Exactly. Labor are always found lacking in policy, hence the slogans.
You reckon the coalition doesn't use slogans??? Try being unbiased. Liberals have used slogans. They have used cliches. So stop pretending they haven't. Labour has come up with policies. Also look at coalition policies. They provide free software to protect children on the internet. I guess you missed the news that it only took three hours for kids to crack. What a waste of money on paying for the software and as campaign and mail out.
They are much more a problem for the states as they are all run by the states.
Except the federal government is supposed to provide funding for the states. When federation was set up do you know what was supposed to happen if there was a surplus? It was supposed to be given to the states. That never happened of course. So the federal government cuts health funding to the states and says it is a state issue. Get real. Remember there are a number of federal hospitals which the federal government didn't want to run so they got the states to run them instead on the behalf of the federal govt.
Exactly. Surpluses and lower interest rates rather than deficitis and higher interest rates as under Labor.
federal government has increased fees for university students yet constantly have increasing surpluses. are you really trying to say they needed to increase those fees because otherwise they would have a deficit. Nope sorry I ain't falling for that. They just want to be able to give people tax cuts because so many are silly enough to fall for it. That is what is being discussed. No problem having a small surplus but how about providing services instead of having a massive surplus so you can give a tax cut. I still remember on a current affair show at 9am the day after a federal election where howard and costello had promised tax cuts costello turned around and said we might not be able to afford tax cuts after all. Also not how a number of coalitions promises aren't due to come into effect unless they also win the election after this one.
You also have no proof of this claim it is pure speculation. Sure previous labour people have run up deficits. That however is no guarentee of how Rudd would go in government. If you don't believe that then I guess you forgot about John Howards performance as treasurer.
ohn Howard explained during the debate why he didn't believe his tax cuts would be inflationary.
From figures released recently we know that he as wrong. Figures released recently almost guarentee a interest rate rise during the election campaign. And costello saying he'll stop it shows how desperate he is and that he just wants the reserve bank to tow the governments line which is not a good thing for this country. The reserve bank needs to be independant.
Also amusing is how you are prepared to just accept Howards explanation but so quickly write off Rudds explanations.
This Government has done plenty to help aboriginal people but there is only so much you can do if they won't help themselves.
They think they have done plenty but in reality all they have done is throw money at the problem thinking that will fix things. They haven't taken time to understand the problem and the culture to know how best to approach the problem. What a western way of thinking. The coalitions solution reminds me of Bob Hawke promise that no Australian child will be living in poverty. It was a nice thought but showed he had no understanding of the problem at all.
Also interesting is how you failed to touch on the topic of homeless. I guess you will also convientently ignore the promise the federa;l govt made to help eradicate poverty for which they have not followed up with action. It isn't like they can't afford it.
Better than crippling our economy and not achieving anything anyway as Labor would do. I'm glad the Government waited until the science became more clear and there was more public pressure to act on climate change. These decisions have a signicant effect on the economy and require a well considered approach.
Maybe if he had accepted climate change as fact then the science would be better than what it is now. Climate change has been recognised fact for some time. The science for how to solve the problem now has less time to get right. Less time means mistakes may be made. He wasted years of valuable research time.
is policy has always been to bring basic standards back into schools that we lost through political correctness and kids not being properly educated.
Care to explain how political correctness has had an affect on standards. Proof is what I'm looking for not assumptions and innuendo.
You might be surprised to learn that there is actually more to Australian history than oppressing aborigines and refugees.
All he is asking for is for history to be taught. Not just the history one person wants to be taught. Not just the history that makes us look good. Your idea of education seems to be a biased view.I would personally also like to see it taught about how Australian troops committed atrocities against japanese troops in world war 2. It would seem because we won the war we can just ignore it. Or maybe because it wasn't as big as what the japanese did. I don't know about you but I disagree with the philoshphy that what they did was worse so what we did was ok.
No, but one thats 90% the same?
I wouldn't care if it was 95% the same if it is better policy. I've said previously that one of the politicians I admire most was John Hewson because he didn't try to defend poor behaviour by his colleagues. He also didn't try to argue against policies simply because the opposition came up with them if he thought were good. It is clear that for the most part both major parties aim for the middle ground as that is where the election is won and lost. Sure you can have some policies that are aimed towards minority groups.
We all know Labor are basically run by the unions. Most Labor members are ex union officials including their front bench. Don't be fooled, the fact there won't be one as prime minister is irrelevant as they'll still be there pulling all the strings.
You obviously know nothing about Rudd's history. One of the prominant things he did before becoming a state politician and while in state politics was making sure these groups didn't have control You have also made a misleading statement. By saying including the fron bench you are implying the entire front bench are ex union officials. That is not true. As said in a previous post and convientantly ignored by you is that the coalition has said they wouldn't pull one of their ads even though it was proven to be wrong. False advertising is a crime. Says something about the quality of those leaders. I haven't seen that ad tonight which is the first time I've watched tv since it was proven the ad made false claims. As Julia Gillard said though. If you want to go back in peoples history make sure Costello mentions the socialist group he was in when younger.
lets take a different view of you assumption here. We could say we all know that Liberals are only interested in business and don't care about individuals which is why they want to take industrial relations back to the dark ages. Ahhh how wonderful stereo typing is hey!
