Liberal Messages

Turnbull Doorstop with Hockey - Securing our economic future, Kevin Rudd's plan to lump every Australian with $9500 in debt...
This is all about the future of Australia. We are facing economic challenges – that’s true. Yes, the Government should act and have an effective economic stimulus but it must be one that works, that gets the maximum bang for every tax payer’s buck. That’s what we are focussed on. We are focussed on prudent investment in the productivity of our economy, investment that will create jobs.

Rudd to gazump new home buyers as part of $42 billion debt & deficit package
Revelations at this morning’s Senate inquiry into the Government’s $42 billion debt and deficit package mean Kevin Rudd will be bidding against every prospective home buyer looking to buy house and land packages, in order to reach his target of 20,000 new public housing dwellings.

Government misled over Senate scrutiny "delay"
Evidence presented to the Senate Committee today by Centrelink has confirmed that Labor misled the Senate in an effort to ram their stimulus package through the Parliament with little scrutiny.

20 years down the track: AUSTRAC deserving of recognition
AUSTRAC has contributed to thousands of law enforcement investigations into serious criminal activity and organised crime, including money laundering and terrorism financing.

Turnbull interview with Ann Sanders (Seven News) - Securing our economic future, Kevin Rudd's plan to lump every Australian with $9500 in debt
Ann, it won’t be an effective economic stimulus. The thing we have to focus on at the moment is jobs, jobs and jobs. Every element of every economic strategy by government has to be focused on creating jobs.

Labor's big spend on web site self-promotion
In its first eight months the Rudd Labor Government created 36 new websites to promote itself at a cost of more than $1.1 million.

Turnbull interview with Helen Kapalos (Ten News) - Securing our economic future, Kevin Rudd's plan to lump every Australian with $9500 in debt...
We support the Government taking action to stimulate the economy. But it has to be effective. Mr Rudd's package is too big, it's too much money, it is being used ineffectively. It is going to drive us deeper and deeper into debt – debts that our children will be paying high taxes to pay off.

Drought hits Murray-Darling HQ
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority is facing its own drought from within. The Rudd Government still hasn’t appointed a panel of top advisers to the national water body that was established late last year.

Turnbull interview with Simon Beaumont (6PR) - Securing our economic future, Kevin Rudd's plan to lump every Australian with $9500 in debt
Simon, the problem with this $42 billion package is that it will not be an effective use of taxpayers’ funds, it will not create the jobs that we need. It is going to impose on us and on our children enormous debts that they will have to pay high taxes in the future to pay off. So it is too big, and it is not an effective package; the composition of it, the components of it are not going to be effective.

Government rejects Bradley and goes shopping for advice
The Government’s announcement that they will hold a series of round-table discussions about the Bradley review is evidence that they are shopping for advice they actually want to hear. This review into a review is a complete waste of time and money.

Sherry and Emerson - wrong again
Ministers Sherry and Emerson today severely distorted the Coalition’s suggestion to contribute a portion of the Superannuation Guarantee Charge for small employers (with 20 or fewer staff).

No beds, no jobs
Minister Elliot’s sluggish approach to the 2008-09 Aged Care Approvals Round continues to leave older Australians out in the cold and blocks new employment opportunities in the Aged Care sector.

Conflict of Sri Lanka
The Coalition joins the Australian government in expressing its concern for the escalating humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka’s north as indeed it has done since October 2008.

Senate rejects government's unfair horse levy
The Government’s well-intentioned but poorly crafted Horse Disease Levy Bills were rejected by Coalition Senators last night in the interests of ensuring that any such future levy can be applied fairly to the Australia horse community.

'Port2Port' motorcycle ride for men's health
Senator Cory Bernardi, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Men’s Health, today announced that he will lead the ‘Port2Port’ Motorcycle Ride for Men’s Health on Sunday, 15 February 2009.

The Hon Malcolm Turnbull Address to the Nation
That is a $9,500 debt for every Australian, a debt our children will have to pay off years into the future.

Super plan to save jobs
The Coalition today announced a proposal to help small businesses with their cash flow, by paying a portion of the Superannuation Guarantee obligations on behalf of small employers (those with 20 or fewer staff) for the next two years.

Turnbull interview with Jon Faine (ABC Radio) - Securing our economic future
We believe it is too much, too much money. It’s imposing too heavy a burden on future generations. We believe it is poorly made up and it will not be an effective stimulus. It will not give tax payers enough economic bang for their buck.

Computers in Schools blow-out dents confidence in new schools package
The Computers in Schools cost blow-outs, and other failures of the so-called ‘education revolution’ leaves little confidence in the Government’s ability to deliver on the new programs in the stimulus package.

Coalition opposes $42 billion expenditure package
The Coalition will oppose the Rudd Government’s latest $42 billion expenditure package because it is not a responsible or sustainable way to run the national economy.

