Subject: Kevs Report Card
PASS this on! “DUMP the DUD!!!
THIS IS GETTING MOMENTUM
Find below Kevin’s Report card for 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Mark of F ++++++++
· Save the whales – FAIL++++++
· Fuelwatch, $21M – FAIL+++
· Kids Laptops – FAIL+++
· National Broadband Network ($4b-$7B-$43B): To cost about $20,000 a connection – FAIL+++++++
Mining Super Profit Tax – Share Market and Superannuation values crash – FAIL +++++++++++++
· Grocery Watch/Choice – dumped $13 million vow – FAIL++
· Federal takeover of hospitals by mid 2009 if no improvement. – EPIC FAIL+++
· Hospital Reform – just take the money from the States – FAIL+
· Schools Stimulus Infrastructure Program (BEBR - Builders Early Retirement Fund) – FAIL+++
· Bribe to Free To Air TV Stations – FAIL++
· Refugees: how many boats so far? – FAIL+++++++++
· Refugees suspension backflip – FAIL++++
· 2020 Summit - 1000 B&B; minds, $2+m = 9 usable ideas - EPIC FAIL+++++++
· Batts in , Batts out – SUPER DUPER 2 BILLION DOLLARS MEGA FAIL++++++
· Kill off Insulation Industry – FAIL+
· Upcoming Huge Budget Deficit – FAIL++++++
· Mining Tax – FAIL++++++++++
· Childcare Centre Building program scrapped – FAIL++
· Carbon emissions reduction - LPG conversion subsidies phased out – FAIL++
· Carbon emissions reduction (2): household solar rebate axed 9/6 – FAIL++
· ETS - Greatest Moral Challenge of our Time – FAIL+
· Return Schapelle Corby to Australia – FAIL+++
· Fight inflation genie – Oops GFC – FAIL++++
· Taxes up (gas, diesel,transport, alcopops) – inflationary – FAIL+++++
· Arresting Iranian leaders: stunt – FAIL+
· Bank guarantee - over 200,000 accounts frozen from September 2008. – FAIL+++
· Cash Splash 1 –borrowed – FAIL
· Cash Splash 2: borrowed $42B – FAIL
· Work Choices/fair work: awards backflips – tourism/food industry dispensation but farmers will be out of work. –
FAIL+++
· Defence: cut expenditure & build weaponry? – FAIL
· Homeland Security Department – “non-core promise” broken Nov 28, 2007 – FAIL
· The buck stops with me – so where are you? – FAIL+++++++++++
· Tough Decisions – Ahh never – FAIL+++++++++++++
· Securing Murray/Darling water – FAIL+++++
· IVF: cuts. – FAIL++
· Medicare/private health: rebate same/lie – FAIL+++
· Dental scheme: gone 22.Cataract surgery: costs doubled – FAIL++++++
· Superannuation: government needs it more than us. – FAIL
· Home Savers Grant: fizzer, lack of people saving – FAIL
· First Home Owners grant: lifted, inflating house prices – FAIL
· GP super clinics - $275M. – FAIL++++
· Non-compulsory university union fees: voted down – FAIL
· Worker share options – blunder – FAIL
· Ruddbank – FAIL
· Reduce consultancies by $112 million = increase to $800 million (6354 consultancies) – FAIL
· Govt will pay small business invoices on time = takes a lot longer – FAIL
· No nuclear Waste Dump NT – election promise – broken June 2008 – FAIL
· $15 million to rural research & development corporations – election promise – broken May 2008. – FAIL
· A - E reporting on childcare standards & universal pre-school for 4 year olds – election promise – broken June
2009 – FAIL
· ALP Uranium Policy/stance – in tatters. Garrett approves uranium mine. – FAIL
· Diplomacy – Japan – biggest customer – FAIL+++
India – Uranium contract – FAIL .
· USA – conversations (real/imaginary) released to media. – FAIL
· China, May 2009 – “difficult to deal with” Australia led Asia Pacific Body – thud. – FAIL
· Boost funding for aboriginal Legal Aid – lie – actuality = cuts to funding in first budget. – FAIL
· Scale back Intervention – ignored review recommendations. – FAIL
· Homes /renovations for indigenous – not one shovel lifted to date – FAIL++++
· Digital TV –Conroy, 2008, slash $22m from costs of changeover, original estimate $16m now to cost $66m –
FAIL
· Cheaper Better Childcare – Govt regulations will see Childcare costs going up by about $1500pa on July 1,
2010 – FAIL++++++++++
· Internet Filter – FAIL
· Funding Equivalent Hospital Beds – Sorry Kev, can’t sleep in those equivalent Beds – FAIL++++++
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