Labor ‘running out of excuses’ as budget deficit looms over government

[@witsend008]

Running out of other people's money ?

[@jamesmclntosh3017]

So right

[@bookertee3057]

This whats happen when you put simple minded people in charge.

[@nigelhuntley2846]

Yeah but to be fair.. we couldn't re elect the traitor Scott Morrison. After he went /stayed on holidays while he country burned.. gave this clown a chance and he will be booted out soon.

[@TheRoswellCode]

Voted for by other simple minded people.

[@mboehm69]

These idiots are delusional.

[@QldTechie]

As an old guy, I called the 2 offices of Anika Wells today. Nobody there agreed to listen to me about my problems with My Aged Care.

[@Martinoconnor-du6lc]

they don't care. when you're no longer paying tax they want you to die.

[@ricky6864]

Would love to a costing for their net zero and where the money has gone/going

[@HiredGunGames]

If they keep praising him he’s going to keep thinking he’s doing a great job… if you’re hungry broke homeless you need to be angry at your politicians not complacent and nice… when you’re doing well that’s when you can be nice… they look up to their officials like their parents… no… you’re the boss it’s your money you work for…

[@KellyLithgow-t3i]

I dont get why people are ,tell.you if I seen him he'd be getting total shit from me I'd be telling him hes a vile shit

[@ricky6864]

Albo a proven liar will still say everything os rosy

[@rob6255-j4t]

Audit them all, somebodys stealing. R.

[@jamesmclntosh3017]

Can't speak the truth😂, social media is whatching you😂

[@Esword-h5w]

💯

[@peterbarnhoorn7879]

Albo's a sook....he never accepts he made a error of judgement..the fool must go ..😢

[@justincarman943]

how commies roll

[@neilstammers8366]

Yes and they promised that things would be so much better which is just a lie

[@batmanlives6456]

WAY better ….for China 🇨🇳

[@MrJohnny351]

He cut 50billion of road funding but not to his own house the scum

[@Martinoconnor-du6lc]

he'll be easy to find then. just go to copacabana beach and look for the newest flashest road.

[@batmanlives6456]

Incompetence personified

[@fasrein]

Incompetence AND CORRUPTION FOLLOW THE MONEY and you will see how OUR MONEY ENDS UP IN THEIR POCKETS SECRETLY

[@gamingwithamin9957]

People are suffering specially families 😢

[@gryphus64]

'It won't be roast turkey with cranberry sauce for Chrissy, it won't even be a roasted chook and taytoes.................it's baked beans on toast washed down with a warm beer!'

[@la7418]

Same at our household, curried sausages with left over veggies & rice ! May you be blessed , stay strong x

[@lynettee6751]

Mayb if he stopped handing out taxpayers money to overseas countries he wouldnt have had to dip into/steal Australians future funds of $130 billion. Poor basic bookkeeping.

[@thaibulldog6800]

Oligarchs Australia is full of them. The new breeds are coming out from the unions which is in fact our current government

[@Peekaboo-Kitty]

I thought they had two Budget Surpluses in a row? More B.S. from Albo I guess!

[@RussellBowen-o6d]

Respect to you Paul, section 128 of the constitution says any changes to the constitution must be approved by the people!!! 2 party preferred is not supported by our constitution so in theory the constitution has changed to suit 2 party only and not small parties....isnt this enough for a constitutional lawyer to get rid of 2 party preferred? I certainly didnt vote for it, Pauline Hanson has been my vote since she started..

[@bobheinrich7011]

Just pump the interest rate up to 10% it will be over quick enough and you will whinge about that,

[@shedbuiltcars2999]

you got one fact wrong Australia is literally a company to america

[@kathyjova98]

I was going to write the same thing. If only people knew.

[@j_sum1]

What would Javier do?

[@PeteHowe-q5v]

If every country is supposedly in debt Ask yourselves who are they in debt too

[@8101nevermind]

Holding their scribble books been doodling.....

[@YHWHSon-h8c]

Geez TRIED TO PLACE A BET ON OTHER PARTIES $ 500 WELL THEY DID NOT LIKE THAT TRING TO TELL ME THERE ARE NO ODD YET WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW THE CODE

[@jamesmclntosh3017]

Give, give, give, Australia way, it has to end bad 🤷‍♀️

[@bobheinrich7011]

It’s a Scotty side effect…under the lnp I am pretty sure debt went from 250billuon when the lnp went in to a trillion when the lnp where voted out.

[@kathyjova98]

"You will own nothing and be happy".

