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Tony Abbott’s Unrepresentative Leadership
by cyd Friday, Jan 23 2015, 9:53pm
international / prose / post

If anyone continues to harbour doubts regarding Abbott’s disingenuous leadership and the fact that he stole the office of PM by fraud, deceit and calculated LIES, then feast your eyes on this ‘wish list’ given to him by corporatists, plutocrats Rupert Murdoch, Gina Rinehart and other elitists at a PRE-ELECTION ‘gala dinner.’ NOTE that the following corporatist wish list was published well before Abbott LIED his way into the highest office in the land. So his FEEBLE excuse that his inappropriate policies are the result of previously unknown inherited circumstances is utter rubbish -- Abbott hasn't stopped lying since he lied his way into office, which highlights the contempt he not only has for the Australian people but for members of his own party. Pathological Abbott is clearly all about himself.

Tony 'dunce liar' Abbott

Tick off the un-mandated policies Abbott has already attempted to implement and the others he promised an unrepresentative minority to implement in exchange for support, are you reading this Mr Murdoch and Ms Rinehart?

This wish list constitutes prima facie evidence that Abbott never had any intention of serving the Australian people as the list is clearly the wishes of tax-avoiding mega-corporations, Murdoch and Rinehart -- you people are extremely fortunate that you also own the servile Labor Party as any REAL independent REPRESENTATIVE party would already have the matter before the courts -- who are you tryng to kid, Shorten? Your inactions speak much louder than your feeble actions.

Getup named it a “wish list” for the corporates and plutocrats, however, I prefer to call it what it is, Abbott’s orders from the wealthiest in the nation in return for assisting him to gain office, thanks Rupert and Gina! The standout points of that ‘wish list’ are as follows, you will be astounded and thoroughly disgusted:

* Public broadcasting - gone. The ABC to be broken up and sold off, SBS to be fully privatised.

* Corporations to be allowed to make secret payments to political parties.

* Medicare gone for most Australians.

* A return to WorkChoices, just by another name.

* The clean energy fund and the renewable energy target - scrapped.

* Funding for sport, arts [and education] - including the Australian Institute of Sport - axed. Same for science, with the CSIRO to be privatised.

So it is clear Abbott’s LIE about circumstances after he gained office is nothing more than another HUGE LIE from scurrilous scoundrel Abbott, and if you wish to see the entire appalling list, here it is:

The full 75 point list:

Repeal the carbon tax, and don’t replace it

Abolish the Department of Climate Change

Abolish the Clean Energy Fund

Repeal Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act

Abandon Australia’s bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council

Repeal the renewable energy target

Return income taxing powers to the states

Abolish the Commonwealth Grants Commission

Abolish the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol

Introduce fee competition to Australian universities

Repeal the National Curriculum

Introduce competing private secondary school curriculums

Abolish the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)

Eliminate laws that require radio and television broadcasters to be ‘balanced’

Abolish television spectrum licensing and devolve spectrum management to the common law
End local content requirements for Australian television stations

Eliminate family tax benefits

Abandon the paid parental leave scheme

Means-test Medicare

End all corporate welfare and subsidies by closing the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education

Introduce voluntary voting

End mandatory disclosures on political donations

End media blackout in final days of election campaigns

End public funding to political parties

Remove anti-dumping laws

Eliminate media ownership restrictions

Abolish the Foreign Investment Review Board

Eliminate the National Preventative Health Agency

Cease subsidising the car industry

Formalise a one-in, one-out approach to regulatory reduction

Rule out federal funding for 2018 Commonwealth Games

Deregulate the parallel importation of books

End preferences for Industry Super Funds in workplace relations laws

Legislate a cap on government spending and tax as a percentage of GDP

Legislate a balanced budget amendment which strictly limits the size of budget deficits and the period the federal government can be in deficit

Force government agencies to put all of their spending online in a searchable database

Repeal plain packaging for cigarettes and rule it out for all other products, including alcohol and fast food

Reintroduce voluntary student unionism at universities

Introduce a voucher scheme for secondary schools

Repeal the alcopops tax

Introduce a special economic zone in the north of Australia including:
a) Lower personal income tax for residents
b) Significantly expanded 457 Visa programs for workers
c) Encourage the construction of dams

Repeal the mining tax

Devolve environmental approvals for major projects to the states

Introduce a single rate of income tax with a generous tax-free threshold

Cut company tax to an internationally competitive rate of 25 per cent

Cease funding the Australia Network

Privatise Australia Post

Privatise Medibank

Break up the ABC and put out to tender each individual function

Privatise SBS

Reduce the size of the public service from current levels of more than 260,000 to at least the 2001 low of 212,784

Repeal the Fair Work Act

Allow individuals and employers to negotiate directly terms of employment that suit them

Encourage independent contracting by overturning new regulations designed to punish contractors

Abolish the Baby Bonus

Abolish the First Home Owners’ Grant

Allow the Northern Territory to become a state

Halve the size of the Coalition front bench from 32 to 16

Remove all remaining tariff and non-tariff barriers to international trade

Slash top public servant salaries to much lower international standards, like in the United States

End all public subsidies to sport and the arts

Privatise the Australian Institute of Sport

End all hidden protectionist measures, such as preferences for local manufacturers in government tendering

Abolish the Office for Film and Literature Classification

Rule out any government-supported or mandated internet censorship

Means test tertiary student loans

Allow people to opt out of superannuation in exchange for promising to forgo any government income support in retirement

Immediately halt construction of the National Broadband Network and privatise any sections that have already been built

End all government funded Nanny State advertising

Reject proposals for compulsory food and alcohol labelling

Privatise the CSIRO

Defund Harmony Day

Close the Office for Youth

Privatise the Snowy-Hydro Scheme

Abbott sucking up to the elite at 'gala dinner' -- pity it was ALL on record

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