Saturday, September 20, 2008

Liberal Messages Saturday 20th September

Time to act to help Australia’s pensioners
I will move to introduce legislation when parliament sits next week to give Mr Rudd the opportunity to deliver an extra $30 a week to around 860,000 Australians who need it and deserve it.

The Coalition Plan to Cut Petrol Tax

Recent News
Turnbull Doorstop - Economy
I’m offering Kevin Rudd today, with my Deputy Julie Bishop with me here today, we’re offering to Kevin Rudd to sit down with him and speak and cooperate in a bipartisan way on the measures that can be undertaken in the very near term to provide greater stability and security in our economy and our financial markets. Those are the big issues of the moment.

Western Sydney misses out on trades training for students
It defies belief that not only have the Rudd Government scrapped the proposed ATC in Penrith but they have not provided a trade training centre for a single school in all of the western suburbs of Sydney.

The benefits of working go further than a payslip - Article for ABC's Unleashed: Getting the disabled back to work
A job provides a person with a sense of purpose, it helps grow confidence, develop social skills and introduces us to different situations and people. All experiences that help shape who we are.

Turnbull interview with Madonna King (612 ABC Brisbane) - Barnaby Joyce, Aged Pension, John Murphy...
We are proposing a $30 a week increase for the single aged pension right here, right now.

Helen Kroger - First Speech (15 September)
I could not let the opportunity pass me by without saying how excited I am as a women to begin my career in parliament at the very time that Sarah Palin is about to shatter the penultimate glass ceiling of politics in the United States.

Council of Australian Local Government
The Coalition welcomes the Government’s announcement that the first meeting of the Council of Australian Local Government will be held in late November – but has warned against the Rudd bureaucracy turning this meeting into yet another talkfest.

Garrett undermines PM’s Local Government announcement
Peter Garrett today embarrassed the Prime Minister by undermining his announcement of a so-called new “cooperative engagement” with local government.

Minister for Employment has no plan for job creation
The announcement today that Telstra will shed 800 staff makes it even more important for the Rudd Government to focus on job creation.

Turnbull interview with Ali Moore (774 ABC Melbourne) - Chris Ellison, economy, Barnaby Joyce, HIH...
Chris Ellison is a great loss and I was certainly expecting to be working with him in the shadow cabinet as Leader just as I had as shadow treasurer. But his departure, which will be a great loss to us, obviously creates another vacancy in the shadow cabinet.

Garrett confused on pipeline
Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett must strive to inspire greater confidence that he will stand up to the Victorian Government which is desperate to take water from the Murray Darling Basin.

WA enters a new era in mining
An exciting new era is about to begin in the Australian resource sector with the long-awaited green light on uranium mining in Western Australia.

Congratulations to Australian Paralympic Team
Senator Bernardi said all Australians can be proud of the Australian Team who placed fifth on the medal tally with an impressive 79 medals.

Turnbull interview with Leon Byner (Radio 5AA, Adelaide)
It’s very hard to predict that Leon. The one thing I could say is that business confidence would be higher in Australia if Mr Swan and Mr Rudd hadn’t embarked on a political campaign - a political strategy, right from the beginning of this year to talk down the economy and talk up inflation.

Heaven help the self funded retirees
Labor has again hidden behind a wall of rhetoric, after today refusing to outline any measures the Rudd Government was taking to protect Australian superannuation accounts arising from the volatility of the American capital market.

It's about people – So why has Rudd declared war on Bourke Community?
Today over 400 Bourke residents attended a rally in Bourke to save their town after the Rudd Government ripped the guts out of its economic base.

Turnbull on LiveNews.com.au - The big issue today is the economy...
If Kevin Rudd was fair dinkum about bipartisanship, he will be seeking to work with us on the economy. Click here for video.


Minister for Workplace Relations fails economics 101

Today the Minister for Workplace Relations has revealed her ignorance about the measurement of productivity in Australia.

Turnbull interview with Melissa Doyle and Matthew White (Sunrise, 7) - Liberal Party leadership, economy, Republic...
We are committed to a better deal for Australia’s pensioners and while we look forward to the results of the review that the Rudd Government is undertaking, and we recognise that there should be other reforms, right here right now, we want to increase that single pension by $30 a week and we’ll be introducing legislation into the Senate to do just that.

Rudd's shambolic revolution
The cornerstone of the Rudd Government’s education policy was the ‘Digital Education Revolution’ which originally promised a computer on every desk for students between years 9 and 12. That quickly changed to access to a computer, which has now changed to one computer for every two students

Turnbull interview with Alan Jones (Radio 2GB) - Liberal leadership, economy, ETS...
We need policies that will not trash the Australian economy and you know, really the absurdity of Mr Rudd’s position is this; he has come out with an options paper on an emissions trading scheme – well that’s fair enough. I’m disappointed that the options paper doesn’t advance the policy development one iota of where it was last year when we were in government.

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