It seems the Coalition has taken a tip from Shaggy and, when confronted with its licentious spending, is protesting ‘It Wasn’t Me’.
This begs the question: if this billion dollars of extra Government spending on welfare wasn’t done by the Coalition, then whose spending was it? Who is in charge? Has there been a coup? Does Bill Shorten have the keys to the Treasury vaults?
The best excuse the Government can come up with for its extra billion dollars of welfare spending is that ‘the Senate made me do it’, even though the Government never attempted to put its policies to the Senate without the billion‑dollar sweetener.
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It’s pathetic.
The Coalition’s commitment on reducing net spending is mortally wounded. But like the Black Knight in Monty Python’s Holy Grail, it pretends that any weakening of the commitment is merely a flesh wound.
With their grandiose claims of fiscal wizardry wrapped up in a thin veil of authority, the Treasurer and Finance Minister remind me of the Wizard of Oz. When Dorothy discovered the Wizard was a charlatan and said, ‘Oh, you’re a very bad man’, the Wizard replied, ‘Oh no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.’
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