Perth Voice Interactive

I  SEE the federal Labor member for Perth has taken a leaf out of Coles’ advertising book (Voice, July 5, 2014), regurgitating what a tiny sliver of 2300 of her most rusted-on Labor constituents think about the federal budget, designed to dig the nation out of a huge and hopeless debt and deficit hole that her Labor colleagues so effortlessly put the nation into.

Still, par for the course. The country went through this back in 1996. Her Labor and union mates racked up massive amounts of debt, got kicked out of office for being so economically incompetent and then stood there and threw rocks at the Liberals while they cleaned up Labor’s mess.

It took 11 years of magnificent management, but Labor’s debt was all paid off and cash was in the bank earning the country interest. In less than six years of disastrous toxic Labor government, they managed to spend all the cash and racked up debts amounting to more than triple what they did in 1996. Alannah and Labor have admitted they don’t have an alternative.

Their six successive budgets crippled Australia and caused this problem. The pensioners and students should be rightly furious at what Labor did. The task to fix Labor’s mess and incompetence is onerous.

‘…poor ol’ Alannah’s not “fighting for our future”, she’s “fighting for her future”’

Throwing rocks once again at the Liberal clean-up crew won’t make the job any easier or shorter. With more than 95,200 enrolled constituents in the federal seat of Perth, I wonder what the vast bulk of the other 93,000 adults in the seat think of this taxpayer-funded advert criticising the federal budget?

More than 38,000 constituents, especially in the suburbs of Perth, East Perth, Mt Lawley, Noranda, Camboon, Dianella and Morley at the last federal election utterly rejected Alannah MacTiernan and the toxic Labor brand she stood under, together with their hopeless and incompetent management skills of the nation’s finances.

Those 38,000 wise constituents all wanted to see the federal budget back onto a sustainable footing. What Alannah was spruiking simply couldn’t continue. Perth used to be Labor’s safest federal seat…not anymore. Alannah was wildly predicted to double her inherited margin from 5.88 per cent up to over 11 per cent by supposed “experts”.  In fact, she went backwards by 1.53 per cent at the last election and now clings to a slender 4.35 per cent margin, putting federal Perth into the marginal seat category.

With figures like that, poor ol’ Alannah’s not “fighting for our future”, she’s “fighting for her future”. The good folk living in the federal seat of Perth deserved a decent voice at the table of federal government.  Instead, all they have is an irrelevant, silent backbencher twiddling her thumbs in opposition in Canberra …. looking hopelessly tired and hopelessly lost, running around commenting about toilets and shrubbery.  Seriously.

Darryl Moore
Federal Liberal candidate for Perth 2013
Beaufort St, Bedford