One thing that Gillard and Rudd have excelled at as PMs and that is telling lies. The current 3 ig ones doing the rounds are: 1/ the missing $70 billion from Coalition accounting, 2/ the reality behind the latest interest rate cut, and 3/ Abbott's alleged plans to increase the GST. Lie, lie, lie...

1/ The origin of Labor's crap about austerity and the charge that Abbott is planning ''cuts to the bone'' to cover his $70 billion black hole was of course Joe Hockey. It was a figure Hockey verbally confided to a colleague in 2011, remember that? labor made a big deal of it then, but never told the truth about it. It was a figure created to unearth a leaker. Different figures were told to different people and once it surfaced. the leaker was found. Hockey however was given a difficult time by the LW media of course not helped by the continuous lies of the ALP. A good idea, but one that partially back-fired.

Rudd and co are now touting that figure again. Funny that. Rudd of course always the consummate liar has embellished it even further, calling it an open Coalition commitment to an austerity program the likes Australia has never seen before. Food for the rusted-on mindless masses.

    ''We are investing in Australian families and what they need, as opposed to Mr Abbott, who has said he will be in the business of ripping $70 billion out, which means cuts to jobs, education and education services, as well as cuts to health,'' he said.

    Reporter: On the question of accuracy, you have said here today that Tony Abbott is planning $70 billion worth of cuts. I wonder if you can point to where he's said that?

    Rudd: Mr Hockey announced that number a long time ago. They have never walked away from it.



Even the ever so biased political fact-checking service PolitiFact has tested the assertion and found it to be false because it is based on dodgy assumptions, exaggerations and simple guesses. Penny Wong has admitted it is based on guesses.

2/ The interest rate cut. Borrowers, of course, welcome any relief, which is why Rudd was crowing on Tuesday. But Labor's claim that Hockey was arguing against the cut was nonsense. just another lie. Swan used to do the same thing as Rudd claim low interest rates were a Labor blessing bestowed upon the public yet failed to mention that RBA reductions were made to stir a stagnant economy. The Reserve Bank has been ordering cuts to stimulate a slowing economy for years. Considering te ALP's dishonesty with just about everything, the wisdom of Hockey to get into an argument about rates, is debatable. But his point about the lowest cash rate since the 1950s, a soft economy and a worrying outlook, is completely correct.

3/ Finally, there's the faux debate over the GST. Faux Aussie... get it? Labor says Abbott and Hockey are planning to increase it. This is a scare campaign, pure and simple. That the Coalition has said for quite a while now that it will include the GST within the scope of a planned tax review sometime during it's first term is true and to its credit. That Labor did not do so with its Henry review was pathetic. Anyone with a brain, should know, that Abbott has said... there are no plans to touch the GST and has further promised that should the review recommend any changes, he would take those plans to a subsequent election. One more time for the ALP dummies... If any changes are made it must include the cooperation of all the states and that the Coalition will seek a mandate to implement those changes at the next election and not before.

When it comes to lying What evs kev just can't help himself...

Grendel wrote on Aug 10^th, 2013 at 10:36am:



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Of course you guys are now saying that John Howard telling us for years that  low interest rates were a good thing and a sign of their great economic management was a lie????

The question is why is it now that Hockey has chosen to call Howard a liar ???

"Interest rates will always be lower under a coalition government" John Howard - and a line worshipped by ever conservative supporter.

You got the title wrong - it does not say Howards 61 Lies.

Grendel wrote on Aug 10^th, 2013 at 11:49am:


JOE Hockey says he regrets saying the Coalition needed to find up to $70 billion to fund its election promises

Hockey has been trying to re write that bit of his history ever since he said it.

Unfortunately Treasury looked at the numbers and said that it was right, the Independents looked at the numbers and found the same thing and Hockey admitted that it was correct.

You would not recognise a lie if it hit you over the head.

Grendel wrote on Aug 10^th, 2013 at 6:11pm:


Dribble all you like what I posted was the words used by Hockey himself at the time.

It is fact that treasury found the same problem and that the Independants agreed that it was true. This is not opinion these are facts - it is what happened.

Dnarever wrote on Aug 10^th, 2013 at 3:15pm:



a comment from 2 years ago prior to the current set of policies.  do you want a re-run of Labor policies?  what about the heap of policies they promised and didn't implement and as for cost-overruns...  labor has $70B black holes EVERY YEAR.

Funnily enough Laurie and Mark agree with me as do many other journos...

Why don't you google it then like i did.

Everything I posted was true in fact the post was based on a Mark Kenny article.

It must gall you to have faith and believe the crap that Rudd and his party put out.