On 06/11/14 12:53, Lev Lafayette wrote:

On Thu, November 6, 2014 12:19 pm, Michael Scott wrote:

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I would mention the "investment" in school halls as just one issue. The insulation batts, as another. Perhaps even the $900 taxpayers' bonus.

In 20+ yrs time, these school halls, libraries etc will most likely still be here and would have been used by many thousands of pupils. The pupils attending these schools now could well be parents of the kids using these same facilities in 20 yrs. If you then tell them then about the controversy regarding the funding to build these facilities, what do you think they will be thinking about the Abbott opposition? Cheers, Daniel.

Most of which were good measures. Our economy went

The capital investment of the BER ("the school halls") had a 97% success rate, according to the BER Implementation Taskforce report.

The Home Insulation Scheme was a great success and whilst it is unpopular to say so, it saved lives (see http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2010/02/24/did-the-insulation-program-a...).

Granted the government was utterly weak on the issue and went to water when confronted with the prospect of defending a complex truth against a simple lie.

I'm not so sure about the taxpayer's bonus tho'. Proportionally it was better for those on low incomes and certainly did help out local retail.

Overall the following article by Alan Austin illustrates piece-by-piece how the picture of Labor being poor economic managers and the LNP as being good managers is less than accurate.

http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/we-really-must...