Bud Abbott

and Bill Margargle (Drums). Comedy sketches performed include: "Lambchops" (Bud Abbott & Gracie Allen) and "Who's on First?" (Bud Abbott & Lou Costello) During the curtain call, Bud Abbott sings Minnie the Moocher. The show's line-up is as follows ...  

Crikey media wrap: Last night Tony Abbott gave his budget reply speech, arguing a Coalition government would focus on business and find an additional $50 billion in savings. Just how his government would find these promised savings wasn't specified. Read more on the blog...  

Tony Abbott now insists things are true merely because he says they are, and his budget reply reflected that. Read more on the blog... Read more on the blog... Read more on the blog... Read more on the blog...  

When Tony Abbott recently accused the Labor government's budget of being a foray into class warfare, he tried to make this sound like a dirty trick. But what's wrong with a little class warfare? Isn't it the job of an alleged workers' party to represent its less privileged constituents?Labor was quick to deny the accusation, which tells us Abbott may have been on to something. The fact that Australia is a deeply divided nation is something...  

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has announced a Coalition plan to expose Australian students – starting from pre-school – to foreign languages, in a budget reply speech that accused the government of "deliberately, coldly and calculatedly" playing the class war card.  

“Who’s on first?” is a famous baseball line from the comedy duo of Abbott and Costello. Sadly enough, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are long gone, but this entertaining feline duo will keep you laughing and smiling. This look-alike pair are not related ...  

In his budget reply speech last week, opposition leader Tony Abbott said Indonesia was to be a “vital ... at an all-time high according to the Indonesian Embassy in… Colin Brown does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from ...  

Frankly, we need the support. In significant and hopeful ways, things in my profession are much better than when I began teaching in 1993. Simultaneously, however, things are harder and tighter for all folks working in and attending schools than ...  

GREENS leader Christine Milne also wants Mr Abbott to immediately come clean on whether he'd scrap the increased family payments announced in Tuesday's budget. Senator Milne accused the opposition leader of making statements without explaining how he'd ...  

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has stepped up the pressure on Opposition leader Tony Abbott, saying he must say whether a coalition government would cancel additional payments to families. Labor announced in last week's budget that families receiving Family ...  

Senator Wong says Abbott only really understood "no" Preschool kids to learn second language under Abbott Labor's Budget played the class war card - Abbott OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott delivered nothing but negativity and arrogance in his Budget reply ...  

The latest opinion poll shows Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's approval rating has risen following the federal budget announcement. The Nielsen poll in Fairfax newspapers show Mr Abbott's approval rating climbed five points from the last poll to 44 per cent.  

OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott, hitting back at criticism that his Budget reply was short on detail, has promised the fiscal details of the Coalition's alternative budget will be revealed before the next election. In his Budget reply yesterday, Mr Abbott ...  

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has painted Labor as a drowning government intent on plunging Australia into further debt, promising Australians a better chance of wealth creation under a coalition government. In his budget reply on Thursday, Mr Abbott ...  

It was a staged piece of political theatre by Abbott, trying to give the impression that he was hard at work on his budget reply, too preoccupied with such important business to dip his hands into the muck bucket in which Christopher Pyne so relishes playing.  

Brisbane TimesFEDERAL BUDGET 2012: PM questions Abbott's family commitmentBusiness SpectatorThe federal government says families risk having thousands of dollars a year ripped out of their pocket if Opposition Leader Tony Abbott wins the next election. Labor announced in Tuesday's budget that families receiving Family Tax Benefit A would ...Tony Abbott slams Federal Budget as class warHerald SunAbbott slams Federal Budget as class warPerth...  

Tony Abbott's budget-in-reply escalated his political attack on Labor and set out his big picture vision for the country. Read his full speech here. Mr Abbott has given a series of interviews this morning. speaking to Channel Nine's Today show, Alan Jones ...  

The current economic team of shadow treasurer Joe Hockey and finance spokesman Andrew Robb had found $50 billion. Mr Abbott said most of the $33 billion of budget savings identified by Treasurer Wayne Swan over the forward estimates had resulted from ...  

TONY Abbott last night committed a Coalition government to reversing the decline in foreign language teaching in schools as he accused Julia Gillard of ''deliberately, coldly, calculatedly'' playing the class war card in Tuesday's budget. Mr Abbott pledged ...  

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has pledged to dramatically increase the study of foreign languages to 1960s levels in a Budget reply speech that set out his priorities for his first 100 days in office. Echoing the views of former PM Kevin Rudd, Mr Abbott ...  

Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has used his budget reply speech to attack the Government's "knee-jerk response" to current economic trends. Mr Abbott said in his budget reply speech that Treasurer Wayne Swan's fifth budget does nothing to promote ...  

The Federal Labor Government’s Budget plays a class war card by cancelling previous commitments to company tax cuts, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says. In his reply to the 2012/13 fiscal plan handed down on Tuesday, Mr Abbott said Australia had normally ...  

To quote American baseball manager Yogi Berra, it was “déjà vu all over again” last night when I listened to Tony Abbott’s budget reply. I was back in the 1970s but without the big-collared shirts and clunky shoes. And I felt like invoking Hawaii ...  

