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June 8th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The central bank chief is urging Australians to snap out of their unrelenting gloom about the economy, but Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says it’s the Gillard government that is unnerving Australians.
Labor has accused Mr Abbott of trying to earn political points by deliberately talking down the economy, forecasting doom for workers and business ahead of the introduction of the government’s carbon and mining profits taxes on July 1.
The Liberal leader on Friday hit back in a keynote speech to business in Melbourne, saying the government was dividing people where Labor in the past had brought them together.
There was “public unease” about the future of the Australian economy under Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Mr Abbott said.
“The Rudd-Gillard government is less than five years old, yet its ineptitude and untrustworthiness has engendered a profound sense of disappointment even amongst people who normally vote Labor,” he added.
“This government looks like it is deliberately trying to set Australian against Australian with its class-war rhetoric.
“It’s almost the polar opposite of Bob Hawke’s search for consensus and striving to bring the nation together.”
In an appeal to Labor-leaning voters, Mr Abbott said the next federal election due in 2013 would be about a return to this consensus approach.
“(It) will confirm that we are now set on the continental European path of higher taxes, growing debt and bigger government, or it will restore the Hawke-Keating-Howard consensus that government should operate to empower individuals and communities rather than itself,” he said.
Mr Abbott’s remarks came an hour before an address by Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens, who questioned why Australians could not see the glass was “at least half full” despite uncertainty in the global economy.
“The nature of public discussion is unrelentingly gloomy, and this has intensified over the past six months,” he told an audience of business chiefs in Adelaide.
“Even before the recent turn of events in Europe and their effects on global markets, we were grimly determined to see our glass as half empty.”
Reports issued this week showed the economy grew by a very strong 4.3 per cent over a year, the jobless rate was a relatively low 5.1 per cent, inflation was subdued, business capital spending was on track to a 50-year high and the nation was maintaining its coveted triple-A credit rating.
“We need more confidence – confidence in our capacity to respond to changed circumstances, to respond to new opportunities, and to produce goods and services which meet market demands,” Mr Steven said.
In Brisbane, Treasurer Wayne Swan again blamed Mr Abbott and shadow treasurer Joe Hockey for creating unease.
“It’s been a week of good economic news for the country and a week of embarrassment for Mr Abbott and Mr Hockey, who just go and talk our country down every day of the week,” he told reporters.
In his speech, Mr Abbott announced a $10 million plan to train 1000 indigenous people for guaranteed jobs if he won government.
The trial, involving the Australian Employment Covenant and GenerationOne, would be extended if successful.
The government announced on Friday a $400,000 program to train indigenous people in five remote Northern Territory communities for resource-sector jobs.
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