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06/01/24

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Originally posted by Bananabender1: ↑

Abbott was the king of throw away slogans to appeal to the challenged thinkers. The "commission of audit" was a bottler. oopsies another own goal by the dopey little sod.

In opposition, the Coalition painted Australia's fiscal position as one of imminent disaster, with the spectre of a Greek-style crisis just around the corner. The political strategy that informed the Abbott Government's first year in office was a familiar one, built around the well-used device of a Commission of Audit. This trick has been used by just about every newly elected LNP government in the past 25 years.As planned, the Commission of Audit reported a looming financial disaster, which was then used, in the Government's first budget, to justify the wholesale abandonment of election promises. But this strategy went off the rails when the public, and the Senate, refused to accept a massive breach of promise from a government whose primary rationale for election was Labor's failure to keep its own promises.It has now become clear that the current government will be no more successful than Labor in returning the budget to surplus. This is not really a problem, since Australian public debt levels are, as they were under Labor, exceptionally low by world standards. But the "debt and deficits" phase of fiscal policy has still left the Government with a ticking electoral time bomb.

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ALL Well and good from your perspective about whatever but,
my response was in regard to the snide about sloganism being only a RWNJ thing by the LWNJ posters.

As I presented ( with examples) it is absolutely evident that,

sloganism is not restricted to one side of politics
as you and your fellow travellers suggest
day in day out in your personal attacks on anyone
with a different viewpoint.

Only point I was making.

I'll post about deficiencies in arguments when and if I feel the need, but most of time I don't as I have much more productive things to do, and insufficient time.
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