Good to see Abbott finally showing his true colours. I assume he believes no-one will remember his current antics at the time of the next election.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/abbott-plays-hardball-on-pairing-tradition-20100924-15pdi.html
I understand he wants to topple the Labor government. Fair enough. But he needs to 1) not come across as a sore loser, and 2) Not make Australia pay a price just so he can get an early election. All he needs to do is sit back and wait for Labor to topple itself. It's done a pretty decent job of stabbing its self in the back over the last couple of years, and there's no reason to believe the trend will change.
I like the fact he's fighting, far better than Beazley, Nelson, Turnbull as opposition leaders.
Problem is you are also correct, he's fighting the wrong way. He SHOULD be smashing things like:
1: NBN - $43Billion? Initial construction overruns are coming in at 50% over tendered cost so this thing will cost more. And there's no business case outlining benefits.
2: Joolz is now in a tricky position because the ALP ran part of their campaign on TAbbot's daft "if it's written down you can believe it" statement but she's now in the position of going back on what she said
3: TAbbott has blunted that weapon becasue he has apparantly back tracked on the reform agreement. Not that we've ever seen what that actually says but if that idiot Pyne was involved there's a good chance he outsmarted himself and thought he was way smart when in fact he agreed to what the ALP were plotting with Oakeshott as speaker and they snared him because he thought an ALP member would be speaker.
4: TAbbott needs to start acting not like an Opposition, not even like an alternative government, he needs to start acting as if he IS in government. Put policies on the table for actual implementation, get them voted on, make the independents continually choose Labor or Liberal policies and then answer to the electorate who have seen what both aprties would do if they were in government.
That's a real Bear fight strategy to take on Joolz and Crew.
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