’The 2014 finances didn’t break election guarantees,’ says Tony Abbott’s former chief of workers. Hmmm…
On Thursday, Peta Credlin — former chief of workers to then prime minister Tony Abbott and present Information Corp commentator — gave her response to the primary episode of the ABC’s Nemesis, the three-part autopsy on the Coalition governments between 2013 and 2022. Within the absence on the present of her or Abbott (the primary former PM to say no 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:
A part of the rationale you’re studying me in The Australian as we speak is that when the caricature of me was created by the plotters out to get Abbott, as a staffer I had no voice; I couldn’t reply and all I may do was cop it. When that modified, I knew it might be close to inconceivable to counter what had been manufactured and that my finest response was to enter the general public sq. and let individuals who had heard the criticisms take a better look and make up their very own minds. Having the top-rating present on Sky Information for the previous three years is my reply to ‘these chilly and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat’.
It additionally options the next putting declare:
It’s hardly stunning, given the character of this system, that the ABC didn’t put the document straight on a few key points. The 2014 finances didn’t break election guarantees.
Let’s interrogate that. Did the 2014 finances maintain its guarantees on:
The ABC and SBS: No.
Pensions: No.
On Medicare locals: Nope.
On private tax: Probably not.
Overseas assist: Nothing doin‘.
On well being and training: Relies upon who you ask.
Indigenous affairs: Not in your nelly.
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