ALP Stuff-ups

1. Carbon Tax – “There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.” 2. NBN – $50 billion but no cost-benefit analysis 3. Building the Education Revolution – The school halls fiasco 4. Home Insulation Plan (Pink Batts) – Dumped 5. Citizens Assembly – Dumped 6. Cash for Clunkers – Dumped 7. Hospital Reform – Nothing 8. Digital set-top boxes – Cheaper at Harvey Norman 9. Emissions Trading Scheme – Abandoned 10. Mining Tax – Continuing uncertainty for our miners 11. Livestock export ban to Indonesia – Over-reaction 12. Detention Centres – Riots & cost blow-outs 13. East Timor ‘solution’ – Announced before agreed 14. Malaysia ‘solution’ – Only just agreed, sort of. Gillard’s great deal for Australia, Malaysia get none, after we’’ve paid god knows what to update facilities there, and we get 4000 15. Manus Island ‘solution’ – On the backburner 16. Computers in Schools – $1.4 billion blow out; less than half delivered 17. Cutting Red Tape – 12,835 new regulations, only 58 repealed 18. Asia Pacific Community – Another expensive Rudd frolic. Going nowhere 19. Green Loans Program – Abandoned. Only 3.5% of promised loans delivered 20. Solar Homes & Communities plan – Shut down after $534 million blow out 21. Green Car Innovation Fund – Abandoned 22. Solar Credits Scheme – Scaled back 23. Green Start Program – Scrapped 24. Retooling for Climate Change Program – Abolished 25. Childcare Centres – Abandoned. 260 promised, only 38 delivered 26. Take a “meat axe”’ to the Public Service – 24,000 more public servants added 27. Murray Darling Basin Plan – back to the drawing board 28. 2020 Summit – Meaningless talkfest 29. Tax Summit – Deferred and downgraded 30. Population Policy – Sets no targets 31. Fuel Watch – Abandoned 32. Grocery Choice – Abandoned 33. $900 Stimulus cheques – Sent to dead people and overseas residents 34. Foreign Policy – In turmoil with Rudd running riot 35. National Schools Solar Program – Closing two years early 36. Solar Hot Water Rebate – Abandoned 37. Oceanic Viking – Caved in 38. GP Super Clinics – 64 promised, only 11 operational 39. Defence Family Healthcare Clinics – 12 promised, none delivered 40. Trade Training Centres – 2,650 promised, 70 operational 41. Bid for UN Security Council seat – An expensive Rudd frolic 42. MySchool Website – Revamped but problems continue 43. National Curriculum – States in uproar 44. Small Business Superannuation Clearing House – 99% of small businesses reject it 45. Indigenous Housing Program – Way behind schedule 46. Rudd Bank – Went nowhere 47. Carbon tax wealth redistribution. Discriminate against families on the basis of income and demographics, not carbon footprint, not pollution but the size of their wallets 48. the Coast Guard. Election promise from 2007 never delivered 49. Means testing of the private health tax rebate. 2007 letter from the ALP to all health insurers promising not to touch the rebate – another election eve lie. 50. Root and branch tax reform. Henry report shelved, GST off the review making a mockery of the claim to independence 51. Credit card fraud scandal 52. Taxpayer funded propaganda mailout on the Carbon tax 53. $10m of taxpayers money to set up a “climate institute” to generate reports to tell us all what the ALP want us to hear. 54. Turned $26billion surplus into $150billion defecit in just 3 years. Still unable to balance the federal budget. 55. $11billion in bribes to independents to win office 56. Removal of elected PM in lefty coup. Paul Howes – unelected, unrepresentative and one time member of the radical socialist Resistence party, puts Socialist Forum Gillard into office. 57. Qantas debacle. ALP so compromised by unions, it sat on it’s hands despite written requests for intervention. 58. 260 childcare centres. Election promise 2007 never delivered. 59. More Affordable housing. Election promise 2007 – never delivered 60. Cheaper Better Childcare – election promise 2007 – never delivered. 61 Canberra riots