Why are people such staunch Labor voters?

[curmu-curmu]

Particularly when every Labor governement in living history has amounted such huge debts whilst in office?

Or is it just that they blindly follow the old mantra, that 'Labor is for the working man?'

Now don't get me wrong - I don't particularly like Abbott, and I sure as h3ll didn't like Rudd or Gillard, but there's so much more to a political party than it's leader.

Feel free to discuss...

[debra9275]

I've heard the abbott govt say that revoking the mining tax benefited Australians. But how has it benefited Australians??? I can only see that it benefited some miners. To revoke taxes and then claim 'budget emergency" doesn't make any sense

[polksaladallie]

    

[idlewhile]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

    

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Wise move.

[polksaladallie]

I had to hold my breath.

[donnashuggy]

This is one of the many reasons I vote Labor, to try and keep this guy out:

The real Tony Abbott is never far from the surface...

The Australian 12 February 2015:

On Sunday, May 25, last year Queensland backbencher Wyatt Roy was part of a group of about 30 marginal seat-holders invited to dine privately with the Prime Minister in the cabinet anteroom. Abbott’s practice at these dinners is to go around the room, asking each member to say their piece.

Roy, trying to be helpful, stood at the table to tell the Prime Minister that broken promises were the fundamental cause of the government’s problems. It might be a good idea, Roy suggested, to apologise to people a la Peter Beattie and move on.

Abbott was furious. He rounded on Roy, yelled at him, then directed his remarks to all of them that there were no effing broken promises and no one should concede there had been. The incident stuck in the mind of MPs, first because of Roy’s bravery in broaching it, then because of the Prime Minister’s use of the F-bomb.

Many months later Abbott was forced to concede the bleeding obvious, but only after accusations of lying about lying trashed his credibility. If he had taken the advice of his youngest MP last May, he would have spared himself considerable pain.

Source:

http://northcoastvoices.blogspot.com.au/…/the-real-tony-abb…

[idlewhile]

They also branch stack in immigrant areas.

[***super_nova***]

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@poddster wrote:

These days the Labor party are in favour of the welfare state for the same reason, to dumb down tho majority of the population so that they can retain power.

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What planet do you live on?  ALP has always suported education for everybody.  It is the LNP that is trying their best to make sure that only the elites can afford to get education. 

Without unions ordinary people would have no chance getting fair income. 

[poddster]

I live in Australia on planet Earth

Your statements are unsubstantiated by facts.

Perhaps you can interpret the graph of education under labor

 

[***super_nova***]

Yes sure, cutting money from education, having 40 kids in a class room, wasting money on chaplains, closing schools and making sure only the wealthy will be able to afford higher education will help? 

[poddster]

WOW, you got all of that from the graph?

What I got from the graph was that Labor threw over $200,000,000  at the education system and reduced the NAPLAN level by 4% thank the powers that be that it wasn't a billion the NAPLAN level would have gone down by 10%