Lemons

LEMONs – Liberal’s Endless Mantra Of NO

Topics

• Recent
• Video Arcade (content updated regularly)
• Abortion
• Ashby
• Batts
• Boats
• Carbon
• Climate
• Economy
• Education
• Employment
• Gillard
• Health
• Howard
• Industrial Relations
• Infrastructure
• Marriage Equality
• Mining
• Murdoch
• NBN
• Odds & Sods
• Paid Parental Leave
• Superannuation
• Tax
• Women

Video Arcade

Labor’s Ad Pulled by Liberals 2013 Election

What Abbott won’t EVER say on Marriage Equality

If Abbott wins – NO School kids Bonus

Rupert Murdoch & News Ltd do NOT choose OUR Government

Aussie Works – Aussie Rights

Well-Off versus Needy – Abbott’s Paid Parental Leave vs Pensions *

Sedition – Palmer, Brough & Slipper (& Hockey?) – Ashbygate

Penalty Rates – if Abbott wins, you lose

Proof: ‘Medicare Locals will be cut’

Election Morning After – Hilarious

Abbott the Cutter!

If Abbott wins, YOU lose!

If Abbott wins, Australia LOSES!!!

• Abbott or Herpes?
• Abbott mashup

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Recent

• Abbott vows to implement internet filter
• Turnbull – No #NBN for you
• Abbott Lied on Economy – Australia Has $16 Minimum Wage and is Only Rich Country to Dodge Global Recession
• Abbott & Turnbull wrong on Fraudband – Households Richer with NBN
• Abbott retreats from drones pledge in defence policy
• Abbott refuses to back  Brough… again
• Abbott  to break emissions promise
• Abbott the Diplomatic Embarrassment – Syria Conflict ‘Baddies vs. Baddies’
• Abbott – Nothing to like about his policies
• Abbott – Why taxes would rise
• Abbott lied (again) – Life is much better under Labor after all
• Abbott to abolish pay rise for aged care workers
• Abbott to axe jobs within weeks
• Abbott abandons promise on surplus
• Abbott’s Candidates hide from questioning
• Abbott double backflips on Medicare Locals (again)
• Abbott will cut deep (extravagant promises eg. #PPL, Private Health)
• Abbott – Why we should not trust him
• Abbott frees gambling industry from reform (payback time?)
• Abbott ‘promises are ‘fiscally irresponsible‘
• Abbott launch unveils small handouts but BIG ‘promises’
• Abbott promises ‘trust’ and little else
• Abbott – time to show us your Costings
• Abbott –  will CUT Family Support, Health Care & Industry Assistance, especially School Kids Bonus

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Abortion

• Abbott on Abortion
• Abbott ‘insisted’ on helping laicised priest
• Abbott says NO – his Abortion views

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Ashby

• Pyne email surfaces as ‘cover-up’ claims persist
• Ashbygate emerging
• Justice Rares
• Brandis on Roxon re Slipper – Brandis’ declares

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Batts

• Abbott demonised ‘batts’ – pink batts saved Australia
• Abbott decries Pink-Batts – safer than previously
• Abbott cries over ‘pink batts’ continually. But Pink Batts not a scandal

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Boats

• Abbott rules out residency for refugees already here
• Abbott’s Indonesian fishing boat plan is “insulting”
• Abbott lies about Defence advice on refugees
• Abbott  – Defence Association – Military Asylum plan ‘unconstitutional’ – Admiral Barrie ‘sceptical’
• Abbott the Isolationist – only Australia attracts refugees
• Abbott all at sea over asylum policy
• Abbott gets a slap re PNG
• Abbott, Bishop no help from Indonesia on ‘Turning boats around’ – not even  discussion
• Abbott – Boats – Indonesia says No – Abbott Lies –  hasn’t even discussed
• Abbott’s Refugee stance debunked by Ruddock
• Abbott’s Refugee Spokes-thing Morrison – NO plans, No Ideas
• Abbott’s ‘Stop The Boats’ mantra, with added ‘Turn Boats Around’ subtext, will mean desperate people being faced with this type of situation, supposing their leaky, crowded boats make it back
• Abbott to hand ASIO unfettered power over refugees
• Turnbull urges Asylum Seeker truce
• Abbott’s ‘turn back boats’ thought-bubble rejected by Indonesia’s VP
• Abbott lies again – CEJT (Convicted Egyptian Jihadist Terrorist) –  Egyptian Interpol says Sayed Abdellatif is NOT wanted on murder charges – now charges withdrawn
• Abbott doubted on “convicted jihadist terrorist“