Labor’s $42 billion doesn’t stimulate Small Business
Labor’s $42 billion economic stimulus package fails to help Australia’s 2.4 million small businesses meet their greatest challenge at the moment - cash flow, Shadow Small Business Minister Steven Ciobo said.

Senate calls for government to release broadband reports
Despite Senator Conroy’s claims that this tender process would be ‘open and transparent’, it has been anything but. While I maintain this advice should be publicly released before a successful tenderer is chosen, the Senate has agreed that at the very least they should be tabled immediately after a winning bid is announced.

Conroy's confusion
The last Labor Treasurer to echo the infamous words “temporary deficit” was Paul Keating, whose “temporary deficit” outlasted his term as Treasurer and his Prime Ministership, ultimately rectified by the Howard Government.

Turnbull interview with Tim Webster (Radio 2UE) - Securing our economic future
We’re standing up not for ourselves but for our children and their children, because the debt Mr Rudd is running up will have to be paid off by them.

Conroy naive to say: I hope to sign broadband contract 'by March'
Senator Stephen Conroy’s ambition to sign a contract for the roll-out of a National Broadband Network (NBN) “by March” is both totally “naive and unrealistic”.

Peter Dutton Daily Telegraph Blog - Will Rudd ever fix NSW hospitals as promised?
The litany of woes revealed by the hardworking frontline staff in the state’s hospitals over recent days, in particular those in the Greater Western Area Health Service, are a damning indictment of successive Labor administrations which have failed to manage the most basic functions of government in this state.

Turnbull Doorstop - accelerated depreciation for energy efficient buildings, weekend sitting, employment, working together, stimulus package...
We are committed to working with Mr Rudd. We seek to cooperate with Mr Rudd on this new stimulus package. We want to go through it, and we will go through it, line by line, dollar by dollar in a very detailed and intensive way, because we have got to make sure that it’s right and that it’s effective. Not all of his measures have been effective so far. He has made some quick decisions which have not worked very well at all.

Indonesian authorities and AFP stop more boat people
Indonesian Authorities supported by the Australian Federal Police have detained a group of 41 Afghan asylum seekers heading for Australia at Bau Bau Bay in South East Sulawesi.

Time for Treasurer Swan to level with Australia
Today the Treasurer should release updated economic forecasts, explain what the Government means by a ‘temporary deficit’ and reveal his plan to get the budget back to a surplus.

Turnbull Doorstop - working together, economic stimulus, bank deposit guarantee, tax cuts, insolvency laws, executive remuneration...
Shortly after I became the Leader of the Opposition I extended the hand of cooperation to Mr Rudd and said that we should sit down together and see if we can agree on measures to address our economic challenges and work cooperatively. Now I see that Mr Rudd has said that one of his New Year’s resolutions is that we should all work together in 2009, and I make that offer to him again. We should be working together. We seek the opportunity to sit down with the Government and see if we can bring all of our talents together and come up with measures that will be good for the Australian economy. And, above all, good for jobs. The three top priorities this year are jobs, jobs, jobs.

Productivity Commission confirms Coalition support for public schools
The release of the Productivity Commission’s “Report on Government Services” confirms the strong support given to public schools by the former Howard Government

Turnbull Interview with Steve Price (Radio 2UE) - tax cuts, green depreciation for energy efficient buildings, Kevin Rudd’s socialism essay...
You’ve got to make sure that the cuts are ones that provide real incentives to work and to invest. At this time the most effective places to cut income tax will be to provide incentives to low and middle income earners. Now that benefits all tax payers of course – if you lower tax rates at the lower thresholds everybody benefits. So there is an across the board benefit but it’s particularly important to help low and middle income earners.

Unions give Labor $37.6m campaign funding
Unions continued to exercise their financial muscle over the Labor Party, with donations to the ALP totalling $9.2m, and an additional expenditure of $26.8m on direct political campaigning.

House prices will depend on jobs, jobs, jobs
Today’s ABS figures on house prices highlight once again the need for jobs, jobs, jobs to be the core focus of the Rudd Government as the threat of an Australian recession looms larger.

Turnbull Doorstop - Tax cuts, budget deficit, economic management...
Well we’ve had a day of confusion from the Government. The Prime Minister doesn’t seem to know whether he’s an economic conservative or a reborn socialist or perhaps he was never an economic conservative at all. And as for the Treasurer, a few days ago he was castigating us for suggesting that tax cuts would play an important role in any fiscal stimulus. He said that was out of the question and today he’s proposing that tax cuts should be part of the stimulus. Well, all we can say is: will the real Kevin Rudd please stand up? What is it – economic conservative or reborn socialist?

Bowen confirms Labor stands for higher taxes
The Rudd Government has again revealed itself to be an old style high taxing government that does not understand that lower taxes mean greater incentives and greater productivity which leads to increased tax revenues.

