The popularity polls
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Will the popularity polls change when voters consider these facts?
Firstly, the hip-pocket nerve: an incoming government can begin only with the reality it inherits.
This was the horrendous debt/deficit position left by the ALP governments in 2013.
The Federal Coalition Government clearly, is seeking to ease the belt-tightening stress on Australian taxpayers and transfer payment recipients (e.g. pensioners), as it strives to achieve sustainable budget surpluses and shrink its debt, whilst boosting jobs and economic growth.
The tragedy of “Greece” behoves all Australians to recognise that growing government deficits/debt, cannot continue indefinitely; that Australia has to live within its means.
These are essential priorities for Australia in a period of very adverse circumstances in our world.
Should not the Labor/Greens Senate concede to these imperative goals?
Secondly, media bias: we should be able to rely for realistic situation reports/comments from our media to help us monitor the ebb and flow of progress towards these priorities.
Some do it well, but from the rest we get what is an attempt to set the political agenda, using palpable bias and denigration of PM Abbott, such as Fairfax’s SMH articles, and The Age’s recent reprehensible questioning of the conduct in Afghanistan of Liberal candidate for Canning by-election in WA, Andrew Hastie (former SAS).
The commercial media’s viability is under threat.
Is their extreme behaviour an attempt to compete with the social media impact?
Then, there is the publicly funded ABC’s current affairs anti-government habit of presenting only one side of its stories.
This situation parallels the way those same sections of the media report the confused global warming/climate change science, with their demonization of scepticism and lauding of blind faith in the authority of consensus.
This is having massive adverse implications for the “hip-pocket nerve”.
Neville Hughes, Surf Beach