Liberal hypocrisy and broken promises

When the great Paul Keating was Prime Minister of this country, our relationship with Indonesia was cordial.

Under the Abbott Liberal Government, we have a diplomatic crisis; the Liberal policy of stopping the boats is not working nor is the idea of buying boats in Indonesia.

On the domestic front, retail is very slow and this federal government has done nothing to alleviate the situation.

Commercial rents are outrageously high particularly in shopping centres and should be forced down so retailers can make a fair profit.

Something needs to be done urgently to lower the GST threshold for online purchases.

This is seriously damaging retailers, a lot of which have closed down as business has become too difficult.

Action also needs to be taken to lower electricity prices.

As Abbott is being mentored by his "hero", the former Liberal leader John Howard, I am not expecting him to do anything to help anyone except the rich.

When Howard was leader of this country, he wanted people to be "relaxed and comfortable".

I was nervous and uncomfortable until he lost the election and he also had the embarrassment of his own electorate sacking him.

In the interim, we will be exposing all the Liberal hypocrisy and broken promises by kicking this government all the way to the next election.

Email, 27 Nov 2013

John Stagg, Woy Woy