A monumental backflip

Do you know who said this nine years ago? “Can anyone in this place really imagine that Australia will be processing asylum seeker claims on Nauru in 10 or 20 years?” It was Julia Gillard in Parliament in 2003. She also called the successful Pacific Solution “the...

The carbon tax … one month on

August 1 marks a  month since the introduction of the carbon tax. The past 31 days have vindicated the Coalition’s campaign against the carbon tax as a bad tax that will hurt families and small businesses. The real proof though, is still a few months away, as...

So-called surplus slipping away

It has taken less than a month and Wayne Swan’s promised surplus is already in trouble. Media reports suggest that the Government is already preparing to dump its surplus commitment in the face of overseas economic trouble. Labor are yet again making excuses. But they...

Budget Special

Wayne Swan delivered his fifth budget, and again, we are seeing a further increase in debt. Through accounting tricks and shuffling money between months and years, the Treasurer is making a false claim about having turned around his record of debt and deficit. Labor’s...

Countdown to the budget and carbon tax

10 weeks till the carbon tax My colleagues and I have been out and about in the lead up to the federal budget, telling the truth about the Australian economy. I joined Tony Abbott and Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry and Science Sophie Mirabella at the...