[quote]A new government prepared to take control of Australia, with policies to cut pledges in foreign aid and to wind back greenhouse gas reduction measures in an effort to balance the nation's books.
Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott also plans to visit Indonesia soon in part to discuss controversial plans to curb the number of asylum seekers reaching Australian shores in Indonesian fishing boats.
Abbott's conservative Liberal party-led coalition won a crushing victory at elections on Saturday against the centre-left Labor Party, which had ruled for six years, including during the turbulent global financial crisis.[/quote]
[url]http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/09/20139854334779191.html[/url]
The cats are going to be so happy now that Abbott is buying them boats from Indonesia.
[quote]with policies to cut pledges in foreign aid and to wind back greenhouse gas reduction measures in an effort to balance the nation's books.[/quote]
Uhh... This is a bad thing?
Close your hearts and wallets people, it's time to be as self-serving as possible
[QUOTE=Jookia;42127200]Uhh... This is a bad thing?[/QUOTE]
yes, winding back greenhouse gas reduction measures is a bad thing
[QUOTE=Jookia;42127200]Uhh... This is a bad thing?[/QUOTE]
Time to flood the air with Australian coal emissions.
Still, pretty good positions.
wow this guy sounds backward as fuck
nevermind that thanks to the labor government we got through the deficit mostly unharmed, nevermind that the actions of the labor government were praised by even the liberal treasurer, nevermind that we have a triple a credit rating, apparently we need to save money and abbott thinks he can do that
Help the people in your own country before sending millions of dollars over seas.
Couldn't foreign aid be used to boost economic development in surrounding countries and go some way to ending the boat people thing that he hates so much
[QUOTE=UltraSamurai;42127456]Help the people in your own country before sending millions of dollars over seas.[/QUOTE]
By which you will never ever have foreign aid because there will always be someone in your own country that needs help.
Isolationism is not healthy in the current age.
[QUOTE=smurfy;42127492]Couldn't foreign aid be used to boost economic development in surrounding countries and go some way to ending the boat people thing that he hates so much[/QUOTE]
Easier to just tell the "boat people" to fuck off.
People don't want long term solutions like that, they want stuff that happens now.
[QUOTE=Jookia;42127200]Uhh... This is a bad thing?[/QUOTE]
Yes.
[QUOTE=UltraSamurai;42127456]Help the people in your own country before sending millions of dollars over seas.[/QUOTE]
Or you know, spend 1 billion dollars over the next several years purchasing wooden boats to deny people basic human rights. Oh wait, Liberal are doing that aren't they. Spending a billions dollars to not help people of our own country, but rather not allow others in their countries to even help themselves.
[QUOTE=UltraSamurai;42127456]Help the people in your own country before sending millions of dollars over seas.[/QUOTE]
help them by cancelling an important telecommunications infrastructure project and polluting
I can see it now, years of Facepunch Aussies (rightfully) complaining about Abbott.
If I knew I'd have moved to Australia and voted Labour.
Anyway, I had this emphasis on cutting Foreign Aid. In NO country is it ever more than a fraction of a percent of a nations budget, and cutting it is purely dickwaving.
It is not constructive at all.
[QUOTE=UltraSamurai;42127456]Help the people in your own country before sending millions of dollars over seas.[/QUOTE]
oh yes because the liberal party totally cares about people IN australia too. that's why they want to deny gay australians the right to marry
Oh Christ, three more years of this stupidity.
[QUOTE=person11;42127864]I can see it now, years of Facepunch Aussies (rightfully) complaining about Abbott.
If I knew I'd have moved to Australia and voted Labour.
Anyway, I had this emphasis on cutting Foreign Aid. In NO country is it ever more than a fraction of a percent of a nations budget, and cutting it is purely dickwaving.
It is not constructive at all.[/QUOTE]Exactly. And like I stated before, much more money is being spent in order to help no one, Australian or foreign.
I can't wait till the older generations and bogans no longer have a large say in the way things work, they're so fucking backwards.
Happy now Australian public? Few more years of this shit....
If you actually read the article it is actually quite different to the headline:
[QUOTE]The outgoing Labor government said in May that Australia's long-standing pledge to increase its foreign aid spending to 0.5 percent of gross national income by 2015-16 would be postponed by two years.
The coalition said in a statement last week that it shared Labor's commitment to reach the 0.5 percent target "over time, but cannot commit to a date given the current state of the federal budget."
"I have to say, there are higher immediate priorities" than reaching the 0.5 percent target, Abbott told reporters last week.
"The best thing we can do for our country and ultimately the best thing we can do for people around the world is to strengthen our economy."[/QUOTE]
International relations 101. Piss off Indonesia by cutting back on foreign aid, then ask them to stop sending asylum seekers.
It's so simple, how did no one think of it before!
Abbott's in the big mining businesses' pocket, that's why he's removing the carbon and mining tax. That's what got Rudd kicked out, he took on the big mining businesses and lost. Greedy bastards.
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