MY letter (Bay Post, August 27) asked the question “will the popularity polls change when voters consider these facts”, followed by references to the Coalition Government’s pragmatic policy matters and imperatives required to get the nation’s finances back on track, and obstacles to be overcome.
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A parallel can be drawn with the challenges faced by the current NSW Government in its first term of office after 16 years of Labor’s spending and governance ineptitude.
It was summarised by Premier Mike Baird on winning its second term - “voters had chosen hope over despair”.
The Baird government could push ahead with its bold power privatisation plans to further lift NSW out of Labor’s mire.
In response to my above question, 21 posts echoed the Labor leader’s confected negatives written by the unions.
Just one post, not put off by the deluge of negativity, summarised it thus: “Spend, spend, spend . . . throw away a major source of GDP for Australia . . . let’s drag everyone down to the lowest common denominator . . . those on the left of centre ever wonder where the money comes from?”
I quote Attorney-General Senator Brandis on Royal Commissioner Mr Heydon: “I wanted someone whose reputation was so strong and whose integrity was so beyond question that he would withstand all the mud that has been flung at him by the Labor Party and the union movement”.
Think Tony Abbott!
Neville Hughes
Surf Beach
