Tony Abbott - Peter Garrett's demotion over the horribly botched home insulation program

[whessly]

true true. tony 2010.

[lyndon3000]

How come the businesses who did the dodgy roof installation didn't get charged with industrial manslaughter? They put untrained kids into life threatening situations just to make a quick buck. Australian businesses who rip off customers and put the lives of employees at risk should be jailed until they get the message.

[danielmy08]

@lyndon3000 ..it was Labor's fault that this travesty occured.

[badfrogga]

bring it on tony 2010  ............ good luck

[bennyboytalk]

his outstanding whats a great leader! we can only hope for tony :) TONY10

[Tuathalful]

Where's this hypocrite get off? It was small business people, contractors, who are responsible for the recent deaths as they knowingly hired cheap unskilled people to rort as much as they could from the tax payer. It's a fact these small business people are overwhelmingly Coalition supporters and voters. This is an example of what happens when a market is left too "free" :P When Liberal Cons are left to their devices.

[danielmy08]

@Tuathalful No those contractors were fly by nights...not legitamitely established businesses as you imply....so your claims that they were coalition supporters is totally flawed.

[dellarsoul]

Tony Abbott has to be one of the worst things to happen to Australian politics in recent year. This guy is a disaster for the Libs. He's a nutter.

[Stephen19852009]

Australian News, the reason that people think nothing of the deaths in Iraq is because to my knowledge, only one of them was Australian. As harsh as it sounds, we don't tend to see people from other countries as "one of our own", so an innocent child getting caught in the crossfire is considered an acceptable loss, yet someone who is a citizen of your own country, is not. PS this isn't my personal view, I am just commenting on the possible views of others....the Iraq war was unfortunate.

[australianews]

There is not enough room in the comment box to explain how bad the liberal poicy is allready.

They will create a bigger great new big tax

than the ETS .

Tony abbott just is not that smart people and when it comes to showing their policys before the election you watch the people leave them in droves.

The team is the dumbest liberal front bench i have ever seen. Remember people they were the ones that invented the noncore promise.

Lies broken promises for 11 years.

[australianews]

I find this whole situation one big joke.

How dare the liberals talk about deaths when they were the ones that ran into iraq without any just cause.

They didnt listen to the people of australia

or the rest of the world and all the inspectors that were in iraq.

Now we have hundreds of thousands dead' millions displaced and i have read

millions of children turned into orphans

who will be the next wave of terrorists that will suicide bomb for decades to come.

Vote Liberal? i think not.

[BCSimm1978]

WMD aside, why do people think it was acceptable for Sadaam to murder somewhere in the vicinity of 2 million kurds?

[australianews]

why do people think it was acceptable for Sadaam to murder somewhere in the vicinity of 2 million kurds.

Its not acceptable and they could have taken him out in the first GULF war but they did not.

And the second war was all about

G Bush doing what daddy didnt do.

WMD's did not exsist that was a lie.

An excuse to invade iraq G Bush could not pin 911 on saddam so they made up an excuse.

Why do people think its ok that 90% of deaths in iraq and afghanistan are innocent people.

[BCSimm1978]

you need to have a view on the genocide if you want to have a view on the Iraqi War. WMD, Daddys War et al is yesterdays news. If we left everything to the Left, we would have 'maybe' tried diplomacy and when that failed - turned a blind eye to the genocide. the 2 million Kurds were also innocent right?

[australianews]

stop using the kurds as an excuse as to why we went to war with iraq.

WMD'S were the reason and it was a BIG LIE pulled by the conservatives in america and australia.

The truth is oil.

Where is the troops going into africa to stop genocide where is america in any place stoping genocide where there is no oil. NO OIL NO HELP.

[australianews]

Howard's was the FIRST government in modern history to go to war without the support of both houses of parliament.

Just think about that for a while.

He didnt listen to the people or the other countries that warned it was a big mistake.

Howard and his team 17 people took us to a war that was wrong and has made Iraq worse with more deaths on a constant basis and will be for years to come.

Liberal party genocide in the name of all Australians.

[BCSimm1978]

wrong, the Iraq War had provisional support from the ledt subject to the passing of another UN resolution. It passed. Ever wonder why the ALP never bring the Iraq war into a debate?

[australianews]

WRONG SHOW ME PROOF.

[BCSimm1978]

Proof of what? provisional support from the ALP? pfffftttttt you are really left blind are you?!?!?

[australianews]

The kurds were killed in 1988 .

Why didnt they do something in 1991 under desert storm .

Why didnt they back the kurds who were over powered and slaughtered .

Because they didnt give a rats arse about people only OIL.

15 years and the second war later they say he is a mad man with WMD'S.

Nothing to do with the kurds.

The kurds were not the reason for getting rid of saddam and its about time people like you stop lying to yourselves.

