Comments on: Search for Rudd’s billion dollar health gouge

By: Health and the rancid turd at Catallaxy Files

Health and the rancid turd at Catallaxy Files — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:37:37 +0000

[...] So where does this leave us? All up we now have a confirmation of the basic facts, but no credible denial of the role that Rudd and Swan played in the 1995 misleading health ads. We also know that Rudd and Swan, fifteen years later, are trying the same stunt. [...]

By: Pedro

Pedro — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:20:28 +0000

Slightly OT, but a sentence you have to love:

“Once again, Rudd is offering big rhetoric and even bigger government, despite the parade of gold-plated debacles delivered so far via his unique penchant for conflating bureaucracy with grandiosity.”

From Paul Sheehan in the SMH

By: TerjeP (say tay-a)

TerjeP (say tay-a) — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:19:42 +0000

Great job Sinclair.

The claim that the Howard government was into creating smaller government and that they cut spending is a fairy tale. The pity is that nothing was achieved by Howard in the way of downsizing government and that the Howard defenders find themselves having to brag about how they are just as good as the ALP in spending large sums of taxpayers money.

By: C.L.

C.L. — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:34:47 +0000

Piers Akerman is also on the case of Labor's billion dollar lie.

By: C.L.

C.L. — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:14:03 +0000

Too complicated for a debate, though. Abbott should simply respond that by presiding over and then having to “fix” the worst public policy debacle in Australian history – the government’s home incineration scheme – Rudd has gouged roughly $2 billion out of Australians’ schools, hospitals, roads and pockets. He should also point out that more money is not necessarily better health and better delivery. For evidence of that, see Julia Gillard’s shoddy, corrupt, massively rorted halls ‘n toilets catastrophe.