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"..Tony Abbott out of office by Christmas,”
by shirl Sunday, May 18 2014, 12:57am
international / prose / post

Aussies refuse to have their distinct cultural values destroyed

Treacherous LIAR and DECEIVER Oz PM, Tony Abbott, now known to make universally despised Juliar Gillard look honest, is facing a united front in Parliament and from the Oz population to have him kicked from Office as soon as possible -- and a very well deserved outcome that would be!

Melbourne Protest

It appears that insular Tony Abbott has learnt nothing from the Gillard experience, ironic as that may be. This disconnected lying clown actually threatened the opposition with a double dissolution (re-election) if they blocked his universally rejected Budget in the Senate.

Well, the sky is blue and its Sunday, for Tony's benefit, and if he wants to be the shortest term PM in Oz history then please go for the double Tony, before the people get you with a PLEBISCITE or the Greens and PUP, with reluctant plutocrat serving Labor, unite and turf you from office first.

Whichever way this obvious 1%-serving puppet views it -- it's out the door and into the political wilderness with the likes of detested Gillard; poetic justice perhaps, but clearly, Abbott is too thick and blindly obedient to plutocrats Rinehart, Murdoch and Packer to withdraw from his position -- GOOD, it will be the political death of him.

Story from the SMH follows:

Thousands protest budget cuts in Melbourne
by Caroline Zielinski

As more than 10,000 protesters gathered outside the State Library on Sunday afternoon to march against last week’s federal budget - which promises to cut $80 billion from health and education spending over the next four years - the Greens federal member for Melbourne, Adam Bandt, called for all parties to unite against the Coalition’s “savage” cuts, threatening to tip a deeply unpopular Prime Minister from office.

“The Greens will block this budget … [and] if Labor and the Palmer Party join with us in an alliance for a new election, we can have Tony Abbott out of office by Christmas,” Mr Bandt shouted. The response was near deafening!

“If you want to know where the burden of this brutal budget from Tony Abbott is going to fall, it will be on the young, the sick, the poor and on Australia’s first people.”

Across Australia, protesters gathered in capital cities to voice their anger under “March in May” banners.

The gatherings, however, were not limited to budget discontent - protesters also rallied against Tony Abbott’s stance on human rights, refugees, industrial relations and the environments.

RMIT PhD student Emily, originally from Sweden, said she was embarrassed to talk to her friends about the Australian government.

“This entire budget is completely discriminating against everybody who needs a government,” she said.

“I can’t tell my friends anything at home. I mean, no gay marriage, and now no more public health care - when will it end?”

Protest signs were a mix of the funny, artistic, poetic and even vulgar.

A pensioner who did not wish to be named carried a big, white sign saying: “Mr Abbott, as a senior citizen, I demand your return of a self-awarded bonus of $2.6 billion”.

Others called for “health, pensions and education, not jets and BMWs,” or denounced a “Budget by the fat cats, for the fat cats”.

Jamie McCarney, who was protesting with two friends, said Abbott’s budget was a “break of contract and trust amongst people who voted for him and those who didn’t”.

“It seems like campaigning on a whole lot of promises and then breaking them is not what democracy is.

“It’s an ideological change they’re pushing for, and they’re doing it by picking on the more unfortunate and disadvantaged in the community,” he told Fairfax Media.

Father and university lecturer Evan Stinson said he was “horrified” by the introduction of medical co-payments.

“I’ve grown up with the US system and I know what co-payments are like and the kind damage they do, and it’s disgusting, along with Abbott’s general disregard for anyone who doesn’t earn $180,000,” he said.

As a father of two small children, he and his wife will also be affected by the cuts to family tax benefits and the changes to childcare.

Mr Stinson’s friend, Alex Mcrea, who marched beside him with her 2-year-old son, Casper, said the “worst thing about the budget is the complete disrespect for the Australian life”.

“I can’t think of anybody that I know that isn’t affected by this in a negative way,” Ms Mcrea said.

“I was particularly offended by Mr Hockey’s suggestion that a $7 visit to the doctor is a beer.

“Actually, Mr Hockey, it’s cereal, and it’s milk,” she said.

© 2014 Fairfax Media

http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/thousands-protest-budget-cuts-in-melbourne-20140518-38hpy.html