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@bushies.girlwrote:

Doesnt he?  News to me lol   If he, you or any other poster  dont like the Labor Party  and prefer to support the LNP that's your choice, personally I couldnt give one lol   ..... Just dont expect me to support/agree with any of your views and I will give you the same respect

 

 

 

I dont and never will agree with Live Trade export!

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If you care to read my posts properly you will see that we both agree that we dont support the live export trade. !!!

Personally I prefer not to be so childish as to disagree with EVERYTHING some-one else says, just because I dont share their views on politics.

As for me not liking the Labor party. That is a bit of a generalisation. I have said on many occasions on these forums that I view politics as a pendulum. Labor introduce expensive, but needed social policies, blow the budget, but restore some humanity to Australias social policy. The liberals eventually get elected, restore some financial prudence to the budget bottom line, but in the process usually go too far with cutting back on social policy in favour of big business. Labor gets returned to power and the cycle repeats. 

Despite how it may appear, I am not anti Labor persia, but are completely against Bill shorton becoming prime minisier until he is cleared of the rape allegations that are hanging over his head. That aside, I just dont think the guy has the intelligence to lead the country. Labor DO have some suitable prime ministerial asspirants in Penny Wong ( Who I am a supporter of ) and Tanya Plebesic who I dont particularly like, but have respect her intelligernce and abilities.

Unfortunately there are too many seat warmers from the past Gillard / Rudd roundabout still in positions of power within the Labor party. These are the same people who proved they did not have the capacity to govern through thier impulsive, poll driven knee jerk policies such as "Pink Batts" which ended up killing a number of young people, School halls which was a complete waste of money and their response to the live export trade which caused an animal welfare disaster every bit as big as the Pink Batts scandel, but was kept out of the media.

Past Labor governments have either initiated or been a major contributors to important Australian social and yes even financial reforms. Some examples include Medicare, Superannuation, Basic wages policy etc. Keating completely stuffed the countries finances ( and my own personal finances for around a decade ) through his mis-judgement of use of interest rates leading to the Bannana Republic recession. Having said that he was a person of great forsight with his encouragement of Australias ecenomic engagement with our Asian neighbours and was a trail blazer to our succesfull later financial trading partnerships with China. His floating of the Australian Dollar was another very important financial legacy. Past Labor governments have included some very wise, intelligent men of outstanding ability. Button ( automotive transistion policy ) is one who immediatly springs to mind. There are others whos names elude me.

So as you can see I dont hate Labor. Unlike many on these boards I try to keep an open mind and judge each issue on its merit. And my judgement of the current Labor government is it has too many unuionists leaders with no real life or business experience. The last Labor government was completely incompetent and proved it was unfit to govern through a string of stupid, poorly thought out and implemented, impulsive, poll driven decisions. Many of those people are still warming seats in the current opposion

Labors biggest problem is it is currently, more so than in the past completely beholden to the union movement. It needs to free up its pre-selection process to allow other talented, non union affiliated people to join its ranks and provide a broader spectrum of talent and skills than it currently has. There are some within the party who acknowledge this problem and are actively trying to make the changes necessary. If the Labor party can achieve this important reform, it will lead to a much stronger, capable party and Australia as a whole would greatly benefit from this reform process.