Stewart November 4, 2015 at 8:56 am

What utter rubbish this piece is. I’m not even a Liberal voter and this sort of writing annoys me. Let’s go through things one point at a time.

will be doing nothing to address climate change

Says who? Turnbull is known as a serious believer in tackling the issue and has already made noises in the right directions. He can’t say much just now to protect himself from his own far right wing but once he has won an election and has more of a mandate I suspect things will change rapidly. We saw this already last week with his choice for the new chief scientist and what that man was allowed to say at his press conference with Turnbull standing in shot directly behind him. Don’t think this wasn’t carefully planned.

will possibly increase the GST, costing each family about $4,000 a year

It will only cost families money if nothing is done to compensate them with corresponding reductions in income tax which they’ve already said would be done and very generous. And labor clearly supports raising the GST and is too spineless to do it. Just this morning they admitted if the coalition does get changes through they wouldn’t alter them. That tells you all you need to know.

will continue to ignore science of any description

Also rubbish, see comments about of choice of new chief scientist last week. Can you imagine and of this happening under Abbott? A whole new world.

will be doing nothing about housing affordability

And what is Labor’s plan?

will be doing nothing about the high unemployment levels

No of course they won’t. That’s why Malcolm Turnbull spends every single press conference talking about job creation.

will be providing us with internet speeds that are the worst in the world

You clearly don’t spend much time in africa.

will continue to tighten the screws for people on welfare or income support

As they should. Some of the rorting in this area is biblical.

will still be giving billions to the mining companies

Unlike Labor who let the mining companies write a mining tax that was so pathetic it didn’t actually take anything off them and ended up actually costing the government money to administer!!!

they will do nothing about the huge gap in wealth inequality (quite the opposite, they will continue to pander to the rich)

Not true. There have been several hints from the top that superannuation loopholes will probably now get closed and there was the proposal over the weekend to stop heavy rebates on child care for high income earners. Expect more to come…

will do nothing to help the disadvantaged in our society (they will probably cut funding even further)

What exactly do you want them to do?

will continue to beat around the bush as far as same-sex marriage goes

No. They’ve said they will have a plebiscite (not something I agree with) but this is action none the less and have said if the people vote in favour of it it will become law.

have intentions of changing the media ownership laws which will give Murdoch even more control of our media (and they’ll probably cut funding to the ABC even further)

Let’s see. Malcolm Turnbull was the biggest friend to the ABC in Abbott’s government

will continue to demonise innocent people (Gillian Triggs is a good example)

Oh and Labor or the greens have never demonised a decent person who disagrees with them?

will make it more costly to see a doctor or a specialist

Says who? No policies on the table at this point that would do that. Are you psychic?

if economists are correct, the government will lead us into a recession

If economists are correct, whoever is in power will lead us into a recession.

will keep ripping coal out of our beautiful country – coal that nobody wants

Coal that millions of people want and are paying a fortune for. Clearly, or nobody would be mining it!!!!

will make tertiary education unaffordable

They just shelved the changes abbott wanted. No new proposals are on the table so WHERE IS YOUR EVIDENCE

will strip away our citizenship if (as a dual citizen) we do as much as destroy a government owned coffee table

Labor supported all those anti terror laws!!!!!

will spy on our every movement

See above!

will jail anybody who dares report on atrocities committed by the government

What rubbish….

By all means be anti Right wing governments but do yourself a favour and write a piece with some merit. This sort of drivel is utterly unhelpful to the national conversation and only leads to further dumbing down of arguments and spreading of total bollocks.

You may not be a Labor supporter either but let’s face it, one or the other will be in power and on many of these issues there isn’t a scrap of difference in their beliefs.