- Have you checked the difference in the cost of promises made by Labor in the lead up to the 2007 election and the actual cost when implemented? If so, what is the difference?
- Does the fact that an average of 3.9 per cent of electors in your three electorates gave their first preference votes to the Greens compared to the national average of 11.5 per cent give you pause in considering support for a Labor-Greens government?
- Which Government is likely to put less strain on the Budget: a Coalition or a Labor-Greens government?
- Can you point to past statements you have made where you think a Labor-Greens government would be in Australia’s national interest? Can you point to previous comments you have made in support of Greens’ policies?
- With a Labor Government relying on Greens support and with the Greens holding a balance of power in the Senate, is it more or less likely that Greens’ policies will be implemented under a Labor or Coalition government?
- How high a price on carbon do you support?
- Is a Labor-Greens Government likely to be more left wing or right wing compared with the 2007 – 2010 Rudd/Gillard Government?
Catallaxians – do you have any more questions for the three independents?
UPDATE
- Does it give you pause that Labor has nominated as its representative for negotiations with you Bruce Hawker from Hawker-Britton which is at the epicentre of Labor spin-central? While the Coalition has nominated former Treasury economist and former chief of staff to Prime Minister Howard Arthur Sinodinos? May this not be an indication of style versus substance?
- Is it surprising that since Labor had its costings undertaken by Treasury and Finance before the caretaker period that they now match the costings by Treasury and Finance?
- Which Party first proposed a Parliamentary Budget Office to improve the operations of the charter of budget honesty? (Yes, the Coalition in 2009).
Have you asked Treasury to release answers to the questions asked by the Fuel and Energy Senate Committee in regards to the mining tax. In particular, how much will the tax raise over the longer term and what are the price and volume assumptions associated with the tax?
http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/fuelenergy_ctte/Answers_to_QoN/Treasury_answers_130710.pdf
bianconieri
2 Sep 10 at 8:30 am
Have you asked the ALP which Greens policies they do, and do not, agree with? On grens.org.au it’s easy to find outrageous, anti-regional policies (as well as frankly kooky stuff).
For example, from their population policy:
Are you uncomfortable about potentially being in an unofficial alliance with the Greens, if you support Gillard?
daddy dave
2 Sep 10 at 8:45 am
You’ve all been consistently talking up Labor and talking down the Coaltion since election night. Is this because you have a natural affinity with Labor, or is this all a big bluff to extract a higher price from the coalition? Or is it payback time against the nationals?
Are you worried that your public image with conservatives is being tarnished (I’m talking about ordinary conservatives watching the news, not your parliamentary colleagues), while you are attracting admiration from the left?
daddy dave
2 Sep 10 at 9:13 am
Julia G is going to be the PM and no public lamentation will change that.
jtfsoon
2 Sep 10 at 9:29 am
Lamentation?
Julia Schwarzenegger?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGOQ7SsJrw
.
2 Sep 10 at 9:30 am
The indies nominated Bruce Hawker, not the ALP.
Attila
2 Sep 10 at 10:28 am
Dear BobKat, Robbo and Tone,
If I asked you to stick your heads up a dead bear’s bum, do you require a bear each or will one suffice?
Infidel Tiger
2 Sep 10 at 11:25 am
Catallaxians – do you have any more questions for the three independents?
Yeah. Hey Bob: you’ve been on the public tit since 1974. How about you retire to your salad ranch and make a quid with some honest-to-goodness asparagus wrangling, cowboy?
C.L.
2 Sep 10 at 11:32 am
I’d ask Oakseshott….
Recently you accused the Liberals of making calls to your mobile. In one call your wife answered the caller said he was the devil or something to that effect. You then made reference to your young children and that they had never heard of the devil and that you’re worried about them.
If your wife answered that call what the hell do your children have to do with it, you lying pansy douchebag?
You also accused the liberals of making this call, yet it was made by one person.
Why are you such a girlyman and are you concerned that your electorate will begin to see you as a a little pansy?
JC
2 Sep 10 at 11:47 am
JC, for a guy who skulks around the house with an iPad so that the wife won’t get up you for being on line all the time, I don’t know I’d be calling anyone a “girlyman”.
steve from brisbane
2 Sep 10 at 12:03 pm
Another question for the three Maoist bunyips:
Why don’t you noisily support this bloke’s fight for property rights. He’s now beaten the Federal Court and there’s $600 million in play – being stolen from primary producers mostly for the benefit of the city-based warmening cult.
C.L.
2 Sep 10 at 12:47 pm
CL should stand for parliament – he may have to come out of hiding and reveal himself
rog
2 Sep 10 at 5:47 pm
JC should also stand for parliament, then we can all have a laugh at his jibberish
rog
2 Sep 10 at 5:49 pm
Cmon JC, dont be such a pussy, stand up and be counted
rog
2 Sep 10 at 5:50 pm
Wodge, you really are poisonous aren’t you?
(Wodgie, the thinking woman’s Greens supporter).
JC
2 Sep 10 at 6:00 pm
The PBO is a bad idea and I’m disappointed both sides accept it. It means it will have an extremely conservative economic base and wont be open to any ideas from economic innovations which in turn means it will favour one parliamentary party over the other as it will always align closer to that school of thought.
Senexx
18 Sep 10 at 11:41 am