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Peter Dutton's integrity is in question tonight as the phony election campaign gets dirty and the mud flies. Labor is questioning the Opposition Leader's trading of bank shares during the Global Financial Crisis and whether he had inside information. #auspol #peterdutton #liberal #labor #election #vote #politics #7NEWS
7NEWS Australia67,030 次观看 • 1 年前
The Liberals recently wheeled out #JohnHoward because #PeterDutton is still in hiding. Lest we forget how BAD the walking dandruff factory was: For your pleasure. Get a coffee and popcorn. Paul Keating vs John Howard: The Ultimate Smackdown Ah, 1995. The year Paul Keating stood before Parliament and delivered one of the most ferocious take downs in Australian political history. If you’re too young to remember or you’re just looking for a reminder of why Keating remains the Don Bradman of political insults, let’s dive into this masterpiece of a speech. Picture this: John Howard, freshly recycled as Opposition Leader after Alexander "Curly" Downer tripped over his own leadership aspirations, tries to revive his political career. But standing in his way is Keating, armed with wit, facts, and the kind of delivery that could turn a seasoned politician into a puddle of regret. Highlights from Keating’s Verbal Evisceration: The Opening Jab “How are you going over there, Curly? Old Darling?” Straight out of the gate, Keating goes for the jugular, mocking Downer’s brief, disastrous stint as Opposition Leader. A fresh start, indeed! Howard’s Economic Record: The Horror Show Keating doesn’t just critique Howard’s tenure; he scorches it:📉 Low growth: Under 2%. 📈 High inflation: 11%. 💸 Astronomical interest rates: 22% at their peak. 🚫 Unemployment: A whopping 10.5%. 📊 Tariff city: High and growing. He paints Howard’s Australia as “an inward-looking industrial graveyard.” Ouch. A Tax Avoidance System for the Ages “A criminally evaded tax base,” Keating called it, recalling how Howard seemingly handed him an economic dumpster fire when he became Treasurer. And Howard? He sat on the opposition benches, presumably thanking the heavens someone else had to clean up the mess. The Bishop of Autun Returns "Scraping his way back into Australian history," Keating mocks Howard's return to the front bench as if he were an ancient relic, better suited for a museum than modern politics. Education Reform, or Lack Thereof Under Howard, fewer than 3 in 10 kids completed secondary school. Keating flipped the script—now it’s 8 in 10. But hey, who needs education when you’ve got Howard’s “Anvil Industries of the pre-war years”? Industrial archaeology, anyone? The Big Spender Hypocrisy Keating gleefully points out Howard’s anti-government spending rhetoric, comparing it to his time as “Mr 28.8% of GDP.” A thrifty shopkeeper? More like the guy who cleared out the register and called it fiscal conservatism. The Closing Blow: “Don’t waste your time on me, son. Don’t waste your time on me. I’ve been around. I know you. I know where the skeletons are in your closet.” A mic drop before mic drops were a thing. Keating didn’t just rebut Howard—he outlined his entire political life in a few devastating lines. This isn’t just a speech; it’s a case study in how to utterly dismantle an opponent without breaking a sweat. If you’ve ever wondered why John Howard was overlooked after Hewson lost, or why Keating’s name still echoes in Australian political lore, this is it. 🎥 For the full experience, watch the video and read the transcript below: Paul Keating vs John Howard's first censure motion as new Opposition leader (1995) - 240p Sit back, grab the popcorn, and let Paul Keating remind you how political brilliance truly sounds. Transcript: 00:01 - 00:07 Downer vows a fresh start. How are you going over there, Curly? 00:10 - 00:19 Old Darling? It'll take more than a decade-long recitation of old rhetoric to win the next election for you. 00:20 - 00:27 Mr Speaker, it was not by accident that the Liberal Party passed over John Howard when John Hewson lost the last election. 00:27 - 00:41 Mr Speaker, this is the man who left behind, after seven years of opportunity, a moribund, inward-looking industrial graveyard. An inward-looking industrial graveyard. 00:42 - 00:52 A low-growth, low-investment, low-profit, high-inflation, high-interest rates, high-unemployment, high-tariff country. 00:53 - 00:59 And nobody can deny any one of those claims. Low-growth, you average less than 2%. 01:00 - 01:13 Low-investment, low-profits, 11% inflation, 22% interest rates at their peak, high-unemployment, 10.5%, and high and growing tariffs. 01:13 - 01:18 And on top of all that, undeniable. Undeniable. 