Worrying about facts is clearly the first casualty of the new federal Opposition approach of making opposition the focus of its political approach. A truthful headline over Tony Abbott’s comments yesterday about the cost of the “big tax” would be “This Man is a Lying Joke”.
And as for Barnaby Joyce’s daily double — the US is in danger of financial default and China should be denied permission to invest in Australia — what can we say? Heaven help us if he gets his hands on the nation’s finances.
