Question time of the first Parliament of the new government. From The Australian:

TONY Abbott and his ministers used their first question time in government to bludgeon the opposition over its carbon tax, its management of the economy and its record on asylum-boat arrivals.

The opposition sought to highlight the government’s moves to hike the debt limit, lift the deficit, and “hinder” Australia’s relationship with Indonesia.

But, with a solid majority behind him and his chosen speaker in the chair, the Prime Minister said he was doing exactly as he’d promised at the September 7 election.

For myself, I wish they would do more bludgeoning outside Parliament as well. Our locals here in Victoria never made enough of Labor’s massive spending disasters, the MYKI card which they had mates put together for something like more than a million billion and the desalination plant which may never be used for a single day, and may eventually cost three to four billion forged in unbreakable contracts. And now Labor is ahead and it is possibly too late.

I hope the Feds learn from our locals.