01:19 - 01:23 And on top of all that, an unproductive, inward-looking economy. 01:23 - 01:28 The Australian economy today is 40% more competitive than when he was in office. 01:28 - 01:36 And I'll tell you what else he left behind, Mr Speaker, a criminal tax avoidance system. A criminally evaded tax base. 01:36 - 01:41 When I became Treasurer, he was like a man reborn. 01:41 - 01:46 He sat on the opposition benches to thank God somebody else could inherit the problem and do something with it. 01:46 - 01:56 And here it is after 12 years of change, 12 years that has made us now the fastest growing economy in the Western world, with 01:56 - 02:07 the lowest inflation rate on that combination. 12 years later he brings his miserable political carvers back to the front bench of the Australian Parliament. 02:08 - 02:15 Here he is politically limping in like the Bishop of Autun, the Tellurian of the Liberal Party. 02:16 - 02:20 Scraping his way back into Australian history. Seeking to put his miserable politics. 02:20 - 02:30 Mr Speaker, what possible use in the modern Australia of the country joining the world, of its region for the first time in 02:30 - 02:36 its history, of becoming an outward-looking country, of getting its low inflation, its high productivity. 02:36 - 02:43 What possible use could it have for a man who described himself as the most conservative leader the Liberal Party has ever had? 02:44 - 02:53 Mr Speaker, when he was in government, less than 3 kids in 10 complete secondary schools. Less than 3 in 10. Now it's only 8 in 10. 02:53 - 03:01 Was the cultural policy supporting our arts and multimedia and CD-ROM and the information highway not about the future? 03:02 - 03:09 Was APEC, Building for Australia Abroad and Asia Pacific Rim Market not about the future? 03:09 - 03:11 And are you telling us you could have done it? 03:12 - 03:19 You say in your tawdry, opportunist way that we have scattered out on families and small business. Yes, you believe in families. 03:20 - 03:26 You arrogantly believe that you can speak for families as if there's something you know about families that the rest of us don't. 03:27 - 03:32 Yet, yet, you believe you say in families but you don't believe in family support. 03:32 - 03:35 You don't believe in payments to low-paid families. 03:35 - 03:40 You don't believe in a family allowance supplement, additional family payment. You don't believe in Medicare. 03:41 - 03:44 He talks about interest rates and small business. 03:44 - 03:47 Mr Speaker, small business died when he was in office. 03:47 - 03:51 He left an industrial graveyard, industrial archaeology in his wake. 03:52 - 03:58 It was basically the old Anvil Industries of the pre-war years. 03:58 - 04:04 They were watching them close in Alexandria and all the industrial areas across Australia. 04:04 - 04:09 He's had three policies, three policies in public life only. 04:09 - 04:13 I've been here with him his whole political life. He came in 1974. 04:15 - 04:21 His three policies, income splitting for families to give income to the high-income earners, that's one. 04:22 - 04:28 Labour market reform, which is code for cutting the wages of people under $35,000. 04:29 - 04:35 He opposed every wage increase since 1983 for the workforce, every single one. 04:36 - 04:40 That's the sort of Australia this conservative apparatchik believes in. 04:40 - 04:51 And then, of course, this sort of morbid rhetoric, this sort of small, thrifty shopkeeper gnarlishness with the red tape of government spending. 04:51 - 05:04 So we've got all this anti-government spending rhetoric, but in his day he was the big spender. The big spender. Mr 28.8% of GDP. I mean, how can you... 05:04 - 05:12 Look, John, don't waste your time on me, son. Don't waste your time on me. I've been around. I know you. I know you. 05:12 - 05:15 I know where the skeletons are in your closet.
The Noisy Elephant52,123 次观看 • 1 年前
A prominent adviser who helped Donald Trump’s to be re-elected has quietly visited Australia to help Peter Dutton shape his election strategy, according to claims reported by The Guardian. #LiberalParty #Liberal #election #PeterDutton #ChrisLaCivita #DonaldTrump #auspol #7NEWS
7NEWS Australia30,439 次观看 • 1 年前
Peter Dutton has returned to Canberra after the Coalition's heavy defeat to Labor in Saturday's federal election. The outgoing Liberal leader, who also lost his own seat of Dickson, says he'll be making a "graceful exit from politics." #dutton #peterdutton #parliament #parliamenthouse #politics #liberal #liberalparty #coalition #election #auselection #ausvotes #auspol #aus #australia #canberra #7NEWS
7NEWS Australia20,195 次观看 • 1 年前