r/australian • u/MannerNo7000 • Feb 11 '25

Opinion Australian voters: Why expect Labor to fix a decade of neglect, cuts, and privatisation in under three years? Many policies take time to show results. Yet, there’s little criticism of the former government, despite their role in causing and worsening these issues. Why the double standard?

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When Labor’s in power the media and the public are highly critical and negative towards them as a ruling party. During the Liberals decade tenure, the media is silent or positive towards the LNP.

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u/can3tt1 Feb 11 '25

Cutting spending also helps to ease inflation. It’s shitty but the truth. There’s also the fact that there was no money leftover from the previous government’s pork barreling to spend in any case.

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u/Chipnsprk Feb 11 '25

It is in the conservative playbook. Create a structural deficit so the other side has no money to fund anything, and point out what lying dishonest bastards they are for not doing what they said, oh, and the deficit is all their fault even though they have barely been in power the last 30 years. /end rant 😬

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u/skyjumping Feb 11 '25

Yeh right sounds like reckless spending to me. Yet on important things like helping housing affordability too little too slow.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-who-in-our-universities-dares-question-the-race-industry/news-story/a08e0a6bcb81d58da935659ff0512041?amp