This week Tony Abbott acted out his own interpretation of George Orwell's 1984. What you thought he'd promised, he never said, what he said he'd abandon, he's now keeping and what some Australians thought was a Prime Minister turned out to be Tony Abbott. This week was a turning point.
BEST:
1. It’s an issue that needs to be above party politics, this week Bill Shorten and Tony Abbott came together in support of White Ribbon Day.
2. Bill Shorten stopped Question Time on Monday to censure the Prime Minister for his betrayal of Australians.
3. Independent news is as easy as ABC.
4. “This Government has reached a tipping point in what has been the worst week so far in the life of the Abbott Government. Australians know that the Abbott Government has let them down,” Bill Shorten.
5. On the same day the Government’s GP Tax was in chaos and Tony Abbott under pressure to sack his Defence Minister, Bill used a speech at the National Press Club to outline Labor’s vision for a smarter, fairer and stronger Australia.
WORST:
1. It’s hard to know where to start when you’ve got a Defence Minister who tells the world that he would’t trust the people who build our warships “to build a canoe.”
Bill asked Tony Abbott if Senator Johnston would still be Defence Minister in February next year… you guessed it, the Speaker said he didn’t have to answer.
On the night before the election, 'somebody' was interviewed on SBS and made the following statement: 'No cuts to education. No cuts to health. No change to pensions. No change to the GST, and no cuts to the ABC or SBS.' Prime Minister, no-one will now own up to making that statement. Does the Prime Minister have any idea who said this?
3. If Bill’s question didn’t jog Tony Abbott’s memory, Malcolm Turnbull certainly did.
Today senior Australian Financial Review journalist Laura Tingle described the Prime Minister's budget strategy as 'dead, a seriously ex-parrot'. Does the Prime Minister agree that his budget strategy and unfair GP tax are dead? Or, Prime Minister, is it just a flesh wound?