[BCSimm1978]

sure it is about Oil but lets have a balanced argument rather than an extreme left view on life.

Howard served for another 4 or 5 years after the initial shock and awe campaign.

Don't forget that Sadaam had 3 chances to let weapons inspectors in, he didn't - remember?

I'm not saying I support the war but lets bring the facts into the equation.

[australianews]

What facts a war we all know was based on lies you idiot.

And this Tony Abbott thinks that we are going to vote those same dickheads in again he and you are dreaming.

[BCSimm1978]

no need to be puerlie.

luckily the ALP is taking Abbott seriously, unlike yourself.

[australianews]

My left view as you call it is an Australian view not an American view that you have of the world.

[BCSimm1978]

i have a conservative view of politics, the australian way, the policies which enabled us to beat the GFC - not the ALP's. btw, the left side of politics in the UK certainly did ok for themselves.

[Tuathalful]

@australianews

Too right mate! Leftwing is VERY Australian, and not very bloody American at all. If this simple premise is beyond our uppity little BCSimm then he clearly has very little knowledge of the complex history of the Australian people. But we all know ignorance and recalcitrance are defining features of a conservative, rightwing world view.

[Tuathalful]

@BCSimm1978

Saddam bit the hand that fed him, that was his offence against the USA. Fact: He was never a threat to us or even the yanks, but to the investments of the imperialist capitalist parasites holding us back in the twentieth century, milking their industrial military complex for profit like they always have. But like all rightwingers (<-insert your euphamism here), you cant see the forests for the trees, you cant smell your own shit on your knees. So stop dribbling your ignorance.

[BCSimm1978]

@Tuathalful try telling the kurdish people that Saddam was not a threat, the 2 million men, women and children that he slaughtered. But then again, that is an inconvenient truth for the far left - just like the detention centres introduced by Paul Keating. ALP government have held office for about 30% of the time since WW2 which suggests, people with my view aren't so uncommon.

[BCSimm1978]

let us know when you work out the ALP policies, good chance they were only policies to get them into power.

They are struggling to work out how they can possibly implement every promise they made!

[Stephen19852009]

I don't mind me getting two thumbs down, as I was being critical of the Liberal party on the Liberal TV website, but wouldn't buskerbuoy's criticisms be taken into consideration rather then just getting the thumbs down?

To me, I didn't vote for the Labor party in the last election because of any of their policies, all I knew is that the Coalition wanted WorkChoices, the Labor party didn't, and given the fact that I was just getting into the workforce, voting for no job security was a bad idea

[Stephen19852009]

While I do respect the Opposition for keeping the government responsible, and hold the government to account, I still prefer Labor's policies over the Liberal policies, I think Peter Garrett was an okay person and sad to see him go, I don't think what happened to those poor men was entirely his fault it was the dodgy installers mainly to blame, but it's not like the Liberals haven't led Australians to their deaths there was one Aussie who died in Iraq which was very sad but what about hospitals?

[buskerbuoy]

When I started work in the construction game some 35 years ago the building inspectors would visit the site half a dozen times during the building process. Now they might visit or might not visit, usually not. The system of checks and balances was totally eroded by the Coalition years ago. People die in my industry all the time but the media don't give a flying fuck about them. Garrett might be a sell out but not for this.

[robjarron]

im keen to vote for the coalition in my first election later this year :)

[australianews]

I would think long and hard about voteing liberal.

They lied in every election they sold everything the gov owned they stuffed up telstra they cut funding to roads hospitals

schools .

The are the reason for everything that the labor government is trying to fix.

There new plans on the enviroment are a sham and will cost more than the ETS and will drive up the price of power.

They plan to go nuclear this will also drive up the price of power.

Without any compensation.

[sneakybender82]

Great job tony bring back the honesty in politics

[kodar1994]

@sneakybender82 we made millions in the program, we got a nice home, a new 2010 car, private school, holidays now, lmfao, my parents made the most of it, fuck tony abott, ugly fuckerrr

[Dodgeprlk]

@sneakybender82

Hilariously ludicrous statement. This is just a stock standard but beautiful peice of footage capturing a desperate opposition leader capitalizing on a major fk up and making it sound as terribly bad as possible. Tony could of gone on about that all day he was loving some of those lines he was crankin out. "Milky bar kid" that was a good one though lol.

[onemoreterm]

Demote Garrett

ALL THE PASSION WITH NO POWER

However, it might be a good idea to keep Garrett there as a REMINDER of the grand scale mess he's created. If he's sent to the back bench the issue can be swept under the carpet and forgotten by the next election. People have short memories.

Good job Tony

[myako123]

Keep the pressure up Tony the ALP is life support

[lorDUpor]

I wonder if the PM would have taken such a small action so late if PG wasn't such a high profile person - very irresponsible to put public image over national interest