Hardly. You haven&#x27;t contributed much with your comment. Why don&#x27;t you refute it? Now that would be substantive, unlike the rather useless non-rebuttal you&#x27;ve just posted. Why post what you just posted on HN?<p>Incidentally, I&#x27;m quite allowed to post my biased opinion on HN. I&#x27;m not being abusive, but I&#x27;m giving my viewpoint. You might not like it, but you can equally give your own biased counterpoint.<p>As for it being useless, what part do you dispute?<p>a. That Labor listened to Treasury and managed to prevent the worst effects of the GFC from hitting Australia?<p>b. The fact that the instant that Abbott got in he and Hockey attempted to start stripping funding in the budget?<p>c. Or perhaps you don&#x27;t like the fact that our debt level in 2012 was A$233.968 billion and it is now, just over 3 years into a Coalition government, that the national debt is A$405.988 billion? Read it and weep - that&#x27;s double what the ALP had when they lost power. And the Coalition aren&#x27;t dealing with the GFC!<p>I seem to recall that certain Coalition members said that the grownups were now leading the country. These are the same people whose first budget was so disastrous - with a leader so dreadful! - that they got rid of a sitting PM even faster than the ALP dumped Rudd!<p>I mean, of all the ironies - Abbott and pretty much every LNP member were positively <i>crowing</i> when Rudd was taken out by Gillard. And they installed Turnbull after only just over 2 years of government and the Treasurer left parliament altogether because he couldn&#x27;t pass any legislation?<p>A Treasurer, I might point out, who made a valedictory speech that showed such an utter lack of insight into his complete failure in performing this important role that he called his &quot;debt and deficit&quot; and &quot;lifters and leaners&quot; speech one of the greatest speeches to be made in the last several decades. The same guy who literally said that poor people don&#x27;t drive cars, smoked a cigar openly before one of the harshest budgets in Australia&#x27;s history and who couldn&#x27;t even guarantee that he would abolish the GST on tampons, even though he said it on the highest rating political media forums in the country, on our national broadcaster no less!<p>If it wasn&#x27;t screwing up our country, it would be very funny indeed.