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‘The 2014 funds did not spoil election guarantees,’ says Tony Abbott’s feeble chief of staff. Hmmm…
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On Thursday, Peta Credlin — feeble chief of staff to then top minister Tony Abbott and recent News Corp commentator — gave her response to the first episode of the ABC’s Nemesis, the three-phase put up-mortem on the Coalition governments between 2013 and 2022. In the absence on the indicate of her or Abbott (the first feeble PM to decline the ABC’s invitation to one in all these retrospectives) got here Credlin’s piece in The Australian, which recounted her time in authorities and modestly concludes:
Phase of the motive you might perchance presumably be reading me in The Australian this day is that after the comic strip of me turned into created by the plotters out to gather Abbott, as a staffer I had no tell; I would no longer respond and all I would enact turned into cop it. When that modified, I knew it will in all probability perchance be approach no longer doable to counter what had been manufactured and that my excellent response turned into to enter the public square and let other folks that had heard the criticisms grab a more in-depth view and effect up their bear minds. Having the high-rating indicate on Sky News for the previous three years is my acknowledge to ‘those icy and insecure souls who know neither victory nor defeat’.
It moreover ingredients the following striking claim:
It’s hardly surprising, given the nature of the program, that the ABC failed to place the legend straight on a pair of key points. The 2014 funds did not spoil election guarantees.
Let’s interrogate that. Did the 2014 funds withhold its guarantees on:
The ABC and SBS: No.
Pensions: No.
On Medicare locals: Nope.
On deepest tax: Now not in actuality.
Foreign motivate: Nothing doin‘.
On health and schooling: Is dependent who you quiz.
Indigenous affairs: Now not in your nelly.
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Charlie Lewis
Guidelines and Murmurs Editor @theshufflediary
Charlie Lewis pens Crikey’s Guidelines and Murmurs column and moreover writes on industrial relatives, politics and culture. He previously labored at some stage in authorities and unions and turned into a researcher on RN’s Day-to-day Planet. He currently co-hosts Spin Cycle on Triple R radio.
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