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3. Or to put it another way, Australia doesn't have a debt crisis

Reply to Matilda (Original post)

Wed Jul 23, 2014, 09:11 AM

Jul 2014

I am just gob-smacked sometimes. I do not know what these guys are thinking. Tony is often just plain incoherent. Hockey looks like a mob boss from central casting. Then just when you thought it couldn't get stupider...it's Clive Palmer and his looney band of merry pranksters.

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Tony Abbott achieves the impossible: unity among economists [View all] Matilda Jul 2014 OP

I take it "Lib" in Australia has a slightly different meaning than it has in the US. SunSeeker Jul 2014 #1

Yes, here "Liberal" is synonymous with "Tory". Matilda Jul 2014 #2

Correct. The Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln was a completely different animal. SunSeeker Jul 2014 #4

Or to put it another way, Australia doesn't have a debt crisis Fairgo Jul 2014 #3

Apparently Sloppy Joe Hockey Tanelorn Jul 2014 #5