benji-wns:

missanithrope:

punpower:

missanithrope:

Australians right now.

this is the only reason y'all hate tony abbott isn’t it. He’s done alot of good too, educate yourselves.

Actually, no. Allow me to educate you instead.

Reasons why people hate Tony Abbott and his government:

1. Closed off the possibility of High Court challenges to offshore detention
2. Cut the pension for low and middle income earners
3. Slashed the renewable energy target
4. Gagged doctors, teachers and nurses from speaking out about conditions in detention centres with new laws imposing jail for speaking publicly
5. Muzzled the Freedom of Information watchdog
6. Refused to join the international effort to resettle refugees in crisis, stating “nope, nope, nope”
7. Made medicines more expensive for the chronically ill
8. Stopped the Family Tax benefit B to parents when their child turns 6
9. Removed childcare benefits from parents who cannot work or study
10. Abolished another 71 net jobs in the Federal public sector
11. Scrappes funding to the academic website “The Conversation”
12. Cut $12.5 million from the National Heritage Trust
13. Cut $140 000 from the Refugee Council of Australia
14. Cut $72.5 million for health scholarships
15. Cut $3.6 million from Screen Australia
16. Slashed $403 million from the Australia Council
17. Decimated aid to Africa with a 70% cut
18. Cut aid to Indonesia by 50%
19. Gouged almost $2 Billion from health
20. Kicked 80,000 or 46% of parents off the paid parental leave scheme and labels them “rorters”
21. Spent millions on a widespread advertising campaign to sell their “Intergenerational Report” which is discredited by the celebrity scientist who they paid to sell it
22. Failed to act on allegations of physical and sexual abuse of asylum seekers on Nauru despite knowing about it for over a year
23. Introduced laws to retain the metadata of Australians that 85 security and policing agencies can access
24. Axed the National Produce Monitoring System which monitors chemicals in Australia’s domestic food
25. Threatened to sack 1700 researchers if the Senate did not pass their bill to deregulate universities
26. Dismissed Indigenous culture by describing living in remote communities as a “lifestyle choice”
27. Violated the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and has found to have done so multiple times by the U.N.
28. Defended the decision of the LNP to hold an International Women’s Day lunch at a club that only accepts male members
29. Dismissed the inquiry into the treatment of children in immigration detention as a “political stitch up” and attacks Gillian Triggs the President of the Human Rights Commission
30. Tried to induce the President of the Human Rights Commission Gillian Triggs to resign before her report outlining the abuse of children in Australia’s immigration detention centres was released
31. Put at risk efforts to halt the executions of two Australians in Bali by threatening Indonesia with aid funding
32. Dismissed a damning report into the impacts of mandatory detention of children seeking asylum as partisan and politicised, and said the Human Rights Commission “should be ashamed of themselves
33. Broke promise to lead a “strong, stable, accountable” government
34. Dumped his signature paid parental leave policy
35. Announced a freezes to the annual increases to the Medicare schedule
36. Attempted to undermine Medicare by slashing the amount doctors get for consultations

And that’s just 2015.

But no, you’re totally right. The ONLY reason people hate Tony Abbott is his stance on marriage equality.

Pull your head out of your arse. For every one thing he may have done right, he’s done DOZENS of horrible things to counteract it.

Always reblog.
Always protest (you know, get off your computer and take to the streets).
Never vote LNP. 

the-itchy-bitchy-spider:

buggierunningbeeps:

you know when your country hates their prime minister when:

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theabbottchronicles:

Tony Abbott confuses local swimmer for a boat and goes in for the kill.