[@YHWHSon-h8c]

THERE THAT WAS A 300 SO WHEN I GOT TO TAB ADERL STREE I THOUGHT I WOUL UP THE ANTI 500

[@BarefootPsychotic]

Well this crap happens when you are busy financing other countries! Drop the covid crisis " emergency price rise" Back down now the crisis is over! Stop giving foriegn rugby teams millions of Aussie dollars, and maybe invest into our broken hospitals. Or the lack of mental health beds for the ill Aussies out there.

[@barbarajackson7488]

And how much did our government make (money) during COVID!!!! They were lining their pockets with gold. Our Country has been sold off and our politicians SOLD THERE SOULS!!!!! We are fast becoming a communistic country!!!! 😢😢😢

[@jonbuckley1299]

With our national debt nudging 1 trillion dollars. I wouner how much that in monetary terms, each off us owes?

[@davidmayers8981]

Labor each government

[@MarkJ.Ashwin]

And your salary is ...!!!

[@luketurner4361]

Big crash coming 😢

[@YHWHSon-h8c]

AT THE PINEAPPLE WELL HE TRIED TO USE MY OUT LAY ON ANOTHER ONLINE BOOKIE

[@AnthonyWellington-u7x]

Thank you Paul Murray for your hard boiled slogging and a real larrikin on the side.No wonder,Airbutts Fringebenefinese will never fro t up to Sky. He is a piddler.

[@GlenDoer-gq1rs]

USA is paying 85K a second on their debt,,wonder what Australia is paying?

[@terenceherald9714]

Australia's net interest payment, according to the 2024-25 budget was $41.2bn. so about $1306 per second. Though being in surplus for two years and not issuing higher interest rate bonds means that it would have been much worse otherwise.

[@QldTechie]

PONZI 🎉

[@QldTechie]

The pandemic response kicked all this off.

[@ianenglish123]

For those of you who think Dutton or the LNP could do a better job think again. Without major reforms to our tax system and a total reform of corporate and market regulation it wont happen. Who controls and profits from Australian resources, big corporations, many owned by multinationals. Whose name is on your power bill, not the Australian government, if it was it would be Socialism. If any government intervened in price fixing it would be Socialism. You think Reinhardt cares about your gas bill, nope Alinta sell at the highest profit in a market economy, some power companies reduce output to increase the price because they can, its a market economy. Can Dutton do anything about it, not likely if he is in Bed with Reinhardt. Can the government control that, not with a market based economy. And the gap between the very wealthy and middle class grows. If Australians owned a significant share in our resources we would all be better off and have more control, that would be Socialism. WA had some control over its resources and it was better off. But that was a Socialist policy. Norway doesn't have the same level or divide, no people living in cars, no phenomenal rent increases but its a Democratic Socialist country it owns its resources. Dont be fooled by this goon he is getting paid by the corporations that control the market economy, Sky news is corporate controlled advertising.

[@Martinoconnor-du6lc]

take your meds commo

[@N0oN3XD]

I find your schools of thought very interesting

[@ianenglish123]

Its not what he says, its blatantly obvious. Inflation at its lowest in 4 years when LNP were in government. Thats a fact. They have delivered two surpluses thats a fact. Australia is still in the top 15 countries for standards of living, thats a fact. Murray has "alternative facts"

[@Peter-tk4ef]

Fool😊

[@Want0nS0up]

COVID happened. FACT.

[@gregorymcleod]

The 2 surplus were from commodities price and the mass imigration. Whilst flooding immigrants in grows the base to draw tax's from it also puts stress on State Government Services and available housing. It is not just Paul pointing this out most reputable ecconomist are also pointing out how Labor since Wayne Swan put spending in catergories out side the acounted budget catergories. They also push timing out so when that budget comes around the spending has already been accounted in historical budget and they skip over it. It is fudging the books. Jim Chalmers has been open about the surplus been from better prices from commodities. But what goes up can also go down. But Labor has used imigration as a tool to keep the country out of offical recession they have done nothing to fix the per capita recession which is the households. It is typical Socialist accounting but at the end they always run out of money to fund the pet projects. So why are we sending funding to Ukraine and UNWRA and paying South Pacific Islands money when in Australia we have record numbers of homeless and record numbers eating out of soup kitchens. You might be ok. But think how it looks to the people living in cars or tents that are still working and can't get ahead how do they see it. Socialism is meant to lift every one up not leave any one homeless. So Albo Chalmers and Penny Wong have failed every one in Australia but the Elites that don't see the cost increases as hardship.

[@kerryevans2038]

You sure have swallowed the gov scam.

[@tomtj460]

The first budget surplus was only achieved by including profits from the future fund,which would have put Josh Frydenburgs last budget in suprplus had he been sneaky enough to actually do it.

[@owenbrody]

Limme play guitar for ya for 1mil - I wanna buy a house thank you xo

[@johngodden5196]

As usual another word salad from Paul Murray's mouth. I'm not sure you can "retool the ingrdients".