The ridiculous rhetoric of the LNP/Murdochracy being repeated by the politically ignorant, infuriates me!!
Re Labor being wasteful during the GFC.
I don't think anyone ever
expected that the BER rollout for example would be perfect..
It was an emergency undertaking for all the right reasons. However, we live
in a democratic country and with the right to vote comes the responsibility of
remaining well-informed re the political, economic and social issues in our
country. That doesn’t mean repeating the empty rhetoric of the LNP, the Murdoch
press or the likes of Alan Jones! While I concede it can be difficult for some
people to source a wide range of information due to the Murdochracy’s
stranglehold on the print media in particular, I think that makes it even more imperative
that we seek to be as informed as possible via sources that are creditable and
have authority beyond partisan politics.
Andrew Leigh
is/has been a Professor of Economics at ANU so definitely has a degree of
authority I would place somewhat ahead of most members of the LNP. I would urge the politically challenged to read at least some, if not all of the following so that the idea that
Labor was just a government of reckless spending might be somewhat adjusted.
Most of these authors have a good degree of authority.
Economic
comparisons are useless without context By ABC's Emma Alberici 2013 [Studied Journalism and Economics at
Deakin Uni. Has been a business/Economics reporter]
Hey,
big spender: Howard the king of the loose purse strings Date January 11, 2013 Peter Martin [Peter Martin is reporting on an
IMF study . Howard was a bigger spender that Rudd/Gillard.
Myth
of Coalition govts: Howard the biggest spender of all
Stephen Koukoulas | Feb 13, 2013 11:16AM
[as above][SK is one
of Australia's leading economic visionaries, past Chief Economist of Citibank,
heading global research in London for TD]
Audit
report: much ado about a manageable problem by Ross Gittins Friday, May 2, 2014 [re
how it’s not just spending that’s the problem .. but more about revenue] [Gittins
was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2003 for service to economic
journalism in Australia]
The Rich And
The Rhetoric Won The Day
By Ben Eltham 13 May 2014 [Eltham is a
Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development and a Research Fellow at Deakin
University’s Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention
Mining
boom policies dig a hole for economy by Ross Gittins [The Sydney Morning Herald's Economics Editor] June 24, 2014
Joseph
Stiglitz tells Tony Abbott to spend more by Jacob Greber PUBLISHED: 27 Jun 2014 11:35:00 | UPDATED: 28 Jun 2014 02:45:55 [an American
economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ]
Equal
to our core: making the case for egalitarianism as Australia's national value Posted by Andrew Leigh Mp on October 14, 2014