John Howard under attack

[uey]

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[David]

nah unlikely. I'd say Howard has pretty much committed to contesting the next election. The earliest he'll make way for Costello is probably going to be halfway through his next term, if he is re-elected of course.

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[Robert Walls (not really)]

[Culprit]

History shows us you don't win elections, you lose them. No one gave Bracks a chance and he didn't win. Kennet lost. It happens, as people are more out of pocket they will vote any government out.

[David]

Who actually wants Beazley as pm though? as unpopular as costello is, even he could probably beat Beazley in an election. Labor made a ridiculous error of judgement in reappointing him, although if he wins the next election then I guess the caucus knows something I don't

[Culprit]

No one does, but no one wanted Bracks either. Governments get voted out.

[sherrife]

Labour Liberal... all same old bullsh*t, all equally unimaginative and equally right-wing on everything except some IR policy.

What we need is to convince people that Greens are the best value for their vote because it effectively goes to Labour anyway, but simply means that Labour has to consider a little more of the 'green concerns' and pushes them slightly more to the centre-left.

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[sherrife]

Uhuh... I went to a meeting a few months ago where the Australian ambassador to Burma/Myanmar was talking about the problems the country was facing, what can/should/is being done (sweet f%#@ all) etc.

Anyway the point was Peter Garrett was there and was asking very intelligent and interesting questions, especially for a guy widely depicted as a celebrity idiot brought in to make Labour popular. It is incredible how negatively the Media depicts everyone with a slight leftwing slant.

Bob Brown as another example, does not drive a car around Canberra (uses his bike), went to all sorts of openings and rallys and was one of the most active Pollies i knew over there, but has this reputation as a slack pot smoking greeny radical.

Don't believe anything you hear in the media.

Wait, believe that Howard is an arrogant bastard (especially during question time), that Abbot is a right wing bordering on racist nut, and that Downer and Rudd are private school boys playing playground games against each other and using question time as their vehicle.

[David]

sherrife maybe the reason that the Greens don't get many votes is just because they're so out of touch with what most voters want. Look at what happened to Labour last election when they tried to adopt Greens policies. People complain about the similarity of the major parties, but in that case why is there not a further left party (ie the Greens) that are raking in the votes? Perhaps, the average person tends more towards conservatism than what is commonly thought.

[Dr Alf Andrews]

Mr Speaker, on behalf of the Ostrayan people, Mr Speaker, I agree that Beazley is a useless tub of lard who is definitely a liability rather than an asset to the ALP.

But Federal elections are not just a popularity contest over who would make the best PM.

People vote in accordance with the "hip pocket nerve" (excuse the cliche, Mr Speaker) ... and there are enough voters among the Ostrayan people, Mr Speaker, who can see clearly that their lives are about to go down the shitter under this government, to give the ALP a huge chance of winning the election by default.

To use the famous Hayden cliche from 1983, a "drover's dog" could lead the ALP to victory at the next election.

To use another cliche, this government is "on the nose". The got elected on the flimsiest pretence that they would keep interest rates down.

They failed, Mr Speaker, they FAILED ... not that it was their fault, of course ... but then they should never have made a promise to the Ostrayan people that they had no power to keep.

In fact, they ran their ENTIRE campaign on one single non-issue ... INTEREST RATES.

I quote John Howard in pre-election mode, late 2004:

Interest rates, Mr Speaker, the Ostrayan people want low interest rates, Mr Speaker, Mr Speaker, interest rates, the Ostrayan people, Mr Speaker, interest rates

So, having hoodwinked the public into voting them back in on the strength of interest rates, Mr Speaker, and then getting an unexpected Senate majority into the bargain, they proceeded to reveal their true agenda, Mr Speaker, by royally rogering the single mothers, the unemployed and the disabled ... and then biting off a lot more than they could chew by attempting to royally roger every wage earner in Australia.

They are dead meat, Mr Speaker.

They attempted to introduce an anti-Australian un-Australian agenda, which nobody wanted ... and now, Mr Speaker, the Ostrayan people, Mr Speaker, Mr Speaker, the Ostrayan people are telling them enough is enough, Mr Speaker.

John Skunk Howard ... you are on the nose.

Your government stinks.

The Ostrayan people don't want you any more.

You better get your mates in the CIA to cook up a terrorist attack on Australian soil some time between now and the next election because that is the ONLY hope you've got, you dirty stinking green and gold track-suited skunk.

Let the dance begin, Mr Speaker ... on the grave of the worst government in the history of the Ostrayan people, Mr Speaker.

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[sherrife]