Abbot. I don't find him particularly appealing as a leader, however I take the view that it's about the policies not the leader. When you look back at Labor's track record in their first term, it would seem very difficult to give them a second chance;
1.Failed home insulation scheme: 1 billion dollars, claimed 9 lives, 250,000 homes wrongly insulated
2.National Broadband Network. 22 Billion to provide faster broadband access, and wireless nation wide, most of us have fast internet access (especially in the big cities) anyway, what's the point? It will just put us in more debt.
3\. K.Rudd's pacific solution. Something like 150 boats in a year for the last 3 years, most of whom aren't genuine refugees and are illegal immigrants? Then Gillard jumps into this East Timor Solution, the East Timorese government don't even want a processing centre, why doesn't she pick up the phone and ring the Naaru Government who are more than happy to re-open the processing centre that was once there?
4.Reckless Spending, they've turned a 20 billion dollar surplus into an 80 billion dollar deficit and are still borrowing millions everyday, future generations will have to pay off all this debt.
5.Carbon tax. all it's designed for is to set up some sort of alliance with the Greens who will then hand over their preferences to them. plus, electricity prices will go up.
6\. Infrastructure. The government had this big plan to have a big Australia, yet we don't have the sufficient hospitals, housing etc. to accomodate all these people. Nor has Sydney received any funding.
As much as people bag Howard, he kept the economy in a stable condition and only let something like 3 boats of asylum seekers a year. Population growth was only at something like 1.4% a year compared to Labors 2.8%.
If I could vote, I certainly wouldn't be voting Labor
