| Neville —
We would love to give you an update on the Abbott Government’s agenda in the parliament this week, but the reality is nothing is happening.
They have very few bills before the house, in fact they’re only spending 10% of the time allocated to Government Business in Parliament on legislation. Given legislating is core business for government that’s pretty astonishing. What’s more is that there’s no sign things will improve, the Coalition Government have so little going on, it’s reported they cancelled their upcoming Cabinet meeting because there’s nothing on the agenda!
What’s on earth is going on?
Tony Abbott and the Liberals are a mess and that’s having its effect on the parliament.
Meanwhile the rest of us are left with the reality of their narrow, cruel lack-of-an-agenda: blocking their own MPs from a free vote on marriage equality, attacks on our proud renewable energy industry; commitment to some of the weakest emissions reduction targets in the developed world; former speaker Bronwyn Bishop booted for her taxpayer funded helicopter trips; making it harder for environmental activists to take big coal mining companies to court; and vigorous defence of an expensive and politically motivated Royal Commission whose ‘independent’ head Dyson Heydon was billed to speak at a Liberal party Fundraiser?!!
Still on the table are their $80 billion in cuts to schools and hospitals, $100,000 degrees, and cuts to the pension, just to mention a few.
Oh, and in his spare time Tony Abbott hates windfarms.
It goes on…and on…. The Abbott Government really doesn’t have anything even remotely constructive on its agenda.
The good news is we don’t have to sit down and cop it. Our community, thanks to you, has been hugely successful in shutting down elements of the Abbott Government’s unfair agenda. The community has mobilised against $100,000 degrees, stopped the $7 GP copayment and generated amazing momentum towards making marriage equality a reality. So thank you for your support and for helping to stop the worst Tony Abbott and the Liberals want for Australia.
In the coming weeks and months we’ll continue to push our agenda for Australia’s future: 50% renewable energy generation by 2030, making marriage equality a reality within the first 100 days of a winning an election and transferring to a knowledge economy through investment in STEM education.
We still have a lot more to do. We have an election to win and we still have to be ready to fight Tony Abbott’s next disturbing thought bubble.
Thanks for standing together to stop Tony Abbott from doing his worst.
George Wright
Labor National Secretary |
