption, the failed insulation, schools and solar programs that they have invested,
wasted money lack of reinvestment in our electricity schemes.
The unpopular Carbon and Mining taxes attacking our successful WA tax earning companies. The refugee programs in a mess. The increasing gun violence and the lack of movement against this. And I could continue..

But .... are there any successes? Does anyone know anything successful our Labor Government has done?

There are lots of Schools around Australia that are recipients of new buildings that are enhancing childrens education both in the private and public sectors I guess that's a failure?

Moved the tax free treshold to $18,000.00, gave me $900.00, good rebate on solar panels, new canteen at my local school, no recession so far.
I wish I knew what the libs are going to give me if they get in ??????? All I eard is we will blah blah blah better than the labs!

Gave money to pinko greenie no hopers for overseas fact finding missions about land rights for gay whales?

Which would be good if you were a pinko greenie no hoper going overseas fully paid for a fact finding mission about land rights for gay whales.

Guess that is a positive for the vocal 1%, so must be a good thing.

Diver said...

Kept the independents on side and not let Tony Abbott become Prime Minister

HAHAH you labs - like all dogs your loyal and hunt in packs - hence the green thumb brigade.

what most on seabreeze don't seem to realize is our government actualy make Tony look good to many voters who would normally share the same sentiment about him as you guys, reason he is still the opposition leader is mostly because the labs are useless and most things they have touched has turned to shyte and Tony has been very good at his job.



biggest success for this government that is easy to answer ..

is keeping Tony abbot as leader of opposition, but not due to the independents who cant just change on a whim a new leader with out a new election unlike a party in opposition who can change when its polling poorly ,the independents know that if they chose the wrong horse first time round, they wont get a second chance at choosing again at the next election. they have made their bed and now have to sleep in it, (insert tony anal joke here ) oh heck i will... got me stuffed why bob brown didnt jump at his offer!

adolf said...

Free set top boxes for oldies

I want them to stump up a few hundred dollars each time I have to retune my parent's TVs and set top boxes.

edit: Apparently they are actually saving money by doing this. It seems that not doing this may mean keeping analogue TV going, which may have a cost that far exceeds the cost of the free STBs. Who would have thunk it.

www.crikey.com.au/2006/09/27/is-it-time-for-john-howard-to-buy-everyone-a-digital-set-top-box/


I am finding it hard to think of something positive to say about this government. I guess I will have to stick with the tried and tested 'they prevented us going into a meltdown' defence. Not original I know, but I can't think of anything else.

I hear they are trying to hide cigarettes from vulnerable smokers too

felixdcat said...

Moved the tax free treshold to $18,000.00, gave me $900.00, good rebate on solar panels, new canteen at my local school, no recession so far.
I wish I knew what the libs are going to give me if they get in ??????? All I eard is we will blah blah blah better than the labs!

no recession so far!!! geez, qld mustn't be part of australia anymore.

it's all good in wa

I'm not a big fan, but I think there's actually a massive reality / perception gap in Australia. Our economy is doing really well (esp compared to the rest of the developed world), we consistently feature in the top 5 or 10 best countries for things like quality of life, health, life expectancy, education etc, our currency is super strong (is there anyone who hasn't been overseas in the last year?) and yet somehow we all seem to be convinced that it's all going to ****. Maybe it's just WA that's doing so well and the other states really are struggling, or maybe we just need to stop and appreciate how good we've got it sometimes. Start by switching off talkback radio.
That said I'ld love it if there was a credible 3rd party to vote for next time round - labor not very impressive, libs even less so.

Two horse race, same owner.

Dumb punters

They've done diddly for me... and I've had to put up with the trauma of listening to that back stabber.

No free nothing; hey wait, my taxes paid for your free sh!t, give me some of it back mo'fos!

This gov't has actually been remarkably successful at passing law through parliament - we are talking almost record breaking numbers here. It's not very sexy but it's a real measure of a government's achievement in terms of it's core function.

kiteboy dave said...

This gov't has actually been remarkably successful at passing law through parliament - we are talking almost record breaking numbers here. It's not very sexy but it's a real measure of a government's achievement in terms of it's core function.

Is that a good thing? More law, more regulation, more red tape, more cost, more tax, less enterprise, less personal responsibility, less freedom.

History has shown the more productive a parliament/congress/peoples assembly/royal court/politburo/executive is at passing laws, more often people end up working and dying for their masters. Very rarely do governments introduce laws to limit their power and influence.


By government I assume we are talking about the policy/debate chamber of parliament and the executive rather than the administrative area of the public service?

Keeping the economy growing while all the tory governments are in recession.

YES!

I STILL HAVE A JOB!!

Believe me, that wasn't a given when the gfc hit... lots of managers looking really worried for a while there.

bjw said...

Granted that some of the things they have done have been good;

The insulation scheme might have been good for many, but it clearly wasn't a success.

The 900$ was again fun, but my business saw a sales kick of 1 week then receded to the pre-stimulas level afterwards. Again ok performance, but not a success.

But Im still waiting for a success????

You were given several. Why ask the question if you ain't going to listen to the answers? Or were you just hoping to have your biases confirmed for you?

bjw said...

Granted that some of the things they have done have been good;

The insulation scheme might have been good for many, but it clearly wasn't a success.

The 900$ was again fun, but my business saw a sales kick of 1 week then receded to the pre-stimulas level afterwards. Again ok performance, but not a success.

But Im still waiting for a success????

Pretty sure you spent the $900 on pimps didn't ya?

Insulation scheme wasn't allowed to succeed due to a few oportunistic dodgy business peeps doing shonky work.. and the witch hunt media circus that followed.

As others have said, most insulation jobs and schools etc were good jobs..but good stories don't rate in the news (or push biased barrows up a slanted hills ey bjw).

Glass is more than half full buddy.