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Joyce asks about the stimulus

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Barnaby Joyce asks about the ANU study that Judith wrote up on Tuesday, our additional coverage is here. Note the waffling answer.

Written by Sinclair Davidson

November 1st, 2012 at 11:31 am

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  1. I can’t bear Question Time apart from the theatre it may provide. Wong provides an answer which fails to address the question asked, and when called to address the question, the Chair judges she is addressing the question because it is broadly addressing the economy. It’s just nonsense.

    dover_beach

    1 Nov 12 at 11:40 am

  2. Transcript here.

    Gab

    1 Nov 12 at 12:12 pm

  3. Good questions… bad answers.

    John Humphreys

    1 Nov 12 at 12:13 pm

  4. Do yourselves a lemon flavour and check out Bob Katter’s contribution to the debate on changes to the Fair Work Act this morning.

    He claimed amongst other madness that Australia suffered more than any other country during the great depression because we didn’t embrace Keynes.

    At one stage he asked the Speaker to stop the front benches of both the LNP and ALP from laughing.

    He is a full blown communist fruit loop.

    Infidel Tiger

    1 Nov 12 at 12:17 pm

  5. Mind you the transcript is not exactly accurate in many places…

    Gab

    1 Nov 12 at 12:20 pm

  6. The scary thing is that I really believe Wong et al actually don’t realise how unable they are to address these issues. I don’t think she is trying to waffle, I think she just is incapable of understanding or dealing with it.

    rob

    1 Nov 12 at 12:21 pm

  7. That’s the great thing about Bob. He can be “ranting agrarian socialist” one minute, and “honest country Bob” the next. At least he has the moral high ground over the charlatans Oakeshotte and Windsor.

    The Beer Whisperer

    1 Nov 12 at 12:40 pm

  8. Poor old Penny, the strains of fatherhood must be starting to tell – it’s hard work being a dad! Just needs to put a tie on now and she’ll look a real bloke.

    Old Surfie

    1 Nov 12 at 1:07 pm

  9. She cant even say economy…

    at 1:19 ” the Australian ecomony…”

    onthebus

    1 Nov 12 at 1:16 pm

  10. The scary thing is that I really believe Wong et al actually don’t realise how unable they are to address these issues. I don’t think she is trying to waffle, I think she just is incapable of understanding or dealing with it.

    When has Wong ever given a coherent answer to any question?

    Rob

    1 Nov 12 at 1:20 pm

  11. “Australia suffered more than any other country during the great depression”

    The technological impact of the motor vehicle (specifically tractors) was more severe in agriculture heavy Australia (1933 29% vs US 25%), but the absence of Keynesianism meant we recovered far more quickly than other countries (1939 11% vs US 17%).

    2dogs

    1 Nov 12 at 1:27 pm

  12. The question goes to the heart of what politicians do and say. Witness the Krugman scrap over Estonia – they had high unemployment immediately after the market breakdown, but quickly recovered and powered ahead. Those that borrowed and spent money to keep people in employment had lower unemployment rates, but now have malaise-affected economies and widespread un and underemployment, with tons of debt on top.

    If politicians would just give up the fiction that they can ‘do something’ and leave people better off, then we wouldn’t have these problems. IT’s only because they believe in magic puddings that these topics ever get discussed seriously at all.

    brc

    1 Nov 12 at 2:38 pm

  13. Wong is effectively saying that with the stimulus money Australians spent 10.67 million dollars to save 200000 jobs. That works out to $53 per job. Is that believable? (900 is to 1.2 what 8bn is to 10.67m)

    Is saving 200000 jobs worth outlaying $8bn? That’s $40000 per job. Would we have been wiser to let those people lose their jobs to either find other work or go on benefits?

    Lloyd

    1 Nov 12 at 3:45 pm

  14. Barnaby cooks Annabel a feed

    Pickles

    1 Nov 12 at 4:08 pm

  15. With that Wong bloke you can’t tell where the incompetence and dissembling ends and the lies begin.

    H B Bear

    1 Nov 12 at 5:47 pm

  16. With that Wong bloke you can’t tell where the incompetence and dissembling ends and the lies begin.

    Lucky he’s so hot, eh?

    Catfeesh?

    1 Nov 12 at 6:01 pm

  17. It’s good to see a Chinese low achiever every now and then. It helps correct the widespread perception that all the sons and daughters of the middle kingdom have innate maths and accounting skills.

    Hanyu

    1 Nov 12 at 7:55 pm

  18. Barnaby quizzes Department of Climate Change on green jobs. Classic!

    Mother Hubbard's Dog

    1 Nov 12 at 9:22 pm

  19. One must never underestimate the workings of the fertile Chinese mind..

    Pickles

    1 Nov 12 at 9:37 pm

  20. Hanyu, is it racist to say someone doesn’t conform to stereotype…. when the stereotype is positive?

    wreckage

    2 Nov 12 at 12:54 am

  21. Barnaby cooks Annabel a feed

    Thanks Pickles, that was good to watch. ‘Joycie” is a thinker – some insights into people and pollies there.

    Helen Armstrong

    2 Nov 12 at 2:18 pm

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