Comments on: The Budget or Mad Max, Here We Come. https://grahamclements.com/the-budget-or-mad-max-here-we-come/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-budget-or-mad-max-here-we-come Writer, blogger, and dreamer. Sat, 17 May 2014 06:27:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 By: Graham Clements https://grahamclements.com/the-budget-or-mad-max-here-we-come/#comment-1266 Sat, 17 May 2014 06:27:01 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/the-budget-or-mad-max-here-we-come/#comment-1266 Anthony,

I thought Shorten's speech was very good too. A lot of rhetoric, but he said he would try and block the changes that mattered, like the changes to Newstart for 25-30 year olds. I am sure that those who read the Murdoch press are getting a completely different story on the budget.

]]> By: Anthony J. Langford https://grahamclements.com/the-budget-or-mad-max-here-we-come/#comment-1267 Fri, 16 May 2014 11:02:45 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/the-budget-or-mad-max-here-we-come/#comment-1267 That was my worry too – the growing underclass, unable to provide for themselves, turn to crime.. I suppose Abbott thinks he's safe in North Shore, that stinking cesspool of old rotting money – also the most boring place in Australia – and forget the rest of the country.

Despite the outcry, Australians are still, generally, apathetic, though it was great to see Bishop getting jostled at Sydney Uni today. What gall…
If this was America or the UK there would be riots in the streets.

Someone should release Shorten's speech on dvd – legendary.

]]> By: Graham Clements https://grahamclements.com/the-budget-or-mad-max-here-we-come/#comment-1268 Fri, 16 May 2014 07:10:36 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/the-budget-or-mad-max-here-we-come/#comment-1268 Graham, I was worried bad things would happen when Abbott got in, and this is probably just the start. I wish he would call a double dissolution too. Be interested to see what the next opinion polls say. At least Thatcher believed in the science of global warming. But I would not have liked to lived there then. I always remember a survey that came out when she was in power, and 60% of those surveyed said that if they had the money they would leave the country. I am starting to feel like that now.

]]> By: graywave https://grahamclements.com/the-budget-or-mad-max-here-we-come/#comment-1269 Fri, 16 May 2014 06:15:44 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/the-budget-or-mad-max-here-we-come/#comment-1269 I couldn't agree more Graham. Sadly, this is the second time I've had to live through all this. The first time was in the UK in the 1970s when Margaret Thatcher and her government set out on a similar, ideologically- motivated crusade to crush the working class. She succeeded too! She smashed the unions, she removed benefits, undermined the National Health Service, nobbled the BBC, forced down wages, trashed science, and sacked tens of thousands of civil servants. It was a bloodbath. Just like it will be here if Abbott gets his way.

Some of the most annoying things about this budget are that Hockey managed to find $275million for untrained religious nutjobs in schools (chaplains as they call them) and even $1million for funding ballet dance students to attend classes.

I really wish it was more than an empty threat by Abbott to call a double-dissolution election. Then we'd see how much of a "mandate" he has for this kind of viciousness.

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