The current economic team of shadow treasurer Joe Hockey and finance spokesman Andrew Robb had found $50 billion. Mr Abbott said most of the $33 billion of budget savings identified by Treasurer Wayne Swan over the forward estimates had resulted from ...  

and Andrew Robb any easier. It's no good trying to scrap Abbott's absurdly generous paid parental leave scheme – which exists only to convince women voters that Abbott's views on women have moved on from the 12th century – because that comes with its ...  

THE Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, has promised that within a decade 40 per cent of year 12 students will speak a second language in a reply speech that condemned the federal budget this week as a document that ''deliberately, coldly, calculatedly plays ...  

TONY ABBOTT has a vision for a growing economy and sweeping cuts to government spending. But he feels under no pressure at all to tell us how he'll get there. And why would he invite scrutiny if he can sweep aside Labor's budget by appealing to voters ...  

Tony Abbott promises "better deal" Budget reply Accuses Government of "robbing Peter to pay Paul" Abbott, Gillard drawn into class war of words TONY Abbott will tonight reply to what he calls a "class war Budget" by presenting the Coalition's economic ...  

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has painted Labor as a drowning government intent on plunging Australia into further debt, promising Australians a better chance of wealth creation under a coalition government. In his budget reply on Thursday, Mr Abbott ...  

Photo: Brendan Esposito THE Prime Minister ... and we'll make the budget decisions necessary as we work our way through,'' she said. The Treasurer, Wayne Swan, also declined to rule out a levy, saying: ''Let's not put the cart before the horse.''  

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has announced a Coalition plan to expose Australian students – starting from pre-school – to foreign languages, in a budget reply speech that accused the government of "deliberately, coldly and calculatedly" playing the ...  

INDEPENDENT MP Rob Oakeshott has questioned the deal he struck with Julia Gillard following the 2010 election, saying Labor's moral authority was eroded by the party's decision to pre-select embattled MP Craig Thomson. In an interview with The Australian ...  

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott will use his budget reply speech to outline a better-deal vision for families and small business. "What I'm going to do tonight is to explain to the Australian people how the coalition has a plan to get our economy growing ...  

TONY Abbott has accused Julia Gillard of deliberately using her 2012-13 budget to spark a class war, as part of an ignoble ploy to save her "drowning government". In a savage and deeply personal attack, the Opposition Leader also said the Prime Minister ...  

The budget papers outlined the government's proposal to increase ... Commission to consider how childcare could be made more flexible, including the use of "in-home care" delivered by nannies. He would continue to work with indigenous leader Noel Pearson ...  

Are the figures in the Budget a little rubbery? Tony Abbott says he will oppose bad policy, so there are no guarantees the Opposition will pass the Budget. Jason Morrison asks, what his plans are as PM. Tony Abbott also says the PM is running a protection ...  

Why put so much into the NBN when the same investment could more than duplicate the Pacific Highway, Sydney’s M5 and the road between Hobart and Launceston; build Sydney’s M4 East, the Melbourne Metro ... and waterways can be cleaner and land more ...  

Liberal frontbencher Kevin Andrews said parents could spend the money on poker machines and electrical gear rather than on school requirements for their children. But other family-based Budget measures are now certain to get through Parliament. Opposition ...  

AFPFEDERAL BUDGET 2012: Budget splash fails to impress voters: pollBusiness SpectatorAn extra $5 billion in cash handouts in the budget unveiled this week has failed to give Labor an electoral boost. The latest Nielsen poll, published by Fairfax newspapers on Saturday, has Opposition Leader Tony Abbott gaining ground on Prime Minister ...Post-budget poll has Abbott in frontThe West Australianall 270 news articles »  

Media inboxes overflowed with press releases from federal and state Labor MPs, Greens MPs and Denison independent MHR Andrew Wilkie decrying Mr Abbott's plan. Premier Lara Giddings said $700 million was equivalent to the annual budgets of the Launceston ...  

So we're picking up on a theme here - cuts to the perks of the very rich, and possibly to some benefits afforded to very big business, which Labor almost dare that billionaire-loving Tony Abbott to oppose. The related subtheme is economic management.  

WAYNE Swan was in the Cabinet room with his Budget razor gang when a note was passed to him saying billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer was making a bid for the Treasurer's seat in Parliament. It caused Swan to give a wry smile and tell his fellow ...  

The government has ridiculed the Coalition's economic credentials – repeatedly pointing to a $70 billion "crater" in their costings ... Manager of Opposition Business Anthony Albanese immediately took to Twitter to critique the budget reply.  

BARRIE CASSIDY PRESENTER: We'll be talking too to the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, whose budget would be overwhelmed if the first sitting day is consumed by a parliamentary crisis. And we'll go to the economy now, and the IMF (International Monetary Fund ...  

THE Gillard government has moved to ''Abbott-proof'' its Clean Energy Finance Corporation by ''appropriating'' the full $10 billion five-year budget in legislation to be passed this year. The move means the corporation could continue lending to clean ...  

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Chris Christie often likes to cite Asbury's high cost as proof of the failure of the Abbott system. But he also keeps putting together budgets that pour more and more money into the 31 Abbott districts. In his current budget proposal ...