Cooking up a black hole leaves a black mark for the coalition and labor

But the tally of costings released at the end of the campaign almost always does add up and always puts the budget slightly ahead. There's never a black hole.

Which makes Tuesday's attempt by the Coalition's to find a hole in Labor's program a triumph of hope over experience. Where was Joe Hockey when they needed him? Neither the Coalition's Finance spokesman Mathias Cormann nor its Treasury spokesmen Scott Morrison were in their jobs back in 2013 when Labor self-immolated over its claim of a $70 billion black hole. So they cooked up their own, worth $67 billion.

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Politicians wonder why they are not as well respected as other people yet treat us a muppets. The 2014 budget fiasco and so called black holes by both parties.

As Peter Martin said at The Age subscriber panel last night – it's a little too early to be looking for black holes. Makes one wonder about the current constitution of the Coalition's election campaign, if it is already focused on throwing mud pies at Labor at such an early stage.

 

geomac and leonYLC

Unfortunately, we are just starting and what a start we have had.  The biggest... virtually unreported... is the NBN Co WATERGATE whereby the NBN Co which is a CORPORATE entity who perceived that it's CIVIL rights where breached with the leaking of documents they perceived to be commercially sensitive, were somehow able to get the AFP to act as their 'bulldogs' with a NBN Co employee in tow, who under the protection and compliance of the AFP stole (and distributed) documents from a political office via photographing them which had nothing to do with NBN Co or the supposed leaked documents from NBN Co which the AFP should not have been involved with in the first place BUT which became compliant and effectively, aided and abetted NBN Co to commit an offence!

AFP politically motivated and controlled.... without doubt BUT will we hear futher... I doubt it.  Who do you go to to get the AFP corrupt practices, political party alliances/influences and simple perfidy CLEARED OUT???

If this is the START, bloody hell what is comming next!

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