| Re: Australia changes Government
We have some very political discussions at our home, as I'm fairly to the Right and, like Pete, believe Australia has been travelling very well in terms of employment, productivity, stability, and our economy. We have weathered several overseas financial crises without much trouble. However my lovely wife, who will accept my views on cars and things, is a Professor and rather to the Left, and doesn't accept my political views. And the Federal Government has cut Uni funding back to about 40% of their required budget, so she spends lots of time overseas doing consulting work and other things to improve the Uni's bottom line. I'm not arguing with her on this, but there are other subjects such as the level of immigration, reconciliation with indigenous people, the importance of unions, our involvement in Iraq, and so on. It can be quite frosty some nights, I can tell you.
If the new Prime Minister is an economic conservative, as he claims, and the public service positions are not altered the way they are in the UK, and he keeps control of the Labour Party factions, and can stand up to the unions (no mean feat), we may go OK. We'll have to see. Typically the Labour Party comes in and has a hand-out mentality and stuffs up the economy by getting us into large debt again via union lead wage rises and social welfare. I'm now in my flame-retardant overalls waiting for an attack .
Dalton |