Just when you thought politics in Australia could not get any lower or more self serving, the Abbott crony government of rorting bludgers comes up with a new reason to dislike them again.
This week it is the attack on OUR ABC by the sycophants of the Murdoch press. Abbott reckons he wants the ABC to be fair and balanced. When I read that I almost choked laughing. Look at how his mates at News Corp reported the election with these headlines and ask yourself, ‘is this fair and balanced and accurate?’ Judge for yourself.
Is it possible for the coalition government to be any more duplicitous and deceitful? Time will tell but so far this government is shaping up as the worst in our nation’s history. And comparing it to the last pack of fools from the Howard joke, that is saying something. Of course it is not surprising as most of Abbott’s front bench are recycled troglodytes of the Howard ‘error’.
It beggars belief Australians could be so foolish to vote these idiots in a second time. But as the American circus owner P T Barnum once said, ‘There is a sucker born every minute’.
Mike Mizzi, Byron Bay
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