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Carbon

• Abbot scare campaign proves false – Carbon Emissions hit 10 year LOW
• Abbott’s Climate Plan has $4B funding gap
• Abbott’s Carbon Plan ‘A SECRET TAX’
• Abbott’ scaremongering wrong re Carbon Price – Our wealth has only grown
• Abbott – would buy overseas Carbon Tax Permits
• Abbott on carbon trading – ‘non-delivery of an invisible substance to no one‘
• Abbott – Coalition ‘s $15B Carbon Price Claim mostly FALSE
• Abbott – Carbon Tax Mantra Blunted – 2/3rds want to retain it
• Humour – Clarke & Dawe
• Abbott’s Carbon Direct Action Plan (trees) ‘not enough’
• Abbott’s stalker Turnbull calls BS on Abbott’s Carbon hypocrisy, previous opponent recants
• Abbott & Hockey predicted economic ruin with a Carbon Price – Reality
• Abbott’s Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage Greg Hunt on ‘Why we need a Carbon Tax‘
• Abbott rabbits relentlessly about Carbon Price but PM Gillard promised a Carbon Price
• Abbott admits removing Carbon Tax will be difficult.
• Abbott ‘was willing to introduce a Carbon Tax‘
• Abbott predicts energy costs will increase. RMIT refutes
• Abbott – string of false claims about impact of Carbon Tax
• Abbott says NO to a Carbon Tax after suggesting one, proposes to tax everyone to fight it but denies Climate Change
• Abbott – Whyalla would become a “ghost town” under a Gillard Government Carbon Tax
• Abbott says No, opposes Flood Tax, and then seeks donations to Liberal Party campaign to oppose levy proposal
• Hockey dithers on Carbon Price Compensation, FIRST FOR then AGAINST

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Climate

• Liberal candidate unable to explain Direct Action
• Abbott’s Climate Policy would cost VASTLY more than budgeted
• Abbott’s Climate Change Denialist Source
• Abbott – Climate Change is ‘crap’ – LNP & all parties disagree
• Abbott advisor denies Climate Change, and wants Renewable targets scrapped
• Abbott – ‘Climate Change as Crap‘ – Howard a Climate convert

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Economy

• Abbott ‘innumerate’ with ‘no interest in Economics’
• Abbott & Hockeynomics – cut Company tax AND increase it simultaneously – means taxpayers (not companies) pay for PPL
• Abbott – Rudd’s “spend-a-thon” has the budget “blowing out by $3 billion a week”? Fact checker
• Abbott & Hockey – ‘Not ruling out economic stimulus‘ – aka Government  ‘wasteful spending’, according to LNP
• Abbott wants to ‘fix’ THIS Economy
• Abbott is always knocking an Economy which has just been given ‘a big tick‘
• Abbott cries Economy is Bad – in reality ‘the Envy of the World‘
• Hockey – End of ‘Age of Entitlement‘ Speech in London and Hockey praises the Australian economy
• Hockey refuses to commit to budget total
• Abbott – harking back to Howard not clever – Formula to cut debt served us badly – HIGH Taxes, NO infrastructure spending & PUBLIC asset sales

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Education

• Bishop –  Gonski reforms (MORE $$) will ‘dumb down’ schools?
• Abbott stops Gonski in NSW (O’Farrell)
• Abbott on Gonski – No, No, No, No, No, No, Yes 
• Abbott – No Need for Gonski Education reforms
• Abbott – would axe School Student Bonus 
• Abbott on (non) Education
• Abbott will CUT School kids Bonus but increase Health Care Bonus for millionaire
• Abbott reaffirms commitment to Public Service CUTS
• Abbott’s mentor American Snoopert Murdoch has chosen

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Employment

• Abbott’s Productivity Lie – it FELL substantially under Howard, stabilised during & post GFC and ROSE under Julia Gillard/Rudd

• Hockey lies about Canberra Public Servant numbers
• Hockey says 12,000 jobs cull just a start
• Abbott slept through key jobs vote
• Abbott – Can Tony Abbott create two million jobs in a decade? Fact checker

