I wonder ,after seeing the ads re ex Union bosses on Labor's front bench ,what apt qualifications the Govt front bench have ?. I should imagine Dr Nelson knows buggerall about the armed forces. The Merchant Banker Turnbull knows buggerall about the enviroment and J Howard has had heaps of experience as a Solicitor for his present job where nobody tells him anything.

Some say Archbishop Pell should stay out of politics some say John Howard should stay out of politics .

Paraphrased from David Frost a bloody long time ago.

That's the funny thing ins't it, the howard government runs through this scare campaign about the labour party being full of union officials and also being inexperienced. Honestly, what the fuck?

You can only get experience if you've got the top job, or is the liberal party just showing its fascist side?

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What party is your government? What political affiliations do most people have, for example most Scots are socialist, the English conservative.

That's a very, very stereotypical label.

The governing party of PM Howard is the Liberal Party, governing in coalition with the National Party. The Liberal party is conservative in the business and low tax sense, from what I can tell.
They are opposed by the Labour party, which is your average post-Socialist party.
At least, that's my reading of it. The Australians here can probably give a better description.

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... I am surprised at your insolence in writing to me at all. You know, as I know, that I bought this constituency... may God's curse light upon you and may it make your women as open and as free to the excise officers as your wives and daughters have always been to me while I have represented your scoundrel corporation.
I have the honour to be... your obliged humble servant, Anthony Henley
- MPs reply to constituent, mid 1700s

[quote=Brother Oz;101296]I picked it up from reading posts here, by the way. I won't say who posted it.

National party. I hope the Australians can post a little about the policies of that party.

[quote=Viv;101358]Well, the Coalition (Howard's party) is generally more conservative, they reject Kyoto, support big business and what not. However, they have never made a move to privatise any of the important areas like social security. In terms, they are not really a conservative party compared to other nations conservatives, if anything they are right centrists.

The Labour party is by definition, socialist, the reject the current workplace agreements, want to sign Kyoto. However, again they are not socialists on the true sense, like the Coalition, they are centrists but on the left. They basically follow the same ideas as the Coalition but give it a socialist spin.

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I hate to point it out to you all, but you learn how to work a register on the job, you learn to lay bricks on the job,
YOU DO NOT LEARN TO RUN A COUNTRY ON THE JOB!!!
An in experienced party such as the Labor party sould prove they can at least write thier own policies before they get elected in.

The Libral party has been in power so long people have forgotten that under the last Labor party the great nation of australia wasn't doing so great. Howard bashing has become so very popular, but i just don't understand why? our current PM is great at his job, he has had over a decade in power and proved is constantly. I do not know of any talents of qualifications that Kevin Rud (head of the Labor party) has over Jon Howard (PM & Libral). But in a short time kevin could win the 2007 election even though he has no qualifications over Howard.

scrub that last bit about Kevin, he has one advantage over Howard he is great at dictation. Howard announces a policy, Kevin writes it down and puts his own name on it.

I guess the point to all this is that the Labor party lately is just a mirror of Howards popular policies and anti his unpopular policies.

That's what I'd expect. It's called democracy. If a government does some things that are very popular with most people and other things that are unpopular, then (as long as it will work: you can't promise to keep high spending and lower taxes for example) the other party should propose to keep the policies that are popular and change the ones that are not.

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... I am surprised at your insolence in writing to me at all. You know, as I know, that I bought this constituency... may God's curse light upon you and may it make your women as open and as free to the excise officers as your wives and daughters have always been to me while I have represented your scoundrel corporation.
I have the honour to be... your obliged humble servant, Anthony Henley
- MPs reply to constituent, mid 1700s

true, but souldn't the Labor party at least come up with some of thier own policies?

Opposition leader Kevin Rudd will say anything to get in to office and he just might. It is scary to think that a fool who only immitates is going to get into office when he really isn't cut out for it. Kevin only makes popular choices, which makes him a awful leader unfit for public office.
What will happen if there is a major crises like sept11 on australian soil and he is in power? he hasn't the guts to make a tough decision at a time like that.
Howard does, which is why i support him.

Other then your hatred for Rudd, do you have any proof that Rudd won't react well to a terrorist attack or any proof that Howard will?

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