Apart from not sending a senior minister to the UN Conference on Climte Change in Warsaw (such a good look), on the home front, The government announced today that 25% of CSIRO scientists would lose their jobs. But hey, we don't even have a dedicated Minister for Science, just a portfolio tacked on to a junior minister's roster, so what do we need with science?
We have seen subsidies for the superannuation of low-income earners axed so that the top earners can keep their low-taxed payments intact. And Labor's proposed laws against multinationals shifting money abroad to avoid tax will be scrapped. But this is the Murdoch/Rinehart government, after all.
They are also shamlelessly pandering to the bogans in the community, with their dubbing of asylum seekers as "illegal immigrants", which, by law, they are not, cheered on the archbogans themselves, Alan Jones, Andrew Bolt, and Ray Hadley et al.
And a whole bevy of non-staturoy bodies are to be axed, including those on ageing, legal affairs, ethics, and animal welfare. There is no doubt that this is a government that in just two months is handing the country, on a platter, to wealthy corporations and industrialists.
But Abbott can't run forever, and neither can his ministers. They've delayed the 44th Parliament for as long as they could, but next week they have to front up. It isn't mandatory for the PM to always be present at Question Time, and there are no concrete rules for the time span of QT - I'd bet that Abbott will appear as little as he can get away with, and keep the time short. But most of his ministers are as poor at debate as he is - Turnbull is the only one who can give a good showing, in his best barrister form. And they'll be facing questions from an Opposition experienced at debate and good at it - Albanese, Plibersek, Bowen, Burke, and Shorten. Yep, I'm going to enjoy watching the torch being put to the bellies of these ugly people.
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