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Gillard

• Julia Gillard did NOT LIE!
• Abbott ‘pussy-whipped’ by the PM and other powerful women?
• Menugate – Hockey, Brough
• Abbott spokes-thing  Steve Ciobo MP – suggests ‘Slit PM’s throat‘ after refusing to pay hotel bill
• Abbott lied again – Julia Gillard did NOT lie about Carbon Tax
• Abbott accuses the PM of criminality , PM Gillard provides Abbott time to substantiate. Abbott Failed.
• Abbott’s Sexism & Misogyny by PM Gillard

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Health

• Abbott ‘backflips’ on Private Health Insurance Means Testing
• Abbott’s Health Promises
• Abbott admits lying on Health funding cuts
• Abbott admits Lying generally and on Health funding cut specifically
• Abbott says NO and breaks Medicare Safety Net Promise
• Abbott tries to buy Wilkie’s vote for a lazy $Billion
• Abbott forgets to lie, then lies about it

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Howard

• Abbott ‘trust’ copies Howard
• Hockey admits Howard Government mistakes regarding the need for more savings
• Howard & Bruce – ONLY sitting PMs to lose own seats
• Howard the profligate according to IMF
• John Howard deported refugees later forced to have abortions
• John Howard’s sweetener to the sacked workers of National Textiles (Howard’s brother Stan then Chairman)
• Abbott love child of Bronwyn Bishop & John Howard

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Industrial Relations

• Abbott – Clean up your act or do without dole
• Abbott WILL ‘bring back WorkChoices‘
• Abbott on IR Law – Penalty Rates
• Abbott lies on Surplus Promise and Industrial Relations – Workchoices Mark II & again

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Infrastructure

• Abbott – 457’s ‘Class Warfare’? How about $3/hr?
• Abbott won’t do trains
• Abbott – Rail Infrastructure – Vic NO and Qld NO and WA NO
• Abbott’s dam leaks – water experts pan the dam – Ord River experience
• Abbott dream of ‘moving Australia north‘ not exactly bubbling (bumbling maybe?)

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Marriage Equality

• Rudd’s view on same-sex marriage expressed eloquently on #QandA
• Abbott attacked by Katy Perry over same sex marriage
• Abbott – lies and denies saying same-sex marriage is a ‘fashion of the moment‘

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Mining

• Abbott to keep Mining Tax
• Abbott has many big money backers
  

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Murdoch

• Murdoch tabloids propaganda sheets
• could face corporate charges over phone hacking
• Abbott chosen by American Billionaire – Snoopert Murdoch
• Tele doesn’t drive our national debate
• What author Dennis Potter thought of Murdoch

• UK unit could face corporate hacking charges

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NBN

Turnbull

• Abbott’s NBN spokesthing Malcolm Turnbull wants to Charge you ‘thousands’ for Superfast Internet
• Turnbull investment raises concerns
• Abbott should come clean on NBN talks with Murdoch
• Turnbull is incensed over “Free NBN Connections“
• NBN Explained
• General
• Fibre To The Home (FTTH) versus Fibre To The Node (FTTN)
• Australian data download trends
• Abbott says No to technology, admits he’s ‘not a tech head’ – NBN Fail
• Abbott Peak Speed fail
• Abbot lies on NBN – Turnbull confirms $5000 slug per household
• Abbott’s NBN policy a Lemon
• Abbott’s NBN will COST $21Billion to fix
• Abbott lied, NBN users report NO HIKE in bills
• Abbott says No ti the NBN, revives Malcolm Turnbull’s career after defeating him as leader and orders him to ‘demolish the NBN‘
• Dutton Peter MP – launches petition to fast-track NBN in his Dickson electorate
• Worst of the worst: Photos of Australia’s copper network
• Mad as Hell – Humour

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Odds & Sods

• Abbott – Sexist (Again) – gets unfavourable International coverage (Again)

