Election ’10:
$1 billion and counting
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Both sides, after savings are removed, are ringing up at just over $1 billion in campaign commitments so far. The Coalition has a lot more room to move given it has committed about $16 billion worth of savings, but it still has big-ticket items to come on health care and broadband, where it made big savings by rejecting Government initiatives.
Click on picture to view full graphs, including description of commitments. Tomorrow we’ll run experts from each industry for their verdict on the policies put forward so far. |
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Interesting statistics, however, my main concern remains the underlying ‘political amnesia’ in the media and the electorate. Are we going to squander the goodwill of the last three years and return to the era of confrontational conservative extremism? Let’s hope not! Good luck OZ.
Doesn’t the $13bn+ in savings claimed by the Opposition include the spending measures that were tied to the introduction of the mining tax?
If so does the above table also include the fiscal impact of their abolition of the tax? i.e. how can you claim as a saving the measures that will be paid for by the tax but ignore the cost of rescinding the new tax?
I also think it would be worth including another column showing which of those measures have been submitted for costing with Treasury/Finance and then a column showing the outcome of that costing
Sounds like vuvuzela
I think Gillards campaign is coming undone, given the start of the mining tax debate by the miners.
Silly of them to just do a deal with two overseas miners (Rio and Xtrata) and thn BHP and wose to install Don Argus ex BHP as the arbitrator.
He would not know what a miner looked like apart from massive BHP.
Should be an interesting few weeks, expect dirty tricks all over the place now