Tony Abbott’s and Australia’s Liberal Party’s stunts to discredit the carbon tax
No claim too big, no stunt too outrageous.Tony Abbott has already predicted the tax will wipe out Whyalla and kill off the economy. After July 1 some of the more preposterous claims can be held to account but in the meantime it seems to be a free-for-all in the hysteria stakes.
McGuire: It’s war on Gillard http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/mcguire-no-claim-too-big-in-war-on-gillard/story-e6freai3-1226404821804 Michael McGuire June 21, 2012 JUST when you thought political debate couldn’t slide any lower, along comes George Brandis with a new shovel and keeps digging.
It’s dispiriting really that it’s come to this. This week Senator Brandis, the Liberal’s shadow attorney-general, came to the conclusion that a tax that hasn’t yet been applied is the sole reason that Fairfax is sacking 1900 people and radically restructuring its business.
It flew in the face of common sense and the truth. Nowhere in its 24-page statement did Fairfax mention the carbon tax.
And just in case you think I am taking Senator Brandis out of context,
here are his words as reported by Hansard: “What is the Government’s
message to the some 1900 Fairfax Media employees whose jobs have been
destroyed by its carbon tax?”
This is obviously just an extension of the Liberals’ demonisation and
destroy campaign when it comes to the carbon tax. No claim too big, no stunt too outrageous.Tony Abbott has already predicted the tax will wipe out Whyalla and kill off the economy. After July 1 some of the more preposterous claims can be held to account but in the meantime it seems to be a free-for-all in the hysteria stakes.
But that’s the short-termism that is so prevalent from both sides of
politics at the moment. It’s a case of why bother building for
tomorrow when we can destroy today.
It seems inconceivable that Senator Brandis actually believed what he
was saying this week.
Because if he was sincere it can only be concluded that he has never
heard of the internet or the onset of digital media. He has failed to
notice the rapidly declining newspaper circulations that have media
companies all over the world grasping for answers.
So what we are left with is that the senator apparently knew he was
speaking rubbish, but just didn’t care.
The fact that 1900 jobs were lost is just a bit more collateral damage
in the Opposition’s war against the Government. It was a chance to
kick Julia Gillard and he took it.
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