Turnbull Doorstop - Kevin Rudd’s socialism essay, tax cuts, jobs for Australia...
It was interesting to read this morning that over the summer while we were putting together practical policies that will create jobs and provide an effective response to climate change, the Prime Minister has been writing a 7,000 word treatise about political ideology in which he appears to be abandoning his claim to be an economic conservative and instead seems to be channelling Gough Whitlam – high taxes, big government and socialism. That’s not the only difference between us and Mr Rudd. While he’s been putting billions of dollars of tax payers money at risk to prop up commercial property prices and support the profits of the big four banks, we’ve been out talking to small and medium businesses.
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Labor’s Kremlin-Controlled Area Health Services Have Failed: Della Bosca
Written by Jillian Skinner MP
Friday, 06 February 2009
Health Minister John Della Bosca has admitted Labor’s Area Health Services have failed to deliver quality health care to the people of NSW, Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner said today.

“Health Minister John Della Bosca has finally admitted Labor’s Area Health Services have failed,” Mrs Skinner said.

Stunned By Labor’s Taser Inaction
Written by The Hon Mike Gallacher MLC
Friday, 06 February 2009
The NSW State Labor Government’s failure to deploy Taser technology to frontline police officers has resulted in our State’s police being outgunned by the alleged actions of illegal arms dealers, Shadow Minister for Police Mike Gallacher said today.

“I congratulate the officers whose police work lead to the seizure of a cache of illegal stun guns, but this is a timely reminder that such technology is not where it needs to be,” Mike Gallacher said.

Even The Beatles Knew About ‘Nowhere Man’ Nathan
Friday, 06 February 2009

Federal Labor, NSW Labor Headquarters, most of caucus and the community are fed up with Nathan Rees – but at least his Labor colleagues have a theme song for ‘Nowhere Man’ Nathan.

“Most of State and Federal Labor and almost the entire NSW community are fed up with ‘Nowhere Man’ Nathan and his plans that go in one direction - nowhere,” Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Brad Hazzard, said today.

Rees’ Decision To Axe South West Rail Contrary To Treasury And Planning Dept Advice
Friday, 06 February 2009
NSW Opposition Leader and Shadow Minister for Western Sydney Barry O’Farrell said today the decision to reject Treasury's expert advice and dump the South West rail link demonstrates the incompetence and inexperience of Nathan Rees.

Seven News reported last night Treasury’s advice to Premier Nathan Rees, Treasurer Eric Roozendaal and Finance Minister Joe Tripodi was to proceed with the South West rail link because it was “financially viable”.

Rees’ Infrastructure “Dogs Breakfast”
Friday, 06 February 2009

State Labor’s years of on again off again infrastructure plans and Nathan Rees’ reluctance to acknowledge the need for infrastructure as an economic stimulus have killed NSW’s chances of maximising a share of the Federal funding pie.

“State Labor has delivered a dog’s breakfast of infrastructure plans and consequently Federal Labor is unlikely to give NSW its fair share of the Federal economic stimulus package,” Shadow Minister for Planning and Infrastructure Brad Hazzard said today.

Bus No-Go Zones In Sydney: Rees Govt Failure
Friday, 06 February 2009
Shadow Minister for Transport Gladys Berejiklian said today the Rees Labor Government has failed in its duty when bus drivers are forced to declare a Sydney suburb a no-go zone because of constant attacks.

Bus drivers have voted unanimously this morning to stop services through the Western Sydney suburb of Shalvey because of constant rock and bottle attacks, which are putting the lives of drivers and passengers at risk.

Skinner Launches Online Health Survey
Friday, 06 February 2009
Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner today launched the NSW Liberal/Nationals Health Infrastructure Audit, an online health survey that will help provide a clear picture of the condition of hospitals around NSW, as well as providing frontline medical staff with an opportunity to express their views.

The Health Infrastructure Audit survey can be accessed at www.jillianskinner.com and also at www.barryofarrell.com.au and asks respondents for their opinions of local hospital facilities, and where things need to be improved.

FOI Report Welcomed
Thursday, 05 February 2009
The Rees Labor Government must ensure reforms to the Freedom of Information Act proposed by the Ombudsman are implemented by the middle of the year, NSW Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell said today.

“The NSW Liberal/Nationals welcome the Ombudsman’s proposals, including a greater level of disclosure, the establishment of an independent Information Commissioner and a re-write of the FOI Act,” Mr O’Farrell said.

Kelly Fiddles While Sydney Burns
Thursday, 05 February 2009
Labor is missing in action while bikies treat our streets as their personal battleground, Shadow Minister for Police Mike Gallacher said today in the wake of another explosive attack in the escalating motorcycle gang war.

“The violence between rival Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (OMCGs) has escalated to the point where existing laws and police resources are insufficient,” Mike Gallacher said.

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