• Abbott – Candidate Fiona Scott picked for ‘looks’ (and Daddies money)
• Abbott enjoys questions
• Abbott’s Greenway candidate Jaymes Diaz NOT on top of his brief
• Nearly a week later Diaz still stumped on Policy
• Abbott’s White Australia Policy – could this ad be anymore whitebread
• Abbott refuses to debate (he has no Policies)
• Abbott denied Barbara Ramjan ‘Wall-Punching’ incident’ – Now NEWS Ltd apologises for it & Abbott hasn’t
• Abbott criticised for supporting priest
• Abbot told to Stop Misrepresenting Foreign Aid
• Abbott refuses to debate (no policies to debate)
• Abbott – Battlelines book promotional tour (taxpayers expenses) – Battlerorts
• Abbott plans to move Public Service north
• Abbott lies about ‘Cost of Living’ increases – it’s ‘Cost of Lifestyle‘ that has increased
• Abbott – Asbestos – Compensation – but Previously
• Abbott’s ‘Brains Trust’ – Howard, Packer, Pell & Duke of Gloucester, the secret Chartwell Society
• Abbott gets Tony Windsor’s home truths
• Abbott to do as IPA demand/finance – from the horse’s mouth
• Abbott Election Funding
• Abbott Gaffes – Consolidated List
• Abbott on Election Strategy
• Abbott on Election
• Abbott demonstrating accessiblity
• Abbott’s Paper Armour
• Abbott Unmasked by David Marr
• Abbott – Malcolm Fraser
• Abbott’s choice, Senator Humphries rolled
• Morrison, despite the alleged attacker NOT being a resident, plays the racist refugee card, which even other Liberals can’t stomach
• Abbott linked to Catholic priest dumped after Child abuse case
• Abbott’s NPC Speech dissected & demolished by Andrew Elder
• Pyne compares Government to Nazis
• Abbott – Count the Lies
• Abbott the Brave stands his ground
• Abbott wins Liberal leadership ballot by one – (42 to 41)
• Abbott Quotes
• Abbott –  I was charged with indecent assault
• Abbott says NO, first LIES about meeting Pell, and when cornered by facts, REMEMBERS the meeting
• Abbott runs away from Parliament

alternately

• Abbott slow on his feet
• Abbott laughing about lying
• Abbott can’t control his would be deputy  Barnaby Joyce
• Abbott senior Minister in LNP Government responsible when AWB Scandal occurred
• Abbott’s UN-Populatity cost LNP the Election
• Abbott not interested in Cory Bernadi & doesn’t want to answer questions about Tea Party Links and more
• Donated to Liberals – enter British American Tobacco
• Hunt Greg – Spam bots
• Liberal cheats – Lindsay pamphlets & Jackie Kelly cost 2007 Election
• Abbott – Now his own Party say ‘Election Promises can’t be trusted‘
• Abbott – First Debate – Prepare for PAIN
• Abbott – Social Media lies – paying people to “like” him – the telling FB statistics – also fake Twitter followers

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Paid Parental Leave

• Abbott’s PPL – Opposed by Business (ACCI) – ALP’s preferred
• Abbott’s PPL – Harbinger of conservative battles to come
• Abbott’s parental leave scheme strikes out with women

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Superannuation

• Abbott’s Superannuation cuts ‘hit Women Hardest’
• Abbott  reaffirms TAXING super of low-income earners, plans to scrap super tax cut for poor
• Abbott’s Superannuation mouthpiece  Cormann – NO repeal
• Abbott says NO Support for low income super rebate

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Tax

• Abbott’s Deputy Julie Bishop confirms GST backflip (Lie)
• Abbott – misconception that Coalition governments are smaller taxers than Labor governments. This is NOT true
• Abbott & Hockey flee GST change promises – confusion reigns
• Taxing the rich is good/essential for a successful  economy (and jobs)
• Abbott to increase the GST – Hockey tells States to make a case for GST overhaul (ever hear of a State wanting LESS revenue?)
• Abbott wanted donations to #LNP to FIGHT FLOOD LEVY
• Hockey thinks 2011 temporary Queensland flood levy is ‘dumb idea‘
• Abbott pressed on Company Tax Cuts
• Abbott to keep Mining Tax
• Abbott confirms 3.6 million low paid Australians (those earning below $37,000) would see their Taxes RISE
• Abbott will CUT Tax breaks for Small Business

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Women

• Abbott’s ‘No means No’ Remark

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Recommended Links

• Richard Carrier, Atheist & Philosopher, Skepticon – A Christian’s Delusion – (just replace references to the ‘Christ’ with ‘Abbott’. Same use of fear)

Lookup table: Who’s Who in Parliament – Government & Opposition – Get to know politicians with Contact details & more.

* Most expert opinion is that the scheme is doomed, even IF sufficient arable land were available and NOT already being used for food production. As seen over recent months (Hottest Summer on Record), trees are prone to burn, releasing ALL the carbon temporarily stored ie an Expensive, NOT Viable, long term plan (more a thought-bubble).