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4 comments:
Yeah, but there goes the guy that took you into Iraq, make Australia a target and sent the army into aboriginal communities. I for one am celebrating the demise of Bush's biggest poodle. 2 down (blair and howard) one to go. 2008, American, bring it on.
yeah - john sent the troops in, does that make it right to use the troops as a political bargaining tool?.. send em in, screw a country and then pull em out... I don't know
"labour for the people" - "broadband in schools" ...you can't do any of this without money... the interest rate in aus has been hovering around 6.5 / 7% ever since 1994 (keating was in then) ...Labour ought to screw that for us... no?
Sounds like Liberal party propaganda to me. The Tories said in 97 that Labour would screw the economy. It didn't happen. It's just very easy for right wing governments to scare the electorate by saying the others will throw you into poverty. But in all of the western world there are no true Labour parties. Everything has swung to the right. Rudd has been compared to Blair, with every intention of swinging his party away from the unions. He's not going to do the things you fear from a leftie - cos he ain't really one of them.
The thing is- Australia is going through a real boom. WA is being dug up at an enormous rate and being shipped to China. The demand for Australia's natural resources is not going to go away. This will keep the economy alive.
But you see, Australia has a problem, and has to ask itself some serious questions. Climate change is rearing it's ugly head sooner than we all thought. Australia will be the first Western country to fall due to climate change according to a UN report. For you more than the rest of us - climate change is already hitting hard. Your country has been in drought for 7 years. It took Johny Howard 6 years to wake up and smell the coffee. You can keep on saying no to Kyoto, as he did - in fact you can keep on denying that climate change exists, as he did - you can keep on being the biggest polluters per capita in the world (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7092989.stm ) but at some point you're going to have to do something about it. Closing our eyes and pretending it's not happening is not going to help. Rudd promises to sign up to Kyoto, to take climate change seriously. Yes, that might mean your economy suffers. But what's the alternative? Keep on burning out at an incredible pace and all have a great life? Well, great, for your generation. But it ain't going to be much fun in 50 years.
Anyhow - give him a chance, see what happens. Maybe not much will change. Maybe he'll be as useless as Howard. But a change is always good. And this is a change I support wholeheartedly.
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