Sunday, July 11, 2010

Latest ALP advert - Updated

Shows Tony Abbot and asks whether we can trust him with health after he slashed $1B from the health budget in 2003-4. Enough to fund 1,000 beds.

I'm sure this was proven to be incorrect, but I'm not sure where I saw it. Update:
Then he reduced the GP training places (hmm, do you think that the closed shop of the AMA had anything to do with that?).

Then it moves on to other cuts to ALP programs that will be made. One of them is that the Super Clinics will be slashed which means that 500 communities will miss out on these superclinics... That's amazing. I'm pretty sure that the ALP only got a couple up and operating in the time since they announced them. If the ALP gets in again how much do you want to bet that they cancel them themselves as they can't afford them?

You can find the advert here.

3 comments:

stackja1945 said...

http://www.tonyabbott.com.au/Pages/Article.aspx?ID=3999
Interview with Alan Jones, Radio 2GB, Sydney
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
TRANSCRIPT OF THE HON. TONY ABBOTT MHR
INTERVIEW WITH ALAN JONES
RADIO 2GB, SYDNEY
"TONY ABBOTT:
That’s right Alan. The agreement was signed when Kay Patterson was the Health Minister, but it’s not who signed it that’s the issue, it’s what it did that’s the issue and that agreement increased federal funding for hospitals by $10 billion, and on the same page of the budget papers that Mr Rudd’s cites, four paragraphs down in black and white, in plain English and simple words, it says that this is a $10 billion increase for public hospitals over the five year period.

ALAN JONES:

And that would be why the Labor states, Mr Rudd’s colleagues signed the agreement?

TONY ABBOTT:

Exactly right Alan, and the point I tried to make yesterday is that if the Prime Minister is fair dinkum about wanting people to cooperate with him, he shouldn’t be telling fibs about what they did, and if the Prime Minister…"

Merilyn said...

So in that case isn't this false advertising by the ALP? Aren't the election people supposed to tell them to remove it?

Patrick Carroll said...

All of this is starting to wash over me...I just want these left wing nut jobs out of government.