Labor campaign launch - more talk, no action

16/08/10

“Yes we will” = “no we haven’t”

Given today’s Labor launch was just a matter of days before the vote – the latest campaign launch in Australia’s history – people were expecting answers.

Instead Ms Gillard regurgitated the hollow vision we’ve heard for three years now – all talk and no answers.

By re-launching still undelivered campaign pledges made by Kevin Rudd in 2007, such as trade training centres and school computers, Ms Gillard has highlighted the failures of Labor’s last three years in government.

And now, cynically, Julia Gillard thinks she can put these promises back on the stove, reheat them, spice them up with some borrowed rhetoric from Barrack Obama’s presidential campaign from two years ago, stirred through with recycled lines from Kevin07, and offer them up again as part of some new plan for Australia’s future.

Ms Gillard didn’t tell us how she would stop the boats.

She failed to set an immigration target.

She didn’t tell us how she would repay the debt, or explain why she wants to increase electricity prices through the introduction of a new carbon tax.

And the mining tax, with a massive revenue shortfall discovered today, was the tax that dare not speak its name.

The fact is, a vote for Labor on Saturday is a vote for the faceless men of the NSW Labor machine and a vote for more spin over substance.

Only a vote for the Coalition will deliver real action to end the waste, pay back the debt, stop new taxes, help families and stop the boats.