Keith Duncan, Pimlico
Great to see the federal coalition finally getting a serious dose of reality. No budget surplus, (it never actually existed), the whole charade was only designed as a marketing ploy to allow ‘Scotty from marketing’ to orchestrate a massive subversive campaign to retain power. No more continuous uninterrupted growth; no ‘back in the black’ mugs neither (withdrawn from sale).
Now the chooks have definitely come home to roost, we’re looking down the barrel of a protracted, and damaging recession, (something Kevin Rudd’s Labor government managed to avoid during the GFC.); a massive government debt of around one trillion dollars, created by the Liberal and National parties, that our grandchildren will be paying off. The Coalition debt was around $700 billion pre COVID-19.
The real heroes in handling this pandemic emergency have undoubtedly been the State premiers, including Gladys Berejiklin, even with her massive stuff-up over the Ruby Princess fiasco. Some premiers even had to endure irrational personal attacks from incompetent Federal ministers, like Allan Tudge who oversaw that appalling robo-debt fiasco by Centrelink.
It’s great to see the likes of Morrison, Frydenberg, Cormann and all the other Coalition apparatchiks finally getting a dose of reality: Welcome to the real world.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
