****ed if you do, ****ed if you don't.
The state still hasn't recovered from when the previous ALP lengthy term in government financially raped, pillaged and almost took the state to bankruptcy (yes it went that close).
Whilst I'm no fan though of the Liberal government (because I feel they are disorganised and whilst trying to fix the financial mess they got handed by the ALP, are not looking at it the right way).
There is no "us", no "we", no "everyone" in politics, there is only ME ME ME.
This all said though, I'm politically impartial (and have to be for one of my jobs), but I don't think the LNP (with Mike Baird at the helm) have had enough time to turn things around, and in fairness FINALLY we have infrastructure rolling (not talking about it), in regards to major road and transport projects (North/West Rail Link), M2 to M1 links, and the Connex Motorway links.
Australia actually had some major projects underway under the labor government in terms of school and hospital upgrades which i see as being more important than some road projects which benefit a small portion of the country (Congrats if you live in Sydney and will use these roads). We also had the roll-out of the NBN. The NBN would have caught us up with the rest of the developed world in terms of internet speed and been of benefit to many businesses Australia wide. All of these projects created jobs which stabilized the economy during the financial crisis.
Our media will tell you the mining boom was responsible for our healthy financial position and if Rudds super profits tax had been passed that would have been closer to true, but in reality Howard allowed foreign ownership of our mines, so most of the profits went offshore. Rudd was actually trying to tax these foreign owners before the money went offshore but our media kept quiet about this fact and renamed the super profits tax to simply the super tax to scare us. The mining companies had the money to run a great scare campaign because mining does make super profit for the foreign billionaires that are raping our country for profit already. They sold a fairy tale that a huge portion of the country would have lost out on wages if this tax had gone through (only 2% of Australians are employed in mining in reality). Sad for those 2% of Australia on big money but it's not going to ruin the 98% of Australians that aren't employed in mining while it would have provided a massive amount of tax dollars to spend on infrastructure projects.
You obviously bought into the biased shit the Australian media sold during the election. I'm actually pretty disappointed with the bulk of Australia about that and it's as simple as this. Howard removed the laws which prevented people from owning the bulk of the media in this country so virtually every media outlet in the country is owned by a couple of people who "were" staunch Abbott supporters. I don't know what he promised them but they demonized Rudd and Gillard for their entire term in office.
Take for example the fact that Gillard was continually called corrupt for being the notary on a deal that was later found to have been not completely above board. All she did was write up a bill of sale in her capacity as a lawyer. She was cleared of any wrongdoing in this matter because she wrote a bill of sale and had no further involvement in the deal but by this time she had had her name smeared very badly. Compare it to this. The liberals have had at last count 9 members of parliament forced to resign quietly because they were caught taking bribes, more were implicated but never forced to resign. Now they stepped down quietly because they were corrupt beyond any shadow of doubt. Now you may not have heard a massive amount about this because as i said our biased media have their liberal agenda.
It's all well and good to say that the state was nearly bankrupt due to labor spending but again i compare the Australian media reporting to the reports of the media round the world. In Australia our media told us that we fared badly through the global financial crisis while outlets around the world spoke enviously about how well we fared through the crisis.
When the liberals are voted out at the next election they will leave the new government in a deeper hole than they were supposedly in when they came to power because unemployment is at it's highest point in many years and many small businesses are already struggling due to this and will close soon enough.
