WOULD YOU BELIEVE ANYTHING THIS GUY SAID?

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Announcements in this morning’s press that Kevin Rudd will be making promises of huge infrastructure spending in Queensland will be taken with a grain of salt by most Queenslanders.

North Queensland-based Senator and Federal Opposition Spokesman on Northern and Remote Australia, Senator Ian Macdonald said today in Mackay, on the eve of Kevin Rudd’s visit, that Mr Rudd’s promises simply cannot be believed.

“Have a look at Mr Rudd’s promises” Senator Macdonald said.

“First of all he said he was a fiscal Conservative – and then he committed Australia to borrowing $700 million every week.

“Then he promised a million computers to high school students and has delivered only 297,500.

“He promised 260 child-care centres but will deliver only 38.

“He described climate change as “the greatest moral challenge of our time” and now the words don’t even pass his lips.

“He said that using government funding for political advertising was “ a cancer on democracy” and then proceeded to spend $38 million of taxpayer’s money on campaign ads for the Labor Party.

“For Mr Rudd promises are just words, meant to be broken. His record shows that he is very good at spin and very bad at action.

“So when Mr Rudd starts promising new roads, new railways, and new ports in northern Australia, Northerners will understand this is just another series of  spin by a desperate government that has lost the trust of the Australian people. “

“Don’t be surprised if Mr Rudd throws in a couple of new hospitals as well while he is in the north!  After all they’re only just words and his record shows he has little intention of honouring any commitment he makes.

“Without his great big new tax on mining Mr Rudd’s budget is in tatters. But with the tax, jobs and small business in northern Australia will suffer.”

“Real job losses actually happening now in northern Queensland are a monument to Mr Rudd’s ill-conceived tax on mining,” Senator Macdonald said.

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10 June 2010

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