“There will be no carbon tax under a government I lead,” said Julia.
And at the ACTU Congress she said …
I understand that Australians have been screamed at now by the Opposition for more than a year.
They’ve been told that they need to be very afraid, they’ve been screamed at relentlessly and we all know a good fear campaign when we see one. Press release.
I really didn’t see a fear campaign last year.
The opposition is having too easy a time to need a fear campaign. All it has to do is sit back and watch the Labor government stumble around with its knickers around its ankles, hanging onto easy targets like Thomson and Slipper as though they were life jackets, whilst lurching from crisis to crisis. It gets all the publicity it needs for nothing more than a Penny … “AbbottAbbottAbbott”. Pink batts, school halls, kangaroos and Holden cars …
Mr. Kelty didn’t buy it ..
“Real pressures on living standards, high unemployment; but we never, ever lost a sense of hope and trust that governments and unions would see it out and there would be a better future,” he said.
“Today, we have better economic conditions, but that hope and that trust has retreated.”
He said it is too easy to blame poor polling on the media and the Opposition.
“I’ve got to be frank: it’s too easy to blame the media, too easy to blame the playthings of politics.
“And there’s no purpose blaming the Opposition for doing what after all you would expect them to do, and that’s to beat you.”
Mr Kelty says Labor needs to tell the public the truth. ABC.
But good news towards the end of her speech, Julia finally does tell the truth …
This is a fantastic country. A fantastic country of hope, a fantastic country of opportunity. And as Prime Minister in these days where Australians are so frequently invited to be afraid, to be afraid of carbon pricing, to be afraid about managing their cost-of-living, to be afraid about their jobs, to be afraid about the future. As your Prime Minister, I will move the Australian people from these days of fear to days of hope.
Indeed you will, inexorably we move toward an election and days of hope.
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