to lie so how is it that the Prime Minister can do it?
One of the much younger generation asked me this yesterday. Their father had read out a piece listing items the Prime Minister had either lied about or "backflipped" on. I found the list and it is extensive.
There is the very well known one about how power prices would fall by $275 because of "renewable" energy. Rebates were put in place when it was obvious this was not going to happen but even with rebates the price of energy has risen well beyond that. The plug on rebates was pulled out at the end of 2025 and prices are now rising still higher.
There was the promise to keep the previous government's stage three tax cuts exactly as planned with no changes. They have been changed and restructured but only to the government's income stream advantage.
They promised no changes to superannuation and then introduced a new tax on balances over $3 million.
They promised "real" wages would grow and rise above pre-election levels. That has not happened.
They promised extra water under Murray-Darling Basin Plan and delivered 5% of what they promised.
The promised Makarrata Commission for truth-telling and treaty has been abandoned after the Voice referendum failed.
They promised no changes to negative gearing but are now going ahead with changes that will do nothing for housing policy but will severely disadvantage a generation which did not have access to compulsory superannuation benefits.
They promised the long-term immigration plan was locked in. It was not. They are bringing in more migrants who have been shown in other parts of the world not to integrate. They are being placed in areas the government is desperate to retain at the next election with their right to citizenship being fast tracked.
To move these people around they are trying to secure less than the mandated fuel supply but are telling us that being "given" an extra day's supply came about because of the Prime Minister's diplomacy.
They backflipped on removing sexuality, gender identity and sexual variation questions from 2026 census but refused to add two questions which would have greatly assisted housing and health planning. They tried to refuse to run a Royal Commission into the Bondi terror attack and rising antisemitism. It was only under immense pressure they announced one. • At the same time they got the hate speech legislation through by splitting the bill to get it through Parliament. They have removed the RMIT ABC election promise tracker amid scrutiny over these broken promises.
They are just some of the things they promised and have not delivered. They did this and promised a new era of transparency and open government plus FOI reform so laws couldn’t be flouted. FOI refusal rates have nearly doubled to 23 per cent and full disclosures are lower than ever before.
Lying is part of the political game but these are lies the government has continued to repeat and will go on repeating. The financial mess the country is now is apparently the fault of the war in the Middle East. The Treasurer is making "savings" that are not savings at all. He is simply going to tell us that they will be spending less and providing less than they would like. He will take from those who have worked longer and hardest to give to a generation who believe they can have right now what their parents and grandparents spent a lifetime working for. It is the youngest generation which is more likely to vote for them.
Gee whiz, Cat. I am shocked you would print this stuff. I'm hugely grateful for our migrant population, without whom my mother would have had no care, let alone good care. That's just a personal for starters. I did write to Pauline H to ask her for an account of how she sees old people looked after, and never received a reply. Perhaps you could speak for her.
ReplyDeleteI think you may have misread Cat because I know damn well she is not opposed to migration - quite the contrary. She gives an enormous amount of support to those who come here and make every effort to become part of the country.
ReplyDeleteLike most people we share legitimate concerns about people who make no effort to become part of the community, men who attempt to isolate women for cultural and religious reasons and children who are not permitted to mix outside their own "culture".
Cat has spent her working life making sure people can communicate with one another, something she sees as the basis for greater understanding between groups.
I don't know who you are but I can tell you now Cat has no time for the likes of PH's ON. Her submission to the current Royal Commission on anti-Semitisim or her letter outlining necessary changes to the way we care for indigenous children show her to be one of the most compassionate and caring people I know.
Ciaran Wilson
Cathy you are, as Ciaran points out, misreading me. I have no problems with migrants or migration overall. It is an absolutely essential part of life and has been for thousands of years. What is of concern is people who come in and try to impose their way of life on others in the 21stC. We have come to realise that this is about power, not people.
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