Doug PollardKevin Rudd "called the economy wrong"
Peter Costello believes the Rudd Government is "rattled" and "unnerved", and has made some poor decisions.
On a side note, Parliament Question time in the House of Reps and Senate is back this week.
Source: AAP
On one hand the Rudd government was handing out $10 billion to boost retail spending before Christmas and planning to subsidise house insulation, while on the other it was trying to push through an emissions trading scheme and industrial relations legislation that would weaken the economy, he said.
"It seems to me as if this is a Government which is unnerved. It's unnerved because it's called the economy wrong,'' Mr Costello told Macquarie Radio.
"It didn't see this coming, it was administering the wrong medicine, and so what we get is we get these grand announcements almost on a weekly basis.
"The thing that worries me in all of this is that it's quite plain now this government is rattled and it doesn't have a good grip on the situation.''
"The latest explanation of course is there is some, as he calls it, neo-Liberal conspiracy,'' he said.
"It's all designed to say well it's not the government's fault, we're only managing the place, it's not our fault.''
"It seems to me as if this is a Government which is unnerved. It's unnerved because it's called the economy wrong,'' Mr Costello told Macquarie Radio.
"It didn't see this coming, it was administering the wrong medicine, and so what we get is we get these grand announcements almost on a weekly basis.
"The thing that worries me in all of this is that it's quite plain now this government is rattled and it doesn't have a good grip on the situation.''
"The latest explanation of course is there is some, as he calls it, neo-Liberal conspiracy,'' he said.
"It's all designed to say well it's not the government's fault, we're only managing the place, it's not our fault.''
On a side note, Parliament Question time in the House of Reps and Senate is back this week.
Source: AAP
